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Josephine (Poppenmeyer) Walser 1836 - 1911

Josephine (Poppenmeyer) Walser was born on September 6, 1836. She was married to Benjamin F. Walser Sr in 1856, and had children Anthony Walser, Benjamin F Walser Jr, Henry C. Walser, Charles Frederick Walser, Josephine (Walser) Lahme, Frank J Walser, William Walser, George Walser, and Albert Walser. Josephine Walser died at age 75 years old on September 17, 1911.

Josephine (Poppenmeyer) Walser

September 6, 1836

September 17, 1911

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MRS. JOSEPHINE WALSER, ONE OF THE OLD GERMAN RESIDENTS OF DECATUR, DIED AT ST. MARYS HOSPITAL AT 4:30 SUNDAY MORNING AGED SEVENTY FIVE YEARS. SHE HAD BEEN ILL FOR SEVEN WEEKS. SHE WAS BORN AT EHERBACH, NUREMEIG , GERMANY, SEPT 6, 1836. WHEN SHE WAS TWENTY YEARS OLD SHE WAS MARRIED TO BENJAMIN WALSER IN HER NATIVE TOWN. THEY CAME TO AMERICA SHORTLY AFTERWARD AND SETTLED ON A FARM NEAR IVESDALE. THEY MOVED TO DECATUR A FEW YEARS LATER AND THIS HAS BEEN HER HOME FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS. SHE WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF ST. JAMES GERMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND WAS HIGHLY RESPECTED. SHE IS SURVIVED BY THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: ANTHONY, BENJAMIN, CHARLES, MRS. JOSEPHINE LAHME, FRANK AND ALBERT WALSER ALL OF DECATUR. HENRY C WALSER OF DENVER AND WILLIAM WALSER OF E PEORIA. TWO OTHER CHILDREN HAVE DIED. SHE ALSO LEAVES TWENTY ONE GRANDCHILDREN AND TWO GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. THE BODY WAS REMOVED TO THE HOME OF HER DAUGHER, MRS. H. F. LAHME, 462 E DECATUR STREET. MRS. WALSER RESIDED FOR MANY YEARS AT 506 S WEBSTER STREET. HER MAIDEN NAME WAS JOSEPHINE POPPENMEYER.HER HUSBAND WAS THE LATE BENJAMIN WALSER WHO DIED AT THE AGE OF FIFTY TWO YEARS AND TEN MONTHS. THE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD AT 9 O'CLOCK TUESDAY MORNING AT ST. JAMES CHURCH. THE SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED BY REV. FATHER OSTENDORF. THE INTERMENT WILL BE IN CALVARY.
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September 6, 1836

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1911

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September 17, 1911

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Josephine (Poppenmeyer) Walser lived exactly as long as the average family member when died at the age of 75.

The average age of a Poppenmeyer family member is 75.

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In 1836, in the year that Josephine (Poppenmeyer) Walser was born, on June 15th, Arkansas was the 25th state admitted into the United States of America - and the 13th slave state in the Union. Originally part of the Louisiana Purchase, the area became the Territory of Arkansas in 1819 and the Territory immediately began the process of expelling native Americans to west of the Mississippi.

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In 1859, when she was 23 years old, on February 27th, US Congressman Daniel Sickles shot and killed Philip Barton Key - a US. District Attorney and son of Francis Scott Key, writer of the national anthem, for having an affair with his wife. Sickles claimed temporary insanity - the first to do so - and was acquitted.

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