William Coenen

COENEN

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Date: 1/26/2018 at 23:42:40

Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette pg 8 Monday April 14, 1884
WILLIAM COENEN.
The Old Soldier and Fireman Laid to Rest.
The Funeral Yesterday.
One of the largest funerals ever known in this city was that of the late Wm. Coenen yesterday, there being nearly three hundred firemen in line, followed by over ninety carriages.
The firemen met at the city hall at 10:30 a.m. and marched to the late residence of the deceased on the west side, where the remains were placed in the hearse and the march taken up again for the east side. As the procession started, the fire bell tolled, and continued to do so until it had passed. The procession went up First avenue until arriving in the vicinity of the college, where the pall bearers composed of six members of the Independent Hose Co. of which he was a member, took a carriage and followed the remains to Marion, and the procession broke up, nearly all the people returning home. At the cemetery in Marion there was a large number of the citizens in waiting, and short services were held at the grave.
"Bill" as everybody knew him, had been a member of the fire department fifteen years, and was, we understand one of the charter members. He was also an old soldier, a member of the 13th Iowa, and at the time of his death was forty-one years of age. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn his loss.

The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette pg 4 Marion Local News
Tuesday April 15, 1884
The late Wm. Coenen was a member of the 9th Iowa Infantry, and not the 13th, as erroneously stated in the GAZETTE of yesterday. He leaves five children instead of three.

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