Joseph Spieker

SPIEKER

Posted By: David Reineke
Date: 8/17/2003 at 14:37:01

I translated the following death notice for Joseph Spieker. It was originally published in Der Carroll Demokrat on Friday, 12 April 1889. Der Carroll Demokrat was a German-language newspaper published in Carroll, Iowa between about 1874 and 1918. Joseph Spieker was born in Rolfzen, Westphalia, Germany in 1819 and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1869. The notice read as follows:

"Yesterday, Joseph Speaker, a long-time (Since 1874) resident of Carroll County, died in Pleasant Valley Township of internal injuries which he received last Saturday through a fall from a wagon. Speaker and three others were going to return home from Carroll. They all had taken their places in their seats, one of which was very rickety. Suddenly, the one on which Speaker was sitting raised up. Thereby, the seat tipped over and Speaker fell to the ground. Speaker was already rather along in years, an industrious and competent farmer."

Note: The paper misspelled Spieker as "Speaker."