Frank Sebastian

SEBASTIAN, MEYER, LETCHFORD

Posted By: SGF (email)
Date: 12/23/2002 at 17:11:17

Frank Sebastian Was One of Old Settlers.

Frank Sebastian was born in Rhine Province, Germany, November 1, 1853, where he was baptized and confirmed. At the age of twelve years he came with his parents to America and to the vicinity of Postville, where he has spent his entire life. The family lived first on a farm about two miles northeast of Postville. Mr. Sebastian received his education in the English
language at the Minert school which he attended four winters. In 1870 his father purchased a farm in Grand Meadow township, two and a half miles east of Postville. On October 20, 1879, he married Maggie Meyer and for six years, until 1865, they remained on the farm with his parents. In 1885 he purchased a farm two and one-half miles northwest of Luana, in Franklin township, where they lived until 1893, when his mother died and they moved to the father's farm, just south of the Postville cemetery. After caring for his father until his death, in 1895, they moved to a farm he had purchased in Bloomfield township, Winneshiek county, where they lived until 1907 when they moved to Postville, which was his home until his death November 4, 1930, at the age of 77 years and three days. Beside the faithful wife he is survived by the following children -- John, Frank, Henry, George and Mrs. W.L. Meyer, all of Postville; William of Luana and Mrs. Caroline Letchford of Monona. He is also survived by one brother, Matt Sebastian of Postville. His friends in this community are many and all unite in sympathy with the bereaved family. Mr. Sebastian was an honest, upright man, who by hard work and good business management accumulated a sufficient amount of this world's goods to enable him to spend his declining years in comfort. The funeral was held from the Community Presbyterian church in this city at two o'clock last Friday afternoon, the Rev. R.F. Galloway officiating. Interment in the Postville cemetery.
-source: Postville Review 11/13/1930