Harnack, Ludwig P. 1891-1914

HARNACK, MOHNING

Posted By: Linda Mohning (email)
Date: 1/16/2012 at 07:08:25

DEATH OF YOUNG MAN. Louis Harnack, son of Louis Harnack. Illness.
Louis Harnack, son of Louis Harnack Sr., died Thursday at his home five and one-half miles south of Remsen. The young man was about twenty-three years of age and for the last two years had been afflicted with tuberculosis of the bone.
The summer of 1913 he was quite poorly and was confined to his bed. As cooler weather came the change brought more strength and vigor to him and he was able to make trips to town to consult his physician now and then. In June this year he had a serious relapse and grew steadily worse.
He suffered intensely at times and was completely helpless toward the end. Death was in this case a most welcome relief, even if it ended a young life just at its prime. Louis was second of four children of Mr. and Mrs. Harnack, all of whom are grown up or nearly so. His parents have lived on their place south or Remsen for a great many years and Louis was born and raised there. Until the first appearance of the white plague a couple years ago, he was as sturdy and robust as any youth, but the ravages of the disease soon altered his appearance. Hopes of his ultimate recovery were entertained until a few months ago. His parents, two brothers, Herman and Allison and one sister, Elma [Alma], survive him.
The funeral was held from St. Paul’s Lutheran church Sunday at three o’clock and the remains were interred in the Remsen cemetery. - Le Mars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, Friday, October 2, 1914.
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DEATH TAKES YOUTH. Ludwig P. Harnack was Stricken at the Age of Twenty-three Years.

The relentless hand of death dealt a heavy blow to the family of Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Harnack last week, when Ludwig Peter, their second child and son, a bright, blooming youth of twenty-three years, was taken from them. Death came at two-fifty on the afternoon of Thursday, September 24th, and marked the end of a little more than two years of pain and suffering with tuberculosis of the bones and muscles.
With the best of medical administration and family care, Ludwig seemed to improve slowly during the winter after his first attack, and all last spring and the early part of the summer he was able to accompany his father to town when medical attention was necessary. His condition, however, grew worse this summer and in June he was forced back to the sickbed, which he was unable to leave from that time until his sorrowing relatives and friends followed the body to its last resting place. Words cannot describe the suffering which the lad went through during the past year, nevertheless his former rugged constitution, reinforced by sterling qualities of mind, gave him the power to calmly resign himself to the fate that plainly showed itself inevitable.
Ludwig Peter Harnack was born on the fifteenth day of July, 1891, on the Remsen township farm, five and one half miles southeast of Remsen, which is the present home of the family. He was given the advantages to be derived from the rural schools for a number of years, and his former schoolmates called him an apt, conscientious scholar and his companionship very pleasant. When he left school Ludwig assisted his father and his brothers on the farm where he soon became a great help and a diligent hand. Whenever he came in contact with neighbors and other men of business he displayed, unconsciously, the qualities of character that go to make a true gentleman, and his presence in neighborhood circles was always looked for as an addition to the pleasantries that arose in whatever happy gathering may have been formed. Born of excellent parents, the departed one was possessed of a degree of manhood that makes his absence felt in the neighborhood as well as in the happy home he has been called upon to abandon, and popular sympathy goes out to the bereaved parents, brothers and sisters.
Besides his parents, in the immediate family the memory of the deceased will ever be cherished by his brothers Herman and Allison; and his sister, Alma.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon. The usual services at the home were conducted by Rev. J. E. Birkner at half past one, when the body was brought to St. Paul’s church. Interment was made in the Remsen cemetery, and the day of rest was changed to one of mourning by a throng of sympathizers whose number greatly exceeded the capacity of the house of worship. – Remsen Bell-Enterprise, Oct 1, 1914, page 1, column 5.