02 Friday Nov 2012
Posted in Family portraits
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Emil C Reichel (1895-1967), Frederick G Reichel (1892-?), Herman O Reichel (1888-1973), Katherine A Eberlein (1866-1934), Mary Katherine Reichel (1886-1970), William A Reichel (1864-1915), William C Reichel (1889-1981)
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Back row: Mary Katherine; Herman Otto; William Charles
Middle row: Katherine (Eberlein) Reichel; Emil Conrad; William August Reichel
Front row: Frederick Gustave
Source: Heritage Center, Shawano, Wisconsin
31 Wednesday Oct 2012
Posted in Other photographs
Katherine Eberlein and William Reichel, 1884. Photograph in the collection of the Heritage Center in Shawano, Wisconsin
25 Thursday Oct 2012
Posted in Gravestones
Gravestone, William August Reichel, Woodlawn Cemetery, Shawano, Wisconsin. Photograph taken by Kristen James Eberlein, July 2010.
Transcription:
GONE HOME
WILLIAM A REICHEL
BORN APR 1, 1864
DIED NOV 2, 1915
03 Wednesday Oct 2012
Posted in Obituaries
SUCCOMBS TO INROADS OF AN INSIDIOUS DISEASE AFTER A FIGHT OF TEN MONTHS
FIFTY-ONE YEARS OLD
Funeral Will Be Held Tomorrow Afternoon At House And At St. Jacobi Church
William Reichel died at his home in this city Tuesday afternoon, after an illness which has lasted since March of the present year. His malady was cancer of the thyroid gland. Every possible attempt had been made to restore him to health but to no avail. Mr. Reichel will go down in the memory of the people as an honest, hard-working man, the soul of industry and integrity. His accumulations came to him entirely through thrift and saving by himself and his estimable wife.
William August Reichel was born in Losenstein, Regenwaldt, Germany, April first 1864. He came to America [with] his parents at the age of three, living in New London for two years. There he lost his father, by death. In 1869 he came with his parents to Shawano county and here he has remained. At the age of nine years, the lad lost his mother, and he was left an orphan. In 1885, he was married to Kathryn Anna Eberlein, sister of Fred and M. G. Eberlein. During his early married life he was employed by the railroad as a section man. Even in those days, he and his young wife were able to lay aside each month a portion of their earnings. Eventually he assumed control of the ice business which he ran up to a shot time ago. The children are: Herman, William, Frederick and Emil, and a daughter, Mrs. Franklin B. Sweeny, of Canon City, Colorado. Mrs. Sweeny has been with her father for the last two months, and left for her home in the West the morning on which her father died. Owing to the nervous strain under which she had been under, she was not recalled. All of the other children will be present. Mr. Reichel had two sisters, Mrs. M. Rash, who died in 1889, and Miss Joanna Sumnick who has been with him during his illness.
The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 1:30 at the house and at 2:00 at the St. Jacobi church of [photocopy is incomplete]
Source: Shawano County Advocate, Thursday, 18 November 1915, page 1
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