Katharina Hessling, 1898 Obituary

HESSLING, BECKER

Posted By: David Reineke (email)
Date: 12/7/2005 at 00:58:40

I translated the following obituary from Der Carroll Demokrat, a German-language newspaper published in Carroll, Iowa, between about 1874 and 1920. It was originally published on Friday, 6 May 1898. Any information in brackets or notes at the end are my own explanations. It reads as follows:

Last week we were only able to give a short report on the death of Mrs. Katharina Hessling. We therefore add thereto that the deceased was born in 1805 in Germany. She came to America in 1865 and settled with her family in Illinois. Seven years later, the family moved to Carroll County, where they settled on a farm in Grant Township, and for several years she had lived in the town of Carroll. For 20 years, she had lived with her daughter, Mrs. W. L. Becker. Her son, Hermann Hessling, lives in Grant Township. She leaves behind six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and her two children living here.