Wuerdemann Family Tree

_P_CCINFO 2-14330 From THE COLUMBUS (NE.) JOURNAL, January 30, 1895- FARMER FROZEN TO DEATH ________ Thrown from a Wagon While Intoxicated and Died from Exposure The Omaha Daily Bee of Monday contains the following from their Leigh correspondent, under the date of Jan. 27th, so that the tragedy must have occurred Saturday night. It adds one more to the fearful list of woes attributed directly to the drink habit, and contains a lesson for every man who allows an appetite to usurp the place of reason: "This morning J.H. Grotetoeschen (SIC), a prominent and well-to-do Colfax county farmer who lived in the Wilson precinct, is lying dead at the home of F. C. Arnall (SIC), three miles south of Leigh. Last night Grotetoeschen and another farmer, Fred Muhle, had been drinking heavily, and when they started for home, were badly intoxicated. About three miles south of town their team evidently started to run. Grotetoeschen fell out and Muhle fell into the bed of the wagon. When the team got home Mrs. Muhle went out and found her husband, took him in and sobered him up. As soon as sober Muhle started out to hunt his companion, and found him about sunrise, lying by the road, near the Arnold place, frozen stiff. A medical examination proved him dead. The coroner was telegraphed for and an inquest will be held. The deceased was a widower, with eight children. He was a member of the Woodmen of the World lodge at this place and his family will get $2000 life insurance."[ColfaxDeutschlandPlatte.FBK.FTW] From THE COLUMBUS (NE.) JOURNAL, January 30, 1895- FARMER FROZEN TO DEATH ________ Thrown from a Wagon While Intoxicated and Died from Exposure The Omaha Daily Bee of Monday contains the following from their Leigh correspondent, under the date of Jan. 27th, so that the tragedy must have occurred Saturday night. It adds one more to the fearful list of woes attributed directly to the drink habit, and contains a lesson for every man who allows an appetite to usurp the place of reason: "This morning J.H. Grotetoeschen (SIC), a prominent and well-to-do Colfax county farmer who lived in the Wilson precinct, is lying dead at the home of F. C. Arnall (SIC), three miles south of Leigh. Last night Grotetoeschen and another farmer, Fred Muhle, had been drinking heavily, and when they started for home, were badly intoxicated. About three miles south of town their team evidently started to run. Grotetoeschen fell out and Muhle fell into the bed of the wagon. When the team got home Mrs. Muhle went out and found her husband, took him in and sobered him up. As soon as sober Muhle started out to hunt his companion, and found him about sunrise, lying by the road, near the Arnold place, frozen stiff. A medical examination proved him dead. The coroner was telegraphed for and an inquest will be held. The deceased was a widower, with eight children. He was a member of the Woodmen of the World lodge at this place and his family will get $2000 life insurance."