Fred Bothe

BOTHE, GAUSS

Posted By: Beverly Gerdts (email)
Date: 6/13/2025 at 12:07:25

The Wapello Republican, Columbus Junction, IA
Thursday October 19, 1922
Page 3

Taken from the issue of November 26, 1875: Mr. Fred Bothe, a saddle and harness maker of this place, died very suddenly last Monday morning. He slept in his shop and being a single man, boarded with Mr. Geo. Gauss, a baker, next door. He arose early as was his custom, made fire and chopped an armful of wood, and then stepped into the bakery a moment and went out. A few minutes after Mrs. Gauss sent the children to tell him breakfast was ready. They found him in bed and, as they thought, in a deep slumber. They so reported, and me, and Mrs. Gauss at once hurried to his room, feeling sure all was not right. He breathed but two or three time after their arrival. His death is attributed to heart disease.

The deceased was a brother of Mr. Henry Bothe, and has been a resident of this place most the time since the war. He was born in Hagenburg, Germany and came to this country when about seventeen years of age. He was thirty-three or thirty four at the time of his death. He served four years and three months in the army during the rebellion and at its close visited his relatives in Germany. He was a steady, quiet, faithful man and his loss is deeply felt by his relatives and immediate acquaintances.