SERVED FROM 1875 AS FIRST MINISTER TO AN UNKNOWN TIME.

A FATHER LAID TO REST

HEINRICH ZIEGENHORN DIED AT HIS RESIDENCE IN CLAYTONVILLE, TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 11, 1906, AT 2 O’CLOCK. BEFORE HIS DEATH MR. ZIEGENHORN DID NOT COMPLAIN OF ANY AILMENTS BUT SEEMED TO GROW WEAK, AND DEATH CAME AS A PEACEFUL SLEEP.

HEINRICH ZIEGENHORN WAS BORN IN PRUSSIA, OCT. 19, 1823. WHEN A YOUNG MAN HE BECAME A MECHANIC.

HE WAS MARRIED TO DOROTHA SCHMIDT IN PRUSSIA ABOUT THE YEAR 1850. SIX CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THEM IN PRUSSIA AND FRANCE WHERE THEY LIVED FOR SEVEN YEARS. IN 1865 MR. ZIEGENHORN EMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES WHERE THEY MADE THEIR HOME AT PEORIA, ILL. HERE HE FOLLOWED HIS TRADE FOR THREE YEARS. IN PEORIA THE YOUNGEST CHILD WAS BORN.

IN 1868 THE FAMILY MOVED TO FAIRBURY WHERE THEY COMMENCED FARMING. IN 1875 THE FAMILY AGAIN MOVED AND THIS TIME TO IROQUOIS COUNTY, LOCATING SOUTH OF CLAYTONVILLE. THE CHILDREN HAVING GROWN SO THEY COULD RUN THE FARM. MR. ZIEGENHORN MOVED TO CLAYTONVILLE IN 1888 WHERE HE LIVED UNTIL HIS DEATH. DOROTHA, HIS WIFE, HAVING DIED IN MAY, 1905.

THE SEVEN CHILDREN WHO MOURN HIS DEATH AND SURVIVE HIM ARE ALENA HEINEGER, NORTH OF CLAYTONVILLE, SAMUEL, OF FAIRBURY, ILLINOIS, HENRY, OF JOY, ILLINOIS; DOROTHA BAUMGARTNER, OF CISSNA PARK, HANNAH HARDY, OF BUCKLEY, THEODORE, OF WEINER, ARKANSAS AND AUGUST, OF CLAYTONVILLE.

SERVED FROM 1881 - 1888, WAS THE CHURCHES FIRST ELDER.

SERVED THE CISSNA PARK CHURCH 1884. THEN MOVED TO ELGIN, ILLINOIS.

JOHN SPIESS, 82, ELGIN PIONEER, DIES AFTER ILLNESS OF WEEK

LOCAL MERCHANT’S FATHER PNEUMONIA VICTIM.

JOHN SPIESS, A RESIDENT OF ELGIN FOR THE PAST 24 YEARS AND ONE OF THE PIONEER BUSINESS MEN OF THIS CITY, WIDELY KNOWN THROUGHOUT ILLINOIS AND ADJACENT STATES, PARTICULARLY IN CHURCH CIRCLES, DIED AT 10:40 O’CLOCK LAST NIGHT, AT HE AGE OF 82 YEARS, AT HIS HOME, 639 PARK STREET. HE HAD BEEN ILL ABOUT, ONE WEEK, DEATH CAUSED PRIMARILY BY AN ATTACK OF PNEUMONIA, CHASTENED POSSIBLY BY COMPLICATIONS OF OLD AGE. THE END CAME PEACEFULLY AND QUIETLY, WITH MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY GATHERED ABOUT THE BEDSIDE.

MR. SPIESS THE FATHER OF JOSEPH C. SPIESS PROMINENT ELGIN MERCHANT HAD FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY BEEN A POPULAR AND FAMILIAR FIGURE ABOUT THE CITY AND WAS KNOWN AND BELOVED BY AN EVER-WIDENING CIRCLE OF FRIENDS. HIS GENIALITY WARMTH OF PERSONALITY, HIS NATIVE HONESTY AND HIS GENEROSITY, HIS BENEVOLENT AND PATRIARCHAL DEMEANOR, HAD ADHERED LASTING AND FIRM FRIENDSHIPS. NEWS OF HIS DEATH HENCE, CAME AS A CONSIDERABLE SHOCK, NOT ONLY TO RELATIVES, BUT TO A HOST OF FRIENDS.

BORN IN GERMANY

BORN IN WEILINDORF, NEAR STUTTGART, THE CAPITAL OF WURTEMBURG, IN SOUTHERN GERMAN, ON OCTOBER 21, 1850. MR. SPIESS CAME TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1866, WHEN HE WAS 16 YEARS OLD. HE LOCATED AT PEORIA, ILL., WHERE HE WAS EMPLOYED AS AN APPRENTICE IN HARNESS-MAKING, A BUSINESS IN WHICH HE LATER WAS ENGAGED IN ELGIN. IN SEPTEMBER, 1871, WHILE STILL IN PEORIA, MR. SPIESS WAS MARRIED TO MISS ROSE RICHT, AND SHORTLY THEREAFTER THE COUPLE MOVED TO GRIDLEY, ILL., WHERE MR. SPIESS ENTERED IN THE HARNESS BUSINESS, OPENING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF HIS OWN.

AFTER A BRIEF TIME AT GRIDLEY, MR. SPIESS MOVED TO MORTON, ILL., AND IN 1882, TO CISSNA, ILL., THE LATTER CITY LOCATED EAST OF PEORIA. HE HAD ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF HARNESS MANUFACTURE AND SALES AT MORTON UNTIL HE EXPERIENCED A DECLINE IN HEALTH. HE THEN PURCHASED A FARM AT CISSNA PARK, AND LIVED UPON IT FOUR YEARS, IN AN ATTEMPT TO REGAIN HIS HEALTH. HE WAS PARTLY SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ENDEAVOR, AND CAME TO ELGIN IN 1886, ENTERING THE EMPLOY, ABOUT A YEAR LATER OF THE THEN ELGIN SADLERY AND HARNESS COMPANY, WHICH WAS OWNED BY HENRY MUNTZ. AFTER ONE YEAR WITH THIS FIRM MR. SPIESS ESTABLISHED A HARNESS SHOP OF HIS OWN, IN A SMALL SHOP ON BROOK STREET, ADJACENT TO THE OLD WASHINGTON HOTEL.

SELLS BUSINESS IN 1912

HE REMAINED IN THIS LOCATION FOR TWO YEARS, AND THEN ENTERED LARGER QUARTERS ON MILWAUKEE STREET, IN WHAT WAS KNOWN AS THE HAGELOW BUILDING. NORTH GROVE AVENUE AND MILWAUKEE STREET. IN 1893, DURING A PERIOD OF BUSINESS DEPRESSION, MR. SPIESS MOVED HIS SHOP TO THE THEN RIVER STREET, EAST SIDE, SOUTH OF THE HAGELOW BUILDING. IN 1897 THE BUSINESS WAS AGAIN MOVED ON RIVER STREET, AT A LOCATION NEAR FOOT OF MILWAUKEE STREET, THE FINAL LOCATION. THREE YEARS LATER THE BUSINESS WAS SOLD TO THE ELGIN SADLERY AND HARNESS COMPANY. TWO YEARS LATER, HOWEVER, THE HARNESS BUSINESS WAS REOPENED BY JOHN SPIESS, NOW OF DECATUR, A SON OF THE ELDER SPIESS, THE FATHER MANAGING IT UNTIL 1912, WHEN IT WAS SOLD TO HENRY GROH.

MR. SPIESS INCIDENTALLY, WAS WIDELY KNOWN AS ONE OF THE MOST EXPERT AND SKILLFUL OF HARNESS MAKERS. HIS PRODUCT WAS IN GREAT DEMAND BY THE FARMERS OF THAT TIME. HE TOOK PARTICULAR PRIDE IN TURNING OUT A HARNESS SET, OR ITS PARTS, WHICH WAS UNEQUALED IN HIS DAY. ALWAYS HE ADDED MORE AND HEAVIER LEATHER TO A PIECE, AND ITS STITCHING AND FINISH WAS CLASSED AS PERFECT. EVEN TODAY SOME FARMERS USE HARNESS MADE BY JOHN SPIESS. FREQUENTLY SUCH FARMERS WILL REMIND JOSEPH C. SPIESS, THE SON, THAT THEY POSSESS HARNESS MADE BY HIS FATHER 25 OR MORE YEARS AGO.

ENTERS REALTY BUSINESS

AFTER SALE OF THE BUSINESS HERE TO MR. GROH, MR. SPIESS ENTERED THE REAL ESTATE BUSINESS AND ALSO IN THE SALE OF STEAMSHIP TICKETS, WITH OFFICES AT 21 RIVER STREET, A BUSINESS IN WHICH HE REMAINED UNTIL 1926. SINCE THAT TIME HE HAD BEEN RETIRED FROM ALL ACTIVE BUSINESS AFFAIRS. ABOUT THAT TIME HE WAS AFFLICTED WITH BLINDNESS, AN AILMENT WHICH CONTINUED FOR FOUR MONTHS, AND FROM WHICH HE WAS FINALLY RELIEVED BY AN OPERATION.

ALTHOUGH HE HAD GAINED CONSIDERABLE DISTINCTION AS A HARNESS MAKER, HE WAS MORE WIDELY KNOWN PERHAPS FOR HIS ACTIVITY AND WORK FOR HIS CHURCH, THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN, OF WHICH HE HAD BEEN A MEMBER SINCE HE WAS 17 YEARS OLD, BECOMING AFFILIATED WITH IT SOON AFTER HIS ARRIVAL IN AMERICA.

HE HAD BEEN A MINISTER OF THAT CHURCH SINCE HE WAS 19 YEARS OLD AND IN THAT CAPACITY HAD GAINED WIDE DISTINCTION AND POPULARITY IN THIS STATE AS WELL AS IN NEIGHBORING STATES. HE WAS CONSIDERABLY MORE THAN A LAY MINISTER TO THE MEN AND WOMEN COMPOSING HIS CONGREGATION. REPEATEDLY HIS ADVICE HAD BEEN SOUGHT ON RELIGIOUS BUSINESS AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS. HE WAS, IN EFFECT, A FATHER AND A PATRIARCH TO THE MEMBERS OF HIS FLOCK, WHO WERE ATTRACTED TO HIM BY HIS HONESTY, HIS BENEVOLENCE, HIS CHEERFUL DISPOSITION.

FUNERAL SATURDAY AFTERNOON

MR. SPIESS FIRST WIFE, ROSE RICHT SPIESS, THE MOTHER OF HIS CHILDREN, DIED IN ELGIN IN 1903. IN 1908 HE MARRIED MISS ELIZABETH REUTER, OF CISSNA PARK, WHO DIED IN 1912. SEVEN YEARS LATER HE WAS MARRIED AGAIN. MRS. PAULINE SPIESS SURVIVING HIM. TO JOHN AND ROSE RICHT SPIESS WERE BORN MRS. JACOB STETTNER, WHO DIED AT HANCOCK, MINN., IN 1926; MRS. CHARLES SCHAMBACH, MRS. WILLIAM STETTNER AND JOSEPH C. SPIESS, ALL RESIDING IN ELGIN, AND JOHN F. SPIESS OF DECATUR, ILL. THIRTEEN GRANDCHILDREN AND THREE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN ALSO SURVIVE HIM.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 2 O’CLOCK AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH WITH BURIAL AT BLUFF CITY CEMETERY. FRIENDS MAY VIEW THE REMAINS AT THE NORRIS CHAPEL THIS EVENING. IT IS REQUESTED THAT FLOWERS BE OMITTED.

SERVED 1880 TO 1900

SERVED 1892 TO ABOUT 1930.

DEATH COMES TO FRED YOUNG IN 90TH YEAR.

RESIDENT OF THIS LOCALITY FOR FORTY YEARS.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE ON TUESDAY

FRED YOUNG, SENIOR, DIED SHORTLY AFTER NOON ON SATURDAY AT HIS HOME HERE IN THE NORTH PART OF TOWN. ALTHOUGH IN HIS NINETIETH YEAR. MR. YOUNG HAD BEEN IN GOOD HEALTH MOST OF THE SPRING. HE HAD ATTENDED CHURCH REGULARLY UP UNTIL THE FIRST PART OF JUNE, BUT SINCE THAT TIME, FEELING THE WEIGHT OF HIS NINE DECADES OF LIFE, HE HAS REMAINED AT HOME MOST OF THE TIME. DEATH WAS ATTRIBUTED TO OLD AGE.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD TUESDAY AT THE COUNTRY HOME OF HIS SON, GEORGE YOUNG, EAST OF HERE, AT ONE O’CLOCK. REV. STEIDINGER PREACHED THE GERMAN SERVICE. REV. SCHAFFER, THE ENGLISH, BOTH OF THE MINISTERS BEING FROM FAIRBURY. PALLBEARERS WERE SAM RUDIN, CARL SCHMITT, JOHN SCHARLACH, JOHN KAEB, LOUIS NEUKOMM AND OSCAR MEUHLING. INTERMENT WAS IN THE UNITED HILLSIDE CEMETERY.

OBITUARY

FRED YOUNG WAS BORN ON ALSACE LORRAINE, APRIL 20TH, 1843, AND DIED AT CISSNA PARK, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 4, 1933, AT THE AGO OF 90 YEARS, 3 MONTHS, AND 15 DAYS.

IN THE LAND OF HIS NATIVITY, MR. YOUNG GREW TO MANHOOD, SPENT A PERIOD OF YEARS FAVORABLY COMPARABLE TO THE AVERAGE PERSON’S LIFE, FIFTY YEARS. DURING HIS LIFE THERE HE SAW THE ARMIES OF FRANCE AND GERMANY BATTLES OVER HIS OWN RICH COUNTRY, SAW IT CHANGE FROM THE HANDS OF ONE TO THE OTHER SEVERAL TIMES. TAKING UP FARMING THERE IN HIS EARLY MANHOOD. MR. YOUNG FOLLOWED THAT OCCUPATION THROUGHOUT HIS ACTIVE LIFE. IN THAT COUNTRY HE MARRIED CAROLINE KEENZEL AND TO THEM WERE BORN FIVE CHILDREN: - GEORGE, FRED, JR., AND CHRIST, NETTIE AND LENA OTTINGER, OF ELGIN.

IN THE LATE 1880’S HIS SON, GEORGE EMIGRATED TO AMERICA, COMING TO THIS LOCALITY. THE FAMILY, ON RECEIVING FAVORABLE NEWS OF THE NEW WORLD FROM THIS EMIGRANT SON, DECIDED TO FOLLOW HIM HERE, AND SO, IN THE YEAR 1892, MR. YOUNG SECURED PASSAGE FOR HIS FAMILY AND THEY SAILED FOR AMERICA. LIKE THEIR SON THEY CAME TO ILLINOIS, MOVING FIRST ON THE FARM SOUTHEAST OF HERE WHERE BEN GUDEMAN NOW LIVES. AFTER A FEW YEARS ON THIS FARM THEY MOVED TO THE FARM WEST OF TOWN, NOW KNOWN AS THE CHRIST YOUNG HOME PLACE. HERE THEY LIVED FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS OR UNTIL THE FAMILY HAD STARTED OUT FOR THEMSELVES, WHEN MR. YOUNG TURNED OVER THE FARM TO HIS SON CHRIS AND RETIRED TO THE YOUNG HOME HERE IN TOWN.

IN 1929, ON THE FIRST DAY OF FEBRUARY, MR. YOUNG HAD HIS WIFE TAKEN FROM HIM BY DEATH. HE HAS CONTINUED TO MAKE HIS HOME HERE WITH HIS DAUGHTER, NETTIE, KEEPING HOUSE FOR HIM.

SURVIVING ARE THE FIVE CHILDREN MENTIONED ABOVE, ALL RESIDENTS OF THIS LOCALITY SAVE MRS. OTTINGER, AND 22 GRANDCHILDREN, 16 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. HIS PARENTS DIED MANY YEARS AGO IN THE OLD COUNTRY. HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS, TOO, PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

SERVED FROM AROUND THE 1890’S TO 1902, WHEN HE MOVED TO MILFORD, INDIANA.

DATES SERVED UNKNOWN

SERVED 1896 UNTIL HIS DEATH 1926

GRIM REAPER’S DEADLY SCYTHE

PROMINENT CITIZEN MOWED DOWN AFTER LONG SUFFERING

REV. EUGENE SCHLADENHAUFFEN DIED SUNDAY MORNING AT HIS HOME FROM AN AILMENT CONTRACTED 26 MONTHS AGO, SINCE WHICH TIME HE STEADILY GREW WEAKER UNTIL HIS DEATH. DECEASED WAS 71 YEARS 1 MONTH AND 8 DAYS OLD.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES HELD AT 9:30 AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, IN CHARGE OF ELIAS WINZLER, OF TREMONT, ILL., AND ELI GRAFF, OF BLUFFTON, IN., AND WAS ATTENDED BY A LARGE NUMBER OF FRIENDS AND SORROWING RELATIVES.

IN THE PASSING OF MR. SCHLADENHAUFFEN CISSNA PARK LOSES AS IN VALUABLE CITIZEN AND THE FAMILY A LOYAL AND LOVING HUSBAND AND FATHER.

EUGENE SCHLADENHAUFFEN WAS BORN IN RIESCHWIELER, ALSACE, FRANCE, ON SEPTEMBER 16, 1855, AND AT THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN HE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY WITH HIS PARENTS AND SETTLED AT GIRARDD, OHIO, WHERE HE REMAINED UNTIL THE TIME OF THE DEATH OF HIS PARENTS.

ON MARCH 13, 1880, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO ROSETTA FANKHAUSED. TO THIS UNION NINE CHILDREN WERE BORN - JOHN, ADA HAUPTLI, JOE, PAUL, RAY, CLARA RINEGGER, NAOMI HERBST, RUTH HILL AND ALBERT, WHO DIED IN INFANCY.

THE FAMILY RESIDED FOR A LONG TIME IN YOUNGTOWN, OHIO, WHERE HE WAS FOREMAN FOR THE HARNESS FIRM OF DENORMANDE & KAY UNTIL HE DECIDED TO ENTER INTO BUSINESS FOR HIMSELF, WHEN HE MOVED TO THIS VILLAGE AND PURCHASED THE HARNESS SHOP OF ALBERT PREISS ON MARCH 6, 1896, FROM WHICH HE BUILT UP A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS UNTIL HE RETIRED EIGHT YEARS AGO.

SOME WHO ATTENDED THE FUNERAL MARTIN STEIDINGER AND WIFE, MR. AND MRS. SAM SLAGEL, MICHAEL PETERS, PETER SCHAFFER, MRS. HELEN SCHAFFER, GEORGE IFFT, MRS. CHRISTIAN GERBER, BEN LEMAN, OF FAIRBURY, IL.; ROBERT BAHLER, JACOB BAHLER, A. NUSSBAUM, OF REMINGTON, IND.

A NATIVE OF THE NORTH SIDE CHURCH, SERVED CISSNA PARK OF EARLY 1900’S UNTIL 1904 WHEN HE MOVED TO MILFORD, INDIANA

SERVED AROUND THE 1900’S UNTIL HE MOVED TO PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

SERVED UNTIL 1932

FUNERAL HELD WEDNESDAY FOR BEN GUDEMAN, 87

BENJAMIN GUDEMAN, 87, OF RURAL RANKIN PASSED AWAY AT 5:10 P. M., APRIL 6. GRAVESIDE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED AT 2:30 P. M., ON WEDNESDAY AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY AT CISSNA PARK.

MR. GUDEMAN WAS BORN JUNE 19, 1883 AT EUREKA, THE SON OF JOEL AND ELIZABETH FEHR GUDEMAN. HE WAS MARRIED TO LIZZIE HARI AT CISSNA PARK JANUARY 14, 1906. SHE DIED FEB. 5, 1953. HE HAD LIVED IN THE RANKIN AREA WHERE HE WAS A RETIRED FARMER. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE FOUR SONS, JOSEPH, FREDDIE, EUGENE AND HARRY, ALL OF RANKIN; SIX DAUGHTERS, ELIZABETH AND CLARA, BOTH OF RANKIN, AND LOIS, SALOME, MARY AND BENA, ALL OF PEORIA; FOUR GRANDCHILDREN; FOUR BROTHERS, EDWARD, JOEL, HENRY, AND VICTOR, ALL OF ELGIN; AND TWO SISTERS, MISS BENA GUDEMAN, OF ELGIN AND MRS. LOUISE FELLER, OF CISSNA PARK.

THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

THE FAMILY REQUESTS NO FLOWERS OR DONATIONS.

SERVED UNTIL 1932

LONG TIME RESIDENT ALBERT KELLERHALS DIES DEC. 25

ALBERT KELLERHALS, 85, OF CLAYTONVILLE, DIED DEC. 25, AT 7:05 P. M. AT IROQUOIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN WATSEKA.

MR. KELLERHALS, A RETIRED FARMER AND LONG TIME AREA RESIDENT WAS BORN ON NOV. 9, 1889, IN MUTTENZ, SWITZERLAND. IN 1914, HE MARRIED NETTIE MUEHLING WHO PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

SURVIVING ARE ONE SISTER, MRS. ANNA SHARER, OF SILVERTON, ORE., AND MANY NIECES AND NEPHEWS. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS AND ONE BROTHER.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD ON SATURDAY, DEC. 28, AT 10:00 A. M. AT KNAPP FUNERAL HOME. BURIAL WAS IN THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH CEMETERY. MR. KELLERHALS WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

SERVED UNTIL 1932

DAN GUDEMAN DIES AT AGE 67, FUNERAL TODAY

DAN GUDEMAN, RESIDENT OF THIS COMMUNITY FOR OVER HALF-A-CENTURY, DIED SHORTLY AFTER EIGHT O’CLOCK TUESDAY MORNING AT HIS HOME IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF TOWN. DEATH WAS ATTRIBUTED TO HEART STROKE. HE HAD BEEN ILL FOR TWO WEEKS OR SINCE HE FIRST SUFFERED A STROKE OF PARALYSIS. HE HAD MADE A PARTIAL RECOVERY FROM THE FIRST ATTACK, WAS CONSIDERED "BETTER" LAST WEEK. HOWEVER HIS CONDITION A TURN FOR THE WORSE SUNDAY AND HE GRADUALLY LAPSED INTO A COMA.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD THIS MORNING AT TEN O’CLOCK AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN THE WEST PART OF TOWN, WITH INTERMENT IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY. SEIDEL IS THE UNDERTAKER.

THE DECEASED WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 7, 1880, NEAR EUREKA, ILL., THE SON OF JOEL AND ELIZABETH FEHR GUDEMAN AND WAS AGED 67 YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS AND SIX DAYS.

HE CAME TO THIS LOCALITY WITH HIS PARENTS IN 1893 WHERE THEY SOON SETTLED ON A FARM ON THE COUNTY LINE SOUTHEAST OF TOWN - NOW THE BEN GUDEMAN HOME. AFTER FINISHING SCHOOL HE TOOK UP FARMING, A CAREER HE FOLLOWED UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT A FEW YEARS BACK.

HE WAS MARRIED JANUARY 15, 1905 TO ELIZABETH WITZIG OF GOODFIELD, ILL. AND THEIR HOME WAS ESTABLISHED IN SOUTH FOUNTAIN CREEK TOWNSHIP ON THE PLACE WHERE LOUIE HOFBAUER NOW LIVES.

THIS WAS THEIR HOME UNTIL 1925 WHEN THEY BOUGHT THE FARM JUST SOUTH OF TOWN, ON 49, EAST SIDE OF ROAD WHERE THE SON LEONARD AND HIS FAMILY NOW LIVE, AND MOVED THERE. HE AND HIS WIFE RETIRED AND MOVED TO THEIR HOME HERE IN TOWN IN 1942.

SURVIVING BESIDES THE WIFE ARE SEVEN CHILDREN: MRS. ESTHER STOCK, MRS. RUTH YOUNG AND LEONARD, ALL OF THIS LOCALITY; PHIL, OF PEORIA; MRS. LYDIA GROSSHANS AND MRS. EDWIN FEHR, OF FAIRBURY; AND ROBERT, OF DANVILLE.

ALSO SURVIVING ARE 13 GRANDCHILDREN AND 11 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, AS FOLLOWS: BEN, BERT, MRS. ED FELLER AND MRS. JOHN HODEL OF THIS COMMUNITY; JOEL, HENRY, ED, VICTOR, BENA AND EMMA, ALL OF ELGIN; AND CARL, OF CHICAGO.

MR. GUDEMAN WAS ONE OF THE ORGANIZERS AND CHARTER MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH.

SERVED UNTIL 1932

KARL SCHMID RITES FRIDAY

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR KARL E. SCHMID, 92, WILL BE HELD FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1968, AT 10 O’CLOCK AT THE COOK FUNERAL HOME WITH BURIAL IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MR. SCHMID, A RETIRED FARMER, DIED AT 11 O’CLOCK FRIDAY MORNING AT HIS HOME. HE HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH TWO MONTHS.

FRIENDS MAY CALL AT THE FUNERAL HOME FROM 2 - 5 AND 7 - 9 P. M. TODAY.

HE WAS BORN AT MUTTENZ, SWITZERLAND, OCTOBER 18, 1876, A SON OF KARL AND ELIZABETH EGLIN SCHMID. HE MARRIED CAROLINE KELLERHALS IN SWITZERLAND OCTOBER 25, 1901, AND THEY CAME TO CONGERVILLE IN 1903. MRS. SCHMID DIED IN 1947, AND HE CAME TO FAIRBURY IN 1949. HE MARRIED MARIE BLATTER APRIL 16, 1950, SHE DIED IN 1951.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE FOUR SONS, CARL, SILVERTON, ORE.; SAM, FAIRBURY; DAVID, CHENOA; DANIEL, CISSNA PARK; FOUR DAUGHTERS, MRS. LILLIE KUENZI, SILVERTON; MISS DELLA, FAIRBURY; MARTHA BAHLER, FAIRBURY; MRS. ELIZABETH SCHICK, DEER CREEK; TWO SISTERS, MRS. ELSIE LANDIS, DEER CREEK; MRS. BERTHA PETERS, PEORIA, A BROTHER, JOHN, MONTICELLO, IND.; 30 GRANDCHILDREN AND EIGHT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH.

SERVED 1932 TO 1958

RETIRED MINISTER, 88, DIED

PHILEMON AESCHLIMAN, 88, RETIRED MINISTER AND ELDER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT CISSNA PARK, DIED TODAY AT 12:20 A. M. AT IROQUOIS HOSPITAL IN WATSEKA.

A RETIRED FARMER, HE WAS BORN MARCH 16, 1880 AT SECOR, SON OF PHILLIP AND ANNA WENGER AESCHLIMAN, AND WAS MARRIED OCTOBER 13, 1903 IN HARPER, KAN., TO LEAH RAMSEYER, WHO SURVIVES.

MR. AESCHLIMAN WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS, FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS.

SERVICES WILL BE HELD MONDAY AT 10 A. M. AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF CISSNA PARK OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER. BURIAL WILL BE IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY.

VISITATION WILL BE AFTER 6:30 P. M. SATURDAY AT THE KNAPP FUNERAL HOME IN CISSNA PARK

SERVED 1932 TO 1946

GUST MEISS, 81, DIES WEDNESDAY; FUNERAL SATURDAY

GUST MEISS, 81, DIED WEDNESDAY AT 12:45 P. M. AT THE IROQUOIS HOSPITAL, WHERE HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT FOR ONE DAY, HAVING BEEN TAKEN THERE LATE TUESDAY BY KNAPP AMBULANCE.

BORN AUGUST 13, 1885, AT GRIDLEY, HE WAS THE SON OF JOHN AND CAROLINE BUCHER MEISS. HE WAS MARRIED TO BERTHA GRUSY AT GRIDLEY ON MARCH 7, 1915, AND SHE SURVIVES. HE WAS A RETIRED FARMER, HAVING LIVED IN HOOPESTON FOR 17 YEARS PRIOR TO MOVING TO CISSNA PARK FOUR MONTHS AGO.

SURVIVING BESIDES THE WIDOW ARE FIVE DAUGHTER, MRS. DOROTHY NORR, OF GRABILL, IND., MRS. MARGUERITE KIPFER, OF BLUFFTON, IND., MRS. IRENE RINKENBERGER, OF CISSNA PARK, MRS. EDNA ZELTWINGER, OF HANCOCK, MINN., AND MRS. VERENA KNAPP, OF HOOPESTON; TWO SONS, HAROLD, OF HANCOCK, MINN., AND ROY, OF URBANA; ONE BROTHER, EZRA, OF LACROSSE, IND.; 27 GRANDCHILDREN AND THREE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY FIVE BROTHERS, FOUR SISTERS AND ONE SON.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CISSNA PARK APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH WHERE SERVICES WILL BE HELD SATURDAY AT 10:00 A. M., THE REV. HENRY BEER OF MILFORD, IND., OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY.

SERVED 1932 UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1942

REV. J. LAUBSCHER IS STROKE VICTIM; FUNERAL SATURDAY

REV. JOHN LAUBSCHER, PASTOR OF THE LOCAL APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, DIED ON WEDNESDAY MORNING OF THIS WEEK AT FOUR-THIRTY O’CLOCK. HE HAD SUFFERED A STROKE ON MONDAY MORNING, TWO DAYS PREVIOUS, LOST CONSCIOUSNESS A FEW HOURS LATER AND REMAINED IN A COMA FROM THEN ON UNTIL HIS DEATH. HE HAD BEEN SUFFERING WITH HEART TROUBLE FOR SEVERAL YEARS. THE STROKE WHICH TOOK HIS LIFE, CAME TO HIM AT HIS FARM SOUTH OF TOWN WHERE HIS SON, BEN, LIVES AND WHERE HE HAD GONE MONDAY MORNING TO ASSIST WITH THE FALL FARM WORK. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOME THERE AFTER THE STROKE AND DIED THERE.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY MORNING OF THIS WEEK, LEAVING THE HOME HERE IN TOWN AT 9:30 O’CLOCK AND LATER AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

REV. LAUBSCHER HAD SERVED THE LOCAL CHURCH AS PASTOR FOR OVER TEN YEARS. SEVERAL YEARS AGO, MEMBERS OF HIS CONGREGATION NAMED HIM THEIR CHURCH ELDER, A POSITION HE HELD AT THE TIME OF HIS PASSING. RESPECT FOR HIM WAS NOT LIMITED TO MEMBERS OF HIS CHURCH, FOR PEOPLE OF ALL DENOMINATIONS HELD HIM IN HIGH ESTEEM AND COUNSELED WITH HIM ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS. HE WILL BE MISSED BY ALL.

BORN IN SWITZERLAND, NEAR BASEL, DECEMBER 9, 1871, THE DECEASED EMIGRATED TO AMERICA WHEN HE WAS 20 YEARS OF AGE. HE FIRST LIVED IN THE EUREKA LOCALITY AND LATER, ON FARMS NEAR CONGERVILLE. IN FEBRUARY OF 1897, AT CONGERVILLE, HE WAS MARRIED TO ELIZABETH HODEL AND THEIR FIRST HOME WAS ESTABLISHED THERE.

IN JANUARY OF 1899, THE FAMILY MOVED TO THIS LOCALITY, LIVING FIRST ON WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS THE RINKENBERGER FARM, SOUTH OF PETE HODEL’S. AFTER A FEW YEARS THERE, THEY MOVED TO THE FARM SOUTH OF TOWN ACROSS THE ROAD FROM SPRINGDALE SCHOOL, WHICH THEY PURCHASED AND WHICH HAS SINCE BECOME KNOWN AS THE LAUBSCHER HOME FARM.

MRS. LAUBSCHER DIED IN 1925, BUT THE REVEREND, ASSISTED BY HIS CHILDREN, CARRIED ON, ON THE FARM. ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO, HE BUILT A FINE HOME HERE IN TOWN AND RETIRED FROM ACTIVE FARMING.

TWO CHILDREN PRECEDED REV. LAUBSCHER IN DEATH AS DID HIS WIFE. THE CHILDREN WHO PASSED AWAY WERE: MRS. CATHERINE HOERR, WHO DIED IN 1932, AND ERNEST, WHO DIED ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO.

SURVIVING IS TWO SONS, ARTHUR AND BENJAMIN, THREE DAUGHTERS, EMMA, IDA MAE AND OLGA. FOUR GRANDCHILDREN, THREE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER: JACOB, DANIEL, ERNEST AND MARIA LAUBSCHER, ALL OF SWITZERLAND.

SERVED FROM 1943 TO 1981

EZRA FELLER

VISITATION FOR EZRA J. FELLER, 96, OF FAIRBURY, FORMERLY OF CISSNA PARK, WILL BE FROM

2 - 8 P. M. TODAY AT THE KNAPP FUNERAL HOME, CISSNA PARK.

SERVICES WILL BE AT 10 A. M. THURSDAY AT APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, CISSNA PARK, WHERE HE WAS A RETIRED MINISTER AND ELDER. MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH WILL OFFICIATE.

BURIAL WILL BE IN THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY, CISSNA PARK.

MR. FELLER DIED MONDAY, NOV. 8, 1999, AT FAIRVIEW HAVEN NURSING HOME, FAIRBURY.

HE WAS BORN MAY 22, 1903 IN CISSNA PARK, THE SON OF LUCIEN AND LYDIA MANGOLD FELLER.

HIS FIRST WIFE, THE FORMER OLIVE E. BUCHER, WHOM HE MARRIED MARCH 8, 1925 IN LACROSSE, IND., DIED JULY 22, 1984. HE MARRIED EDNA HOFFMANN IN CISSNA PARK ON APRIL 16, 1986 AND SHE SURVIVES.

ALSO SURVIVING ARE HIS CHILDREN, LORETTA BAUER, OF CISSNA PARK, ELNA GRIMM, OF GOODFIELD, GERALDINE NUEKOMM, OF MORTON, DONA GRIMM, OF QUINCY, JOAN WALDBESER, OF CISSNA PARK, LYNN AND MARY ANN FELLER, OF VALPARAISO, IND., DONALD FELLER, OF MORTON, TODD FELLER, OF KOUTS, IND., DALE FELLER, OF CISSNA PARK; A BROTHER BEN FELLER, OF FOLSOM, PA.; A SISTER, MARGARET KUPFERSCHMID, OF CISSNA PARK; 40 GRANDCHILDREN; 116 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN; AND 13 GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

SIX BROTHERS, TWO SISTERS AND ONE SON-IN-LAW, BOB GRIMM ARE DECEASED.

SERVED 1943 TO 1953

BEN WALDER, 80, EXPIRES SUNDAY; FUNERAL WEDNESDAY

BENJAMIN HARRISON WALDER, 80, OF EAST LYNN, PASSED AWAY AT 6:30., FEB. 16, AT IROQUOIS HOSPITAL IN WATSEKA, WHERE HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT FOR TWO WEEKS.

BORN FEB. 2, 1889 AT CISSNA PARK, HE WAS A SON OF HENRY AND BERTHA VOGEL WALDER. HE LIVED IN THE CISSNA PARK AREA UNTIL 1957 WHEN HE MOVED TO EAST LYNN. HE WAS A FARMER AND MARRIED MAY 22, 1921 TO KATHERINE REUTTER IN CISSNA PARK.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, KATHERINE: ONE DAUGHTER, MISS HARRIET WALDER, OF EAST LYNN, AND ONE SISTER, MRS. TILLIE WITTMER, OF EUREKA. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS, FOUR BROTHERS, AND THREE SISTERS.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED AT 10 A. M., FEBRUARY 19 AT THE CISSNA PARK APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER. RUSSELL RAPP , OF MORTON OFFICIATED WITH BURIAL IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY. KNAPP FUNERAL HOME WAS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS.

SERVED FROM 1946 TO 1980

SERVED 1954 UNTIL 1969

ELDER STEPHEN RINKENBERGER 1945 - 1989

SERVED 1971 UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1989

SERVICES FRIDAY FOR S. C. RINKENBERGER, 43, RURAL RANKIN

THE FUNERAL OF STEPHEN C. RINKENBERGER, 43, OF RURAL RANKIN, WHO DIED AT 7:53 A. M. TUESDAY, JAN. 3, 1989, AT METHODIST HOSPITAL, INDIANAPOLIS WILL BE AT 10 A. M. FRIDAY AT APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, CISSNA PARK, WITH CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN CHURCH CEMETERY.

VISITATION WILL BE AFTER 2 P. M. THURSDAY AT THE KNAPP FUNERAL HOME, CISSNA PARK.

HE WAS BORN JULY 2, 1945, IN WATSEKA, A SON OF WILLIAM AND MARJORIE BAUER RINKENBERGER. HE MARRIED VELMA STEINER ON JULY 30, 1967, IN TREMONT. SHE SURVIVES.

ALSO SURVIVING ARE A SON, DOUGLAS A., AT HOME; THREE DAUGHTERS, ANNA R., KAREN S. AND DENISE M. RINKENBERGER, ALL AT HOME; HIS PARENTS, RANKIN; TWO BROTHERS KENNETH, NAPERVILLE, AND ROBERT, RANKIN; AND THREE SISTERS. ANN STEINER, TREMONT; KATHY SUTTER, FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. AND KAROL STOCK, CISSNA PARK.

HE WAS A FARMER AND A MEMBER OF APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, CISSNA PARK.

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