Seward-Statewide-Lancaster County NeArchives Obituaries.....Watgen, Henry D. October 11, 1919
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Seward Co., Ne. paper Oct. 16,1919 
Obituary
Henry D. Watgen
Independent-Democrat Seward County, Seward,NE. paper 
born 1856, died October 11,1919

    Henry D. Watgen was born in New York City, January 9, 1856, and died at 
his home at 
1608 Pawnee street, Lincoln, Neb., at 11 a.m., October 11, 1919, aged 63 
years, 
9 months and two days. His early years were spent in Indiana, Ohio, and 
Kentucky. 
In 1870 he went to Elgin, Ill., and on October 14, 1877, he was married at 
Dundee, 
Ill., to Miss Fredericka Scherf. To this union five children were born, two 
sons and 
three daughters, all of whom with their mother and eleven grandchildren, 
survive. The 
children are: Wm. J. Watgen of Elgin, Ill., Charles of Lincoln, Mrs. W.F.Hand 
of 
Seward, Mrs. T.J. Oneill and Mrs. J.P. Lortz of Lincoln. In 1897 the deceased, 
with 
his faily, removed from his home in Illinois to Seward,Neb., and in 1911 they 
moved 
to Linocln.
    Mr. Watgen had been a member of the Odd Fellows order for more than twenty-
five years. 
He was also a member of the Royal Neighbors and Modern Woodmen of America. His 
member-
ship in the three orders was retained at Seward.
    For nearly a year past the deceased had been a continuous sufferer from 
cancer of the 
stomach, but thruout all the long days he remained cheerful, and 
uncomplaining, a 
characteristic that marked his entire life. He had many warm friends who will 
share 
with the bereaved family in the loss they have sustained.
Funeral services were held from the home in Lincoln, Tuesday afternoon, with 
internment 
at Wyuka.(Wyuka Cem In Lincoln,NE.)
    Pall barers from Seward were: Jacob Imig; Harry Blacker; E.E. Evans; E.N. 
Wullenwaber.--- 

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