Montgomery County IL Archives Obituaries.....Wolters, Hugo  June 17, 1934
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June 18, 1934, The Hillsboro Journal

obituary WOLTERS, Hugo, June 18, 1934, The Hillsboro Journal, publ Hillsboro, 
Illinois
  
     Hugo Wolters, one of the prominent farmers of this community, and a 
resident of Montgomery County pratically all of his life, died June 17, 1934, 
at the Hillsboro Hospital Sunday night, aged almost 81 years.  He had been a 
patient in the hospital for the past four weeks, since he had been stricken 
with paralysis at this home three and a half miles east of this city.  His 
condition, gradually grew more critical until the end came Sunday night.   
Funeral services will be held at the country residence on the Filllmore road 
Wednesday afternoon.  Rev. Ezra Keller, pastor of the Hillsboro Lutheran 
church will conduct the services and interment will be made at Oak Grove 
cemetery in this city.   

     Hugo Wolters was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 24, 1853, being a 
son of the late Louis and Elizabeth [Heitman] Wolters.  At the age of about 
four years he moved with his parents to Carlinville where the father followed 
his trade of cabinet-maker and conducted a general merchandising 
establishment. In 1864, Louis Wolters moved his family to the farm about three 
and a half miles east of Hillsboro where the children were reared.  This is 
the farm on which Hugo Wolters has resided practically ever since with the 
exception of a few years on a farm near Witt.  Over a period of many years, 
Louis Wolters and his sons made a specialty of raising sheep and they won a 
wide reputation for the fine quality of sheep and wool produced on his farm.   

*** The marriage of Hugo Wolters to Sophia Hillman occurred in 1878 and she 
died about 1885.  Four children were born to this union, two dying in infancy, 
and two who survive, Mrs. Lucy May, widow of Edward May of this city and 
Elizabeth, wife of John Marketta of Joliet.  

On November 28, 1888, in Carlinville, Illinois he united in marriage to Ida 
Caroline Haake, who passed away at their country home east of Hillsboro on 
February 12, 1934.  To this union were born four children: Frederick William, 
who died about four years ago; Ruby Rose and Ida Belle who died in infancy and 
Pearl, wife of William Lehman, who with her family lives near the Wolters 
homestead.   Mr. Wolters also leaves two brothers, Thomas Wolters and Edward 
Wolters, both of the Nokomis community.  There are seven grandchildren: Mrs. 
Louis Joshu of East St. Louis; Mrs. Thomas Godfrey of Litchfield; Mrs. Bernard 
Vercelloti and Mrs. Rudolph Gibson, both of Joliet and Franklin Hugo, Lucille 
Caroline and Walter William, children of the Lehmans.  There are also four 
great grandchildren.   

     Mr. Wolters joined the Presbyterian church at Irving during his youth.  
He belonged to few organizations but took a deep interest in the affairs of 
the community.  He was interested in agricultural pursuits and belonged to the 
Farm Bureau.  Mr. Wolters was a hard worker, was thrifty and encouraged others 
to put forth their efforts to build up the community where they lived.  He had 
a wide circle of friends in this cmmunity. 
 
 

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