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Rudolph Kencke |
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OBITUARY: Freeport Journal Standard, Monday, December 28, 1925, Pg
3. (Freeport, Stephenson Co., IL)
RUDOLPH KENCKE OLD RESIDENT OF COUNTY EXPIRES. SERVED IN COMPANY
G. 46TH ILLINOIS INFANTRY, DURING CIVIL WAR.
Rudolph Kencke, a pioneer resident of Stephenson
county, passed away at his home, 629 East Stephenson street, at 8:15
o'clock Saturday evening, his passing resulting from a heart attack.
Although he had suffered several such attacks his passing came as a
great shock to members of his family and his many friends throughout the
community.
Rudolph Kencke was born in Newburg, Washington
county, Wisconsin on October 10, 1844, and had been a resident of
Stephenson county since 1858. At that time, accompanied by his
elder brother, Frederick, he started out from his native town, and after
reaching this state took up his abode in Lancaster township. Not
long afterward he became proprietor of a tract of land in that township,
having subsequently brought that tract up to a high state of
cultivation. For a time he was employed by the Freeport Tribune,
an early day newspaper. He was afterward occupied at farm labor
until the outbreak of the civil war. During 1861, he enlisted in
Company G. 46th Ill. Vol. Inf., in which he served four years and five
months and participated with his comrades in some of the most important
battles of the war. He was promoted to orderly sergeant and
although experiencing many narrow escapes, returned home sound in body
and mind, the only discomfort with which he was visited having been a
brief attack of lung fever, which kept him in the hospital about
fourteen days.
By his courage and fidelity he received the approval
of his superior officers and the respect of his comrades. He
returned to Lancaster township and on June 11, 1867 he was united in
marriage to Miss Martha E. Smith, who was a native of Lancaster
township.
Mr. Kencke was a republican in politics and held the
position of commissioner of highways in Lancaster township for several
years. He was united in marriage the second time to Mrs. Margaret
Fay, in 1903. His widow and the following children survive: Henry
Kencke, Freeport; Edward Kencke, Ballantine, Alta, Canada. Two
stepdaughters; eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren also
survive as do two sisters.
Funeral services will be conducted from the late home
at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Irving Fox, pastor of the
Baptist church, will conduct the services and interment will be made in
the Silver Springs cemetery. The following will act as
pallbearers: Conrad Kaiser, Wm. Kaiser, Ralph Miller, Chris Holtum,
Jacob Newmiller and John Wagner.
Submitted by: Kay
Gavin
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