In Mr. Emanuel Mettler, who died on Saturday morning at about 8:30 in his residence on Kintner Street, is a true, upright person and Christian called from this time.
Born on 29 January in Neuhausen in Switzerland, he trained himself in his youth as a mechanic and practiced that occupation in the land of his birth until the year 1882. Then he immigrated with his [family] to this country, settled in Defiance, and spent among us the the remainder of his given years. In the machine factory he worked at his profession, until in May of this year heart problems and dropsy forced him to retire. Since then he had suffered unspeakably, especially in the past few months; now he has rest from all pain and adversity. He was a devoted member of the German Methodist Episcopal congregation, true to his upbringing, but benevolent and considerate to his fellow men.
He is survived by his widow Elisabeth Mettler -- a born Bernhardt, whom he married in the year 1867, as well as the two daughters Mrs. W. C. Holgate and Miss Lydia Mettler. Two children, Paul and Lena, have died here and one infant in the old Fatherland.
His remains were brought Monday afternoon from the former home and the German Methodist Church to the grave in Riverside cemetery under the direction of Pastor Wilhelm Jauch. (At) the burial, all the employees of the Defiance Machine Factory attended, who had taken off work for the afternoon, and acting as pallbearers were Misters' Gustav Gartner, R. Brown, Wm. F. Schultz, B. Brickmann, Jakob Fink and Rudolph Müller. -- May he rest easy!
[d 5 Oct 1907 Defiance, Defiance, OH]
Mrs. Katharine Wagner
In her residence on East Second street Monday morning shortly before two o'clock Katharine Wagner, wife of Mr. John B. Wagner, died from inflammation of the lungs at 57 years of age. To the deeply sorrowing widower are left a large number of children, of whom most are already grown.
The burial will take place Friday morning at 9 o'clock from the English Catholic Church. The German womens' sickness [Aid] society, to which the deceased belonged, will attend the funeral service in corpore.
A necrology will be published for the deceased in our next edition.
Through an easy death on Sunday morning, Johann Paul Mettler, only son of the German couple Emanuel and Elisabeth Mettler, in the parental residence on Kintner Street, was released from many years of pain. He was born on May 30, 1871 in Neuhausen in the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen, came as a 12 year old boy with his parents and siblings to Defiance, where he has lived ever since. Just about four years ago he showed the first signs of a lung disease, which despite the best medical care soon developed into tuberculosis. The patient had spent the winter before last in the south, but the change in climate also did not produce the greatly desired cure. Since his return to his family about a year ago, they were able to lighten his dire fate through loyal and self-sacrificing service. Surviving him are his bowed-down parents and two sisters, Miss Lydia Mettler and Mrs. Hannah Holgate, who just a few years ago had to follow a beloved daughter and sister to their graves.
The burial took place Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock under the direction of the German Methodist preacher J. C. Gunther from the former home. The omega Lodge of the Freemasons gave the deceased brother in corpore accompaniment to the grave.
Widow Louise [F.] Schackow
In her residence No. 1119 Wayne Street on Wednesday of the previous week, about six in the evening, the widow Louise Schackow, a born Gelhaar, died of the infirmities of age at the age of 80 years, 9 months and 4 days. She was born on 6 July 1826 in the village of Lichterfelde by Eberswalde, District of Brandenburg, Prussia. In May 1847 she married the widower Friedrich Schackow, and in April 1882 the family came to this country and settled in Defiance. Here on 4 April 1893 died the husband and father, and since then the deceased had lived as a widow and managed the household of her son Johann. Of her nine children, still living are Mrs. Louise Gleisberg and Johannes Schackow here and the son Wilhelm Schackow in Paulsdorf by Berlin. Additional survivors include the two stepchildren Karl Schackow and Mrs. Wilhelmine Pracht, as well as twelve grandchildren and many other relatives.
The deceased was a faithful member of st. John's Lutheran congregation and the Ladies Guild "Harmonia." Her remains were brought Sunday afternoon to the grave in Riverside cemetery, after a funeral service held by Pastor F. A. Kiess in the former home and in St. John's Lutheran Church. The Bible reading at the burial was Romans 8, and the Funeral lesson, which the deceased herself had chosen, was Romans 8, verses 31 thru 34. Six great-grandchildren -- Ernst Pracht, Karl Pracht, Otto Pracht, Hugo Pracht, Wilhelm Pracht and Karl Schackow -- served as pallbearers at the burial.