Julie Elizabeth Baumgartner Arbogast 1836-1907

ARBOGAST, BAUMGARTNER

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 4/22/2012 at 21:52:46

Mrs. Elizabeth Arbogast Dead
Mrs. Elizabeth [Julie Elizabeth Baumgartner] Arbogast, who made her home with her son, Fred Arbogast, of Freedom township, was found dead in bed Sunday morning. She retired Saturday evening apparently in the best of health. Sunday morning she did not get up as usual. The members of the family thought she was sleeping. Later they went to her room and found her dead; she had evidently passed away during the night. She had been in South Dakota visiting and came home a few days before she died.

The funeral will be held today. Services will be conducted at the Congregational church at 1:30. The remains will be brought to Estherville on the afternoon train for burial. The deceased is, as we understand, survived by ten or twelve grown sons and daughters, several of whom reside in this vicinity. Among them are Chris, Johns, Lewis and Fred, well known to our readers.

Mrs. Arbogast was born in Switzerland in October, 1833 [per cemetery records, 1836]. Hence she was 74 years of age. She led an exemplary life and she lived to a ripe old age. The survivors have the sympathy of all in their sorrow. Emmetsburg Democrat (Estherville Democrat, Estherville, IA, November 20, 1907)

Mrs. John Arbogast Dead
The news of the death of their mother which occurred some time Saturday night, was a terrible shock to the Arbogast family. She retired about nine o’clock feeling as well as usual and in the morning she was found dead in her bed. She was troubled with a weak heart for some time but there were no indication of anything unusual in her condition Saturday, so that her death was a great surprise to her family and friends. Funeral services will be held in the Congregational church today and the remains taken to Estherville this afternoon for burial beside that of her husband. She was 71 years of age. – Emmetsburg Tribune (Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, IA, November 13, 1907)