FELIX KELLER ???? - ????

(WIFE) UNKNOWN KELLER ???? - ????

(DAUGHTER) ENGALINA (KELLER) TOBLER 1828 - 1906

(SON) JACOB KELLER 1831 - 1903

(SON) NICHOLAS KELLER 1831 - 1890

(DAUGHTER) KATHARINA (KELLER) VON TOBEL 1843 - 1921

(DAUGHTER) ANNA (KELLER) DELMER 1845 - 1928

(DAUGHTER) ELIZABETH (KELLER) BAERLOCHER ???? - 1893

(SON) JOHN KELLER 1850 - ????

(DAUGHTER) ELIZA (KELLER) ZELLER 1863 - 1945

(SON) EDWARD KELLER ???? - ????

(SON) ALBERT KELLER ???? - ????

(DAUGHTER) LOUISA KELLER ???? - ????

ANGELINE TOBLER

ANGELINE TOBLER PASSED AWAY AT THE HOME OF MRS. BINGHAM IN HIS CITY MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 24, AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS.

THE DECEASED WAS BORN IN ST. GALL, SWITZERLAND, FEBRUARY 28, 1828. SHE WAS MARRIED TO JOHN TOBLER IN 1855. IN 1887 HER HUSBAND DIED, AND NOT HAVING ANY CHILDREN SHE CAME TO AMERICA IN 1888 TO MAKE HER HOME WITH RELATIVES. SHE LIVED WITH N. KELLER UNTIL HIS DEATH AND SINCE THAT TIME SHE HAS BEEN LIVING WITH HER NIECE, MRS. BINGHAM. SHE WAS A GOOD KIND HEARTED WOMAN AND LEAVES MANY FRIENDS. SHE WAS AN AUNT OF EMIL KELLER. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH THURSDAY AT 11 O’CLOCK, REV. HONEGGER PREACHING THE SERMON. THE SERVICES WERE LARGELY ATTENDED, FRIENDS BEING PRESENT FROM PEORIA, GRIDLEY AND REMINGTON, IND.

JACOB KELLER

JACOB KELLER PASSED AWAY AT HIS RESIDENCE, THURSDAY, DEC. 10TH, AT THE AGE OF 72 YEARS, 20 DAYS. HE WAS BORN IN THAL KT. ST. GALL SWITZERLAND, NOV. 20TH, 1832. EMIGRATED TO AMERICA IN 1857, FIRST LIVED 2 YEARS IN MONROE CO. OHIO, FROM WHENCE HE REMOVED TO WOODFORD CO. ILL., IN 1859. WAS MARRIED TO MARIA RISZOG IN 1862. MOVED TO LIVINGSTON CO. IN 1868 NEAR WING, ILL. THEY HAD 3 CHILDREN, ONE SON JOEL, DYING IN INFANCY A SON, JOHN, DYING AT THE AGE OF 18 YEARS A DAUGHTER, DYING AT THE AGE OF 32. HIS WIDOW AND 5 GRAND CHILDREN SURVIVE HIM. HIS OCCUPATION WAS THAT OF A FARMER UNTIL THE YEAR OF 1897 WHEN HE RETIRED TO FAIRBURY, ILL., WHERE HE HAS SINCE LIVED. HE WAS THE FIRST POSTMASTER AT WING, ILL., ALSO OPENED THE FIRST STORE IN THAT VILLAGE. HE WAS A WORTHY MAN, A GOOD CITIZEN AND A FAITHFUL CHRISTIAN AND MANY FRIENDS IN THIS CITY AND VICINITY WILL MOURN HIS DEATH, FUNERAL WILL TAKE PLACE SUNDAY AFTERNOON FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

FREDRICKA KELLER

FREDRICKA RISSER WAS BORN IN ELASS, GERMANY, MARCH 25, 1831; DIED AT FAIRBURY, ILL., SEPT. 14, 1910, AGED 79 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AND 19 DAYS. SHE IMMIGRATED TO AMERICA IN 1861, AND WAS MARRIED TO JACOB KELLER IN 1862. TO THIS UNION WAS BORN THREE CHILDREN: JOHN DIED AT THE AGE OF 18 YEARS, JOEL DIED IN INFANCY, ONE DAUGHTER, CAROLINE, DIED AT THE AGE OF 30 YEARS. FIVE GRANDCHILDREN REMAIN TO MOURN HER DEATH, FOUR LIVING AT DUNLAP, ILL., AND ONE AT COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO.

THEY LIVED ON A FARM IN WOODFORD COUNTY UNTIL 1867, WHEN THEY MOVED TO WHERE WING NOW IS. IN 1895 THEY MOVED TO FAIRBURY WHERE MR. KELLER DIED IN 1903.

THE DECEASED WAS AN EXCELLENT WOMAN AND DURING HER LONG LIFE IN THIS CITY AN VICINITY SHE WON THE RESPECT AND FRIENDSHIP OF HER NEIGHBORS BY HER GENTLE WAYS AND EARNEST CHRISTIAN SPIRIT.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

DIED.

NICHOLAS KELLER, WHOSE SERIOUS ILLNESS WAS MENTIONED IN THESE COLUMNS LAST WEEK, DIED SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT TUESDAY. THE ATTENDING PHYSICIANS GAVE THE FRIENDS BUT LITTLE HOPE OF RECOVERY FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE FATAL ATTACK, AND HE GRADUALLY GREW WEAKER, UNTIL HE SANK TO THE SLEEP THAT KNOWS NO WAKING, SURROUNDED BY HIS SORROWING FAMILY.

MR. KELLER WAS A MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, AND ONE OF ITS MINISTERS AND HIS NAME IS FAMILIAR TO EVERY MEMBER OF THAT DENOMINATION IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. HE HAD A WIDE PERSONAL ACQUAINTANCE IN THIS VICINITY. HIS STERLING CHARACTER AND STRICT BUSINESS INTEGRITY ENDEARED HIM TO ALL WHO KNEW HIM. HIS DEATH IS DEEPLY DEPLORED.

THE FUNERAL WHICH TOOK PLACE FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AT 1 O'CLOCK, WAS VERY LARGELY ATTENDED, MANY FRIENDS OF THE DECEASED COMING FROM A DISTANCE TO PAY THEIR LAST TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF A GOOD MAN. THE CLERKS AT WALTON BROS.’ STORE, WHERE MR. KELLER HAD HELD A POSITIONS FOR SOME TIME, ATTENDED THE FUNERAL IN A BODY, AS A MARK OF RESPECT TO THEIR LATE FELLOW CLERK.

NICHOLAS KELLER WAS BORN IN CANTON ST. GALL, SWITZERLAND, NOV. 20 1831, AND WAS, THEREFORE, 59 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AND 28 DAYS OF AGE AT HIS DEATH. AT THE AGE OF 19 HE GRADUATED FROM A SEMINARY, AND ENTERED UPON THE PROFESSION OF A SCHOOL TEACHER, WHICH HE FOLLOWED FOUR YEARS. HE EMIGRATED TO AMERICA IN 1856, MAKING THE TRIP ON A SAIL BOAT IN 37 DAYS, AND LOCATED IN WEST VIRGINIA, WHERE HE WORKED AS A FARM HAND WITH SLAVES. IN 1857 HE REMOVED TO MONROE COUNTY, OHIO, AND WAS MARRIED TO MARIA SEGGESSEMANN, THE WIFE WHO SURVIVES HIM. TO THEM WERE BORN A SON AND A DAUGHTER BOTH OF WHOM, NOW MARRIED, ALSO SURVIVE HIM. IN 1863, MR. KELLER MOVED TO ILLINOIS AND LOCATED IN WOODFORD COUNTY, ENGAGING IN FARMING, REMOVING THENCE IN 1869, TO LIVINGSTON COUNTY, SETTLING WITHIN A MILE OF WHERE THE VILLAGE OF WING NOW IS. AFTER A SEVERE ILLNESS IN 1874 HE CAME TO FAIRBURY AND ENGAGED IN THE SASH AND BLIND MANUFACTURING BUSINESS WITH J. VON TOBEL AND J. KELLER UNDER THE FIRM NAME OF THE GERMANIA MANUFACTURING CO., WHICH BUSINESS HE FOLLOWED FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS. SINCE THEN HE HAD BEEN ENGAGED DIFFERENT LINES OF MERCANTILE BUSINESS,-- BOOTS & SHOES, GROCERIES, ETC. IN 1876, MR. KELLER IN COMPANY WITH HIS TWIN BROTHER VISITED HIS OLD HOUSE IN SWITZERLAND. THE TWO BORE SUCH A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE TO EACH OTHER THAT THE ONE WAS FREQUENTLY TAKEN FOR THE OTHER. AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH MR. KELLER WAS CONTEMPLATING TAKING UP HIS PERMANENT RESIDENCE ON HIS FARM, AS HE WAS TIRING OF BUSINESS LIFE. OWNING TO HIS LIBERALITY AND GREAT CONFIDENCE IN HIS FELLOW MEN, HIS BUSINESS VENTURES PROVED UNSUCCESSFUL, AND TO RETRIEVE A PORTION OF HIS LOSSES HE ENGAGED IN CLERKING, BEING PHYSICALLY UNFIT FOR THE LABOR OF FARM LIFE. HE JOINED THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN 1840 AND WAS A CONSISTENT MEMBER OF THE SAME TO THE HOUR OF HIS DEATH.

MARY KELLER

DIED, AT HER HOME IN FAIRBURY TUESDAY NOVEMBER 6TH, 1894. MRS. MARY KELLER, AGED SEVENTY YEARS. FUNERAL WAS HELD IN THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH ON WEDNESDAY. DECEASED WAS BORN IN BERNE SWITZERLAND IN 1824. SHE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY IN 1827 AND HAS RESIDED IN LIVINGSTON COUNTY FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. HE HUSBAND NICHOLAS KELLER DIED ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO. SHE LEAVES TWO CHILDREN, E. KELLER AND MRS. JACOB BAHLER.

3.1 EMIL KELLER 1862 - 1937

DEATH TAKES EMIL KELLER, FORMER WELL KNOWN GRAIN MAN

HAD SERVED ON SCHOOL BOARD, CITY COUNCIL; PRESIDENT OF BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.

EMIL KELLER, WHO UNTIL A FEW YEARS AGO, HAD BEEN ACTIVELY IDENTIFIED WITH FAIRBURY AS A BUSINESS MAN AND WHO HAD TAKEN AN ACTIVE INTEREST IN ITS CIVIC AFFAIRS, PASSED AWAY LAST THURSDAY MORNING AT 7:45 O’CLOCK AT HIS HOME AT 306 EAST MAPLE STREET. MR. KELLER, WHO HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS, WAS AGED 74 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AND 16 DAYS.

MR. KELLER HAD MADE FAIRBURY HIS HOME FOR THE PAST HALF CENTURY. FOR 25 YEARS HE WAS MANAGER OF THE EAST END ELEVATOR WHEN IT WAS OWNED BY THE LATE DR. S. M. BARNES, AND STILL LATER BY THE LATE J. P. SHEARER. FOR 13 YEARS HE MANAGED THE FARMERS ELEVATOR AT STRAWN AND FOR THREE YEARS SERVED IN A LIKE CAPACITY AT MELVIN. MR. KELLER WAS ALSO ENGAGED IN THE GROCERY BUSINESS HERE FOR 12 YEARS, DURING WHICH TIME HE OWNED AND OPERATED THE MODEL GROCERY.

ALWAYS ACTIVE AS LONG AS HIS HEALTH WOULD PERMIT, MR. KELLER FOUND TIME TO TAKE PART IN AFFAIRS CONNECTED WITH THE CITY AND OTHER LOCAL INSTITUTIONS. FOR SEVERAL TERMS HE SERVED ON THE CITY COUNCIL AS ALDERMAN FROM THE FIRST WARD. HE WAS AN ORIGINAL MEMBER OF THE TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL BOARD OF EDUCATION, AND FOR MANY YEARS WAS A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF THE FAIRBURY BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SERVING AS PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.

MR. KELLER WAS BORN IN MONROE COUNTY, OHIO, FEBRUARY 8, 1862, A SON OF NICHOLAS AND MARY KELLER. WHEN HE WAS THREE YEARS OLD THE FAMILY CAME TO ILLINOIS, LOCATING AT EUREKA, WHERE BE RECEIVED HIS EDUCATION IN THE EUREKA PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND EUREKA COLLEGE. ABOUT FIFTY YEARS AGO THE FAMILY MOVED TO A FARM SOUTH OF FAIRBURY.

ON JANUARY 14, 1888, AT FT. WAYNE, IND., MR. KELLER WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS LYDIA LEUTWEIN, WHO SURVIVES, TOGETHER WITH THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: MRS. NINA DAMON, OF ROCKFORD; J. J. KELLER, OF BUFFALO, N. Y.; MISS OLGA KELLER, OF GILLESPIE; MISS MARIE KELLER, OF WASHINGTON, D. C.; MRS. CAROLYN BLACKWOOD, OF THIS CITY; JAMES KELLER, OF KANSAS CITY, MO.; CARL KELLER, OF TOLEDO, O.; MRS. T. A. SCHNEIDER, OF CHICAGO; TWO GRANDCHILDREN. MRS. JACOB BAHLER, A SISTER, RESIDING AT REMINGTON, INDIANA, ALSO SURVIVES.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER, LAST SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 1:30 O’CLOCK, THE REV. JOHN SOMERHALTER, OF GRIDLEY, KAN., AND THE REV. GEORGE GRAM, OF GRIDLEY, OFFICIATING. INTERMENT WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

THE PALLBEARERS WERE WALTER STEFFEN, WALTER BINGHAM, HENRY KILGUS, EMIL BAHLER, ERWIN BAHLER, JACOB BAHLER.

3.2 NINA (KELLER) BAHLER 1865 - 1951

MRS. NINA BAHLER DIES AT REMINGTON

SERVICES WERE HELD SUNDAY AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT REMINGTON, IND., FOR MRS. NINA KELLER BAHLER, WHO DIED AUGUST 31 AT THE AGE OF 66 YEARS AT HER HOME IN REMINGTON. BURIAL WAS IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY AT REMINGTON.

THE REV, JOSHUA BROQUARD, OF FAIRBURY, AND PHILLIP GUTWEIN, OF FRANCESVILLE, IND., CONDUCTED THE SERVICES.

NINA KELLER WAS BORN IN WOODFORD COUNTY JANUARY 13, 1865. IN 1889 SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JACOB BAHLER AT FAIRBURY, WHERE THEY RESIDED FOR 13 YEARS. IN 1902 THEY MOVED TO A FARM SOUTHEAST OF REMINGTON, IND., FROM WHERE THEY RETIRED TO LIVE IN REMINGTON IN 1926.

TO THIS UNION 13 CHILDREN WERE BORN, HERMAN, EMIL, MARTHA STEFFEN, NINA STEFFEN, OF FAIRBURY; LYDIA KILGUS, OF FORREST; LEONA GERBER, OF BLUFFTON, IND.; MARIE SCHIELER, ELIZA GETZ, TILLIE, ERWIN AND JACOB, JR., OF REMINGTON.

PRECEDING HER IN DEATH WERE HER HUSBAND AT THE AGE OF 82 IN MARCH, 1944; A SON ALFRED AT THE AGE OF THREE IN 1900, AND A DAUGHTER GERTRUDE AT THE AGE OF 37 IN 1937. ONE BROTHER, EMIL KELLER, PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. SURVIVING ARE FOUR SONS, SEVEN DAUGHTERS, 45 GRANDCHILDREN AND 27 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

MRS. BAHLER WAS BEDFAST DURING HER 5 YEARS ILLNESS.

MANY RELATIVES AND FRIENDS FROM THIS VICINITY ATTENDED THE SERVICES.

MRS. VON TOBEL DIES; LIVED HERE FIFTY YEARS

MRS. JACOB VON TOBEL, ONE OF FAIRBURY’S MOST HIGHLY RESPECTED LADIES, PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY TUESDAY FORENOON AT 11:15 O’CLOCK, HER DEATH FOLLOWING AN ILLNESS OF SEVERAL MONTHS’ DURATION, DURING THE LAST FEW WEEKS OF WHICH SHE WAS CONFINED TO THE HOUSE. SHE WAS AGED 77 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AND 17 DAYS.

CATHERINE KELLER WAS BORN AT DUBENDORF, CANTON ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, NOVEMBER 2, 1843, A DAUGHTER OF FELIX KELLER, AND WAS THE OLDEST OF A FAMILY OF TEN CHILDREN. IN 1869 SHE CAME WITH HER BROTHER, JACOB KELLER, TO AMERICA, LOCATING AT FAIRBURY. HERE ON MARCH 19, 1871, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JACOB VON TOBEL, AND FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS THEY HAVE MADE THIS CITY THEIR HOME. EIGHT CHILDREN WERE BORN TO MR. AND MRS. VON TOBEL, FOUR OF WHOM, TOGETHER WITH THE BEREAVED HUSBAND, ARE LIVING AND ARE AS FOLLOWS: EDWARD, NOW LIVING AT LAS VEGAS, NEV.; MRS. J. N. BACH, OF THIS CITY; PAUL, OF FRANCESVILLE, IND., AND MRS. C. E. KALLISTER, OF PEORIA. THERE ALSO SURVIVE TWENTY GRANDCHILDREN, TWO GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, AND THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS AND SISTERS. MRS. WILLIAM DEMLER, OF THIS CITY; LOUISA, OF PORTLAND, ORE.; EDWARD, OF ZURICH, SWITZERLAND; MRS. ELIZA ZELLER, OF CISSNA PARK; AND ALBERT, OF CINCINNATI, O.

MRS. VON TOBEL WAS ONE OF FAIRBURY’S OLDEST CITIZENS AND DURING THE FIFTY ODD YEARS SHE HAD RESIDED HERE HAD SEEN MANY CHANGES TAKE PLACE DURING THE LIFE OF OUR TOWN SHE WAS A WOMAN OF NOBLE CHARACTER AND A LOVER OF HOME, AND ONE OF HER GREAT DELIGHTS WAS GIVING TO THAT INSTITUTION A MOTHER’S CARE. SHE WAS A CHRISTIAN WOMAN IN EVERY SENCE THAT WORD IMPLIES AND HER STERLING QUALITIES AS A NEIGHBOR AND FRIEND ARE ATTESTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH YESTERDAY MORNING AT 10 O’CLOCK AND WERE LARGELY ATTENDED, MANY BEING PRESENT FROM OUT OF TOWN. INTERMENT WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

THE THREE CHILDREN OF THE DECEASED WHO RESIDE AWAY FROM HERE AND ALSO THE SISTER, MRS. ZELLER, WHO RESIDES AT CISSNA PARK, AND HER BROTHER, ALBERT KELLER, OF CINCINNATI, O., WERE AMONG THOSE PRESENT AT THE FUNERAL.

JACOB VON TOBEL

JACOB VON TOBEL HAS GONE TO REST. HE PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN THIS CITY YESTERDAY MORNING, MARCH 2ND 1933, AT 5:20 O'CLOCK AT THE AGE OF 93 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AND 7 DAYS. HIS DEATH CAME AFTER AN ILLNESS OF ABOUT TWO AND A HALF MONTHS DURATION.

MR. VON TOBEL WAS BORN MARCH 26 1839, IN MEILEN CANTON, ZURICH SWITZERLAND. HE RECEIVED HIS EARLY EDUCATION IN HIS NATIVE LAND, AND IT WAS THERE THAT HE TOOK UP THE TRADE OF CABINET MAKER. IN 1868, LURED PERHAPS BY THE LETTERS HIS FRIENDS SENT HIM ABOUT THE LAND BEYOND THE STORMFUL ATLANTIC, HE DECIDED TO MIGRATE TO AMERICA. THIS WAS ABOUT THE TIME THAT AMERICA WAS UNDERGOING MANY CHANGES DURING THE PERIOD OF RECONSTRUCTION FOLLOWING THE CIVIL WAR. THIS AMBITION-FIRED YOUNG CABINET MAKER, HOWEVER, SAW IN THIS LAND ONLY OPPORTUNITY, AS IT HAD NEVER BEEN OFFERED TO HIM BEFORE.

UPON HIS ARRIVAL IN AMERICA HE CAME DIRECTLY TO FAIRBURY. HERE HE FOLLOWED THE TRADE OF CABINET MAKER FOR A TIME AND AFTER A FEW YEARS ENGAGED IN BUSINESS FOR HIMSELF. AFTER A TIME HE BROADENED HIS BUSINESS TO INCLUDE BUILDING OPERATIONS, AND ONE OF HIS FIRST UNDERTAKINGS WAS THE REMODELING OF THE OLD MITCHELL HOUSE, WHICH LATER CAME TO BE KNOWN AS THE FAIRBURY HOUSE.

EVER PROGRESSIVE IN SPIRIT MR. VON TOBEL BECAME A LEADER IN BUSINESS ACTIVITY IN THIS COMMUNITY. HIS NEXT MOVE WAS HIS ENTRANCE INTO THE LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIAL BUSINESS IN THIS CITY. HIS FIRST YARD WAS LOCATED ON WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS CENTRAL PARK. IT TOOK IN THIS ENTIRE SPACE BEFORE ITS EXPANSION WAS COMPLETE. IN 1900 HE WAS READY TO RETIRE. HIS SON-IN-LAW, J. N. BACH, CARRIED ON THE BUSINESS WHICH HE LEFT, AND THE BUSINESS HE FOUNDED IS STILL IN EXISTENCE TODAY.

ON MARCH 19 1871, MR. VON TOBEL WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS CATHERINE KELLER, A GIRL FROM HIS NATIVE LAND. MR. AND MRS. VON TOBEL WERE THE PARENTS OF TWELVE CHILDREN, FOUR OF WHOM SURVIVE. HE ALSO LEAVES A SISTER, SUSAN VON TOBEL, WHO HAS MADE HER HOME WITH HIM FOR MANY YEARS; TWENTY-ONE GRANDCHILDREN AND NINE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

MR. VON TOBEL SO LIVED HIS LIFE THAT ANYONE MIGHT WELL PROFIT BY HIS EXAMPLE. FAIR IN HIS BUSINESS DEALINGS, KIND TO HIS FAMILY, LOYAL TO HIS FRIENDS AND TRUE TO HIS FAITH, HE WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED AS A MAN AMONG MEN.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND ONE OF ITS MOST FAITHFUL MEMBERS AND FOLLOWERS. FOR MANY YEARS, UNTIL HIS INCREASING YEARS WOULD NO LONGER PERMIT HIM TO OFFICIATE, HE WAS A PREACHER IN THE LOCAL CHURCH. UNDER HIS GUIDANCE THE CHURCH GREW TO BE ONE OF THE STRONGEST BODIES IN THIS COMMUNITY.

HIS FRIENDS HAVE ALWAYS ENJOYED PASSING HIS WAY AND IN THESE LATER YEARS IT WAS A REAL SATISFACTION TO HEAR HIS ASSURANCE OF THE FUTURE WHEN THEY PAUSED TO PASS THE TIME OF DAY WITH HIM. ALWAYS HIS ANSWER WAS THE SAME TO THE QUESTION OF "GOOD MORNING. MR. VON TOBEL, HOW ARE YOU?"

"WELL, THANK YOU. BUT I AM AN OLD MAN NOW, AND I HAVE LIVED A LONG LIFE AND I AM READY TO GO."

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH SUNDAY, WITH BURIAL AT GRACELAND CEMETERY.

4.1 EDWARD VON TOBEL 1873 - 1967

LAS VEGAS PIONEER ED VON TOBEL DIES AT 94, WAS NATIVE FAIRBURIAN

FAIRBURY NATIVE, ED VON TOBEL, SR., 94, ONLY SURVIVING MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, DIED SATURDAY EVENING, SEPT. 9, 1967, AFTER BEING IN FAILING HEALTH FOR SOME TIME.

HE WAS A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE LAS VEGAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, A MEMBER OF THE KIWANIS CLUB, A 32ND DEGREE MASON AND A MEMBER OF THE SHRINERS SINCE 1912. HE WAS THE OLDEST MEMBER OF THE LAS VEGAS ELKS LODGE AND A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE EAGLES LODGE.

IT WAS ON MAY 15, 1905 IN 110 DEGREES TEMPERATURE ED VON TOBEL, ALONG WITH JAKE BECKLEY ANOTHER FAIRBURY NATIVE ARRIVED IN LAS VEGAS ON ONE OF THE FIRST TRAINS. IN THAT YEAR THEY STARTED A LUMBER YARD, WHICH IN LATER YEARS WAS TO BE KNOWN AS ED VON TOBEL LUMBER CO., "THE OLD RELIABLE."

HIS PARENTS, JACOB AND KATHERINA KELLER VON TOBEL, SETTLED IN FAIRBURY ABOUT 1870. ED VON TOBEL WAS BORN ON APRIL 29, 1873 IN FAIRBURY, IN THE RESIDENCE NOW OCCUPIED BY HIS NEPHEW, C. EDWARD BACH AND HIS BACH.

HE WAS MARRIED TO MARY HAIMERL ON OCTOBER 8, 1908 IN LOS ANGELES. SHE SURVIVES ALONG WITH ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. ELIZABETH ZAHN; THREE SONS, JAKE, ED, JR., AND GEORGE, SEVERAL GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, ALL LIVING IN THE LAS VEGAS VICINITY.

ALSO SURVIVING ARE ONE SISTER, MRS. LOUISE KALLISTER, OF ANAHEIM, CALIF. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY TWO YOUNGER BROTHERS, ONE SISTER, LYDIA BACH, OF FAIRBURY AND ONE BROTHER, PAUL VON TOBEL OF FRANCESVILLE, IND.

BURIAL WAS IN LAS VEGAS.

4.2 LYDIA (VON TOBEL) BACH 1874 - 1966

HOLD RITES MONDAY FOR MRS. BACH

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. LYDIA B. BACH, 91, WHO DIED FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL WERE HELD ON MONDAY, APR. 4, 1966, AT 10 A.M. IN THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. REV. J. J. BROQUARD OFFICIATED. VISITATION WAS AT COOK FUNERAL HOME SUNDAY AND AT THE CHURCH EARLY MONDAY MORNING. BURIAL WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MRS. BACH WAS BORN IN FAIRBURY ON DEC. 22, 1874, A DAUGHTER OF JACOB AND KATHERINE KELLER VON TOBEL. SHE WAS MARRIED TO J. N. BACH, SR., AUG. 1, 1897, IN FAIRBURY. HE PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. SHE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN THE SAME BLOCK ON SOUTH THIRD STREET, WHERE SHE LIVED ALL HER LIFE. MR. BACH OPERATED THE LUMBER YARDS IN FAIRBURY AND FORREST.

FOR DECADES SHE WAS KNOWN AFFECTIONATELY TO HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY AS "GROSSMAMA."

SURVIVING ARE THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS. CLARA KAUFMAN, SILVERTON, ORE.; MRS. KATHERYN HANNA, MOBILE, ALA.; MRS. CAROLYN MOHAR, MINONK; FIVE SONS, ALFRED, BRADENTON BEACH, FLA.; HARRY AND C. EDWARD, FAIRBURY; AND C. EDMOND, DECATUR, AND J. N., FORREST; ONE BROTHER, ED VON TOBEL, LAS VEGAS, NEV.; A SISTER, MRS. LOUISE V. KALLISTER, ANAHEIM, CALIF.; 24 GRANDCHILDREN AND ONE GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILD. ONE SON, ROBERT, WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN BELGIUM DURING WORLD WAR II, AND ONE BROTHER PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

4.3 PAUL VON TOBEL 1879 - 1955

PAUL VON TOBEL DIES IN FLORIDA HOSPITAL

PAUL VON TOBEL, 75, A NATIVE OF FAIRBURY, DIED FRIDAY AT A HOSPITAL IN SARASOTA, FLA., FROM COMPLICATIONS DEVELOPING FROM A FALL 10 DAYS BEFORE.

SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN FRANCESVILLE, IND., TUESDAY. THE REV. HERMAN HUENI, ASSISTED BY THE REV. HENRY BEER, OF MILFORD, IND., AND REV. PHILLIP GUTWEIN, OF FRANCESVILLE, WERE IN CHARGE OF THE SERVICE. BURIAL WAS AT FRANCESVILLE.

MR. VON TOBEL HAD GONE TO FLORIDA FOR THE WINTER IN COMPANY WITH MRS. VON TOBEL AND A SISTER, MRS. J. N. BACH, OF THIS CITY. ON JAN. 11, HE FELL AND BROKE A LEG. WHILE IN THE HOSPITAL AT SARASOTA, HE DEVELOPED PNEUMONIA AND A HEART CONDITION WHICH BROUGHT ABOUT HIS DEATH ON JAN. 21.

HE WAS BORN IN FAIRBURY DEC. 16, 1879, A SON OF MR. AND MRS. JACOB VON TOBEL. HE LEFT HERE AS A YOUNG MAN TO GO TO INDIANA WHERE HE WAS ASSOCIATED IN THE LUMBER BUSINESS FOR HIS ENTIRE LIFE, A BUSINESS IN WHICH HE WAS STILL ACTIVE AT FRANCESVILLE AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH.

HE WAS MARRIED TO ANGELA GUTWEIN ON MARCH 2, 1909. SHE SURVIVES.

OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. MELVIN HUBER, OF ATHENS, ALA., FIVE SINS, PAUL, JR., AND VIRGIL, OF FRANCESVILLE, HAROLD AND ROBERT, OF REMINGTON, IND., AND EDWARD EUGENE, OF WINAMAC, IND.; TWO SISTERS, MRS. LOUISE KALLISTER, OF FULLERTON, CALIF., AND MRS. LYDIA BACH, OF FAIRBURY; AND ONE BROTHER, ED VON TOBEL, OF LAS VEGAS, NEV.

MRS. J. N. BACH REMAINED IN FLORIDA FOR THE TIME.

MRS. ANNA DEMLER

ANNA KELLER, ONE OF A FAMILY OF TEN CHILDREN, WAS BORN IN ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, NOVEMBER 17, 1845. SHE RECEIVED HER EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOLS OF HER NATIVE LAND. WHEN ABOUT 27 YEARS OF AGE, AFTER THE DEATH OF HER FATHER, SHE CAME TO AMERICA WITH HER MOTHER, SISTERS AND BROTHERS, MAKING HER HOME IN FAIRBURY.

SHE WAS MARRIED TO WILLIAM DEMLER IN INDIAN GROVE TOWNSHIP IN 1878. OF THE SEVEN CHILDREN WHO WERE BORN TO THEM, TWO PRECEDED HER IN DEATH: MRS. EMMA WAHL, WHO PASSED AWAY APRIL 17, 1917, AND ANNA, WHO DIED IN INFANCY. THOSE SURVIVING ARE: WILLIAM DEMLER, OF COMPTON, CALIF.; MRS. LOUISE HALLOCK, OF FAIRBURY; SAMUEL A. DEMLER, OF FAIRBURY, AND BENJAMIN AND ERNEST DEMLER, BOTH OF LONGBEACH, CALIF. SHE IS SURVIVED BY A BROTHER AND SISTER, ALBERT KELLER, OF OAKLAND, CALIF., AND MRS. ELIZA ZELLER, OF CISSNA PARK. BESIDES THESE THERE ARE TWENTY GRANDCHILDREN AND ONE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

ON DECEMBER 9, 1923, SHE WAS CALLED UPON TO MOURN THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND WHILE THEY WERE SPENDING THE WINTER IN CALIFORNIA AT THE HOME OF THEIR SON, WILLIAM H. DEMLER. SOON AFTER, SHE RETURNED TO FAIRBURY AND HAS SINCE MADE HER HOME WITH HER SON, S. A. DEMLER.

IN THE LATTER PART OF LAST OCTOBER SHE SUSTAINED A FALL RESULTING IN INJURIES WHICH CONFINED HER TO HER BED. SHE WAS TENDERLY CARED FOR AND MADE AS COMFORTABLE AS POSSIBLE UNTIL DEATH CLAIMED HER ON THE MORNING OF FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1928, AT THE AGE OF 82 YEARS, 1 MONTH AND 26 DAYS.

GRANDMA DEMLER WAS AN ESTEEMED AND FAITHFUL MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SUNDAY AT THE LOCAL AMISH CHURCH AND HER BODY LAID TO REST IN GRACELAND CEMETERY. DURING HER ILLNESS SHE WAS A CHEERFUL AND PATIENT SUFFERER, SUSTAINED BY A STEADFAST FAITH IN HER SAVIOUR. SHE POSSESSED THE STURDY QUALITIES OF WOMANHOOD WHICH FITTED HER FOR LIFE IN A NEW COUNTRY. SHE WAS A LOVING AND FAITHFUL MOTHER AND A KIND FRIEND TO ALL.

WILLIAM DEMLER

WILLIAM DEMLER OF THIS CITY, PASSED AWAY AT THE HOME OF HIS SON, WILLIAM, JR., AT COMPTON, CALIF., SUNDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 9, AT 12:45 O'CLOCK. MR. DEMLER IN COMPANY WITH MRS. DEMLER, LEFT THIS CITY NOVEMBER 7 TO SPEND THE WINTER WITH HIS SONS AT COMPTON AND LONG BEACH, CALIF. HE SUFFERED A STROKE OF PARALYSIS THE FIRST OF LAST WEEK, WHICH CAUSED HIS DEATH.

MR. DEMLER WAS BORN NOVEMBER 15, 1846, AT BADEN, GERMANY, AND AT THE TIME OF HIS WAS AGED 77 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AND 26 DAYS. IN OCTOBER, 1863, MR. DEMLER CAME TO AMERICA, IT REQUIRING 34 DAYS TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. HE CAME TO WOODFORD COUNTY ILLINOIS, WHERE HE REMAINED FOR FOUR YEARS, A ND THEN CAME TO THIS CITY, WHERE HE HAD SINCE RESIDED. IN NOVEMBER, 1873, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO ANNA KELLER. SEVEN CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THEM, FIVE OF WHOM TOGETHER WITH MRS. DEMLER, SURVIVE, AND ARE: WILL, OF COMPTON, CALIF.; BEN AND ERNEST, OF LONG BEACH, CAL.; AND MRS. WILL HALLOCK AND S. A. DEMLER OF THIS CITY. TWO DAUGHTERS, ANNA IN INFANCY, AND MRS. A. G. WAHL, OF THIS CITY, PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH. ONE SISTER, MRS. SAM SLAGEL, OF FAIRBURY, AND NINETEEN GRANDCHILDREN, ALSO SURVIVE.

MR. DEMLER HAD BEEN A RESIDENT OF FAIRBURY FOR THE PAST 55 YEARS AND DURING THAT TIME HAD SO LIVED THAT HE WAS RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM. IN HIS DEATH THE HOME LOSES A KIND AND LOVING FATHER AND HUSBAND AND THE COMMUNITY A MAN WHO WAS HONEST AND UPRIGHT IN ALL HIS DEALINGS WITH HIS FELLOWMEN.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT COMPTON, TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT TWO O’CLOCK AND INTERMENT WAS ALSO MADE THERE

BELIEVED TO BE BURIED IN THE CHURCH SECTION OF GRACELAND CEMETERY.

ANDREW BAERLOCKER

ANDREW BAERLOCKER WAS BORN IN ST. GELLEN, SWITZERLAND, AUG. 23, 1821. HE WAS MARRIED IN 1850 TO ELIZABETH KELLER AT THAT PLACE. TO THIS UNION WERE BORN SIX CHILDREN, THREE DYING IN INFANCY, THOSE REMAINING ARE: MRS. W. HERREHSPERGER, OF BLOOMINGTON; ANDREW, OF STRAWN, AND MRS. E. BINGHAM OF THIS CITY. HE CAME TO AMERICA IN 1880 AND SETTLED NEAR FAIRBURY ON A FARM IN THE SAME YEAR. SINCE 1885 HE HAS BEEN A CITIZEN OF FAIRBURY. HE HAD RESIDED WITH HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. BINGHAM SINCE THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE IN 1893, WHERE HE LIVED AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH ON JULY 19TH.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH JULY 21, AND THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

6.1 ELIZABETH (BAERLOCHER) BINGHAM 1856 - 1928

MRS. ELIZABETH BINGHAM PASSED AWAY YESTERDAY

MRS. ELIZABETH BINGHAM, AGES 72, A HIGHLY RESPECTED RESIDENT OF THIS CITY FOR MANY YEARS, PASSED AWAY AT THE HOME OF HER SON, WALTER BINGHAM, AT CASSOPOLIS, MICH., YESTERDAY MORNING AT 4:30 O’CLOCK.

MRS. BINGHAM HAD BEEN AILING FOR SOME TIME AND HER SON CAME DOWN THE LATTER PAST OF LAST WEEK TO TAKE HER HOME. THE TRIP WAS MADE TUESDAY, A LOCAL PHYSICIAN ACCOMPANYING HER AS FAR AS CHICAGO. A TELEPHONE MESSAGE RECEIVED HERE TUESDAY EVENING FROM THE SON STATED THAT HIS MOTHER, ALTHOUGH TIRED, HAD STOOD THE TRIP WELL, AND WAS RESTING EASY. ANOTHER MESSAGE YESTERDAY MORNING TOLD OF HER DEATH.

THE REMAINS WILL ARRIVE HERE TONIGHT, AND THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD TOMORROW AFTERNOON FROM THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH.

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MRS. ELIZABETH BINGHAM

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. ELIZABETH BINGHAM, WHOSE DEATH WAS NOTED IN THE BLADE OF LAST WEEK, WERE HELD AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH LAST SATURDAY AFTERNOON. INTERMENT WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY. SHE WAS 71 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AND 26 DAYS OF AGE.

ELIZABETH BAERLOCHER, DAUGHTER OF ANDREW AND ELIZABETH BAERLOCHER, WAS BORN AT THAL, KT. ST. GALLEN, SWITZERLAND, APRIL 16, 1856. IN 1880 THE FAMILY MADE THE OCEAN TRIP TO AMERICA, ARRIVING IN THIS CITY ON MAY 9. ON JANUARY 3, 1883, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO HERBERT G. BINGHAM, WHO TOGETHER WITH THREE SONS, BENJAMIN, EDWARD AND HERBERT, AND ONE DAUGHTER, MARIE, HAVE PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. SURVIVING HER IS ONE SON, WALTER, OF CASSOPOLIS, MICH., AT WHOSE HOME SHE PASSED AWAY. THERE ALSO SURVIVE FOUR GRAND CHILDREN.

MRS. BINGHAM HAD BEEN A RESIDENT OF THIS CITY FOR OVER 47 YEARS. DURING THIS LONG PERIOD OF RESIDENCE HERE SHE HAD BY HER THOUGHTFULNESS OF OTHERS AND HER KIND DISPOSITION MADE MANY LASTING FRIENDSHIPS. SHE WAS A FINE CHRISTIAN WOMAN AND THOSE WHO KNEW HER BEST LOVED HER MOST.

JOHN KELLER, A FORMER RESIDENT OF FAIRBURY, DIED SUDDENLY LAST WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT HIS HOME IN PEORIA. MR. KELLER HAD BEEN IN HIS USUAL HEALTH AND WAS BUSY ABOUT HIS HOME WHEN HE WAS SUDDENLY STRICKEN.

THE DECEASED WAS BORN IN SWITZERLAND MAY 13, 1850, AND CAME TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1871, SETTLING IN FAIRBURY WHERE HE MADE HIS HOME UNTIL 1895, WHEN HE MOVED WITH HIS FAMILY TO ARKANSAS AND LATER TO PEORIA, WHERE HE HAD SINCE MADE HIS HOME.

HE IS SURVIVED BY FIVE SONS, ALBERT, EDWARD, JOHN, WILLIAM AND CHARLES, OF PEORIA; ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. CHRIS LIGHTENBERGER, OF PEKIN; TWO BROTHERS, EDWARD, OF ZURICH, SWITZERLAND; ALBERT, OF CINCINNATI, O., AND FOUR SISTERS, MRS. JACOB VONTOBEL, MRS. WILLIAM DEMLER, SR., OF FAIRBURY, MRS. ELIZA ZELLERS, OF CISSNA PARK, AND MISS LOUISA, OF PORTLAND, ORE.

MEMORIAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT HIS LATE HOME, 432 GREENLEAF STREET, PEORIA, AND AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH. INTERMENT WAS MADE IN SPRINGDALE.

JAOCB VON TOBEL AND J. N. BACH, OF THIS CITY, ATTENDED THE SERVICES.

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