Obituary: Ozaukee County, Wisconsin: Rudolph H. SCHMIDT ************************************************************************ Submitted by Mary Saggio, August 2007 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ The Cedarburg News February 7, 1883 Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin OBITUARY We have already noticed in the last No. of the NEWS the death of Rudolph H. SMITH (should be SCHMIDT), Esq., of Grafton, which occurred at half past seven o'clock on 29th of last month surrounded by his family. The immediate cause of his death was consumption brought on by a throat disease. He was born at Stargardt in Prussia on the 8th day of July 1833, and was consequently in his 50th year, when he died. His father, who died in Shoeneck in Prussia was County and city Judge. The deceased received a good academical education and quitted school in August 1837; this enabled him to pass his examination for the one year military service in Prussia, which he absolved as corporal from 1846 to 1847. He emigrated to the United States in 1849 and married his first wife in Milwaukee, Miss Helen WIDMEYER, who died in Grafton in the year 1868, where he afterwards married Miss Louise SANDEL, who survives him with five children, while from the first marriage one son remains who is station agent at Grafton. Mr. SCHMIDT after keeping a country store in Thienville and Hamilton, settled finally in Grafton in 1852, where he was engaged in mercantile business. He held the office of Justice of the peace continually for over 25 years and until his death. He was buried on the 1st, of this month at Grafton, after the funeral oration in the Saint Joseph church upon the Catholic Cemetery followed to the grave by his family and a large number of friends.