Martin Reinhart 1833-1912

REINHART, SCHULER

Posted By: Joe Conroy (email)
Date: 6/6/2010 at 16:54:14

The Carroll Times and Carroll Sentinel
Carroll, Iowa
21 Mar 1912
Page 1

Pioneer Citizen Gone

One of Early Settlers Answers Call

Martin Reinhart Passed Away at Family Home Here Early Last Thursday Morning

Early Thursday morning, March 14th, one of the pioneer residents and highly respected citizens of this city and vicinity, answered the final summons in the person of Martin Reinhart. After suffering from a weak heart and kidney trouble since last July he gave up the unequal battle and passed to the land from which there is no return. During his long illness relatives and friends watched over him kindly and ministered to his every want to make his suffering easier. He met the inevitable with a patience and fortitude that was admirable and passed away as he had lived well fortified in the last sacraments of his church and in full faith of the goodness of his God.

Martin Reinhart was born at Bremelbach, Canton Suiz, Alsace Lorraine, then French, now German territory, on December 8, 1833. His parents were well to do land owners and vinters and the boy was trained in both the French and German languages. At the age of 13 his parents, seized with the emigration unrest, sold their belongings and on November 25th, 1846 started on their journey. In those days travel was slow. The time consumed in getting to their port, Havre, and the delay in fitting out and provisioning the old time sailing vessels, brought the time of their embarkation to Christmas day. The voyage was attended with all the horrors of a helpless ship and its human cargo buffeted about by the wintry storms. With masts gone, by means of improvised masts rigged up, they slowly labored over the treacherous deep. After a voyage of 58 days they reached New Orleans February 21st, and thence began another journey up the mighty Mississippi. They reached Peoria, Illinois, on March 7th, 1847, and later settled on a farm at Kickapoo, Illinois. On April 13, 1857, he was united in the holy bonds of wedlock to Miss Barbara Schuler at Peoria, Illinois. In 1883 the family removed to this county and located on a half section farm in Sheridan township. Here they raised to excellent manhood and womanhood a family of ten children of which two, Frank and Louis, the youngest have passed away. Louis died about twelve years ago and Frank answered the summons in November, 1910. Those surviving to mourn the loss of a devoted husband and father are, the wife, of this city; Mrs. Theresia Nader, of Kickapoo, Illinois; John, of Anton, Iowa; Joe, of Wagner, South Dakota; Anton of Littleton, Colorado; Martin, of Kniest township, this country; Mrs. Maud O'Tool, of Carroll, George of Sioux City, and Chas. P. of this city. There also survive him 42 grand children and one great grand child.

Thus passes another of the men who were identified with the early upbuilding of Carroll county, one of the pioneers who were a credit to our community and whose labors aided in making this county and community of the excellence that it is today. He was a devout member of SS. Peter and Paul Catholic church here and the last solemn requiem mass was read over his remains from that church Monday forenoon and were tenderly laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery. The sorrowing wife, children and relatives of this good man have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement.