Braun, Peter Michael 1886-1910

BRAUN

Posted By: Linda Ziemann (email)
Date: 3/28/2006 at 19:22:54

Source: LeMars Sentinel newspaper
Dated Tuesday, March 29, 1910

DEATH OF PETER BRAUN

Peter Michael Braun died at his home on Sixth street on Friday, after a long
illness of consumption aged about twenty-four years. He had been a sufferer
from consumption for the past three years, medical treatment and nursing
failing to bring him any relief or to stay the ravages of the dread disease.
He spent some time a year ago at the Oakdale sanitarium for consumption at
Iowa City but came home again after his case was pronounced hopeless. He
bore his suffering with fortitude and equimianty and faced the inevitable
with resignation although aware for a long time that his earthly career was
doomed to an early close. The deceased was the only son of Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Braun, who have lost three children in addition to him by the same
disease. He lived nearly all his life in LeMars having been born in this
city March 4, 1886, and was reared and educated here. On leaving school he
went to work in a printing shop and worked at his trade in the LeMars
Sentinel and LeMars Globe Post offices and subsequently in Wakefield, Neb.

He leaves besides his parents two sisters to mourn his loss, Christina and
Clara who live at home and a half sister, Mrs. Jesse Rounds of Onawa.