----Source: LOYAL TRIBUNE (Loyal, Clark County, Wis.) 06/28/1923

Schmidt, Albert (16 Feb 1891 - 20 JUN 1923)

The funeral services for Albert Schmidt, who was accidentally killed last Wednesday, June 20th, 1923, while preparing a dynamite blast for stumps on his farm five miles north of the village, was held at his home on Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock, June 23rd, Rev. Johnston of Marshfield officiating. The services were very largely attended by friends and neighbors who came to pay their last tribute to the memory of the deceased. Interment was in the Union Cemetery at Loyal.

Albert Carl Schmidt, so of Gottfried and Johanna Schmidt, was born Feb. 16, 1891 in the town of Beaver, Clark County, Wis.

On April 28, 1917 he was united in marriage to Miss Blanche Francis. They lived for a few months in Loyal and then moved out on the farm, where they have since lived and where he was just getting a start when he met his untimely death. He was an industrious man and a kind husband and neighbor, always ready to lend a helping hand to anyone about him. He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife, four small children, his aged mother, Mrs. Johanna Schmidt, two brothers, Will and Ernest of Berland, Mich., three sisters, Mrs. Arthur Gloff of Marshfield, Mrs. Otto Yankee, Granton and Mrs. Ed Dobbe of Loyal, besides other relatives and a large circle of friends. His father and eight brothers and sisters preceded him in death.