Dorothea Linabrink

On February 11, our reader Mrs. Friederike Kammeyer wrote from Tiffin Township:

"Just came from a deathbed. My dear neighbor lady Dorothea Linabrink, wife of Mr. Jacob Linabrink, died at about 9 o'clock. she leaves behind a sorrowing widower, a not-quite 5 year old son, her aged mother (the widow Partee), 4 brothers, 5 sisters, and a large circle of more distant relatives." The deceased was still chipper on Saturday, which makes her departure even more painful for her relatives and friends.

She was born about 30 years ago in Tiffin Township and spent her whole life there. After a well-attended funeral led by Pastors Gordon and Morris of the St. John's Church in Tiffin Township, her remains were laid to rest.

Mrs. Emma Huth

About one o'clock last Friday afternoon, in her home at 402 Summit Street here, Emma Huth, wife of Lorenz Huth and a born Spieth, died after a protracted case of tuberculosis. She was born about 40 years ago in Pleasant Township, Henry county and married her now-grieving widower on 6 December 1886 in this city. Just the previous spring she returned, deathly ill, to Defiance from a many year residence in another state. Besides the widower and a son, she is survived by five sisters, Mrs. Hannah Telliga and Sarah Oaks in Defiance, Mrs. Schoonover in Chicago, Ill., and Mrs. Schwab in Chicago, Ill., and Mrs. George Daum in Napoleon; additionally, two brothers Charles Spieth in Leonardtown, Md., and John Spieth in Amherst, Neb. The burial took place Sunday afternoon from the former home to Riverside cemetery under the direction of the U.B. preacher W. C. Shupp.

Mrs. Katharine Wagner

To continue what was written in a previous edition concerning the passing of Mrs. Katharine Wagner: Before her marriage, the deceased was named Protsching and was born on 25 January 1851 in Arlesheim, in the Swiss canton Baselland. In 1871, she married in Leipsic, Putnam county, Ohio one Johann B. Wagner, who had brought her over to be his bride. She came with him seven years later to Defiance county, where she remained until her death. Of the 15 children resulting from this marriage, two boys and two girls have already died. Four sons and seven daughters, of whom five are married, survive along with the widower.

At the burial Friday morning were all the children, with the exception of one daughter and her husband. The pallbearers were John Crowe, John Rowe, Joseph Beith Sr., Gottfried Ehrat, Jakob Garber and Peter Jacobs.

The survivors thank all the friends who have taken such care of them, and especially the German Women's Sick and Relief Society for their very caring and prompt fulfillment of all the requirements (?duties) for the departed and themselves.

[from 1900 census: m/o Willie, Rose, Fred, Celia, Agnis, Crist, Allie, William]

Anthony Smith

In his home, 422 Summit Street on Friday afternoon about 3:20, Anthony Smith died from a longtime case of asthma and dropsy of the heart. He was born on 5 June 1854 in Buffalo, N.Y., son of the since-deceased (married couple) John P. and Franciska Schmidt, and came as a child to Defiance county. As he grew to manhood here, he worked in agriculture and the grocery business, until years ago the asthma sickness made regular employment impossible. Since then he spent two years on the Pacific coast, returned home on the third of June of this year and since then his health has gone downhill rapidly.

Surviving are his widow, a born Helfrick, whom he wed on 17 November 1871, sons Edward J. and Carl B. and daughters Nettie M. and Clara R. smith. Also surviving are his three brothers Bennett and John Smith in Defiance and Martin Smith in Oregon, and his three sisters Mrs. John Aschbacher in North Richland, widow of John Clemens in Defiance and Mrs. Henry Mack in Noble. The funeral celebration took place on Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock in the St. John's Catholic Church, and the remains were then temporarily interred in the Riverside chapel crypt.