Obit of Henry ALTNOW (b.1812 d.1910), Sibley Co., MN

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Arlington Enterprise
Thursday 22 September 1910

PIONEER DEAD
	One by one the pioneers of this county are called upon to answer 
the call of their Master and their ranks are rapidly diminishing and 
this week the sad duty falls upon us to chronicle the demise of Henry 
Altnow who died at the home of his son Chas. in this village on Sunday, 
Sept. 18th, at 4:30 o’clock p.m.
	Henry Altnow was born at Wrietzen, Germany on September 21st, 
1812, and when a child he immigrated to Sonnenburg Province Brandenburg 
when that country was still sparsely settled and he was obliged to go 
through many hardships.  He grew from boyhood to manhood while he was 
engaged with a nobleman as a carriage driver and traveled with his master 
through most of the ports of Germany.  In 1835 he was married to 
Wilhelmine Betting and their union was blessed with eight children, all
being boys.  William is a well to do farmer and rancher in Eastern Oregon; 
Charles was formerly engaged in farming in this vicinity but has retired 
and is now a resident of this village; Gustavus resides on a farm a few 
miles west of Arlington; Fernal resides in Henderson; Henry J. is engaged 
in the hardware business in Oregon; John resided and died in California.  
The remainder of the children died before emigration to America.  He 
leaves 62 grand and great-grand children.
	He and his family left Prussia, Germany, and immigrated to America 
in 1855 settling at Watertown, Wis.  In 1856 they came to Henderson, 
Minnesota, settling on a farm in Dryden township where they were engaged 
in farming until 1905, after which they moved to Oregon where he and his 
wife lived with their son Henry and family.  His wife died during the 
following year and he chose to live his last days with his son William 
in Eastern Oregon, but he died [sic.] not like the country and returned 
to Arlington in 1906 where he was tenderly cared for by his sons Chas. 
and Gustavus.  Satisfied with this world’s hardships and pleasures he 
retired from all work and about eighteen months ago he became feeble and 
was gradually growing weaker and finally became helpless shortly after 
which he succumbed to his Master.
 His long and useful life was ended at the age of 98 years, less three
days.  The funeral was held Wednesday, Sept. 21st, his birthday, Rev.
Brinkmann officiating.
	The following acted as pall bearers: J. R. Beatty, Fred Sander, 
Martin Bandelin, Herman Schulenberg, John Meyer, and Aug. Rischmueller.
	The Enterprise condoles with the bereaved relatives and friends 
in their hour of sorrow.