UNKNOWN ZIMMERMAN

(WIFE) UNKNOWN (?) ZIMMERMAN

(SON) MICHEAL ZIMMERMAN 1776 - 1860

(SON) ANDREW ZIMMERMAN 1793 - 1848

(DAUGHTER) FANNY (ZIMMERMAN) ROTH

ANDREW ZIMMERMAN 1793 - 1848

(WIFE) FANNIE "ANNIE" (MILLER) ZIMMERMAN

(SON) MICHEAL ZIMMERMAN 1820 - 1913

(SON) JOHN ZIMMERMAN 1825 - 1910

(SON) LEROY ZIMMERMAN ???? - ????

(SON) ANDREW ZIMMERMAN 1839 - ????

(DAUGHTER) LIZZIE ZIMMERMAN ???? - ????

1889 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF WOODFORD CO. IL.

REV. MICHAEL ZIMMERMANN, ONE OF THE MOST PROSPEROUS AND BEST KNOWN GERMAN FARMERS OF MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP HAS BEEN A CITIZEN OF THIS COUNTY SINCE JANUARY, 1849. HIS PRESENT ESTATE CONSISTS OF 490 ACRES OF LAND, WHICH IS DIVIDED INTO THREE DIFFERENT FARMS, EACH ONE BEING WELL SUPPLIED WITH WATER, A GOOD RESIDENCE AND OTHER FARM BUILDINGS, AND NEARLY ALL OF THE LAND IS UNDER A GOOD STATE OF CULTIVATION. HIS FIRST PURCHASE CONSISTED OF 100 ACRES, WHICH WAS ONLY SLIGHTLY IMPROVED, AND ITS PRESENT FINE CONDITION IS OWING TO HIS INDUSTRY, ENERGY, AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT. BESIDES ABUNDANCE OF GOOD WATER AND GRASS LAND, FITTED TO SUPPORT FINE STOCK, HE HAS ALSO AN ABUNDANCE OF TIMBER, WHICH SUPPLIES SHADE AND LUMBER FOR ALL NECESSARY BUILDINGS. MR. ZIMMERMANN CAME TO ILLINOIS IN FEBRUARY, 1848, AND RENTED A SMALL PLACE SOUTH OF WASHINGTON, IN TAZEWELL COUNTY, FOR ONE YEAR. BUT IN THE SUCCEEDING AUTUMN OF THE SAME YEAR HE GAVE IT UP, AND REMOVED TO MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP, THIS COUNTY, TO THE PLACE WHERE HE NOW RESIDES. BEFORE COMING TO THIS STATE, HAD RESIDED IN OHIO, SPENDING NINE YEARS OF HIS LIFE IN BUTLER COUNTY, THAT STATE.

OUR SUBJECT WAS BORN IN GERMANY, SEPT. 27, 1820, IN THE STATE OF BADEN. HIS FATHER, ANDREW ZIMMERMANN, WAS ALSO A NATIVE OF BADEN, WHERE HE WAS BORN IN 1793, AND TWO YEARS AFTER COMING TO AMERICA, HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT HIS HOME IN BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO, JAN. 13, 1811. ANDREW ZIMMERMANN WAS LEFT AN ORPHAN IN HIS EARLY YOUTH, BUT FRIENDS TOOK CARE OF THE CHILD, AND REARED HIM CAREFULLY, TEACHING HIM SCIENTIFIC FARMING, AS FOLLOWED BY THE GERMAN OF THOSE DAYS. WHEN ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR A FAMILY HE MARRIED MISS FANNIE MILLER, A NATIVE OF BADEN, AND MEMBER OF A GOOD GERMAN FAMILY. THE FRUIT OF THIS UNION WAS FIVE CHILDREN, FOUR SONS AND ONE DAUGHTER. BEING CONSTANTLY IN RECEIPT OF NEWS FROM AMERICA, AND LEARNING FROM FRIENDS HOW MUCH MORE PROFITABLY FARMING COULD BE CARRIED ON IN THE UNTIED STATES THAN IN THEIR NATIVE COUNTRY, THEY MADE UP THEIR MINDS TO EMIGRATE. SO WITH THEIR FIVE CHILDREN THEY SET OUT ON THEIR JOURNEY TO THE NEW WORLD. AT HAVRE THEY EMBARKED IN A SAILING-VESSEL BOUND FOR NEW YORK CITY, WHERE THEY LANDED AFTER A FAIRLY PROSPEROUS VOYAGE OF THIRTY-ONE DAYS ON THE GOOD SHIP "RONLY." IN ORDER TO SECURE MEANS TO PAY THEIR PASSAGE AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSES, THEY WERE OBLIGED TO BORROW MONEY, WHICH AMOUNTED TO SOME $365, AND TO PAY THIS DEBT, IT WAS NECESSARY FOR THEM ALL TO WORK, AS SOON AS LOCATED WHERE WORK BECAME POSSIBLE AND PROFITABLE. BEING HONEST, INDUSTRIOUS AND ECONOMICAL, AND PROVIDENTIALLY BLESSED WITH HEALTH AND STRENGTH, ALTHOUGH THE TIMES WERE VERY HARD, THEY SUCCEEDED TO THEIR GREAT GRATIFICATION, IN PAYING OFF EVERY CENT OF THIS, TO THEM. LARGE DEBT. THE DEATH OF MR. ZIMMERMANN TWO YEARS AFTER LOCATING IN BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO, LEFT THE MOTHER AND FIVE CHILDREN STILL POOR, BUT OUT OF DEBT AND WITH SOME COMFORTS AND CONVENIENCES GATHERED AROUND THEM, AND ABLE TO FACE THE WOULD WITH CHEERFUL COURAGE,

OUR SUBJECT, WHO WAS THE ELDEST OF THE FAMILY, WAS AT THE TIME OF HIS FATHER'S DECEASE, TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE, AND, BEING WELL SECONDED BY THE YOUNGER CHILDREN, WAS OF GREAT HELP TO HIS MOTHER, WHO WAS A WOMAN FULLY CAPABLE OF MANAGING THE BUSINESS AFFAIRS CONNECTED WITH THE FARM. BETWEEN THEM THEY SECURED ENOUGH MONEY TO EMIGRATE TO THE LAND OF PROMISE, WHICH WAS IN THOSE DAYS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. OUR SUBJECT ALSO TOOK WITH HIM TO THE NEW HOME A WIFE, WHO WAS A LADY WELL-FITTED FOR THE DUTIES AND TRAILS OF PIONEER DAYS. THEIR JOURNEY WAS NOT MADE IN THE USUAL STYLE OF WAGONS AND HORSES, BUT WAS PERFORMED BY TAKING THE LONGER BUT MORE COMFORTABLE WATER ROUTE, WHICH EMBRACED A TRIP TO CINCINNATI, THENCE ON THE OHIO TO ST. LOUIS, THEN UP THE ILLINOIS RIVER TO PEORIA, WHERE THEY LEFT THE WATER, AND MADE THE REST OF THE JOURNEY WITH TEAMS.

MR. ZIMMERMANN WITH TRUE FILIAL REGARD TOOK ESPECIAL CARE OF HIS MOTHER FROM THE TIME OF HIS MARRIAGE, AND WHEN HE HAD SECURED A HOME OF HIS OWN IN ILLINOIS, HE AND HIS EXCELLENT WIFE APPORTIONED THE MOST COMFORTABLE PLACE FOR HER USE, WHICH SHE RETAINED UNTIL CALLED UPON TO LEAVE THE SCENE OF LIFE'S CHANGES, AND MEET HER HUSBAND IN THE OTHER WORLD. HER DEATH IN 1850, AT THE AGE OF FIFTY-FIVE YEARS, LIFE A CHAIR VACANT IN MICHAEL ZIMMERMANN'S HOME, BUT THE MEMORY OF GRANDMA WILL EVER BE CHERISHED BY HER LOVING CHILDREN AND THEIR LITTLE ONES. MR. AND MRS. ANDREW ZIMMERMANN WERE BOTH CAREFULLY EDUCATED IN THE MENNONITE CHURCH, AND WERE FAITHFUL TO THEIR EARLY TRAINING IN LIFE AND DEATH. MR. ANDREW ZIMMERMANN HAD OCCUPIED THE PLACE OF PASTOR IN THAT CHURCH, AND WAS WIDELY KNOWN AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THAT DENOMINATION AS AN INTELLIGENT, UPRIGHT MAN, AND A KIND, AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND AND FATHER.

OUR SUBJECT WAS WELL EDUCATED IN GERMANY, BEING ESPECIALLY FLUENT IN HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE, AND THE MENTAL DISCIPLINE BE ACQUIRED IN HIS THOROUGH, SEVERE COURSE OF STUDIES DURING HIS ATTENDANCE IN THE GERMAN SCHOOL, MADE HIM AS APT SCHOLAR, WHEN IT BECAME NECESSARY FOR HIM TO ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. MRS. ZIMMERMANN, WHOSE MAIDEN NAME WAS CATHERINE NAFFZINGER, OPENED HER INFANT EYES ON BOARD A VESSEL BOUND FOR AMERICA. THE PARENTS, PETER AND BARBARA (BECK) NAFFZINGER, HAD LEFT THEIR HOME IN THE RHINE PROVINCE OF BYRON, AND EMBARKED IN 1826 ON A SAILING-VESSEL AND AFTER ESCAPING ALL THE DANGERS OF THE MIGHTY DEEP, WERE SAFELY LANDED AT THEIR DESTINATION, PHILADELPHIA, PA. ALTHOUGH THE ORIGINAL INTENTION OF MR. AND MRS. NAFFZINGER HAD BEEN TO GO TO CANADA, THEY WERE SO MUCH PLEASED WITH THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, THAT THEY CONCLUDED TO REMAIN THERE, BUT AFTER RESIDING THERE SOMETIME, THEY WERE INDUCED TO GO TO BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO, IN WHICH PLACE THEY LOCATED AND REMAINED SEVERAL YEARS, PROSPERING FAIRLY WELL. BUT IN 1844, BEARING GLOWING ACCOUNTS OF THE FORTUNES TO BE MADE IN ILLINOIS, THEY CONCLUDED TO SELL OUT, AND REMOVE TO THE NEWER COUNTRY. THEY FIRST LOCATED AT SPRING BAY, THIS COUNTY, MAKING THEIR HOME WITH AN ELDER SON WHO HAD PROCEDED THEM. THE MOTHER OF MRS. ZIMMERMANN BADE FAREWELL TO THE SCENES OF LIFE, AT THE HOME OF A YOUNGER SON IN TAZEWELL COUNTY, ILL., HAVING LIVED FIVE YEARS OVER THE ALLOTTED THREE-SCORE YEARS AND TEN. MR. NAFFZINGER SURVIVED FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, AND AT LENGTH DEPARTED FROM HIS EARTHLY TENEMENT, AT THE HOME OF HIS SON, PETER, IN MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP, BEING NEARLY NINETY-SEVEN YEARS OLD. THEY WERE WORTHY MEMBERS OF THE MENNONITE CHURCH DURING LIFE. MR. NAFFZINGER HOLDING THE OFFICE OF AN ELDER.

MRS. CATHERINE ZIMMERMANN CAME TO BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO, WHEN A MERE CHILD, AND WAS REARED AND EDUCATED IN THAT PLACE, LEARNING NOT ONLY WHAT BOOKS COULD TEACH, BUT ALSO RECEIVING A GOOD PRACTICAL TRAINING IN DOMESTIC LIFE AND FARM WORK. SHE HAS BEEN OF GREAT ASSISTANCE TO HER HUSBAND IN MAKING AND IMPROVING THEIR HOME, AND HAS BECOME THE MOTHER OF TWELVE CHILDREN, THREE OF WHOM ARE DECEASED, NAMELY: CATHERINE, WHO DIED WHEN THREE YEARS OLD; ELIZABETH DIED WHEN ABOUT TWO YEARS OLD; AND JACOB, WHO LIVED TO BE A FINE LAD OF THIRTEEN YEARS. THOSE SURVIVING ARE: ANNA, WIFE OF JOHN WITZIG, A FARMER RESIDING ON THE LINE BETWEEN LIVINGSTON AND MCLEAN COUNTIES; BARBARA IS THE WIFE OF JOHN RAMSEYER, A FARMER LIVING IN MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP; JOHN MARRIED A LADY NAMED MISS CATHERINE SCHROCK, AND MAKES HIS HOME ON A FARM IN KANSAS TOWNSHIP; LYDIA IS THE WIFE OF ABRAHAM RICGERBERGER, AND LIVES ON A FARM IN MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP; CHRISTIAN MARRIED MISS MARTHA MINKOSIWITZ, AND LIVES ON A FARM IN MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP; HANNAH, JOSHUA, CALEB, AND LILLIE, ARE STILL UNDER THE PARENTAL ROOF. ALL THE FAMILY OF MR. AND MRS. ZIMMERMANN ARE INTELLIGENT, ENERGETIC AND SELF-SUPPORTING; IDLENESS BEING CONSIDERED A VICE, AND INDUSTRY A VIRTUE. MR. AND MRS. ZIMMERMANN ARE AMONG THE MOST PROMINENT MEMBERS AND LIBERAL SUPPORTERS OF THE NEW MENNONITE CHURCH, TO THE SPIRITUAL NEEDS OF WHICH MR. ZIMMERMANN MINISTERS, HOLDING THE OFFICE OF AN ELDER, AND BEING WELL QUALIFIED FOR THE POSITION BY HIS GENERAL INTELLIGENCE AND SCRIPTURAL KNOWLEDGE.

MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN

MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN, DIED AT HIS HOME IN CONGERVILLE, WOODFORD COUNTY, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, AT 7:00 O'CLOCK, AGED 92 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AND 10 DAYS.

HE WAS BORN IN BADEN, GERMANY, SEPT. 19, 1820, COMING TO THIS COUNTRY IN 1839 WITH HIS PARENTS. THEY WERE ON A SAILING VESSEL AND WERE 31 DAYS COMING OVER. THEY SETTLED IN BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO. HERE HIS FATHER DIED IN 1841.

HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS CATHERINA NAFFSINGER IN 1845, SHE WAS BORN ON THE OCEAN. IN 1848 HE CAME TO ILLINOIS, SETTLING IN TAZEWELL COUNTY, WHERE THEY LIVED ONE YEAR. FROM THERE THEY MOVED TO CONGERVILLE, WHERE HE HAD LIVED UP TO THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. TWELVE CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THIS UNION, THREE DYING IN INFANCY. NINE ARE NOW LIVING - MRS. ANNA WITZIG, OF GOODFIELD, ILL.; MRS. BARBARA RAMSEYER, KAMKAMLIN, MICH.; JOHN ZIMMERMAN, CARLOCK, ILL.; MISS LYDIA RINKERBERGER, STEVENS, MINN.; CHRIS ZIMMERMAN, OF THIS CITY; MISS HANNAH HOHULIN, OF GOODFIELD; JOSHUA ZIMMERMAN, MILFORD, IND.; CALEB ZIMMERMAN, CONGERVILLE, ILL.; MRS. LOUIS HOLLIGER, OF EUREKA. HE LEAVES SEVENTY GRANDCHILDREN AND THIRTY-SIX GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, AND HIS WIFE WHO IS 87 YEARS OLD.

THE FUNERAL WAS HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN CONGERVILLE, AT 10:00 O'CLOCK WEDNESDAY MORNING.

THE GRAVE SITE OF ELDER MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN

IF YOU WERE LOOKING FOR THE GRAVE OF MICHAEL AND HIS WIFE CATHERINE, YOU WOULDN'T FIND THEM IN THE CONGERVILLE APOSTOLIC CEMETERY. YOU WOULD FIND THEM ALONG WITH MICHAEL'S MOTHER AND SOME OF THEIR CHILDREN IN A EARLY MENNONITE / APOSTOLIC PRAIRIE CEMETERY NEAR CONGERVILLE. THIS CEMETERY, CALLED LANTZ / ZIMMERMAN CEMETERY, IS LOCATED IN SEC. 23, IN THE EAST PART OF MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP, WHICH IS IN WOODFORD COUNTY, IN A COW PASTURE, UP ON A HILL. WHAT STONES REMAIN, ARE SINKING IN THE GROUND AND IS OVERGROWN WITH TALL GRASS.

THE CEMETERY WAS STARTED WHEN A MEMBER OF THE ZIMMERMAN FAMILY DIED. THEY, OWNING THE FARMLAND IT WAS LOCATED ON, STARTED BURYING FAMILY MEMBERS THERE IT WAS TRADITION AT THAT TIME TO BURY THEIR DEAD ON THE HOME PLACE. IN FACT, MRS. MICHEAL ZIMMERMAN DID NOT WANT TO BE BURIED THERE, BUT HER HUSBAND DID, SO IN ORDER TO BE BURIED BY HER HUSBAND, SHE TOO WAS BURIED THERE. SHE WANTED TO BE BURIED IN THE CONGERVILLE APOSTOLIC CEMETERY.

THERE ARE MORE GRAVES HERE, BUT NO MARKERS AND NO KNOWN RECORDS OF THE CEMETERY. THE CEMETERY IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE LANTZ CEMETERY, ALTHOUGH THE PEOPLE IN THE VICINITY KNOW IT BY THE NAME ZIMMERMAN.

CATHERINE ZIMMERMAN, MICHAEL'S WIFE, WAS THE LAST PERSON TO BE BURIED IN THE CEMETERY, IN MAR. 9, 1919.

JOHN ZIMMERMAN, SR.

JOHN ZIMMERMAN, SR., DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS SON, JOHN ZIMMERMAN, JR., FRIDAY, JAN. 7, 1910, AFTER A LONG ILLNESS, THREE WEEKS OF WHICH HE WAS CONFINED TO HIS BED. HE WAS AGED 83 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AND 22 DAYS.

JOHN ZIMMERMAN WAS BORN IN BADEN, GERMANY, OCT. 16, 1825. IN 1839, WHEN HE WAS A BOY OF 14 YEARS, HE WITH HIS PARENTS IMMIGRATED TO AMERICA, THE FAMILY SETTLING FIRST IN BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO. HE GREW TO MANHOOD THERE, AND OCTOBER, 1850, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS SARAH CLAPP IN BUTLER COUNTY. SHORTLY AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE, MR. AND MRS. ZIMMERMAN CAME TO ILLINOIS GOING FIRST TO PEORIA, WHERE THEY RESIDED, BUT A FEW MONTHS, WHEN THEY LEFT THE CITY FOR THE FARM. THEY MOVED ONTO A FARM IN WOODFORD COUNTY AND RESIDED THERE UNTIL JUNE, 1867, WHEN MR. ZIMMERMAN PURCHASED A HALF SECTION OF NEW PRAIRIE LAND SOUTH OF FAIRBURY FOR $12.50 PER ACRE, AND THEY MOVED ONTO IT. THEY MADE THEIR HOME ON THIS FARM UNTIL THE SPRING OF 1886, WHEN MR. AND MRS. ZIMMERMAN RETIRED FROM ACTIVE LABOR AND MOVEDTO FAIRBURY. THEY RESIDED IN THIS CITY UNTIL THE SPRING OF 1907, WHEN THE FEEBLE HEAITH OF BOTH CAUSED THEM TO MOVE TO THE HOME OF THEIR DAUGHTER, MRS. SAMUEL ZEIGENHORN, AND LATER TO THE HOME OF THEIR SON, JOHN ZIMMERMAN WHERE BOTH PASSED TO THEIR REST, MRS. ZIMMERMAN PASSING AWAY MARCH 2, 1909

MR. ZIMMERMAN WAS THE FATHER OF TWELVE CHILDREN, NINE OF WHOM SURVIVE, FIVE SONS AND FOUR DAUGHTERS, AS FOLLOWS: A. J., OF REMINGTON, IND.; JOHN, OF FAIRBURY; DAVID, OF NEW BOSTON, ILL.; GEORGE, OF FAIRBURY; BEN, OF MUNICE, IND.; MRS. PETER ROTH, OF LAMAR, MO.; MRS. SAMUEL ZEIGENHORN, OF MUSCATINE, IA.; MRS. NICHOLAS NUSSBAUM, OF REMINGTON, IND.; MRS. ALEX STEIDINGER, OF FORREST.

THE DECEASED WAS A MAN OF PROMINENCE AMONG HIS PEOPLE, AN UPRIGHT CITIZEN AND ONE WHO HELD THE RESPECT AND ESTEEM OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS COMMUNITY. HIS DEATH WILL BE MOURNED BY MANY FRIENDS. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, SOUTH OF FAIRBURY, TUESDAY, JAN. 11, REV. MIKE MONGOLD, OF ROANOKE, OFFICIATING. A LARGE NUMBER OF OLD FRIENDS WERE PRESENT TO PAY THEIR LAST RESPECTS TO THE MEMORY OF THE DECEASED, MANY BEING PRESENT FROM FAR AWAY. THE BEREAVED FAMILY HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF ALL.

MRS. SARAH ZIMMERMAN

MRS. SARAH ZIMMERMAN WIFE OF JOHN ZIMMERMAN, PASSED AWAY TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1909, AT THE HOME OF HER SON, JOHN ZIMMERMAN, JR., SOUTH-EAST OF FAIRBURY, AGED 80 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AND 24 DAYS.

SARAH CAPP WAS BORN IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, OHIO, OCT. 6, 1823. SHE GREW TO WOMANHOOD IN THAT COUNTRY AND WAS THERE UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JOHN ZIMMERMAN IN 1850. THAT SAME SPRING THE YOUNG COUPLE CAME WEST TO SEEK THEIR FORTUNE, SETTLING FIRST IN PEORIA COUNTY, WHERE THEY REMAINED FOR A SHORT TIME, THEN MOVED TO WOODFORD COUNTY WHERE THEY LIVED UNTIL 1868, WHEN THEY CAME TO LIVINGSTON COUNTY, SETTLING ON A HALF SECTION OF RAW PRAIRIE, THE HOME FARM, AND SETTLED DOWN TO WORK OUT THEIR RICHES AND HAPPINESS. THEY TRAVELED LIFE'S PATHWAY TOGETHER UNTIL SEPARATED BY DEATH.

TEN CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THEM OF WHOM NINE ARE LIVING, A. J., OF REMINGTON, IND.; MARGARET, (MRS. PETER ROTH), NIANTHA, MO.; DAVID, NEW BASTON, ILL.; LIZZIE, (MRS. SAM ZEIGENHORN), FAIRBURY; JOHN, OF FAIRBURY; EMMA, (MRS. NICHOLAS NUSSBAUM), REMINGTON, IND.; GEORGE, OF FAIRBURY; BEN, OF MUNICE, IND.; SARAH, (MRS. ALEX STEIDINGER), OF FAIRBURY, ILL. DECEASED; LOUISA, DIED WHEN AN INFANT.

TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO MR. AND MRS. ZIMMERMAN RETIRED FROM ACTIVE WORK AND MOVED TO FAIRBURY, WHERE THEY RESIDED UNTIL TWO YEARS AGO WHEN THEY TOOK UP THEIR ABODE WITH THEIR CHILDREN AND HAVE SINCE RESIDED WITH THEM. MRS. ZIMMERMAN WAS AN EARNEST CHRISTIAN WOMEN AND A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH FOR MANY YEARS. SHE WAS LOVED AND RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER, A TRUE WIFE AND MOTHER IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD. SHE LIVED A LIFE OF USEFULNESS AND HER DEATH IS MOURNED DEEPLY BY HER FAMILY AND HER MANY FRIENDS.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, SOUTH OF FAIRBURY, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, REV. CHRIS GERBER OFFICIATING AND WAS ATTENDED BY MANY FRIENDS.

JOHN ZIMMERMAN SR. 1825 - 1910

(WIFE) SARAH (CAPP) ZIMMERMAN 1823 -1909

(SON) ANDREW J. ZIMMERMAN 1852 - 1933

(SON) WILHELM "WILLIAM" J. ZIMMERMAN 1853 - ????

(DAUGHTER) MARGARET (ZIMMERMAN) ROTH 1855 - 1933

(SON) DAVID ZIMMERMAN 1850 - 1901

(SON) JOHN A. ZIMMERMAN 1858 - 1949

(DAUGHTER) ELIZABETH "LIZZIE" (ZIMMERMAN) ZEIGENHORN 1861 - ????

(DAUGHTER) EMMA (ZIMMERMAN) NUSSBAUM 1863 - 1948

(DAUGHTER) LOUISA ZIMMERMAN 1868 - 1876

(SON) GEORGE A. ZIMMERMAN 1865 - 1947

(DAUGHTER) SARAH (ZIMMERMAN) STEIDINGER 1870 - 1912

(SON) BENJAMIN ZIMMERMAN 1873 - 1944

 1. ANDREW J. ZIMMERMAN 1852 - 1933

ANDREW J. ZIMMERMAN

ANDREW J. ZIMMERMAN WAS BORN IN WOODFORD COUNTY, APRIL 23, 1852, AND PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN REMINGTON, IND., MONDAY AT THE AGE OF 81 YEARS.

HE GREW TO MANHOOD IN THIS VICINITY AND IN THE YEAR OF 1900 WITH HIS FAMILY MOVED TO REMINGTON, IND., WHERE HE HAD SINCE RESIDED. HE LEAVES A WIDOW AND THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: BEN, OF MISHAWAKA; ROY OF TOLEDO, O.; EMMA, OF PEORIA; WALLACE, ELI AND MRS. SARAH LEATHERMAN, OF REMINGTON; ALSO THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS AND SISTERS: MRS. ELIZABETH ZIEGENHORN, OF MUSCATINE, IA.; BEN, OF PEORIA; MRS. EMMA NUSSBAUM, REMINGTON; MRS. MARGARET ROTH, GEORGE, AND JOHN A. ZIMMERMAN, OF THIS CITY.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT REMINGTON, OF WHICH HE WAS A FAITHFUL MEMBER, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THE SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED BY THE REV. PHILIP GUTWEIN, OF FRANCESVILLE, AND REV. GEORGE YERKLER, OF LA CROSSE, INDIANA.

AMONG THOSE ATTENDING THE SERVICES FROM FAIRBURY WERE: GEORGE ZIMMERMAN AND DAUGHTER, ANNA AND MARGARET, AND SON LOUIS; JOHN ZIMMERMAN AND TWO DAUGHTERS, LAURA AND LILLIE; IDA AND EMMA ROTH, JOE ZIMMERMAN.

MRS. MARGARET ROTH

MRS. MARGARET ROTH, RESIDING ON EAST ELM STREET, PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME ON TUESDAY MORNING AT 4:25 O’CLOCK, AT THE AGE OF 78 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AND 2 DAYS. SHE HAD BEEN ILL FOR TEN WEEKS.

MARGARET ZIMMERMAN WAS BORN AT METAMORA, FEBRUARY 10, 1855, DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND SARAH ZIMMERMAN. THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF HER LIFE WERE SPENT IN THE VICINITY OF METAMORA. ON SEPTEMBER 11, 1873, AT FAIRBURY, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO PETER ROTH, AND WITH EXCEPTION OF 11 YEARS SPENT IN MISSOURI, HAD SINCE MADE FAIRBURY HER HOME.

MR. ROTH PRECEDED HER IN DEATH A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO. THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN SURVIVE: MRS. M. M. LEHMAN, OF PEORIA; LOUISE, IDA AND EMMA, AT HOME; MRS. DANIEL HUBER, OF FAIRBURY; WILLAIM ROTH, OF HARPER, KAN., HENRY ROTH, OF KIOWA, KAN.; DANIEL ROTH, OF FORREST, AND DAVID ROTH, OF FAIRBURY. THERE ALSO SURVIVE TWENTY-NINE GRANDCHILDREN, FIVE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN AND THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS AND SISTERS: MRS. NICHOLAS NUSSBAUM, OF REMINGTON, IND.; MRS. SAMUEL ZIEGENHORN, OF MUSCATINE, IA., JOHN AND GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, OF FAIRBURY.

THE DECEASED WAS A FINE CHRISTIAN WOMAN, LOVED AND RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD THIS MORNING FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. INTER MENT WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

AMONG THOSE FROM AWAY ATTENDING THE FUNERAL WERE MR. AND MRS. HENRY ROTH AND MR. AND MRS. RAYMOND ROTH, OF KIOWA, KAN., AND WILLIAM ROTH, OF HARPER, KAN.

J. A. ZIMMERMAN SERVICES YESTERDAY

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR JOHN A. ZIMMERMAN, WHO PASSED AWAY AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL SUNDAY MORNING AT 9:20 O’CLOCK, WERE HELD YESTERDAY MORNING AT 9:30 FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. INTERMENT WAS IN THE SOUTH APOSTOLIC CEMETERY. GRANDSONS OF THE DECEASED WERE PALLBEARERS.

MR. ZIMMERMAN, WHO HAS BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH FOR SOME TIME, WAS AGED 90 YEARS, TEN MONTHS AND 20 DAYS.

JOHN A. ZIMMERMAN WAS A SON OF JOHN AND SARA (CAPEN) ZIMMERMAN, AND WAS BORN AT METAMORA, ON DECEMBER 23, 1858. ON FEBRUARY 1, 1885, AT EUREKA, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS SARAH HARTMAN.

MR. AND MRS. ZIMMERMAN LOCATED ON A FARM SOUTHEAST OF FAIRBURY, WHERE THEY LIVED UNTIL ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, WHEN THEY MOVED INTO THIS CITY, RESIDING AT 304 SOUTH FIFTH STREET.

SURVIVING ARE FOUR SONS, JOSEPH, OF FAIRBURY; JOHN, OF FORREST; SAM, OF STRAWN; AND MIKE, OF FT. WAYNE, IND.; FIVE DAUGHTERS, MRS. KATIE ZEHR, MRS. MARTHA KOEHL, MISS LAURA AND MISS LILLIAN, ALL OF FAIRBURY; MRS. SARAH KOEHL, FORREST; 42 GRANDCHILDREN AND 30 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, FAIRBURY.

GEO. ZIMMERMAN DIES NEW YEAR’S MORNING

GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, SR., PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME AT 306 EAST ASH STREET, NEW YEAR’S MORNING AT 12:30 O’CLOCK. HE WAS 81 YEARS, NINE MONTHS AND ONE DAY OF AGE. MR. ZIMMERMAN HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH FOR THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF.

HE WAS BORN ON MARCH 30, 1865, IN WOODFORD COUNTY, SON OF THE LATE JOHN AND SARAH (CAPP) ZIMMERMAN. AT THE AGE OF TWO YEARS HE MOVED WITH HIS PARENTS TO A FARM SOUTH OF FAIRBURY. THERE HE RESIDED UNTIL 1919 WHEN HE MOVED TO FAIRBURY.

IN 1887 HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO LYDIA ZEHR, OF BELLE PRAIRIE TOWNSHIP. SHE PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1925. ALSO AN INFANT SON PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

SURVIVING ARE THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: MRS. ANNA STOLLER AND LOUIS, OF FORREST; MRS. ESTHER STOLLER, PEORIA; LEE AND ALVIN, OF KANKAKEE; GOERGE, JR., MRS. LYDIA BITTNER, MRS. KATHRYN NUSSBAUM AND MRS. LOUISE MOULTON, ALL OF FAIRBURY, AND MISS MARGARET, AT HOME. TWENTY-EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN AND FOUR GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN SURVIVE. ALSO SURVIVING ARE A BROTHER, JOHN, OF FAIRBURY; TWO SISTERS, MRS. EMMA NUSSBAUM, REMINGTON, IND., AND MRS. ELIZABETH ZIEGENHORN, OF MUSCATINE, IOWA.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD TO MORROW MORNING AT 9:30 O’CLOCK AT THE HOME AND AT 10 O’CLOCK AT THE CHURCH.

HE LEAVES A HOST OF FRIENDS IN THE COMMUNITY WHO WILL LONG REMEMBER HIS FRIENDSHIP, LOVE AND KINDNESS. HE WAS HIGHLY ESTEEMED BY ALL.

MRS. ALEXANDER STEIDINGER

MRS. ALEXANDER STEIDINGER DIED AT HER HOME IN FORREST TOWNSHIP, SIX MILES SOUTHEAST OF FAIRBURY, SUNDAY, JAN. 28, 1912, AGED 41 YEARS, I MONTH AND 26 DAYS. HER ILLNESS WAS OF BUT FEW DAYS DURATION AND HER DEATH WAS A SAD SHOCK TO HER MANY FRIENDS.

SARAH ZIMMERMAN WAS BORN IN FORREST TOWNSHIP, DEC. 2, 1870. SHE GREW TO WOMANHOOD THERE AND WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO ALEXANDER STEIDINGER IN 1891. SIX CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THIS UNION AS FOLLOWS: EZRA, CLARA, ELMER, HARVEY, HERBERT AND ROY. BESIDES THESE ARE THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS AND SISTERS: DAVID ZIMMERMAN, NEW BOSTON, ILL.; ANDREW, OF REMINGTON, IND.; GEORGE AND JOHN OF FAIRBURY; MRS. PETER ROTH, FAIRBURY; MRS. SAM ZEIGENHORN, MUSCATINE, IA.; MRS. NICK NUSSBAUM, REMINGTON, IND.; BENJAMIN ZIMMERMAN, PEORIA.

MRS. STIEDINGER WAS A WOMAN OF MANY EXCELLENT QUALITIES. SHE SPENT HER ENTIRE LIFE IN THIS LOCALITY AND ALL WHO KNOW HER WILL UNITE IN MORNING HER DEATH. SHE WAS A KIND AND LOVING WIFE AND MOTHER AND ALL DEEPLY SYMPATHIZE WITH THE BEREAVED HUSBAND AND CHILDREN IN THEIR GREAT LOSS.

THE FUNERAL WAS HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, SIX MILES SOUTH, WEDNESDAY, AND THE INTERMENT WAS AT THAT PLACE.

THOSE PRESENT FROM A DISTANCE WERE: REV. MANGOLD, OF ROANOKE; JOHN BITTNER, SAM LEHMAN, OF EUREKA; MR. AND MRS. SAM ZEIGENHORN, WALTER ZEIGENHORN, OF MUSCATINE, IA., DAVID ZIMMERMAN AND DAUGHTER, OF NEW BOSTON, ILL.; BEN ZIMMERMAN, OF PEORIA; MR. AND MRS. N. NUSSBAUM, ANDREW ZIMMERMAN, OF REMINGTON, IND.; JOHN AND CALEB ZIMMERMAN, OF CONGERVILLE.

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