Debra - Don't know if you'll see this but Bertha Basse was a child of Claus Basse and Helene Kuneke Basse of Weehawken, NJ. Claus was the brother of my gg-grandfather, Barthold Basse who married Catherine Von Dohlen. I have learned over the years THEIR father was also a Barthold Basse and their mother was Marie (Maria) Scheid (also Scheild in some references). If you google "Claus Basse" and "Weehawken" together, you'll get several sites with historic information that was not on the web even a couple of years ago. Maybe that will help you piece together your Bertha's life after childhood. Bertha was my g-grandmother's first cousin.