Pilot 23 Feb 1899

The Funeral of Mrs. Adolph Saltzman

Ft. Calhoun, February 16, 1899.

We believe the largest procession ever seen in Ft. Calhoun township, today followed the body of the widow of the late Adolph Saltzman to the Ft. Calhoun, Nebraska, cemetery. Nineteen years she has been a widow, her husband dying a few years after building the old well known Saltzman brewery in Omaha. A few years after with her family of small children she moved to the old Conner farm in Garryowen, where the whole neighborhood became her friends and two or three years ago she sold out and moved to a farm near old Ft. Atkinson, where she has patiently lived and suffered a shut-in life with death staring her in the face at all times.

In his boyhood in France her husband was the companion of Dorre, the artist, and the home of Mother Saltzman and her two unmarried sons at the new place with her window garden, birds, pictures and books was a perfect little paradise. The sermon was by Rev. Kuhn of Omaha, who preached here in Calhoun over forty years ago. The choir Mrs. A. W. Clark, Hugh Stevenson and Miss Couchman. A number of the Masonic lodge were pall bearers. Of her nine living children seven sons and one daughter were present, one daughter is living in Alsace, the wife of a German colonel, with bullet wound and a medal for bravery. W.H.W.

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