Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1910 — FORMER RESIDENT DEAD. [ARTICLE]

FORMER RESIDENT DEAD.

Frederick Rishling Dies ,At Springfield, Nebraska. From the Springfield, Neb., Monitor of February 24, we clip the following mention of the death of Frederick Rishling, a former resident of near Rensselaer and who still has relatives residing ,in this county : The dread messenger has again visited our community. This time his summons was for our townsman, Frederick Rishling. Mr. Rishling had been in poor health fop a year or more and suffered a severe seige of sickness last spring, but his last illness was of just a week’s duration. The subject of this obituary was born in Indiana, December 11, 1841, and died at his home in Springfield February 19, 1910. He was a member of the Christian church since eighteen years of age. Mr. Rishling came to Nebraska in the early sixties, but soon returned to Indiana, where he was married June 17, 1869, to Sarah A. Crockett, who with eight of the nine children still live to mourn their loss. One son, George, died in 1903. Chester is a policeman in Omaha, Oliver lives in Antelope county, where he is an extensive farmer. The six daughters are Mrs. James H. White, Mrs. Lester Anson and Mrs. George White of Sprinfield; Mrs. L. C. Kimball, LaPlatte; Mrs. Ida Nutt, Gretna; and Mrs. Anton Ekberg, Watertown, S. D. He is also survived by a brother and three sisters, Charles Rishling, of Kempton, N. D., Mrs. Joe Gamble of Carpentersville, Hi., and Mrs. Sarah Sage and Miss Barbara Rishling of Springfield. Mr, Rishling located in this vicinity in 1880, and has lived here ever since. In the thirty years of his residence among us he made many warm friends as was evidenced by the large number of neighbors from far and near who filled the church to its capacity to hear the funeral sermon and pay their last respects to the departed. The funeral was held from the Springfield Methodist Episcopal church Monday at 2 p. m., Rev. Connelley conducting the services, and interment was in the Springfield cemetery.