ANDREW ROTH WAS BORN IN 1811, THE SON OF NICHOLAS AND VERONICA (ZIMMERMAN) ROTH.

ANDREW MARRIED ANNA ZIMMERMAN, APRIL 24, 1842 IN BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO. ANNA WAS THE DAUGHTER OF ANDREW AND ANNA (MILLER) ZIMMERMAN.

ANDREW AND ANNA (ZIMMERMAN) ROTH ARE BURIED IN THE SOUTH SIDE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH CEMETERY, NEAR FAIRBURY, ILLINOIS.

ANDREW ROTH 1811 - 1886

(WIFE) ANNA (ZIMMERMAN) ROTH 1818 - 1884

(SON) NICHOLAS ROTH 1843 - 1921

(DAUGHTER) ANNA (ROTH) ZEHR 1844 - 1895

(DAUGHTER) BARBARA (ROTH) GERBER 1847 - 1926

(SON) PETER ROTH 1849 - 1920

(SON) JOHN ROTH 1852 - 1930

(DAUGHTER) KATHERINE "KATIE" ROTH 1855 - 1945

(SON) DANIEL ROTH 1857 - 1909

(SON) SAMUEL L. ROTH 1859 - 1927

NICHOLAS ROTH WAS BORN IN BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO, MAY 20, 1843 AND DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS SON, ANDREW, SOUTHEAST OF STRAWN, DECEMBER 19, 1921, AGED 78 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AND 29 DAYS. WHEN TWO YEARS OLD HE MOVED TO WOODFORD COUNTY, ILLINOIS. DECEMBER 24, 1863, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS CATHRINA SCHADE AT PEORIA. A FEW YEARS LATER THEY MOVED TO A FARM NEAR CROPSEY, THEN TO CULLOM IN 1889. IN 1898 THEY LEFT THE FARM AND SETTLED AT STRAWN WHERE THEY RESIDED UNTIL 16 MONTHS AGO WHEN THEY WENT LIVE WITH THEIR SON, ANDREW. MR. ROTH PASSED AWAY AFTER A LONG ILLNESS.

THE DECEASED WAS THE FATHER OF 10 CHILDREN, FOUR HAVING PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH. HE LEAVES TO MOURN HIS LOSS HIS WIFE, SIX CHILDREN, ANDREW, FRANK AND MRS. O. READ, OF STRAWN; IRA AND MRS. CHRIS SHAFFER, OF PATON, IOWA; AND SAM, OF WESTON; TWO BROTHERS, SAM, OF CROPSEY, AND JOHN, OF WILLINGTON, KANSAS; TWO SISTERS, MRS. BARBARA GERBER AND KATE ROTH, OF FAIRBURY; 30 GRANDCHILDREN AND 5 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

THE FUNERAL WAS HELD AT STRAWN ON WEDNESDAY.

BORN SEPTEMBER 29, 1844, IN OHIO

PARENTS: ANDREW AND ANNA (ZIMMERMAN) ROTH

MARRIED JACOB ZEHR, 1864

DIED DECEMBER 31, 1895

MRS. BARBARA GERBER

MRS. BARBARA GERBER, FOR MANY YEARS A HIGHLY ESTEEMED RESIDENT OF THIS CITY AND COMMUNITY, PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME ON EAST ELM STREET LAST SATURDAY EVENING AT THE AGE OF 77 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AND 21 DAYS.

BARBARA ROTH, DAUGHTER OF ANDREW AND ANNA ROTH WAS BORN AT WASHINGTON, MAY 2, 1847. SHE GREW TO YOUNG WOMANHOOD THERE, LATER MOVING TO MORTON, WHERE ON MARCH 3, 1872, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO CHRISTIAN GERBER. MR. AND MRS. GERBER RESIDED AT MORTON FOR TWO YEARS, THAN MOVED TO A FARM NORTH OF CROPSEY, WHERE MRS. GERBER RESIDED UNTIL SIX YEARS AGO, WHEN MRS. GERBER AND DAUGHTERS MOVED TO THIS CITY. IT WAS WHILE RESIDING ON THE FARM NEAR CROPSEY THAT MR. GERBER PASSED AWAY, HIS DEATH OCCURRING FIFTEEN YEARS AGO.

SURVIVING MRS. GERBER ARE THREE DAUGHTERS AND ONE SON - MISSES ANNA AND LYDIA, AT HOME; MRS. PETER SCHAFFER, RESIDING SOUTHEAST OF FAIRBURY; AND CHRIS GERBER, OF CROSPEY. THERE ALSO SURVIVE FOURTEEN GRANDCHILDREN AND THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS AND SISTERS: SAM, JOHN AND MISS KATIE ROTH, ALL OF FAIRBURY.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD ON TUESDAY FROM THE SOUTH CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, THE MANY PRESENT TELLING BETTER THAN WORDS OF THE HIGH REGARD IN WHICH THE DECEASED WAS HELD. MANY WERE PRESENT FROM A DISTANCE. THE SERVICES WERE IN CHARGE OF REV. MANGOLD, OF ROANOKE, AND INTERMENT WAS IN THE SOUTH CEMETERY.

ONE KILLED, ONE INJURED; FELL FROM CHERRY TREES

PETER ROTH DIES FROM INJURIES SUSTAINED - H. A. FOSTER SEVERELY INJURED - BOTH ACCIDENTS HAPPENED LAST FRIDAY.

ONE PERSON RECEIVED INJURIES LAST FRIDAY BY FALLING FROM A CHERRY TREE, FROM WHICH HE DIED, AND ANOTHER WAS SEVERELY INJURED THE SAME DAY BY FALLING FROM A CHERRY TREE AND HAS BEEN CONFINED TO HIS BED SINCE THAT TIME. THE ONE WHOSE INJURIES PROVED FATAL WAS PETER ROTH, AND THE ONE INJURED WAS H. A. FOSTER.

FALL FROM CHERRY TREE FATAL.

PETER ROTH, ONE OF THIS CITY’S WELL KNOWN CITIZENS, DIED LAST FRIDAY A LITTLE BEFORE NOON AS THE RESULT OF A FALL FROM A CHERRY TREE THAT MORNING ABOUT SEVEN O’CLOCK.

MR. ROTH HAD GOTTEN UP ABOUT FIVE O’CLOCK THAT MORNING AND GOING OUT IN THE BACK YARD WAS ENGAGED IN PICKING CHERRIES. AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT HE WAS STANDING ON A LADDER ABOUT TEN OR TWELVE FEET UP IN THE TREE. JUST WHAT CAUSED HIM TO FALL IS NOT KNOWN. ALTHOUGH MR. ROTH WAS CONSCIOUS UP UNTIL A FEW MINUTES BEFORE HE DIED HE DIDN’T KNOW HOW IT HAPPENED. THE SUPPOSITION IS, HOWEVER, THAT HE EITHER BECAME DIZZY FOR A SECOND OR THAT THE LADDER TURNED SLIGHTLY AND HE LOST HIS BALANCE. AS HE STARTED TO FALL HE GRASPED A LIMB OF THE TREE WHICH BROKE OFF, AND THIS HE STILL HELD ONTO WHEN HE STRUCK THE GROUND. MR. ROTH WAS A MAN OF HEAVY BUILD AND AS HIS FALL TO THE GROUND WAS UNBROKEN IN ANY WAY, HE STRUCK THE GROUND WITH GREAT FORCE. ONE OF HIS DAUGHTERS HEARD HIM FALL AND RAN TO WHERE HE LAY. HE TOLD HER HE WAS NOT HURT MUCH AND JUST TO LEAVE HIM ALONE FOR AWHILE. HE WAS LATER CARRIED INTO THE HOUSE AND A DOCTOR SUMMONED. IT WAS FOUND THAT NO BONES WERE BROKEN, BUT THAT HE HAD SUFFERED INTERNAL INJURIES. NOTHING COULD BE DONE FOR HIM AND HE PASSED AWAY AS ABOVE STATED.

OBITUARY

PETER ROTH WAS BORN AT WASHINGTON, ILL., OCTOBER 27, 1849, AND AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH WAS AGED 70 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AND 28 DAYS. HE GREW TO YOUNG MANHOOD - AT WASHINGTON, BUT WHEN ABOUT 21 YEARS OF AGE MOVED WITH HIS PARENTS TO FAIRBURY, LOCATING SOUTH OF TOWN. HE HAS RESIDED HERE SINCE THAT TIME WITH THE EXCEPTION OF 11 YEARS SPENT AT LAMAR, MO.

ON SEPTEMBER 11, 1878, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS MARGARET ZIMMERMAN, AND TO THIS UNION NINE CHILDREN WERE BORN, ALL OF WHOM ARE LIVING, AND WITH THE BEREAVED WIFE MOURN THE LOSS OF A KIND AND LOVING FATHER AND HUSBAND. THE CHILDREN ARE: WILLIAM, OF HARPER, KAN.; HENRY, OF KIOWA, KAN.; MRS. M. M. LEHMAN, OF PEORIA; DAVID, OF CHATSWORTH; DANIEL AND MRS. HUBER, OF FAIRBURY, AND LOUISE, IDA AND EMMA, AT HOME. THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS AND SISTERS ALSO SURVIVE: JOHN, OF WILLINGTON, KAS.; NICHOLAS, OF STRAWN; SAM, SOUTH OF TOWN; MRS. BARBARA GERBER AND MISS KATIE ROTH, OF THIS CITY.

THE DECEASED WAS A MAN OF JOVIAL DISPOSITION, A GOOD CITIZEN AND NEIGHBOR, AND WELL LIKED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH MONDAY AFTER AT 1:30 O’CLOCK AND WERE LARGELY ATTENDED, MANY BEING IN ATTENDANCE FROM OUT OF TOWN.

JOHN ROTH

JOHN ROTH, BROTHER OF MISS KATIE ROTH, OF THIS CITY PASSED AWAY AT THE COUNTY HOSPITAL AT PONTIAC LAST FRIDAY FOLLOWING AN ILLNESS THAT EXTENDED OVER A LONG PERIOD. HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT THERE FOR THREE WEEKS PRECEDING HIS DEATH. FOR A YEAR PREVIOUS TO THAT TIME HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT AT THE MENNONITE HOSPITAL AT EUREKA, AND PREVIOUS TO GOING THERE HAD SPENT SEVERAL YEARS WITH HIS SISTER IN FAIRBURY. HE WAS AGED 78 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AND 12 DAYS.

THE REMAINS WERE TAKEN TO WELLINGTON, KAN., SUNDAY, BEING ACCOMPANIED BY A NEPHEW, DAVID ROTH, OF FAIRBURY. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT WELLINGTON, MONDAY AFTERNOON AND INTERMENT WAS AT THAT PLACE.

MR. ROTH WAS BORN IN TAZEWELL COUNTY, BUT HAD SPENT THE GREATER PART OF HIS LIFE IN THE VICINITY OF WICHITA, KAN. SURVIVING HIM BESIDES HIS SISTER OF THIS CITY, IS ONE SON, JOSEPH ROTH, OF WICHITA. MRS. ROTH, WHOSE MAIDEN NAME WAS MARY STEVENS, PASSED AWAY ABOUT 28 YEARS AGO.

MISS KATOE ROTH DIED MONDAY MORNING

MISS KATIE ROTH, WHO FOR ALMOST THREE-QUARTERS OF A CENTURY HAD RESIDED IN FAIRBURY AND VICINITY, PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME AT 309 EAST WALNUT STREET, ON MONDAY MORNING AT 6:30 O’CLOCK AT THE AGE OF 89 YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND 23 DAYS. MISS ROTH, WHO HAD BEEN AN INVALID FOR THE PAST FOUR AND A HALF YEARS, WAS THE LAST SURVIVOR OF A FAMILY OF NINE CHILDREN.

KATIE, DAUGHTER OF ANDREW AND ANNA (ZIMMERMAN) ROTH, WAS BORN AT WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 3, 1855. IN 1872, WHEN SHE WAS 17 YEARS OF AGE, SHE MOVED WITH HER PARENTS TO A FARM EIGHT MILES SOUTH OF FAIRBURY. THERE SHE RESIDED UNTIL 1903, WHEN SHE MOVED TO HER LATE RESIDENCE IN THIS CITY.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY AN ADOPTED DAUGHTER MARGARET WANNER.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28. INTERMENT WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

AMONG THOSE FROM AWAY ATTENDING THE SERVICES WERE: MR. AND MRS. DAN ROTH, CHICAGO; MRS. KATHRYN PERKINS, ST. LOUIS; MR. AND MRS. ANDY NUSSBAUM, MRS. MINNIE GRAFF, SON RAYMOND AND DAUGHTER, MRS. VERNA CULP, MR. AND MRS. RALPH CULP, REMINGTON, IND.; REV. DAVID MANGOLD, JOE ZIMMERMAN, ROANOKE; REV. BEN HEINIGER, J. C. ACKERMAN, JOHN WELK, MISS LYDIA WELK, MISS RACHEL BELSLEY, MR. AND MRS. CHRIS BELSLEY, MORTON; MRS. CAROLINE SCHLIPF, MISS MARTHA SCHLIPF, MR. AND MRS. DAVID KAEB, GRIDLEY; MRS. SARAH BAER, MISS MILDRED BAER, DUNLAP; HARRY ROTH, WASHINGTON.

DANIEL ROTH

DANIEL ROTH DIED MONDAY NIGHT AT 11:30 AT HIS HOME EAST OF FAIRBURY. THE DECEASED HAD BEEN IN POOR HEALTH IN RECENT YEARS AND HAD MADE REPEATED TRIPS TO THE HEALTH RESORT AT LATHAM, MO., IN THE HOPES OF BEING BENEFITED. HE LEFT HERE THE LAST TIME IN MARCH AND REMAINED THERE WITH HIS FAMILY FOR THREE MONTHS, RETURNING HOME FRIDAY LAST, WITH BUT LITTLE SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT. HE WAS AFFLICTED WITH THROAT TROUBLE, AND PASSED AWAY WHILE SEATED IN A CHAIR.

DANIEL ROTH CAME WITH HIS PARENTS TO LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN 1871, WHEN HE WAS 19 YEARS OF AGE. HE WAS MARRIED IN 1880 TO CATHERINE HEARTEIN, WHO DIED IN 1900. BECAUSE OF FAILING HEALTH HE REMOVED FROM HIS FARM IN 1892, AND PURCHASED A FOUR-ACRE TRACT JUST EAST OF TOWN. LATER HE MARRIED MISS CLARA HERZOG, TO WHOM WAS BORN FOUR CHILDREN. AS A MAN HE WAS EMINENTLY FAIR IN ALL HIS DEALINGS AND EVER READY TO EXTEND A HELPING HAND TO THE NEEDY AND STRUGGLING.

THE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD TODAY AT 12:30 FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH.

FUNERAL OF DANIEL ROTH

THE FUNERAL SERVICES OF THE LATE DANIEL ROTH, WHOSE OBITUARY WAS PUBLISHED LAST WEEK, WERE HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH LAST FRIDAY AND WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST ATTENDED EVER HELD IN THIS CITY. REV. CHRIS WAGLER, OF PULASKI, IOWA, PREACHED THE SERMON. MR. ROTH HAD MADE MANY FRIENDS IN HIS LONG RESIDENCE IN THIS CITY AND VICINITY AND HIS DEATH IS DEEPLY MOURNED. THE FOLLOWING FRIENDS AND RELATIVES WERE PRESENT FROM OUT OF TOWN:

DAN ROTH AND SON, OF MORTON, MIKE ZIMMERMAN, OF CONGERVILLE, PETER ROTH, LAMAR, MO., NICK ROTH AND FAMILY, OF STRAWN, A. J. ZIMMERMAN, NICK NUSSBAUM AND FAMILY OF REMINGTON, IND., PETER HERSTEIN, OF CULLOM, SAM ROTH AND FAMILY, CHRIS GERBER AND FAMILY, GEO. ZIMMERMAN, JOHN ZIMMERMAN AND FAMILIES, SAM ZEHR, JOE ZEHR, JOSHUA ZEHR AND FAMILIES FROM OUT OF TOWN, AND A HOST OF FRIENDS FROM REMINGTON, IND., GRIDLEY, EUREKA AND OTHER POINTS.

S. L. ROTH

SAMUEL L. ROTH, WHO FOR ALMOST 60 YEARS HAD RESIDED IN THIS COMMUNITY, PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME SEVEN MILES SOUTH OF FAIRBURY LAST FRIDAY. HE WAS AGED 68 YEARS, 4 MONTHS, 4 DAYS.

SAMUEL ROTH, SON OF ANDREW AND ANNA ZIMMERMAN ROTH, WAS BORN NEAR WASHINGTON ON APRIL 11TH, 1859. WHEN NINE YEARS OF AGE HE MOVED WITH THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY TO NEAR FAIRBURY AND HAD SINCE RESIDED IN THIS VICINITY.

SURVIVING MR. ROTH ARE THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: SAM, JR., OF FORREST, AND KATIE, ANNA, MARY, JOE, BEN, JOHN AND HARRY, AT HOME. TWO CHILDREN PRECEDED THEIR FATHER IN DEATH, LYDIA PASSING AWAY IN 1911, AND NETTIE IN 1919. THERE ALSO SURVIVE ONE BROTHER, JOHN, OF WICHITA, KAN., AND ONE SISTER, MISS KATIE ROTH, OF FAIRBURY.

MR. ROTH WAS A CITIZEN WHOSE HONESTY AND INTEGRITY WERE NEVER QUESTIONED DURING THE MANY YEARS HE HAD LIVED IN OUR MIDST. HE WAS A GOOD NEIGHBOR AND A KIND FATHER AND HUSBAND.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE SOUTH CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH MONDAY, AND WAS ONE OF THE MOST LARGELY ATTENDED FUNERALS EVER HELD AT THIS CHURCH, MANY OF THOSE PRESENT BEING FROM POINTS IN INDIANA AND IOWA. THE REV. MR. SCHWINT, GRIDLEY, KAN., PREACHED IN GERMAN, AND THE REV. MICHAEL MANGOLD, OF ROANOKE, SPOKE IN ENGLISH. THE PALLBEARERS WERE THE FOUR SONS OF THE DECEASED, SAM, JOE, BEN AND JOHN, AND HIS TWO NEPHEWS, DAN ROTH, OF CHICAGO, AND DAN ROTH, OF FORREST. INTERMENT WAS IN THE SOUTH CEMETERY.

MR. AND MRS. GOTTFRIED MILLER, OF BURLINGTON, OKLA., AND HENRY L. ROTH, OF KIOWA, KAN., WERE AMONG THOSE IN ATTENDANCE AT THE FUNERAL.

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