NO OBITUARY AVAILABLE FOR FRIEDERICH KILGUS

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MRS. CHRISTINA KILGUS

MRS. CHRISTINA KILGUS, FOR MANY YEARS A RESIDENT OF THIS CITY, PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER, MRS. ANDREW LEHMAN, NEAR RISK, DEATH BEING DUE TO THE INFIRMITIES OF OLD AGE, SUPERINDUCED BY DROPSEY.

CHRISTINA HEINZELMAN WAS BORN IN GERMANY 83 YEARS AGO AND WAS THERE MARRIED TO FRED KILGUS. THE FAMILY CAME TO THIS COUNTRY 33 YEARS AGO, LOCATING AT FAIRBURY, MRS. KILGUS MAKING THIS CITY HER HOME SINCE THAT TIME WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE PAST FEW YEARS, WHICH HAVE BEEN SPENT WITH HER DAUGHTER NEAR RISK.

THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN SURVIVE: GEORGE AND FRED, OF FAIRBURY; JOHN OF FORREST; MRS. ANDREW LEHMAN, OF NEAR RISK AND MRS. EMIL BAUER, OF CISSNA PARK. MR. KILGUS PASSED AWAY A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO.

THE DECEASED WAS A KIND AND LOVING MOTHER, AND A LADY WHO HELD THE RESPECT AND ESTEEM OF ALL WHO KNEW HER.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD SUNDAY FROM THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN THIS CITY, AND INTERMENT WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

FRIEDERICH KILGUS 1838 - 1895

(WIFE) CHRISTINE (HEINZELMAN) KILGUS 1840 - 1923

(SON) GEORGE KILGUS 1863 - 1940

(SON) JOHN GEORGE KILGUS 1865 - 1949

(DAUGHTER) BARBARA (KILGUS) VON BERGEN 1866 - 1918

(DAUGHTER) KATHERINE (KILGUS) MILLER 1869 - 1915

(SON) ANDREW KILGUS 1872 - 1918

(SON) MATTHEW KILGUS 1873 - 1913

(DAUGHTER) MARY (KILGUS) LEHMANN 1875 - 1937

(DAUGHTER) CHRISTINE (KILGUS) BAUER 1878 - 1958

(SON) FREDERICK KILGUS 1880 - 1958

(DAUGHTER) DORA KILGUS ???? - ????

GEORGE KILGUS DIED EARLY WEDNESDAY

GEORGE KILGUS, A WELL KNOWN AND HIGHLY RESPECTED CITIZEN, PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY MORNING AT 12:40 O’CLOCK AT HIS HOME AT 712 EAST ELM STREET, HIS DEATH BEING DUE TO THE DEBILITIES OF OLD AGE. HE WAS 77 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AND 27 DAYS OF AGE.

MR. KILGUS WAS BORN AT ROTHUBERG, WURTTEMBURG, GERMANY, ON APRIL 28, 1863, A SON OF FREDERICK AND CHRISTINA KILGUS.

HE RECEIVED HIS EDUCATION IN THE LAND OF HIS BIRTH, COMING TO AMERICA WHEN 18 YEARS OF AGE AND LOCATING AT FAIRBURY. HE RESIDED NORTH OF FAIRBURY FOR 15 YEARS AND THEN MOVED TO BAY CITY, MICH., WHERE HE LIVED 12 YEARS. HE RETIRED 22 YEARS AGO AND RETURNED TO FAIRBURY, WHERE HE HAD SINCE RESIDED.

MR. KILGUS WAS TWICE MARRIED, HIS FIRST MARRIAGE BEING TO MISS BARBARA KNOCHEL. FOLLOWING HER DEATH HE WAS MARRIED TO MISS MARGARET WOLFF, WHO SURVIVES. SURVIVING ARE TWO CHILDREN BY HIS FIRST MARRIAGE - MRS. SOPHIA KIRCHER, OF BAY CITY, MICH., AND LOUIS KILGUS, OF DETROIT, MICH., AND THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN BY HIS SECOND MARRIAGE: FRED, OF DETROIT, MICH.; GEORGE, OF BAY CITY, MICH., AND RUDY, OF FAIRBURY. - ALSO SURVIVING ARE TEN GRANDCHILDREN, AND THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS AND SISTERS: JOHN AND FRED KILGUS OF FAIRBURY, AND MRS. EMIL BAUER, OF CISSNA PARK. HIS PARENTS, A CHILD WHO DIED IN INFANCY AND SEVERAL BROTHERS AND SISTERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD THIS AFTERNOON AT ONE O’CLOCK FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER. INTERMENT WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

THE PALLBEARERS WILL BE NEPHEWS OF THE DECEASED - ANDREW LEHMANN, ALBERT VON BERGEN, GEORGE LEHMANN, RUDY MILLER, ALVIE KILGUS AND HENRY KILGUS.

SERVICES FOR JOHN KILGUS HELD YESTERDAY

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR JOHN KILGUS, WHO PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME ON SOUTH FORTH STREET, ON TUESDAY MORNING AT THREE O’CLOCK, WERE HELD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT TWO O’CLOCK AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. INTERMENT WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY. MR. KILGUS, WHO HAD BEEN ILL FOR SOME TIME, WAS AGED 83 YEARS, TEN MONTHS AND SEVEN DAYS.

JOHN, SON OF FREDERICK AND CHRISTINE (HEINZEIMAN) KILGUS, WAS BORN AT BADEN, GERMANY, JULY 3, 1865. HE SPENT HIS BOYHOOD DAYS IN HIS NATIVE COUNTRY, COMING TO THIS VICINITY WHEN A YOUNG MAN AND HAD SINCE RESIDED IN THE FORREST AND FAIRBURY VICINITIES.

ON NOVEMBER 14, 1891, AT FAIRBURY, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JOHANNA STREIB. THEY LIVED ON A FARM NORTH OF FAIRBURY FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS AND THEN MOVED TO THEIR FARM NORTH OF FORREST. THEY RETIRED AND MOVED TO FAIRBURY 25 YEARS AGO. MRS. KILGUS PASSED AWAY JULY 17, 1942.

TEN CHILDREN WERE BORN TO MR. AND MRS. KILGUS, SEVEN OF WHOM SURVIVE. THEY ARE: HENRY AND ALVIE, OF FORREST; SAM, OF REMINGTON, IND.; MARY, AT HOME; MRS. FRANK HONEGGER, OF FORREST; BERTHA, OF FAIRBURY AND WILLIE, OF JOLIET. ALSO SURVIVING ARE A BROTHER, FRED, OF FAIRBURY, AND A SISTER, CHRISTINA BAUER, OF HOOPESTON. THREE CHILDREN, THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

MR. KILGUS WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

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6. MATTHEW KILGUS 1873 - 1913

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.

MRS. ANDREW LEHMANN, SR.

MRS. ANDREW LEHMANN, SR., PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME SOUTH OF FORREST, AT THREE O’CLOCK YESTERDAY MORNING. SHE HAD BEEN BEDFAST SEVEN MONTHS AND TOWARD THE LAST SUFFERED GREATLY.

BORN IN WITTENBERG, GERMANY, 60 YEARS AGO, MARY KILGUS CAME TO THIS COUNTRY WITH HER PARENTS WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND FIVE SONS - ANDREW, OF FAIRBURY; FRANK, OF KANKAKEE; CARL, OF PEORIA; IRA, GEORGE AND HERBERT, AT HOME; TWO DAUGHTER, LAURA, AT HOME, AND MRS. PHILIP RIEGER, OF FORREST; THREE BROTHERS, GEORGE, JOHN AND FRED, FAIRBURY, AND A SISTER, MRS. CHRISTINA BAUER, OF CISSNA PARK.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD SUNDAY AT THE SOUTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

FUNERAL OF MRS. ANDREW LEHMANN, SR., HELD SUNDAY.

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. ANDREW LEHMANN, SR., WHOSE DEATH WAS MENTIONED IN THESE COLUMNS LAST WEEK, WERE HELD SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE SOUTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND WERE LARGELY ATTENDED. THE REV. DAVID MANGOLD, OF ROANOKE, OFFICIATED, ASSISTED BY THE REV. GEORGE GRAMM, OF GRIDLEY, AND THE REV. PETER BACH, OF FORREST. INTERMENT WAS IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY.

THE PALLBEARERS WERE NEPHEWS OF THE DECEASED AND WERE: ELMER BAUER, ANDREW KILGUS, IRA KILGUS, HERMAN KILGUS, JOE MILLER, FRED MILLER.

THE LARGE ATTENDANCE AT THE SERVICES INCLUDED FRIENDS AND RELATIVES FROM MANSFIELD, O. BAY CITY, MICH., REMINGTON AND WOLCOTT, IND., PEORIA, ROANOKE, PRINCEVILLE, GRIDLEY.

MRS. LEHMANN WAS A KIND AND LOVING WIFE AND MOTHER AND BELOVED OF ALL WHO KNEW HER.

MRS. CHRISTINE BAUER DIED

CHRISTINE KILGUS BAUER, 79, DIED AT 6 P.M. SUNDAY CARLE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, URBANA, FOLLOWING AN EXTENDED ILLNESS.

SHW AS BORN NOV. 10, 1878, IN WURTEMBERG, GERMANY, DAUGHTER OF FREDERICK AND CHRISTINA HEINZELMAN KILGUS, AND CAME TO THE UNITED STATES WHEN A GIRL. SHE WAS MARRIED MARCH 26, 1902, IN PONTIAC TO EMIL BAUER WHO PRECEDED HER IN DEATH DEC. 24, 1944.

SURVIVING ARE EIGHT SONS, PHILEMON AND ELMER, BOTH OF CLAYTONVILLE, AARON, URBAN, ANDY AND KENNETH, ALL OF CISSNA PARK, HERMAN OF HOOPESTON AND GEORGE OF PAXTON; THREE DAUGHTER, MRS. ALPH ESENMAN OF GOODWINE AND MRS. ALVIN HARI AND MISS HELEN BAUER, BOTH OF CISSNA PARK, AND 25 GRANDCHILDREN.

SHE WAS PRECEDE IN DEATH BY A SON, RAYMOND, WHO WAS KILLED IN WORLD WAR II, FOUR SISTER, DORA WHO DIED IN INFANCY, BARBARA VON BERGEN, KATIE MILLER, MARY LEHMANN AND FIVE BROTHERS, GEORGE, JOHN, MATT, ANDREW AND FRED.

SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE KNAPP FUNERAL HOME IN CISSNA PARK ON WEDNESDAY, WITH CONTINUED RITES AT 2 P.M. AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OF WHICH SHE WAS A MEMBER. BURIAL WAS IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY.

FRED KILGUS, 77, BURIED TUESDAY

SERVICES WERE HELD TUESDAY FOR FRED KILGUS, 77, WHO DIED AT 5:25 A.M. SUNDAY AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL AFTER A 4 WEEK ILLNESS.

SERVICES WERE HELD AT 10:00 A.M. AT THE RESIDENCE AND AT 10:30 A.M. AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. BURIAL WAS IN GRACELAND.

HE WAS BORN FEB. 5, 1880, AT WURTEMBERG, GERMANY, A SON OF FREDERICK AND CHRISTINA HEINZELMAN KILGUS. HE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY AT THE AGE OF 9. HE MARRIED LIZZIE ANKER, OCT. 16, 1916, AT FAIRBURY. THEY FARMED NEAR FAIRBURY UNTIL 1954 WHEN HE RETIRED AND MOVED TO TOWN.

SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE, ONE DAUGHTER, MISS CLARA, AT HOME; ONE SISTER, MRS. CHRISTINA BAUER, CISSNA PARK.

FOUR SISTERS AND FOUR BROTHERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

BEARERS WERE HERMAN KILGUS, ANDY KILGUS, PEORIA; ALVIE KILGUS, FORREST; JOE MILLER, GRIDLEY; ELMER BAUER, CLAYTONVILLE, AND FRED MILLER, OF GRIDLEY.

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