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Samuel Zehr[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

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Name Samuel Zehr [6] Nickname Sam
Born 27 Feb 1867 Mackinaw, Tazewell, Illinois, United States [1, 7]
Gender Male Died Abt 9 Mar 1937 Fairbury, Livingston, Illinois, United States [1]
Address:
East Oak Street
Death 10 May 1937 Fairbury, Livingston, Illinois, United States [7, 8]
Address:
East Oak Street
_AMTID 190111239285:1030:113173531
Buried 12 May 1937 Fairbury, Livingston, Illinois, United States [1, 8]
Address:
South Apostolic Christian Cemetery
Notes - SAMUEL ZEHR 1867 - 1937
SAMUEL ZEHR, SR.
SAMUEL ZEHR, SR., WHO FOR MANY YEARS HAD BEEN A RESIDENT OF THIS CITY A
ND VICINITY, PASSED AWAY AT THE FAMILY HOME ON EAST OAK STREET, MONDAY M
ORNING AT 9:30 OCLOCK, HIS DEATH RESULTING FROM HEART DISEASE AND COMP
LICATIONS. HE WAS AGED 70 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AND 13 DAYS.
MR. ZEHR, A SON OF JACOB AND ANNA ZEHR, WAS BORN AT MACKINAW, FEBRUARY 2
7, 1867. ON APRIL 26, 1897, AT FORREST, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO LE
NA BROQUARD. THEY RESIDED ON A FARM FIVE MILES SOUTH OF FAIRBURY UNTIL M
ARCH 1929, WHEN THEY MOVED TO TOWN. HERE ON JULY 25, 1930, MRS. ZEHR PA
SSED AWAY.
SURVIVING ARE TEN CHILDREN - LENA, ALDINE, CLARA AND SARA, AT HOME; BEN
, SAM AND MRS. MARY TRAUB, OF FAIRBURY; MRS. IDA STEFFEN, MRS. ANNA STE
FFEN AND MRS. FANNIE STEFFEN, OF CROPSEY. SURVIVING ALSO ARE: EIGHT GRA
NDCHILDREN - HARVEY, RUTH, DOROTHY, JUNIOR AND KATHRYN TRAUB; MAXINE AN
D RONALD ZEHR AND LENA LOUISE STEFFEN; ONE SISTER, MRS. KATIE BROQUARD, A
ND TWO BROTHERS, JOSHUA AND JOSEPH, OF FAIRBURY. HIS PARENTS AND TWO SI
STERS, MRS. ANNA BROQUARD AND LYDIA ZIMMERMAN, PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THIS CI
TY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WITH BURIAL IN THE SOUTH CEMETERY. THE PALLBEARE
RS WERE HIS SIX NEPHEWS, HARVEY AND JOE ZEHR, JOSHUA, GEORGE AND JOE BR
OQUARD AND GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, JR.
Person ID I56629 Megan's Big Tree Last Modified 31 Dec 1969
Father Jacob Zehr, b. 25 Jul 1836, Bayern, Germany
, d. 12 May 1922, Fairbury, Livingston, Illinois, United States
(Age 85 years)
Mother Anna Roth, b. 29 Sep 1844, Ohio
, d. 31 Dec 1895 (Age 51 years)
Married 20 Sep 1864 Woodford, Illinois, United States [1, 9]
Family ID F22509 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Lena Broquard, b. 16 Oct 1874, Lacon, Marshall, Illinois, United States
, d. 25 Jul 1930, Fairbury, Livingston, Illinois, United States
(Age 55 years)
Married 26 Apr 1897 Forrest, Livingston, Illinois, United States [1, 2]
Children 1. Benjamin Zehr, d. Bef Mar 2008 2. Samuel Zehr, d. Bef Mar 2008 3. Sara Zehr, d. Bef Mar 2008 4. Clara Zehr, b. 3 Jan 1899, d. 23 Sep 1984 (Age 85 years) 5. Lena Zehr, b. 13 Oct 1901, d. 20 Oct 2001 (Age 100 years) 6. Mary Leona Zehr, b. 3 Apr 1903, Fairbury, Livingston, Illinois, United States , d. 11 Jul 1992, Fairbury, Livingston, Illinois, United States
(Age 89 years)
7. Anna M. Zehr, b. 10 Mar 1908, Indian Grove, Livingston, Illinois, United States , d. 3 Aug 2009, Fairbury, Livingston, Illinois, United States
(Age 101 years)
8. Fannie Mae Zehr, b. 3 Dec 1912, Indian Grove, Livingston, Illinois, United States , d. 14 Oct 2006, Fairbury, Livingston, Illinois, United States
(Age 93 years)
9. Aldine Elizabeth Zehr, b. 9 Oct 1915, Fairbury, Livingston, Illinois, United States , d. 2 Mar 2008, Fairbury, Livingston, Illinois, United States
(Age 92 years)
10. Ida Zehr, d. Bef Mar 2008 Last Modified 17 Jun 2022 Family ID F22516 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map = Link to Google Earth
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Sources - [S738] The Steffen Family
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- [S706] The Broquard Family
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- [S407] Obituary of Aldine Steffen
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- [S477] Obituary of Fannie Mae Steffen
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- [S416] Obituary of Anna Steffen
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- [S5073] Mary L. Traub Obituary
, Mary L. Traub Obituary; obituary; 13 July 1992; obituary; online; 2 October 2021
. - [S691] South Christian Apostolic Cemetery
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- [S1090] Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947
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- [S797] Find-a-Grave Website
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- [S738] The Steffen Family
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