Obituary: Green County, Wisconsin: August ASMUS ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, April 2008 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ August Asmus, aged 72 years, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Chas. Kutzka, near the German church on the prairie, Saturday, August 4, 1906. The deceased was born in Germany, came to this country in 1863 and purchased what is known as the Pickering farm on the west side of the prairie in 1877 where he resided until about nine weeks since when he became ill and went to reside with his daughter. His heart had been diseased for several years, which combined with dropsy in his last illness carried him away. His wife died 14 years ago the same day and month of his death and her funeral was held on the same day and month. He leaves three children to mourn their sad loss of a kind loving father, Mrs. Chas. Lutzka, Frank and Henry. The funeral was held Monday, Aug. 6, 1906, at 2:30 o’clock p.m. in the German church on the prairie and the remains interred in the same church cemetery with Rev. Geo. H. Scheible officiating. The Enterprise, August 10, 1906, p. 3, col. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin [Note that the daughter's last name is spelled both Kutzka and Lutzka in the obituary.]