Obituary: Ozaukee County, Wisconsin: Friederike ZIMMERMANN ************************************************************************ Submitted by Mary Saggio, August 2007 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ The Cedarburg Weekly News July 9, 1884 Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin OBITUARY We are pained to announce the death of Mrs. Friederike ZIMMERMANN of Mequon, which occurred last Sunday evening. Mrs. Z. was born in Saxony, Germany, on the 25th day of May 1819 and consequently was in her sixty sixth year at the time of her death. She was married to her husband in Germany and both arrived in this country in the year 1839 and settled at (unreadable section) the 6th day of August of that year. Mrs. Z. was the daughter of that old pioneer Johann Gottlob OPITZ who with his son, the late Wm. F. OPITZ were the first German settlers in the then Washington county. Mrs. ZIMMERMANN and Wm. F. were the only children of Johann G. OPITZ and all three rest now in the Mequon cemetery, close to each other. The deceased was an excellent wife and mother of several children, some of whom have preceded her into eternity; among them her first born, a boy who died when about 19 or 20 years old. One young daughter still resides with her parents, so that our old friend, the now widower, has some one for the present at least, to take care of him at his homestead to which he retired after giving up his brewery to his son and son-in-law, hoping that he would enjoy the company of his wife in his old age for many more years, when grim death has snatched her away from his side much too soon. The burial took place yesterday from the family residence at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. To the husband and the family as one of the very few remaining old friends, we tender our sympathies amidst our own sorrow, for we shall miss her pleasant face sadly when calling at our friend's house hereafter. May she rest in peace.