Lang lived to see her three sons die for various reasons, and after her two daughters married in 1868 and 1870, Josephine was left feeling alone and abandoned.
3人の息子に先立たれるのを見届けて過ごし、2人の娘がそれぞれ1868年と1870年に嫁ぐと、ヨゼフィーネは孤独を味わい、見棄てられたと感じた。