Word was received this morning of the death at the Methodist hospital in Omaha of Wm. Goll of Ft. Calhoun, a brother of Mary and Amelia Goll and Mrs. Nels Linstrom of this city. The funeral will be held at the residence in Ft. Calhoun at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon, burial in the family lot in the Blair cemetery. Deceased was 62 years of age, having been born in Burt county April, 1860. The family moved to Blair in an early day, and Mr. Goll learned the druggist’s trade in Dr. S. B. Taylor’s drug store. He was married to Miss Sadie Conger of Pilger some thirty years ago, and has lived at Ft. Calhoun most of the time since then. Besides the wife, he leaves three sons and three sisters to mourn his sudden departure from this life.

#2-14 Dec., 1922 - The Enterprise William Goll, a pioneer citizen of Ft. Calhoun and Washington county, died at an Omaha hospital on Wednesday after a serious illness. Mr. Goll was about 61 years of age and leaves a widow and three sons, also three sisters who reside in Blair, Misses Mary and Amelia and Mrs. Nels Windstorm. Mr. Goll has been the druggist in Ft. Calhoun for over a quarter of a century. Funeral services will be held at Ft. Calhoun Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock, and burial will be made in the Blair cemetery.

#3-21 Dec., 1922 - The Tribune - William R. Goll

PIONEER W. R. GOLL LAID TO REST IN BLAIR CEMETERY

There was a large attendance at the funeral of W. R. Goll from his late residence on December 15, 1922, before taking the body to the resting place beside his father, Jacob Goll, in the Blair cemetery.

His father and a partner came to new Washington county, Nebraska in 1848 or 1849 when this was a vast Indian territory where every white man had to have a direct license from the government to remain during two years’ residence. His partner was drowned in Fish Creek and the Indian ran his oxen off and he removed to Iowa. On coming back he found the surveyors had planted a four section corner stake in the exact center of his former log cabin, so he bought all of them and placed his home on one and barn on another, corn crib on one and implement shed on the other. The school district, we believe, is still named after him. The son, William, was brought up on that farm, the father dying in Blair a few years ago.

When a lad of 17, William got a place in the Dr. Taylor drug store in Blair where he remained for eight years, and also took a course in an Iowa association, then went to a store in Pueblo, Colo., and later to Pilger, Nebr. He was married to Miss Sadie Conger, a niece of Senator Conger of Iowa in 1890, and in 1891 he bought the drug store here in Ft. Calhoun of Postmaster Henry Taylor, now of Blair, and for over 25 years was regarded as the healthiest man in Ft. Calhoun township. After living in the Masonic building with post office and drug store for a number of years, where his eldest son, Harold was born, he built a good cottage on the block we now live on and now owned by Otto Kruse, where his son, Walter, was born, now in charge of the store, and when he sold that he built the house where he died, and where his young school boy still remains with his mother.

He was born in May, 1864, and a farmer told us the other day that after the death of Henry Rix, no one hereabouts will be so much missed as W. R. Goll. This writer is indebted to him for many kindnesses during the years when we had so much sickness in our family.

The sermon was preach by Rev. Helixigo, of the Seventh Day Adventist church of Omaha. The hymns were sung by Mrs. Joe Bolln, Mrs. Elsie Cook and Miss Grace Neale.

The pallbearers were furnished by the M.W.A. lodge of which he was a member, and were Ernest Schmidt, John Dorner, John Schroeder, Guy Miller, Elmore Craig and Henry Steffen. The honorary pallbearers were recent postmaster Finch, rural Carrier John Landis, Fred Moeller, Fred Jipp, August Schroeder and former mayor, Wallie McMillan. The business houses closed for a brief period during the obsequies. W. H. Woods

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

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