According to the 1900 Peoria census, Augusta came to the US in 1849, marrying Karl Breier in 1850 in Peoria. She said she was the mother of 9 children, four of whom were alive in 1900. In 1900, she made her home with her widowed daughter, Emma Breier Schober, her youngest son, Albert, and Emma's children Carl and Lilly.