Although having been in poor and rapidly failing health for some time, death came on last Sunday morning, August 24, 1924, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jacob Giant, in Jefferson Township to Louis C. Gerardot, at the age of 84 years, of senility. He was among the early settlers of Northern Indiana, born in Stark County, Ohio, and came to Allen County with his parents in 1853, settling as we are informed in Jefferson Township, in the locality where he breathed his last and resided in that vicinity ever since his parents’ settlement. In late years he resided on a small tract of land in Zulu, now occupied by the Gerardot grocery, soft drink parlor, and roller skating pavilion, his residence for years having been moved back to the east end of these lots, which he recently had remodeled and occupied as his home. He was a citizen well known and ever ready to assist a neighbor or friend in need and is said by those who knew him best, to never have allowed one to go in need.
He is survived by three sons, John, Henry, and Chester, all of Jefferson Township, and three daughters, Mrs. Frank Myers of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Herman Fuelling of Monroeville, and Mrs. Jacob Giant of Jefferson Township, at whose home he received his last days of tender childish care and parental affection, such as every parent should receive from children in their declining years of earthly career and last moments of breath on this earth. One by one those who have withstood the privations and strifes of early pioneer days, assisted in clearing up the forests and watched the clearing away of the dense wilderness, and forests fall at the pioneer woodsman’s ax and brush scythe, and year after year drift into the present farms and beautiful homes, as has our old departed pioneer, Louis C. Gerardot, whose body now rests in peace in a tomb beneath the sod in the quiet city of the dead.
The funeral services were held at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning, August 27, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jacob Giant, and at 9:30 o’clock at the St. Louis Catholic Church at Besancon, Rev. Father Allgeier officiating. Interment was made in I.O.O.F. Cemetery in New Haven, Ind., to which city of the dead the remains were followed by a large cortege of relatives, friends, and old acquaintances.
Published in the Monroeville Breeze on August 28, 1924.
He is survived by three sons, John, Henry, and Chester, all of Jefferson Township, and three daughters, Mrs. Frank Myers of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Herman Fuelling of Monroeville, and Mrs. Jacob Giant of Jefferson Township, at whose home he received his last days of tender childish care and parental affection, such as every parent should receive from children in their declining years of earthly career and last moments of breath on this earth. One by one those who have withstood the privations and strifes of early pioneer days, assisted in clearing up the forests and watched the clearing away of the dense wilderness, and forests fall at the pioneer woodsman’s ax and brush scythe, and year after year drift into the present farms and beautiful homes, as has our old departed pioneer, Louis C. Gerardot, whose body now rests in peace in a tomb beneath the sod in the quiet city of the dead.
The funeral services were held at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning, August 27, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jacob Giant, and at 9:30 o’clock at the St. Louis Catholic Church at Besancon, Rev. Father Allgeier officiating. Interment was made in I.O.O.F. Cemetery in New Haven, Ind., to which city of the dead the remains were followed by a large cortege of relatives, friends, and old acquaintances.
Published in the Monroeville Breeze on August 28, 1924.
Although having been in poor and rapidly failing health for some time, death came on last Sunday morning, August 24, 1924, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jacob Giant, in Jefferson Township to Louis C. Gerardot, at the age of 84 years, of senility. He was among the early settlers of Northern Indiana, born in Stark County, Ohio, and came to Allen County with his parents in 1853, settling as we are informed in Jefferson Township, in the locality where he breathed his last and resided in that vicinity ever since his parents’ settlement. In late years he resided on a small tract of land in Zulu, now occupied by the Gerardot grocery, soft drink parlor, and roller skating pavilion, his residence for years having been moved back to the east end of these lots, which he recently had remodeled and occupied as his home. He was a citizen well known and ever ready to assist a neighbor or friend in need and is said by those who knew him best, to never have allowed one to go in need.
He is survived by three sons, John, Henry, and Chester, all of Jefferson Township, and three daughters, Mrs. Frank Myers of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Herman Fuelling of Monroeville, and Mrs. Jacob Giant of Jefferson Township, at whose home he received his last days of tender childish care and parental affection, such as every parent should receive from children in their declining years of earthly career and last moments of breath on this earth. One by one those who have withstood the privations and strifes of early pioneer days, assisted in clearing up the forests and watched the clearing away of the dense wilderness, and forests fall at the pioneer woodsman’s ax and brush scythe, and year after year drift into the present farms and beautiful homes, as has our old departed pioneer, Louis C. Gerardot, whose body now rests in peace in a tomb beneath the sod in the quiet city of the dead.
The funeral services were held at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning, August 27, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jacob Giant, and at 9:30 o’clock at the St. Louis Catholic Church at Besancon, Rev. Father Allgeier officiating. Interment was made in I.O.O.F. Cemetery in New Haven, Ind., to which city of the dead the remains were followed by a large cortege of relatives, friends, and old acquaintances.
Published in the Monroeville Breeze on August 28, 1924.
He is survived by three sons, John, Henry, and Chester, all of Jefferson Township, and three daughters, Mrs. Frank Myers of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Herman Fuelling of Monroeville, and Mrs. Jacob Giant of Jefferson Township, at whose home he received his last days of tender childish care and parental affection, such as every parent should receive from children in their declining years of earthly career and last moments of breath on this earth. One by one those who have withstood the privations and strifes of early pioneer days, assisted in clearing up the forests and watched the clearing away of the dense wilderness, and forests fall at the pioneer woodsman’s ax and brush scythe, and year after year drift into the present farms and beautiful homes, as has our old departed pioneer, Louis C. Gerardot, whose body now rests in peace in a tomb beneath the sod in the quiet city of the dead.
The funeral services were held at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning, August 27, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jacob Giant, and at 9:30 o’clock at the St. Louis Catholic Church at Besancon, Rev. Father Allgeier officiating. Interment was made in I.O.O.F. Cemetery in New Haven, Ind., to which city of the dead the remains were followed by a large cortege of relatives, friends, and old acquaintances.
Published in the Monroeville Breeze on August 28, 1924.
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