Cass County IL Archives Obituaries.....Rausch, Anna Marie
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Obituary of Mrs. Anna Marie Rausch, Cass County, Illinois

Name of Deceased:  Mrs. Anna Marie Rausch
Name of Newspaper:  Unknown
Date of Newspaper:

Obituary:

Mrs. Anna Marie Rausch an old and a highly respected resident
of Beardstown died early this morning at her home, 1212 
Jefferson Street, after a lingering illness. 
Anna Marie Rohn, was born in Ruppeltrof, Hesse -- Darmstadt, 
Germany, April 2nd, 1838, and died in Beardstown Thursday, 
Feb. 21, 1924, aged 85 years, 9 months, and 19 days.

Coming to America with her parents in 1841, Mrs. Rausch has 
been a resident of this city for more than four score years.
On September 5th, 1895, she was married to Henry Rausch of 
the city.  To this union 11 children were born, five of whom 
with the husband and father preceded the mother in death. 
Mr. Rausch was killed on February 21, 1883, his wife 
therefore survived exactly 41 years.

Left with a large family of children Mrs. Rausch bravely bore
many heavy burdens, and endeavored to take the place of both 
and mother.  With a firm and unfaltering faith in God, she 
reared her family and has bequeathed to her children that 
memory of a pure, unselfish self-sacrificing and devoted 
mother. 

After rearing her own children she also took the place of 
mother to several mother less grandchildren.

She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Lena Zeigelmeier of 
Gem, Kansas, and five sons, William of University Place, 
Lincoln, Nebraska; Fred of Pittsburgh, PA, Benjamin of East 
St. Louis, Henry and Hugo, both of this city, besides a
large number of grandchildren, great-grandchildren and a 
host of friends.

For several years she has made her home for the greater 
part of the time with her son-in-law, William Wise, taking
the place of a mother to his motherless daughters and 
being in turn loved and cared for by them.  They with 
other granddaughters, and loving relatives, have tenderly
cared for her during her weeks and months of illness.

Grandma Rausch has been for many years a faithful and 
value member of the Congregational church.  A woman of 
strong character, an earnest Christian, her faith was 
unfaltering and she held faster principles, and high 
ideals.

She was especially gifted in prayer and as long as she 
was able attended all services of the church, helping 
so far as she could in every good work.

She was a charter member of the Woman's Christian 
Temperance Union organized many years ago, and was all
her life a loyal worker in the "temperance" cause.

Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been completed,
but will be announced tomorrow.

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I believe that this clipping came from a 1924 Beardstown 
newspaper.  The copy of the clipping that I have does not 
contain the name of the paper. This I have inferred due to
the content of the actual clipping.

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