MRS. ANNA REUTER

VON SEGGERN, REUTER, OTTEN, ANDERSON

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Date: 1/7/2002 at 15:55:31

Leon Reporter
June 6, l895

MRS. ANNA REUTER died at the home of her
daughter, MRS. F. VON SEGGERN,
McClure, Henry County, Ohio, May 28, l895.
The subject of this sketch
was born in Braka Oldenburg, Germany, April
28, l834. She was married
to MR. CARL REUTER in the year of l855 at
Lake Hanover, Germany; she was
left a widow in l879, the same year she came
to the United States,
bringing with her her two youngest children,
ERUSHNA and ANNA. The
former, wife of HENRY OTTEN and the latter of
WILLIAM ANDERSON, of this
city. She also leaves a son, HENRY REUTER.

MRS. ANNA REUTER and her children settled in
New York City, remaining
there eight years. In the year of l884 she
came to Leon, Iowa. MOTHER
REUTER, as she was familiarly called was a
good mother, kind neighbor
and loved by all who knew her. She joined
the Lutheran Church in
Germany at the age of l4 years, and remained
a member of the same until
the year l885 when she joined the
Presbyterian Church of this city and
lived in the same until her death. She was
laid to rest May 30, l895,
in the McClure Cemetery.

Asleep in Jesus! blessed
sleep,

From which none ever wakes to
weep!

A calm and undisturbed
repose,

Unbroken by the last of foes.

Asleep in Jesus! far from
thee,

Thy kindred and their graves
may be;

But thine is still a blessed
sleep,

From which none ever wake to
weep.

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