Obit: Roder, Anna R. #2 (1834 - 1905)

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Surnames: Roder, Sterns, Nitschke, Krause

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark Co., Wis.)  11/10/1905

Roder, Anna R. #2 (7 DEC 1834 - 3 NOV 1905)

After 37 years of suffering through stomach trouble, Mrs. Carl Roder died Friday, Nov. 3, 1905, of cancer of the stomach.  Mrs. Roder was born in Prussia, Germany, Dec. 7, 1834, and was there married to Carl Roder in 1854; migrating to this county in June 1866 and settling in Sheboygan Co., Wis., coming to Clark County and the farm where she had since resided and where the death angel called for her, in 1870.  Mrs. Roder was one of the pioneers of Clark County, coming here as she did when it was but a wilderness, a forest country, passing through the hardships incident to pioneer life here in those days without murmur, living to enjoy the frits of her labor in the delightful large home where she died.  She was the mother of seven children, two of whom died in Germany.  The others, August, Christine (Mrs. H. Sterns of Duluth), Ernestine (Mrs. Ernest Nitschke of the town of Lynn), Paul and Emilia (Mrs. Carl Krause of the town of Lynn), together with her husband Carl Roder and a goodly number of grandchildren, survive her.  Mrs. Roder had been blessed in that Paul, the youngest son, had always remained at home and that her children, with one exception, lived within a few miles of her, all are honorable, worthy citizens and in her departure she leaves Mr. Roder in the home with Paul and his excellent wife within speedy call of the other children.  She was a devoted wife and mother, greatly beloved in the home circle, one though a constant sufferer for well nigh 2 score of years, bore her burden with great fortitude.  Her loss is sincerely mourned, not only in the home circle, but by a large number of sorrowing friends.  The funeral was held from the house last Sunday, and although a most disagreeable day, it was a very large funeral, mutely testifying to the esteem in which the deceased was held.  Rev. P.H. Hass officiated at the services with interment in the Fischer Cemetery (Now town of Grant Cemetery).