Note: penciled on card: born Jan. 29, 1867; died Sep. 16, 1896; Blair cemetery Block 39, Lot 8, Lot 5

Note: the tombstone inscription is “Jennie, the wife of Alfred Krause”

1st obituary printed in the Thursday, Sept. 17, 1896 Pilot Tribune, Blair, Nebraska

Mrs. Albert Krause, who has been an invalid for some time from that fatal and lingering disease, consumption, died in this city on Tuesday at 1 o’clock, and was about 30 years of age. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Maln, at the M.E. church at 10 o’clock this morning. She leaves five small children.

2nd obituary printed in the Thursday, Sept. 17, 1896 Republican, Blair, Nebraska

Mrs. Albert Krause died in this city Tuesday at 1 o’clock of consumption, and was buried from the M.E. church Thursday at 10 o’clock. She was born in Ohio in 1866 and was a daughter of the late Turner Carter. She leaves five small children.

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

Note: consumption is an older name for tuberculosis

Note: The M.E. church in 1896 was the Methodist-Episcopal church. In 1939 it merged with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church to form the Methodist Church.—Sources: Nancy Gabby, Blair, Nebraska; Wikipedia. The cornerstone for St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Blair was laid Aug. 10, 1882, with parochial organization under the name St. Mary’s Church established June, 1882—Source: Washington County Nebraska History, c. 1980, p. 36, contributor Mrs. S. Pierce Allen.