Ottawa County Obituaries - 1910's

Unknown Newspaper
August 1912

John Christopher Lewis was born Nov. 9, 1834 at Retriank, Mecklenburg, in the Adelbeih Sehrean, Germany, and died Aug. 7, 1911, aged 76 years 8 months 29 days. When he was eighteen years of age, he, with his father, left for America, October 20, 1852, arrived at New York, March 14, 1853, after sailing nineteen weeks. On Oct. 1, 1854, he was united in marriage to Dorothea Sophia Charlotte Corze. This union was blessed with eight children, four sons and four daughters. Three sons and one daughter preceeded him to their graves. He resided at Buffalo, New York for twenty-two years. He served in the Civil War from 1864 until its close, after which he came to Benton Township, where he lived until his death. For the last eleven years, he made his home with his son-in-law, Mr. Carl Knopp. His wife preceeded him to his grave, June 15, 1902. He was stricken with paralysis in October, 1902, from which he never fully recovered, and for the past ten months he had been bedfast. Mr. Lewis and wife helped organize this church and were faithful members until death. He leaves to mourn their loss: one son, three daughters, two sons-in-law, one daughter-in-law, thirteen grandchildren, and one great-grand-child.

[contributor's note:  The church referred to is Trinity Church at Elliston]

Unknown Newspaper
October 19, 1917

Fatal Auto Accident

   Albert Knopp, a Benton township farmer, was killed in an automobile accident Monday afternoon. Knopp was at the station at Trowbridge unloading sugar beets when a man named Herman Baur came along and asked him to take a ride. Knopp accompanied him for a short spin and Baur opened the throttle to show the machine's speed. The auto skidded and the driver lost control of the machine which ran across an open ditch into a field where it turned over. Knopp was pinned under the wreck and received internal injuries from which he died about two hours later.
   County School Superintendant Dehn drove by in his car a short time after the accident and took the injured man home. He lived about an hour after he was taken home. Knopp was a well to do farmer. He leaves a wife and five little children.
   Baur's machine is a total wreck. He and another companion escaped with but slight injuries.

[contributor's note:  Survivors were wife Ida, nee Froelich, sons Forrest and Emil, and daughters Luella, Lydia and Opal]

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