HANS NUSSBAUMER 1735 - 1795

(WIFE) ANNA (RAMIER) NUSSBAUMER

(DAUGHTER) ANNA NUSSBAUMER

(DAUGHTER) BARBARA NUSSBAUMER

(SON) BENEDICHT NUSSBAUMER

(SON) BENEDICHT NUSSBAUMER

(?) DURS NUSSBAUMER

(DAUGHTER) ELSBETH NUSSBAUMER

(SON) HANS NUSSBAUMER

(DAUGHTER) MARIA NUSSBAUMER

(DAUGHTER) ROSINA NUSSBAUMER

(SON) NIKALUS NUSSBAUMER 1776 -1844

(THE NAME CHANGED FROM NUSSBAUMER TO NUSSBAUM)

NIKALUS NUSSBAUM 1776 -1844

(WIFE) ELIZABETH (BUTIKOFER) NUSSBAUM 1780 - 1846

(SON) ADAM NUSSBAUM

(DAUGHTER) ANNA NUSSBAUM

(SON) BENEDICT NUSSBAUM

(DAUGHTER) ELISABTH NUSSBAUM

(SON) JACOB NUSSBAUM

(SON) JACOB NUSSBAUM

(SON) JOHN NUSSBAUM

(DAUGHTER) MARIA NUSSBAUM

(SON) SAM NUSSBAUM

(SON) NICKLAUS NUSSBAUM 1810 - 1891

NICKLAUS NUSSBAUM 1810 - 1891

(WIFE) ANNA BARBARA (FLUCKIGER) NUSSBAUM 1815 - 1890

(SON) JACOB NUSSBAUM 1847 - 1932

(SON) JOHANNES "JOHN" NUSSBAUM 1845 - 1935

(SON) SAMUEL NUSSBAUM 1849 - 1931

(DAUGHTER) ANNA (NUSSBAUM) BLEUER 1854 - 1915

(SON) NICKLAUS NUSSBAUM 1857 - 1940

JACOB NUSSBAUM

JACOB NUSSBAUM, RESIDING IN PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP, EIGHT AND A HALF MILES NORTHEAST OF FAIRBURY, PASSED AWAY LAST FRIDAY MORNING AT 9:30 O'CLOCK AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL. MR. NUSSBAUM, WHO HAD BEEN ILL WITH HERNIA, WAS AGED 85 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AND 12 DAYS.

JACOB, SON OF ANNA AND NICHOLAS NUSSBAUM, WAS BORN AT BEATZVILLE, CANTON SLOTHURN, SWITZERLAND, MARCH 29 1847. WHEN A BOY OF NINE YEARS HE CAME WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY TO AMERICA, LOCATING NEAR PALMYRA MO. FROM THERE HE MOVED TO PEORIA, THEN TO METAMORA AND FINALLY LOCATING NEAR FAIRBURY.

ON FEBRUARY 20 1881, IN WOODFORD COUNTY, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MARY HARTMAN. FOR THREE YEARS FOLLOWING THEIR MARRIAGE THEY RESIDED SOUTHEAST OF FAIRBURY, AND THEN REMOVED TO PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP.

OF THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY THE BEREAVED WIFE AND THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN SURVIVE: EDWARD, OF WOLCOTT IND.; MRS. FRED RIEGER AND IRA NUSSBAUM, OF FORREST, AND SILAS AND MARY AT HOME. THERE ALSO SURVIVE TWO BROTHERS, JOHN, OF FAIRBURY, AND NICHOLAS, OF REMINGTON IND., AND TWENTY GRANDCHILDREN. ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. BEN STOLLER, PASSED AWAY AUGUST 4TH 1931.

MR. NUSSBAUM WAS A GOOD NEIGHBOR AND FRIEND, AND IN THE HOME WAS A KIND AND LOVING FATHER. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE NORTHSIDE CHURCH AND INTERMENT WAS IN NORTHSIDE CEMETERY.

JOHN NUSSBAUM, PIONEER CITIZEN, DIES SATURDAY

HAD JUST RECENTLY PASSED HIS NINETIETH BIRTHDAY - HAD LIVES HERE ALMOST EIGHTY YEARS.

JOHN NUSSABUM, ONE OF FAIRBURY’S HIGHLY ESTEEMED CITIZENS, PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME ON EAST ELM STREET LAST SATURDAY MORNING, HAVING ATTAINED THE AGE OF 90 YEARS, I MONTH AND 15 DAYS. WHILE MR. NUSSBAUM’S PASSING CAME SUDDENLY, IT WAS NOT ENTIRELY UNEXPECTED, AS HE HAD BEEN IN FRAIL HEALTH FOR SOME TIME.

MR. NUSSBAUM WAS BORN IN SWITZERLAND FEBRUARY 1, 1845, A SON OF NICHOLAS AND BARBARA (FLITIGER) NUSSBAUM. HE REMAINED IN THE LAND OF HIS BIRTH UNTIL HE WAS 11 YEARS OLD, WHEN WITH HIS PARENTS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY THEY CAME TO AMERICA, LANDING AT NEW ORLEANS, LA. THE VOYAGE WAS A ROUGH ONE, THE FAMILY LOSING ABOUT ALL THEIR BELONGINGS BY HAVING THEM WASHED OVERBOARD.

THE FAMILY FIRST WENT TO WOODFORD COUNTY, THIS STATE, WHERE THEY REMAINED ONLY A WEEK OR TWO, AND THEN CAME TO FAIRBURY, WHERE MR. NUSSBAUM HAD SINCE RESIDED. HE ENGAGED IN FARMING FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, LATER TAKING UP HIS RESIDENCE IN THIS CITY.

ON MARCH 4, 1874, MR. NUSSBAUM WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS MARGARETTA VIRKLER. SURVIVING ARE FIVE SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS, NAMELY, LOUIS, OF FOLLETTE, IOWA; FRED, OF MOLINE; WALTER AND MRS. A. G. MILNE, OF FAIRBURY; MRS. BERTHA TURNIPSEED, OF DECATUR, AND HENRY, OSCAR AND MISS MINNIE, AT HOME. THERE ALSO SURVIVE A BROTHER, NICHOLAS, OF REMINGTON, IND., AND EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN. MRS. NUSSBAUM PRECEDED MR. NUSSBAUM IN DEATH JUNE 3, 1900.

THE ALMOST FOUR SCORE YEARS THAT MR. NUSSBAUM SPENT IN THIS COMMUNITY WERE SO LIVED THAT HE AT ALL TIMES HELD THE RESPECT AND CONFIDENCE OF HIS FELLOWMEN. IN THE HOME THERE WAS EVER A MUTUAL DEVOTION BETWEEN FATHER AND CHILDREN.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE FAMILY HOME MONDAY AFTERNOON AT TWO O’CLOCK AND WERE LARGELY ATTENDED. DR. C. S. DAVIES OFFICIATED AND INTERMENT WAS MADE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY. THE FIVE SONS AND THE SON-IN-LAW OF THE DECEASED ACTED AS PALLBEARERS.

SAMUEL NUSSBAUM

SAMUEL NUSSBAUM, WHO FOR MANY YEARS HAD RESIDED IN THIS CITY AND VICINITY, PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME ON EAST WALNUT STREET, MONDAY MORNING AT EIGHT O’CLOCK. HE WAS AGED 81 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AND 8 DAYS.

SAMUEL, SON OF NICHOLAS AND BARBARA NUSSBAUM, WAS BORN IN SWITZERLAND, JULY 4, 1849. WHEN A BOY OF SEVEN YEARS HE CAME WITH THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY TO AMERICA. THEY LIVED FOR A TIME IN PEORIA AND IN THE STATE OF MISSOURI BEFORE LOCATING ON A FARM THREE AND A HALF MILES SOUTHEAST OF THIS CITY.

ON FEBRUARY 4, 1877, MR. NUSSBAUM WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS CHRISTINA STORTZ, WHO WITH THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN SURVIVES: JOSEPH AND SAMUEL ,OF FORREST; MRS. ANNA MASON, OF NEW BOSTON; PHILIP AND WILLIAM, OF MUSCATINE, IOWA; MRS. TILLIE MEISTER AND MRS. LENA HONEGGER, OF FAIRBURY, AND BENJAMIN, AT HOME. THERE ALSO SURVIVE THREE BROTHERS - JOHN AND JACOB NUSSBAUM, OF THIS CITY, AND NICHOLAS, OF REMINGTON, IND. TWENTY-FIVE GRANDCHILDREN AND ONE GREAT-GRANDCHILD. ONE SISTER PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH IN FEBRUARY, 1915.

MR. NUSSBAUM WAS A MAN WHO POSSESSED THAT QUALITY OF CHARACTER AND FRIENDLINESS WHICH MADE HIM A GOOD CITIZEN AND NEIGHBOR, WHILE IN THE HOME HE WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED AS A KIND FATHER AND HUSBAND.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH WEDNESDAY MORNING AND WERE LARGELY ATTENDED. INTERMENT WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MRS. FRED BLUER

MRS. ANNA NUSSBAUM BLEUR DIED AT THE FAMILY HOME IN CLAYTONVILLE, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1915. MRS. BLEUR HAD BEEN IN POOR HEALTH FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND FOR THE PAST THREE MONTHS HAD BEEN FAILING RAPIDLY.

THE DECEASED WAS BORN IN SWITZERLAND IN 1854, AND CAME TO THIS COUNTRY WITH HER PARENTS, MR. AND MRS. NICHOLAS NUSSBAUM IN 1856, GOING TO MARION COUNTY, MISSOURI, WHERE THEY MADE THEIR HOME UNTIL 1863. IN THAT YEAR THEY MOVED TO PEORIA, WHERE THEY LIVED TWO YEARS GOING FROM THERE TO METAMORA. IN 1868 THEY CAME TO FAIRBURY, WHERE SHE MADE HER HOME WITH HER PARENTS.

SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO FRED BLEUR IN 1897 AND SINCE THAT TIME HAS LIVED AT CLAYTONVILLE. ONE CHILD, MATILDA, WAS BORN TO THIS UNION, WHO WITH THE HUSBAND AND FOUR BROTHERS, JOHN, JACOB AND SAMUEL, OF THIS CITY, AND NICHOLAS NUSSBAUM, OF REMINGTON, IND., REMAIN TO MOURN HER LOSS.

THE REMAINS WERE BROUGHT HERE TUESDAY FOR BURIAL, THE FUNERAL PARTY ARRIVING ON THE 11:32 TRAIN, AND THE FUNERAL WAS HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF WHICH SHE HAD BEEN A FAITHFUL MEMBER FOR YEARS. THERE WAS A LARGE NUMBER OF FRIENDS PRESENT AT THE FUNERAL A TRIBUTE TO THE HIGH ESTEEM IN WHICH SHE WAS HELD. THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

NO OBITUARY

BENJAMIN NUSSBAUM 1892 - 1975

INDIAN ARTIFACT COLLECTOR, BEN NUSSBAUM, 82, DIES.

BENJAMIN NUSSBAUM, 82, FAIRBURY, WHOSE COLLECTION OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN BANNER STONES WAS REPUTEDLY THE FINEST IN THE UNITED STATES, DIED AT 3:12 P.M. THURSDAY, SEPT. 18, 1975, AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL. HE HELD THE LONGEST MEMBERSHIP IN THE WISCONSIN ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY AND A MEMBER OF THE ILLINOIS SOCIETY.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, FAIRBURY AND WAS THE AUTHOR OF A COMPLETE HISTORY ON THE NORTH AND SOUTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCHES.

MR. NUSSBAUM WAS A RETIRED FARMER AND ALSO SUPERINTENDENT OF THE FAIRBURY WATERWORKS.

HIS FUNERAL WAS HELD AT 10 A.M. SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, AT THE APOSOTLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH WITH BURIAL IN GRACELAND CEMETERY. DUFFY-PILS MEMORIAL HOME WAS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS.

PALLBEARERS WERE HARVEY GUTWEIN, FRANCESVILLE, IND.; ALBERT HONEGGER, CHATSWORTH; NELSON NUSSBAUM, SR., RURAL FORREST; FRED, JONATHAN AND PERRY MUNZ, ALL OF FAIRBURY.

HE WAS BORN SEPT. 24, 1892 AT FORREST, A SON OF SAMUEL AND CHRISTINA STORTZ NUSSBAUM. HE MARRIED RUTH MARGUERITE ZOOK. SHE DIED IN 1929. HE MARRIED LYDIA MUNZ MAY 10, 1941.

SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE, A SON, WILMER NUSSBAUM, XENIA, OHIO; AND THREE GRANDCHILDREN.

FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

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