The death of Herman Jacobson, the Calhoun butcher, occurred last Friday morning at 2 o’clock. They had two doctors from Omaha Thursday, but they could not save him. The funeral was held Monday morning, and the body was shipped to Blair for burial.

#2-13 Aug., 1908 - The Blair Democrat - Herman Jacobsen

DIED IN CALHOUN

Herman Jacobsen, for twenty years a butcher at Calhoun, died from blood poisoning last Saturday morning, and was buried in the Blair Catholic cemetery Monday. Deceased leaves a wife and one child.

The pallbearers were W. E. Worline, John Daly, J. J. Shinnick, Martin Brandt, Herman Wolff and John Mornan. Following is a partial list of the people who drove from that neighborhood to attend the services: George Fitzgerald, wife and family; John Fitzgerald, John and Dennis Daly and mother, J. B. Sully, John and Mike Kelly and Henry Micheels.

Relatives from abroad were: Mrs. M Felchtinger and son of Pleasant Valley; Mrs. Lena Smeal of Snyder; Mrs. Wm. Schultz of Wisner; Mrs. F. Mintken of Nickerson; Theodore Sturbaum of Snyder; Anna Baer of Omaha; Henry Wenninghoff of Benson; and Minnie and Alvin Workman of So. Omaha.

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

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