Joseph Schmeiser
1876 - 1940 (64 years)
Generation: 1
1. Joseph Schmeiser was born on 10 Feb 1876 in Franklin Mills, Des Moines County, iowa; died on 9 Nov 1940 in Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa; was buried in Wapello Cemetery, Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa. Other Events:
- Occupation: farmer
- Census: 1920, Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa
Notes:
Joseph Schmeiser, 64, Wapello, Dies; Funeral Tuesday
Special to the Democrat
Wapello, Ia. – Joseph Schmeiser, 64, retired farmer, died suddenly in his home in West Wapello Saturday night following a heart attack. The son of Jacob and Mary Magdalene Reese Schmeiser, he was born at Franklin Mills, north of Burlington, Feb. 10, 1876, and April 10, 1901, married Mary Rieman. The ceremony was performed by his father, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran church. To this union four children: Orval, Wapello; twin sister, Ora Marie, who died 29 years ago; Mrs. Mearl Melson, Richland, and Mrs. Clayton Robertson, Morning Sun, where born. Mr. Schmeiser resided on a farm near Burlington until [can't read date], when the family moved to the farm west of Wapello, now operated by his son, Orval. The home had been in Wapello the past two years.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Presbyterian church which he had attended the past few years. The Rev. John R. Fraser and the Rev. B.G. Hankins, Mt. Pleasant, will officiate. The service will be preceded by prayer in the Jamison Dudgeon funeral home. Burial will be in the Wapello cemetery. The widow and children and two sisters, Mrs. Tabitha Riepe and Miss Talitha Schmeiser, Burlington, and two brothers, Emmanuel, Wapello, and Ben Schmeiser, Sperry, survive.
Quad-City Times, Davenport, Iowa. Monday, 11 November 1940.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7390437/joseph-schmeiserJoseph married Mary Elizabeth Rieman on 10 Apr 1901 in Kingston, Des Moines County, Iowa. Mary (daughter of Friedrich William Riemann and Dorothea Marie Bremer) was born on 9 Aug 1877 in Iowa; died on 18 May 1980 in McAllen, Hidalgo County, Texas; was buried on 19 May 1980 in Wapello Cemetery, Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- Alice Lucille Schmeiser was born on 28 Jun 1913 in Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa; died on 19 May 1997 in McAllen, Hidalgo County, Texas; was buried in Valley Memorial Gardens, McAllen, Hidalgo County, Texas.