Nicholas Schlarb (1903)
HOLDERBAUM, SCHLARB
Posted By: Judy Wight Branson
Date: 7/26/2004 at 16:24:41
The Madison County Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, November 12, 1903
Page 1The following obituary notice we take from the Earlham Echo. Mr. Nicholas Schlarb, the subject of the sketch was one of the old settlers of Madison county and was a worthy man in all respects, greatly respected and esteemed by all who knew him:
Nicholas Schlarb was born in Neiderhausen, Germany, January 31, 1832 and died October 31, 1903, being 71 years and 9 months of age.
He came from his native land in 1857, settling in Holmes county, Ohio, where he was united to Eliza Holderbaum, on January 17, 1859. To this union were born six children, all of whom were present at the father's death, except one, who died in infancy. The wife and mother preceded him to the better land nine years ago.
Mr. Schlarb was confirmed and received in the German Lutheran church in early youth. He was loyal to his church and family, and practiced the teachings of God's word as he understood it. He removed from Ohio in 1868 and settled in Penn township, Madison county; where he lived for 35 years on the farm where he died.
Uncle Nick as he was familarly called, was a man of honest and upright character, respected for his integrity and his accomodating disposition. The children and other near relatives whose hearts are now overwhelmed with grief, can have assurance of the sympathy of all in their hour of sorrow. Mr. Schlarb had been in declining health for several years and with his iron constitution and determined will he fought it to the last.
Funeral services were held in the Penn Center M. E. church on Monday, the second day of November, 1903, conducted by Rev. Borchers of the German Lutheran St. Paul church of Des Moines. Amid a profusion of beautiful flowers and wreathes and a great concorse of people, the remains were laid in its last resting place beside his wife in the Penn Center cemetery. Thus has another old land mark passed away.
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