Information from Death Certificate:
Married
Cause of death: senility
No Physician
Died at East Fourth St
Geo C. Vail & Sons, Undertaker
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Madison Daily Democrat
29 July 1892
AN OLD CITIZEN
Mr. Andrew Aplenap departed this World last night.
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ONE OF THE OLDEST
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Citizens in Madison. A short sketch of his life, spent in usefulness and thrift.
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Last night at 10:30 o'clock, there passed form our midst our oldest citizen, Mr. Andrew Aplenap, on Fourth street near Walnut.
The old gentleman died at the home of his niece Mrs. Aplenap, with whom he has lived for years. Deceased was a member of the German Aid Association which order will see him reverently laid to rest tomorrow. He was a faithful member of the German Methodist church and from there will be buried at 3 p.m. the Rev. Ploek officiating.
Deceased would have been 99 years old had he lived to January 1893.
From the DEMOCRAT of Jan. 29th, 1891, we reproduce the following account of the old gentleman's life.
Mr. Aplenap was born in Switzerland, Jan 26th, 1794. In 1833, when comparatively a young man, he emigrated to America. In those early days traveling was slow. They had no fine steamships to make the trip in six days; but instead many weeks were spent on the ocean before arriving on the promised shores of free America. Many were the privations he underwent before arriving here.
Arriving in America, Mr. Aplenap pushed on West and arrived in Pittsubrg, where he remained eight months.
He then came down the river to Madison, finding it a small town but one of the important river towns of Indiana. Considerable trade was being carried on here then, this being a good distributing point for goods arriving from the South and East. He obtained work as a drayman for a Mr. Dubach, father of Fred and Geo Dubach, who moved West some years ago. Old man Dubach, who lived on south Mulberry street, near the Wm. Tell House, was afterwards shot and killed on the wharfboat.
Mr. Aplenap was a faithful employe always doing his work well, and with all a very kind man. Geo. Dubach, when a small boy, nearly lived on the dray with him.
He was fond of papa, as he called his father's drayman, and grew up to look upon him almost as his father. So well did he love that old German, that when he died some years ago out in Missouri, he left a bequest of $59.00 payable annually to Mr. Aplenap as long as he should live.
All his life he has been the same industrious German, and so faithful did he attend to his own business, that he had, and has, the respect of every person in that city that knows him, and that means nearly every one.
In 1839 he married a young German lady in this town, her sister being the wife of Mr. Jacob Weber, now of this city, but then in Germany. But one child was born to them and it died in infancy.
Mrs. Aplenap died in 1880 shortly before Christmas. This was the blight of the old gentleman's life, as his help mate was gone.
He was then too old to live by himself and he went to live with a niece, a Mrs. Aplenap, whose husband was accidentally killed some years ago and with her he has lived and been cared for ever since. The old gentleman sat and passed his time reading, talking and otherwise enjoying himself.
What was wonderful, his eyesight, that for years was impaired, had returned and he could read without spectacles.
Married
Cause of death: senility
No Physician
Died at East Fourth St
Geo C. Vail & Sons, Undertaker
==========
Madison Daily Democrat
29 July 1892
AN OLD CITIZEN
Mr. Andrew Aplenap departed this World last night.
--------
ONE OF THE OLDEST
--------
Citizens in Madison. A short sketch of his life, spent in usefulness and thrift.
--------
Last night at 10:30 o'clock, there passed form our midst our oldest citizen, Mr. Andrew Aplenap, on Fourth street near Walnut.
The old gentleman died at the home of his niece Mrs. Aplenap, with whom he has lived for years. Deceased was a member of the German Aid Association which order will see him reverently laid to rest tomorrow. He was a faithful member of the German Methodist church and from there will be buried at 3 p.m. the Rev. Ploek officiating.
Deceased would have been 99 years old had he lived to January 1893.
From the DEMOCRAT of Jan. 29th, 1891, we reproduce the following account of the old gentleman's life.
Mr. Aplenap was born in Switzerland, Jan 26th, 1794. In 1833, when comparatively a young man, he emigrated to America. In those early days traveling was slow. They had no fine steamships to make the trip in six days; but instead many weeks were spent on the ocean before arriving on the promised shores of free America. Many were the privations he underwent before arriving here.
Arriving in America, Mr. Aplenap pushed on West and arrived in Pittsubrg, where he remained eight months.
He then came down the river to Madison, finding it a small town but one of the important river towns of Indiana. Considerable trade was being carried on here then, this being a good distributing point for goods arriving from the South and East. He obtained work as a drayman for a Mr. Dubach, father of Fred and Geo Dubach, who moved West some years ago. Old man Dubach, who lived on south Mulberry street, near the Wm. Tell House, was afterwards shot and killed on the wharfboat.
Mr. Aplenap was a faithful employe always doing his work well, and with all a very kind man. Geo. Dubach, when a small boy, nearly lived on the dray with him.
He was fond of papa, as he called his father's drayman, and grew up to look upon him almost as his father. So well did he love that old German, that when he died some years ago out in Missouri, he left a bequest of $59.00 payable annually to Mr. Aplenap as long as he should live.
All his life he has been the same industrious German, and so faithful did he attend to his own business, that he had, and has, the respect of every person in that city that knows him, and that means nearly every one.
In 1839 he married a young German lady in this town, her sister being the wife of Mr. Jacob Weber, now of this city, but then in Germany. But one child was born to them and it died in infancy.
Mrs. Aplenap died in 1880 shortly before Christmas. This was the blight of the old gentleman's life, as his help mate was gone.
He was then too old to live by himself and he went to live with a niece, a Mrs. Aplenap, whose husband was accidentally killed some years ago and with her he has lived and been cared for ever since. The old gentleman sat and passed his time reading, talking and otherwise enjoying himself.
What was wonderful, his eyesight, that for years was impaired, had returned and he could read without spectacles.
Information from Death Certificate:
Married
Cause of death: senility
No Physician
Died at East Fourth St
Geo C. Vail & Sons, Undertaker
==========
Madison Daily Democrat
29 July 1892
AN OLD CITIZEN
Mr. Andrew Aplenap departed this World last night.
--------
ONE OF THE OLDEST
--------
Citizens in Madison. A short sketch of his life, spent in usefulness and thrift.
--------
Last night at 10:30 o'clock, there passed form our midst our oldest citizen, Mr. Andrew Aplenap, on Fourth street near Walnut.
The old gentleman died at the home of his niece Mrs. Aplenap, with whom he has lived for years. Deceased was a member of the German Aid Association which order will see him reverently laid to rest tomorrow. He was a faithful member of the German Methodist church and from there will be buried at 3 p.m. the Rev. Ploek officiating.
Deceased would have been 99 years old had he lived to January 1893.
From the DEMOCRAT of Jan. 29th, 1891, we reproduce the following account of the old gentleman's life.
Mr. Aplenap was born in Switzerland, Jan 26th, 1794. In 1833, when comparatively a young man, he emigrated to America. In those early days traveling was slow. They had no fine steamships to make the trip in six days; but instead many weeks were spent on the ocean before arriving on the promised shores of free America. Many were the privations he underwent before arriving here.
Arriving in America, Mr. Aplenap pushed on West and arrived in Pittsubrg, where he remained eight months.
He then came down the river to Madison, finding it a small town but one of the important river towns of Indiana. Considerable trade was being carried on here then, this being a good distributing point for goods arriving from the South and East. He obtained work as a drayman for a Mr. Dubach, father of Fred and Geo Dubach, who moved West some years ago. Old man Dubach, who lived on south Mulberry street, near the Wm. Tell House, was afterwards shot and killed on the wharfboat.
Mr. Aplenap was a faithful employe always doing his work well, and with all a very kind man. Geo. Dubach, when a small boy, nearly lived on the dray with him.
He was fond of papa, as he called his father's drayman, and grew up to look upon him almost as his father. So well did he love that old German, that when he died some years ago out in Missouri, he left a bequest of $59.00 payable annually to Mr. Aplenap as long as he should live.
All his life he has been the same industrious German, and so faithful did he attend to his own business, that he had, and has, the respect of every person in that city that knows him, and that means nearly every one.
In 1839 he married a young German lady in this town, her sister being the wife of Mr. Jacob Weber, now of this city, but then in Germany. But one child was born to them and it died in infancy.
Mrs. Aplenap died in 1880 shortly before Christmas. This was the blight of the old gentleman's life, as his help mate was gone.
He was then too old to live by himself and he went to live with a niece, a Mrs. Aplenap, whose husband was accidentally killed some years ago and with her he has lived and been cared for ever since. The old gentleman sat and passed his time reading, talking and otherwise enjoying himself.
What was wonderful, his eyesight, that for years was impaired, had returned and he could read without spectacles.
Married
Cause of death: senility
No Physician
Died at East Fourth St
Geo C. Vail & Sons, Undertaker
==========
Madison Daily Democrat
29 July 1892
AN OLD CITIZEN
Mr. Andrew Aplenap departed this World last night.
--------
ONE OF THE OLDEST
--------
Citizens in Madison. A short sketch of his life, spent in usefulness and thrift.
--------
Last night at 10:30 o'clock, there passed form our midst our oldest citizen, Mr. Andrew Aplenap, on Fourth street near Walnut.
The old gentleman died at the home of his niece Mrs. Aplenap, with whom he has lived for years. Deceased was a member of the German Aid Association which order will see him reverently laid to rest tomorrow. He was a faithful member of the German Methodist church and from there will be buried at 3 p.m. the Rev. Ploek officiating.
Deceased would have been 99 years old had he lived to January 1893.
From the DEMOCRAT of Jan. 29th, 1891, we reproduce the following account of the old gentleman's life.
Mr. Aplenap was born in Switzerland, Jan 26th, 1794. In 1833, when comparatively a young man, he emigrated to America. In those early days traveling was slow. They had no fine steamships to make the trip in six days; but instead many weeks were spent on the ocean before arriving on the promised shores of free America. Many were the privations he underwent before arriving here.
Arriving in America, Mr. Aplenap pushed on West and arrived in Pittsubrg, where he remained eight months.
He then came down the river to Madison, finding it a small town but one of the important river towns of Indiana. Considerable trade was being carried on here then, this being a good distributing point for goods arriving from the South and East. He obtained work as a drayman for a Mr. Dubach, father of Fred and Geo Dubach, who moved West some years ago. Old man Dubach, who lived on south Mulberry street, near the Wm. Tell House, was afterwards shot and killed on the wharfboat.
Mr. Aplenap was a faithful employe always doing his work well, and with all a very kind man. Geo. Dubach, when a small boy, nearly lived on the dray with him.
He was fond of papa, as he called his father's drayman, and grew up to look upon him almost as his father. So well did he love that old German, that when he died some years ago out in Missouri, he left a bequest of $59.00 payable annually to Mr. Aplenap as long as he should live.
All his life he has been the same industrious German, and so faithful did he attend to his own business, that he had, and has, the respect of every person in that city that knows him, and that means nearly every one.
In 1839 he married a young German lady in this town, her sister being the wife of Mr. Jacob Weber, now of this city, but then in Germany. But one child was born to them and it died in infancy.
Mrs. Aplenap died in 1880 shortly before Christmas. This was the blight of the old gentleman's life, as his help mate was gone.
He was then too old to live by himself and he went to live with a niece, a Mrs. Aplenap, whose husband was accidentally killed some years ago and with her he has lived and been cared for ever since. The old gentleman sat and passed his time reading, talking and otherwise enjoying himself.
What was wonderful, his eyesight, that for years was impaired, had returned and he could read without spectacles.
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