Obituary: Ozaukee County, Wisconsin: Charles STOPPENBACH ************************************************************************ Submitted by Mary Saggio, August 2007 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ The Cedarburg Weekly News February 13, 1884 Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin DEATH OF CHAS. STOPPENBACH. Another of our old time friends, Charles STOPPEHBACH of Jefferson has taken his departure to the "undiscovered country, from wherebourn no traveler returns". In old times and while he resided in Watertown, we met him very often, but of late years it did not exceed half a dozen times during any one year. The last time we met him and had a pleasant chat over old times was at the Saint Charles Hotel in Milwaukee last fall, and he looking so well we never expected to live long enough to announce and mourn his death. The following short sketch of the deceased taken from the Jefferson County Union, does the deceased no more than justice. "Chas STOPPENBACH breathed his last at his home in Jefferson on Friday night of last week, aged 58 years. As was slated in our last, the difficulty under which he labored was strangulated hernia and all that medical skill could do proved unavailing. The funeral was held in Jefferson Monday and was conducted by the Masonic order of which Mr. STOPPENBACH was a worthy member. It was one of the largest funerals ever held in this county, delegations of the principal citizens from nearly all the towns being present. It is difficult for the pen in a brief notice like this to do justice to the character of a man like Mr. STOPPENBACH. For over thirty years he has been largely identified with all the interests of Jefferson county. He was the soul and life of the business interest of Jefferson. Large hearted, broad and generous in his estimates of man and affairs, he possessed besides, an energy and indomitable purpose that found not a peer in one in a thousand. His faults were few, and those were human. His virtues they were many. he was a grand, strong man, and his friends mourn his loss deeply.