CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF MARTIN MISCHKE ==================================================================== 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 OCT 14, 1930 * this is Knox county but the Mischke ranch is renown in the area all over northeast Nebraska. The Mischkes sponsored many young German people coming to America so that they could get a start here in this area. PROMINENT FARMER IS BURIED SUNDAY DEATH COMES TO MARTIN MISCHKE THURSDAY AFTER LONG ILLNESS Son of the earliest pioneers of Knox county and himself an early builder of the Crofton community was Martin Julius Mischke of Crofton who died at Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton last Thursday at the age of 68 years. Funeral of the prominant resident held at the Lutheran church Sunday afternoon was one of the largest ever known in Crofton. Rev. Miliken of the German Evangical church of Yankton was assisted at the funeral rites by Rev. Mensugh of the Crofton Church. Pallbearers who bore the casket to its resting place were William Parks, Clay Johnson, Duncan McEwing, Jacob Zurcher, Alfred Phillips, and Martin Hilfiker. Music was furnished by a quartette composed of William Money, E.R. Rissler, S.H. Walker, and Wilbur Jones, with Mrs. Money as accompanist. Mr. Mischke was born at Frankfort, on November 8, 1861. His father, Charles F. Mischke was one of the oldest pioners of Knox county and came to America from Germany when a trans-atlantic trip took 50 days by sail boat. Coming to Iowa City, Iowa by rail, they stopped there to buy an oxen team with which to travel to Frankfort which was then the only town west of Sioux City. Mr. Mischke was one of three brothers. In 1882 he became a member of the German Evangical church serving actively as a Sunday school teacher, superintendent and president of the board of trustees. Ill health forced him to resign his activeness long before his death. On January 29, 1903 he married Louise Garnjobst of Knox County. They became the parents of 11 children who are Fern, Myrtle, Stanley, Evelyn, Martin, Joyce, Myron, Cyrus, Wayne, Gordon, and Jerome with the exception of Myrtle, now Mrs. Garrit Van Der Horst of Los Angeles, Cal., all of the children are at home. Knowing that his illness was critical and he would soon leave his family, Mr. Mischke left messages for his children who were not at his bedside. Mrs. Mischke and some of the older sons and daughter were with him constantly during his last days. The Mischke farm is only two and one-half miles from the old place that Martin was born. Mr. Mischke who was a prosperous farmer, owned a large farm and a raiser of purebred Hereford cattle, which had brought him many prizes at county fairs and other competitions out of the state. Several years ago he built a modern home on the farm.