Last Saturday morning when L. H. Goltry called at the home of Rudolph Peters to deliver milk, he found the door locked and thought he could hear a groaning from within, whereupon he broke in the door and found Mr. Peters lying on his bed in an unconscious condition. The stove door was open and the room was full of coal gas, but from the condition of things it is believed he had been up and while attending the stove suffered a paralytic stroke which left him with just sufficient strength to crawl back into bed. All day Saturday he hovered between life and death but early Sunday morning he rallied and was able to talk some, though not coherently as F. H. Matthiesen thinks. Towards noon he became suddenly worse and death finally relieved him of his suffering at 12:30. The funeral was held yesterday at German hall down near Bennington where Mr. Peters lived for several years. Mr. Peters was born in Schleswig Holstein, Germany on Nov. 16, 1816, and had therefore just passed his 87th year. He came to this country with G. G. Lundt in 1867 and a year later came to this county, locating on a farm near Bennington which he sold about eleven years ago and moved to this city. One brother, Otto, is still living in Flansburg, Germany, a retired Probst or presiding elder of the Lutheran church. Mr. Peters’ father was also a Probst and another brother, whose death occurred a few years ago, was a professor of astronomy in a New York university. His wife died before he came to this country, and their three children have since died, so for many years he has been practically alone in the world and was himself growing weary of life and longed for the final transition that would unite him with the loved ones of former years. His cheerful face and courtly manner will be greatly missed from amongst us.

#2-Published in Blair Courier, December 2, 1903

(picture) Caption: The above is a splendid likeness of Rudolph Peters whose death occurred Sunday, November 22nd, from asphyxiation and paralysis. In his will he left $1,000 cash to Hans Johannsen, an old neighbor who lives down near Washington, and also his household furniture. The proceeds from the sale of his little home on West Front street will go to his brother, the Rt. Rev. Otto Peters, of Flansburg, Germany. F. H. Matthiesen was named in the will as executor.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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