Braun, Mrs. Jacob (Maria) 1853-1922

BRAUN, SCHMIDT, MCLAIN, KING, ATTRILL, BETSWORTH

Posted By: Janet Schuldt (email)
Date: 11/1/2009 at 15:07:37

LeMars Globe Post, LeMars, Plymouth, Iowa, USA Thursday, November 23, 1922

Mrs. Jacob Braun Called By Death

Mrs. Jacob Braun, a resident of Ninth Avenue West, formerly High Street, for over twenty years, died there this morning at 9:15. Death was caused by old age. She was 69 years old, October 22. Her husband died two years ago, in May.

Funeral arrangements have not been completed, but the funeral will probably be held Saturday at St. Joseph's church. The body will be inferred in St Joseph cemetery.

Deceased is survived by Peter Braun, Mrs. Walter McClain, Mrs. Earnest Attrill, Mrs. Jerome
Bettsworth, Chris Braun of Sioux City, Mrs. Alvin King of Smithland, Iowa. One daughter, Mrs. Mary Beaulieu died seventeen years ago.

Deceased also leaves a number of brothers and sisters in Germany.

Mrs. Braun, nee Mary Schmidt, was born in Nassau, Germany and was married in her native land, and came to the United States in 1881. They came to LeMars right away and lived in this vicinity ever since. She was a member of the Catholic church.

Mrs. Braun performed her duties as a mother and brought up her children according to the dictates of her faith. She leaves many friends in her part of town and also in the country in the neighborhoods in which she was known.
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November 24, 1922, page 1 column 7, LeMars Sentinel, LeMars, Plymouth, Iowa,USA

Death of Old Resident

Mrs. Jacob Braun had Lived Here Forty-One Years.

Came here as a bride in the Eighties

The deceased had been in falling health since the death of her husband two years ago. Lived for many years in Johnson Township.

Mrs. Jacob Braun, a resident of Plymouth county for the past forty-one years, died at there home on Ninth Avenue, yesterday morning at half past nine, after a long illness. Mrs. Braun had been in poor health ever since the death of her husband which took place two years ago last May. Although not confined to the house, and at times in apparently normal health. Her death was due to a complications of illnesses.

Mrs. Braun had been a resident of Plymouth county since 1881, when she came to this county as a bright. She was born at Etzinger, Germany on October 22, 1853, and was sixty-night years and one month old at the time of her death. She received her early education attended school and grow up in her native place, her maiden name been Mary
Schmidt.

Jacob Braun, a well known farmer in his life time, in Johnson township while on a visit to his former home in Germany, met Mrs. Schmidt and after a short courtship, she became his bride and came with him to Plymouth county and lived on a farm in Johnson township where he ably assisted her husband in the farm work and in the care of her step children and also in the upbringing of their own children. After some years on the farm, they retired and came to LeMars which was their home since.

Mrs. Braun's death is mourned by her step children, who are Peter Braun of John township, Mrs. Walter McLain, residing on a farm in Akron, Mrs. Alvin King, of Smithland, and her own children, Mrs. Ernest Attrill, of Johnson township, Mrs. Jerome Betsworth of LeMars, Chris Braun, of Sioux
City. She leaves a large number o grandchildren and other relatives. A stepdaughter Mrs. Mary Beaulieu, died seventeen years ago.

The funeral will be held on Saturday morning at St Joseph church on Saturday morning and the interment made in the St Joseph cemetery beside the remains of her husband.

Mrs. Braun was a devoted wife and mother and spent her life in good works ministering to the wants of her husband and children. She was a good neighbor always willing to land a helping hand and was respected by all in the community where she lived an honorable life.