Christian Zehr

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Obit: Gospel Herald - Volume XV, Number 21 , August 24, 1922 - page 415
Zehr.--After a lingering illness of six months, Christian Zehr passed away August 10, 1922, at his home in Deer Creek, Ill. 

He was born June 16, 1857, at Hopedale, Ill. 

On October 3, 1876, he was married to Anna Kaufmann, who died December 4, 1879.

On October 12, of the following year he was united in marriage to Anna Augsburger and to this union was born one daughter, Alta Barbara. 

In 1884 Bro. Zehr moved to Arapahoe, (not transcriber's spelling) Nebr., where he remained until 1893, at which time he returned to Pekin, Ill. Later he moved to Hopedale and then to Deer Creek, where he lived for the last twenty years.

He was aged 65 y. 1 m. 25 d. In early youth he became a member of the Mennonite Church. He leaves to mourn his death, a wife, one daughter, an adopted son, Leslie Stamm, two sisters, Mrs. Mike Saltzman, and Mrs. Barbara Wallace, and a host of relatives and friends. 

Funeral services were held at the home August 13, conducted by Brethren Jacob Zehr and Jonas Litwiller. Texts Psa. 90, and Job 14: 14,15. Burial in cemetery near Hopedale, Ill.

Buried:
Hopedale Mennonite Cemetery

Christian married Anna Kauffmann on 3 Oct 1876. Anna was born in 1856; died on 14 Dec 1879; was buried in Hopedale, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Christian married Anna Marie Augsburger on 12 Oct 1880. Anna (daughter of Jacob Augsburger and Barbara Steinman) was born on 23 Feb 1863 in Tremont, Tazewell Co., IL; died on 21 May 1928 in Deer Creek, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]