Otto August Ernst Hillbrecht.
Born 27 February 1851 in Zehdenick near Berlin.
In his youth he travelled through Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Palestine and Egypt to Cairo.
Due to illness he returned to modern-day Bulgaria, where he worked for several years in Adrianople [now Edirne, Turkey].
On 2 June 1879 he married Johanna Magdalena nee Buchholz. The couple were blessed with one son and one daughter, who are both still living.
The deceased emigrated with his son Otto to Brazil, where on 7 July 1897 they became the first German settlers in the Hansa Colony.
In 1906 he travelled back to Germany to fetch his wife and daughter, but due to his wife's illness he returned again alone the same year. His wife's illness did not improve, and in 1909 the two settlers received the news of the death of their wife and mother, who had died on 13 January 1909.
He leaves 1 son, 1 daughter, 5 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren.
He reached the blessed age of 90 years, 3 months and 12 days.
The handwriting at the bottom reads:
Falls Sie dem Verstorbenen, als erster u. ältester Ansiedler der Hansa einige Zeilen widmen wollen, überreiche ich Ihnen hier einige Daten.In case you wish to dedicate a few lines to the deceased as the first and oldest settler, I'm providing you with some details here.
The Hansa was a German colony in the state of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil. The first settlement there, Hansa Humboldt, as now called Corupá.
Some background info here:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lkEYGu5vlcoC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137#v=onepage&q&f=falseAdrian
P.S. Edited because of course it was Otto who left 5 grandchildren & 2 great-grandchildren. His wife died much earlier! Sorry!!
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