Wenzel Jay Ullman (1860-1951)

ULLMAN, CLOW, GARDNER, BROWN, HENDERSON

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Date: 6/12/2021 at 21:05:24

W. J. Ullman, Early Paullina Resident, Buried here Sunday

W.J. Ullman, 90, who moved to this community in 1884, died on May 4 at the home of a daughter, Mrs. James Gardner, Kinbrae, Minnesota. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, May 6, in the Bensen Funeral home at Worthington, Minnesota at 1:00 with the Rev. C.R. Kruse, pastor of the Presbyterian church there, officiating. Followed by services held here at the Methodist church at 3:00 with Rev. W. V. Bell and Rev. C. R. Kruse officiating. Interment was in Prairie View Cemetery, Paullina.

Wenzel Jay Ullman was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Ullman at Dachau, Austria, on June 4, 1860 and came to this with his parents, who took up farming near Edgewood, Iowa.

He was married to Ida Clow at Independence on July 4, 1882. The young couple farmed for two years near Winthrop before moving to a farm three miles east of Paullina in March, 1884. This was their home for twenty-four years. In 1918 he retired from farm work and bought a home in Paullina where they lived until Mrs. Ullman died in 1935. Since that time he has made his home at Kinbrae with his daughter, Mrs. James Gardner.

He joined the Methodist church in Paullina in the early days and retained his membership until his death.

Mr. Ullman is survived by his six children: Mrs. James Gardner of Kinbrae, Minnesota; Roy Ullman of Brookings, South Dakota; Mrs. Edwin Brown, DeLeon Springs, Florida; Perry Ullman, Salem, Oregon; W. Jay Ullman, Hettinger, North Dakota and Mrs. George Henderson of Salem Oregon. He is also survived by 23 grandchildren and 27 great grandhildren. Other survivors include four sisters and seven brothers.

Paullina (Iowa) Times, 10 May 1951