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- Obit: Gospel Herald, December 1919
"Christian Roggy was born near Granville, Ill., Feb. 29, 1852; died at his home in Meadows, Ill., Nov. 21, 1919: aged 67 y. 8 m. 22 d. Feb. 8, 1874, be was united in marriage to Helen Burkey of Tazewell Co., Ill., who died Oct. 2, 1878. One son (Joseph) and one daughter (Lydia) were born to them, who both preceded him in death. Feb. 2, 1880, he was married to Barbara Stalter. Two sons and two daughters were born to this union. One daughter (Ada L.) died at the age of 18 mo. He leaves his deeply bereaved wife, 2 sons (Edwin J. and Alvin P.) and one daughter (Katie King), 6 grandchildren, and many friends and relatives. He united with the A. M. Church at Tiskilwa, Ill., at the age of 23 years and remained faithful to the end. He loved to read God's Word and to have it read to him. In 1893 he with his family moved to Decatur Co., Kans., for his health where they resided until 1904, when they removed to [Camp Branch] Cass. Co., Mo., remaining there until 1914, when they came to Illinois where they have since resided. Funeral services at the house by Bro. G. H. Summer and at the church by Bro. Joe Kinsinger in the German and Bro. D. W. Slagel in the English language. Interment in the Waldo Cemetery."
Christian Roggy was born at Granville Feb. 29, 1852, and died at Meadows, McLean County Nov. 21, 1919. On Feb. 8, 1874 in Bureau County he married his second cousin Helena Birkey. She was born in Bavaria June 19, 1850 (headstone date; we would expect the end of the year from her father's emigration application), and died Oct. 2, 1878, a daughter of Christian Birki and his second wife Elizabeth Stalter. He remarried to Barbara Stalder [Stalter] in BureauCounty Feb. 23, 1880.
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1852 - 1919 (67 years)
