Freiberg, John Jr. 1893-1912

FREIBERG

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Date: 6/6/2017 at 13:07:49

LeMars Sentinel, May 10, 1912

STUDENT IS A VICTIM
HE AND COMPANIONS PARTOOK OF RAW SAUSAGE
OTHERS ARE IN SERIOUS CONDITION
John Freiberg One of Family of Six Suffering from Trichina, Succumbs to the Disease—Two Sisters Are in Precarious State.

John Freiberg, a member of the Freiberg family, several members of which are suffering from the effects of poisoning from eating raw sausage at their home in Struble on Easter Sunday, succumbed on Wednesday morning at three o’clock at a hospital in St. Paul from the effects of trichina.

John was attending a theological seminary in St. Paul. He came home for a vacation at Easter and partook of some sausage which had been prepared by his mother as a treat. He returned to school a few days later and took some of the sausage with him and he and some of his chums ate it, and four of them were sick. Two of the young men are in a serious condition and two are now pronounced out of danger. Five other members of the Freiberg family are still very ill at their home in Struble suffering from trichina. One child, Anna, a girl of twelve years of age, is in a very serious condition and her life is despaired of by the physician in charge of the case. Another daughter, Bertha, aged nine, is also in a serious condition. The other members of the family are slightly better but Mr. Freiberg is a very sick man.

John Freiberg (Jr.) died after four weeks suffering. For the past week he lingered close to the borderland bravely fighting off the grim destroyer, assisted by friends, able physicians and nurses, but all to no purpose.

Rev. C. D. Nuoffer, of the Reading township Lutheran Church near Struble, was constantly at the young man’s bedside and did his utmost to soothe his last moments. He with Edward Wideahoefer and Wm. Moenkenveller, members of the Concordia College faculty, accompanied the body to the home in Struble.

John was born in Germany and would have been nineteen years old had he lived until August 19th. He came to this country with his parents six years ago and has been an honest, faithful, dutiful son, saving all his earnings for a family home. His death is a sad blow to his parents, two brothers and four sisters, who are still so ill with the same disease that they may not be able to even attend his funeral today, Friday, at one o’clock.

The funeral service will be held at St. John’s Lutheran Church, of which he was a devoted member, this afternoon, Rev. C. D. Nuoffer officiating.

His untimely removal has caused a void in the family circle that will be hard to fill, but the end came as peacefully as the close of a beautiful summer day when light fades into night with increasing loveliness.

The family have the sympathy of the entire community.

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Alton Democrat, May 18, 1912

NEWS FROM ALL SOURCES.
The John Freiberg family at Struble was poisoned recently by eating raw or half cooked sausage. As a result, one is dead and two others are in danger of death. John Freiberg Jr. is the one who is dead. He was a student in Concordia College at St. Paul, studying to be a preacher. He was home to spend Easter and took back a quantity of sausage. Later he was taken sick and his case pronounced “trichina.” He died in a St. Paul hospital and the body arrived here and was buried in St. John’s cemetery, the Rev. Nuoffer in charge, last Friday afternoon. Mr. Satterlee, the Ireton undertaker, had charge.

IRETON:
John Freiberg Jr. of Struble has died of trichina at a St. Paul hospital. The sickness was caused by eating fresh sausage while home on Easter Sunday.

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NOTE: Buried St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, Reading Township (Ireton)