STONE 1

MRS. ANDREW STEIDINGER

MARA AGATHA HEINSMAN WAS BORN IN GERMANY SEPTEMBER 14, 1831, AND DIED AT HER HOME NORTH OF THIS CITY, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1913, AT 11 O’CLOCK A.M., AGED 81 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AND 28 DAYS. SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO ANDREW STEIDINGER IN 1853. TO THIS UNION WERE BORN EIGHT CHILDREN, GOTTLEIB, ANDREW, MAT AND JOHN, OF FAIRBURY; MRS. JOHN HUENI, OF RISK; BARTLE. OF STRAWN; CHRIST AND J. A., OF FORREST.

THEY CAME TO THIS COUNTY IN 1883, SETTLING VERY SOON AFTER ARRIVING ON THE FARM NORTH OF FAIRBURY WHICH HAS BEEN HER HOME UP TO THE TIME OF HER DEATH.

SHE WAS A KIND AND LOVING MOTHER AND A FAITHFUL WIFE, AND A TRUE FRIEND. SHE WILL BE MISSED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER.

THE FUNERAL WAS HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THIS CITY ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14, AT 2 O’CLOCK, AND WAS LARGELY ATTENDED.

KILLED WITH A CLUB

THE REMAINS OF CHRIST GAUGER, OF NEW BOSTON, ILL., WERE BROUGHT TO FAIRBURY THURSDAY MORNING, WHERE SERVICES WERE HELD IN THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, AND THE REMAINS LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY. MRS. GAUGER IS A SISTER OF MRS. STEPHEN WENGER, CHRIST OBERGFELL, ALL OF THIS VICINITY.

THE DEATH OF MR. GAUGER WAS A VERY TRAGIC ONE. HE AND A NEIGHBOR HAD BEEN BUILDING A FENCE, AND AN ARGUMENT AROSE. THE NEIGHBOR, A MAN BY THE NAME OF BROWN, PULLED A STAKE WHICH WAS STUCK IN THE STANDARD OF MR. GAUGER’S WAGON, AND BEAT HIM OVER THE HEAD WITH IT. THIS HAPPENED TUESDAY MORNING AND MR. GAUGER DIED TWELVE HOURS LATER FROM THE EFFECTS OF THE BLOWS.

THE DECEASED WAS A MAN ABOUT 40 YEARS OF AGE, AND IS SURVIVED BY A WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN.

MRS. JOHN BECKLEY

MRS. JOHN BECKLEY PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY MONDAY NOON, AFTER A LINGERING ILLNESS WITH A COMPLICATION OF DISEASES.

THE DECEASED WAS BORN NEAR ROANOKE, WOODFORD COUNTY, ILLINOIS, HER MAIDEN NAME BEING LYDIA STOLLER, AND AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH WAS AGED 43 YEARS. 6 MONTHS AND 15 DAYS. SHE MOVED WITH HER PARENTS TO GRIDLEY, AND ABOUT TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO THEY MOVED TO THIS VICINITY. LYDIA STOLLER WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JOHN BECKLEY JULY 9, 1904. TO THIS UNION WERE BORN THREE CHILDREN. THEY ARE: DAVID, AGED 9, LOIS, AGED 7, AND EUNICE, AGED 5. MR. AND MRS. BUCKLEY MADE THEIR HOME AT WOLCOTT, IND., FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS AND FIVE YEARS AGO CAME TO FAIRBURY, WHERE THEY HAVE RESIDED SINCE THAT TIME.

BESIDES HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN, MRS. BECKLEY IS MOURNED BY HER PARENTS, MR. AND MRS. SAMUEL STOLLER OF THIS CITY, AND FOUR SISTERS, MRS. B. S. STEIDINGER OF FAIRBURY, MRS. JOHN SUTTER OF FORREST, MRS. E. WITZIG OF GRIDLEY, AND EMMA AT HOME.

MRS. BECKLEY WAS MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF THIS CITY AND WAS A GOOD CHRISTIAN WOMAN. SHE WAS A KIND AND LOVING WIFE AND MOTHER AND AS GOOD NEIGHBOR.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE CHURCH OF WHICH SHE WAS A MEMBER AT 12 O’CLOCK WEDNESDAY AND WAS ATTENDED BY A LARGE CONCOURSE OF SORROWING RELATIVES AND FRIENDS, A LARGE NUMBER BEING PRESENT FROM OUT OF TOWN. THE BUSINESS HOUSES WERE CLOSED FROM 12 TO 2 O’CLOCK.

JACOB HOFFMAN

JACOB HOFFMAN PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN THIS CITY TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, AT 6:20 O’CLOCK. HE WAS BORN IN GERMANY, AND AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH WAS AGED 77 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AND 2 DAYS. MR. HOFFMAN WAS THE FATHER OF THIRTEEN CHILDREN, FIVE BOYS AND EIGHT GIRLS, ALL OF WHOM ARE LIVING. THEY ARE: JOHN, OF FRANCE; JOSEPH, OF ROANOKE; PAUL, OF FAIRBURY; ANDREW, OF EAST LYNN; SAM, OF PEORIA; MRS. ALBERT SWING, FRANCISVILLE, IND.; MRS. PHILLIP YOST, FORREST; MRS. S. R. STOLLER, MRS. J. G. SWING, AND MRS. ORVILLE FARNEY, FAIRBURY; MRS. ANNA SCHOTT, MRS. GEO. BAUER, CISSNA PARK; MRS. JEFFERSON SPRINGER, DANVERS.

MR. AND MRS. HOFFMAN AND FAMILY CAME TO AMERICA ABOUT THIRTY YEARS AGO, AND FOR A TIME LIVED IN THE VICINITY OF FORREST AND STRAWN. HE MOVED TO CISSNA PARK ABOUT TWENTY-THREE YEARS AGO, AND ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO MOVED TO FAIRBURY, WHERE HE RESIDED UNTIL HIS DEATH. HE WAS MARRIED TWICE, HIS SECOND WIFE PASSING AWAY FIVE YEARS AGO.

MR. HOFFMAN WAS A GOOD CHRISTIAN MAN AND WELL LIKED BY EVERYONE.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF THIS CITY THIS AFTERNOON AND THE REMAINS LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

MRS. ANNA M. RAMSEYER

MRS. ANNA M. RAMSEYER WAS BORN JUNE 24, 1858, IN BADEN, GERMANY, AND DIED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 4, 1914, AGED 56 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AND 10 DAYS.

MRS. RAMSEYER UNDERWENT AN OPERATION TUESDAY MORNING. SHE PASSED THROUGH THE OPERATION VERY WELL AND WAS MAKING A GOOD RECOVERY WHEN SHE WAS SUDDENLY TAKEN WITH AN ATTACK OF HEART TROUBLE AND PASSED AWAY.

HER EARLY LIFE WAS SPENT IN GERMANY, COMING TO THIS COUNTRY WITH HER PARENTS, JOHN AND ANNA STEIDINGER. SHE WAS ONE OF A FAMILY OF SIXTEEN CHILDREN.

ON DECEMBER 6, 1881, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JACOB RAMSEYER. TO THIS UNION EIGHT CHILDREN WERE BORN. THEY ARE MINNIE, ANNA, NETTIE, EMMA, NAOMA, CLYDE, WALACE AND ALPHA. THEY ARE ALL LEFT TO MOURN THEIR MOTHER’S DEATH, EXCEPT EMMA, WHO PASSED AWAY JUNE 12, 1902. MR. RAMSEYER DIED ON DECEMBER 10, 1900.

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SEVERAL YEARS FOLLOWING HER MARRIAGE SHE HAD SPENT HER ENTIRE LIFE SINCE COMING TO THIS COUNTRY, NEAR FAIRBURY. DURING THAT TIME SHE MADE MANY FRIENDS WHO JOIN WITH THE FAMILY IN MOURNING HER LOSS. SHE WAS A GOOD WIFE AND A DEVOTED MOTHER, AND WILL BE MISSED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT 1:30 O’CLOCK. INTERMENT IN FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

MRS. FRED BLUER

MRS. ANNA NUSSBAUM BLEUR DIED AT THE FAMILY HOME IN CLAYTONVILLE, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1915. MRS. BLEUR HAD BEEN IN POOR HEALTH FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND FOR THE PAST THREE MONTHS HAD BEEN FAILING RAPIDLY.

THE DECEASED WAS BORN IN SWITZERLAND IN 1854, AND CAME TO THIS COUNTRY WITH HER PARENTS, MR. AND MRS. NICHOLAS NUSSBAUM IN 1856, GOING TO MARION COUNTY, MISSOURI, WHERE THEY MADE THEIR HOME UNTIL 1863. IN THAT YEAR THEY MOVED TO PEORIA, WHERE THEY LIVED TWO YEARS GOING FROM THERE TO METAMORA. IN 1868 THEY CAME TO FAIRBURY, WHERE SHE MADE HER HOME WITH HER PARENTS.

SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO FRED BLEUR IN 1897 AND SINCE THAT TIME HAS LIVED AT CLAYTONVILLE. ONE CHILD, MATILDA, WAS BORN TO THIS UNION, WHO WITH THE HUSBAND AND FOUR BROTHERS, JOHN, JACOB AND SAMUEL, OF THIS CITY, AND NICHOLAS NUSSBAUM, OF REMINGTON, IND., REMAIN TO MOURN HER LOSS.

THE REMAINS WERE BROUGHT HERE TUESDAY FOR BURIAL, THE FUNERAL PARTY ARRIVING ON THE 11:32 TRAIN, AND THE FUNERAL WAS HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF WHICH SHE HAD BEEN A FAITHFUL MEMBER FOR YEARS. THERE WAS A LARGE NUMBER OF FRIENDS PRESENT AT THE FUNERAL A TRIBUTE TO THE HIGH ESTEEM IN WHICH SHE WAS HELD. THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

DECEMBER 24, 1841 - MARCH 8, 1915

MRS. MAGDALENA BECKLEY

MAGDALENA RUTTIMAN WAS BORN SWITZERLAND, IN 1841, AND DIED IN THIS CITY AT THE HOME OF HER SON, JOHN, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1915, AGED 73 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AND 12 DAYS.

THE EARLY PART OF HER LIFE WAS SPENT IN SWITZERLAND. SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO HENRY BECKLEY, IN 1868, AND TO THIS UNION SEVEN CHILDREN WERE BORN, ALL BEING RAISED IN SWITZERLAND. IN 1884 THE FAMILY CAME TO THE UNITED STATES, REACHING FAIRBURY ON MAY 22, OF THAT YEAR, COMING DIRECTLY TO THIS PLACE. SEVEN YEARS LATER, IN 1891, THE FATHER, HENRY BECKLEY, DIED. IN 1900 MRS. BECKLEY WENT TO WOLCOTT, IND., WHERE SHE LIVED WITH HER CHILDREN, JOHN, WILL, EMMA AND LIZZIE, UNTIL 1907, WHEN SHE RETURNED TO FAIRBURY. UNTIL A YEAR AGE SHE MADE HER HOME WITH HER DAUGHTER, EMMA, BUT SINCE THAT TIME SHE HAS LIVED WITH HER SON, JOHN. ALL OF THE SEVEN CHILDREN SURVIVE HER. THEY ARE: HENRY AND CONRAD, REMINGTON, IND.; LIZZIE, ROCKVILLE, CONN.; JAKE AND WILL. LAS VEGAS, NEV., AND JOHN AND EMMA, OF THIS CITY.

MRS. BECKLEY WAS WELL KNOWN AMONG THE GERMAN PEOPLE OF THIS VICINITY AND ALSO IN WOLCOTT, IND., WHERE SHE HAD RESIDED FOR SEVERAL YEARS. SHE HAD BEEN A FAITHFUL MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH FOR 32 YEARS. SHE WAS A FAITHFUL AND LOVING MOTHER AND WILL BE MISSED BY A HOST OF FRIENDS.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN THIS CITY THURSDAY AFTERNOON AT 1 O’CLOCK, AND WERE LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

STONE 8

MRS. ELIZABETH STOLLER

MRS. ELIZABETH STOLLER, A WELL KNOWN AND HIGHLY ESTEEM LADY PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY LAST EVENING A LITTLE BEFORE EIGHT O’CLOCK, AGED ABOUT 83 YEARS. ALTHOUGH AS YET NO DEFINITE ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE FIR THE FUNERAL SERVICES, THEY WILL PROBABLY BE HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, SUNDAY.

MRS. ELIZABETH STOLLER

MRS. ELIZABETH STOLLER, DIED AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, AT 7:50, AFTER AN ILLNESS OF ONLY THREE DAYS WITH PNEUMONIA.

ELIZABETH YUNGEN WAS BORN IN BERN, SWITZERLAND, JULY 4, 1838, AND WAS MARRIED TO JOHN STOLLER THE 7TH OF MAY, 1858. MR. STOLLER HAVING DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY, 1886, MRS. STOLLER CAME TO THIS COUNTRY, WHERE SHE HAS SINCE MADE HER HOME. TO MR. AND MRS. STOLLER SIX CHILDREN WERE BORN, VIZ: MRS. ELIZABETH GERMAN, OF THIS CITY; MRS. MARIE HARI, PORTLAND, ORE.; SOPHIA WEISER, MILFORD, IND.; SAM STOLLER, OF PAULDING, O.; AND GOTTLIEB, OF CISSNA PARK, ILL. JOHN OF OAKVILLE, PASSED AWAY SIX YEARS AGO. SHE ALSO LEAVES TWO SISTERS AND ONE BROTHER IN BERN, SWITZERLAND TO MOURN HER DEATH. FORTY-ONE GRANDCHILDREN AND FOUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN ARE ALSO LEFT TO MOURN HER LOSS.

MRS. STOLLER WAS A WOMAN OF GOOD CHRISTIAN CHARACTER, A LOVING MOTHER, AND ONE WHO WAS HELD IN HIGH ESTEEM BY ALL WHO KNEW HER.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, AND HE REMAINS LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

J. N. BACH.

JOHN NICHOLAS BACH WAS BORN IN VOELLERDINGEN, ELSASS-LORRRAINE, JULY 26, 1841, AND PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN THIS CITY SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 18, AGED 73 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AND 23 DAYS.

MR. BACH CAME TO AMERICA IN DECEMBER 1880, AND SETTLED ON A FARM NEAR WISNER, CUMMING COUNTY, NEB., WHERE HE RESIDED UNTIL THE SPRING OF 1892, WHEN HE MOVED TO ILLINOIS AND SETTLED NORTH OF FORREST. HE CONTINUED TO RESIDE THERE UNTIL 1902, WHEN HE MOVED TO THIS CITY, WHERE HE MADE HIS HOME UNTIL HIS DEATH.

BESIDES HIS WIFE HE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY THREE SONS, J. N., OF THIS CITY; PETER, OF FORREST, AND EMIL, OF WISNER, NEB. BESIDES THE IMMEDIATE RELATIVES HE LEAVES TO MOURN HIS LOSS A HOST OF FRIENDS. THE DECEASED WAS AN HONEST, UPRIGHT CITIZEN, A MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF THIS CITY, AND HELD IN HIGH ESTEEM BY ALL WHO KNOW HIM.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM HIS HOME CHURCH IN THIS CITY TUESDAY AFTERNOON, REV. JACOB PLATTNER, OF GOODFIELD, OFFICIATING, AND WERE LARGELY ATTENDED, A LARGE NUMBER BEING HERE FROM OUT OF TOWN. INTERMENT WAS MADE IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

JOSEPH SLAGEL KILLED

EXPIRES AT MEISSE, N.M., AFTER BEING HURT WHEN GUN EXPLODES - ONE ARM TORN OFF AND BOTH EYES.

REV. AND MRS. SAMUEL SLAGEL, OF THIS CITY, RECEIVED A TELEGRAM FROM C. C. HOLLENBACK EARLY SUNDAY MORNING STATING THE THEIR SON, JOSEPH SLAGEL, HAD BEEN TERRIBLY INJURED BY THE EXPLOSION OF A GUN. THE TELEGRAM BORE THE INTELLIGENCE THAT HIS LEFT ARM HAD BEEN TORN AWAY BY THE FORCE OF THE EXPLOSION AND THAT BOTH EYES HAD BEEN BLOWN OUT. REV. AND MRS. SLAGEL LEFT SUNDAY EVENING FOR MEISSE, BUT ANOTHER TELEGRAM WAS RECEIVED HERE SUNDAY NIGHT STATING THAT THE INJURED MAN HAD PASSED AWAY. HIS PARENTS, HOWEVER, WERE NOT APPRISED OF THIS FACT UNTIL THEY REACHED THEIR DESTINATION.

NO OTHER PARTICULARS THAN THE ABOVE ARE OBTAINABLE AT THIS TIME. THE REMAINS ARE EXPECTED TO ARRIVE HERE TODAY AND THE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD SUNDAY.

JOSEPH SLAGEL BOUGHT LAND NEAR MEISSE, N.M., ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO, AND ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO HE SOLD OUT HIS MACHINE SHOP HERE AND WITH HIS WIFE LOCATED ON HIS RANCH IN THE HOPES OF BETTERING HIS HEALTH. HE HAD ONE OF THE BEST PIECES OF LAND IN THAT SECTION. HE LOVED TO HUNT AND STATED BEFORE LEAVING HERE THAT HE INTENDED TO PUT IN HIS SPARE TIME AT THIS SPORT, AND IT IS THOUGHT PERHAPS THAT IT WAS WHILE ON A HUNTING EXPEDITION THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED.

BESIDES THE BEREAVED WIFE AND PARENTS THE DECEASED IS ALSO SURVIVED BY A SISTER, MRS. PAUL HOFFMAN, AND A BROTHER, DANIEL SLAGEL, BOTH OF WHOM RESIDE SOUTH OF FAIRBURY.

JANUARY 29, 1829 - NOVEMBER 18, 1915

JAOCB STUTZ

JACOB STUTZ ONE OF THE OLD AND HIGHLY RESPECTED CITIZENS PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME ON SOUTH FOURTH STREET THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 18, ABOUT 11 O’CLOCK, AGED 86 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AND 9 DAYS.

THE DECEASED CAME TO THE UNITED STATES ABOUT THIRTY-SIX YEARS AGO, AND HAD RESIDED HERE PRACTICALLY ALL OF THAT TIME. FOR YEARS PAST HE HAD, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF HIS NIECE, LOUISE EGLI CONDUCTED THE BUSINESS OF CARPET WEAVING. HE WAS A GENTLEMAN OF KINDLY DISPOSITION AND HELD THE LOVE AND ESTEEM OF ALL WHO KNEW HIM. MR. STUTZ HAD NO CHILDREN, HIS NIECE KEEPING HOUSE FOR HIM AND ADMINISTERING TO HIM IN HIS OLD AGE.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN THIS CITY SUNDAY.

SEPTEMBER 10, 1850 - FEBRUARY 23, 1916

MRS. FRANK MILLER

ANNA HACKENYOS WAS BORN IN GERMANY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1850, AND PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, ABOUT 2:45, AGED 65 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AND 12 DAYS. MRS. MILLER HAD SUFFERED FROM A SEVERE COLD AND IT HAD EVIDENTLY LEFT HER HEART IN A WEAKENED CONDITION.

SHE WAS MARRIED TO FRANK MILLER IN OCTOBER, 1878, AND THEY CAME TO THIS COUNTY IN 1892. THEY RESIDED IN GRIDLEY ONE YEAR THEN CAME TO FAIRBURY, WHERE THEY HAVE SINCE LIVED. BESIDES HER HUSBAND MRS. MILLER IS SURVIVED BY THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: MATT, OF LIPTON; GUS AND EUGENE, OF DAVENPORT, IA.; MRS. JOSEPH ZIMMERMAN, OF THIS CITY, AND PAULINE AT HOME. ONE BROTHER, ANDREW HACKENYOS, OF DECATUR, ALSO SURVIVES.

IN THE DEATH OF MRS. MILLER THE HUSBAND AND CHILDREN NOT ONLY LOSE A DEVOTED WIFE AND LOVING MOTHER, BUT THE COMMUNITY ALSO HAS LOST AN EXCELLENT CHRISTIAN WOMAN. SHE WAS A LOVER OF HER HOME AND FAMILY GOOD NEIGHBOR AND LOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD THIS AFTERNOON FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN THIS CITY. INTERMENT IN FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

OCTOBER 9, 1842 - JULY 20, 1916

RUDOLPH BERTSCHY

RUDOLPH BERTSCHY WAS BORN AT DURENESCH, SWITZERLAND, OCTOBER 9, 1842, AND PASSED AWAY AT THE HOME OF MR. AND MRS. JACOB VON TOBEL, IN THIS CITY THURSDAY, JULY 20, AGED 73 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AND 11 DAYS.

THE DECEASED CAME TO AMERICA IN 1888, AND SETTLED AT EAST LYNN, ILL., AND LATER MOVED TO ELGIN. SOON AFTER COMING TO AMERICA HE WAS MARRIED TO MISS AMELIA SCHERER, TO WHICH UNION ON CHILD WAS BORN, DYING IN INFANCY. MRS. BERTSCHY DIED MARCH 2, 1911, IN THIS CITY, SINCE WHICH TIME HE HAS MADE HIS HOME WITH MR. AND MRS. VON TOBEL.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SUNDAY, JULY 28, FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, REV. SCHLEGEL OFFICIATING, AND INTERMENT WAS MADE IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY. AMONG THOSE ATTENDING THE FUNERAL WERE CASPER STAUB, OF CHICAGO, AND MRS. ELIZA METTLER, A BROTHER-IN-LAW AND SISTER-IN-LAW OF THE DECEASED AND WHO ARE HIS NEAREST RELATIVES.

MAY 5, 1866 - APRIL 29, 1917

JACOB SCHLIPF

JACOB SCHLIPF, ONE OF THE HIGHLY RESPECTED RESIDENTS OF THIS VICINITY, PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF FAIRBURY, LAST SUNDAY, AGED 50 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AND 24 DAYS. HIS DEATH CAME AFTER AN ILLNESS OF OVER A YEAR’S DURATION AND WAS CAUSED BY A CANCEROUS GROWTH IN HIS HEAD.

THE DECEASED WAS BORN IN WURTTENBERG, GERMANY, AMY 5, 1866, AND HE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY IN 1881, WHERE HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS MARY BESSLER. WHEN MR. SCHLIPF CAME TO AMERICA, HE LOCATED FIRST IN TREMONT, TAZEWELL COUNTY, ILLINOIS, AND A SHORT TIME LATER WENT TO PEORIA. TWENTY-FOUR YEARS AGO HE MOVED TO A FARM NEAR FORREST, WHERE HE RESIDED TWENTY-TWO YEARS, MOVING TO SOUTH OF THIS CITY TWO YEARS AGO. EIGHT CHILDREN WERE BORN TO MR. AND MRS. SCHLIPF, FIVE GIRLS AND THREE BOYS, ALL OF WHOM ARE AT HOME.

MR. SCHLIPF WAS AN EXCELLENT GENTLEMAN AND A KIND AND LOVING HUSBAND AND FATHER.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD ON WEDNESDAY FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN THIS CITY, OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER. THE LARGE CONCOURSE OF PEOPLE WHO WERE PRESENT TOLD OF THE HIGH ESTEEM IN WHICH HE WAS HELD. MANY WERE PRESENT FROM OUT OF TOWN. THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

NO OBITUARY

HERBERT BINGHAM

NO OBITUARY

1878 - 1918

MARY NICHOLAS

AFTER CARING FOR CHILDREN THROUGH A SIEGE OF INFLUENZA, MRS. MIKE NICHOLAS, WAS HERSELF TAKEN ILL WITH THE DISEASE LAST THURSDAY, PNEUMONIA DEVELOPED AND SHE GREW STEADILY WORSE, UNTIL SHE PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE CASE IS A PARTICULARLY SAD ONE AS SHE LEAVES A FAMILY OF TEEN CHILDREN, THE OLDEST BEING UNDER 16 YEARS OF AGE.

MARY WAGLER WAS BORN IN PULASKI, IOWA, FORTY-ONE YEARS AGO. SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MIKE NICHOLAS IN 1902, AND HAS MADE THIS CITY HER HOME EVER SINCE.

BESIDES HER IMMEDIATE FAMILY SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER FATHER, REV. CHRIS WAGLER, OF PULASKI, IOWA, AND EIGHT BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD FROM THE HOME THIS AFTERNOON AT THREE O'CLOCK.

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