Wendlin Rothermel

ROTHERMEL

Posted By: Edy Rodarme (email)
Date: 9/24/2005 at 16:59:22

AT REST--During the week two more of the pioneers of this county have passed to that bourne from whence there is no returning. Thus one by one the ranks of the old settlers are being deciminated and soon all those who bare the trials and hardships incident to our early settlement will have slept in death.

Wendlin Rothermel, of French Creek township, and a resident of this county for well nigh thirty years, went to his reward on the 2d inst. His disease was dropsy, and he was aged almost sixty-eigth years, being born May 21, 1815. Before coming to this state he resided eight years in Ohio, and in the long years that he has lived here he has by honest industry and frugality acquired quite a competance for an unpretentious Allamakee farmer, and leaves a family of grown up children in moderately good cirumstances. But best of all he earned the reputation of an honest, upright, christian man. He was buried on Friday with the rites of the Catholic church, at their cemetery west of town, and a requiem mass offered for him at the conclusion of the burial service.

from Allamakee Journal, Wednesday, May 9, 1883, Page 2

Note: Wendlin and his wife, Catharine, are buried in the Gethsemane Cemetery in Lansing.