_HAMILTON ZECH _____________+
| (1856 - 1944) m 1874
_DAVID H. LAHR _________|
| (1861 - 1931) m 1881 |
| |_HANNA ERWIN _______________+
| (1854 - 1925) m 1874
|
|--ELI DAVID LAHR
| (1896 - 1964)
| _GIDEON NAYLOR AUGHENBAUGH _+
| | (1833 - 1894) m 1850
|_EMMA JANE AUGHENBAUGH _|
(1861 - 1926) m 1881 |
|_MEGDALENA DELLINGER _______
(1834 - 1906) m 1850
[1811]
M E M O R I E
S
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ZELDA AND ELI FARMED SOUTH OF LINCOLN WITH ELI'S PARENTS,THEN MOVED
NORTH OF LINCOLN ON THE HURLEY FARM. LATER,THEY MOVED TO THE BRIEGEL
FARM,NORTHEAST OF BEASON - 1919-1944. THEY LIVED IN THE SAME HOUSE THAT
HIS MOTHER AND FATHER HAD LIVED IN PREVIOUSLY. THEN,THEY BOUGHT A ROOMING
HOUSE FOR ISNU STUDENTS AND MOVED TO NORMAL. IN 1995,THEY MOVED TO A FARM
SOUTH OF LEROY UNTIL ELI'S RETIREMENT IN 1963,WHEN THEY BUILT A HOUSE IN
LEROY.
I REMEMBER MANY AMUSING INCIDENTS AT THE "BIG OLD HOUSE" NEAR BEASON
WHERE MY BROTHERS AND I WERE BORN AND GREW UP.
AS A YOUNG COUPLE, ELI AND ZELDA FREQUENTLY ( ZELDA SAYS DAILEY) HAD
FUN WRESTLING WITH EACH OTHER. DURING ONE OF THOSE FUN BOUTS WHEN THEY
WERE STAYING AT ELI'S FATHER,DAVID'S, HOUSE.THEY ACCIDENTLY BROKE A
ROCKER ON DAVID'S BEDROOM CHAIR WHILE HE WAS OUT. BECAUSE THEY KNEW THAT
DAVID ALWAYS SAT IN THAT CHAIR AND PROPPED HIS FEET ON THE FOOT OF THE
BED. ELI CAREFULLY PLACED THE ROCKER BACK AND SAID NOTHING ABOUT THE
INCIDENT WHEN HIS FATHER RETURNED. A FEW MINUTE LATER AFTER DAVID WENT
INTO HIS BEDROOM, ZELDA HEARD THE COMMOTION OF THE FALLING CHAIR AS DAVID
SAT DOWN.
DAVID STACKED THE CHAIR IN THE CORNER,THINKING THAT HE HAD BROKEN IT
HIMSELF. NOT UNTIL A FEW YEARS LATER DID HE LEARN WHAT HAD HAPPENED WHEN
ELI TOLD HIM HOW THE CHAIR HAD BEEN BROKEN.
BECAUSE ZELDA USUALLY YELLED QUITE LOUDLY WHILE WRESTLING, IRMA JEAN,
AS A SMALL CHIL,WOULD START CRYING AND TRY TO STOP HER FATHER FROM
HURTING HER MOTHER. THIS OFTEN ENDED THEIR FUN PREMATURELY. SOON AFTER
IRMA JEAN STARTED SCHOOL, ZELDA GLEEING AND ONE DAY THERE WAS A KNOCK ON
THE KITCHEN DOOR STOPPED HER ABRUPTLY, ZELDA DISAPPEARED INTO ANOTHER
ROOM UNTIL THE SALESMAN, WHO WAS AT THE DOOR, HAD DEPARTED. THEY OFTEN
WONDERED WHAT THAT MAN THOUGHT WHEN HE HEARD THAT WOMEN YELLING AS HE
APPROACHED.
ON ANOTHER OCCASION, ZELDA'S FATHER, WILLIAM, WAS AT THE BARN MILKING
THE COW, WHEN, SOMEWHAT DISTURBED BY THE YELLING THAT HE HEARD, HE
DECIDED TO GO TO THE HOUSE TO SEE WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ZELDA - - - - YES,
ANOTHER WRESTLING MATCH !!!!!!
THE WILLIAM HENDERSON FAMILY AND THE DAVID LAHR FAMILY LIVED NEAR EACH
OTHER IN DEWITT COUNTY. ZELDA'S SISTERS , MYRTLE, MERLE AND ALICE AND A
BROTHER ROY , ATTENDED BOWLES SCHOOL ALONG WITH ELI'S SISTERS BERTHA AND
EDITH. WHEN ZELDA WAS BORN, EMMA JANE, " ELI'S MOTHER SAID, " WELL,
THERE'S A GIRL FOR MY BOY."
O B I T U
A R Y
ELI D.
LAHR , 68,
DIES :
LAST RITES
HELD FRIDAY
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR ELI D. LAHR, 68 , WERE HELD AT 3 P.M. FRIDAY IN
STENSEL'S FUNERAL HOME. BURIAL WAS IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY. REV CLARENCE C.
YOUNG,PASTOR OF FIRST METHODIST CHURCH, OFFICIATED. MRS. WAYNE WEBER WAS
ORGANIST.
MR. LAHR, WHO HAD BEEN ILL HEATH FOR SERVAL MONTHS,DIED MAY 13 ABOUT
9:30 A.M.
HE WAS BORN MARCH 2,1896 AT KENNEY, A SON OF SAVID H. AND EMMA JANE
AUGHENBAUGH LAHR. HE MARRIED ZELDA HENDERSON SEPT 4,1917 IN LINCOLN. MR.
LAHR WAS A RETIRED FARMER, A MEMBER OF METHODIST CHURCH IN KENNEY AND A
MEMBER OF THE LODGE IN KENNEY. HE HAD LIVED IN LEROY COMMUNITY THE LAST
NINE YEARS.
SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE:TWO SONS, HARRISON S.,LEXINGTON AND HAROLD K.
OF EGAN. ONE DAUGHTER , MRS JAMES ( IRMA JEAN) MILLER OF LEROY,ILL. ONE
BROTHER EARL LAHR, 13 GRANDCHILDREN. THREE SISTERS AND FOUR BROTHERS
PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.
PALLBEARS WERE ; VERNET ROBINSON,VERNAL LAHR,WAYNE HENDERSON,IRWIN
SMITH,RALEIGH MANUAL AND JAMES HENDERSON.
BURIAL WAS IN THE OAK GROVE CEMETERY IN LEROY,ILL
_Loyd Alvin LANTZ ______+
| (1895 - 1966) m 1917
_LeRoy Wilford LANTZ _|
| (1918 - 1990) m 1944 |
| |_Ada Elizabeth LIPPERT _+
| (1896 - 1985) m 1917
|
|--Living LANTZ
|
| ________________________
| |
|_Valma Alice TURNER __|
(1923 - 1972) m 1944 |
|________________________
__
|
_GEORGE NAILER ______|
| (1748 - 1828) |
| |__
|
|
|--ESTER NAILOR
|
| __
| |
|_ESTER ? _____|
(1760 - 1816) |
|__
_Gunnar RAMBO _______+
| (1649 - 1724) m 1670
_Mans RAMBO _________|
| (1684 - 1760) m 1713|
| |_Anna COCK __________+
| (1652 - 1697) m 1670
|
|--Ann RAMBO
| (1725 - 1819)
| _Swan BOON __________
| |
|_Catharina BOON _____|
(1691 - 1761) m 1713|
|_Brigitta SWANSON ___