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Deaths in Jasper county mark long lives and empires of family
Obituaries note the July deaths of Mrs. Scheel aged eighty, and FR Peck aged near eighty four. Scheel and family arrived from Germany in 1875 and settled in Malaka township. Peck, a New York native, lived on a Prairie City farm before moving to Metz. Funeral services conducted by Rev. Koenig, with interment at Greenleaf cemetery.
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John Scheel
Ry Scheel
Mable Gerheel
Ye Scheel
Hemstedt
FR. Peck
Metz
Peck
Jasper County
New York
Pennsylvania
Prairie City
EC. Brooks
Greenleaf
Nes
Frank
The
Kodak
Leighton
Elmer Hurst
Des Moines
Ladies of Th Aid Society
J. Bisbee
Hattie Wright
Newton
Nebraska
Wm. Strawn
Missouri
B. W. Brown
8. Riddle
Carrie White
Monroe
Vera Little