Alameda-Amador County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Waggershauser, Frederick P January 15, 1900
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Amador Ledger, [Jackson, California] January 19, 1900
F. P. WAGGERSHAUSER IS NO MORE

SAD ENDING OF A PROMISING YOUNG MAN

Called Away When He Was Just Entering
Upon a Career of Usefulness
and Honor.

At 4 o'clock Monday morning, January 15, 1900, Frederick P. Waggershauser, 
after a plucky fight of several weeks’ duration with injury and disease, paid 
the penalty exacted by Nature of all mankind. His father arrive in time to be 
with him a few days before the summons came and did all in his power to 
alleviate his sufferings. 

The funeral took place from the Catholic Church, Rev. Father Gleeson 
officiating, Tuesday afternoon, January 16th, at 2:30 p.m. The congregation 
was large, many of our most prominent citizens being present. The floral 
offerings were beautiful. Interment in the Catholic Cemetery. The pall bearers 
were: Frederick Eudey, Harry Newman, Alex Eudey, Charles Williams, Ruel Parker 
and Frank Arditto.

F. Waggershauser, father of deceased, was the only relative present, and the 
heartfelt sympathy of our people went out to the stricken, solitary mourner 
and many a tear mingled with his over the bier of his departed loved one. 
There were many miners in the procession who solemnly paid their last respects 
to their departed fellow workman, and sincerely condoled with the grief 
stricken father. It was a sad laying away of a bright youth, who was overtaken 
in the morning of life by an accident that cost him a limb and a few weeks 
later his life: But we must remember that "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh 
away." Not ours to murmur: not ours to question; but ours to prayerfully 
submit and say: "Blessed be the name of the Lord."

Frederick P. Waggershauser was born In Weingarten, Württemberg, Germany, [on] 
June 26, 1878 and came to America with his parents in 1887. Two years later he 
came to California and resided at St. Helena, Napa County, [for] eight years. 
Later he graduated at the Oakland High School and then entered the State 
University at Berkeley and was working in a mine here to earn money enough to 
complete the course when, on Tuesday morning, November 21, 1899, he was caught 
in a cave-in, his left leg below the knee being so badly injured that on the 
night of November 23d it had to be amputated. Through the trying ordeal he 
manifested great presence of mind and exhibited rare fortitude and commendable 
nerve. He got on nicely and all arrangements were made, even a pair of 
crutches being procured, to have him up and about by Christmas. But, alas! Man 
proposes and God disposes. The trial and tremendous strain through which he 
had gone aroused the latent seeds of quick consumption, to which disease he 
was predisposed, and the crutches were never used. He gradually faded away 
into the silent shadow of death, and one more young and ambitious life was cut 
off forever at the very threshold of manhood. He was bright, active, ambitious 
and studious. His ambition was to become an eminent civil engineer, and, had 
he lived, no doubt his hopes would have been realized, for he was possessed of 
the pluck that wins both fortune and fame in America.


Additional Comments:
Having read hundreds of obituaries over the years, this obituary is a very 
special one indeed.

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