BENEDICT MOSER GAVE UP BATTLE OF LIFE TUESDAY

DIED AFTER A LINGERING ILLNESS; CAUSE, OLD AGE INFIRMITIES

FUNERAL HELD TODAY

SIX WEEKS ILLNESS OF PNEUMONIA RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF BENEDICT MOSER, AN AGE 1 AND RESPECTED CITIZEN OF MORTON, DEATH CLAIMING HIM AS A VICTIM ON TUESDAY MORNING. FOR MORE THAN A YEAR HE HAD BEEN FAILING IN HEALTH, DUE HIS ADVANCED YEARS AND HE WAS UNABLE TO WITHSTAND THE ATTACK OF PNEUMONIA, WHICH SEIZED HIM.

THE DECEDENT WAS BORN IN ALSACE, FRANCE, MARCH 18, 1840. AT THE AGE OF TEN YEARS HE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY AND SETTLED IN OHIO, COMING FROM THERE TO MORTON WHERE HE ENGAGED IN FARMING, DEVOTING THE BEST YEARS OF HIS LIFE TO THAT VOCATION. AT THE AGE 23 YEARS HE WAS MARRIED TO VERENA STEINER OF WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO, AND HE BROUGHT HIS WIFE WITH HIM TO ILLINOIS.

HIS WIFE PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH SEVERAL YEARS. HE LEAVES AS SURVIVORS 6 CHILDREN, JOHN OF ROANOKE, CHRIS OF FORREST, NOAH OF TREMONT, LEO OF THIS PLACE, MRS. SARAH WIELAND OF DEER CREEK, AND MISS LYDIA AT HOME, BESIDE 42 GRANDCHILDREN AND 1 GREAT GRANDCHILD.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH THIS AFTERNOON AT 1:30. BURIAL WILL BE IN THE APOSTOLIC CEMETERY.

MRS. BENEDICT MOSER DIES

THE END COMES WITH VERY LITTLE WARNING OF ITS APPROACH

MRS. VERENA MOSER, WIFE OF BENEDICT MOSER, DIED AT THE HOME IN MORTON ON FRIDAY MORNING LAST. SO QUICKLY DID DEATH FOLLOW WHAT HAD PROMISED TO BE A DAY OF USUAL HEALTH THAT A SUDDEN AFFECTION OF THE HEART WAS OVER IN A HALF HOUR LEAVING HER IN WHAT AT FIRST SIGHT WOULD SEEM TO BE ASLEEP, SO NATURAL DID SHE LOOK AFTER THE CHANGE CAME. WITH THE FIRST INDICATIONS OF HEART FAILURE AT 5:30 A.M. HER DEATH OCCURRED ABOUT SIX. HER DEATH IS ATTRIBUTED TO ASTHMA AND HEART FAILURE.

VERENA STEINER WAS BORN IN WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO, JANUARY 26, 1839. SHE WAS MARRIED THERE ABOUT 55 YEARS AGO TO BENEDICT MOSER WHO SURVIVES TO MOURN THE LOSS OF A LOVING WIFE AND EFFICIENT HELPMEET IN THE STRUGGLE OF LIFE. THE YOUNG COUPLE CAME AT ONCE TO THIS VICINITY AND WENT TO FARMING, CONTINUING WITH SUCCESS AT THAT UNTIL ABOUT TWELVE YEARS AGO WHEN THEY CAME TO TOWN.

THE LIVING CHILDREN ARE CHRIST OF FORREST, JOHN B. OF ROANOKE, NOAH LIVING SOUTH OF TOWN, REUBEN OF EDGERTON, OHIO, MRS. SARAH (CHRIS) WIELAND LIVING NORTHEAST OF TOWN, LEO AND MISS LYDIA AT HOME. THERE ARE 28 GRANDCHILDREN.

MRS. MOSER’S SISTERS AND BROTHERS ARE: MRS. SARAH CONRAD, WIDOW, OF LEO, IND.: MRS. KATIE SOMMER, MANSFIELD, OHIO; MRS. ELIZABETH KURTH, GRIDLEY; LEVI STEINER, RITTMAN, OHIO; ELI STEINER, LEO, IND.; JACOB STEINER, MORTON.

MRS. MOSER UNITED WITH THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN GIRLHOOD AND WAS A FAITHFUL AND CONSISTENT MEMBER DURING HER LIFE. IT WAS OFTEN SAID OF HER THAT SHE HAD A GENUINE SYMPATHY FOR THE SICK, THE POOR AND THE UNFORTUNATE AS WAS SHOWN IN HER UNWEARYING ATTEMPTS TO HELP THEM. IN THIS SHE LIVED THE FAITH SHE PROFESSED AND EVIDENCED THE TRUST SHE PUT IN THE RELIGION SHE BELIEVED IN.

THE FUNERAL TOOK PLACE ON MONDAY AT THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH, THE SERMON BEING BY REV. MICHAEL MANGOLD OF ROANOKE.

BENEDICT MOSER 1840 - 1923

(WIFE) VERENA (STEINER) MOSER 1839 -1916

(SON) DANIEL MOSER 1962 - ????

(SON) AARON MOSER 1964 - ????

(SON) JOHN B. MOSER 1866 - 1942

(SON) SAMUEL MOSER 1867 - 1913

(SON) CHRISTIAN MOSER 1870 - 1943

(SON) NOAH MOSER 1872 - 1962

(SON) REUBEN MOSER 1874 - 1925

(DAUGHTER) LYDIANNA "LYDIA" MOSER 1876 - 1969

(SON) LEO MOSER 1878 - 1949

(DAUGHTER) SARAH (MOSER) WIELAND 1880 - 1965

CHRISTIAN MOSER DIED LAST EVENING

CHRISTIAN MOSER, FOR MANY YEARS A WELL KNOWN AND RESPECTED RESIDENT OF THIS CITY AND COMMUNITY, PASSED AWAY LAST EVENING AT NINE O’CLOCK AT HIS HOME AT 106 EAST CHESTNUT STREET FOLLOWING AN ILLNESS OF SEVERAL YEARS. HE WAS 73 YEARS, EIGHT MONTHS AND SEVEN DAYS OF AGE.

MR. MOSER WAS A NATIVE OF TAZEWELL COUNTY, BEING BORN NEAR MORTON, APRIL 16, 1870, A SON OF BENEDICT AND VERENA (STEINER) MOSER. HE GREW TO YOUNG MANHOOD IN THAT VICINITY AND IN DECEMBER, 1893, WAS MARRIED TO LYDIA YODER, WHO PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

THEY TOOK UP THEIR RESIDENCE ON HIS FARM NORTHEAST OF FORREST, WHERE HE RESIDED UNTIL 1924, WHEN HE RETIRED. HE SPENT A YEAR IN PEORIA AND THEN RETURNED TO FAIRBURY. ALTHOUGH HE SPENT SEVERAL YEARS IN CALIFORNIA, HE ALWAYS RETAINED HIS RESIDENCE HERE.

SURVIVING ARE THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN, ALL RESIDENTS OF THIS CITY AND VICINITY: CARL, MENNO, MRS. HENRY MAURER, WALTER, ELI, SILAS, MRS. URBAN STEIDINGER AND GERTRUDE, LAVINA AND VIOLA AT HOME. ALSO SURVIVING ARE THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS AND SISTERS: NOAH AND MISS SARAH, OF MORTON, LEO AND MISS LYDIA, OF ELGIN.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT ONE O’CLOCK.

THE FIRST YODER ANCESTOR IN AMERICA, CHRISTIAN YODER, SR., SAILED INTO PHILADELPHIA ABOARD THE FRANCIS AND ELIZABETH IN 1742. HE ACQUIRED LAND IN BERKS COUNTY, PA. LATER HIS SON, CHRISTIAN YODER, JR., SOLD THE FARM AND MOVED TO SOMERSET COUNTY ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS. CHRISTIAN JR’S SECOND WIFE WAS BARBARA HOOLEY AND TOGETHER WITH ALL HIS CHILDREN FORMED A COMMUNITY THERE CALLED "YODER SETTLEMENT". A SON, SOLOMON, AND FAMILY MOVED TO WAYNE CO., OHIO. SOLOMON’S SON, PETER, MARRIED FANNY BLOUGH AND WAS A PROSPEROUS FARMER UNTIL HIS DEATH AT THE AGE OF 45. JOHN B. YODER, LYDIA (YODER) MOSER’S FATHER, WAS THE FORTH CHILD AND CAME TO ILLINOIS.

1. CHRISTIAN YODER, SR. 1700 - 1775 MARRIED BARBARA GERBER 1705 - ????

2. CHRISTIAN YODER, JR. 1728 - 1816 MARRIED BARBARA HOOLEY 1741 - 1812

3. SOLOMON YODER 1776 - 1868 MARRIED BARBARA MILLER 1774 - 1858

4. PETER YODER 1804 - 1849 MARRIED FANNY BLOUGH ???? - ????

5. JOHN B. YODER 1834 - 1904

IN 1856 JOHN B. YODER MARRIED ELIZABETH KING. TO THIS UNION WERE BORN 13 CHILDREN, FOUR DIED BEFORE REACHING ADULTHOOD. THE YODERS LIVED THREE MILES NORTH OF MORTON.

NO OBITUARY AVAILABLE FOR JOHN B. YODER

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DEATH FROM PNEUMONIA

MRS. ELIZABETH YODER PASSES AWAY AT THE AGE OF SEVENTY-TWO

MRS. ELIZABETH YODER DIED OF PNEUMONIA, AT 11:30 P.M. ON SUNDAY, AT THE AGE OF 72, FOLLOWING A BRIEF ILLNESS AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER, MRS. JOHN HUETTE. HER MAIDEN NAME WAS KING AND SHE WAS BORN IN OHIO JULY 20, 1839. HER HUSBAND, JOHN YODER, DIED ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO WHILE THEY LIVED IN MORTON. ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO SHE WENT TO LIVE WITH HER DAUGHTER, MRS. JOHN HUETTE, IN THE COUNTRY. ONE OF HER SONS, CHRIS, DIED TWO MONTHS AGO. THE CHILDREN LIVING TO MOURN THE LOSS OF AN EXCELLENT MOTHER ARE: EDWARD AND JOHN, OF MORTON; WILLIAM AND SAMUEL, OF FAIRBURY; MRS. JOHN HUETTE, OF TREMONT; MRS. CHAS. HUETTE, OF INDIANA; MRS. HIRAM FORTNA AND MRS. CHRIS MOSER, OF FORREST.

THE FUNERAL WAS HELD FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

JOHN B. YODER 1834 - 1904

(WIFE) ELIZABETH (KING) YODER 1835 - 1912

(DAUGHTER) LILLIAN SARILDA (YODER) FORTNA 1856 - 1931

(DAUGHTER) JULIA (YODER) HUETTE 1857 - 1935

(SON) SAMUEL YODER 1859 - 1928

(DAUGHTER) FANNIE (YODER) HUETTE 1862 - 1936

(SON) WILLIAM YODER 1865 - 1951

(SON) CHRISTIAN YODER 1869 - 1911

(DAUGHTER) LYDIA (YODER) MOSER 1872 - 1913

(SON) JOHN YODER 1874 - 1913

(DAUGHTER) EMMA YODER 1876 - 1888

(SON) EDWARD YODER 1877 - 1949

(SON) JOSEPH YODER 1879 - 1892

MRS. CHRIS MOSER

MRS. CHRIS MOSER, WHO LIVED NORTH OF FORREST, DIED THURSDAY MORNING AT 3:30 O’CLOCK AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD FROM THE NORTH GERMAN CHURCH SUNDAY. OBITUARY NEXT WEEK.

MRS. CHRISTIAN MOSER

MRS. CHRISTIAN MOSER, WHOSE DEATH WAS MENTIONED LAST WEEK, PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME FOUR AND ONE-HALF MILES NORTHEAST OF FORREST, THURSDAY MORNING AT 3:30, MARCH 13, 1913. THE NEWS OF HER DEATH WAS A GREAT SURPRISE TO MANY. ALTHOUGH SHE HAD BEEN AILING FOR SEVERAL MONTHS, SHE WAS THOUGHT TO BE IMPROVING.

LYDIA YODER WAS BORN NEAR MORTON, ILLINOIS, NOV. 14, 1872, WHERE SHE SPENT HER GIRLHOOD. ON FEB. 13, 1893, SHE WAS MARRIED TO C. MOSER, ALSO OF MORTON, BUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE THEY MOVED TO MR. MOSER’S FARM NEAR FORREST, WHERE SHE DIED. TO THIS UNION WERE BORN TEN CHILDREN, FIVE BOYS AND FIVE GIRLS, ALL OF WHOM ARE AT HOME. BESIDES THE HUSBAND AND CHILDREN THERE ARE LEFT TO MOURN HER LOSS FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTER: WILL AND SAM YODER, OF NEAR FAIRBURY; MRS. HERMAN FORTNA, OF HEALEY; MRS. JOHN HUETTE, ED AND JOHN YODER, OF MORTON, ILL., AND MRS. CHAS. HUETTE, OF WOLCOTT, IND., ALL OF WHOM ATTENDED THE FUNERAL EXCEPT JOHN, WHO WAS KEPT AT HOME BY SEVERE ILLNESS.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WAS HELD SUNDAY AT NORTH AMISH CHURCH OF WHICH SHE WAS A MEMBER, THE FUNERAL LEAVING THE HOUSE AT 9:30. REV. SCHMITZ, OF EUREKA, CONDUCTED, ASSISTED BY REVS. HONEGAN AND SLAGEL.

THE ESTEEM IN WHICH SHE WAS HELD WAS SHOWN BY THE LARGE NUMBER WHO ATTENDED FROM FORREST, FAIRBURY, GRIDLEY, EUREKA AND MORTON.

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