This is one of the reasons I'm bringing my posts from my Blogger site to my Wix site. As I go through them I notice some drafts I started and when I saw this one I had no idea why I never published it. Perhaps I was waiting to pull my own copy of the obituary. This one was sent to me by one of my husbands distant cousins and at the top you can see "Marshfield (Wisconsin) Times - Friday, September 1896 pg 1 and 2."
I found something on Newspapers.com, in the Marshfield News and Wisconsin Hub here, but not this exact obituary, and unsurprisingly, it made the front page. Also no shocker that the article mentions two sons living in the area, but gives no name for his wife. Incidentally his wife's name was Wilhelmine nee Kramer. The article also mentions the sons living nearby as Fred(rich) and August. Their other children were Gustav, Herman, and Augusta.
Friedrich was my husband's 3rd great-grandfather. His son, Gustav, was his 2nd great-grandfather.
It's sad he died this way, but isn't all death sad? His wife passed in 1911. Despite the lack of information on his wife and other children the article does have a lot of genealogical gold.
The residents of the third ward were startled on Friday morning on hearing that the dead body of a man had been found in the barn back of the vacant store on the corner of Fifth street and Central Ave. Upon examination, the body was found to be that of Fred Kuehl whose place of residence is on Fourth street on Pleasant hill. The finding of the body came about in the following manner: Fred Leibelt, who resides in the same block in which the barn is situated on going after a pail of water at an early hour that morning discovered a man lying in the barn on a pile of hay but thinking it a tramp passed on. Later in the morning, about 8 o'clock, while some boys were playing around the barn, they also discovered the man. The boy making the discovery informed Mr. Leibelt and together they returned to the barn. Upon going in Mr. Leibelt at once recognized the unfortunate as Fred. Kuehl. He was lying on his back on a pile of hay, his hat lying on his breast and his arms partly folded. Blood was issuing from his nose and mouth and from all appearances had been dead some hours. The authorities were notified and a coroner's jury summoned, consisting of Judge Hirth, coroner, Dr. Budge, G.A. Warsinski, C.S. Vedder, J.W. Beattle, Ev. Upham and C.S. Sheerin. The body was viewed in the barn and it was decided upon to take it to some more convenient place for an examination. A wagon was procured and the remains taken to the undertaking establishment (sic) of Geo. Upham. Here the jury proceeded with the examination. The body was stripped of its clothing but no bruises or cuts were found, showing that his death was brought about by no acts of violence. The clothes were then searched and a small memorandum was found. In it was written in a rough German hand, a sort of a will, in which he gave to his son August his case of tools and some clothing which were at Fennwood. After carefully viewing the remains the jury returned a verdict that deceased came to his death by heart disease brought on by excessive drinking and exposure.
Of late he has been drinking to excess caused, it is said, by family troubles. He was subject to heart failure and has often been heard to remark that he would soon be called away suddenly by heart disease. He was last seen about seven o'clock the evening previous to his death. He was then at the Omaha depot and as he has not been in the habit of going home of late he no doubt went to the barn where he laid down and died.
Deceased was born in Germany in Feb. 1841. At the age of five he moved with his parents to Theresa, Dodge county which was his home until eight years ago when he removed to this city. He leaves a wife and five children, August and Fred residing here and two sons and a daughter in Theresa. He has not been around the city a great deal, having worked in neighboring towns and in saw mills. The remains were taken to his old home in Theresa where they were interred on Sunday."
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