Bureau County, IL Obituaries and Death Notices
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HENRY RAABE

Contributed by Melva Taylor

The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois, Mahy 8, 1952 - Thursday, pg 3 col. 2

Henry Raabe, Retired Manlius Farmer, Dies

Manlius: - Henry Raabe, 79, a retired Manlius farmer, died this morning at Riverview nursing home in Rock Falls. Friends may call at the Howard funeral home Friday evening. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. (CST) Saturday at the Trinity Lutheran chruch, with bural in Manlius cemetery.

He was born at Granville Sept. 8, 1872, and married Miss Elizabeth Cook, Dec. 29, 1896. They farmed east of Manlius until retiring to town in 1929. Mrs. Raabe died in 1939. In recent years he was a park and cemetery caretaker. In the last year or more he had been in failing health and went to the nursing home three weeks ago.

Surviving are three sons, Clarence, Lester and Elmer, of Manlius and five grandchildren.

M. M. Reid

Taken From the Henry Republican
December 16, 1880 - Milo

Died, Dec. 6, M. M. Reid, very suddenly, without any previous warning.  Mr. Reid, retired to bed as well as usual. A very short time after his wife going to the bedroom found him dead or nearly so, he died in a minute or so.  Funeral service at the M. E. Church, the 7th, conducted by Rev. Metcalf.  A large attendance.  

Having been intimately acquainted with Mr. Reid for the last 28 years, I desire to say a few words about the life and character of my old friend and neighbor.  He was born in Maryland, August 28, 1815, if my memory serves me right, therefore a little over 65 years old. Emigrated with his parents from Maryland when but a youth to Indiana, growing up to manhood; he married and remained there until 1851, when he moved with his little family to Bureau county, Ill, having been a citizen of the same for 29 years.  

As a husband and father he was good and kind; few are his equals in love and devotion to his family.  Always providing well fro their welfare and comfort.  As a neighbor he was always kind and obliging, always ready to help the poor and needy.  As to politics he was a true republican and made a good officer, having been elected assessor and collector of the town of Milo two or three times.

In religion he was liberal, never made any profession or joined any denomination, but his latest desires seemed to be that he might not become a burden to his family and neighbors.  The mourning family ahve the sympathy of the entire communtiy and we hope their great loss will be his eternal gain.

Joseph Robertson

Taken From the Hennepin Herald and Advertisement
August 23, 1845

On Friday evening, at his residence near Indiantown, Bureau county, of consumption, Mr. Joseph Robertson, about 50 years of age.

MINNIE M. (Howlett) ROGERS

Contributed by Melva L. Taylor

The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois August 13, 1963 - Tuesday, pg 2 col 3

Tampico: - Mrs. Minnie M. Rogers, 85, died Monday (12 August 1963) in Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton. Mrs. Rogers was born April 30, 1878, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Howlett in Fairfield Township. She was reared and educated in the Tampico area. On Spet. 12, 1896, she married Charles Rogers in DeKalb. She was a 50-year member of the Royal Neighbors of America. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Mable Urban, Hooppole; three sons, Harold, Mineral, Ill., Glen, Thomas Ill., and Clark of Sterling; nine grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren, several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband who died in 1950 and 11 brothers and sisters. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in the Schmidt Chapel in Tampico with the Rev. Richard Sprague of the Church of Christ in Prophetstown officiating. Burial will be in the Yorktown Cemetery.

Mrs. Jane Ross

Taken From the Henry Republican, Henry, IL
March 26, 1868

State Items
Mrs. Jane Ross, wife of Rev. W. Ross, age 84, died at Princeton, February 4th. she was the mother of 13 children and 86 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren. Her father served in the British ranks at the time of the Revolutionary War and deserted to the Americans.

Mrs. Sarah Runnells (nee Clark)

January 8, 1880
Taken From the Henry Republican

Died At Whitefield Corners, Jan. 4, by suicide, Sarah, 62, wife of David Runnells, and sister of the late Stephen M. Clark.

January 15, 1880

Mrs. Sarah B. Runnells

Died at her residence in Wheatland, Bureau county, Ill., January 4th, 1880, in her sixty-third year. She was born in Newport, R. I. In 1817. At an early age she emigrated to Indiana, where, on February 18th, 1841, she married David Runnells, whom she has left to mourn with her children. She lived to see all her children, three sons and two daughters, grown to manhood and womanhood and all but the youngest daughter married and well settled in life. …… While in her early womanhood, she became a christian, and united with the church, and through all the long years of her earthly pilgrimage, remained faithful to the cause of Christ and she seemed to enjoy religion as much as the average of professors until within a few months ago when she became despondent, and mourned as do those who are without hope, and the passing days brought her no mental relief. Her loving husband and children with kind friends tried in vain to give her the assurance that God in his infinite love would reward her abundantly for her service in his vineyard, but she continued to be among those of whom the Lord said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven", and in the stillness of the first Sabbath of this new year, when none but God was near, she took the life he gave, by drowning herself in a cistern. …. She left the world better for her having lived it, and the record of such as life is a better legacy than could have been left in the things that are not enduring. -- C. R. Runnels.

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