FAUST, Leonard G. 1848-1897

FAUST, GOETTEL

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Date: 12/15/2019 at 09:35:22

An Old Resident Passes Away

Died--At his home in this city Monday evening, Feb. 8, 1897, at 6:15 p.m., Leonard G. Faust, aged 49 years.

Mr. Faust, who had conducted the branch store of Martin & Faust at Wellsburg the past dozen years, was taken sick while attending to his duties about this store, and thinking it only a temporary ailment which would soon pass away, he waited until Saturday evening, his regular time for coming home to spend Sunday with his family. Sunday morning he was taken considerably worse and Dr. H. H. Nichols, who has rooms in the Faust residence was summoned to his bedside, and after an examination pronounced him suffering from pneumonia, complicated with Kidney trouble and requested that Dr. I. L. Potter be called in consultation. He grew rapidly worse, and all that skilled medical attention and loving hands could do, it was of no avail, and after a short illness of nine days, he passed quietly away to his eternal reward.

Leonard G. Faust was born near Oswego, Illinois, Feb. 15, 1848. When a young man he left Illinois and came to Lansing, Iowa, where he was married to Miss Emily Goettel, September, 1873. He came to this place shortly after and located on a farm north of town where he remained until 1880 when he moved to this city and engaged in the hardware business with Mr. Ferdinand Martin, under the firm name of Martin & Faust, and this partnership continued up to the time of his death. Shortly after the partnership was formed they established a store at Wellsburg, Mr. Faust taking charge of it, going there on Monday morning and returning home Saturday evening, and the long drive, together with a not over-rugged constitution, he contracted a severe cold which rapidly developed into pneumonia.

He was the father of three children, two of whom died in infancy; Miss Sadie, an accomplished young lady, and her sorrowing mother are left to mourn the loss of a devoted father and husband. His mother, and sisters, Mrs. Wolf, of Aurora, Ill., Mrs. Frank Martin and Mrs. Geo. Marks, Omaha; Mrs. S. Y. Eggerts, of this place; and brother, Geo. Faust, of Omaha; also a large number of relatives were here in attendance at the funeral which took place from the house at 1:30 yesterday afternoon, services being held in the Evangelical church, Rev. Geo. Knoche, officiating, immediately after interment. A large number of relatives and sympathizing friends followed the remains to their last resting place in the family lot in the beautiful Ackley cemetery.

--Ackley World (Ackley, Iowa), 12 February 1897, pg 1