Coles County IL Archives Obituaries.....Cordes, Carl Henry
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Obituary of Carl Henry CORDES, Coles County, Illinois

Name of Deceased:  Carl Henry CORDES
Name of Newspaper: The Mattoon Journal-Gazette
Date of Newspaper:  16 January 1920, Friday

C. H. CORDES DIES AT DAUGHTER'S HOME

One of City's Oldest Residents Succumbs on Thursday Evening
Funeral on Sunday.

Carl Henry Cordes, one of the city's oldest residents, passed 
away about 10 o'clock on Thursday evening at the home of his 
daughter, Mrs. Mary Howell, 801 Lincoln Avenue.  Mr. Cordes 
had been in poor health for several years, starting with an 
attack of Erysipelas.  Later, he was afflicted with heart 
troubles, and about six weeks ago, he was compelled to take 
to his bed.  Since that time he had been growing gradually 
weaker.

Funeral services are to be held some time on Sunday afternoon
at the Howell home, burial following in Dodge Grove Cemetery.

Mr. Cordes was born in Germany on December 9, 1830, making 
him slightly more than eighty-nine years of age.  When a boy, 
he came with his parents to this country, landing at New York
on the day Abraham Lincoln was selected to the presidency the
second time.  He had often told his relatives and intimate 
friends of the frenzy the people were in at that time, at 
the close of the Civil War, the family of immigrants being 
greeted with bonfires in the streets of New York, as well as 
other manifestations in which the people of the North were 
showing their jubilation at that time.

Soon after his arrival in this country, Mr. Cordes came to 
Mattoon when there was only one dwelling on the West side of 
the Illinois Central.  After a few years, he bought a tract
of land about two miles south of Lerna where he continued to
make his home until about three years ago, when, because of 
advancing years, he left the farm and came to this city to 
make his home with his children.  Mr. Cordes also possessed
a fine farm south of Trilla.

Surviving are four children;  Mrs. Howell, this city, where 
he died; Charles Cordes, 2620 Marshall Avenue, this city; 
Lewis Cordes, living on the farm near Lerna and Rudolph 
Cordes, living on the farm near Trilla.  Mrs. Cordes, wife 
and mother, passed away in 1890.


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