Abraham “Abram” Bechtel (1817-1906) Alternate

BECHTEL, JOHNSON, STECHER

Posted By: Eileen Reed (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:41

November 14, 1817 --- April 1, 1906

A LONG USEFUL LIFE.

Obituary of Abraham Bechtel, Who Passed Away Sunday.

Abraham Bechtel was a native of Germany, being born at Baden, in the year 1817, on the 14th of Nov. He passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. P. Johnson, of Glidden, Sunday evening at 8 o'clock, April 1, old age being the cause of his demise.

A short funeral service was held at the home at Glidden before the funeral party took their departure for this city on Tuesday. Funeral services were held here in the Methodist church Tuesday afternoon, Reverends Hastings and Sletten having charge of the services. Quite a number of the friends of the deceased and of the family attended the services. Burial was made in Rosa Hill cemetery along the side of his wife who had proceeded him.

Abraham Bechtel came to this country in the year 1836, and after having worked thru the eastern states for several years he came out West and located at Dubuque, where he maintained his residence for a great number of years. In 1849 [1852] he was married to Miss Freidicia [Fredericka] Stecher at Pittsburg. To this happy union was born three children, one of whom has passed into the Beyond. There survives him a son H. A. Bechtel, of Minneapolis, and Mrs. A. P. Johnson, of Glidden. He was a faithful member of the German Lutheran church. His life was an exemplary one and the world has been made better by his having passed more than four score years upon it.

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Card of Thanks.
We wish to thank our many friends for their many kind expressions of sympathy extended to us at the time of the death of our father, Abraham Bechtel. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Johnson

The Times-Gazette --- Eagle Grove, Iowa
April 6, 1906

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[Notes: Transcribed as published. 1870 U. S. Census for Dubuque Ward 2, Dubuque, Iowa Name: Abraham Bechtel Age: 49 Birth Year: abt 1821 Birthplace: Baden Occupation: Saloon Keeper Inferred Spouse: Fredricka Bechtel Inferred Children: Henry Bechtel 15, Wilhelmina Bechtel 13. 1880 U. S. Federal Census Iowa-Chickasaw-Lawler-District 123 Name: Abraham Bechtel Age: 59 Birth Date: Abt 1821 Birth place: Baden Relationship to Head of House: Self (Head) Spouse’s Name: Fredericka Bechtel Father’s Birthplace: Baden Mother’s Birthplace: Baden Occupation: Keeps Restaurant Enumerated: 1st day of June, 1880. 1900 U. S. Federal Census Iowa-Wright-Eagle Grove-District 164 Name: Abraham Bechtel Age: 78 Birth Date: Nov 1821 Birth Place: Germany Home in 1900: Eagle Grove, Wright, Iowa Relationship to Head of House: Head Marital status: Married Spouse’s Name: Fredericka W. Bechtel Marriage Year: 1852 Father’s Birthplace: Germany Mother’s Birthplace: Germany Enumerated on 6th day of June, 1900. U. S., Evangelical Lutheran in America Church Records, 1781-1969 Name: Abraham Bechtel Record Type: Burial Death Date: 1 April 1906 Burial Date: 3 April 1906 Death Age: 88½ Death Place: Glidden, Ia. Birth Place: Tyskland Church Name: Eagle Grove Lutheran Church Location: Eagle Grove, Iowa.]

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[Note: Iowa, Death Records, 1920-1940 for Wilhelmina Elizabeth Johnson Date of Birth: Jul 21, 1857 Date of Death: Aug. 26, 1924 Age: 67 Years 0 Months 25 Days Husband: A. Johnson Occupation: Housewife Birthplace: Dubuque, Iowa Father: Abram Bechtel Birthplace: Germany Maiden Name of Mother: Wilhelmina Stecher Birthplace: Germany Informant: H. A. Johnson Address: Glidden. Place of Death: St. Anthony Hospital Glidden, Carroll County, Iowa.]