Michael Schobert Sr.

SCHOBERT, HAAS

Posted By: Shirley Taylor (email)
Date: 4/8/2010 at 22:21:07

A Pioneer's Death
One of the first settlers in this part of the country, Michael Schobert , was laid to rest in the new Catholic cemetery Tuesday morning, his death occurring Sunday. Those who noticed him as he passed along the streets daily a year ago would not have thought him in his 85th year. His step was active, eyesight good, and although it seemed that life might be prolonged several years. Last November he was conveyed in the polls and voted the ticket of his choice.
Deceased was born in Bavaria, in 1808 and came to this country in 1852, remained six months in Buffalo where he was married, and subsequently went to Chicago, landing in Lansing in 1854. He began farming on the Iowa river, but dropsy compelled him to relinquish this and he returned to town, and worked at his trade as cabinetmaker for Manger and Corell, and in the saw mill for Wood Bros. When he first came here he and a companion started on a long tramp looking for land. They journeyed into what is now Black Hawk county, enduring many hardships on the way and suffered many privations. The country was wild and unsettled and dangers beset them on every hand. Lansing was then inhabited by but few persons, and all this region was but a wilderness, the woodman's axe having carved out but few path ways.
A man of strict integrity, quiet and unassuming in manner, his days were passed in industrious pursuits, and little outside of his own affairs was allowed to engross either time or attention. His is the first death in that family. A widow in her 73rd year and four sons, Michael, Peter, John and Will., are left to mourn.
John, of St. Charles, Minn. was unable to attend the funeral owing to his illness at the time, and failed to receive the telegram announcing the death, so we are informed.

Lansing Mirror
Friday, Jan. 19, 1894
V 41 N 31
Page 5, Col. 4

An octogenarian in the person of M. Schobert, Sr. fell asleep in death Sunday. Deceased was eighty-six years of age. He had been in feeble health for years, but voted at the last election and was not thought to be so near his end until a few days before death when he suffered some sort of a paralvtie stroke, from which he never rallied. The old gentleman was always of a quite, unassuming disposition, scrupulously honest in all his dealings and in his younger days followed cabinet making. The aged widow and four married sons, Mike, of this city, Peter, of Dubuque, John of St. Charles, Minn., and Will of Chicago, survive him. The funeral took place from Catholic church yesterday morning. Peace to the ashes of this good old man.

Allamakee Journal
Lansing, Iowa
Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1894
Page 2, col. 3