Edward Niesley died 1892

NIESLEY, SEEBER, HOLLE, RICHARDSON, TRAEGER, FREEMAN, BLATCHLEY, ROWHER

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Date: 6/14/2017 at 09:43:30

The Clinton Daily Age, Clinton, Iowa, April 6, 1892

SILENT REAPER

Edward Niesley

Just in the prime of early manhood. Just when the gates of a happy manhood should be opened, just when life should be filled with greatest promise and prosperity dawning, then it was that Edward Niesley, a noble young man, was called upon to leave this world and all its brightness, to enter the unknown beyond, yet buoyed up with the hope of a blessed immortality.

At the home of his parents, Mr. and Mr. John Niesley, at 220 Third Avenue, Sunday afternoon, his broad brow took on the placid look of death, and his friends were weeping over the clay, spirit having fled.

Over a year ago, when la grippe was raging in Chicago, he was taken ill, and from its ravages he never recovered, consumption following steadily with its only and sure verdict. Some fifteen years ago he began the barber business with his brother-in-law, Louie Seeber, where he remains a long time, going subsequently to Chicago, and that little he was able to work after returning being with Will Holle, and ‘tis duty to a remarkable man to say that his friends were many and bound to him with those strong ties of endless friendship.

The last services over his remains were held at the German Lutheran Church, of which he was a member, at 2 this afternoon, to which friends are invited. The regard in which he was held by his business associates is best told in the fact that the following six young barbers will act as pallbearers today: Henry Richardson, Leo Blatchley, George Freeman, Fred Rowher, Charles L. Holle, Edward Traeger, and it is quite likely many of the shops will close during the service.