Obituary: Portage County, Wisconsin: August OLLMAN Stevens Point Daily Journal June 20, 1899 August Ollman A Strange Character Dies at His Home in Crooked Way August Ollman died at his home at 220 Crooked Way at 6:15 o'clock Monday evening. He has been sick for several years but for the past two weeks seemed to be suffering with dropsy. He refused to have a physician and spent most of the time quietly sleeping his life away. He was 81 years of age last Sunday and was a native of Germany. He came to this country when a young man and settled in Chicago, where he married his wife forty-five years ago. After spending two years in that city and two on a farm near Ellis, they moved to this city and purchased the lot on which their home stands from the late Nathan Bliss. Mr. Ollman was a cabinet maker and was a painstaking workman. When he first came to town he made a specialty of sash, door and blind work and did a good business but as age advanced he devoted himself principally to tinkering and mending broken furniture and umbrellas. The couple had four children, two died many years ago and two survive. They are Mrs. Rudolph Knappek of California and Frank Ollman, a Chicago mail carrier. Mr. Ollman was once a member of the Catholic church and his two children repose in St. Stephen's cemetery. Of late, however, he has neglected his duties to holy church and has been a free thinker. His body will be taken to the Oakwoods cemetery near Plover river at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning for interment without any religious services. ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, June 2004 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************