Clay-Riley County KS Archives Obituaries.....Oppenlander, Christopher March 27, 1916 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Scott Oppenlander sentinelnc@yahoo.com September 29, 2005, 3:51 pm The Clay Center Dispatch, March 1916 Oppenlander: - Christopher Oppenlander was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, March 26, 1837, and dided at his home in Riverview March 27, 1916. He was at the time of his deth 79 years and 1 day old. He left his native country in 1865 and went to Falmouth, England, where he remained one year. He came to the United States in 1866. He lived in Michigan one year and then nt to Indiana. There he was married at Syracuse, to Catherine Rapp, who with eleven children, six sons and five daughters, survive him. He homesteaded in Goshen township, Clay county, in 1873 and endured all the privations of the early settlers. Mr. Oppenlander and his family moved to Clay Center in 1882 and have resided here ever since. The names of his sons are: Eli of Broughton, John of Clyde, Henry of Riley, and Will, Norman and Ernest of Clay Center. The daughters are: Amanda Borden of Topeka, Mary Reed, Emma Walker and Minnie Warren of Clay Center, and Ida Byrne of Nelson, Neb. He is also survived by 38 grandchildren and one great grandson. He was baptised in the Lutheran church in Germany when a child and was a loving husband and a kind and indulgent father, who at all times had the best interests of his family at heart. Mr. Oppenlander was a man of many friendships and of a kind and jovial disposition. He had always something genial to say and his many friends will miss Chris, as he was familiarly known. The funeral services were held at the family residence in Riverview on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Henry Paustan, pastor of the German M. E. church of this city. Burial was made in the Greenwood cemetery. Additional Comments: Christopher Oppenlander was my great-great grandfather. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/clay/obits/o/oppenlan26ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb