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FAIRBURY BLADE

MAY 10, 1946

PETER BACH, FORREST, DIES SUDDENLY

PETER BACH, A WELL KNOWN RESIDENT OF FORREST, PASSED AWAY THERE LAST SATURDAY MORNING SHORTLY AFTER 11 O’CLOCK. MR. BACH HAD FOR MANY YEARS RESIDED NORTH OF FORREST, MOVING TO THAT VILLAGE A FEW WEEKS AGO. LAST SATURDAY MORNING HE WAS TO HAVE MET A PARTY AT THE BACH LUMBER OFFICE IN FORREST. WHEN HE DID NOT PUT IN AN APPEARANCE A TELEPHONE CALL WAS MADE TO HIS HOME. WHEN MRS. BACH WENT TO LOOK FOR HIM HE WAS FOUND AT THE GRADE DOOR LANDING HAVING EVIDENTLY PASSED AWAY WITH A HEART ATTACK. HE WAS AGED 72 YEARS, FOUR MONTHS AND 24 DAYS.

MR. BACH WAS A WELL KNOWN MINISTER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

MR. BACH WAS BORN IN ALSACE LORRAINE, DECEMBER 10, 1873. WHEN SEVEN YEARS OF AGE HE CAME WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY TO AMERICA, LANDING AT NEW YORK, DECEMBER 6, 1880. THEY LOCATED AT WISNER, NEB., WHERE THEY RESIDED UNTIL 1892, WHEN THE FAMILY MOVED TO THIS VICINITY. SINCE 1896 MR. BACH HAD RESIDED ON THE HOME PLACE NEAR FORREST, UNTIL HE MOVED INTO FORREST IN MARCH.

ON APRIL 20, 1902, AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THIS CITY, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS LENA SCHARLACH, AND THEY TOOK UP THEIR HOME ON A FARM NORTHEAST OF THIS CITY.

SHE SURVIVES, TOGETHER WITH THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: GEORGE EDWARD BACH, MRS. WILLIAM HONEGGER, MRS. PAUL SCHROF, ALL OF FORREST; MRS. JOHN JOOS, OF PRINCEVILLE; MRS. DAN SCHLATTER, OF CHATSWORTH; CARL BACH, PHOENIX, ARIZ., AND REUBEN BACH, OF FAIRBURY. SURVIVING ALSO ARE TWO BROTHERS, J. N. BACH, OF FAIRBURY, AND EMIL BACH, OF NORFOLK, NEB., AND FOURTEEN GRANDCHILDREN.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE NORTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH ON TUESDAY MORNING AT 10:30 O’CLOCK AND INTERMENT WAS IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY. THE SERVICES WERE LARGELY ATTENDED. HE HAD BEEN THE PRESIDING MINISTER OF THAT CHURCH FOR MANY YEARS.

AMONG THE RELATIVES ATTENDING THE SERVICES FROM A DISTANCE WERE MR. AND MRS. EMIL BACH, OF NORFOLK, NEB., AND CHRIS SCHARLACH AND DAUGHTER, GENEVA, OF ALGONA, IOWA.

2. EDWARD HONEGGER

FAIRBURY BLADE

MAY 1, 1925

EDWARD HONEGGER

EDWARD HONEGGER, WHO FOR MANY YEARS RESIDED IN THIS VICINITY, DIED AT HIS HOME EIGHT MILES SOUTHEAST OF THIS CITY, SUNDAY MORNING AT 11 O'CLOCK HIS DEATH BEING DUE TO A COMPLICATION OF DISEASES WITH WHICH HE HAD BEEN AFFLICTED FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. HE WAS AGED 63 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AND 25 DAYS.

EDWARD HONEGGER WAS BORN IN SWITZERLAND, DECEMBER 31 1861, AND WHEN FIVE YEARS OF AGE CAME WITH HIS PARENTS TO THIS COUNTRY. HE GREW TO YOUNG MANHOOD IN PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP, AND ON FEBRUARY 11 1887, WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO BERTHA HAAB, AND THEY IMMEDIATELY WENT TO HOUSEKEEPING SOUTHEAST OF THIS CITY, WHERE THEY HAVE SINCE RESIDED. SURVIVING MR. HONEGGER ARE HIS WIFE AND TWELVE CHILDREN.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE SOUTH CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH WEDNESDAY.

3. ELDER JACOB HONEGGER

FAIRBURY BLADE

NOV. 26, 1920

JACOB HONNEGER

JACOB HONNEGER, BETTER KNOWN TO MANY OF THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC PEOPLE OF THIS COMMUNITY AS "FATHER" HONNEGER, PASSED AWAY MONDAY EVENING AT HIS HOME NORTH OF FORREST, AT THE AGE OF 88 YEARS. HE HAD FOR MANY YEARS PREACHED AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH NORTH OF FORREST.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD YESTERDAY AND WERE LARGELY ATTENDED.

OTHER INFOMATION NOT COVERED IN OBITUARY

BORN MARCH 8, 1932, IN SWITZERLAND.

MARRIED MAGDALENA MEYER IN HIS NATIVE COUNTRY.

CHILDREN JACOB, EDWARD, HERMAN, JULIUS, EMIL AND BARBARA

CAME TO AMERICA IN 1866, FIRST ARRVING IN MORTON THEN MOVED TO PLEASANT RIDGE TWP.

DIED NOVEMBER 22, 1920, BEING BURIED IN THE NORTH SIDE CHURCH CEMETERY

4. JOSEPH KAISNER

FAIRBURY BLADE

JAN. 19, 1984

FUNERAL RITES HELD WEDNESDAY FOR JOSEPH KAISNER, 84, AT FORREST

JOSEPH KAISNER, 84, OF FORREST DIED AT 4:15 P.M. SUNDAY, JAN. 15, 1984, AT HIS HOME.

HE WAS THE FATHER OF MERLE KAISNER OF FAIRBURY.

THE FUNERAL WAS HELD AT 10 A.M. WEDNESDAY AT THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH WITH MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN GRACLAND CEMETERY.

CULKIN-DIGGLE FUNERAL HOME WAS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS.

MR. KAISNER WAS BORN MARCH 13, 1899, AT FAIRBURY, A SON OF JOHN AND KATHERINA (SCHNEIDER) KAISNER. HE MARRIED IDA SUTTER FEB. 8, 1922, AT PONTIAC. SHE SURVIVES.

HE WAS A LIFETIME FARMER IN THE FORREST AREA AND RETIRED IN 1972.

MR. KAISNER WAS A MEMBER OF THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND WAS A RETIRED MINISTER OF THE CHURCH.

IN ADDITION TO THE SON IN FAIRBURY SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE: DAUGHTERS, HELEN FOLLMER OF NEWBURY PARK, CALIF., ALMA JEAN SCHMIDGALL, JANET FARNEY AND LOUIDA STEFFEN, ALL OF FORREST; SONS: HARTZELL OF NORTHVILLE, MICH., LEON OF EAST PEORIA AND LARRY OF FORREST; 33 GRANDCHILDREN AND 16 GREAT-CHILDREN.

HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE SON, SEVEN BROTHERS, ONE SISTER, TWO GRANDCHILDREN AND ONE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

5. NICHOLAS KELLER

FAIRBURY BLADE

AUG. 16, 1890

DIED.

NICHOLAS KELLER, WHOSE SERIOUS ILLNESS WAS MENTIONED IN THESE COLUMNS LAST WEEK, DIED SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT TUESDAY. THE ATTENDING PHYSICIANS GAVE THE FRIENDS BUT LITTLE HOPE OF RECOVERY FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE FATAL ATTACK, AND HE GRADUALLY GREW WEAKER, UNTIL HE SANK TO THE SLEEP THAT KNOWS NO WAKING, SURROUNDED BY HIS SORROWING FAMILY.

MR. KELLER WAS A MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, AND ONE OF ITS MINISTERS AND HIS NAME IS FAMILIAR TO EVERY MEMBER OF THAT DENOMINATION IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. HE HAD A WIDE PERSONAL ACQUAINTANCE IN THIS VICINITY. HIS STERLING CHARACTER AND STRICT BUSINESS INTEGRITY ENDEARED HIM TO ALL WHO KNEW HIM. HIS DEATH IS DEEPLY DEPLORED.

THE FUNERAL WHICH TOOK PLACE FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AT 1 O'CLOCK, WAS VERY LARGELY ATTENDED, MANY FRIENDS OF THE DECEASED COMING FROM A DISTANCE TO PAY THEIR LAST TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF A GOOD MAN. THE CLERKS AT WALTON BROS.’ STORE, WHERE MR. KELLER HAD HELD A POSITIONS FOR SOME TIME, ATTENDED THE FUNERAL IN A BODY, AS A MARK OF RESPECT TO THEIR LATE FELLOW CLERK.

NICHOLAS KELLER WAS BORN IN CANTON ST. GALL, SWITZERLAND, NOV. 20 1831, AND WAS, THEREFORE, 59 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AND 28 DAYS OF AGE AT HIS DEATH. AT THE AGE OF 19 HE GRADUATED FROM A SEMINARY, AND ENTERED UPON THE PROFESSION OF A SCHOOL TEACHER, WHICH HE FOLLOWED FOUR YEARS. HE EMIGRATED TO AMERICA IN 1856, MAKING THE TRIP ON A SAIL BOAT IN 37 DAYS, AND LOCATED IN WEST VIRGINIA, WHERE HE WORKED AS A FARM HAND WITH SLAVES. IN 1857 HE REMOVED TO MONROE COUNTY, OHIO, AND WAS MARRIED TO MARIA SEGGESSEMANN, THE WIFE WHO SURVIVES HIM. TO THEM WERE BORN A SON AND A DAUGHTER BOTH OF WHOM, NOW MARRIED, ALSO SURVIVE HIM. IN 1863, MR. KELLER MOVED TO ILLINOIS AND LOCATED IN WOODFORD COUNTY, ENGAGING IN FARMING, REMOVING THENCE IN 1869, TO LIVINGSTON COUNTY, SETTLING WITHIN A MILE OF WHERE THE VILLAGE OF WING NOW IS. AFTER A SEVERE ILLNESS IN 1874 HE CAME TO FAIRBURY AND ENGAGED IN THE SASH AND BLIND MANUFACTURING BUSINESS WITH J. VON TOBEL AND J. KELLER UNDER THE FIRM NAME OF THE GERMANIA MANUFACTURING CO., WHICH BUSINESS HE FOLLOWED FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS. SINCE THEN HE HAD BEEN ENGAGED DIFFERENT LINES OF MERCANTILE BUSINESS,-- BOOTS & SHOES, GROCERIES, ETC. IN 1876, MR. KELLER IN COMPANY WITH HIS TWIN BROTHER VISITED HIS OLD HOUSE IN SWITZERLAND. THE TWO BORE SUCH A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE TO EACH OTHER THAT THE ONE WAS FREQUENTLY TAKEN FOR THE OTHER. AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH MR. KELLER WAS CONTEMPLATING TAKING UP HIS PERMANENT RESIDENCE ON HIS FARM, AS HE WAS TIRING OF BUSINESS LIFE. OWNING TO HIS LIBERALITY AND GREAT CONFIDENCE IN HIS FELLOW MEN, HIS BUSINESS VENTURES PROVED UNSUCCESSFUL, AND TO RETRIEVE A PORTION OF HIS LOSSES HE ENGAGED IN CLERKING, BEING PHYSICALLY UNFIT FOR THE LABOR OF FARM LIFE. HE JOINED THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN 1840 AND WAS A CONSISTENT MEMBER OF THE SAME TO THE HOUR OF HIS DEATH.

6. ELDER JOHN HENRY KILGUS

FAIRBURY BLADE

FEB. 4, 1987

J. HENRY KILGUS, 94, DIES AT FAIRVIEW HAVEN NURSING HOME.

J. HENRY KILGUS, 94, DIED AT 5 A.M., JAN. 30 1987 AT FAIRVIEW HAVEN, FAIRBURY, WHERE HE RESIDED.

HIS FUNERAL WAS AT 10 A.M. MONDAY AT THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, FORREST, CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATING.

BURIAL WAS IN THE NORTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY, RURAL FORREST.

CULKIN-DIGGLE FUNERAL HOME, FORREST, WAS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS.

HE WAS BORN AUGUST 30 1892, IN FAIRBURY, A SON OF JOHN AND JOHANNA STREIB KILGUS. HE MARRIED LYDIA BAHLER JAN. 11 1920, IN REMINGTON IND. SHE DIED APRIL 13 1986.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE TWO SONS, JOHN, FORREST, AND EARL, REMINGTON IND.; ONE DAUGHTER, ALICE MYER, BLOOMINGTON; ONE FOSTER SON, WILLIAM FARRELL, DALLAS TEXAS; FIVE GRANDCHILDREN; AND 11 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE SON, FIVE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS.

HE WAS A MEMBER AND FORMER ELDER OF THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

HE HAD FARMED IN THE FORREST AREA UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT.

7. ELDER RUDOLF LEUTHOLD

NO OBITUARY

OTHER INFORMATION

BORN AUG. 1813 IN ZURICH, SWITZERLAND.

MARRIED ELIZABETH

KNOWN CHILDREN JACOB, HENRY, RUDOLPH AND ELIZA.

CAME TO AMERICA IN 1868

DIED MARCH 27, 1892, BURIED IN THE NORTH SIDE CHURCH CEMETERY

8. JOHN MAURER SR.

FAIRBURY BLADE

APRIL 9, 1953

JOHN MAURER, 91, DIES, FUNERAL SUNDAY

JOHN MAURER , RESIDENT OF FAIRBURY AND VICINITY SINCE HE WAS A BOY, PASSED AWAY AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL LAST THURSDAY AFTERNOON AT 12:45 O'CLOCK. MR. MAURER, WHO HAD BEEN ILL FOR SEVEN WEEKS, WAS AGED 91 YEARS, ONE MONTH AND 25 DAYS. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT ONE O'CLOCK FROM THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND INTERMENT WAS IN EAST GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MR. MAURER WAS A NATIVE OF THE VICINITY OF MORTON, BEING BORN NEAR THAT CITY FEBRUARY 7 1862, A SON OF JOHN AND MAGDELINA (PETER) MAURER. WHEN JUST A BOY SEVEN YEARS OLD HE CAME WITH HIS PARENTS TO THIS COMMUNITY AND HAD RESIDED IN FAIRBURY AND VICINITY SINCE THAT TIME.

MR. MAURER WAS TWICE MARRIED. HIS FIRST MARRIAGE WAS TO MARY HAAS, WHO PASSED AWAY ON JULY 30 1917. THREE YEARS LATER HE WAS MARRIED BARBARA JACKLE.

SURVIVORS ARE HIS WIFE: THREE SONS, HENRY OF FAIRBURY; MARTIN AND ALPHIA, OF FORREST; A DAUGHTER, MRS. ALEX STOLLER, OF FAIRBURY; 29 GRANDCHILDREN AND 19 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

9. JOHANNES "JOHN" MOSER

NO OBITUARY

OTHER INFORMATION

BORN APRIL 11, 1820 IN ZOLLRHOFEN, SWITZERLAND.

MARRIED ELIZABETH

KNOWN CHILDREN NICKLAUS, CHRISTIAN, GODFRED AND ANNA

HIS SON NICKLAUS CAME TO AMERICA IN 1867, JOHN FOLLOWED IN 1880. LATER THE FAMILY MOVED TO BERN, KANSAS.

DIED APR. 1899, BEING BURIED IN THE BERN CHURCH CENETERY.

10. JACOB NUSSBAUM

FAIRBURY BLADE

NOV. 11, 1932

JACOB NUSSBAUM

JACOB NUSSBAUM, RESIDING IN PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP, EIGHT AND A HALF MILES NORTHEAST OF FAIRBURY, PASSED AWAY LAST FRIDAY MORNING AT 9:30 O'CLOCK AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL. MR. NUSSBAUM, WHO HAD BEEN ILL WITH HERNIA, WAS AGED 85 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AND 12 DAYS.

JACOB, SON OF ANNA AND NICHOLAS NUSSBAUM, WAS BORN AT BEATZVILLE, CANTON SLOTHURN, SWITZERLAND, MARCH 29 1847. WHEN A BOY OF NINE YEARS HE CAME WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY TO AMERICA, LOCATING NEAR PALMYRA MO. FROM THERE HE MOVED TO PEORIA, THEN TO METAMORA AND FINALLY LOCATING NEAR FAIRBURY.

ON FEBRUARY 20 1881, IN WOODFORD COUNTY, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MARY HARTMAN. FOR THREE YEARS FOLLOWING THEIR MARRIAGE THEY RESIDED SOUTHEAST OF FAIRBURY, AND THEN REMOVED TO PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP.

OF THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY THE BEREAVED WIFE AND THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN SURVIVE: EDWARD, OF WOLCOTT IND.; MRS. FRED RIEGER AND IRA NUSSBAUM, OF FORREST, AND SILAS AND MARY AT HOME. THERE ALSO SURVIVE TWO BROTHERS, JOHN, OF FAIRBURY, AND NICHOLAS, OF REMINGTON IND., AND TWENTY GRANDCHILDREN. ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. BEN STOLLER, PASSED AWAY AUGUST 4TH 1931.

MR. NUSSBAUM WAS A GOOD NEIGHBOR AND FRIEND, AND IN THE HOME WAS A KIND AND LOVING FATHER. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE NORTHSIDE CHURCH AND INTERMENT WAS IN NORTHSIDE CEMETERY.

11. ALEXANDER STOLLER

FAIRBURY BLADE

MAY 25, 1967

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.

12. GILGIAN STOLLER

FAIRBURY BLADE

JULY 26, 1919

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.

13. JOSEPH VERKLER

FAIRBURY BLADE

SEPT. 25, 1885

MR. VERKLER, LIVING NORTH OF FORREST, DIED TUES. EVENING. HIS AGED COMPANION PRECEDED HIM SEVERAL WEEKS AGO. FUNERAL TODAY AT 2 P.M.

FAIRBURY BLADE

OCT. 2 1885

OBITUARY

JOSEPH VERKLER, AFTER A LINGERING ILLNESS OF MANY WEEKS, QUIETLY AND PEACEFULLY PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME NEAR FORREST, ON THE MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 23 1885, AGED 78.

HE CAME TO PLEASANT RIDGE NINETEEN YEARS AGO, AND EVER SINCE LIVED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE HE DIED. ON DECEMBER 27 1832, HE WAS MARRIED, AND LIVED HAPPILY WITH HIS WIFE UNTIL HER DEATH, SOME TWO WEEKS AGO. NINE CHILDREN, WE BELIEVE, WERE THE FRUIT OF THIS UNION, OF WHOM EIGHT SURVIVE THEIR PARENTS. HIS REMAINS WERE INTERRED IN THE FAMILY CEMETERY ON THURSDAY. THE LARGE ATTENDANCE OF FRIENDS ATTENDED THE UNIVERSAL ESTEEM HE HAD WON, AND EXPRESSED THE GENERAL SYMPATHY WITH HIS BEREAVED FAMILY. HE DIED AS HE HAD LIVED, A PURE AND UPRIGHT MAN.

OTHER INFORMATION NOT COVERED IN OBITAURY

BORN 1807 NEAR SRRASBOURG, GERMANY

CAME TO AMERICA 1829

MARRIED JACOBINA ENGEL

CHILDREN BARBARA, JOSEPH, CATHERINE, CHRISTIAN, JACOBENA, MAGDALENA, PETER, JOHN, MARY, ROSINA AND SAMUEL

DIED SEPT. 23, 1885, BURIED IN THE FAMILY LOTS AT THE NORTH SIDE CHURCH CEMETERY.

14. BENJAMIN WIEGAND

FAIRBURY BLADE

DEC. 16, 1956

HOLD SERVICES AT FORREST FOR BEN WIEGAND

SERVICES WERE HELD FOR BENJAMIN WIEGAND, 71, ON SATURDAY AT 9:30 A.M. AT THE FAMILY HOME NORTHEAST OF FORREST AND FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT 10:30 A.M.

MR. WIEGAND DIED AFTER A HEART ATTACK IN A FORREST RESTAURANT AT 9 P.M. WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. 5.

HE WAS BORN IN EAST PEORIA MAY 19 1885, A SON OF HENRY AND MARY MUELLER WIEGAND. HE WAS MARRIED OCT. 11 1911 TO CAROLINE MOSER IN PEORIA. THEY HAD FARMED IN THE SAUNEMIN AREA FOR THE PAST NINE YEARS. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, SEVEN SONS, LESTER, QUINCY; JOSEPH, PONTIAC; PAUL, LAVERNE, WILBUR, DAVID AND BENJAMIN JR. ALL OF SAUNEMIN AND FOUR DAUGHTERS INCLUDING MRS. VIRGINIA HILTI, SAUNEMIN AND MRS. MELVIN STEFFEN OF GIBSON CITY, FIVE BROTHERS AND 11 GRANDCHILDREN.