Obituary

Wm. Baskerville Buried Friday Afternoon -
Peter Muehl Saturday Morning -
Both Above "Three-Score and Ten" Age.
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  Peter Muehl's death last Wednesday evening, July 7th, was due largely to the breakdown due to advancing age, hastened by a sad bereavement of a little over a year ago. For some time he had been showing signs of increasing mental feebleness, which coupled with the bodily ailments, made it necessary to have him removed to St. Anthony's hospital to secure the quit and rest that it was thought might prolong his life.
  Peter Muehl was born Nov. 4, 1830 at Maria Hilfskirchen, Grandduchy of Nassan, Germany. After completing the course in the common schools, he learned the trade of a stone mason and followed this arduans work throughout the course of a long life. He was married to Katharina Schmidt in 1858 and they came to America in 1869, settling at New Vienna, Iowa. They came to Carroll Co. in 1878 and acquired land in Kniest township, where the family resided until last spring. Fourteen children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Muehl, all but three dying at a tender age, and one daughter, Anna, dying Nov. 11, 1907, under sad circumstances that threw a pall over the bereaved father's life and hastened the decline of his once rugged constitution. He is survived by his son, John Muehl, who looked carefully after the aged man's needs and wants, and his daughter, Mrs. Herman Reiff of Kniest township. There also survives a brother, Jacob Muehl, of Elgin, Neb., who was present at the funeral.
  Solemn requiem High Mass was celebrated at SS. Peter and Paul's Catholic church Saturday morning at eight o'clock, after which the remains were taken to Mt. Carmel, to rest aside of the wife who preceded him February 11, 1902, and the daughter aforesaid. Old neighbors and friends from this city were joined in large numbers by such of Mt. Carmel, where the deceased had labored and won the esteem and respect of all who knew him at his better worth. He was a man of few words, better known and more sincerely respected by those who were neighbors and intimate friends. He was a man of industrious frugal habits and cared little for the things known as luxuries and extravagance. In his simple way of living, his family and the worship of God, he found ample gratification for Man's higher nature, the intellectual and moral faculties. A life spent in honest labor and correct living, is thus well ended, a consummation to be desired by all who wish to render a good account of their stewardship when called before that Tribunal where every idle thought, word and deed is to be reckoned a sin. May he have found the mercy which we all hope to gain when our summons comes.
(The Carroll Times, Iowa, Thursday, July 15, 1909, p. 1)