STRUB JOSEPH

STRUB, KLEES, SCHETGEN, PHILLIPPI, LOWNEY, JACKLEY

Posted By: Paul Moritz (email)
Date: 10/22/2010 at 14:22:26

From Lansing, IA newspaper dated Oct. 4, 1899:
"We briefly noted the passing of this pioneer last week. His demise was the result of cancer of the stomach, with which he suffered for over a year. His death, though not unexpected, came sooner than anticipated, but the grief of the parting seemed none the less poignant because of the knowledge that the end was slowly but surely approaching. Mr. Strub had been able to ride out to the old home on the farm in this township the Thursday previous and was conscious and able to converse with all within a few hours of death, which was as calm and peaceful as though he had only fallen into a natural slumber.
Deceased was born in Rechersvil, Kanton Solothurn, Switzerland, June 20, 1830, and very largely imbibed the freedom and democracy of his native hills. His passport to this country is dated Jan. 8, 1855. He came to Allamakee county in 1856, spending the intervening time in St. Louis and Dubuque, and worked in this city and for farmers in the neighborhood until he bought and opened up the fine homestead he so long occupied in this township. On Dec. 12, 1859, at Waukon, he was married to Miss Elizbeth Klees, who survives him with ten of their thirteen children, as follows: Mrs. P. Schetgen, Dubuque; John of this township; Barney of Center; Mrs. N. Wagner, Lafayette; Mrs. M. Phillippi, St. Paul; Frank of this township; Mrs. J. Lowney, Chicago; Mrs. A. Jackley, Ashton; William, also of Ashton, and Maggie at home. All but the two last named are married and with exception Mesdames Phillipi and Jackley, were all present at the funeral.
Mr. Strub was a hard worker all his life and by industry and frugality acquired a competence for old age had he been spared to enjoy it. But his his but the experience of hundreds of other of the sturdy pioneers of this western country, a constitution broken down by hard work long before they quit the farm to take life easy. Some seven or eight years ago he rented his farm to his sons and came to town to live. In the city as well as the country he was a general favorite and the esteem in which he was held was manifested by one of the largest funerals ever seen here. Some sixty teams forming the procession. Burial took place in the new Catholic Cemetery west of town Friday morning after a Requiem High Mass. Peace to the ashes of one of our sturdiest pioneer settlers, most honest and upright citizens, truest and best of friends."