Arens, Anna 1821-1904

ARENS, ARENSDORF

Posted By: Bob Arens (email)
Date: 7/29/2005 at 08:51:56

ARENS, ANNA (ARENSDORF) 1821-1904
As translated from the October 11, 1904 Luxemburger Gazette:

Over woman Anna Arens, whose death we reported in the previous issue, we learn belatedly: the deceased was born in Capellen, Luxembourg on June 6, 1821. Her maiden name was (Arensdorff) Arensdorf. In the year 1841 she married Mr. Nikolaus Arens of Olm. In the year 1851 she traveled to America with her spouse and five children. They arrived here in 1851 and with the family lived in St. Donatus, Jackson County Iowa, on a farm where her spouse died on March 9, 1879 . Mrs. Arens however remained on the farm with her four younger children up to the year 1884 and then moved to her daughter and son-in-law, Nikolaus Schroeder in Alton, Sioux County, Iowa, where she remained up to its death. She is survived by eight children, six children preceded her in death. Those surviving are sons: Theodore, Peter, Johann, Karl, Johann Peter, and Mathias Arens and daughters: Maria Anna (Schroeder) and sister Melchiades, head of the St. Joseph asylum in New York. She had been here in June to visit her mother. The deceased was a really Christian woman who took her religious duties very seriously. The funeral was October 3 under very numerous blessings the Catholic God's grace in Alton, Iowa. The pall bearer gentlemen were Nick. Scheckel, M. Bambert, Theodor Hormeier, John Homan, B. Kettler and John D. Schmitt. May the deceased rest in peace! The remaining mourning children are offered our most sincere condolence!

After her husband died, Anna stayed on the farm until 1884 and then sold it to the Thiesen family. In the 1880 federal census, she and her remaining children at home were listed as 'Arnes'.

From the Remsen Belle-Enterprise:
Alton Democrat:-
Mrs. Anna Arens died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Nic Schroeder [Marie Arens] in Alton Friday night September 30 at ten.thirty after a short illness. Mrs. Arens was- born June 6th 1821 at Kapellen Luxemburg Europe, Her maiden name was Anna Arensdorf. At the age of twenty she was united in marriage to Nicholas Arens who lived at Olm Luxemburg. In I 1851 with her husband and five children she came to America and settled on a farm near St. Donatus. 'l'he husband died on March- 9th 1879 and after living on the farm with her four youngest children un till '84 she divided most of her estate among her children and has since lived here with her daughter Mrs. Nic Schroeder. Mrs. Arens was the mother of fourteen children, six of whom were waiting to greet her on the eternal shore. The surviving children are Theodore, John, John Peter and Mrs. Mary Schroeder of Alton, Peter of Remsen, Charley of Woonsocket South Dakota. Math of White Lake South Dakota and Sister Melchiades who is Superintendent of St, Joseph's asylum in New York Citv and who visited her mother here last June. The . funeral was held from St. Mary church Monday morning and was attended by a large concourse of relatives and friends. She was a devout and faithful member of the Catholic church.