Rumbolz, David, 1851-1941

RUMBOLZ, PFITZENMEIER

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/18/2022 at 18:08:16

From the Rock Valley Bee, June 20, 1941:

Old Settler Is Called Beyond

Charles Gayer, Sr., Fred Gayer, their sister Mrs. Fred Klein, and John Ranschau were at Mitchell, S.D., Tuesday to attend the funeral of the late David Rumbolz, 89, who came to this country in 1886 on the same ship, the Eider, on which the Gayer family sailed for this country. That was 55 years ago. He came with his uncle and worked in this vicinity for several years before locating on a homestead on North Dakota where he prospered.

After his wife died on Thanksgiving day, 1918, he went to live with his brother and wife and stayed with them until they, too, passed on, when he went to Ethan, S.D., to make his home with his niece, Mrs. Schumacher.

Funeral services were held in Zion Lutheran church in Mitchell, S.D., at 9:30 A.M. Tuesday, and burial was in a country church yard 10 miles south of Mt. Vernon, S.D.

Mr. Rumholz came from the same province in Germany as the Gayer family, near the Swiss border, as well as the Miller, Younker, Bauder, Studer and other families who have become prominent citizens of this locality. He was highly thought of by all who knew him.

[Followed by another paragraph on all the grasshoppers the Sioux County people saw there.]

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RESEARCH NOTES

The South Dakota Death Index on Ancestry.com has David Rumbolz, died 14 June 1941 in Davison County, S.D.

His FindaGrave.com page gives his life dates as 1851-1941; buried in Church of God Cemetery, Davison County, S.D.; spouse Mary Rumbolz (1868-1918). An added note says he was the son of Gottlieb Rumbolz. There is a photo of the joint headstone of David and Mary.

“South Dakota Marriages” [register] on Ancestry.com has groom David Rumbolz, age 62, resident of Ethan, nationality German; bride Mary Pfitzenmeier, age 46, resident of Ethan, nationality German; married in Mitchell, S.D., March 12, 1914. Prior to that, per the 1910 census, he had been living with his brother Christ, his wife Johanna and their family, farmers in Davison County.

In 1930 he was living in Mitchell with his widowed sister-in-law Johanna Rumbolz. They had immigrated in 1895 and were naturalized. In 1940 he was living in Davison County with William C. and Rika Schumaker and their sun, relationship Uncle.