SINN, Eleanora LANG GESSERT 1826-1909

SINN, GESSERT, COBLEIGH, KIDD, BOYER, KRIENER, LANG

Posted By: Debbie Nash (email)
Date: 11/16/2003 at 12:37:03

Admin. note: The first obituary below was contributed in May, 2014, by Sherri (shlymeck@att.net); the remaining obituaries were Debbie Nash's transcriptions.

The Fairfield Daily Ledger
Wednesday, January 13, 1909
Col. 4

Death of an Aged Woman.

Mrs. Eleanora SINN died at the home of a son, J.A. SINN, in Walnut township Saturday morning. She was stricken with paralysis the Thursday previous and was unable to rally from the attack. She was a native of Germany, born at Oppenheim, and was eighty-two years of age. Growing to womanhood, she was married to Wilhelm GESSERT, and with him came to Iowa, in 1856. The husband died here and she was afterwards married to George SINN, who passed away in Walnut township in 1881. Mrs. SINN was the mother of eight children, seven of whom are living-G.P. and E.H. GESSERT and Mrs. Helen COBLEIGH at Salida, Col., Mrs. Louise KIDD and L.W. SINN at Denver, Col., J.A. SINN in this county, and Mrs. G.W. BOYER in Pottawattamie county. She became a resident of Jefferson county shortly after her removal to Iowa and was a pioneer woman of Walnut township. With a wide acquaintance among the early settlers of northeastern Jefferson county, she had many friends who will regret her death, for she was an excellent woman. The body was interred Monday in the Lower Richwoods cemetery.

[Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I am not related.]

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“The Fairfield Tribune"
Wednesday, January 20, 1909
Page 8, Column 1

Elnora LANG, born Nov. 24, 1826 in Oppenheim on the Rhine, Hessen Darmstadt, Germany. On 14 March 1854 married to Wilhelm GESSERT whose birth place was Nierstein, Germany. On 11 April they emigrated, landing in New York the 30th day of May 1854. After a few weeks’ visit in New York, St. Louis and Keokuk, they came to Lowell, Henry County, Iowa, where William GESSERT engaged in the milling business, on the 21st day of August 1854. On the 6th day of October 1855, they moved to Germanville, Jefferson County, Iowa, where they engaged in farming. On the 1st day of February 1861, Wilhelm GESSERT died, after an illness of four years. To this union five children were born, four of whom survive their mother, the other one dying in infancy. On 25 Feb. 1862 Mrs. Elenora GESSERT was married to George SINN, after which they moved to Lower Richwoods, on 7 Apr. 1864, where they engaged in farming. On 22 Aug. 1880 George SINN died. To this union four children were born, three of whom survive their mother, the other one dying in infancy. In Sept. 1885, Mrs. Elenora SINN, with her youngest son, L. W. SINN, moved to Fairfield, Iowa. In 1897 they moved to Ottumwa, in 1901 to Albia, then in 1902 they moved to Des Moines. In 1905 she again moved to Lower Richwoods, where she made her home with her oldest son, J. A. SINN, until her death, Jan. 9th (sic - 7th on her gravestone)..... Buried in Lower Richwoods cemetery Jan. 11, 1909. Leaves seven children, 11 grandchildren, one great-grandchild, one sister, Mrs. Michael KRIENER, and brother G. P. LANG, of Ottumwa, Iowa.

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“The Fairfield Journal"
Monday, February 8, 1909
Page 3, Column 2

JANUARY HISTORY,” by H. Heaton. The mortuary list includes Mrs. Elenora SINN, in Walnut Township, on the 9th. Mrs. SINN was born in Germany and was the eldest sister of Philip LANG of Ottumwa. She came to this county in 1856 and was 82 years old.

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