VANDERBURGH COUNTY OBITS
Maude Nitzsche
Mrs. Maude Nitzsche, wife of Fred Nitzsche, a prominent farmer residing in the
Walsh neighborhood, was interred in the Preston cemetery Wednesday afternoon,
following funeral services held at the M. E. church in that city, the service
being conducted by Rev. Idel, of Ellisgrove.
Mrs. Nitzsche died Sunday night, March 1, after an illness of short duration.
Death was attributed to aortic insufficiency. She was 57 years of age.
Maude Zettie Nitzsche was born on October 4, 1878, in Jackson county, Illinois,
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William P. Wilson. She was married to Fred Nitzsche at
Chester, Ill., on August 16, 1894. To this union were born six children, three
daughters and three sons, namely, Mrs. Grace Mahan of New Athens, Ill.; Mrs. Mamie
Dodge of Richland Heights, Mo., and Mrs. Selma Morris, St. Louis, Mo.; Roy Nitzsche,
of Caseyville, Ill., and Otis and Everett Nitzsche, at home.
In addition to her husband and children, the deceased is survived by four sisters,
Mrs. Essie Grandaman, of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., Mrs. Helen Woods, of Oklahoma City,
Okla., Mrs. Edna Glasgow, Spokane, Wash., Mrs. Retha Mitchell, of Tulsa, Okla.,
and one brother, Roy Wilson, of Sapulpa, Okla., and three grandchildren.
Mrs. Nitzsche was always of the pleasant and courteous type of person, and was
ready and willing at all times to do a good deed or assist a neighbor of friend
in time of need. Her life was mostly of a gentle and retired nature, but her good
deeds were known just the same and those nearest to her will miss her in everyday
life. (from Jeana, host of Wmson Co, IL, citing "Evansville Enterprise
newspaper, 1936")
Everton Kennerly
New Albany Daily Ledger 3 Mar 1866 p2 c2: Everton Kennerly, for sixty years
a citizen of Vanderburg county, died at Mechanicsville on Thursday, aged 93 years.
His first vote was given for Thomas Jefferson and his last for George B. McClellen.
Submitted by Sue Carpenter