Obituary Record

Hans Harder
Died on 12/19/1915
Buried in Blair Cemetery

Two newspaper articles

#1 Published in the Pilot December 22, 1915

Hans Harder died at 7 o’clock Sunday of heart trouble, from which he had been suffering for over a year past. For a week he had been very bad and death came suddenly as he was lying on the couch at the home of his niece, Mrs. Carl Petersen, at the close of the quiet Sabbath day. The funeral is to be held at the house where death found him at 10 o’clock today, Rev. A. E. Marsh officiating. He had been a member of the I.O.O.F. lodge for 43 years and the Blair lodge will have charge of the services at the grave site. Mr. Harder was born in Schleswig, Holstein, Germany, Nov. 30th, 1848, and was therefore just past 67 years of age. He came to this country in 1870 and had spent most of his life near Red Cliff, Colo., in the mining business. He came here about a year ago and had made his home with his niece since that time. He was never married. Two sisters and one brother survive him in Germany.

#2 Published in the Enterprise December 24, 1915~This newspaper article spells his name as Harders

HANS HARDERS IS DEAD

Hans Harders, a comparative stranger to Blair people, died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Karl A. Peterson in this city last Sunday afternoon. Deceased was an uncle to Mrs. Peterson and the Grimm brothers, a brother to their mother, Mrs. Hans Grimm, deceased. He had been a resident of Colorado for nearly 40 years, engaged in Silver mining in that section, located latterly, since the rush to Leadville subsided, at Red Cliff and was amongst the thousands of that region who hit the financial toboggan when Mark Hanna and his band of patriots demonetized silver.

Deceased was born in Holstein, Germany in 1848 and adopted a seaman’s life, had sailed to every country and under every clime until he landed upon the shores of the United States and went direct to the west where he had remained until last spring, his health failing he came to Blair for a change of climate and to be near his only relative in America. A brother and two sisters remaining in their native country survive him.

Hans Harders was a most kindly disposed man, a philosopher without embellishment, a most interesting conversationalist, a possessed a mind well-stored with useful information gleaned from observation and much reading of current events in the daily newspapers. Until the collapse in the silver market his holdings in silver mines, which he retained at the time of his death, were quite valuable, work in some of them have been discontinued and others produce little more than expense of working.

The funeral was held at the Peterson home Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Rector Marsh of the Episcopal Church preaching the funeral discourse, the burial services were conducted by the Odd Fellows, of which organization he had been a member for more than forty years.

Find A Grave Memorial# 115056554

(Mr. Harder was buried at Blair Cemetery.)

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

Printed in the Blair Pilot on 12/22/1915


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