Agnes Theresa Caroline Bauer 1859 - 1945

BAUER, TOEDT

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/14/2021 at 06:03:45

Sioux City Journal
2 January 1946

Mrs. Agnes Bauer, 86 Resident of Pierson for 60 Years, Dies

Pierson, la. Special: Mrs. Agnes Bauer, 86, died Monday at her home near Pierson after a short illness.

Born in Germany, December 9, 1859, she came to the United States in May 1879. She lived in the Pierson community for more than 60 years.

Survivors are five daughters, Mrs. Emma Riemenschneider of Sioux City, Marie, Ella and Elsa of Pierson and Mrs. Adela Horderson of Hinton, la.; four sons, William of Minnesota, Carl and Henry of Pierson, and Julius of Kingsley; one brother, John Todd of Correctionville. Ia. and one sister, Frieda Todd of California.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m. Thursday at the home and at 2 p. m. in the Salem Lutheran church. Rev. A. E. Guetzlaff will officiate. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery near Pierson. The Osborn funeral home of Pierson will be in charge.

Kingsley News
3 January 1946

Mrs. Agnes Bauer, aged 86, a long time resident of this community, died at her home five miles southeast of Kingsley last Monday morning.

Mrs. Bauer had been in failing health for several weeks. She contracted influenza and bronchial pneumonia a short time ago.

Mrs. Bauer was born in Germany, December 9, 1859, and came to the United States in May 1879. She lived in this community over sixty years.

Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Emma Riemenschneider of Sioux City, Marie, Ella and Elsa, of Pierson, and Mrs. Adlea Harderson of Hinton; four sons, William of Minnesota, Carl and Henry of Pierson, and Julius of Kingsley; one brother, John Todd of Correctionville, and a sister, Frieda Todd, of California.

Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 o'clock at the home, and at the Salem Lutheran Church at Rock Branch. Burial will be in the Greenwood Cemetery at Pierson.

Kingsley News
10 January 1946

Agnes Theresa Caroline Bauer, daughter of H. and Margaret Toedt, was born in Burg, on the Island of Fehmarn, Schleswig, Holstein, Germany, December 9, 1859, as one of twelve children, and departed this life December 31, 1945, at her home, aged 86 years and 22 days.

In her twentieth year she reached America and came to the home of her brother at Walnut, Iowa. She was united in marriage on September 23, 1879, at Harlan, Iowa, to Mr. C.H. Bauer. They engaged in farming and lived in that community until 1884 when they bought a farm two miles north of Pierson which has been her home during the remaining sixty-one years of her life.

To Mr. and Mrs. Bauer were born eleven children, nine of whom survive her. Her husband died October 1, 1903.

The surviving children are Wm. H. Bauer of Anoka, Minnesota; Emma C. Riemenschneider of Sioux City; Adela Harderson of Hinton; Julius J. and Henry C. Bauer of Kingsley, Carl H. and Misses Marie F., Elly A., and Elsa L. Bauer all of Pierson.

She had twenty grandchildren, thirty great grandchildren who mourn her death as does also one brother, John Todd, of Correctionville, a sister, Miss Frieda Toedt of California, numerous more distant relatives and a host of friends.

Mrs. Bauer enjoyed fairly good health all her life, aside from a serious illness ten years ago, and a dangerous siege of pneumonia two years ago. Even in her last sickness she at first stoutly maintained that her condition was not serious.

During the night before her death, she developed a high fever and lapsed into a state of coma for three hours before the end, which came at about ten o'clock a.m. of the last day of the old year.

Funeral services were held last Thursday, January 13. A short devotion at the home at one o'clock was followed by the regular memorial service at Salem Lutheran Church and interment was made in the Pierson cemetery, Pastor A.E. Guetzlaff officiating.