CISSNA PARK BICENTENNIAL

SUBMITTED BY THELMA REED

JACOB HOFFMANN FAMILY

JACOB HOFFMANN WAS BORN IN GERMANY SEPTEMBER 18, 1936. HE WAS OF A FAMILY OF SEVEN CHILDREN, NICK, PETER, CHARLES, JACOB, LORANCE, ADAM AND MARGARITE. HIS SISTERS AND BROTHERS NEVER MIGRATED TO AMERICA, SO JACOB LOST TRACK OF THEM.

JACOB WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND MARRIED ANNETTE MEYER AT ROMACOURT, FRANCE IN 1857, WHERE THEY MADE THEIR HOME. TO THIS UNION TEN CHILDREN WERE BORN: LISA, ANNA, JOHN, CATHERINE, MADDELEINE, SOPHIE, ENGENIE, CAROLINE, MARIE AND JOSEPH.

IN 1874 ANNETTE PASSED AWAY. IN 1875 JACOB MARRIED CHRISTINE SCHMIDT OF BUTTE, ALSACE LORRAINE. THREE CHILDREN WERE BORN IN FRANCE: LOUISE, LYDIA AND PAUL.

IN 1882 THEY SENT TWO OF THEIR DAUGHTERS, CATHERINE AND ANNA SCHOTT AND FAMILY TO GRIDLEY, ILLINOIS, WHERE FRIENDS LIVED. JACOB AND CHRISTINE STARTED TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS TO GO TO ILLINOIS THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

ON APRIL 24, 1883, JACOB AND SONS PAUL AND JOSEPH WENT TO PARIS TO BOOK PASSAGES, CHRISTINE AND 7 OF THE CHILDREN FOLLOWED THE NEXT DAY. JOHN AND LISA, WHO WERE MARRIED, NEVER DID FOLLOW TO AMERICA. TWICE SHIPS WERE FILLED BEFORE THEY COULD BOARD, SO THEY HAD TO STAY IN ANTWERP, BELGIUM FOR FIVE DAYS. THE SHIP’S COMPANY PAID FOR THEIR HOTEL AND MEALS UNTIL THEY SAILED MAY 2. THEY ARRIVED IN PHILADELPHIA TWO WEEKS LATER, BOARDING A TRAIN FOR FAIRBURY, ILLINOIS THAT SAME EVENING.

JACOB WORKED ON FARMS THERE, THEN RENTED ACREAGE AT STRAWN, ILLINOIS WHERE ANDY WAS BORN IN 1884. IN 1886 THEY FARMED NEAR FORREST, ILLINOIS WHERE MAGGIE WAS BORN. IN 1891 THEY BOUGHT 160 ACRES ¼ MILE EAST AND ¼ NORTH OF FOUNTAIN CREEK, ILLINOIS, WHERE SAM AND LUCY WERE BORN. JACOB FARMED UNTIL 1908 WHEN CHRISTINE PASSED AWAY. HE RENTED HIS LAND TO SON ANDY AND MOVED TO FAIRBURY, ILLINOIS, WHERE HE DIED JANUARY, 1914.

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.

JACOB HOFFMAN 1836 - 1914

(FIRST WIFE) ANNETTE (MEYER) HOFFMAN ???? - 1874

(DAUGHTER) LISA (HOFFMAN) LAMBIN 1858 - ????

(DAUGHTER) ANNA (HOFFMAN) SCHOTT 1859 - ????

(SON) JOHN HOFFMAN 1861 - ????

(DAUGHTER) CATHERINE (HOFFMAN) SWING 1862 - 1931

(DAUGHTER) MADELEINE (HOFFMAN) YOST 1863 - 1943

(DAUGHTER) SOPHIA (HOFFMAN) KUNTZ 1864 - 1901

(DAUGHTER) ENGENIE (HOFFMAN) SWING 1865 - 1900

(DAUGHTER) CAROLINE (HOFFMAN) STOLLER 1867 - ????

(DAUGHTER) MARIE (HOFFMAN) BAUER 1870 - 1933

(SON) JOSEPH HOFFMAN 1872 - 1967

(SECOND WIFE) CHRISTINA (SCHMIDT) HOFFMAN 1850 - 1908

(DAUGHTER) LOUISE HOFFMAN 1875 - 1884

(DAUGHTER) LYDIA (HOFFMAN) SWING 1878 - 1901

(SON) PAUL HOFFMAN 1878 - 1933

(SON) ANDREW HOFFMAN 1884 - ????

(DAUGHTER) MAGGIE (HOFFMAN) SPRINGER 1886 - ????

(SON) SAMUEL J. HOFFMAN 1887 - ????

(DAUGHTER) LUCY (HOFFMAN) FARNEY 1888 - ????

MRS. PHILIP YOST, A RESPECTED CITIZEN, DIES

MRS. PHILIP YOST, A CITIZEN LOVED AND RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER, PASSED AWAY LAST SATURDAY EVENING AT HER HOME ON SOUTH FOURTH STREET, FOLLOWING A YEAR’S ILLNESS. SHE WAS AGED 80 YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND ONE DAY.

MRS. YOST WAS BORN IN ROMRACOURT, FRANCE, APRIL 29, 1863, HER MAIDEN NAME BEING MAGDELINE HOFFMAN. AT THE AGE OF 20 YEARS SHE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY AND SETTLED IN THIS VICINITY.

ON JANUARY 26, 1888, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO PHILIP YOST. THEY RESIDED AT ROANOKE ABOUT A YEAR AND THEN FOR MANY YEARS RESIDED ON THEIR FARM NEAR FORREST. ABOUT 18 YEARS AGO THEY MOVED TO THEIR HOME IN FAIRBURY.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND ONE SON, RAYMOND, OF GRIDLEY, AND THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS AND SISTERS: JOE, ROANOKE; SAM AND ANDREW, OF CISSNA PARK; MRS. JOSEPH SWING, OF LA CROSSE, IND.; MRS. ORVILLE FARNEY, HOOPESTON. ALSO SURVIVING ARE FOUR GRANDCHILDREN. EIGHT SISTERS AND TWO BROTHERS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND INTERMENT WAS IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY.

MRS. JOSEPH G. SWING

THE DEATH OF MRS. JOSEPH G. SWING OCCURRED AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT 12:30. SHE WAS SICK BUT A FEW DAYS AND EVERYTHING THAT MEDICAL SKILL COULD DO TO ALLEVIATE HER SUFFERING WAS DONE. IT IS SAD TO NOTE THE DEATH EVEN OF THOSE WHO HAVE LIVED THEIR THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN, BUT DOUBLY SO TO NOTE THE PASSING AWAY OF ONE IN THE FULL BLOOM OF WOMANHOOD, SURROUNDED BY A FAMILY OF AFFECTIONATE CHILDREN AND A LOVING HUSBAND.

JENNIE HOFFMAN WAS BORN IN FRANCE MAY 19, 1865. SHE CAME TO AMERICA WITH HER PARENTS IN 1883, COMING DIRECT TO FAIRBURY WHERE SHE HAS SINCE RESIDED. ON FEBRUARY 14, 1890, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JOSEPH G. SWING. TO THIS UNION FOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN, JOSEPH, MARY, WILLIAM AND JACOB.

THE DECEASED WAS ALOVING AND AFFECTIONATE WIFE AND MOTHER, A KIND NEIGHBOR AND A TRUE FRIEND. THE BLOW FALLS HEAVILY UPON THE BEREAVED HUSBAND AND MOTHERLESS CHILDREN AND THEY HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY. BESIDES HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN, HER PARENTS, MR. AND MRS. HOFFMAN, OF CISSNA PARK, AND FIVE BROTHERS AND NINE SISTERS, MOST OF WHOM WITH NUMEROUS FRIENDS, WERE PRESENT AT THE FUNERAL SERVICES. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND THE SERVICES WERE HELD THERE THIS AFTERNOON AT 2:30. THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

PAUL HOFFMANN KILLED AS TRAIN STRIKES AUTO

JACOB BOHNING, OF GERMANY, MEETS DEATH IN SAME ACCIDENT, WHICH OCCURRED AT BUCYRUS, OHIO.

PAUL HOFFMANN, AGED 55 YEARS, A WELL KNOWN AND HIGHLY ESTEEMED FARMER RESIDING FOUR MILES SOUTHEAST OF FAIRBURY, AND JACOB BOHNING, OF SELMINGER, GERMANY, WERE BOTH KILLED YESTERDAY MORNING ABOUT FIVE O’CLOCK AT BUCYRUS, O., WHEN THE HOFFMANN CAR WAS STRUCK BY A FAST PENNSYLVANIA PASSENGER TRAIN.

MR. HOFFMANN HAD LEFT FAIRBURY ON TUESDAY MORNING AND GONE TO MANSFIELD, O., WHERE HE HAD MET MARTIN STEIDINGER, PETER SCHAFFER AND JOHN BOLLIGER, ALSO OF FAIRBURY. THESE LATTER THREE GENTLEMEN HAD GONE TO ROCKVILLE, CONN., LAST WEEK WHERE THEY HAD MET FOUR ELDERS OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, WHO HAD COME TO THIS COUNTRY FROM SWITZERLAND AND GERMANY ON A BUSINESS MISSION CONNECTED WITH THE CHURCH. ALL THREE CARS HAD LEFT MANSFIELD EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING ON THEIR WAY TO BUCYRUS WHERE THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED.

THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM BUCYRUS TELLS OF THE ACCIDENT:

BUCYRUS, O., SEPT. 21 (SPECIAL TO THE BLADE) - JACOB BOHNING, AGED 62, OF SELMINGER, GERMANY, AND PAUL HOFFMANN, AGED 55, OF FAIRBURY, ILLINOIS, WERE INSTANTLY KILLED WHEN THEIR AUTOMOBILE WAS STRUCK BY A FAST WESTBOUND PENNSYLVANIA PASSENGER TRAIN ON THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY CROSSING HERE AT FIVE O’CLOCK THIS MORNING. BOTH DIED OF SKULL FRACTURE.

HOFFMAN, WITH PETER SCHAFFER, JOHN BOLLIGER AND MARTIN STEIDINGER, FAIRBURY, AND EARL BAER, OF REMINGTON, IND., HAD GONE TO MANSFIELD, O., TO MEET BOHNING AND OTTO KILLEY, OF GERMANY, FATHER OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS, WOMAN; AND JACOB KUENZIE AND ELMER OBRECHT, OF BERNE, SWITZERLAND. THIS PARTY OF FOUR HAD ARRIVED FROM THE OLD COUNTRY LAST FRIDAY IN NEW YORK CITY, AND HAD VISITED IN CONNECTICUT BEFORE STARTING WEST TO MEET ILLINOIS FRIENDS AT MANSFIELD.

BOHNING WAS RIDING WITH HOFFMANN WHILE THE OTHERS WERE IN TWO OTHER CARS. THE OTHER TWO CARS PASSED OVER THE CROSSING AND CONTINUED WEST TO UPPER SANDUCKY, 18 MILES FROM HERE, WHERE THEY DISCOVERED THE HOFFMANN CAR WAS MISSING. THEY TURNED BACK IN SEARCH AND UPON ARRIVING AT THE CROSSING HERE FOUND THE DEMOLISHED CAR. THE BODIES HAS BEEN REMOVED TO FUNERAL PARLOR.

THIS CROSSING IS NOT PROTECTED BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 6 O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING. TWO MOTORISTS FROM JOHNSTOWN, PA., SAW THE ACCIDENT, AND REPORTED THE HOFFMANN CAR DROVE DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE TRAIN. BODIES BEING SHIPPED THIS AFTERNOON TO FAIRBURY.

OBITUARY

PAUL HOFFMANN WAS BORN IN RENOURE, FRANCE, MAY 7, 1878, BEING AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH AGED 55 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AND 14 DAYS. HIS PARENTS WERE JACOB AND CHRISTINA HOFFMANN.

WHEN FIVE YEARS OF AGE MR. HOFFMANN CAME WITH THE FAMILY TO THIS COUNTRY, LOCATING IN FORREST. LATER THEY WENT TO CISSNA PARK, WHERE HE RECEIVED HIS EDUCATION AND WHERE HE GREW TO YOUNG MANHOOD.

ON DECEMBER 7, 1902 IN THIS CITY, MR. HOFFMANN WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO EMMA SLAGEL, AND HE HAD RESIDED IN THIS VICINITY SINCE THAT TIME. SURVIVING BESIDES MRS. HOFFMANN ARE THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: MRS. MARIA KILGUS, OF FAIRBURY; MRS. MARTHA IFFT, OF FORREST; JOE, LEONA, LEVI, ALICE, SAM, PAUL, RALPH AND CLYDE, AT HOME. THERE ARE ALSO BROTHERS AND SISTERS AS FOLLOWS: JOHN, OF RENOURE, FRANCE; JOE, OF ROANOKE; ANDY, OF FOUNTAIN CREEK; SAM, OF CISSNA PARK; MRS. LENA YOST, OF FAIRBURY; MRS. CARRIE STOLLER, OF PEORIA; MRS. LYDIA SWING, OF SAN PIERRE, IND.; MRS. MAGGIE SPRINGER, OF CONGERVILLE; MRS. LUCY FARNEY, OF FOUNTAIN CREEK. HIS FATHER PASSED AWAY IN THIS CITY JANUARY 20, 1914, AND HIS MOTHER DIED AT CISSNA PARK IN SEPTEMBER, 1908.

MR. HOFFMANN WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. A GOOD NEIGHBOR AND A KIND HUSBAND AND FATHER, HE WILL BE MISSED BOTH BY HIS FAMILY AND MANY FRIENDS.

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS HAD NOT BEEN MADE LAST EVENING, PENDING THE ARRIVAL OF THE REMAINS, WHICH WERE EXPECTED TO ARRIVE LAST NIGHT OF THIS MORNING

FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR THE LATE PAUL HOFFMANN, WHO WAS KILLED WHEN THE AUTOMOBILE IN WHICH HE WAS RIDING WAS STRUCK BY A TRAIN NEAR MANSFIELD, OHIO, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21, WERE HELD AT THE HOME SOUTHEAST OF THIS CITY SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT 2 O’CLOCK. BURIAL WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

THE BODY OF JACOB BOHNING, OF SELMINGER, GERMANY, WHO WAS ALSO KILLED IN THE SAME ACCIDENT, WAS BROUGHT HERE TO THE HOME OF EMIL HOERR. THE RITES WERE HELD AT THE PAUL HOFFMANN RESIDENCE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE SAME HOUR.

FUNERAL SERVICES OF SAMUEL SLAGEL HELD YESTERDAY

PASSED AWAY MONDAY EVENING AT 6 O'CLOCK AT HIS HOME ON EAST WALNUT STREET.

SAMUEL SLAGEL, PROMINENT FARMER OF THIS COMMUNITY FOR MANY YEARS, PASSED AWAY MONDAY EVENING AT SIX O'CLOCK AT HIS HOME AT 407 EAST WALNUT STREET, DEATH BEING DUE TO THE INFIRMITIES OF ADVANCED AGE.

HE WAS BORN NOVEMBER 30 1849, IN WISCONSIN AND GREW TO YOUNG MANHOOD THERE. IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES HE CAME TO THIS COMMUNITY, AND ON NOVEMBER 28 1875, IN THIS CITY HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS MARY DEMLER.

MR. SLAGEL WAS ENGAGED IN FARMING MOST OF HIS LIFE AND RESIDED ON HIS FARM, ABOUT FIVE MILES SOUTHEAST OF THIS CITY, FOR MANY YEARS.

RETIRING FROM THE FARM IN 1908, HE AND MRS. SLAGEL MOVED TO THE HOME IN THIS CITY WHERE HE HAD SINCE RESIDED.

HE LEAVES SURVIVING ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. PAUL HOFFMAN, AND ONE SON, DANIEL, BOTH RESIDENTS OF THIS COMMUNITY. ONE SON, SAMUEL, DIED AT THE AGE OF FOUR YEARS, AND ANOTHER SON, JOSEPH, PASSED AWAY A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO IN NEW MEXICO. SURVIVING ALSO ARE TWO SISTERS, MRS. SOPHIA RAPP, OF EVANSTON, AND MRS. ALBERT REIMAN, OF OAKVILLE IOWA. MRS. SLAGEL DIED ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT ONE O'CLOCK AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH ON EAST ELM STREET, OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER. INTERMENT WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

OUT-OF-TOWN RELATIVES WHO WERE HERE YESTERDAY TO ATTEND THE FUNERAL INCLUDE: MR. AND MRS. AL HIMELICH, OF FRANCESVILLE IND.; MR. AND MRS. ERNEST MUELLER AND J. D. SWING, OF LA CROSSE IND.; JOE SWING, OF HOOPSTON; MRS. SAM GETZ, OF TREMONT; MRS. LENA SCHAAB, OF NORMAL, AND FRIENDS FROM CISSNA PARK, REMINGTON IND., PEORIA, MORTON, ELGIN, TREMONT AND SABETHA KAN.

MRS. SAMUEL SLAGEL

MRS. SAMUEL SLAGEL PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY ON LAST FRIDAY MORNING AT 11:30 O’CLOCK AT THE AGE OF 73 YEARS AND 16 DAYS.

MARY DEMLER WAS BORN IN BADEN, GERMANY, JANUARY 17, 1855. WHEN NINE YEARS OF AGE SHE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY, LOCATING AT WASHINGTON. IN 1868 THE FAMILY MOVED FROM WASHINGTON TO FAIRBURY, AND HERE ON NOVEMBER 24, 1875, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO SAMUEL SLAGEL, WHO TOGETHER WITH TWO CHILDREN, DANIEL AND MRS. PAUL HOFFMAN, OF NEAR FAIRBURY, SURVIVE. THERE ALSO SURVIVES ONE BROTHER, AUGUST DEMLER, WHO LIVES IN THE STATE OF KANSAS.

THE DECEASED WAS AN EXCELLENT WIFE AND MOTHER AND WILL BE MISSED NOT ONLY IN THE HOME BUT BY MANY FRIENDS.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN THIS CITY MONDAY AND INTERMENT WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

SAMUEL SLAGEL 1849 - 1937

(WIFE) MARY (DELMER) SLAGEL 1855 - 1928

(SON) DANIEL SLAGEL 1878 - 1967

(DAUGHTER) EMMA (SLAGEL) HOFFMAN 1880 - 1961

(SON) JOSEPH SLAGEL 1882 - 1915

(SON) SAMUEL SLAGEL JR. ???? - ????

RITES SUNDAY FOR DAN SLAGEL, 88

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR DAN SLAGEL, 88, OF FAIRBURY, WERE HELD SUNDAY, MAR. 19, 1967, AT THE STIVER HOME FOR FUNERALS. MINISTERS OF THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OFFICIATED AND BURIAL WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY. PALLBEARERS WERE GRANDSONS, GARY AND DALE SLAGEL, JIM SLAGEL, RONNIE SLAGEL, LARRY ZIMMERMAN AND HARVEY YOUNG.

HE DIED AT 5 A.M. FRIDAY AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL WHERE HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT SIX DAYS. HE WAS A RESIDENT OF FAIRVIEW HAVEN THE PAST FOUR MONTHS.

HE WAS BORN APRIL 12, 1878, AT FAIBRUY, A SON OF SAMUEL AND MARY DEMLER SLAGEL. HE MARRIED MARTHA SWING APRIL 25, 1906, AT MONTICELLO, IND. SHE DIED FEBRUARY 7, 1959. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH. HE WAS ENGAGED IN FARMING UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 1961 WHEN HE MOVED THE FAIRBURY.

SURVIVING ARE TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS. KATHRYN WEAVER AND MRS. MARIANNE ZIMMERMAN, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; FIVE SONS, SAM, CHICAGO; RAYMOND, JOE, HARVEY AND DAN JR., ALL OF FAIRBURY; 29 GRANDCHILDREN; AND SIX GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS, TWO BROTHERS AND A SISTER.

SERVICES FOR EMMA HOFFMAN THUSDAY

MRS. EMMA HOFFMAN, 81, DIED AT HER HOME, 505 S. FOURTH, AT 11:45 A. M. MONDAY. SHE HAD BEEN ILL THREE YEARS.

HER FUNERAL WILL BE AT THE COOK FUNERAL HOME AT 2 P. M. THURSDAY, REV. PETER SCHAFFER OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

VISITATION BEGAN AT 7 P. M. TUESDAY AT THE FUNERAL HOME.

SHE WAS BORN IN FAIRBRUY, MARCH 5 1880, THE DAUGHTER OF SAM AND MARY DEMLER SLAGEL. SHE WAS MARRIED TO PAUL HOFFMAN IN 1902. HE PASSED AWAY IN 1933. SHE LIVED ON A FARM SOUTH OF FAIRBURY UNTIL MOVING TO TOWN IN 1943.

SURVIVING ARE THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS. MARIE KILGUS, FAIRBURY; MRS. ALICE HIMELICK, KOKOMO, IND.; MISS LEONA HOFFMAN, AT HOME; FIVE SONS, JOE CALDWELL, IDAHO; SAM, PAUL, CLYDE AND RALPH, ALL OF FAIRBURY; ONE BROTHER, DAN SLAGEL, FAIRBURY; 36 GRANDCHILDREN AND 14 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER HUSBAND, A SON AND A DAUGHTER.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH FAIRBURY.

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.

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