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[Died] of a chest ailment, [name] Charlotte, youngest [daughter] of [the] Wasmann [family], of Halle, having been ill for a long time and blind for 10 years, [ ] her age 89 years.
Entry 19. [Buried on the] 22nd Sunday after Trinity.
I want to flag this one as genuinely uncertain rather than give you false confidence. The middle portion — describing her relationship to the Wasmann family and the exact nature of her long illness — is compressed and faded enough that I'm reconstructing more than reading in places. What I'm fairly confident of: a woman named Charlotte, connected to the Wasmann family (possibly "jüngste Tochter," youngest daughter, though whose daughter exactly isn't fully clear to me), died at the advanced age of 89, having been blind for the final 10 years of her life, from a chest-related illness.
If she was genuinely 89 at death, her birth would fall around 1656 — a full generation or two before anyone else you've found in this family, potentially the earliest Wasmann in your entire collection today. That would make her a valuable anchor point if the reading holds, but given my uncertainty on the connecting details, I'd treat this one as needing a second, higher-resolution look before you commit it firmly to your spreadsheet as a confirmed relationship.