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Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, July 13, 1882, Page 5.
Mrs. Jennie Abernathy, a colored woman, who has lived in this neighborhood for a great many years, died at her home near Ironton on Friday. She was born in North Carolina, about 1780, and was therefore over a hundred years old at the time of her death.
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, February 14, 1884, Page 5.
DIED--At the residence of her father, J. B. Hampton, Esq., Mrs. Sarah J. Abrams, in the 26th year of her age.
On the 4th day of February, 1883, she was married to Mr. Henry Abrams, who, with an infant child, survive her.
The deceased has been lingering on a bed of sickness for about two months. In the early moments of her affliction she seemed to realize that the "shadows of death" were about her, and she was led to prepare for the hour of dissolution. A few days prior to death, a friend was summoned to her bedside to pray with her, to whom she remarked joyfully, "I've found my Savior!" Those in constant attendance needed not these words of assurance, for there were ample evidences in her calm, sweet resignation to the Father's will.
After earnestly exorting those about her to prepare to meet her where parting would be no more, she died in the full triumph of Christian faith, having opened the door of her heart to Him who stood and knocked. To the bereaved ones we would remark, "Now, no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward, it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby." "For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him."
"Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep!
A calm and undistrubed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes."
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, July 7, 1892, Page 5.
In Memoriam.
June 19th, 1892, REV. NELSON ADAMS went home, aged 83 years and 9 months.
He was born in 1809, in Rowan county, Tennessee. He was married in 1830, in Cumberland county, Tennessee, to Rebecca Stevens, who having borne him fifteen children, twelve of whom survive him, went before him by ten years.
"Into the land of the departed,
Into the silent land."
For his second wife, he choose a worthy widow named Henson, who survives him.
He came to Missouri in 1833. This country was then the paradise of hunters, being overrun with all kinds of wild game. As a hunter he soon won success and fame. In 1840, the hand of a dead child led him to God, and he and his wife joined the church. In 1845 being well approved of by the brethren he was licensed to preach. He was ardently attached to the United Baptist Church. To the promotion of her welfare, he consecrated his heart and his hands with his purse in it. Whilst his strong convictions and vigorous spirit led him into some things which a less resolute man would have avoided, yet the end crowns the work. He was a successful minister of the gospel. This is shown by two facts. Many were added to the church through his labors. And of nine surviving sons, four are zealous ministers. He continued in the work until old age laid him aside.
Being a fearless Union man during the war his Secosh neighbors some of whom will read this communication, drove him and his family away on peril of their lives, stole everything they could carry away, and burnt the rest. But with splendid pluck he returned at the earliest possible day more than repaired his losses, again took his place at the head of every movement that aided in building up the country, and dispensed over all a generous hospitality. Few men have done more to aid the country. To fix the exact status of such a man is no easy task. His faults were those of the times and the community in which he lived, his virtues, neither few nor small, were his own. To say that his end was peace is but to repeat the word of God.
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, 1916.
-Dr. J. Q. Adams Dead (The Steelville Ledger)
This community was shocked on Thanksgiving day when the news was flashed over the town that Dr. J.Q. Adams of Joplin was dead. A telegram to his brother-in-law, Dr. J.T. Wilson, in this city announced the sad news. His death occurred November 30, 1916.
Dr. Adams was a son to Dr. J.R. and Anna DeLacy Adams of Goodland, Mo., and was 40 years of age. Dr. Adams was well known in Missouri having practiced medicine for ten years at Belleview, MO. He moved with his family from Belleview to Mullen, Nebraska, where he resided for eight years, and only recently moved to Joplin, MO.
He was a graduate of the Hospital College of Medicine of Louisville, Kentucky, where he graduated with honors. He wasa bright star in the profession and was eminently successful.
He was a member of the Episcopal Church having with his two daughters, Thelma and Marian, united with this body last May. He was an honored member of the Masonic fraternity, M.of A., and the Woodmen of the World. Here where he attended school and first became acquainted with our people, he met Miss Minnie. Craig, daughter of the late J.R. Craig, of near Cook Station. Friendship ripened into love and the final chapter of this happy and important event in his young days found its completion at the marriage altar.
His remains were shipped to Steelville arriving at 4:30 P.M., Tuesday. They were accompanied by Dr. Wilson and wife; Irwin Adams, of Fresno, Cal.; Sherman Adams, of Goodland, MO; Berlin Adams, of Mullen, Neb. Many beautiful floral offerings accompanied the body, some from Omaha and Mullen, Neb., where he was held in high esteem.
Aside from his children and loving wife, other members of his family as follows survive him: David R. Adams, of Fresno, Cal.; E.M. Adams, of Miles City, Mont.; Mrs. Helen A. Johnson of Lesterville, MO., and Mrs. Lucy Oesch, of St. Louis.
Immediately upon arrival in this city the remains were taken charge of by Lebanon Lodge No 77, A.F. & A.M., and conveyed to the cemetery where a short but impressive funeral service was conducted.
The sympathy of The Ledger and many Steelville friends goes out to the stricken wife and children.
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, Thursday, August 9, 1894, Page 5.
In Memoriam
Died--Walter P. Ake near Marianna, Ark., July 31, 1894. He was the remaining son of Mrs. Mollie Ake, a young man who was intimately known in Ironton, having spent the greater portion of his life here.
The funeral services held here in the Presbyterian Church gave the strongest evidence of how highly esteemed the young man was by the very serious attendance of so large a concourse of people. Young and old testify to a personal loss in the taking away of this well loved friend. He seemed almost like a brother is heard from many of his young companions.
When he was a child sickness brought him very low, and his mother had interceded God for his life, and in his life he made a continual promise to her that he would never make his mother sorrow because she had asked for his life; and it is to her one of the bright spots in the dark cloud that he kept his promise. He was baptized in the Presbyterian church when in his eighth year, acquiescing in the rite himself, and from his mother and also a teacher of his Sunday school class the strongest hope is entertained of this acceptance of God through our gracious Lord.
Walter is gone--cut down in the beginning of life. While there are very sad things connected with his taking off, yet there are two consoling features. He leaves behind the aroma of an untainted life, and for himself he has escaped many sorrows and battles through which he must have passed had he lived the ordinary length of days.
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, November 30, 1882, Page 5.
Died--At Steelville, Crawford county, Mo., on Thursday, November 23d, 1882, WILLIAM AKE, in the 62d year of his age.
The deceased was the eldest brother of the editor, and an old resident of this State. He was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, and came to Missouri in 1852, forst locating at Meramec Iron Works, and then removing to Ironton in 1858. When the war broke out he proclaimed himself a Unionist, ardently supporting that side of the contest and in 1862 he enlisted in the 31st Missouri Vol. Infantry. He served faithfully and well, and was promoted to the position of Orderly Sergeant, which position he held when mustered out of the service. He removed to Crawford county in 1872, where he resided until his decease. He was thrice married, and leaves a wife and three children to mourn his loss. An affectionate husband and father, "a good soldier," and a hard-working man, his memory is such that neither his friends nor kindred need feel shame at its scrutiny. He hath fulfilled his destiny. May his ashes rest in peace forever!
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, May 4, 1882, Page 5.
In Memoriam-John Allison was born June 17, 1816 in Peters township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and died in Arcadia on April 25th, 1882. He was a very quiet, orderly citizen, but not, we believe, a member of any church. In mechanical genius few could excel him.
[Second article, same page] Died--At Arcadia, on April 25th, 1882, at 3:10 o'clock A.M. JOHN H. ALLISON, aged 65 years, 10 months, 8 days.
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, Thursday, August 13, 1903, Page 8.
Christian Amelung died at his home in Pilot Knob last Thursday afternoon after a long and painful illness at the age of 71. The deceased was a good man and was highly respected in the community where he has so long made his home. The remains were interred in the Pilot Knob Cemetery Saturday afternoon.
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri
Christian Amelung was called to his eternal reward at 2:30 p.m. August 6, 1903. Death was due to paralysis, which developed a few months ago. Deceased was born seventy-one years ago, September 26, near Hanover, Germany and came to Jackson, Mo., with his parents at fourteen years of age. He learned the trade of engineering and mechanism at Iron Mountain, from which place he came to Pilot Knob in 1856, filling the position of engineer, machinist and Master Mechanic for the Pilot Knob Co. during the productive years of their management. He was an active member of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church, from which place the funeral services were conducted by Rev. Schlesselmann, and his remains laid to rest in the Pilot Knob cemetery.
He was a good, kind husband, a father in its truest sense, and will long be mourned by the family and the community where he so long faithfully labored. He was married to Johanna Bodenstein in 1852, who with the following children survive him: William and Herman of Pilot Knob; John and Mrs. Edwin Watters, of Iron Mountain; Henry J. of St. Louis, and Edward H., of Saginaw, Mich.
I knew Mr. Amelung for over forty-five years and in all that time he never did an act unworthy a good man. He was truly one of "natures noblemen," and played his humble part patiently, faithfully and cheerfully. He sleeps the final sleep, but the living are the richer and better because of his having been.
Arcadia Valley Enterprise, Arcadia Valley, Missouri, Friday, December 6, 1918, Page 4, 2nd Column.
Mrs. Johanna Amelung of Pilot Knob, died at her home in that place at 6:00 p.m. December the 4th, 1918. She was Miss Johannah Bodenstein, and was born at Hahansen, Germany, February the 9th, 1833, and at the time of her death was 85 years, 9 months and 25 days old. The funeral will be at 2:00 this afternoon, interment will be at the Pilot Knob Cemetery. Mrs. Amelung lived a long and useful life, was consistent member of the Lutheran Church. The Enterprise extends its sympathy to the sorrowing friends left behind.
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, Thursday, December 12, 1918, "Local Brevities,".
Mrs. Johanna Amelung died at Pilot Knob, Mo., Wednesday, December 4, 1918; Mrs. Johanna Amelung, nee Bodenstein, aged 85 years and 10 months.
The subject of this memorial was born in Yerze, Brunswick, Germany and there reared to maidenhood. In 1855 she came to America, and one year later, at Pilot Knob, was united in Marriage to Christian Amelung. To this union were born six children all of whom survive her: William and Henry of Granite City, Ills.; John and Herman, of Pilot Knob; Edward H. of Indianapolis; and Mrs. Ed Waters, of Festus, Mo. Twenty-Eight grandchildren and nineteen great grandchildren have descended from the happy union of sixty years ago.
In 1903 Christian Amelung, the consort of the deceased, after nearly fifty years of connubial felicity, passed to the Great Beyond, regretted by all who knew his honest and kindly nature. Since his death the widow has lived in the care, welfare and happiness of the family, and the children have made good in all the essentials of life and character, vindicating the love and teaching of their parents. They were all present to pay the last sad tribute to the mother who bore them. To them I tender my sympathy in the hour of their bereavement.
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, April 6, 1933, Page 2, (Granite City, Ills. Press-Record).
For the first time in the fifty years of their married life, Mr. And Mrs. Henry J. Amelung were separated Saturday evening. At 7:30 o'clock death called Mrs. Amelung and she passed quietly and peacefully to her last sleep. She had been ill but a short time and had been removed from her home at 2232 Washington Avenue to St. Elizabeth's Hospital less than an hour before her death. At noon she had prepared the family meal. Had she lived until tomorrow, the day of her funeral, she would have been 72 years old.
Mrs. Amelung was a resident of this city for the past 28 years, all of which time she was an active worker in the Concordia Lutheran Church and a member of the Ladies' Aid and Sewing Circle. Last September she and her husband celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary and a special church service was held in their honor.
The funeral services will be conducted at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the Concordia Lutheran Church with the pastor, Rev. Paul Gross, officiating. Until 1:45 o'clock the remains will lie in state at the Mercer Funeral Home for mourners to pay their last respects. Internment will be made in St. John's Cemetery and pallbearers will be L. W. Krieger, Martin Knecht, Fred Winker, Henry Halbe, F. W. Albers and Henry Kahle.
Beside her husband, Mrs. Amelung is survived by six children. They are: Edwin, Walter and Elmer Amelung all of this city; Alfred H. Amelung of Oklahoma City; Mrs. Lydia Ranft of Overland, Mo., and Mrs. Laura Hecht of Coral Gables, Fla. They will be here for the funeral tomorrow. Mrs. Hecht, who lives the farthest away arriving in the morning.
She is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. John Brown of Peekskill, New York, Mrs. Rev. Martin Mangelsdorf of Orchard Farm, Mo., two brothers, Gustave and Herman Gockel of Cleveland, Ohio, and thirteen grandchildren.
Mr. And Mrs. Amelung were married September 3, 1882, in Pilot Knob, Mo. The ceremony was performed by Rev. H. Broemer, pastor of the Lutheran church there.
After living in that community for a few years they moved to St. Louis and in 1889 Mr. Amelung started to work for the Granite City Steel Company here. He commuted back and forth until 1905 when he sought to avoid the trip by renting a home in this city. His search for a residence culminated in the purchase of his present home at 2232 Washington Avenue, where he has lived since.
On September 6, last, the congregation of Concordia Lutheran Church and friends of the aged couple celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary with a special church service. About 300 attended, including their children and grandchildren.
Rev. O. Rothe, pastor, delivered the principal address and administered the church benediction to them. He chose for his theme Joshua's statement in the Bible, "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Rev. Martin Mangelsdorf, brother-in-law of Mrs. Amelung, assisted in the services. Still active and alert at that time the elderly couple walked hand in hand up the platform to the alter and received the benediction with hands clasped together. The picture, as one looked upon them included their children and their children's children as they sat quietly and attentively in the front of the church.
Today, Mr. Amelung is still active, still straight and sturdy, but the loss of his life's companion has bowed his head in deep grief.
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, Thursday, November 18, 1886, Page 5.
Died at the residence of her father, Christian Amelung in Pilot Knob, Missouri on Monday, November 15, 1886, Louisa Amelung, age 16 years and 7 months.
Miss. Amelung was "one of ten thousand." Amiable, intelligent and gifted with all the graces of early womanhood. She was beloved of all. To her parents she was the bright particular star which gave to earth its nearest approach to heaven and they will mourn her departure for a time with the blackness of despair. But it is hoped that with the passing days will come the reflection that she has only gone before to lovingly greet them on their approach to that other shore wither we all are bound.
"She was fair amongst the fairest
With a heart so kind and true
And the brightest smile and whereas
is a diamond kissed with dew.
Radiant with grace and beauty
with sweet heaven in her soft eyes
like a prayer of love and duty
she has ascended to the skies."
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, Thursday, December 7, 1911, "Local Breverities".
The five year old son of Mr. & Mrs. Herman Amelung of Pilot Knob died Tuesday Morning November 28, 1911. The remains were interred in the Pilot Knob Cemetery that evening. The bereaved parents have much sympathy in their sorrow.
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, Thursday, October 10, 1940, Page 1 (Front page).
Mrs. Herman Amelung died early Tuesday.
Mrs. Mary Amelung, nee Schleuter, wife of Herman Amelung, of Pilot Knob, passed away at her home in the Knob Tuesday morning at 2:45 o'clock, following an illness of nearly two years. Mrs. Amelung was 61 years of age.
Daughter of the late Chas. Schleuter, who with his wife, were pioneer residents, the deceased was born and reared in Pilot Knob, where she has lived through all the intervening years.
Besides her husband, she is survived by two daughters, Miss. Nellie of Pilot Knob, Mrs. Edw. Hall, of Ironton, five sons, Herman and Henry, of Pilot Knob, and Herbert, Oscar, and Warren, of Pacific, to whom the Register offers every sympathy in this, their sad hour of bereavement.
All the children will be present for the last rites, which will be conducted from the Lutheran Church in Pilot Knob this (Thursday) afternoon at 2 o'clock, with interment in the Pilot Knob cemetery, east of town, beside her father and mother.
Of the departed the writer can find no words at this particular moment that will strike her goodness. Mrs. Amelung was an exemplary mother and good wife. Hers was a life devoted to those whom she held dear and to many friends. Her memory will be revered until the kindly light destines all mankind.
Iron County Register, November 12, 1942, Page 1.
H. L. Amelung dies of auto injuries.
Herbert L. Amelung, 35 years of age, of Pacific, Missouri, died Monday night at St. Louis County Hospital as a result of injuries sustained last Saturday night in a head-on collision on U.S. Highway 66 one mile west of the Laclede Station road, in St. Louis County, when his car collided with another automobile driven by Francis F. Ehrhard, district representative of the City Assessor's office in St. Louis. Mr. Ehrhard was critically injured and his wife, Mrs. Frieda Ehrhard, 42, was killed in the accident.
Amelung's body was brought to N. R. White & Sons' Chapel, Ironton, Tuesday and prepared for burial. Funeral services will be conducted from the Chapel Friday morning at 11 o'clock, and interment will be made in the Pilot Knob cemetery.
Deceased is a son of Herman Amelung, of Pilot Knob, and was well known and highly regarded by a host of friends in Iron County, having been born and reared here. Besides his father, he is survived by two sisters, both of Pilot Knob, four brothers, two in the armed forces, and other relatives, to whom the Register tenders profound sympathy in their sad hour.
August 25, 1881, Page 5.
Died near Ironton, August 17th, 1881, Willie, son of Martha and August Ardengood, of cholera infantum--aged 13 months and 5 days.
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, Thursday, August 1, 1895, Page 5.
Uncle Jack Armstrong, one of the colored survivors of slavery times, died at his home last Saturday, after eight years of suffering from rheumatism, a great portion of which time he was helpless as a child. When in health he was industrious and careful as to the expenditure of money. He never took a holiday, and the circus had no charms for him. He was an old-time darkey, and his death removes yet another land mark from the boundary which divides the present from the time before the war. He was about 85 years old.
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, Thursday, August 1, 1895, Page 4.
Obituary--Ironton, Mo. July 29, 1892 [I think they meant 1895] Mr. JACK ARMSTRONG, an old citizen of Ironton, died at his home on Shepherd St. July 26th, at about 6 o'clock a.m., at the advanced age of 85. Mr. Armstrong came to this state from Tennessee, having been brought here a slave by Mr. Dickens.
He was a member of the United Baptist Church. For eight years the hand of affliction rested upon. The funeral service took place at Zion Chapel, M.E. Church, at 2 p.m., July 28, 1895, Rev. H. A. Henley, the pastor, and others taking part.
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