Margaret Jaeger (1810-1887)

JAEGER, MILLER, TRAUT, RHOMBERG, GEISLER

Posted By: John A wagner (email)
Date: 2/16/2004 at 14:46:47

THE REAPER DEATH
Another of Dubuque’s Oldest Settlers
is Called to Her Last Home.

Mrs. Adam Jaeger, mother of Mr. Adam Jaeger of Jaeger and Rhomberg, died early this morning [4 Jan 1887] at her home on Nineteenth Street. At a little past midnight the soul took its upward flight, leaving the body which for just 77 years it has used as an earthly habitation.
Just 77 years ago on the banks of the Main, in Hesse-Darnstadt in Germany. Mrs. Jaeger first saw the light of day. She was christened Margaret, her father’s name being Miller. When she has grown to womanhood she was married to Mr. Adam Jaeger Sr., with whom she came to this country, and forty seven years ago settled in Dubuque.
Nearly eighteen years since her husband died, and since then she has been living at the old homestead with her married daughter, Mrs. Paul Traut, and her unmarried daughter, Mary. For several years she has been very weak, having several times been afflicted by partial paralysis. For the past week or two she had been gradually sinking until this morning, when the golden thread was snapped which bound her to this life. She leaves tow two sons, Adam and Frank, and four daughters, Mrs. L.A. Rhomberg, Mrs. Charles Geisler, Mrs. Paul Traut and May Jaeger, unmarried. No arrangements have, as yet, been made for the funeral but when made will be announced.

From the Telegraph Herald

Wagner/Jaeger/Gudas (Gudeczauskas)/Bogdan Families
 

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