Lang, Mrs. Gustav (Amelia) 1849-1930

LANG, JANTZ, RICHARDSON, CHATSWORTH

Posted By: Janet M Schuldt (email)
Date: 12/23/2017 at 16:20:24

Le Mars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, Le Mars, Plymouth, Iowa Tuesday, February 18, 1930

EARLY STANTON SETTLER DEAD

MRS. GUSTAVE LANG CAME TO PLYMOUTH COUNTY SIXTY YEARS AGO

Another pioneer answered the call when Mrs. Gustav Lang died in Merrill on Wednesday, February 12, at the age of nearly eighty-one years, following a lingering disability. Mrs. Gustav Lang was christened Amelia Jantz. She was born In West Prussia, Germany, June 13, 1849, and came to America when a child of four years, the family establishing a home in Watertown, Wis. Later they moved to Reedsville, Wis., where her marriage to Gustav Lang took place in 1867. Mr. and Mrs. Lang came to Plymouth county two years later, taking up a homestead in Stanton township. Here they lived and worked continuously for thirty-seven years.

Here also ten children were born, of whom six are living. In 1906 they retired from the farm, moving to Merrill, where they have since lived and- had rounded out sixty-three years of wedded life when death separated them.

The survivors include the aged husband, two daughters, Mrs. Bertha Richardson, of Aberdeen, S. D, and Mrs. Rose Chatsworth, of Alexandria, S. D.; four sons, William, Albert and George, of Merrill, and Henry, of Brandt, S. D., twenty-three grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren-. The funeral was held Saturday, February 15, in the Merrill Methodist church with Rev. A. F. Schuldt officiating Burial in Stanton Cemetery.