Iowa Old Press

LeMars newspaper dated:

MAY 3, 1900.

ROBERT BEGG DIED AT THE SUTTER HOUSE IN THE CITY ON MONDAY MORNING AFTER AN ILLNESS LASTING SEVERAL MONTHS FROM CANCER OF THE STOMACH. THE DECEASED WAS BORN AT DUNBAR CANADA, ON FEBRUARY 2, 1854, WHERE HE GREW TO MANHOOD. HE CAME TO PLYMOUTH COUNTY TWENTY -EIGHT YEARS AGO AND HAS RESIDED ON HIS FARM IN UNION TOWNSHIP ALMOST CONTINUOUSLY SINCE THAT TIME. HE WAS ONE OF THE EARLY SETTLERS AND HAD A WIDE ACQUAINTANCE IN THE COUNTY AND WAS LOVED AND RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM. SHORTLY AFTER HE LOCATED HERE HIS PARENTS AND FAMILIES JOINED HIM AND BECAME RESIDENTS OF THE COUNTY. HIS FATHER DIED SOME FIVE YEARS AGO AND HIS MOTHER THREE YEARS LATER. MR. BEGG WAS TAKEN SICK IN THE WINTER AND MOVED INTO TOWN IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT MORE EASILY PROCURE MEDICAL SKILL AND ATTENDANCE. THE DECEASED LEAVES FOUR BROTHERS, JOHN, WILLIAM AND PETER RESIDING IN PLYMOUTH COUNTY AND JAMES, OF ELDORADO MISSOURI TO MORN HIS DEATH. THE FUNERAL TOOK PLACE YESTERDAY AT THE UNION TOWNSHIP PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND WAS LARGELY ATTENDED BY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS WHO HAD KNOWN AND RESPECTED HIM FOR MORE THAN A QUARTER CENTURY."

LeMars Sentinel, dated after May 8, 1900

Death of Mrs. Mohning
May 11, 1900

Mrs. Hermann Mohning died on Friday last at the home of her son Henry
Mohnning, aged 73 years, 5 months and 26 days.

Mrs. Mohning was born in Germany, her maiden name being Maria Pepmeyer.
She was united in marriage in 1850 to Herman Mohning, who survives her. In
1852 she and her husband came to the United States and settled in Clayton
county, where they resided until seven years ago when they came to Plymouth
county and made their home with their sons.

Mr. and Mrs. Mohning celebrated their golden wedding on the fourth of this
month and all their children and a number of relatives were present on the
occasion.

Mrs. Mohning was held in high esteem by all who knew her. She leaves a
husband and seven children. They are Henry and John Mohning, Mrs. Louis
Harnack, Mrs. L.H. Schulte and Mrs. Fromme of this county and Fred Mohning
and Mrs. Heddleman, of Clayton county. All the family were present at her
deathbed.

The funeral was held on Monday at the German Lutheran Evangelical church,
Rev. Hoeppner officiating and was very largely attended.

LeMars Sentinel, Thursday, May 31, 1900, Page 3, Column 4:

Obituary.

    Mrs. Kohl, of O'Leary, brief mention of whose death was made in the last
issue of the Sentinel, was born in Germany on March 12, 1810.  Her maiden
name was Elizabeth Hartman.  At the age of eighteen she was united in
marriage with Thomas Kohl.  Twelve children were born to them six of whom
died while the family resided in Germany.  In 1852 they emigrated to the
United States and settled at Boston, where one son was born to them.  They
resided there two years then moved to Woodford county, Illinois.  They came
to Plymouth county in 1883 with their son, Conrad, with whom they made their
home.  Her husband died January 27, 1892, at the age of 91 years and seven
months.  Mrs. Kohl was taken sick about four weeks ago and succumbed to
various complications.  She was over ninety years of age.

    She leaves two sons and one daughter, John Kohl, of Walla Walla, Wash.,
David Kohl, of Barlowville, Ill., and Mrs. Miles, of Hastings, Neb.  She
also leaves thirty-two grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.  She had
one sister who died in infancy.  She was a devout christian and a member of
St. John's Evangelical church.