Meyn, Herman 1841-1879

MEYN, RUSH, SOHL

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:34

Meyn Herman born Feb 3, 1841 died Dec 7, 1879 buried in St. John’s cemetery Boyden IA.

Also his son Johann Adolph born Jan 31, 1875 died Dec 17, 1879. Also daughter Katharina Margaretha dau of Herman born Sep 20, 1868 died Dec 9, 1879, Also Carl Wilhelm Johann born Jun 21, 1871 died Nov 29, 1879.

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The Independent of Dec 13, 1879
Deaths Herman Mein (Meyn) of Sheridan died Saturday and was buried Monday, Father Dean an old and respected resident of Sheridan died Wednesday of last week. Four deaths in five days including those mentioned last week, all diphtheria. Others of Herman Meins family are not expected to recover.

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The Sioux County Independent of Dec 20, 1879
Herman Mein (Meyn) living ten miles west of Sheldon, died of diphtheria last Sunday. The sabbath previous he had buried a child which died of the same disease. The day before Mr. Mein died just as Dr. Lansing the attending physician arrived, he died as his friends supposed, and he was to all intents and purposes a corpse. Dr. Lansing with the consent of Mrs. Mein, hastily and very successfully opened his wind-pipe when the supposed corpse roused up and commenced to improve, which continued eighteen or twenty hours when he commenced growing weak, and in thirty six hours from the time the operation had be performed died, but in the meantime had slept several hours, made his will, and rested quite easy, passing away without a struggle and apparently without any pain. Of-course he could not speak, but wrote upon a slate. The successful manner in which the operation of reaching and opening the wind-pipe was performed reflects real credit upon the skill of Ft. Lansing, who thinks had the operation been performed before the patient had become so weak, that he would have recovered. There are five children left in the family, three of whom are now suffering from diphtheria. One will not recover with the chances about equal with the other two.

Research note: In a family report on Ancestry.com (by others) Herman Meyn born 13 Feb 1841 Hannover Germany died 7 Dec 1879 Sheridan Tsp, Sioux County IA. His wife was Anna Katie Rush 13 Aug 1833 Hanover Germany died 19 Nov 1910 Matlock IA Children listed were – Katharina Margaritha Meyn 1868-1879, Johann Carl Meyn 1871-1879, Adolph Meyn 1875-1879. Herman and his three children died of diphtheria. It appears that Anna his wife may have married Peter Sohl before or after Herman Meyn and had one child Heinrich Sohl