NEWSLETTER

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SERVING THE GREATER LIVINGSTON COUNTY AREA

NUMBER 12 - DECEMBER 2001

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FAIRBURY BLADE

JUNE 25, 1909

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.

FAIRBURY BLADE

JULY 2, 1909

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.

HIS FIRST WIFE KATIE (HIRSTEIN) ROTH

FAIRBURY BLADE

AUG. 17, 1900

MRS. DANIEL ROTH

MRS. DANIEL ROTH DIED AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY SUNDAY MORNING. SHE HAD BEEN AN INVALID FOR SEVERAL YEARS. THE DECEASED WAS AGED ABOUT 40 YEARS. SHE WITH HER HUSBAND HAS LIVED IN THIS CITY FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND WAS A MOST ESTIMABLE LADY. PREVIOUS TO HER RESIDENCE HERE SHE LIVED IN MORTON AND LARGE NUMBERS OF HER OLD FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS FROM THAT PLACE CAME TO ATTEND THE FUNERAL. THE SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN THIS CITY TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND WERE ATTENDED BY A LARGE CONCOURSE OF PEOPLE. THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

FAIRBURY BLADE

AUG. 16, 1929

MRS. CLARA ROTH

MRS. CLARA ROTH, WHO FOR MANY YEARS WAS A RESIDENT OF THIS CITY, BUT WHO FOR FIVE YEARS PAST HAD RESIDED IN CHICAGO, PASSED AWAY AT THE AUGUSTANA HOSPITAL IN CHICAGO LAST FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT 1:30 O’CLOCK FOLLOWING AN ILLNESS OF 11 DAYS. SHE WAS AGED 48 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AND 5 DAYS.

CLARA HERZOG WAS BORN IN UTWEILEN, SWITZERLAND, DECEMBER 6, 1880, BEING THE ELDEST DAUGHTER OF CARL AND ELIZABETH HERZOG. WHEN 16 YEARS OF AGE SHE CAME TO AMERICA, JOINING THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY WHO HAD COME HERE FOUR YEARS BEFORE.

ON FEBRUARY 11, 1902, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO DANIEL ROTH, WHO PRECEDED HER IN DEATH 20 YEARS AGO. SURVIVING MRS. ROTH ARE TWO DAUGHTERS AND TWO SONS - MRS. CLARA LEDERMANN, MISS KATHRYN ROTH AND EDWIN AND DANIEL, ALL OF CHICAGO; HER MOTHER, MRS. ELIZABETH HERZOG, OF THIS CITY; TWO SISTERS AND A BROTHER, MRS. ROY FRYE, LIVING SOUTH OF FAIRBURY; EMMA HERZOG, OF CHICAGO, AND CARL HERZOG, OF HIS CITY.

DURING THE YEARS THAT MRS. ROTH MADE THIS CITY HER HOME SHE MADE AND HELD THE FRIENDSHIP OF ALL THOSE WITH WHOM SHE CAME IN CONTACT. A KIND AND GENTLE MOTHER, SHE WILL BE SADLY MISSED IN THE HOME WHERE HER MINISTRATIONS WERE EVER IN EVIDENCE.

THE REMAINS WERE BROUGHT TO THE HOME OF MR. AND MRS. ROY FRYE WHERE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD ON MONDAY MORNING AT 10 O’CLOCK, REV. SAM SCHUMAKER, OF EUREKA, AND THE REV. HEINIGER, OF MORTON, OFFICIATING. THE PALLBEARERS WERE DAVID, PAUL, JONATHAN AND CONRAD MUNZ, JR., AND SAM AND DANIEL ROTH. INTERMENT WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

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LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT DANIEL AND HIS SERVES AS MINISTER AT THE SOUTH SIDE CHURCH OR ABOUT HIS SERVES AS ELDER FOR THE SOUTH CHURCH AND FAIRBURY CHURCH. HE WAS APPOINTED ELDER BY AN AGED ELDER CHRISTIAN GERBER AND A SHORT TIME LATER WAS REPLACED BY MARTIN STEIDINGER.