Sterling Daily Gazette
Sterling, Illinois
29 Sep 1931 page 2;c.1- Sudden death of Carl H. Kohl; Carl Kohl dies suddenly; Fell from tree Aug. 28. Thought to have fully recovered.
30 Sep 1931 page 2;c.1- Sudden death of Carl H. Kohl; Carl Kohl passed away suddenly monday night at 9 o'clock following an accident August 28th from which it was thought he had fully recovered. At that time, he fell from a pear tree onto a cement step when the rung of a ladder on which he was standing broke. Xray pictures disclosed he had broken two ribs and received bruises about the body and face but they were not thought serious. Inquest states embolism as cause of death.
1 Oct 1931 page 4;c.5,6 and 7-Obituary Carl H. Kohl;
Carl Herman Kohl was born Feb. 7, 1863 in Auswald, Pommern Province, Germany and died at his home 1102 Seventh Avenue, Sterling, Ill., Sept 28, 1931; aged 68 years, 7 months and 21 days.
He was the oldest of ten children of August and Caroline Bettin Kohl, who emigrated to America in April of 1884, one son, Frank, taken ill on the voyage across the Atlantic, died about two weeks after landing. They came directly to Franklin Grove, Ill., where they had relatives and friends from the fatherland. Two children were born to them after settling their home in Franklin Grove, a son and a daughter, the little girl (Anna)dying at the age of two and one-half years; and the son (Otto) as a young man being drowned in the Mississippi river at St. Louis, Mo.
Carl was united in marriage on Feb. 16, 1892 to Miss Rosa Wenk. The ceremony being performed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Engel, uncle and aunt of the bride, Rev. John Stuffinberger, pastor of the German Lutheran Church at Franklin Grove, performing the ceremony. To them four children were born, two sons and two daughters, August John Kohl whose home is 801 W. Seventh street, Sterling; Anna, wife of James McFadden, 511 1-2 Fourth Avenue, Sterling; Frank Carl Kohl, at the home 1102 Seventh avenue, Sterling; and Helen, wife of Earl F. McDonnell 406 South Ninth street, Clinton, Ia. Besides these dearly beloved children and his beloved helpmeet, Mr. Kohl is survived by two grandchildren whom he ever regarded with the warmest affection, Marjorie Ann Kohl, daughter of August, and "Billie" son of Frank.
Mr. Kohl's father passed away in Franklin Grove six years ago, Oct.5, 1925, at the age of over eighty years, and his mother in April, fifteen years ago, at the age of 78. Two brothers and three sisters of the family are still living: Rev. W.F. Kohl of Aberdeen, South Dakota; Herman Kohl of Franklin Grove, Ill.; Minnie, wife of Andrew Nelson of Dixon, Ill.; Bertha, wife of George Clayton, also of Dixon; Augusta wife of Fred Schmidt of Albert Lea, Minnesota.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Kohl lived for one year in Ashton, Ill., whence they moved to Sterling on Jan. 17, 1893 and have live in the home, 1102 Seventh avenue, for nearly 39 years. Before Mr. Kohl's marriage he worked on a farm near Franklin Grove and during his residence in Sterling for nearly four decades he has worked in various factories: the Sterling Manufacturing company's plant in Rock Falls, then the National Manufacturing company, for eight or nine years in the Frantz Manufacturing company and for the past 10 years in the Lawrence brothers factory.
Mr. Kohl was baptized in infancy by a Lutheran pastor in Germany, and confirmed at the age of 14 years. Mr. and Mrs. Kohl became members of St. John's Lutheran Church April 10, 1898, uniting by profession of faith. Both have been faithful members, regular attendants of services of worship and devout hearers of the word of God. Mr. Kohl was indeed as his children gratefully testify, a good and kind father, who was naturally a home-body. His only fraternal association was with the Modern Woodmen of America, No. 21. All his life he worked hard, and it reflected that while he was rendering a neighborly service in picking pears on Aug. 28, that he fell about 14 feet from a ladder, receiving injuries which were the direct cause of his death. He was in the hospital for five days when he was removed to his home, where he so improved that his ultimate recovery was assured. The end, however came suddenly about 9 o'clock Monday night when a clot of blood in the blood stream reached his heart.
A good, faithful life hath ended. We are comforted that for him we can claim every precious promise of the divine word. He is "at rest in the home eternal".