PETER STOLLER, SR. 1780 - 1855

(WIFE) MARGARITHA SCHMID 1783 - 1865

(SON) PETER STOLLER, JR. 1806 - ????

(SON) CHRISTIAN STOLLER 1810 - 1894

(DAUGHTER) ELIZABETH (STOLLER) HARI 1814 - 1877

PETER STOLLER, JR. 1806 - ????

(WIFE) MARY HARI ???? - ????

(SON) PETER STOLLER ???? - ????

(SON) CHRISTIAN STOLLER ???? - ????

(DAUGHTER) SUSAN (STOLLER) SCHNEIDER ???? - ????

(DAUGHTER) MARY STOLLER ???? - ????

(SON) JOHANNES "JOHN" STOLLER 1839 - 1922 *

(SON) GILGIAN STOLLER 1841 - 1919 *

(SON) SAMUEL STOLLER 1847 -1933 *

(* FAMILIES COVERED ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES)

JOHN STOLLER, SR.

MR. AND MRS. S. R. STOLLER LEFT ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR LATTY, O., BEING CALLED THERE BY THE DEATH OF MR. STOLLER’S FATHER, JOHN STOLLER, SR. WHO PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME THERE SATURDAY AT THE AGE OF 83 YEARS, FOLLOWING AN ILLNESS OF SEVERAL YEARS DURATION. HE WAS A RESIDENT OF GRIDLEY FOR MANY YEARS BEFORE REMOVING TO LATTY AND WAS KNOWN HERE.

HE IS SURVIVED BY THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: DANIEL, JOHN, JR., MRS. LYDIA SCHLATTER, OF LATTY, O.; EMIL, GRIDLEY; CHRIS, MEADOWS; SAM, OF THIS CITY. ONE BROTHER, SAM, OF FAIRBURY, AND ONE SISTER, MRS. SUSAN SCHNEIDER, OF PEORIA.

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MRS. JOHN STOLLER

MRS. JOHN STOLLER DIED AT HER HOME IN GRIDLEY, THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 4, 1915, AFTER A LINGERING ILLNESS, DROPSEY BEING THE CAUSE OF HER DEATH.

ELIZABETH RINGENBERG WAS BORN IN SWITZERLAND, IN OCTOBER, 1839. SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JOHN STOLLER IN 1865, COMING TO THE UNITED STATES IN THE YEAR 1867. THEY LOCATED FIRST ON A FARM NEAR METAMORA, BUT LATER MOVED FROM THERE TO A FARM SOUTH OF THIS CITY, WHERE THEY LIVED FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. LATER THEY MOVED TO IOWA, WHERE THEY LIVED UNTIL ABOUT TWENTY YEARS AGO, WHEN THEY MOVED ONTO THEIR FARM FOUR MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRIDLEY. FOUR YEARS AGO THEY LEFT THE FARM AND MOVED TO GRIDLEY, WHERE THEY HAVE SINCE RESIDED.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, OF WHICH SHE WAS A MEMBER, AT GRIDLEY, SUNDAY, AND WAS LARGELY ATTENDED. BESIDES HER SON, SAM R. STOLLER, AND WIFE, THERE WERE ALSO PRESENT FROM FAIRBURY AT THE FUNERAL A LARGE NUMBER OF OLD FRIENDS OF THE DECEASED.

MRS. STOLLER WAS A WOMAN OF HIGH ESTEEM, BEING OF A QUIET DISPOSITION AND PLEASING PERSONALITY AND HER SUDDEN DEATH WAS A SOURCE OF MUCH GRIEF AMONG HER MANY FRIENDS.

JOHANNES "JOHN" STOLLER 1839 - 1922

(WIFE) ELIZABETH (RINGENBERG) STOLLER 1838 - 1915

(SON) JOHN A. STOLLER 1863 - 1935

(SON) HERMAN STOLLER 1865 - 1917

(SON) SAMUEL R. STOLLER 1867 - ????

(SON) EMIL R. STOLLER 1868 - 1957

(DAUGHTER) EMMA STOLLER 1870 - 1921

(SON) ALBERT STOLLER 1873 - 1918

(SON) CHRISTIAN STOLLER 1874 - 1963

(SON) DANIEL STOLLER 1876 - 1954

(DAUGHTER) MARY STOLLER 1877 - 1880

(SON) WILLIAM STOLLER 1879 - 1880

(DAUGHTER) LYDIA (STOLLER) SCHLATTER 1881 - 1974

(DAUGHTER) ELIZABETH STOLLER 1883 - 1899

GILLIGAN STOLLER

GILLIGAN STOLLER, WHO WAS ILL FOR THE PAST FIVE WEEKS AT HIS HOME IN THE COUNTRY, PASSED AWAY AT 8 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, AT THE AGE OF 78 YEARS. MR. STOLLER WAS ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY RESPECTED MEN OF OUR COMMUNITY, AND HAD BEEN ENGAGED IN FARMING NEAR FORREST FOR MANY YEARS. BESIDES HIS WIFE HE LEAVES TO MOURN HIS DEPARTURE SEVEN CHILDREN, NAMELY: MOSES, ALEXANDER, BENJAMIN, OF FORREST; EDWARD, OF MONTANA. ISAAC, OF GOODLAND IND.; MRS. LENA GRUZI, OF LATTY O., AND MRS. MARY STREIB, OF FAIRBURY; TWO BROTHERS, SAMUEL, OF FAIRBURY, AND JOHN, OF LATTY, O.; ONE SISTER, MRS. SUSAN SCHNEIDER, OF PEORIA. THE FUNERAL WAS HELD AT THE AMISH CHURCH NORTH OF TOWN MONDAY AND BURIAL WAS AT THE AMISH CEMETERY.

MRS. ELIZABETH STOLLER

ELIZABETH MEYER STOLLER WAS BORN IN SWITZERLAND DECEMBER 26, 1846, AND PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME NEAR FORREST SUNDAY, JULY 27, FOLLOWING A STROKE OF PARALYSIS.

SHE WAS MARRIED TO GILGIAN STOLLER IN 1877 AND HAD LIVED IN THE VICINITY OF FORREST PRACTICALLY ALL THE TIME SINCE HER ARRIVAL IN AMERICA IN 1870. MR. STOLLER DIED JULY 26, 1919.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY THE FOLLOWING SONS AND DAUGHTERS: MOSES, BEN AND ALEXANDER, FORREST; ISAAC, CONGERVILLE; EDWARD, STANFORD, MON.; MRS. LENA GRUSY, MASSAPOMAX, VA., MRS. MARY STREIB, FAIRBURY, AND ONE BROTHER, ALBERT MEYER, BAY CITY, MICH.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD ON WEDNESDAY FROM THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, NORTH, AND INTERMENT MADE IN FORREST.

GILGIAN STOLLER 1841 - 1919

(WIFE) ELISABETH (MEYER) STOLLER 1846 - 1924

(SON) MOSES STOLLER 1878 - 1958

(SON) DANIEL STOLLER 1879 - 1879

(SON) ISAAC STOLLER 1880 - 1976

(DAUGHTER) MAGDALENA "LENA" (STOLLER) GRUSY 1881 - 1966

(DAUGHTER) MARY (STOLLER) STREIB 1883 - 1978

(SON) BENJAMIN STOLLER 1884 - 1960

(SON) ALEXANDER STOLLER 1886 - 1967

(SON) SAMUEL STOLLER 1887 - 1887

(SON) EDWARD STOLLER 1888 - 1987

(DAUGHTER) SOPHIA STOLLER 1891 - 1891

FORREST, AUG. 14, - MOSES STOLLER, 80, DIED FRIDAY AUGUST 8TH AT 11:45 A.M. AT A MANTENO HOSPITAL. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD MONDAY AT 10 A.M. AT THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND INTERMENT WAS MADE IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY. VISITATION WAS HELD FROM SATURDAY AT 6 P.M. AT THE CALKIN FUNERAL HOME.

HE WAS A SON OF GILIGAN AND ELIZABETH MEYER STOLLER OF FORREST AND WAS BORN ON FEB. 28, 1879. HE WAS MARRIED TO MISS ETHEL MCGEE OF FORREST AT PONTIAC IN 1910. HE IS SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER, MRS. ALBERT (EMMA) KLEHM, ODELL AND SIX GRANDCHILDREN. FOUR BROTHERS, ISAAC, EUREKA, BEN, FORREST, ALEXANDER, FAIRBURY, EDWARD, SPOKANE, WASH.; TWO SISTERS, MRS. LENA CRUSY, SECOR, MRS. MARY STREIB, FAIBURY.

HE WAS PRECEEDED IN DEATH BY HIS WIFE, A SON, AND A DAUGHTER. HE WAS A FORMER FARMER AND TRUCKER.

ISAAC STOLLER, BROTHER OF MARY STRIEB, DIES

ISAAC STOLLER, FORMERLY OF EUREKA, DIED AT 3:50 A.M. SATURDAY AT THE EUREKA APOSTOLIC HOME.

HIS FUNERAL WAS MONDAY, FEB. 23, 1976, AT THE EUREKA APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. BURIAL WILL BE IN THE ROANOKE APOSTOLIC CEMETERY.

VISITATION WAS HELD AT THE OTTO-ARGO FUNERAL HOME, EUREKA.

HE WAS BORN MAY 18, 1880, AT FORREST, A SON OF GILLIAN AND ELIZABETH MEYER STOLLER. HE MARRIED MARIE SUTTER JAN. 22, 1908 IN PONTIAC.

SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE; TWO SONS, BENJAMIN, MORTON, AND LEROY, EL PASO; TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS. VERA KIBLER, PEORIA, AND MRS. MABEL WITTLER, EUREKA; A BROTHER, EDWARD, SPOKANE WASH.; A SISTER, MRS.MARY STRIEB, FAIRBURY; NINE GRANDCHILDREN AND NINE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY TWO SONS, THREE BROTHERS, AND A SISTER.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE EUREKA APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

MRS. LENA GRUSY DIED TUESDAY

THE FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. GRUSY, 85, OF SECOR, WILL BE HELD THIS MORNING AT 10 A.M. AT THE OTTO-ARGO FUNERAL HOME IN EUREKA AND AT 10:30 A.M. AT THE EUREKA APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH WILL THE MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN ROANOKE APOSTOLIC CEMETERY.

MRS. GRUSY DIED AT 8:40 A.M. TUESDAY AT THE EUREKA HOSPITAL WHERE SHE HAD BEEN A PATIENT SINCE JUNE 24.

SHE WAS BORN MAY 28, 1881, AT FORREST, A DAUGHTER OF GILGIAN AND ELIZABETH MEYER STOLLER. SHE MARRIED WILLIAM R. GRUSY MARCH 3, 1905, AT CHATSWORTH.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND; SIX SONS, IKE, ROBERT, ALF, IRA, AND ELMER, ALL OF EUREKA, AND WILLIAM OF SHERMAN, TEX.; FIVE DAUGHTERS, MRS. HILDA FEHR, EUREKA; MRS. OLLIE HENLINE, GREENE, IOWA; MRS. ESTHER STALTER, GRIDLEY; MRS. VIOLA WHITE, TAMPA, FLA.; MRS. VIRGINIA JARNAGAN, CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA; THREE BROTHERS, IKE STOLLER, EUREKA; ALEX STOLLER, FAIRBURY; EDWARD STOLLER, SPOKANE, WASH.; A SISTER MARY STREIB, FAIRBURY; 21 GRANDCHILDREN AND NINE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. A DAUGHTER AND TWO BROTHERS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE EUREKA APOSTOLIC CHURCH.

FAIRBURY - THE FUNERAL OF MARY STRIEB , 94, LIFELONG AREA RESIDENT, WILL BE AT 10 A.M. SATURDAY AT FAIRBURY APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH WITH CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

VISITATION WILL BE FROM 2 TO 4 P.M. AND 6 TO 8 P.M. TODAY AT DUFFY-PILS MEMORIAL HOME AND ONE ON E HOUR BEFORE THE FUNERAL SATURDAY AT THE CHURCH.

MRS. STREIB DIED WEDNESDAY.

SHE WAS BORN FEB. 25, 1883, AT WING, THE DAUGHTER OF GILGIAN AND ELIZABETH MEYER STOLLER. SHE MARRIED HENRY STREIB AT PONTIAC, JUNE 25, 1914. HE DIED FEB. 2, 1965.

SURVIVING ARE A DAUGHTER, LEONA RICKETTS, FORREST; A SON, WILLIAM H., R.R. 2; A BROTHER, EDWARD STOLLER, SPOKANE, WASH.; SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, AND 14 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

FIVE BROTHERS, TWO SISTERS, FIVE DAUGHTERS AND ONE GRANDDAUGHTER PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

MRS. STREIB WAS A MEMBER OF FAIRBURY APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

BENJAMIN STOLLER DIES IN FAIRBURY

BENJAMIN STOLLER, 75, A RETIRED FARMER DIED FRIDAY. APRIL 1, AT 2:10 A.M., AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL WHERE HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT FOUR DAYS.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE SUNDAY AT 12:30 P.M. AT THE CULKIN FUNERAL HOME AND AT 1 P. M. AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN FORREST. THE REV. HENRY KILGUS OFFICIATED. BURIAL WAS MADE IN THE NORTH APOSTOLIC CEMETERY IN PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP.

HE WAS BORN APRIL 22, 1884, AT FORREST, A SON OF GILIGIAN AND ELIZABETH MEYER STOLLER.

HE MARRIED LYDIA NUSSBAUM, JANUARY 28, 1909, AT FAIRBURY. SHE DIED AUGUST 4, 1931.

HE MARRIED ANNA ZIMMERMAN, NOVEMBER 14, 1937, AT FAIRBURY, WHO SURVIVES WITH THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS. LOLA SCHLIPF, GRIDLEY; MRS. MARY METZ AND MISS MARTHA, FORREST; THREE SONS, ORIE STOLLER, CHENOA; EDWARD STOLLER, GRIDLEY; ELMER STOLLER, FORREST; TWO SISTERS, MRS. LENA GRUSY, SECOR; MRS. MARY STREID, FAIRBURY; THREE BROTHERS, ISAAC, EUREKA; ALEX, FAIRBURY; EDWARD, SPOKANE, WASHINGTON; AND 20 GRANDCHILDREN.

TWO SONS AND A BROTHER PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF FORREST.

FUNERAL RITES WEDNESDAY FOR ALEX STOLLER

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR ALEXANDER STOLLER, 81, WERE HELD WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1967, AT THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH, HE DIED SUNDAY AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS A PATIENT FOR SIX WEEKS FOLLOWING A 17 DAY HOSPITALIZATION AT CARLE CLINIC IN URBANA. JOSHUA BROQUARD OFFICIATED AT THE SERVICES AND BURIAL WAS IN THE NORTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY.

VISITATION WAS HELD ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY AT THE STIVER HOME FOR FUNERALS AND HE WAS TAKEN TO THE CHURCH AT 9 A.M. WEDNESDAY MORNING. PALLBEARERS WERE THE STOLLER NEPHEWS.

HE WAS BORN FEB. 10, 1886, IN PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP, A SON OF GILGIAN AND ELIZABETH MEYER STOLLER. HE MARRIED MARIA MAURER IN PONTIAC MARCH 19, 1910. THEY LIVED ON A FARM NEAR FORREST UNTIL 1946 WHEN THEY RETIRED AND MOVED TO FAIRBURY. MRS. STOLLER DIED MAY 10, 1967.

SURVIVING ARE A DAUGHTER, EDNA, AT HOME; ONE SISTER, MRS. MARY STREIB, FAIRBURY; TWO BROTHERS ISAAC OF EUREKA AND EDWARD OF SPOKANE, WASH. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY TWO DAUGHTERS, TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. HE WAS A MEMBER AND A RETIRED MINISTER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

THE SAMUEL STOLLER FAMILY

SAMUEL STOLLER

SAMUEL STOLLER, WELL KNOWN RESIDENT OF FAIRBURY, PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME AT 12:35 ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AT THE AGE OF 85 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AND 22 DAYS, AFTER AN ILLNESS OF NEARLY A YEAR.

MR. STOLLER WAS BORN FEBRUARY 1, 1848, IN FRUTIGEN, CANTON BERNE, SWITZERLAND. HE CAME TO AMERICA IN SEPTEMBER, 1865, AT THE AGE OF 17 AND LOCATED IN WOODFORD COUNTY, ILLINOIS. HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO VERENA SCHNETZLER ON SEPTEMBER 19, 1869. TO THIS UNION EIGHT CHILDREN WERE BORN FOUR OF WHOM SURVIVE; THEY ARE AS FOLLOWS: MRS. B. S. STEIDINGER, MRS. JOHN SUTTER, AND MISS EMMA, OF FAIR BURY, AND MRS. EMIL WITZIG, OF GRIDLEY. ALSO SURVIVING ARE TWENTY GREAT-GANDCHILDREN. HIS WIFE PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH JUNE 15, 1918.

FROM HIS HOME IN WOODFORD COUNTY HE MOVED TO GRIDLEY IN 1881, AND IN 1892 HE MOVED TO A FARM SOUTHWEST OF FAIRBURY. IN 1899 HE RETIRED AND MOVED TO THIS CITY.

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

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VERENA STOLLER

VERENA SCHNETZLER WAS BORN AT SCHAFFHAUSEN, SWITZERLAND, FEBRUARY 8TH, 1842, AND PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1918, AGED 76 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AND 7 DAYS.

ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO MRS. STOLLER SUFFERED A PARALYTIC STROKE, BUT SHE GRADUALLY REGAINED HER STRENGTH SO THAT SHE WAS ABLE TO BE AROUND AGAIN UNTIL TWO AND A HALF YEARS LATER, WHEN SHE HAD ANOTHER STROKE, WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER AND ON JUNE TENTH SHE SUFFERED THE FINAL STROKE, FROM WHICH SHE NEVER REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS.

THE DECEASED CAME TO THE UNITED STATES IN APRIL, 1868, AND WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO SAM STOLLER THE FOLLOWING YEAR, AT ROANOKE, WHERE THEY MADE THEIR HOME UNTIL 1881, WHEN THEY REMOVED TO GRIDLEY AND LATER THEY CAME TO FAIRBURY, WHERE THEY RESIDED ON A FARM, SOUTH OF THIS CITY UNTIL THEIR REMOVAL TO THEIR PRESENT HOME IN 1899. EIGHT CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THIS UNION, FOUR OF WHOM, TOGETHER WITH HER HUSBAND SURVIVE HER. THE CHILDREN ARE: MRS. B. S. STEIDINGER, MRS. JOHN SUTTER, MRS. EMIL WITZIG AND EMMA, AT HOME.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH TUESDAY, AND INTERMENT WAS MADE IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

SAMUEL STOLLER 1847 -1933

(WIFE) VERENA (SCHNETZLER) STOLLER 1842 - 1918

(DAUGHTER) LYDIA STOLLER ???? - ????

(DAUGHTER) MARY STOLLER ???? - ????

(DAUGHTER) LEAH (STOLLER) STEIDINGER 1872 - 1966

(DAUGHTER) HANNAH (STOLLER) SUTTER 1874 - 1953

(DAUGHTER) ELISA (STOLLER) WITZIG 1875 - 1963

(SON) JOSEPH STOLLER 1877 - 1893

(DAUGHTER) EMMA STOLLER 1880 - 1959

MRS. LEAH STEIDINGER DIED AT 94, FUNERAL RITES TUESDAY

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. LEAH STEIDINGER, 94, WERE HELD TUESDAY AT 10 A.M. AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH WITH REV. JOSH BROQUARD OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MRS. STEIDINGER, ONE OF THE OLDEST FAIRBURY RESIDENCE, DIED SUNDAY, DEC. 4, 1966, AT 4 A.M. AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL WHERE SHE HAD BEEN A PATIENT FOR A YEAR. THE BODY WAS TAKEN TO THE COOK FUNERAL HOME WHERE VISITATION WAS HELD MONDAY.

SHE WAS BORN SEPT. 24, 1872 AT ROANOKE, A DAUGHTER OF SAM AND VERNA (SCHNETZLER) STOLLER. SHE WAS MARRIED TO BARTHOLOMEW S. STEIDINGER MARCH 22, 1896, AT FAIRBURY. HE PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

SURVIVING ARE THREE SONS, AARON AND NATHAN, BOTH OF FAIRBURY AND HIRAM, CHATSWORTH; FOUR DAUGHTER, MRS. RACHEL SAATHOFF, FAIRBURY; MRS. HILDA SCHILTZ, ROCK LEDGE, FLA.; MRS. CYNTHIA BULTER AND MRS. EDNA MITCHELL, BOTH OF PEORIA; 16 GRANDCHILDREN AND 9 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. TWO SONS, TWO BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

HOLD SERVICES FOR MRS. JOHN A. SUTTER

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FOR MRS. JOHN A. SUTTER, WHO DIED SUDDENLY OF A HEART ATTACK AT HER HOME THANKSGIVING DAY AT APPROXIMATELY 10 A.M.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE FAMILY HOME AT 12:30 P.M. SUNDAY, AND AT 1 P.M. AT THE APOSOTLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OF WHICH SHE WAS A MEMBER. THE REV. JOSHUS BROQUARD CONDUCTED THE SERVICES. BURIAL WAS AT GRACELAND CEMETERY.

HAANAH STOLLER SUTTER WAS BORN AT EUREKA, JAN. 25, 1874, A DAUGHTER OF SAMUEL AND VERENA SCHNETZLER STOLLER. THE FAMILY SOON MOVED TO GRIDLEY, WHERE SHE ATTENDED PUBLIC SCHOOLS. WHEN SHE WAS STILL IN HER EARLY TEENS, THE FAMILY MOVED TO THE FAIRBURY VICINITY. ON FEBRUARY 8, 1889, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE AT PONTIAC, WITH JOHN A. SUTTER, OF FAIRBURY.

THE SUTTERS FARMED IN THE FORREST AND FAIRBURY VICINITY ALL THEIR LIVES, UNTIL 19__, WHEN THEY RETIRED FROM FARMING AND MOVED TO FAIRBURY. SINCE 1919, THEY LIVED ON THEIR FARM ONE-HALF MILE EAST OF FAIRBURY.

SURVIVING ARE HER HUSBAND, AND SIX CHILDREN, IDA KAISNER, OF FORREST; MARTHA KAISNER, JOHN E. SUTTER, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; HELEN HESSING, OF PEORIA; LAURA WEISSER, OF DENVER, COLO.; AND EVERETT SUTTER, OF FAIRBURY, AND TWENTY GRANDCHILDREN AND THREE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. ALSO SURVIVING ARE THREE SISTERS, MRS. LEAH STEIDINGER, MISS EMMA STOLLER, OF FAIRBURY; AND MRS. ELIZA WITZIG, OF GRIDLEY.

SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS, TWO BROTHERS, TWO SISTERS, ONE DAUGHTER, AND THREE GRANDCHILDREN.

BEARERS WERE FOUR GRANDSONS, MERLE KAISNER, OF FAIRBURY; HARTZELL KAISNER, OF PEORIA; LEON KAISINER, OF FORREST; BROCK HESSING, OF PEORIA; AND TWO NEPHEWS, EDWARD WITZIG, AND ELMER WITZIG, BOTH OF GRIDLEY.

FRIENDS AND RELATIVES FROM AWAY FROM THIS VICINITY ATTENDING THE SERVICES WERE FROM DAVENPORT, IA., PEORIA, TREMONT, MORTON, HENRY, REMINGTON, IND., BLOOMINGTON, GRIDLEY, EUREKA AND EL PASO.

MRS. ELIZA WITZIG DIES AT HOME SATURDAY, JANUARY 19

MRS. ELIZA WITZIG, 87, DIED AT 8 A.M. SATURDAY AT HER HOME IN GRIDLEY. SHE HAD BEEN BED FAST FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS AND IN FAILING HEALTH SEVERAL YEARS PRIOR TO THAT.

FUNERAL RITES WERE HELD AT 1 P.M. TUESDAY AT THE FAMILY HOME AND AT 1:30 P.M. AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH WITH THE REV. JOE KLOPFENSTEIN OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN GRIDLEY CEMETERY.

PALLBEARERS WERE DWIAN WITZIG, BILL WITZIG, ROGER WITZIG, JOE WITZIG, RALPH MEYER, GRIDLEY; AND NORVIN SCHNEIDER, PEORIA.

SHE WAS BORN AT ROANOKE JULY 3, 1875, A DAUGHTER OF SAMUEL AND VERENA SCHNETZLER STOLLER. SHE MARRIED EMIL WITZIGON MARCH 4, 1900 AT FAIRBURY. HE DIED AUGUST 29, 1947.

SURVIVORS ARE FOUR SONS. ALF, SAM, EDWARD AND ELMER, GRIDLEY; SEVEN DAUGHTERS, MRS. HERMAN BECKLEY, REMINGTON, IND.; MRS. ERNEST SCHNEIDER AND MISS PAULINE WITZIG, PEORIA; MRS. AMOS MEYER, FAIRBURY; AND THE MISSES MATILDA, MARTHA AND IDA WITZIG, AT HOME; ONE SISTER, MRS. LEAH STEIDINGER, FAIRBURY; 29 GRANDCHILDREN AND EIGHT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

TWO SONS, TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT

JOSEPH STOLLER, SON OF SAMUEL STOLLER, A FARMER LIVING ABOUT 21/2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FAIRBURY, MET HIS DEATH LAST MONDAY AFTERNOON, THE VICTIM OF A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.

THE IMPLEMENT OF HIS DEATH WAS A LARGE WINDMILL, WHICH IS NEED TO PUMP WATER ON THE FARM. THE WINDMILL IS A VERY LARGE ONE - PROBABLY FIFTEEN HORSE POWER - LARGE ENOUGH TO GRIND GRAIN AS WELL AS PUMP WATER. THE BOY WENT UP ON THE TOWER OF THE WINDMILL AND STOOD ON THE PLATFORM. IT IS SUPPOSED THAT HE WAS OILING THE MACHINERY AS THE OIL CAN WAS FOUND AFTER THE ACCIDENT. HE APPEARS TO HAVE LEARNED OVER THE SHAFT. THE PROJECTING "SET SCREW" CAUGHT HIS CLOTHES AT THE WAISTBAND AND WOUND THEM UP TIGHTLY. HIS HEAD AND KNEES WERE DRAWN TOGETHER WITH HIS BODY BENT OVER THE SHAFT. HE PROBABLY DIED OF SUFFOCATION. HE WAS DRAWN SO TIGHT AROUND THE SHAFT THAT IT STOPPED THE WHEEL . HIS FATHER CLIMBED TO THE PLATFORM TOO LATE AND CUT THE CLOTHES LOOSE WITH A RAZOR, WHICH WAS THE FIRST EDGED TOOL HE GOT HOLD OF. AT THE INQUEST THERE APPEARED BRUISES ABOUT THE HEAD AND BREAST AND THE FACE WAS BADLY DISCOLORED.

DECEASED WAS SIXTEEN YEARS OLD, THE YOUNGEST OF SIX CHILDREN BUT THE ONLY SON. THE WAS THE IDOL OF THE PARENTS, WHO ARE ALMOST PROSTRATED WITH GRIEF. HE WAS AN EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT AND INDUSTRIOUS BOY AND WISE BEYOND HIS YEARS IN THE MATTERS OF BUSINESS. HE WAS IN FAIRBURY THE FORENOON OF THE DAY IN WHICH HE MET HIS DEATH, MAKING SEVERAL PURCHASES AND TOOK HOME A LOAD OF LUMBER. CORONER ZIMMERMAN HELD AN INQUEST OVER THE BODY TUESDAY MORNING. THE JURYMEN WERE M. H. BAILY, S, COAN, JOSEPH GALLOWAY, MARIAN GARDNER, P. P. SWEAPER AND J. V. MCDOWELL. THE VERDICT WAS "ACCIDENTAL DEATH BY BEING CAUGHT IN THE GEARING OF A WINDMILL ON THE 20TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1893."

THE FUNERAL TOOK PLACE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE OMISH CHURCH. THE REMAINS WERE BURIED AT FAIRBURY.

EMMA STOLLER, 79, DIES HERE

LAST RITES FOR EMMA STOLLER, 79, OF FAIRBURY WERE CONDUCTED SUNDAY AFTERNOON FROM THE COOK FUNERAL HOME AND THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, WITH INTERMENT IN THE GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MISS STOLLER HAD DIED AT _ P.M. MARCH 19 AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL.

BORN AT ROANOKE, JAN. __, 1880 SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF SAMUEL AND VERNA SCHNETZLER STOLLER MOVED WITH HER FAMILY TO A FARM NEAR GRIDLEY AND ATTENDED GRIDLEY SCHOOLS. IN 1899 SHE AND HER PARENTS MOVED TO HER PRESENT PLACE NEAR FAIRBURY.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY TWO SISTERS, MRS. LEAH STEIDINGER, FAIRBURY AND MRS. ELISA WITZIG, GRIDLEY. 28 NIECES AND NEPHEWS. TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

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