Ober, Henry 1834 - 1918

OBER, KNOWLTON, CROCKETT

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 8/5/2024 at 10:34:35

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer Dec. 6, 1918, FP C3

Old Settler Dead.
Mr. Henry Ober died at the home of his daughter in Rugby, N. D., Wednesday morning, Dec. 4, 1918. The remains will arrive in Lime Springs Friday evening and the funeral will be held Saturday at 10 a. m. A brief service will be held at the cemetery, conducted by Rev. Shoemaker of the M. E. church. An obituary notice will be published next week.—Lime Springs.

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer Dec. 13, 1918, P6 C3-4

OBER.
Henry E. Ober was born on Dec. 31, 1834, in Topsam Vermont, coming wet in 1852 and to Howard county in 1856, filing on land where the city of Lime Springs is now located. After selling his homestead he bought a farm at the Old Town. Was married Nov. 29, 1860, to Esther Knowlton. Three children were born, two dying in infancy. One daughter, Mrs. Seldon Crockett with whom he made his home for the past year at Rugby, North Dakota, survives him, his wife having died four years ago, on Dec. 8, 1914. Mr. Ober passed away at the home of his daughter, on the evening of the 3rd of Dec. 1918 and the body was brought to Lime Springs to be laid to rest beside the loved ones who have preceded him. The funeral services was held on Saturday morning Dec. 7, at 10 o’clock, Rev. G. M. Shoemaker having charge of the service and members of the M. E. church choir saneg “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me,” and “The Sweet Bye and Bye.”
Mr. Ober is remembered by many as a man of integrity and a kind neighbor. A strange co-incidence in connection with the passing of this old settler was that his body was laid away in the same cemetery only four hours before that of anotherold{sic} friends and neighbor, Mr. Reynolds, whose body was brought here for burial from Spokane, Washington.
The body of Mr. Ober was accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Crockett and her husband, from Rugby, North Dakota, to Lime Springs.

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