Meisner, Charles 1856-ca1938

MEISNER, MCGHEE, DAVIDSAVER, EHRHARDT, CASSIDY, CONNOR, MCGRUDER

Posted By: SHARON PRATT
Date: 3/18/2004 at 09:19:56

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD HERE LAST THURSDAY FORENOON IN St. JOSEPH'S CHURCH FOR CHARLES MEISNER AND BURIAL WAS IN St. JOSEPH'S CEMETERY, THE REV. FATHER J.P. TAKEN OFFICIATING.

MR. MEISNER WHO HAD BEEN ILL FOR ABOUT THREE MONTHS, DIED HERE AT HIS HOME LAST WEEK TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT FOUR O'CLOCK.

HE WAS BORN HERE IN ELKADER ON MARCH 23, 1856, AND AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH HAD REACHED THE AGE OF 82 YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND 16 DAYS.

FOR MANY YEARS HE LIVED ON A FARM IN BOARDMAN TOWNSHIP WHERE HE AND HIS WIFE, NEE ELIZABETH McGhee, WERE NOTED FOR THEIR HOSPITALITY.

IN 1919 MR. AND MRS. MEISNER AND THEIR ONLY DAUGHTER MARY, MOVED TO ELKADER FOR RETIREMENT, AND IT WAS HERE, ON MARCH 19, 1926 THAT MRS. MEISNER DIED.

MR. MEISNER IS THE LAST OF THE FAMILY OF ERNST AND CHRISTINA MEISNER. BESIDES HIS DAUGHTER, NOW MRS. ANTHONY DAVIDSAVER, MR. MEISNER IS SURVIVED BY TWO GRANDSONS.

CASKETBEARERS WERE GEORGE EHRHARDT, ANDREW AND TOM CASSIDY, EUGENE CONNOR, FRANK McGruder AND P. J. CASSIDY.

FRIENDS AND RELATIVES FROM A DISTANCE WHO ATTENDED THE FUNERAL WERE; MRS. AND MRS. T.J. CALLAHAN, COUNCIL BLUFFS; C.J. AND ANNA DAVIDSAVER, DUBUQUE; MRS. WM. ADAMS, INDEPENDENCE; MRS. ROBERT QUINN OF CALIFORNIA, AND MR. AND MRS. JOHN FREYMAN OF DYERSVILLE.

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