Surnames: Mattick, Griffiths, Haberman, Kennedy

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 05/20/1943

Mattick, John Ferdinand Albert (23 Sept. 1850 - 19 May 1943)

Funeral services for John Mattick, 93 years old, will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock at the Zink Funeral Home, where the body is lying in state. Internment will be made in the Colby (Colby, Clark Co. Wis.) Cemetery. The Rev. G. E. Griffiths will have charge of the services.

Mr. Mattick, who had been making his home with his three sons on a farm in the town of Holton, died there of old age complications, Wednesday.

John Ferdinand Albert Mattick was born in Germany Sept. 23, 1850. He came to America in 1877 and lived in Milwaukee where he married Miss Justine Karoline Haberman on Feb. 8, 1890.

They came to Abbotsford in 1882 where Mr. Mattick worked for the railroad until 1911. During this time they lived just north of the H. D. Kennedy home on Second street.

In 1911 they moved to a farm one-half mile north of Abbotsford where they family lived until last year when they moved to another farm, three and one-half miles north west of the village in the town of Mayville.

Mr. Mattick, who lived with his sons, had been in apparently good health. Wednesday morning he was up as usual and smoking his pipe with his dog for company, while his sons were out at their farm work.

Henry returned shortly before noon and found his father in his chair, dead.

Mrs. Mattick preceded her husband in death in July, 1929, a son died in infancy. Paul was killed in a railroad accident in 1911, and William died in 1936.

Three of the six sons survive: Ewald, Leo and Henry, all at home.