Obit for Mrs. Henry FABEL, Sr. (b.1842 d.1908), Norwood, Carver Co., MN

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     Obituary of Mrs. Fabel

     Had been a resident for over fifty years, of Carver County.

     Mrs. Henry Fabel, Sr., who departed this life on Sunday, January 19th
was born in Amsterdam, Holland, March 11, 1842. She came to America and 
settled in Philadelphia, Penn., in 1850. She resided there for five years
and then moved with her parents to Minnesota, this county,
and on November 11, 1858 was married to Henry Fabel, Sr., who now after 
nearly fifty years is separated by death from his companion of half a 
century. 
In 1865 Mr. and Mrs. Fabel moved from Benton to Young America and in 1879 
moved to Norwood where the deceased was known as one of the best land 
ladies at the Union Hotel building until 1884, when she and her husband 
again returned to the farm where the end came on January 19, 1908 as 
stated above.
     The deceased was the good mother of twelve children,  ten of whom are 
living and all of these characterized by the one who rocked and cared for 
them, are types of men in social and business circles. They are August, 
William, Frank and Henry at Norwood, Ed. at Minneapolis; Phillip at 
Danube; Albert and Emil on the farm; Oscar and Mrs. Lindert at Echo. 
A daughter, Mrs. Albert Meyer, wife of the Registrar of Deeds at Chaska, 
died a few  years ago, and Charley, a son, died when a child. Thirty 
three grandchildren and three great grandchildren are among the mourners 
for the dead.
     The funeral on Wednesday was the largest ever held here. One hundred 
thirty teams were in line from the farm to Norwood, where the body now 
rests in the cemetery west of town. Gen. Muehlberg, of Carver, delivered 
the funeral oration. It was an able effort and as the surviving husband 
of the deceased is a loyal member of the Grand Army, the General who was 
also a personal friend of the family and knew Mrs. Fabel, spoke in the 
most eulogistic terms of her. 
Time and space does not permit of further comment but in a word the 
deceased was a womanly woman and too good natured and kind hearted to 
have an enemy.
May she rest in peace.