Simon Heinrich PRÜSSNER

1852 in die USA immigriert. Veröffentlicht 16 jul 2010 von JudySchmidt153 (Ancestry): OBIT:SIMON HENRY PRUESSNER 1829-1919 SIMON H. PRUESSNER WAS BORN IN LIPPE DETMOLD,GERMANY, MARCH 5, 1829,AND DIED AT NEW HAVEN,(BOEUF TWP,FRANKLIN COUNTY)MO JUNE 16, 1919 ATTHE AGE OF 90 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AND 11 DAYS. THE DECEASED CAME TO AMERICA IN HIS YOUTH. WHILE RESIDING NEAR HOLSTEIN,(WARREN COUNTY)MO, HE WAS MARRIED TOWILHELMINA KRUEGER. FOR SEVERAL YEARS, MR. AND MRS. PRUESSNER MADE THEIR HOME ATPINCKNEYVILLE. IN 1866 THEY MOVED(ACROSS THE MISSOURI RIVER) TO FRANKLIN COUNTY, MOWHERE THEY PURCHASED THE FARM UPON WHICH THEIR SON, GUSTAVE PRUESSNER,RESIDES(IN 1919). HERE THEY RESIDED UNTIL IN NOVEMBER 1917, WHEN THEY CAME TO NEW HAVENAND MADE THEIR HOME WITH THEIR SON, EDWARD. MRS. PRUESSNER(WILHELMINA KRUEGER PRUESSNER1836-1918)PASSED AWAY ONJANUARY 27, 1918. THEIR MARRIAGE WAS BLESSED WITH 13 CHILDREN, 7 OF WHOM PRECEDED THEIRPARENTS IN DEATH. SIMON H.(HENRY)PRUESSNER HAD BEEN A MEMBER OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHEVER SINCE THE FIRST YEARS OF ITS ORGANIZATION, AND AT ONE TIME WAS AMEMBER OF THE CHURCH BOARD. BECAUSE OF HIS ADVANCED AGE AND FAILING HEALTH, THE PAST FEW YEARS HEHAD LIVED IN RETIREMENT, AND WAS SELDOM OUT OF DOORS. HE WAS A FAITHFUL CHRISTIAN AND DURING THE LATTER MONTHS OF HIS LIFE,HE LONGED FOR THAT APPROACHING TIME WHEN DEATH WOULD RELIEVE HIM, ANDHE COULD JOIN THE DEAR ONES WHO HAD GONE BEFORE. HE LEAVES MOURNING HIS DEATH SIX CHILDREN, HENRY S.(SIMON); WILLIAM; GUSTAVE; SIMON AND EDW.(EDWARD THEODORE B.1877)PRUESSNER;MRS. WILHELMINA RIECHERS; 29 GRANDCHILDREN AND 17 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN,BESIDES A NUMBER OF OTHER RELATIVES. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED AT THE EVANGELICALCHURCH(__________________) ON THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1919, BY REV. F.TSCHUDY AND THE BODY WAS INTERRED IN THE CEDAR CEMETERY. PUBLISHED IN THE NEW HAVEN LEADER NEWSPAPER DATED 6-20-1919. END

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