Person:Jacob Wessels (1)

Copied from the Iroquois County Times January 1890 Jacob Wessels completed building an new brick house which he will occupy it soon.

8 May 1899 Jacob Wessels has moved onto a farm in Prosperity Hollow.

Copied from the Republican Newspaper 26 March 1906

Jacob Wessels is dead. He passed away last Saturday morning, March 17th, at his home in this city, age 52 and a few months. His ailment was not exactly known. He had the best medical attention that could be found but all was in vain and his soul went out at last to his God who gave it. Mr Wessels leaves a wife and two children, Mrs. John Sloter, Jr. living north of town and Fred J. Wessels who lives at home to mourn his loss. He also leaves an aged mother and 3 brothers who deeply feel their loses. The funeral services were held at the Lutheran Church Monday at 1:30 pm conducted by the Rev. Helmreich, the pastor, who spoke comforting words to the relatives and large number of friends who had gathered to pay their last tribute of respect to the deceased. The body was interred in the German cemetery south of town.

Jacob, it seems, definitely worked at the tile factory in Crescent City as I have a copy of a letter he wrote on the Tile and Brick Factory stationery with his name imprinted above it.

Jacob married Friederica Siemers of Ashkum on November 8, 1874. They had one child, Gesina Fr. who was born January 28, 1879. Gesina (Sena), when she was very young, helped take care of my grandfather, Fred H. Wessels, and his brother, Herman, after the mother's unexpected death from Tuberculosis. Hildegarde, Sena's daughter, told me Sena used to laugh when thinking back to that time because Sena was so young herself she didn't know if she could, but her mother reassured her and they managed.

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Jacob Wessels

Dec. 11, 1853 - Aug. 11, 1906

Obituary

JACOB WESSELS OF CRESCENT CITY PASSES AWAY

Died, at his home in Crescent City, March 17, 1906, Jacob Wessels, after a lingering illness of over a year. During the last four weeks he failed rapidly and last Saturday morning, while surrounded by loving friends he breathed his last, having reached the age of 52 years, 3 months and 6 days. Mr. Wessels was born In Ardorf, Ger., December 11, 1853. In lS69 with his parents and three brothers he came to America. They first settled near Washington, Tazewell county, Ill. In 1871 the family moved to the Wilson settlement west of Danforth. On November 8, 1874, he married Fredericke Seims. To this union two children were born, Gesine, wife of John Sloter, Jr., and Frederick. After a few years he moved to Crescent City where, with his father, the late Friederick Wessels, he started the brick and tile factory. After selling it he farmed for a while, and in 1901, the year his father died, he returned to Crescent and has since made his home here, tenderly caring for his aged mother who lives here and mourns her loss deeply. He is survived by his wife, two children, a mother and three brothers. The funeral services were held at the Lutheran church Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. C. Helmerich. The family has the sympathy of all in their sorrow.

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1. ↑ Registry of St. Peter Lutheran Church, Crescent City, Illinois
   Church records, p. 340, list date of death as March 17, 1906.

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   VALUE: Church records, p. 340, list date of death as March 17, 1906