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Obituaries
Daniel
Eldredge
Died
at the age of sixty-five years, at this home in Freemont, Neb., April 10,
Mr. Eldredge was a Washington
County
, N. Y. man, formerly a resident of Eola, (Illinois) a member of the first
Baptist Church, of Aurora and well known in
Plano
and Sandwich, where he has many friends, who will be pained to learn of
his death.
(from
Batavia Herald, (Kane County, Illinois) 28 April 1893) Donated by Kim
Mrs. Spangler Brugh
One
of the early settlers of Fremont, died
last evening at 6:15 at her residence on East
Military Avenue.
Mrs.
Brugh came to Fremont in 1860 with her husband
from Indiana and had resided here continuously
ever since.
She was a native of Ohio.
Fremont,
Nebraska - Nebraska State Journal - Wednesday
Morning - October 26, 1910
Mrs.
Gus Martens
Catherine
Meister was born in Braaken, near Hemmingstedt,
Holstein, Germany, February 11, 1863, and died
on
December 27 at 1:10 p.m. at her home in Sibley
(llinois). She was baptized shortly after birth
and confirmed in due
time in the Lutheran church. In 1883 she
emigrated to America and located in Scribner,
Nebraska, where she
had relatives.
February
13, 1884, she was married to Gustav Martens
of Scribner, Neb. They spent several years
in Nebraska and
later moved to Illinois and located near Anchor
and later bought a home near Sibley to which
they moved in the spring
of 1918. They continued living on this
farm until February, 1930, when they moved to
their property in Sibley.
Eleven
children were born to this union, three preceding
their mother in death. She leaves to mourn
her loss: her husband,and
six sons: Herman of Pamona, Calif; Henry
of Los Angeles, Calif.; Hugo of Pueblo, Colo;
W.H. of Emmett,
Idaho; John of Idaho; two daughters, Mrs. William
Roesch of Sibley and Mrs. John Wagner of Piper
City,
Ill; also one sister and a brother in Germany.
Fifteen grandchildren also survive.
Mrs.
Martens was always a faithful member of the
Lutheran church.
Funeral
services were held Tuesday afternoon, December
30, the services being in charge of Rev. E.
Grosz, assisted by
Rev. A Hahn. Burial was in the Sibley
cemetery (llinois)
[unknown
newspaper, 8 Jan 1931, transcribed by K. Torp]
William Sutton
Aged 87, died at Fremont Friday. He had lived there
Twenty-five years.
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