HAES, Amelia (Moerke) 1854-1939

HAES, MOERKE, ZEISMER, VIRCHOW, DUNLAP

Posted By: Diane M Scott (email)
Date: 11/7/2011 at 12:00:18

Amelia (Moerke) Haes – May 3, 1854 – October 30, 1939

MRS. AMELIA HAES RITES TO BE HELD IN GARNER NOVEMBER 2.

Pioneer Iowan Succumbed at Home of Daughter in Garner Monday Night.

Funeral rites for Mrs. Amelia Haes, 85, who died at 10 o'clock Monday night, October 30, at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Zeismer, in Garner, will be held Thursday afternoon.

Short rites will be held at 1 o'clock at the home and at 1:30 p.m. at the St. Paul Lutheran church with the pastor, the Rev. H. R. Wrede, officiating. Pall bearers will be six grandsons, Dean Haes, Leland Ziesmer, Marvin Ziesmer, Galen Haes, Ernest Haes and Frederick Haes. The body will be taken to Grafton for burial beside her husband.

Amelia Charlotte Wilhelmina Moerke was one of nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Moerke. She was born May 3, 1854, before her parents migrated to America, and her birthplace was a village near Arntwalde in the province of Stultzenfeld, Germany. When she was 3 she came with her parents to Jefferson County in Wisconsin. Her father enlisted in the Civil war with the northern army when she was 9 years of age.

After the war, when Mrs. Haes was 15, she came with her parents and six other families in covered wagons to Rock Creek in Mitchell County. The party waited three days at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, to ford the Mississippi River, and after crossing into Iowa encountered much mud before completing their trip in 1869.

May 25, 1875, she was married to Andrew Haes in a little Lutheran church in Mitchell County. They were the second couple to be married in the church. They started farming in Worth County near Grafton and after six years moved to the Corwith vicinity, where they lived three years. Then they bought land near Garner and lived here for 18 years until in 1902, when they moved again to Grafton. It was at Grafton that Andrew Haes died April 25, 1916.

After the death of her husband, Mrs. Haes moved to Garner in 1917 and kept house for Alvin and Julius Haes until in 1920, when she moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where she lived with her daughter, Mina Virchow, until in 1931, when she returned to Garner and has since resided with Mr. and Mrs. Zeismer.

Children left to mourn her passing are Wilhelmina, now Mrs. Virchow of St. Paul; William Haes of Garner, whose twin sister, Martha, died at the age of 1 year; Amollie, now Mrs. Dunlap of Ventura; Henry Haes, of St. Paul; Emil Haes of Garner; Frederick Haes of Waterloo; Magdalena, now Mrs. Zeismer of Garner; Elmer Haes of Garner; Alvin Haes of St. Paul; and Dr. Julius Haes of Vernon Center, Minnesota. Twenty-six grandchildren and a host of friends mourn the death of Mrs. Haes.

November 3, 1939