PFC Daniel Moeller (1890-1918)

MOELLER, OSTERT, EHL, PORTH

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 3/24/2010 at 19:39:21

Maquoketa Excelsior-Record, Maquoketa, Iowa, December 5, 1918

PFC Daniel Moeller Pays Supreme Sacrifice

Killed in Action on November 4th

On last Sunday evening, December 1st, Mrs. Maria Moeller received the sad news of the death of her son, PFC Daniel Moeller, who was killed in action in France on November 4th.
He left Maquoketa on April 26 and was sent to Camp Dodge and later was transferred to Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas, where with several weeks hard drill on the rifle range, he became an expert marksman and was sent to England, arriving there shortly before July 4th. He was then sent to France where he saw active service in the trenches for about seven weeks before he gave his life as many others have for humanity to live forever from toil and care.
Deceased was born near Green Island, Iowa, on February 11, 1890. He was baptized and confirmed in the Evangelical Lutheran Church. With these influences and the constant teachings of a loving, Christian mother, he was an honest, upright loving son and brother, ever kind and helpful to his mother, who has been an invalid for thirty years and who greatly mourns, but bravely bears the loss of her son. He acted as a father to the younger brothers and sisters and from the time he was nineteen years old, with the assistance of his sisters and younger brothers, cared for the invalid mother. He worked and managed the farm near Maquoketa for several years before entering the Army. He spent the last few years as a successful carpenter and contractor.
Daniel was a great lover of music and athletic activities, was an agreeable companion, well known and well liked by many. He was one of a family of sixteen children, two brothers having died in childhood. Surviving him are six sisters: Mrs. William Ostert, Mrs. William Ehl, Mrs. Alfred Porth and Helena of Davenport, Amelia and Martha at home and seven brothers, Adam, Gustave of Burlington, Laurence of Preston, Henry and Paul of Camp Harrison, Indiana, Walter at home and Carl of Fulton, Iowa, all of whom deeply grieve over the loss of their brother.