Karoline Müller, wife of Mr. Heinrich Müller (Miller) and a daughter of the many years deceased couple Bernhard and Rosalie Steinmaier, died on Sunday morning at about 9:30 in her residence three miles south of Ayersville from breast cancer, which she was stricken with about two years ago. The deceased had come to the South Ridge as a maid and had there on the 12th of February 1889 married Heinrich Müller, who with the three children -- two daughters and a son -- survive. The wedding was performed by the Reformed [Church] preacher Joseph L. Schatz. Bedides the widower and children, mourning her death are the following siblings: Johann Steinmaier, Bernhard Steinmaier, Mrs. Rosine Schatz, Mrs. Mina Schatz, Mrs. Naria Fenter and Mrs. Emma Art.
Mrs. Karoline Müller had brought the time of her pilgrimage to 48 years, 5 months and 27 days. She was a faithful wife and caring mother who will be sorely missed by hers and the wider circle of friends. Her remains were brought to the grave Tuesday morning with wide participation, under the direction of Pastor Albin Beer, who held the funeral services at 9 o'clock in the former home and 10 o'clock in the Reformed Church on the South Ridge.
[birth: 18 Feb 1861 Marion, Ohio] [death: 15 Aug 1909 Highland Twp., Defiance, Ohio] [burial: 17 Aug 1909 New Bavaria, Ohio] [parents: Barney Steinmeyer, Rosalia Blasembric]
Mrs. Maria Doreider
Mrs. Maria Doreider, widow of the late Heinrich Doreider and a resident of our city for over a half a century, died last Thursday morning shortly before 6 o'clock in Nashville, Tennessee. She was born on the 27th of November 1833 in Hille, Minden County, in the Kingdom of Prussia and came as a 12 year-old maid with her parents to this country, where the family settled first in New Orleans, LA. On the 8th of January 1854 the deceased married as Miss Maria Gerding with Heinrich Doreider and came four years later with him to Defiance where she lived mostly until her death. Since the death of her husband in November 1902, she with her daughter Miss Amanda have spent the winter months with her son Fred. Doreider in Nashville. Only these two children and 4 grandchildren survive her. The deceased was a faithful member of the German Episcopal Methodist congregation, which she had joined on her arrival in Defiance through the recommendation of her former congregation in the South, and stood in high esteem of all her acquaintances. Besides her husband, five children preceded her into Eternity.
Her remains arrived here on Friday evening at 7:48 on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and were taken to the chapel crypt, from whence on Saturday afternoon the Christian burial, at which Pastor Wilhelm Jauch officiated, took place.
[birth: 27 Nov 1832 Germany] [death: 12 Aug 1909 Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee] [burial: 13 Aug 1909 Defiance, Ohio] [residence: 1909 Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee] [parents: Jno. ... Gerding]
Mrs. Louise Entemann
A Dreadful Accident
Mrs. Louise Entemann comes to her death in a Petroleum explosion.
Through the exploding of petroleum on last Friday morning Mrs. Louise Entemann, wife of Michael Entemann, in her residence on West High Street in North Defiance, suffered dreadful burns on the face and almost the entire body.
Mrs. Entemann had, as was her custom, gone into the kitchen at about 5:30, to light the fire. Shortly thereafter her son and her daughter, who lived in the same house, heard the detonation of an explosion and anquished cries for help. Rushing into the kitchen, they found Mrs. Entemann wrapped in flames, and albeit they energetically worked at dousing the flames, the victim had already suffered excruciating burn wounds. Her face was burned beyond recognition and the entire body was covered over and over with burn marks. Doctors Zeller and Ury fetched at fast as possible, and did all that the medical art allowed, to ease the pain, but her death arrived already that evening about 9 o'clock.
It is assumed that Mrs. Entemann poured from a can of petroleum when the fire didn't start right away. The son William and the daughter Mrs. Lulu Kinney from Toledo suffered burns on the hands from the attempts at extinguishing. Since there was the danger that the house might catch on fire, the fire department was notified, but the only damage was to the kitchen walls.
The woman who died in such a tragic manner was 60 years old on the 5th of March and had the maiden name of Gerst. She had married her surviving widower Michael Entemann on the 28th of March 1863 in Bryan, Ohio and moved with her family to Defiance about 25 years ago. All the seven children, who resulted from the marriage, are still alive; they are: Mrs. Amma Doll in Coldwater, Mich., Mrs. Elilie Rieckhoff in Defiance, William and Charles Entemann in Defiance, Mrs. Tillie Benson, Mrs. Lulu Kinney and Fred. Entemann in Toledo. The burial took place Monday morning about 10 o'clock from the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church under the direction of Pastor F. A. Kiess to Riverside Cemetery here. The women of the German Ladies Sickness Aid Society and the "Ladies Aid and Benefit Society" gave their sister a funeral cortege to the grave.
[birth: 05 Mar 1849 Buffalo, NY] [death: 23 Apr 1909 Defiance, Defiance Co., Ohio] [burial: 25 Apr 1909] [parents: Daniel Gust, Mrs. Louise Gust]