CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - HANS Anna Rameil ==================================================================== NEGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the NEGenWeb Archives by Carol Tramp. Permission granted by: Rob Dump, Editor, Cedar County News ====================================================================== Cedar County News – 12-12-1929 Last Tribute paid Mrs. Hans on Tuesday Wynot Woman who Died Thursday is Buried in Bow Valley Mrs. George Hans, Sr. 69, resident of Cedar county since 1865 died at her home in Wynot Thursday afternoon, December 5, following a lingering illness. Death was due to cancer and to complications. Mrs. Hans had seemed to be in her usual health until the Sunday before her death, when she became suddenly ill. Born near Hancock, Mich., a copper mining town on Lake Superior July 3, 1860, Anna Hans came to Cedar county with her parents, John and Elizabeth Rameil, at the age of four, making the trip from Boone, Ia., which was then the nearest point on the railroad, an ox-drawn covered wagon, crossing the Missouri River near Sioux City by ferry. With the party were the Conrad Weisner, Frank Heger, John Hauchen, Fran and ___ Hochstein, and Frank Stoppert families all of whom had come originally from Westphailia, Germany. They settled in Bow Valley near where the Schuetzenvest hall was later located where Mrs. Hans grew to womanhood. On April 15, 1884, where was married at St. Peter and Pauls Church to George Hans, Sr. Mrs. Mary Pinkelman of Wynot, a girlhood chum acted as bridesmaid. Martin Schulte, now of Sioux City was best man, and Elizabeth Rameil, dead many years and Frank Stoppert, also dead were the other two attendants. Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Hans lived in Chicago until 1904 when they returned to Cedar County, making their home in Hartington in 1914 when they removed to Wynot. Mrs. Hans was an active worker in Holy Trinity and sacred Heart churches. Surviving besides her husband, are six children, George Jr. of Wynot; Lieutenant Commander Rudolph Hans of the United State Navy now stationed at the Brooklyn navy yard in New York City, who arrived in Wynot Sunday, having come by aeroplane from New York to St. Louis, Dr. H.M Hans of Fordyce; Mrs. Ed fisher of Wynot, and Misses Rose and Tillie Hans at home. Three brothers, Martin, William and John Rameil, all of near Hartington, and two sisters, Mrs. Theresa Nash and Miss Mary Rameil both of Chicago are the only other near relatives. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at ten o’clock at Sacred Heart church in Wynot, where Rev. Mather L. Meinzer officiated. Burial was made in the Bow Valley cemetery beside her parents. Present for the funeral from out of the county besides Rudolph Hans was Mrs. Theresa Nash of Chicago.