Peter Volmer Obituary
Daily News-Democrat June 20, 1910
Huntington County Indiana
DEATH CLAIMED OLD RESIDENT OF JACKSON TOWNSHIP
Peter Volmer, a prominent resident of the
county living three and one-half miles south of Roaseke (?), died Sunday
afternoon at 4 o'clock after an illness of three to four weeks with typhoid
fever. He was seventy-two years of age and the infirmities of his advanced age
so weakened him that he was unable to withstand the attack of the fever.
A member of the German Reformed church in this
city. Mr. Volmer was active in the affairs of the denomination and
his life was that of an honest Christian man, meriting the good will and respect
in which he was held by all who knew him. For twenty-five years he had been a
resident of Jackson Township and was well known to the older residents of the
county.
Born in Germany seventy-one years ago in March, Mr.
Volmer came to this country at the age of fifteen and settled in Stark
County Ohio. In 1860 he came to Indiana, settling in Dallas Township, this
county. After a residence of twenty-four years there he moved to Jackson
Township which had since been his home.
April 18, 1860 he married Miss Wilhelmina
Felton in Wabash county and to this union were born twelve children, all of
whom were present at his bedside when Mr. Volmer passed away Sunday. They
were Jacob of Union township, Peter of Huntington township, Mrs
Mary Fautz of Union township, Mrs. Minnie Rindchen of Jackson
township, John of Huntington, Daniel of Huntington, Mrs. Carrie
Young of Jackson township, Mrs Sarah Snitz of Decatur, Carl Volmer
of Cairo Michigan, Louis who lives on the home farm in Jackson township, Christian
also at home, and Mrs. Lizzie VanDine of Jackson.
The funeral will be held Tuesday morning with
services at the Union church in Union township at 10 o'clock in charge of Rev
F. H. Diehm of this city, assisted by Rev E. E. Miller, pastor of the
Evangelical church at Markle. Interment will be in the cemetery nearby
(this is the brother of my ggggrandfather Adam
Vollmer)
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