St. Nazianz news:
Rudolph Kirch Dies
At about 1 o’clock Tuesday morning, Rudolph Kirsch, Sr., passed away suddenly at the farm home in the town of Herman, Sheboygan county, the victim of a stroke of apoplexy, at the age of 78 years.
Funeral services will be held at Holy Trinity Catholic church in School Hill
at 9:30 Friday morning. Rev. Arnulf Buck, S.D.S., pastor, will be celebrant
of the funeral mass and interment will be in the School Hill cemetery.
Mr. Kirsch was born April 16, 1859, at Plymouth, Wis., and at the age of 11
years went with his parents to the farm where the remainder of his life was
spent. He married Miss Katherine Wesling also of the town of Herman and to that union two sons and three daughters were born. Mrs. Kirsch passed away September 22, 1937, and two of their daughters also preceded the father in death.
Survivors in the immediate family are one daughter, Mrs. Armelia Will and two sons, Rudolph, Jr., and Norbert on the old homestead, and ten grand-children…
Manitowoc Herald Times, February 9, 1938 P. 5
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From Sheboygan county marriage records:
(v.7 p.155)
May 10, 1892 at St. Joseph Church, Town of Herman, Sheboygan County
Peter Rudolph Kirsch
Son of Jacob and Katherine Kirsch
Born Town of Plymouth, Sheboygan County
Farmer at Schwarzwald, Town of Herman
Katherine Wessling
Daughter of Henry Wessling and Maria Anna
Born Town of Herman, Sheboygan County
Witnesses Bernard Wessling, Peter Schmitt, Anna Wessling and Anna Wessling
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From Sheboygan county death records:
Rudolph Kirsch (v.42 p.577)
Widower of Katherine [Wessling]
April 16, 1859-Feb. 8, 1938
Son of Peter Kirsch with mother unknown (both born TN Plymouth)
[correct parents are Jacob Kirsch and Katharina Susanna Meyer (both born Germany)]
Born Town of Plymouth –farmer
Died from ‘cerebral apoplexy, 2 days –chronic cardio vascular disease, years"
Buried at Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery, School Hill, Town of Meeme, Manitowoc Co.