Obit: Wiedenhoeft, John J. A. (1845 - 1929)
Transcriber: Stan
Surnames:
WIEDENHOEFT MIHLKE FEIND FRANZ NICKEL ----Source: Colby
Phonograph (Colby, Wis.) 12/12/1929 Wiedenhoeft, John
J. A. (7 Augl 1845 - 5 Dec 1929) John Julius Albert
Wiedenhoeft, one of the early settlers of this section, passed on
to the distant shore last Thursday, Dec. 5, 1929, dropsy and heart
disease being the cause of his departure. Funeral services were
held at the Zion Lutheran Church, Sunday, Dec. 8th, at 1:30, Rev.
A. Kirchhoefer officiating, and interment was made in the Colby
Cemetery. The deceased was
born Aug. 7, 1845, in Schwiett, Kries Conitz, West Prussia,
Germany, and was married sixty-one years ago to Auguste Henriette
Mihlke. They came to America in 1869 and settle on a farm one mile
west of Colby, Wis. They retired from their active duties on the
farm about twelve years ago and moved to the city of Colby, where
they made their home ever since. Three of their children died in
infancy. Those still living are William of Minnesota, Herman, Mrs.
Amanda Feind, Albert, Gustav, Mrs. Augusta Franz, Mrs. Louis Feind,
all of Colby, and Mrs. Anna Nickel of Indiana. Twenty-six
grandchildren and six great-grandchildren the deceased, who
attained the age of eighty-four years, three months and twenty-nine
days. The deceased was a
man of generous impulses and never forgot the hospitable ways of
the early settlers. He was a man of excellent habits, fine moral
character and sturdy constitution, and his family circle was a
happy one. He had filled the various relations of life as son,
husband, father, brother, friend, and filled them well. But now he
is gone and another name is stricken from the ever lessening roll
of our old settlers. The out of town
relatives and friends here for the funeral were Mrs. Mary Lentz,
Mrs. Emma Geisthardt and Mr. Herman Bloom, all of Brownsville,
Wis.; Mrs. Charles Bloom and Mrs. Peter Lerch of South Byron, Wis.;
Mr. Ed Blood of Oakfield, Wis.; Mrs. Julius Schultz of Waupun,
Wis.; Mrs. Herman Westphal of Byron, Wis., Mrs. Roger Nickel of
Frankfort, Ind., Mr. Will Wiedenhoeft and Miss Lillian Wiedenhoeft
of Anoka, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Albert Franz of Chippewa Falls,
Wis. © Every submission is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
of 1998. Show your appreciation of this freely provided information by not
copying it to any other site without our
permission.
Become a Clark County History
Buff
A site created and
maintained by the Clark County History Buffs
Webmasters: Leon
Konieczny, Tanya Paschke,
Janet & Stan Schwarze, James W. Sternitzky,
and supported by your generous donations.