| Grandfather Fritz Steffen, who was buried in Ft. Calhoun, Nebraska, July 30, 1900, during the past years has often been accused of working too hard, but never of any dishonorable act and certainly loved and cared for his family in a noble manner. He certainly was a hard worker but no miser and left no fortune beyond a nice little home and a few belongings and certainly deserves as much credit for labor well and valiantly done as does any soldier who dies on the field of battle. Born in the old country fifty-six years ago, he served in the Schleswisch Holstein War bringing his family direct to Ft. Calhoun twenty years ago. He purchased the two poorest lots in the city and by patient labor made them beautiful and added several more to them. Personally this writer always liked him. He leaves a wife and two young sons, the oldest 21, and four daughters and four or five grandchildren. His whole family are industrious clean and healthy people.
Rev. Giese of Blair officiated and forty-eight carriages passed the bank of their way to the cemetery. The coffin was covered with a solid mass of flowers. Grandma Jipp, who broke her arm two weeks ago, was at the funeral, also Grandpa Steffen’s brother-in-law, Henry Hass, who nineteen years ago lived where Harry Rohwer’s farm house stands.
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