Jacob Seidl, 34, another one of our pioneers from the old country passed away from a dose of poison, the kind used to kill potato bugs. The story goes he was intoxicated at the time and did not realize what he had drank. He is buried, at the time, in unblessed church grounds, since then, the grounds have been blessed. He is in the St. Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery in the upper Southwest corner. There may be a flat stone covered up by now or no stone at all. He and his wife Anna owned and operated a forty-acre farm just west of Luxemburg, along with their six children. He was born in Hammern (Hamry) Austria in 1851, his Father's name also being Jacob, Mother's name I haven't been able to find out. He came over to America in the year of 1873 at the age of 22, along with his fiance Anna Kollross. The death record came from the church records. I have not been able to find any records on Jacob, not even his death records in the court house. It was not mandatory to report any deaths or births until 1927, guess this was one of those times. He married the former Anna Kollross in 1874 at St Mary's Catholic Church in Luxemburg, Wisconsin. He is survived by his wife, and six children, Catherine, Joseph, Charles, Henry, George and Mary, all at home. - by Sandi Mueller, Dec 2001.
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[NOTE: (added by PJL 2015) Since Sandi wrote this obit in 2001, more has been discovered.
Jacob Seidl arrived in 1873 and married Anna in 1874.
The same day Anna's sister married Jacob's cousin.
Although they are from the Hamry area, the family lived for a few years in a town called Nova Plánice where Jacob and his siblings were born.
Jacob died in 1886 per the church burial record and newspaper clipping
His mother's name was Eva Zettl.]
