Bertha Zimmerman

  Notiz:

Moved to Hillsboro on 07/03/1912

Cemetery Record: Calvary Cemetery, Springfield, IL

Blk L(north), Lot 21, Range East, Grave 4

Died 1918 April 25

Age: 62 years, 4 mos., 6 days

Church: Sts. Peter & Paul

Undertaker: Jos. Schneider

Place of Death: Bloomfield, North Dakota

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Obituary (Springfield)

Muller, Mrs. Alexander, at 9 p.m., April 25, 1918 at her home in Hillsboro, ND, of complications, at the age of 63 years, 4 months and 15 days. The remains will be brought to the home of her daughter, Mrs L.M. Gietl, 915 North First Street, for burial, and the funeral announcement will be made later. Besides her children, she leaves 32 grandchildren.

Funeral for Mrs. Alexander Muller at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. L.M. Gietl, 915 North First street, and at 9:30 a.m. at St Peter and Paul's Catholic church, Rev. Father Riesen officiating. Interment in Calvary cemetery.

Obituary (Hillsboro Banner, 04/1918)

Mrs. Alexander Muller, who passed from this world April 25th, at her home one mile west of Hillsboro, was born at Belleville, Ill, December10, 1855, her maiden name being Bertha Zimmerman. She was married toMr. Muller September 6, 1876, at Springfield, Ill., where they made their home until 1913, when she joined her husband and some of her children, who had been at their farm home just west of the city since 1910. The love for her husband and her thirteen children and 33 grandchildren was known to all who had occasion to meet her. Ten days before her death she had returned from a few weeks' visit to her former home where she met for the last time all her children, her relatives and former friends.

The remains of the deceased were taken to her former home at Springfield, interment taking place on April 30th.

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Notes:

The family had a funeral service at the Alexander Muller farm in Hillsboro. It was a rainy, cold April day. A.L. Halvorson was the undertaker. He had a horse-drawn hearst backed up to the front door of the house after the funeral, and took the casket to the train station and took the body to Springfield.

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Information about her parents from Nancy Hinkle Flesch

Bertha heiratete Alexander Müller alias Muller, Sohn von Severin Müller und Waldburga Biderbost, am 6. Sep. 1876 in Illinois. (Alexander Müller alias Muller wurde geboren am 22. Sep. 1849 in Reckingen, Valais, Switzerland, starb am 11. Jul. 1935 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois und wurde bestattet in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois.)