Obituary: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Amelia BARTELS ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, April 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Daily Northwestern July 5, 1927 p. 4 Pioneer Passes Away Mrs. Amelia Bartels, Resident of County for Seventy-Seven Years, Dies at Her Home Mrs. Amelia Bartels, widow of Christian Bartels, died at her home, 624 Ninth street, at 4:30 o'clock this morning after an illness of thirteen years. For the last five years Mrs. Bartels was seriously ill. She was born Aug. 19, 1846, in Romanhof, Germany and, had she lived until August, would have been 81 years of age. In 1849 she left Germany with her parents to come to America. Her mother's death occurred while they were crossing the ocean. After the death of her mother she continued across the country with her father, the late Gottlieb Pollock, and settled in the town of Black Wolf. She had been a resident of Winnebago county for seventy-seven years. She was a member of the Emanuel Evangelical church and a member of the Ladies' Aid society of that church. One April 23, 1866, she was united in marriage to Christian Bartels. She is survived by two sons, Richard M. Bartels of Oshkosh and Herman Bartels of Milwaukee, three daughters, Mrs. Warren Nickols, Miss Marie Bartels, both of Oshkosh, and Mrs. Albert Farber of Racine. She is also survived by twenty grandchildren, twenty-two great grandchildren, one half- brother, Robert Pollock of Oshkosh and seven half-sisters, Miss Pauline Pollock, Mrs. Henry Scheer, Mrs. Ben Cornelius, all of Oshkosh. Mrs. H. Brash of Rock Island, Ill., Mrs. E. Kregel of Wausau, Miss Josephine Pollock of California, and Mrs. O.E. Meyer of Cedarsburg. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home and at 2 o'clock at the Emanuel Evangelical church on South Park avenue. Rev. P.L. Stange will officiate. Interment will be at the Lutheran cemetery. Friends wishing to view the remains may do so at the home from Wednesday until Friday noon. The remains may not be viewed at the church. It is the wish of Mrs. Bartels that friends omit flowers.