Person:John Wessels (2)

Watchers
m. 28 Jun 1872
  1. Gesena F Wessels1874 - 1926
  2. Johanne Sophie Wessels1876 - 1965
  3. Minnie Wessels1879 - 1962
  4. Lena Wessels1881 - 1971
  5. John Friedrich Wessels1884 - 1959
  6. Friedrich Jacob Wessels1886 - 1967
  7. William Herman Wessels1889 - 1971
  8. Mathilda Wessels1892 - 1936
  9. Harry George Wessels1897 - 1975
  • HJohn Friedrich Wessels1884 - 1959
  • WSophie Boyer1898 - 1980
  1. Lowell Arthur Wessels1922 - 2002
  2. Marion Elaine Wessels1927 - 1998
Facts and Events
Name John Friedrich Wessels
Gender Male
Birth? 19 Feb 1884 Crescent Township, Iroquois, Illinois, United States
Marriage to Sophie Boyer
Death? 11 May 1959 Watseka, Iroquois, Illinois, United StatesMap: Latitude: N40.7761100 Longitude: W87.7363900 Iroquois Memorial Hospital
Burial? Crescent City, Iroquois, Illinois, United StatesSt. Peter Lutheran Church Cemetery

Newspaper clipping from Ollie (Wessels) Rudowske's Scrapbook, not dated. (John Freidrich Wessels)

Wessels Services Are Held in Crescent City

Funeral services were held in St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Crescent City, Thursday for John Wessels, 75, of Watseka. Mr. Wessels died at midnight Monday in Iroquois Hospital, where he had been a patient since May 3, when he suffered a Cerebral Hemorrhage.

Mr. Wessels was born Feb. 13, 1884 in Crescent Township, where he resided all of his life. Survivors are the widow, the former Sophie Boyer; a son, Lowell A., of Watseka; daughters Mrs. Marion E Wall of Crescent and Mrs. Vernon Meents of Ashkum; a granddaughter and several grandsons; sisters Mrs. Anna McKee of Walkerton, Ind., Miss Minnie Wessels and Mrs. Lena Luke, both of Milford; and brothers , Fred of Urbana, William H. and Harry of Watseka.

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John Wessels, son of George Wessels, was found in the 1910 US CENSUS, State of Illinois, Iroquois County, Crescent Township, Sheet 11 A. He was 21 years old and single. [RRW -- 1997]

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