Andresen, Anna Elfriede 1834-1907

ANDRESEN, ANDREESEN, ANDERSEN, BARTELS

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/21/2015 at 11:37:02

Note: Sometimes older newspapers and gravestones aren't always correct, so it is now believed (after much research) that the family name is actually Andresen.

ANDREESEN--At the family home, west of Akron, Friday, October 18, 1907, Mrs. Christian Andresen, aged 73 years, 5 months, and 27 days.

After an illness of about three months, death came as a relief to the infirmities of age.

Anna Elfriede Bartels was born March 22, 1834, in Henningstedt, Holstein, Germany, where she was baptized and confirmed in the German Lutheran church. There she married Christian Andresen in 1854, and this union was bless with fourteen children--five sons and nine daughters.

Surviving are the aged husband (who is now critically ill); three sons, H. Christ. and Henry, of this vicinity, and John, of Beresford; and four daughters, Mrs. Henry Boetger, Mrs. Carl Brown, west of Akron, Mrs. Ed Hines, of Madison, S. D., Mrs. Henry Schutte, of Carpenter, S. D. Deceased leaves one brother, Frank Bartels, of Clinton county, Iowa, and one sister in Germany.

In 1881, the family came to America, settling at Clinton, Iowa, where they lived three years. Then they came to Union County, S. D., which has been the family home for the past twenty-three years. Mrs. Andreesen lived a long and useful life, one filled with noble deeds and helpfulness to those about her-a kind, loving, faithful wife and mother.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Fred Meske in the Akron German Lutheran church Monday afternoon. Interment in Riverside Cemetery.

Akron Register Tribune
Thursday, October 24, 1907
Akron, Iowa