The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-02-17
VICTIMS OF PNEUMONIA.
Disease Makes Victims OF SeveratSt.
- Clair Residents.

+ Clair Residents.
ST. Clair, Feb, l5.-Pneumonia has
had its grip on our vicinity the past
two weeks and four of the aged fell
victims to its power, as has been noted
in the Free Press. We give in adj
dition brief statement concerning
each.
~ =" Mrs. William Fields.
Miss Sarah Baxter was born in 1928
in the northern part of Ireland of
Scotch Irish parentage. When ten years
of age she came to America with her
parents, who settled in the undevelop-
ed st. Lawrence county, New York In
1852 she married William Fields and
fourteen years later came with him to
Blue Earth county, Mimi, where on
the homestead three miles southeast of
psf Clair, she lived until Sunday morn
ing, Feb. 5, 1905. She and her husband
were staunch Congregationalists and
were loyal to the local church, and were
great helpers of the late James Fields
| In the building of the structure now be-
ing used. When in 1887 the man in
whom she trusted so much was taken
from her by death, she was so strick-
en- by sorrow as to retire from the out
side world. Since then she lived with
her son, John, and his family. Besides
him, she left another son, James, and a
daughter, Mrs. Henry Lynch.
/ Mrs. John Fitzloff.
Henrietta Borchardt was born on Nav
2, 1890, in Prussian Pomerania. In 1854
she married John Fitzloff and ten years
later came with him to Watertown,
Wis. The following spring, the couple
emigrated to Blue Earth county, set
Ting on homestead two miles south
east of st. Clair. Here was raised the
family of five sons-Albert, who man.
ages the old farm; Herman, who farms
adjacent to st. Clair; Otto, in business
liveryman; and Charles, of Austin;-
and one daughter; Mrs. Geo. Caldwell,
of st. Clair. In 1887 the couple moved
to the village and have always lived
here. Last summer they celebrated the
| fiftieth anniversary of their marriage.
Mrs. Fitzloff, with her husband, was
lifelong devoted adherent of the Luth-
eran church.
Louis Tabeau.
With the demise of Louis Tabeau, the
male Winnebago population of the coun-
ty, we believe, is extinct He used to
say, when asked his age, that he was
just running about at the time of the
Sac and Fox war in Wisconsin. That
would make him about seventy-two
years of age, when he died, Feb. o. His
father, Francois Tabeau, was of mixed
French and Indian blood; his mother,
a Winnebago. Soon after the tribe was
brought to the reservation here, Louis
married Margaret Menaige and with her
lived on farm three miles northeast of
st. Clair up to the time of his death.
He was member of the Roman Catho-
lie church. He leaves no children.
Carl Christian Kruse.
He was born Dec. 10, 1923, at Liep-
litz, Mecklenberg- Schwerien, Germany.
He came to Watertown, Wisconsin, in
1854. A year later he married Miss
Ehlerts with whom he soon journeyed
to Minnesota. Three children, Mrs.
William Freitog, Fred Kruse and Mrs
Albert Fitzloff mourn his death. He
was warm advocate of Lutheranism
and sturdy promulgator of his views
through hard endeavor.
The men interested in the work of
the Congregational church in ST. Clair
will serve wheat cakes and maple syrup
for the benefit of the improvement
fund of the church. A good program
has been arranged by Rev. E. Dudley
Parsons for the occasion. Miss Peek
er, of the normal, will recite; Mrs. Ras-
dali will sing and the comedy, "The Cen
sus Taker," will be rendered by Man.
kato boys. The date for this enter.
tainment is Friday, Feb. II. 1t is the
second of series given for the triple
purpose of Instructive entertainment,
sociability and material benefit for the
good of the cause.
Announcements are out of calico
ball to be given by the young people,
Feb. "a. Everyone is supposed to be at
tired in the material that gives the af-
fair it's particular name. Supper will
be, served as usual.
The school literary society gave a val
entine box social Tuesday evening for
the benefit of the organ fund Mrs. NJ
B. Rasdall, as the gypsy fortune teller,
was very popular. The fish pond pleas
ed not few Altogether goodly sum
was realized.
In the postoffice hangs large, fran
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