Conrad Meis 1828-1913

MEIS, BROOKS, SCHALK, WULFEKUHLE, STARMANN

Posted By: cheryl moonen (email)
Date: 3/25/2018 at 21:04:38

MR. CONRAD MEIS
CALLED BY DEATH
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PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME
IN HICKORY VALLEY
MONDAY MORNING
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Deceased Was One of Dubuque’s
County’s Earliest Settlors
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New Vienna, Iowa, Nov. 27. – Mr. Conrad Meis, one of the oldest settlors of Dubuque County, died Monday morning at 11:30 o’clock, at his home in Hickory Valley, three miles southeast of this place, after an illness of three weeks, death being due to old age he having reached the age of nearly 87 years.

Deceased was born on January 6, 1828 in Westphalia, Germany and came to this county when a young man, coming west to Dubuque and settling on a farm near here. He lived in this county continuously since.

He is survived by his wife, seven children, Wm. Meis of Council Bluffs; Herman, of Ft. Townsend, Wash.; Fred of Battle Lake, Minn.; John of Kimball, S. Dak.; Theresa, Mr. J. L. Brooks, Dyersville; Joseph of Salem, S. Dak.; Margaret, Mrs. Henry Schalk, Petersburg, Nebraska; and two stepchildren, Mrs. S. Kroeger, Worthington; Kate, Mrs. Henry Wulfekuhle, Petersburg, and Henry Starmann at home. He is also survived by three brothers, Meinold Meis of Petersburg, Nebraska; --atz, of Salem, S. Dak.; and W-n?, of LeMars.

Mr. Meis was one of the sturdy, progressive type of early pioneers. Coming here when this country was in its infancy he devoted his labors to the up building and cultivation of the territory in which he settled. He materially aided every good cause for the betterment of conditions in this community and reaped his reward from seeing and enjoying the wonderful advancement of this country from its primitive days to its high state of modern advantages in now enjoys. Mr. Meis was a thoroughly Christians gentlemen and was a practical member of the Catholic Church throughout his life. He was an ideal husband and father and always had the welfare of his family at heart and the sympathy of all is with them in their irreparable loss.

The funeral is being held this Thursday morning at 9:30 o’clock from the family residence to St. Boniface Church, at this place, where requiem mass will be offered after which the earthly remains will be laid to rest in St. Boniface Cemetery.

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