On Wednesday morning about 1:30 in his home on east 2nd Street, Adolph Friedrich Goldnetz died as the result of a stroke that he had suffered seven weeks ago last Saturday. He was born on 2 January 1857 in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, came as a baby of six weeks to Defiance with his parents, since gone to their rest, and a surviving sister Mrs. Sophia Bohlmann, and remained residing here for the rest of his life. On 24 December 1878 Pastor G. Zucker joined him with Miss Barbara Dittmer, who survives him with four children: Anna, Elmer, Annette, and Clarence. Two children preceded the deceased in death. Besides [these] he leaves behind the aforementioned sister Mrs. Sophia Bohlmann, and the brother Albert Goldnetz. Adolph Friedrich Goldnetz belonged to the ?Sick Benefit Society of St. John's Lutheran congregation, the A. G. D. Disabled Support Society, and the Turnbull Disabled support society.
The burial will take place Friday afternoon in Riverside cemetery. The funeral service will begin at 1:30 in the family home on east second Street and 2 o'clock at St. John's Lutheran Church.
[Krankenunterstiltzungsverein = Disabled support Association or Sick Benefit society]
Ludwig Johann Riek
In his home on Schultz street at noon Tuesday, at the age of 75 years, 9 months and one day, Mr. Ludwig Johann Riek passed away from an asthmatic condition, which shortly before his death developed into heart dropsy. The deceased was born on 13 August 1831 in Strassburg in the Ufermark, in the Kingdom of Prussia, married in Berlin on the 20th of July 1859 Miss Anna Zeske, and immigrated in the year 1873 to America, where he settled in Defiance on 16 July. shortly after his arrival, he joined the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran congregation, to which he remained true for the rest of his life. Here in Defiance, the decent fellow was well respected by a large group of friends. surviving him is only his widow, as the marriage was childless. Of other relatives, as far as we can determine, there are none, at least not in this area. The burial will take place today (Thursday) afternoon at 1:30 from the former home and a half hour later from St. John's Lutheran Church. Burial to follow in Riverside cemetery. we offer our wholehearted sympathy to the elderly widow!
Widow Wilhelmine Sauer
In the fullness of years, after a full and blessed life, surrounded by her loved ones, on Sunday morning at 4 o'clock in her home on the south Ridge where she had lived for 60 years on the same plot, the widow Wilhelmine Sauer, wife of the late Heinrich Sauer, passed away quietly and without (death) struggle. Mrs. Sauer was only bedridden for about a week, but it was not hidden from her family members that the end of her days was at hand. She had prepared her house to the smallest degree, and when the hour of her passing struck, she was prepared for Eternity.
Wilhelmine Sauer, born Hofrichter, first saw the light of day in August 1819 in the Grand Duchy of Baden, and immigrated with her parents in the year 1835 to America, where the family settled in the city of Cleveland. After a short stay there, where she married husband who passed away 22 years ago, the deceased came with him to this area, where the young couple made their home on the very farm, on which she lately died. The old Kepler farm, down river of Defiance on the Maumee, was at that time the only property between Defiance the the Sauer farm. Among untold cares and heavy labor the [couple] Sauers succeeded, little by little, to tame the wilderness and make way for fruitful fields. In 1885 her husband died; since then she has more or less had peace(?). She was the mother of 14 children, of whom 5 preceded her in Death. The surviving children are: Wilhelm Sauer, residing in New Bavaria; Heinrich Sauer of Holgate; Mrs. Anna Trager and Mrs. Minnie Trager of the south Ridge; Mrs. Magdalene Stephens of Oakwood, Ohio; Mrs. Jakob Hornung of New Bavaria; Mrs. Wilhelm Kehnast and Mrs. Heinrich Foss of Defiance, and Andreas Sauer, currently supposedly living in the state of Louisiana. Her descendants include 5 generations in age from 2 to 71 years.
The burial took place Wednesday morning, after Pastor Albin Beer had led funeral services in the former home and in the Reformed Church on the south Ridge, to the cemetery in New Bavaria. we wish eternal rest to the deceased pioneer!
[d. 12 May 1907, Pleasant TWp, Henry, OH] [restlos (full, complete) substituted for rastlos (restless); possible misspelling?]