Auguste (Schierholz) Nielander

SCHIERHOLZ, NIELANDER, BROCKHAUSEN, CHRISCHILLES

Posted By: Diana Henry Diedrich (email)
Date: 2/18/2007 at 08:35:31

Passing of Pioneer Mother

It has pleased the Almighty God in His Divine Providence to remove the beloved sister and mother, Mrs. Auguste Schierholz-Nielander, from the scene of her temporal labor, and from our midst.

Mrs. Auguste Schierholz-Nielander was born in Lippy, Detmolt, Germany, July 20, 1836, and died at 11 o’clock Thursday morning, May 12, 1921, after a short illness, in her home, in the age of eight-five years.

She came to America with her sister, Mrs. Theodore Brockhausen, in 1864 and was married to Henry Nielander in Lansing in the same year. Of this union there were born, Nannie, Guta, Martha, Herman and Harry, of whom Guta, Mrs. Julius Chrischilles, of Algona, Iowa, and Harry Nielander of this city, are the surviving children. She also leaves to mourn her departure her beloved grandchildren, Arthur and Ruth Nielander, of Lansing, and Theodore H. Chrischilles, of Algona; and great-grandchildren Ruth Ann and Theodore Robert Chrischilles, of Algona.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Henry Nielander, June 14, 1905.
Mrs. Nielander was the last in a family of four to pass away, having been preceded by her sister, Mrs. Mary Brockhausen and her brothers Carl and Herman Schierholz.

Mrs. Nielander was an active member of the First Presbyterian church and always intensely interested in every good work. Besides those near and dear to her by relation of blood, she leaves to mourn her departure a host of friends and acquaintances who will always remember her as one who walked close to the Master and from Him drew that cheerfulness of spirit, that depth of love, that breath of human sympathy, that made her the kind, gracious, and loving soul she was, and that will ever make her, although departed in this flesh, a living spirit ever near and dear to us all. She has entered into her eternal rest, but she has left behind her an influence that will perpetuate itself in every succeeding generation in works of kindness.

Funeral Saturday afternoon from her late home on Center street, Revs. L. T. Krebs and A. Kegel officiating and interment in the family lot in Oak Hill.
Allamakee County Newspaper May 1921