Krause, William 1811-1907

KRAUSE

Posted By: Linda Ziemann (email)
Date: 3/1/2005 at 21:37:02

DEATH OF NONOGENARIAN
William Krause, the oldest Inhabitant of Plymouth
County Dies at Great Age

William Krause, probably the oldest inhabitant of Plymouth county died
last Friday at the home of his grandson Henry Wiebking, in Lincon township,
aged ninety-five years and six months.
Mr Krause was a native of Germany and was born at Kettzern, Pommerania,
on September 21, 1811.
He was united in marriage in the year 1897 to Dorothea Louise Krieu and
in 1867 they came to America and settled in Wisconsin. Two years later they
moved to South Dakota and finally settled in Plymouth county in 1878. Mrs
Krause, who was five years younger to a day than her husband, being born on
September 21, 1816, died on May 23, 1897; aged eighty years and eight
months. The worthy couple enjoyed wedded felicity for sixty years lacking a
few months and ten children were born to them, three of whom died in Germany
and one daughter Emelie in this country. The six living children are August
living in Oregon: Ferdinand, of this city, Fredrich, Mandan, North Dakota,
August, Lincoln township, Mrs Wilhelmina Steinshowers, Bronson, Iowa, and
Mrs Anna Lemke, of this county. There are thirty-one grandchildren and
twenty one great grand-children.
The funeral was held on Monday at the home of Henry Wiebking, and was
very largely attended by old friends and neighbors and the interment was
made in the cemetery of the Lincon Lutheran church.
During his long life, Mr Krause was blessed with splendid health and
hardly knew what sickness was. The day of his death, he came down stairs
from his room and ate dinner with the family. He passed away about six
o'clock in the evening while sitting in a chair and the end of life came to
him as a peaceful sleep.

~Source: LeMars Sentinel, March 8, 1907