Obit for AHLF, August (b.1853 d.1924), LeSueur Co., MN
(Includes some Family records)
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Submitted: September 2003
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Note from Submitter:
August Ahlf is my great grandfather.
Regards, 
Kent Ahlf

Le Sueur News Herald

June 25, 1924 

August Ahlf, born December 7, 1853 at Isensee, Hannover, Germany.  
I-Es father passed away when he was yet at a tender age.  
This misfortune compelled him to make his own way in live. He came 
to America in the year 1872(73?) and settled in Le Sueur near his 
brother John Henry Ahlf He can be classed as an early settler, a 
builder of the state.

He was united in holy wedlock in 1880 with Katherine Termath.  
Five children were born of this union of whom three survive the father.  
He at first worked in the furniture store and during the last thirty 
five years of his active life, he and Mr. Voobrecht were engaged in 
the contracting business as partners.  Very few men are as conscientious 
about their work as he was.  One might almost say, that he was too 
conscientious. he believed in giving his full attention to his work.  
During the last year or two, he felt this strength leaving him, but 
his one great ambition was to be busy. he believed with Saloma that 
work is the greatest pleasure a man can experience.

Mr. Ahlf was precise and very exact in what he did.  He was not 
satisfied with poor workmanship, but felt highly pleasured when 
is labors were a success.

As a husband, a father, a friend and neighbor, he was exemplary.  
A loving husband and tender hearted father.  His life has not been 
spent in vain.  In memory he shall live on until we will all be 
reunited again around the throne of God.

As a man, the deceased was humble and unassuming. never wanting 
to be more than just a plain, straightforward, honest, upright 
man, who loved his home, family and fellow man.

Seventy years, six months, twelve days, the years of his life.  
He was taken away Thursday morning to join the innumerable hosts 
of those who have died in their faith in the living resurrected Christ.

The departed always was devout in his faith and ever ready as a 
Icon's church to fulfill his obligations. the one who sleeps his 
last sleep passed away peacefully and his soul one may well hope
rests in the arms of Jesus.

The surviving ones are his grief stricken wife, his children, 
Mrs. R.W. Lloyd, Elmer Johann Ahlf of Worthington, Minnesota, 
Mrs. Ernest Nordstrom of La Crosse, Wisconsin, a half brother, 
Claus Stueven, one grandchild, Douglas Kentner Ahlf, two sons-in-law, 
other near relatives and acquaintances.  Blessed are the dead, 
who die in the Lord.


Church Records:

#23, page
Baptism:
Johann August Ahlf
father: Johann Ahlf
mother: Emma (Wetter) Ahlf 
b.July 20,1880
Baptized: August 29,1880
Sponsor: August Ahlf

#50, page 29
Baptism:
Theodore Johann Heinrich Ahlf
father: August Ahlf
mother: Katherine Termath
b.Maerz 1,1881
Baptized: April 1,1881
Sponsors: Johann Ahlf, Johanne Termath


#33, page 115
Marriage:
Claus Stueven, 27 years old from Isensee
Amt: Osten Proving Hannover and
Johanna Sophie Wetter, 22 years old, born Mulsum
Amt: Dorum Proving Hannover 
Married June 24 1885

 
#111, page 10
Baptism:
Elmer Johann Ahlf
b.Dec 29,1889 in Le Sueur
Baptized: Mar I 1 1890
Sponsors: Johann Termath and Louise Termath
 

#158, page 14
Baptism:
Agnes Johanna Auguste Ahlf
father: Johann Ahlf
mother: Emma (Wetter) Ahlf 
b.Jan 30, 1891
Baptized: April 19, 1891
Sponsors: Johanna Stueven and August Maag
 

#307, page 25
Baptism:
Mabel Henrietta Stueven
father: Claus Stueven
mother: Johanna (Wetter) Stueven
b. March 1,1895
Baptized: June 2,1895
Sponsors: Hinrich Wetter and Wittfrau Anna Kröncke
note: see immigration records, Anna Kröncke was on same ship as August)
 

953 1, page 41
Birth:
Ollie Gustav Willie Stueven
b. April 3,1902.

 
#675, page 50
Baptism:
Mildred Minna Ahlf
father: August Ahlf
mother: Katherine Termath 
b. September 23,1898
Baptized: April 2,1907

 
Cemetery markers:

August Ahlf                Dec 07,1853-Jun 19,1924

Katherine Termath Ahlf     May 01,1861-Jan 02,1942

Theodore J. H. Ahlf        Mar 01,1881-Apr 03,1882

William E. Ahlf            Oct 28,1883-Mar 29,1907