Mrs. Ada A. Brinkmann, born Zucker, on last Wednesday here at the home of her father, breathed her last after a long and painful illness.
The deceased first saw the light of day on 25 March 1865, in Proviso, cook co., Ill., and in 1873 came with her parents to Defiance. She attended the public schools here, and passed the graduation examination in 1884. She then worked almost four years as a teacher, until she was required to leave her position in the year 1888 due to illness. After her condition improved, on 1 January 1890 she entered into matrimony with C. F. Brinkmann and moved with him to Springfield, Ill. Their marital happiness there was only of short duration, as already on the 23rd of April she returned, physically broken, to her parental home. At that time the consumption which had been threatening her for a long time, developed quickly and on the 15th of May put laid her on her sickbed, from which she never again arose. She bore the sickness with grace and died surrounded by her loved ones. Her remains were laid to there final rest on Sunday morning in Riverside cemetery, after a funeral service conducted by Pastor Querl of Toledo. That her good qualities had gathered a wide circle of friends, was shown by the large attendance at the burial service and the general and genuine mourning.
To the surviving relatives and especially the grieving father, who since his arrival here has taken to the grave his wife and several children, we wish to express our sincere sympathy!
[d/o G.M. & Helen Zucker; w/o Frederick]
Edward M.[Moore] Hubbard
Last Saturday afternoon about 4 o'clock, Edward M. Hubbard died after a four week illness of cerebro-spinal disease, in the home of his father-in-law C. P. Harley. He was born 23 years ago in Napoleon and moved shortly thereafter with his parents here, where he remained resident. Up to his passing, he served as court stenographer and justice of the peace. Surviving him are his widow, the former Miss Maude Harley, whom he had married just over a year ago; also his mother and two sisters. His father, the renowned judge W. H. Hubbard, died here a number of years ago. The remains of the young man were laid Tuesday afternoon in the Holgate Mausoleum in Riverside cemetery, after a funeral service was held in the former home by Pastors Bigler and Cooper.
[s/o William Humphreys Hubbard,? Mary Wilson Moore; h/o Frances Maude Harley, m. 02 Oct 1906, Defiance,? Ohio] [b. Apr 1884, Napoleon, Henry, OH; d. 1907, Defiance, Defiance, OH]
Hermann J. Meyer
In regard to the passing of Hermann J. Meyer of Tiffin Township, reported in short in the previous edition, add the following: Hermann J. Meyer was born 22 January 1855 in Adams Township, the son of Christopher J. and Sophia Meyer, surviving. In the year 1887 he married Miss Boschet, who gave him 10 children, of whom 7 preceded [him] in Death. After his first wife died in October 1895, he married about four years ago Miss Snyder, who survives him. This last marriage was childless. Besides the widow, the 7 children and the aged parents, the deceased leaves behind the following four siblings: Heinrich J. Meyer in Adams Township, Johann C. Meyer in Bartlow Township, Christ. W. Mayer in Deshler, Fr. C. Meyer in St. Petersburg, Fla., and Mrs. Casper Müller in Adams township.
[d. 16 Jan 1903, Tiffin Township,? Defiance,? Ohio; shown as John H.] [1st wife: Anna Boschet, children Lidda Sophia, Arniel Elson]
Louise Klenk
In Robinwood Hospital in Toledo, O., on Friday afternoon shortly before four o'clock Louise Klenk, a born Baum and wife of Gottlieb Klenk of Jefferson street, was called from this life.
She was born on 1 March 1863 in Baltimore, Md., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham and Helene Baum, and came with her parents as a child to Defiance, where she resided until the end of her life. Her father died in the year 1885, her mother ten years later. On 18 July 1894 she married Gottlieb Klenk, with whom she had a happy marriage. After she had been ill for quite a while, on Tuesday of the past week Mrs. Klenk betook herself to Robinwood Hospital in Toledo, where on Wednesday morning she was relieved of an internal growth (?tumor) through an operation. Unfortunately the disease was already so far advanced, that the operation did not have the hoped-for success. Friday afternoon, the silent sufferer, after severe pain, closed her eyes to her last slumber.
Mr. R. Brown, an uncle of the deceased, traveled Friday evening to Toledo, in order to be of assistance to the husband waiting there, with the burial preparations. on the next morning the mortal remains were brought hither to the former home and [on] Monday morning, after Pastor H. Müller held services in the former home and in St. Paul's Lutheran Church, were laid temporarily in the chapel crypt.
To the deceased, who in all ways displayed a Christian way of life, we wish eternal Rest, and to the sorrowing relatives, sincere sympathy.