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CALLED HOME.MRS. HENRY SPRATLER, AFTER A LONG RESIDENCE IN TIIIS CITY, PASSES TO THE OTHER WORLD.At 5:40 o’clock this morning, Mrs. Henry Spratler expired. The deceased was sick three months, and the cause of iier demise was cancer of the heart. Had she lived until the 10th of next August she would have been 50 years of age. She was born in Boos, Prussia, on the Rhine, and came to Freepoifc in 1851. Here she was joined in wedlock to Henry Spratler in 1857, Wm, Wagner, deceased,performing the ceremony. Mrs. Spratler leaves ten children, one of whom is married to Mr, F, X. Meyer, tbe well-known barber. The youngest child is one year and a half old. A son r» nineteen years old. Mrs. Fred Burk-baidt is a sister; a brother lives at JEMairstown, Iowa, and a sister lives at Wapeila, Iowa. The father and mother reside at Lancaster, Pa.Mr. Sprattler is known as one of ourbest and most respect-dG ermpn citizens.He has been in the employ of John B. Taylor for 28 years, and during all this time has never lost a day unless on matters of this kind. His wife was a faithful and true woman, who lived to make her husband and children happy, and in in her death a true wife, an affectionate and loving mother, ?n old and honor-d citizen has passed to the realm beyond. Mrs. Spratler possessed those rare qualities that goes to make up a good wife, and the old home will now be a lonesome one. Her death is sincerely regretted by a large circle offriends every where.- The funeral will take place next Monday afternoon at 1 o’clock, and will be under the auspices of Freeport Lodge of Odd Fellows, of which institution Mr. Spratler has been vn honored member from its inception.
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Freeport Daily Journal and Republican
Freeport, Illinois, US
Sat, Jun 09, 1883
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