Nissen, Christian 1854 - 1926

NISSEN, NIELSSEN, MUIR

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 8/18/2023 at 16:35:22

CHRIS NISSEN DIES AT HOSPITAL.
Passed Away August 11, Funeral at Home Sunday, Had Lived Here Nearly a Half Century.
Christian Nissen was born in Denmark, January 3, 1854. At the age of nineteen he came to America and located at Clinton, Iowa. Where he remained five years. He then came to the vicinity of Nashua, where he had made his home for more than forty-four years.
On June 22, 1882, he was united in marriage to Inger Nielssen. To this union six children were born, four boys, Nis, Peter, Henry and Arthur, and two girls, Anna and Christina, who passed away just seven weeks before her father.
His life was quietly lived among his immediate relatives and friends, and he was loved by all who knew him.
His last illness from internal hemorrhages, was of but a few days’ duration and he suffered little pain just growing weaker and weaker. He was removed to the hospital at Waverly Monday of last week, but no relief could be afforded him and he passed away at 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, August 11, at the age of 72 years, 7 months and 8 days.
Those left to mourn a kind husband and father are, his wife and children, Nis, Peter, Arthur and Mrs. Glen Muir of Nashua and Henry and family of Merrill, Wis.

“Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep
From which none ever wake to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Where powerless is the last of foes”

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon on the spacious lawn of the Nissen place, in charge of Rev. Grant of the M. E. church. The music was furnished by Mesdames Getsch and Johnson and Messrs. Clark Dexter and Elmer Meyer. Burial was at Oak Hill cemetery.

Source Unknown – probably local newspaper

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he died Aug. 11, 1926.