Caroline Bachtell 1859-1921

BACHTELL, CARITHERS, SMITH, WATERS, MARSTON

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall (email)
Date: 11/7/2006 at 22:11:26

Mrs. Caroline Bachtell. Caroline, youngest daughter of William and Elizabeth Carithers, was born in Post township, August third, 1859, and died at her home in Postville, April twenty-fifth, 1921, aged 61 years, eight months and 22 days. She was married to Charles B. Bachtell, February 11, 1879. To them were born three children, two of whom died in infancy. For thirty-one years she and her husband engaged in farming, with splendid success. In 1909 they moved to Postville, where Mr. Bachtell died in 1914. Through her death Postville loses one of its most active and useful citizens. A woman of unusual activity and practical wisdom, she took an active part in every campaign for improving the community in which she lived. Her purse and her hand always responded to every public need. Her entire life was a credit to the pioneer stock from which she sprang. She was a member of the Royal Neighbors and W.C.T.U.

During several months of her last illness she was the same courageous, kindly woman she had always been, although her suffering must have been great. On Thursday, April 28th, she was laid to rest in the beautiful little cemetery where sleep her husband, her parents and her grandparents, and in sight of the home where she was born. Her mother's father, Reuben Smith, presented the land for this cemetery to the community and it is fittingly known as Smith's cemetery.

She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Robert Waters and Mrs. Arthur Marston, and her son Ralph, who with his wife and little son, Charles B. live on the old home farm. Rev. Saathoff, who conducted the funeral services, paid a fitting tribute to Carrie Bachtell, and Postville sincerely mourns the loss of this truly good woman.

-Postville Herald, 4/28/1921
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