John Augsburger

1868 - 1917  (49 years)

• Name	John Augsburger  [1, 2]
  Birth	1 Jan 1868	Hopedale, Tazewell Co., IL
  Gender	Male
  USR1	Died In The 1917-18 Great Flu Epidemic
  Death	25 Mar 1917	Hopedale, Tazewell Co., IL
  Burial	Hopedale, Tazewell Co., IL   [3]
  	Mennonite Church Cemetery
  Person ID	I10583	Schrock-Birkey Connection
  Last Modified	25 Dec 2018

  
  

  Father	Noah Augsburger,   b. 30 Nov 1817, Bavaria, GR d. 17 Jul 1903, Hopedale, Tazewell Co., IL (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Magdalena Schrock,   b. 24 Mar 1824, Bavaria, GR d. 9 Nov 1914, Hopedale, Tazewell Co., IL (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	8 Jul 1855	Tazewell Co., IL   [4]
  	May have been an earlier date
  Family ID	F3644	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth (Lizzie) Litwiller,   b. 13 Jan 1867, IL d. 11 Feb 1899, Fisher, Champaign Co., IL (Age 32 years)
  Marriage	13 Dec 1893  [1]
  Children	1. Allen J. Augsburger,   b. 6 Mar 1896, Dewey, Champaign Co., IL d. 9 Oct 1927, Bloomington, McLean Co., IL (Age 31 years)   2. Ella Mae Augsburger,   b. 11 Dec 1897, Dewey, Champaign Co., IL d. 25 Feb 1974, Goshen, IN (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F7455	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2009

  
  

  Family 2	Fannie Wyse
  Marriage	1904
  Family ID	F7817	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Apr 2009

  
  

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  Birth - 1 Jan 1868 - Hopedale, Tazewell Co., IL Death - 25 Mar 1917 - Hopedale, Tazewell Co., IL Burial - - Hopedale, Tazewell Co., IL  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Obit: Hopedale, IL 1868-John Augsburger was born in Hopedale in 1868, son of Noah Augsburger (1817-1903) and Magdalena Schrock (1824-1914). Both his parents were born in Germany. Noah served as a bishop and minister of Hopedale Amish Mennonite Church (1862-1876 era). After Lizzie's death John and the two children continued to live in the same house for several years with the help of a hired hand, Dena Griner, who cared for the children and household duties. In 1903 his father Noah died near Hopedale. It was probably then that the family moved to Hopedale and lived with hired help and John's mother, Magdalena, caring for the children. The following year, in 1904, John married a single lady, Fannie Wyse, from Wayland, Iowa. They had three daughters, one died in infancy. After John's death of flu during the 1917 worldwide epidemic, Fannie and her two daughters, accompanied by Ella, moved back to Wayland. It was there Ella met her husband, Fred Swartzendruber (1895-1981). John and Lizzie's children, Ella and Allen, were willed an 80-acre farm close to Noah Augsburger's 160-acre farm, Ella (1897-1974) and her new husband began their married life there in 1921. They had four children: Esther Augsburger Glick, Frederick J., Edith Augsburger Nafziger, and John Dale. Allen (1894-1927) lived on the Noah Augsburger farm, a centennial farm to this day. Allen married Louise Horsch (1897-1979) in 1918, daughter of Henry Horsch and Katherine Good of Fisher, and died in 1927 of appendicitis. They had no children. Spouse 1: Lizzie Litwiller Children: Ella Swartzendruber Allen J. Augsburger Spouse 2: Fannie Wyse Children: Infant Daughter (Died as an infant prior to 1917) Daughter Daughter [3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S711] Litwiller Family Records. [S724] Edith Swartzendruber Nafziger Family Records. [S1060] Find-A-Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52164727/john-f_-augsburger. [S398] Joseph Staker, Amish Mennonites in Tazewell Co.