Meyer, Mathilda (Eberhart) 1864-1950

MEYER, EBERHART, WOJAHN, SMITH, WILKENS, JOHNSON, LOVELL, DREWNIAK, BIRD

Posted By: Clayton co. Coordinator
Date: 5/27/2007 at 01:42:24

Last Rites Held For Mrs. J. Meyer
Last rites were held for Mrs. Joseph Meyer last Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 2 p.m. at the Rohan Funeral Chapel, with Rev. J. Robert Boggs, Jr., officiating. Pallbearers were John Wilkens, Karnes Johnson, Harry Lovell, Louis Drewniak, Watt Johnson and Earle Bird. Interment was made in the Beach cemetery, beside her husband, who preceded her in death, having passed away in May, 1943. Mrs. Meyer succumbed at the Beach hospital February 18, after an illness of eight days. Death was attributed to the complications of age, and a fractured pelvis.

She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Fred Wojahn of Sentinel Butte, and one grandson, Henry I. Smith, two brothers, Adolph Eberhart of Chicago, Ill., and Frank Eberhart of Prairie du Sac, Wis., four nieces and one nephew.

Mrs. Meyer, the former Mathilda Eberhart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Eberhart, was born on a farm in Clayton County, Iowa, near Elkader, April 6, 1864, and when still very young, started to show great skill in sewing, doing all the family sewing at the age of 12, even to making her brothers' and father's clothing. She clerked in a store, and did sewing machine repairing for them on the side, later becoming a full-fledged dressmaker, and milliner. In 1901 she and Joseph C. Meyer were married in Elkader, Iowa, Dec. 4, 1901.

In the spring of 1902, Mr. Meyer came to this community, and took a homestead, building part of a house; Mrs. Meyer joined him there that fall, and finished shingling the house, while Joe went for cattle.

In 1914, because it was a 5 1/2 mile ride by horseback each way to school for their daughter Josephine, and bad weather so often prevented her going at all, they moved to Hebron. In 1919 they moved to Jonesboro, Ark., after Mr. Meyer had a siege of pneumonia.

In 1922 they returned to their ranch on the Little Missouri, where they remained until 1936, when they retired, and moved to Beach.

Her husband had come to this community back in 1878, when he was 16 years old; he hunted, dressed and cured game meat to sell to the gold seekers in Deadwood, S.D., and later supplied game meat for construction crews building the Northern Pacific railroad, when they were stationed in the Medora vicinity. In his horse raising and trading about the country, he was usually in company with is friend, Ben Bird of Medora, who is one of the few remaining Texas trail herd cowboys.

Mrs. Meyer devoted herself to her favorite occupation of fancy-work, for many years, lavishly giving away much of her handiwork, and teaching many the craft. She had many friends, and always endeared herself to them by her generosity and kindness. She was noted for her sense of humor, always enjoying a joke, giving or taking.

~The Golden Valley News; Beach, North Dakota
Thursday, March 2, 1950

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