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AN ALPHABETICAL PART TWO OF A TWO PART SERIES

PHILIP G. SAUDER

PHILIP G. SAUDER, 92, OF CISSNA PARK DIED AT 5:05 P. M. SUNDAY, FEB. 6, 2000, AT PARKVIEW HAVEN NURSING HOME, FRANCESVILLE, IND.

HIS FUNERAL WILL BE AT 10 A. M. WEDNESDAY AT APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, CISSNA PARK, MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY, CISSNA PARK. VISITATION WILL BE FROM 4 TO 8 P. M. TODAY AT KNAPP FUNERAL HOME, CISSNA PARK, AND FOR ONE HOUR BEFORE THE SERVICE WEDNESWDAY AT THE CHURCH.

MR. SAUDER WAS BORN DEC. 7, 1907, IN TREMONT, THE SON OF JOSEPH AND ELISE GETZ SAUDER. HE MARRIED ANNA H. HODEL ON FEB. 10, 1935, IN CISSNAPARK. SHE DIED SEPT. 12, 1997.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, CURT SAUDER, CISSNA PARK; TWO DAUGHTERS, SHARON EISENMANN, CISSNA PARK, AND PHYLLIS ANDERSON, ST. CHARLES; ONE BROTHER, WILLIS SAUDER, TREMONT; ONE SISTER, IRENE BERTSCHI, SUN CITY WEST, ARIZ.; SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN; AND 13 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

HIS PARENTS, SIX BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

HE WAS A MEMBER AND FORMER MINISTER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, CISSNA PARK. HE WAS A RETIRED FARMER AND DAIRYMAN.

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.

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.

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.

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.

FREDERICK WITTERICH DIES AT AGE OF 79

FREDERICK WITTERICH OF 706 N. MONROE STREET, DIED AT HIS HOME ON SUNDAY MORNING, 8 O’CLOCK, AT THE AGE OF 79 YEARS. MR. WITTERICH WAS BORN IN GERMANY ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1850. HE HAD LIVED IN PEORIA FOR 16 YEARS, BUT CAME TO AMERICA 50 YEARS AGO.

MR. WITTERICH WAS A RETIRED FARMER. HE LEAVES HIS WIFE MRS. FREDERICKA WITTERICH, 5 DAUGHTERS AND 2 SONS.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD FROM THE RESIDENCE ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT 1 O’CLOCK AND AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, ON GREEN STREET, OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER AT 1:30. BURIAL WILL BE IN THE MORTON CEMETERY.

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BORN SEPTEMBER 5, 1850, WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY.

FIRST MARRIAGE KATHERINE ZIMMERMAN, 1873, GERMANY.

CHILDREN: KAROLINE, ANNA, AUGUST, SALOME, WILLIAM, KATHRYN, AMY.

SECOND MARRIAGE REKA MESSER.

DIED MAY 11, 1930, PEORIA, BURIED MORTON CHURCH CEMETERY.

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.

HEINRICH "HENRY" ZIEGENHORN 1823 - 1906

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.

A REVISED VERSION OF BEN NUSSBAUM’S 1973 BOOK ABOUT THE "SOUTH SIDE" CHURCH,

IS NOW AVAILABLE TO BUY.

THIS NEW BOOK TAKES THE OLD TIME STORIES OF BEN NUSSBAUM’S ORIGINAL BOOK, WITH NEWLY FOUND INFORMATION I’VE COME ACROSS WHILE DOING MY RESEARCH ON THE OLD CHURCH AND IT’S CONGREGATIONS MEMBERS.

I WILL BE SELLING THE BOOK FOR $20. AN ISSUE, WHICH MAINLY COVERS PAPER, PRINT AND MAILING FEES.

TO CELEBRATE THIS NEW BOOK THE NEXT NEWSLETTER WILL COVER ROW ONE OF THE SOUTH SIDE CHURCH CEMETERY. IT WILL BE A STONE BY STONE REVIEW OF THE PERSON FROM THE SOUTH SIDE CHURCH’S EARLY DAY.