Peter HELLWEG

HELLWEG, HILLWEG

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/20/2010 at 18:39:01

Adams County Free Press - Corning, Iowa
11 February 1897

13 March 1817 -- 5 February 1897

Peter Hillweg died in Garner, Hancock county, Iowa, at 8 o'clock, Friday morning, February 5, 1897, aged 79 years, 10 months and 21 days. Deceased was the father of Dr. C. A. and E. W. Hillweg, who are well known to all are [sic] readers. He was the first German Methodist minister in the state of Iowa, and his first charge was at Farmington in 1847. For twenty-eight years thereafter he continued actively at the work. Mr. Hillweg died suddenly, not having been ill until but a short time before his death. It was probably a collapse of the vital forces. His wife and six children, three sons and three daughters, survive him. Of these, Dr. C. A. Hillweg and E. W., who now lives in Des Moines, are well known to our readers. All the children were present at the funeral, which occurred last Sunday afternoon. The pall bearers on this occasion were all ministers, each of whom had known the deceased for twenty years at least.