| Two Pioneers Called
Frank Eich of Halbur Died Friday - Jacob Neppl oat Willey Tuesday
Noon - Funeral of Latter Tomorrow.
Early Friday morning at his home at Halbur, there was called
hence another pioneer of that part of the county, Mr. Frank Eich. For
some years he had suffered with dropsical and heart troubles, but had
until lately seemed better.
Departed was born at Kirchdorf, Geisdingen, Kr. Siegburg, Regb.
Koeln a. R. Oct. 10, 1836. He was therefore 71 years, 4 months and 26
days old. He attended the common schools and grew to sterling honest
manhood in his native land. January 27, 1865, he was united in marriage
to Miss Katharina Walterscheid, whom he left a sad bride to follow the
call to military duty in the Prussian Austrian war. After his honorable
discharge the young people came to America, locating at Troy Grove, Ill.
Later they resided at Mendota, and in 1874 came to Carroll County,
locating on a farm a little south of the present town of Halbur. There
they resided and reared a family of respected sons and daughters, who
now mourn the beloved father. About a year ago Mr. and Mrs. Eich removed
to their new home in Halbur, a son retaining the homestead.
There survive besides the sorrowing wife the following children:
Gertrude, Sister M. Lucia, Alton, Iowa; Jos. F. Eich, druggist, Panama,
Iowa; Catherine, Mrs. John Eltgroth. Carroll, Iowa; Lizzie, housekeeper
for Rev. Father Baumler, Halbur; Chas. Eich, Halbur, and Frank Eich,
Butte, Neb. One son, Henry, died in 1896, at the age of 12 years. There
survives one Sister in Germany.
All the children were present at the funeral except Sister Lucia,
who was too ill to come. The funeral was held from Holy Angels' church,
Roselle, Monday, and interment took place in the family burial lot
there. Charles Walterscheid of Wichita, Kans., brother to Mrs. Eich, was
one of those from a distance who attended the funeral.
Mr. Eich was a good citizen, a kind obliging neighbor, a loving
husband and father. He was industrious and saving and leaves his family
well provided for. He was generous to those in need and gavefreely to
all worthy causes, charitable and otherwise. The writer has known Mr.
Eich for 27 years. We can sincerely attest that he was the soul of
honor, a model clean, Christian gentleman. His conduct was at all times
that of a man who thinks of another life to come and prepares for it by
a moral irreproachable life. May he be fitly rewarded in the Better
Life, is a wish we can heartily voice.
(The Carroll Times, Iowa, Thursday, March 12, 1908, p. 5)
Death Of Frank Eich, Sr.
Frank Eich, Sr., an aged pioneer of Roselle Tp. and the oldest
and only survivor of the three Eich brothers, breathed his last about
two o'clock Friday morning, after an illness of several weeks. He leaves
a wife, three sons and three daughters to mourn a good husband and
father. All the children were present at the funeral, except one
daughter, a Sister in the Alton, Iowa schools, who was too ill to come.
Mr. and Mrs. Eich occupied their pleasant new home here in Halbur,
for about one year. He reached the age of 72 years. He was laid to rest
in the Roselle cemetery Monday morning by the side of a son who died years ago.
(The Carroll Times, Iowa, Thursday, March 12, 1908, p. 8) |
