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County, Nebraska. His mother was born January 6, 1864, in Austria, and died October 25, 1932, in Columbus.

Alfred N. had four brothers and seven sisters: Frank William is married to Jessie Flagg; Mary is deceased; Minnie, the wife of Gus Hadwiger, died in 1916; Emma is a teacher; Anna is the wife of George Blatchford; Madeline is the wife of Edward Ruffner; Bertha is the wife of Guy Lovell; Henry is deceased; William, a contractor, is married to Helen Koslowski; George, a mechanic, is married to Sera Britt; and Rose, a teacher, is the wife of George Healey, of Lincoln, Nebraska.

Alfred N. attended the District 10 school in Platte County.

In 1921, he came to Columbus and became engaged in the contracting business. He and his brother William are the owners of the Gerhold Road Construction Company.

On February 8, 1926, in Columbus, Alfred N. Gerhold was married to Sophie Hoessel, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hoessel. Mr. Hoessel was a land owner and was engaged in farming in Sherman Township.

Alfred N. and Sophie Hoessel Gerhold had two children: Patricia, born November 16, 1928, in Columbus,; and Kathleen, born June 9, 1935, in Columbus. Patricia attended the MacMurray College and in 1949, was enrolled at the University of Nebraska. Kathleen attends the Kramer High School.

The A. N. Gerhold family are members of the Lutheran Church in Columbus.

LEANDER GERRARD

Leander Gerrard, pioneer banker, was born August 31, 1837, at Manchester, England, while his parents, Joseph and Adeline Allen Gerrard, of the New England States, were visiting in England. Joseph Gerrard's father and grandfather had been cotton manufacturers, and Leander's parents moved to New York to engage in the same business. In 1822, Joseph Gerrard married Adeline Allen, a Quaker maid, and together, they found their way westward in 1838, and finally came to Monroe, Nebraska, in 1858 where Mr. Gerrard engaged in farming and other pursuits.

After his public school education in Rock Island, Illinois, Leander Gerrard began his business career as a clerk in the clothing store. In 1855, he was a clerk in a bank, in Des Moines, Iowa. In 1856, he came to Omaha, and entered the law office of J. M. Newton, and with the latter, he formed a land agency.

Interested in town building, Leander came to Monroe in 1857, then in Monroe County, and laid out the town with Charles A. Whaley and E. A. Gerrard. He conducted a trading post and did a trading business between Fort Kearney and Monroe, from 1860-1866. After 1866, his name is linked with Colonel M. Whitmoyer and Judge A. M. Post, in a law partnership. In 1871, Mr. Gerrard was the senior partner of Gerrard and Reed (the latter being Julius Reed), a private bank until 1875, when it was merged into the Columbus State Bank, of which Leander Gerrard became the first president. His interest in land deals, farming, and stock was maintained for many years.

In 1858, young Gerrard was one of the organizers of the Republican Party in Nebraska, and later served as a member of the first State Legislature. He was chairman of the first State Republican Convention held in Plattsmouth, Nebraska. He was a member of the State Senate from 1870 to 1871, and was the author of the Herd Law, protecting agricultural interests. Although he had been a delegate to the National Republican Convention which nominated Ulysses S. Grant for the presidency, he refused an appointment as United States District Attorney, when it was proffered by President Grant, in 1871.

On May 31, 1870, he married Caroline Elizabeth Weaver, daughter of Michael and Dorothea Heckman Weaver, who was born in Columbus, Ohio, April 5, 1852. They had four children: Clarence L., the eldest son, was vice-president of the financial institution which his father founded until his death, in 1928; Ernest A. lived in London, England; Phoebe, Mrs. James A. Barkley, died in Los Angeles, California; Grace, deceased, was married to Rosco Pound, formerly of Nebraska, an internationally known lawyer and former Dean of the Law School of Harvard University.

After Leander Gerrard's death, Mrs. Betty Gerrard continued her place of residence in Columbus, and for many years was active in civic and humanitarian efforts and was president of the Women's Club.

CLARENCE L. GERRARD

Clarence L. Gerrard, son of Leander and Elizabeth C. Weaver Gerrard, was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, February 4, 1871, during the time his father was serving in the State Legislature. His father was born in Manchester, England, August 31, 1839 and died May 11, 1928. His mother was the daughter of Michael Weaver who came to Platte County in the spring of 1857. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, April 5, 1852.

Clarence had one brother and two sisters: Ernest A., of London, England; Phoebe Gerrard Barkley; and Grace Gerrard Pound. He received his early education in the Columbus schools, graduated with the class of 1887, and then attended the University of Nebraska for a short time.

Mechanically inclined, he was fond of experimenting with various inventions, and eventually perfected a new process for bleaching flour, which, with Fred Naylor as his partner and salesman, was sold extensively to flour mills over the country, until another firm, claiming infringement upon their patent, won a suit in court to enjoin further sale of the Gerrard patent. Mr. Gerrard owned one of the early automobiles in Columbus, and was one of the first men there to become interested in and build his own radio receiving set. His hobby was outdoor sports, and following his retirement from business, he devoted much time to hunting and fishing. He was an active member of the Izaak Walton

League, and was secretary of the Columbus Chapter in 1927. He was a member of the Wayside Country Club and interested in its activities. When (he was a young man, he conducted a bicycle repair and sales shop in the old Gerrard Building, near the First State Bank Building, at Thirteenth and Platte Streets.

After his father's death, in 1913, Clarence Gerrard became the vice-president and a director of the Columbus State Bank and served in that capacity until 1928. During World War I, he was the treasurer and purchasing agent for the Platte County Red Cross. Politically, he was a Republican.

Mr. Gerrard was twice married. On November 27, 1907, he married Ellen Lynch. They had one son, Thomas Leander, born in Columbus, November 25, 1908, and died at the age of four years. Ellen Lynch Gerrard died in 1911. On October 27, 1915, Clarence Gerrard married Ellen's sister, Mary Lynch, daughter of Thomas and Johanna Foley Lynch, of Platte Center.

Clarence L. Gerrard died May 11, 1928, in Columbus. Mrs. Clarence L. Gerrard lives in the Gerrard home, in Columbus.

EDWARD ALLEN GERRARD

Edward Allen Gerrard, son of Joseph and Adeline Allen Gerrard, was born in Manchester, England, June 30, 1834, and died in Monroe, Nebraska, in July, 1925. His father, a native of England, and a naturalized American citizen, married Adeline All of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1825; Mrs. Gerrard's family traced their ancestry back to the English pilgrims and the Mayflower. The Gerrards remained in England until Edward was four years old, when they returned to America on a sailing vessel. This voyage was Edward's earliest recollection. It was filled with adventure for him. He became a favorite of the captain and crew, who took particular delight in seeing that he received every attention.

The Joseph Gerrard family were located at Rock Island, Illinois, before the advent of a railroad. It was there that Edward received his early education, first by instruction from his mother, and later, in the schools of the city.

In 1852, three years after the first gold rush to California, Edward, then eighteen, joined a caravan going to the gold fields and drove an ox team all the way. Enroute, the men had little trouble from either the weather or the Indians. It took five months and five days from the crossing of the Mississippi until they reached Sacramento. Edward's desire for adventure was fully satisfied on reaching California, for mining and hunting were the chief occupations. He also saw the Vigilantes come into being, due to the necessity for drastic measures for law and order in that unorganized country.

All his recollections were not so turbulent, for he saw California in all its beauty, and in the little mining camp, heard the famous Ole Bull produce the same sweet strains of music from his violin that caused thousands to pay him homage in later years.

In 1858, after six years of life in California, E. A. Gerrard returned to his home in Illinois. The first part of the trip was made by sea to Panama, where he took his first railroad ride in crossing the Isthmus. The same year, during his absence, his father, always a pioneer at heart, moved his family from Illinois to Nebraska, and homesteaded in Monroe County, along the Mormon trail, on the site of the present town of Monroe.

After E. A. Gerrard joined his parents at Monroe, he was elected County Clerk of Monroe County, and when the merger was made with Platte County, he took an important part in the proceeding. He later served as County Commissioner for Platte County, and at the same time, worked with his father on the farm. He was a member of the Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry, in Company D of the Second Regiment. It was a great disappointment to him that this regiment, instead of being transferred to the front ranks of the Union Army, was detained at Bellevue, to quell Indian uprisings and protect the trail. After the expiration of his period of enlistment, he was given an honorable discharge.

In 1868, he went to Columbus as a government guide for the cattle herds purchased and taken from near Genoa to Fort Randall, along the Missouri River, to the northwest. He broke the first trail west of the sixth meridian, when taking up the first assignment. In this work, it was difficult to keep the Indians and others from stealing the cattle and still retain their good will.

In 1876, he again made the trip to California, with his brother-in-law, Charles W. Ziegler, and drove home a herd of ponies from San Luis Obispo. In May, 1878, he accepted the postmastership of the Columbus office, after receiving the appointment from President Rutherford B. Hays. He served as postmaster until 1883.

In 1871, he became a member of the Presbyterian Church in Columbus, and was elected as an elder. Soon after, he became interested in the temperance cause, became a member of the Prohibition Party, serving in its ranks with the loyalty that made him many enemies of whom he was proud.

On November 27, 1879, in Columbus, E. A. Gerrard married Thirza B. Smith, a teacher in the Columbus schools, and a sister of Marshal Smith, then a prominent Columbus merchant. Mrs. Gerrard was also a prohibition advocate.

In 1889, Mr. Gerrard laid out the town site of Monroe and inserted the famous anti-saloon provision, which would cause all lots sold by him within the town to automatically revert to his ownership again if liquor were sold within the town's limits. Foreseeing the need for friendly publicity in the cause of prohibition, he erected the first building in the new town for the publication of the Looking Glass, a paper which he edited and published for a quarter of a century, or until the work that he had taken upon himself was completed, and the village of Monroe established.

He offered to donate half the cost of a railroad spur,

if the farmers about Monroe would raise the balance. In December, 1888, three days after John Dack and John Gleason met with the Union Pacific officials and asked for the granting of the spur, the money was raised and placed on deposit in the Columbus bank, and the grade made by them as soon as the surveyors were finished.

Mr. Gerrard took a prominent part in the organization of the Monroe Farmers Grain Association, whose plan of cooperation later became the standard for all such enterprises over the state and the model for the cooperative law in Nebraska. The Monroe Town Hall Community Center was another stockholding enterprise in which he was prominent.

The Presbyterian Church at Monroe was organized in 1890, and Mr. Gerrard served as elder until the consolidation of all the religious organizations into the Union Church, in the early 1920's. Both he and Mrs. Gerrard taught in the Sunday school, and many men and women championed the temperance cause through their influence. In 1892, they withdrew their membership from the Columbus W.C.T.U., and Mrs. Gerrard, with others, organized the Monroe Union, of which she was the first president, and continued in that office until 1915. Mr. Gerrard retained honorary membership in the union until 1925. As a member of the Prohibition Party, he worked long for the enfranchisement of women, the election of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people, and public ownership of all public utilities. The first two were enacted as laws, prior to 1925, and the latter started in the 1940's, after his death.

Among the public enterprises which E. A. Gerrard sponsored was the Monroe Bridge across the Loup River. The first bridge was made of cottonwood lumber and removed every fall, to save it from being swept away by the ice gorges in the spring, and the last bridge was the permanent government steel bridge, for which he put forth every effort. He also sponsored the Monroe Independent Telephone Company, and the Cooperative Grist Mill, which he later bought and closed. In the 1920's, this mill was again reopened for business.

Thirza Smith Gerrard died on October 11, 1915, and on October 16, 1916, E. A. Gerrard married Grace E. McWilliams, the member of a prominent Monroe family.

ARTHUR THEODORE GERSIB

Arthur Theodore Gersib was born August 18, 1919, in Rocky Ford, Colorado, the son of Reverend George P. and Minnie Boade Gersib. Reverend Gersib died in Shaddock, Oklahoma, on July 18, 1929. Arthur Gersib has one brother and one sister. His brother, George P., is married to Esther Klug. He is with the Sutherland Lumber Company, in Des Moines, Iowa. His sister, Ann, Mrs. Kenneth Heiliger, is a dietitian, and is employed in that capacity by the Sunnybrooke Farms in Lincoln, Nebraska.

As a boy, Arthur Gersib lived with his parents at Rocky Ford, Colorado; Lipscomb, Texas; Emerald and Lincoln, Nebraska. In Lincoln, he attended Hawthorne Junior High School and the Lincoln High School.

Arthur's mother, Minnie Boade Gersib, was married to Reverend J. A. Bahnsen, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Sherman Township, on October 6, 1940.

During World War II, Arthur Gersib spent five years and eight months in service, four years and eight months of which time he was overseas. He was on the Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, and participated in the defense of Hickam Field. He also participated in the invasion of Baker Island, and in the battle of Saipan Island. He received several military citations, including the Presidential Citation, the American Defense Ribbon with one Bronze Star, the Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon with three Bronze Stars, the Good Conduct Medal, and the Victory Medal.

On July 15, 1945, Arthur Gersib came to Platte County. He is a salesman of men's clothing in the Levine Brothers' Store in Columbus.

Arthur Gersib was married to Shirley Hoessel, daughter of Henry and Cornelia Wullsleger Hoessel, of Sherman Township, on June 1, 1947.

They are members of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Sherman Township, and of the Luther League of that church. Arthur Gersib is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Columbus.

PAUL GERTSCH

Paul Gertsch, Sr. was born October 12, 1852, in Nurnberg, Switzerland, and died May 23, 1932, in Anaheim, California. In 1871, he came to the United States, and settled near Monroe, Nebraska. Two years later, in 1873, his parents followed him to Nebraska. His father, Christ Gertsch, was born in the Canton of Berne. His mother, Pauline Muenig, was born December 16, 1826, in Switzerland, and died October 14, 1900, at O'Kay, Monroe, Nebraska. Paul Gertsch had three brothers: Charles, married to Lydia Pearson; Sam, married to Maggie Schmidt; and Albert.

Paul Gertsch, Sr. was a farmer and interested in civic progress. Before coming to the United States at the age of nineteen, he was a tourist guide in Switzerland. He once escorted Queen Victoria's party on a tour through the Alps.

On January 28, 1877, at Columbus, Paul Gertsch was married to Elizabeth von Bergen, who also came to the United States in 1873. They had eleven children, all born at Monroe: Lydia Emily, born October 12, 1878; Alma Bertha, born March 11, 1881; Carl William, born September 13, 1882; Ottilia Helen, born April 7, 1884; Walter Albert, born March 8, 1886; Martha Elizabeth, born March 19, 1889; Paul Emil, born November 1, 1890; Marie Elenor, born November 2, 1892, deceased; Verna Esther, born September 12, 1895; Helmuth, born November 6, 1897; and Ethel Inez, born June 29, 1901. Paul Emil lives near Monroe, Nebraska.

Mr. Gertsch, a farmer attended the Evangelical Church, and was a Republican. He was a member of the school board, and helped organize the first Evangelical Church on Shell Creek in Lost Creek Township. His hobby was raising horses and cattle. He spent a number of years in Anaheim, California.

JOHN GIBBON

John Gibbon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Gibbon, was born in Pembrokeshire, South Wales, February 14, 1855, and came to North America with his parents in 1857. The family homesteaded in a Welsh settlement at Picatonica, Iowa County, Wisconsin. John had eight brothers and three sisters.

In his boyhood, he became a member of the Welsh Congregational Church, and retained that affiliation throughout his lifetime. He attended the rural schools of Iowa County, Wisconsin, the normal school at Platteville, Wisconsin, and the college of Dixon, Illinois. He studied law for two years in the office of Judge Aldro Jenks, in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, and although he did not try for admission to the bar, his study of law proved a valuable asset to him later in life. As a young man, he took up the profession of teaching, and taught for several years in Iowa County and Rewey, Wisconsin.

On February 15, 1889, John Gibbon married Ellen M. Miller, of Rewey, Wisconsin. In May of that year, they came to Geneva, Nebraska, where he was employed for a short time before coming to Platte County.

On September 1, 1890, he assumed the duties of teacher in the Postville School. At the same time, Mrs. Gibbon taught a year in the Fairview District, four miles from Postville. After completing several years in Postville, Mr. Gibbon taught in the O'Kay and West Hill District Schools. Judge Louis Lightner was among his Postville pupils, and a member of Mr. Gibbon's debating club.

In 1901, John Gibbon moved his family to Monroe, Nebraska, where he became manager of the Sheldon and Hollingshead Elevator, which was later owned by Wells, Abbott, Nieman, and T. B. Hord.

Mr. Gibbon was elected County Judge of Platte County in the fall of 1916, assumed his duties January 1, 1917, and moved his family from Monroe to Columbus soon thereafter.

John and Ellen Miller Gibbon had two sons and six daughters: Raymond, Leslie, Mrs. Robert Moran, Mrs. George Peterson, of Genoa, Nebraska; Mrs. Arno Petry, Mrs. LaVern Cashman; Mrs. Eric Floor, and Laura Gibbon, deceased.

At different periods in his lifetime, John Gibbon changed his political party. As a young man, he was a Republican, like his father. After coming to Nebraska, he affiliated with the Populist Party, and then became a staunch and active Democrat. He served as a Democratic Central Committeeman for Oconee Township a number of years, during which time he was several times a delegate to the Democratic County Conventions. However, after his election to the nonpolitical office of County judge, in 1916, he refrained from all further political activity.

Mr. Gibbon served as County Judge of Platte County for over fourteen years, from January 1, 1917, until the time of his death, in July, 1931. He was a member of the First Methodist Church in Columbus.

MATHIAS GIETZEN

Mathias Gietzen was born in Geraldstein, Rhine Province of Prussia, on February 27, 1810. His parents were natives of Prussia. Mathias was educated there, and learned the trade of cloth dyeing.

In 1846, when he was thirty-six years of age, he immigrated to the United States with his wife, Catharine Gietzen, and son, Henry. They settled at Port Washington, Wisconsin, where Mathias had a grocery store and tavern. In 1860 he moved his family to the upper peninsula of Michigan, where they remained until 1868, when they came to Nebraska, settling on a farm in Dodge County.

Mrs. Gietzen, who was born in Greifswald, Prussia, died in Dodge County, Nebraska, in 1879; and Mathias Gietzen moved to Humphrey, Nebraska, where he was associated with his son, Henry, in business.

Mathias and Catharine Gietzen had a daughter, Mrs. C. C. Birdsdell, of Riverside, California, and two sons, Henry, of Humphrey, Nebraska, and John B., of Columbus.

HENRY GIETZEN

Henry Gietzen was born in Geraldstein, the Rhine Province of Prussia, July 12, 1842, the son of Mathias and Catharine Gietzen.

When Henry was four years old, he came to the United States with his parents. They lived first in Wisconsin, and then moved to Michigan, where Henry worked in the mines. He came to Dodge County, Nebraska, with his father and mother in 1868. He was employed for fourteen years as a tinner with one firm in Fremont, Nebraska. He then worked at Wayne and Norfolk, finally settling at Humphrey, Nebraska, in the spring of 1883. Here he established a hardware store. The firm was conducted under the name of Gietzen and Eshelbacher for a time, and later Henry J. Bruenig was a partner.

Henry Gietzen was appointed postmaster under President McKinley, and served for twelve years, being reappointed by President Theodore Roosevelt and President Taft.

On October 27, 1867, Henry Gietzen was married at Hancock, Michigan, to Louisa Voight. The ceremony was performed by Reverend F. E. Wubben, a minister of the German Lutheran Church. Henry and Louisa Voight Gietzen had eight children.

Adalfena, born September 12, 1868, in Michigan, married F. M. Cookingham, who came to Humphrey in 1888. He was the second lawyer there, the first having been Pat O'Rourke. Jennie Gietzen was born June 23, 1871, and was married to Erastus Leach. They had one son, Vern, of Creston, Nebraska. A. Louis Gietzen was born March 10, 1874, and married Blanche Rawley. They had two children, Gerald and May. Charles H. Gietzen, D.D.S., was born August 2, 1876. He practiced dentistry in Columbus, and later moved to Omaha. He married Emma McDonald. They had one son, Carroll, an Omaha businessman. Mary E. Gietzen was born June 16, 1879. She married Reverend William Fowler, a Methodist Episcopal minister. They had one son, Ernest. John B. Gietzen II was born November 7, 1883. He married Grace Walker, of Humphrey, and was in the painting and decorating business there. William D. Gietzen, born June 28, 1887, married Lola Bates, of Humphrey. They had one daughter, Harriet. Ralph L. Gietzen, born May 6, 1895, died in 1900.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gietzen died at Humphrey, Nebraska.

JOHN BAPTIST GIETZEN

John Baptist Gietzen, the son of Mathias and Catharine Gietzen, was born October 27, 1846, at Port Washington, Wisconsin, and died in Columbus, Nebraska, July 2, 1910. His father and mother were natives of Prussia.

He came to Nebraska in 1866 and located at Fremont, where he was a cattle dealer. In the early days, he traveled through Nebraska on horseback, when the country was sparsely populated. He forded rivers with his herds, and lived the rough life of the pioneer, accepting its fortunes, good or bad. During these travels, he bought furs from the Indians.

In later years, J. B. Gietzen engaged in the lumber and grain business at Central City, Nebraska. In 1890, he moved to Columbus, to become owner and manager of a lumber yard. He was also interested in farming.

John B. Gietzen was married twice. His first marriage was to Francesca Hoffmeyer, in the early 1870's, at Appleton, Wisconsin. They had two daughters and two sons: Magdalena, Anna, Leo, and Basil, all of Columbus. Magdalena, who married John C. Byrnes, died in 1902. Anna married John C. Byrnes in 1906, and died in 1946. Leo married Mary Louise Schroeder. He died in April, 1933. Basil married Harriet Dawson. Mrs. Emil Luckey of Columbus, Mrs. C. T. Isgrig of Lincoln, Nebraska; Miss Katherine Byrnes of Columbus, Mrs. Arden Wolf, of Grand Island, Nebraska, and John C. and Lawrence H. Byrnes, of Columbus, are grandchildren of John B. Gietzen.

On June 9, 1891, Mr. Gietzen married Mary Harris, distinguished for her poise and personal charm. She was interested in civic progress. She died in Columbus, Nebraska, in 1933.

LEO GIETZEN

Leo Gietzen was born in Fremont, Nebraska, February 13, 1876. He was the son of John B. and Francesca Hoffmeyer Gietzen.

When he was a small boy, the Gietzen family moved to Wayne, and then to Central City, Nebraska, where his mother died when he was thirteen years old. The family moved to Columbus a year later, where Leo attended high school. After finishing school, he worked with his father and learned the lumber business.

On January 9, 1899, at Osceola, Nebraska, Leo Gietzen married Mary Louise Schroeder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Schroeder, of Columbus.

From 1899 to 1904, Leo Gietzen managed lumber yards in Cornlea, Randolph, and Tilden, Nebraska.

In 1904, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gietzen returned to Columbus, where Mr. Gietzen became the manager of the Columbus Roller Mills, owned by Mrs. Gietzen's father, G. A. Schroeder. Leo Gietzen continued in this work until 1920, when the Columbus Roller Mills was destroyed by fire. He then went into the real estate and insurance business in the Commercial National Bank Building. In 1925 he formed a partnership with J. C. Byrnes. The firm continued as Byrnes and Gietzen until his death on April 17, 1933.

Leo Gietzen was a sportsman and loved the out-of-doors. His hobbies were hunting and fishing.

He was a member of the St. Bonaventure Catholic Church; the Knights of Columbus, Council 938, of which he was a charter member; the B.P.O.E., and the Wayside Country Club.

ALBERT GIGAX

Albert Gigax was born November 4, 1893, in Bismark Township, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Gigax, who immigrated to Platte. County from Switzerland, in 1892, and settled in the Bismark community. Herman Gigax died in Columbus, February 9, 1914, and Mrs. Gigax died February 19, 1922.

Albert had two brothers and four sisters: Marie, Mrs. R. G. Jenny, died August 19, 1933; Hermine, Mrs. John Luchsinger; Ernest; Fred; Eliza, Mrs. Walter Botsch; and Bertha, Mrs. Herman Albers. Albert attended School District 36, after which, he engaged in farming.

He married Frieda Marie Roth, daughter of William F. and Marie Franke Roth. Mr. Roth, a contractor and builder, was born in Closwitz, Germany, August 4, 1863, and died in Columbus, April 4, 1936. Mrs. Roth, born in Closwitz, Germany, December 17, 1866, died

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