EMELIA BERTSCHY

EMELIA BERTSCHY, AN OLD RESIDENT OF FAIRBURY, DIED THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 3 AT 3:00 O’CLOCK, AGED 64 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AND 7 DAYS. SHE HAD BEEN ILL WITH PNEUMONIA FOR ABOUT A WEEK PREVIOUS TO HER DEATH.

MRS. BERTSCHY WAS BORN IN SWITZERLAND, DEC. 25, 1846. SHE WAS MARRIED THERE AND CAME TO THIS COUNTRY WITH HER HUSBAND 27 YEARS AGO. THEY HAVE LIVED HERE FOR THEN PAST 25 YEARS AND MRS. BERTSCHY MADE MANY FRIENDS WHO WILL MOURN HER DEATH. SHE WAS A KIND HEARTED NEIGHBOR AND LOVING WIFE AND THE BLOW FALLS HEAVILY UPON THE BEREAVED HUSBAND. THEY HAVE NO CHILDREN.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD SUNDAY AT NOON AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF WHICH SHE WAS AN EARNEST MEMBER.

NO OBITUARY

EDWARD BINGHAM

AFTER TWO YEARS OF SUFFERING EDWARD BINGHAM PASSED TO HIS REST ON TUESDAY MORNING. DEC. 6, AT FOUR O’CLOCK, AGED 24 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AND 6 DAYS.

EDWARF BINGHAM WAS BORN IN FAIRBURY, AUGUST 30, 1886. HE GREW TO MANHOOD IN THIS CITY AND AFTER BECOMING OF AGE HE WENT TO ROSENBURG, TEX. HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE IN THAT CITY TO MISS AMANDA BLOHN. TO THIS UNION ONE CHILD WAS BORN, BUT DIED IN INFANCY. WHILE LIVING IN TEXAS MR. BINGHAM TOOK A SEVERE COLD WHICH LATER DEVELOPED INTO TUBERCULOSIS. HE CAME BACK TO ILLINOIS AND LATER WENT TO COLORADO SPRINGS. WHILE THERE HE WAS TAKEN WITH APPENDICITIS AND UNDERWENT AN OPERATION FROM WHICH HE RECOVERED. HE THEN CAME BACK TO FAIRBURY, WHERE HE HAS BEEN LIVING WITH HIS MOTHER AND BROTHER. HE HAS BEEN UP AND AROUND UNTIL A SHORT TIME AGO. HE RECEIVED THE MOST TENDER CARE FROM A LOVING WIFE AND MOTHER. HE WAS A YOUNG MAN OF EXCELLENT CHARACTER AND MANY FRIENDS WILL MOURN HIS DEATH. HE WAS RECENTLY CONVERTED AND EMBRACED THE RELIGION OF JESUS CHRIST. BESIDES HIS WIFE HE LEAVES HIS MOTHER AND TWO BROTHERS. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD THIS AFTERNOON AT TWO O’CLOCK AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH. THE BEREAVED ONES HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF ALL.

MRS. ROSA GAHWILER

ROSA RHINER WAS BORN IN SWITZERLAND, AUGUST 11, 1856. SHE GREW TO WOMANHOOD AND WAS MARRIED IN HER NATIVE COUNTRY TO MR. JACOB GAHWILER, FEBRUARY 1878. TO THIS UNION WERE BORN SEVEN CHILDREN, AS FOLLOWS: MRS. ANNA SCHIELER, OF FAIRBURY; ROSA DIETACH, OF BELLEVILLE, WIS.; JACOB GAHWILER, OF SOUTH WAYNE, WIS.; BERTHA SUTTER, OF FAIRBURY; GOTTLIEB GAHWILER, OF DEFOREST, WIS.; ALBERT GAHWILER, OF BELLEVILLE, WIS.; JULIUS GAHWILER, OF FAIRBURY.

MR. GAHWILER DIED IN SWITZERLAND, JULY, 1892, AND JANUARY, 1893, MRS. GAHWILER CAME TO FAIRBURY, WHERE SHE HAS SINCE MADE HER HOME. FOR SOME TIME PREVIOUS TO HER DEATH SHE HAD MADE HER HOME WITH HER DAUGHTER, MR. AND MRS. JOHN SCHIELER. SHE PASSED AWAY TUESDAY, JAN. 16, AGED 56 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AND 5 DAYS.

THE DECEASED WAS AN EXCELLENT WOMAN AND LOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER. SHE WAS AN EARNEST MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND HER CHRISTIAN CHARACTER SHOWN FORTH IN HER DAILY LIFE. SHE WAS A KIND AND LOVING MOTHER AND HER DEATH WAS A DEEP LOSS TO HER CHILDREN WHO LAVE THE SYMPATHY OF ALL IN THEIR GREAT LOSS.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN THIS CITY THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND WERE LARGELY ATTENDED.

BARBARA A. GANTNER

MRS. BARBARA A. GANTNER DIED AT THE HOME OF HER NIECE, MRS. AND MR. CHRIS MEIS, SOUTHWEST OF FAIRBURY SUNDAY AFTERNOON AFTER AN ILLNESS OF ABOUT A MONTH, AGED 82 YEARS, 9 MONTHS.

BARBARA FEHR WAS BORN IN SWITZERLAND IN MAY, 1829. SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE IN THAT COUNTRY TO MR. GANTNER, AND TWO CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THEM, A SON WHO DIED IN HIS NATIVE LAND AND A DAUGHTER, MRS. JULIUS FEHR, OF THIS CITY. AFTER THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND. MRS. GANTNER CAME TO THIS COUNTRY AND HAD MADE HER HOME WITH HER NIECE FOR ABOUT FIFTEEN YEARS. SHE WAS AN EXCELLENT WOMAN AND HELD THE RESPECT AND ESTEEM OF ALL/ SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD IN THIS CITY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND WERE LARGELY ATTENDED. THE BEREAVED RELATIVES HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF ALL.

THOSE WHO ATTENDED THE SERVICES FROM OUT OF TOWN WERE AS FOLLOWS:

CONRAD FEHR AND WIFE, DAVID FEHR AND WIFE, WM. FEHR, SAM FEHR, SAM LEHMAN, JOE LEHMAN AND WIFE, H. B. SHUMACHER, ISAAC SHUMACHER, AND ANDREW ZIMMERMAN, OF EUREKA, MRS. FRED FISHER, OF PANOLA; MR. AND MRS. JOEL GUDEMAN AND BENJAMIN GUDEMAN, OF RANKIN; MRS. DAN STOLLER, GRIDLEY; MR. AND MRS. JOS. HOFFMAN, OF ROANOKE; CONRAD STEFFEN, OF CROPSEY.

JOHN EISENBACH

JOHN EISENBACH WAS BORN IN SEPTEMBER, 1831, AND DIED AT HIS HOME IN THIS CITY, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, AT THE AGE OF 80 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS. HE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY IN 1881 AND LIVED AT FAIRBURY UNTIL THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. MR. EISENBACH WAS A FINE OLD GENTLEMAN AND A GOOD CITIZEN AND MADE MANY FRIENDS AFTER COMING TO AMERICA.

HE LEAVES THREE CHILDREN, ONE SON AND TWO DAUGHTERS, HENRY, OF PEORIA; BERTHA AND ELIZABETH, OF FAIRBURY. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT FAIRBURY, SUNDAY, MARCH 17, REV. WILLIAM SCHMIDT OF EUREKA, OFFICIATING. THOSE ATTENDING THE FUNERAL FROM OUT OF TOWN WERE, MR. AND MRS. JACOB BAHLER, ROBERT BAHLER, OF REMINGTON, IND.; MR. AND MRS. MARTIN STROMBERGER, OF EUREKA; MR. AND MRS. JOEL BOLIER, OF GRIDLEY; MRS. OBERBACH, OF GRIDLEY; JACOB RINGGER, OF GRIDLEY.

DAVID SCHMIDT

DAVID SCHMIDT WAS BORN IN GERMANY 63 YEARS AGO. HE CAME TO AMERICA WHEN A YOUNG MAN, BUT ENROUTE HERE HE WAS BADLY INJURED WHILE BEING TRANSFERRED FROM A WRECKED VESSEL. HE HAS BEEN A CRIPPLE SINCE THAT TIME. MR. SCHMIDT WAS AN HONEST AND INDUSTRIOUS MAN AND A GOOD CITIZEN. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND ONE CHILD, TWO BROTHERS , CONRAD, OF THIS CITY, AND JACOB, OF TEXAS, THREE SISTERS, MRS. OBERBACH, OF GRIDLEY, MRS. JACOB KUNTZ, OF PRINCEVILLE, AND MRS. CHRIST KUNTZ, OF OAKVILLE, IA. THE FUNERAL WAS HELD SUNDAY AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND WAS LARGELY ATTENDED. THE FAMILY HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF ALL.

CHRISTIANA ZIEGLER

CHRISTIANA ZIEGLER, A MAIDEN LADY, DIED AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY TUESDAY, AUGUST 14 AT 9 A. M., AGED 69 YEARS AND 2 DAYS. THE DECEASED WAS BORN IN BUCHENBERG, GERMANY, AUGUST 12, 1843. SHE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1883, COMING DIRECT TO FAIRBURY WHERE SHE HAS MADE HER HOME SINCE. SHE HAS BEEN A GREAT SUFFERER OF LATE YEARS AND DEATH CAME AS A RELIEF. SHE WAS AN EXCELLENT LADY AND LEAVES MANY FRIENDS. THE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH THIS AFTERNOON AND THE REMAINS WILL BE LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

JOHN G. STEIDINGER

JOHN GEORG STEIDINGER DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS BROTHER, BARTEL STEIDINGER, TUESDAY, SEPT. 24, AGED 59 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AND 9 DAYS. THE DECEASED WAS BORN IN BADEN, GERMANY, FEB. 15, 1853. HE CAME TO THIS COUNTY WHEN HE WAS 13 YEARS OLD AND HAS RESIDED HERE SINCE THAT TIME. SINCE COMING HERE HE HAS MADE TWO TRIPS TO THE LAND OF HIS NATIVITY. MR. STEIDINGER HAD BEEN ILL FOR SOME TIME PAST AND RECENTLY UNDERWENT AN OPERATION. HE LEAVES TO MOURN HIS DEATH FOUR BROTHERS THREE SISTERS AND NUMEROUS FRIENDS. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH THURSDAY AFTERNOON, REV. JOHN KAISNER OFFICIATING, AND THE REMAINS WERE HELD LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

ELIZABETH MEISS

ELIZABETH MEISS, AN OLD AND HIGHLY RESPECTED OF THIS LOCALITY, DIED AT THE HOME OF HER SON, CHRIS MEISS, SUNDAY EVENING. OCT. 20, AT 7:00 O’CLOCK, AGED 78 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AND 28 DAYS. MRS. MEISS SUFFERED A PARALYTIC STROKE AT THREE O’CLOCK LAST FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCT. 18. SHE NEVER RECOVERED FROM THE SHOCK AND PASSED PEACEFULLY TO HER REST ON THE ABOVE DATE.

MRS. MEISS WAS BORN IN ELASA, GERMANY, NOV. 26, 1833. SHE WAS MARRIED IS THAT COUNTRY AND HER HUSBAND PASSED AWAY 39 YEARS AGO. SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF SIX CHILDREN, TWO OF WHOM SURVIVE, CHRIS MEISS AND MRS. EDWARD HUBER, BOTH OF THIS LOCALITY. IN 1882 SHE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY, MOVING FIRST TO GRIDLEY, WHERE SHE RESIDED FOR NINE YEARS, WHEN SHE CAME TO FAIRBURY, WHERE SHE HAS SINCE RESIDED. SHE WAS AN EXCELLENT WOMAN AND A FAITHFUL MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE FAIRBURY CHURCH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND WERE LARGELY ATTENDED. THE FAMILY HAS THE SYMPATHY OF ALL.

NO OBITUARY

MATTHEW KILGUS MEETS DEATH

INJURED MONDAY AFTERNOON WHILE BREAKING HORSE - DIES TUESDAY MORNING

MATTHEW KILGUS, A FARMER RESIDING ON THE MCKEE FARM, FIVE MILES SOUTH WEST OF THIS CITY, RECEIVED INJURIES MONDAY AFTERNOON A LITTLE AFTER FOUR O’CLOCK, WHICH CAUSED HIS DEATH TUESDAY MORNING ABOUT 7:30.

MR. KILGUS, TOGETHER WITH HIS HIRED MAN, WERE ENGAGED IN BREAKING A COLT. THEY HAD ALREADY BROKEN THREE HORSES TO WORK THIS SPRING AND THIS WAS THE FOURTH. THEY HAD PUT THE HARNESS ON THE ANIMAL WITH SOME DIFFICULTY, AND HITCHED IT TO A WAGON IN THE BARNYARD, TOGETHER WITH A HORSE THAT WAS OLDER AND VERY GENTLE. MR. KILGUS WAS STANDING AT THE HEAD OF THE HORSES AND THE HIRED MAN WAS HITCHING THE HORSES TO THE WAGON. THE LAST TUG HAD JUST BEEN HOOKED ONTO THE WAGON WHEN THE YOUNG HORSE, WHICH BEGAN TO PLUNGE AND RARE UP. THE LAND IN THE BARNYARD SLOPES A LITTLE AND THE WAGON RAN UPON THE OLDER HORSE, WHICH CAUSED IT TO RUN. MR. KILGUS HELD ONTO THE FRIGHTENED HORSES AND HE BEING ON ONE SIDE OF THEM THEY STARTED TO GO AROUND IN A KIND OF A CIRCLE. MR. KILGUS STAYED ON HIS FEET UNTIL HE CAME TO A LITTLE GULLY, WHICH HAD BEEN WASHED OUT BY THE RECENT RAINS AND HERE HE SLIPPED. HE WAS THROWN DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE HORSES AND WAS TRAMPLED UPON AND DRAGGED FOR A FEW FEET. THE COLT WHICH WAS A MARE OF BIG BUILD STEPPED ON HIS BREAST AND SIDE, CRUSHING IN HIS RIBS AND BREAKING OFF SOME OF THEM WHICH PENETRATED ONE OF HIS LUNGS. HIS BREAST WAS ALSO CRUSHED IN, AFFECTING THE HEART. THE INJURED MAN WAS TAKEN INTO THE HOUSE AND PHYSICIANS SUMMONED FROM THIS CITY. EVERYTHING POSSIBLE WAS DONE TO SAVE HIS LIFE, BUT HE PASSED AWAY AS ABOVE STATED. AT THE TIME THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED HIS WIFE AND ONE OR TWO OF THE CHILDREN WERE STANDING IN THE YARD WATCHING THE MEN.

MATTHEW KILGUS WAS BORN IN GERMANY, AND AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH WAS 39 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AND 8 DAYS OLD. HE CAME TO THIS COUNTY 24 YEARS AGO. A NUMBER OF YEARS AFTER HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO EMMA SUTTER. TO THIS UNION SIX CHILDREN WERE BORN, TWO GIRLS AND FOUR BOYS, WHO WITH THE BEREAVED WIFE MOURN THE LOSS OF A KIND AND LOVING FATHER AND HUSBAND. HE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY HIS MOTHER, MRS. CHRISTIAN KILGUS, OF THIS CITY, AND FOUR BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS, AS FOLLOWS: ANDREW, OF THIS CITY; JOHN, OF FORREST; GEORGE, OF KAWSWLIN, MICH.; MRS. RUDOLPH VON BERGER, OF THIS PLACE; MRS. ANDREW LEHMAN, OF RISK; MRS. EMIL BOWER, HOOPESTON; MRS. JOHN MILLER, GRIDLEY.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN THIS CITY THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND WERE ATTENDED BY A LARGE CONCOURSE OF RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. INTERMENT WAS MADE IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY. THE BEREAVED FAMILY HAS THE SYMPATHY OF ALL.

FRANK ELEAUME

FRANK ELEAUMEPASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME I THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE CITY TUESDAY AFTERNOON ABOUT 4 O’CLOCK. HE HAD BEEN ILL FOR SOME TIME AND HIS DEATH WAS NOT UNEXPECTED. MR. ELEAUME WAS A MAN OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER AND A MOST RESPECTED CITIZEN.

THE DECEASED WAS BORN BON COLN, FRANCE, NOV. 8, 1850, AND AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH WAS 62 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS OLD. HE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY 38 YEARS AGO, SETTLING IN CANADA, WHERE HE REMAINED FOR THREE YEARS. HE AFTERWARDS CAME TO THE UNITED STATES AND HAS SINCE MADE THIS COUNTRY HIS HOME. HE IS MOURNED BY A WIFE, BUT HAS NO OTHER IMMEDIATE RELATIVES IN THIS COUNTRY.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN THIS CITY THURSDAY NOON, AND WERE ATTENDED BY A LARGE NUMBER OF FRIENDS, INTERMENT WAS MADE IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

VERENA STOLLER

VERENA SCHNETZLER WAS BORN AT SCHAFFHAUSEN, SWITZERLAND, FEBRUARY 8TH 1842, AND PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1918, AGED 76 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AND 7 DAYS.

ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO MRS. STOLLER SUFFERED A PARALYTIC STROKE, BUT SHE GRADUALLY REGAINED HER STRENGTH SO THAT SHE WAS ABLE TO BE AROUND AGAIN UNTIL TWO AND A HALF YEARS LATER, WHEN SHE HAD ANOTHER STROKE, WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER AND ON JUNE TENTH SHE SUFFERED THE FINAL STROKE, FROM WHICH SHE NEVER REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS.

THE DECEASED CAME TO THE UNITED STATES IN APRIL, 1886, AND WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO SAM STOLLER THE FOLLOWING YEAR, AT ROANOKE, WHERE THEY MADE THEIR HOME UNTIL 1881, WHEN THEY REMOVED TO GRIDLEY AND LATER THEY CAME TO FAIRBURY, WHERE THEY RESIDED ON A FARM, SOUTH OF THIS CITY UNTIL THEIR REMOVAL TO THEIR PRESENT HOME IN 1899. EIGHT CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THIS UNION, FOUR OF WHOM, TOGETHER WITH HER HUSBAND SURVIVE HER. THE CHILDREN ARE: MRS. B. S. STEIDINGER, MRS. JOHN SUTTER, MRS. EMIL WITZIG, AND EMMA, AT HOME.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH TUESDAY, AND INTERMENT WAS MADE IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

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STONE 16 ANDREAS STEIDINGER APRIL 1, 1831 - FEBRUARY 9, 1919

ANDREW STEIDINGER

ANDREW STEIDINGER, KNOWN AS "FATHER STEIDINGER," AN AGED AND HIGHLY RESPECTED RESIDENT OF THIS CITY, DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS SON, JOHN, IN THIS CITY WEDNESDAY AT NOON, AGED 87 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AND 19 DAYS.

THE DECEASED WAS BORN IN GERMANY, APRIL 1, 1831. HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MARGURITE HINSELMAN IN THAT COUNTRY AND TO THIS UNION THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN WERE BORN: GOTTLIEB, ANDREW AND JOHN, OF FAIRBURY; MRS. JOHN HUENI, OF BREMAN, IND.; BARTEL, OF STRAWN; CHRIST, OF FORREST AND "JOHNNY," ON THE FARM NORTH OF TOWN.

MR. STEIDINGER CAME TO THE UNITED STATES WITH HIS FAMILY IN 1885, COMING DIRECT TO FAIRBURY. HE PURCHASED A FARM NORTH OF TOWN AND RESIDED THERE UNTIL THREE YEARS AGO, WHEN HE CAME TO TOWN TO LIVE WITH HIS SON, JOHN, HIS WIFE DIED SIX YEARS AGO.

MR. STEIDINGER WAS AN EXCELLENT CITIZEN AND DURING HIS LONG RESIDENCE HERE MADE MANY FRIENDS BY WHOM HE WAS HELD IN THE HIGHEST ESTEEM.

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

NO OBITUARY

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