Wm. KRUGER DIES SATURDAY

Aged Resident Passes Away at Country Home Last Saturday

Wilhelm Kruger, one of the earliest of Washington county pioneers, died Saturday at his home north of town, after an illness of fully two months’ duration.

Mr. Kruger was born January 2nd 1829 at Lindborst, Amt Hagenbuch, Germany, and emigrated to America in 1854, locating at Quincy, Ill,. Four years later he joined a party of Germans who came to Nebraska and settled on a homestead near Fontanelle and has lived there ever since.

In 1868 he was married to Hannah Hilgenkamp and nine children blessed the union, six of whom with the widow survive. The children are these: Mrs. Hannah Roth, F W Kruger, Mrs. Frank Schoettger, Mrs. Chas Laaker, Mrs. Matilda Laaker and F C Kruger, and all are residents of Washington county.

For more than thirty years Mr. Kruger has been a sufferer with asthma, but death came as the result of a complication of diseases. He was a prominent member of the German Lutheran Church and was one of the originators of the founding of the Brown Creek church. He was a strenuous worker when his health would permit, and being a frugal man, acquired considerable of this world's goods, having owned a thousand acres of land at one time and he gave the most of this to his children.

The services of the funeral were held from the German Lutheran church north of town yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock, the Rev. J. Hilgendorf, officiating. A short service was held at the house at 2 o'clock.

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