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Note: Burial location: Section D, Row 9 THE JEFFERSON BANNER
Jefferson, Jefferson Co., WI
September 16, 1928
SULLIVAN
The sad news of the death of John Keller of jefferson reached our village Sunday. Mr. Keller was a resident of Sullivan a few years ago having moved to Jefferson from here. The family have the sympathy of our community.
THE JEFFERSON BANNER
Jefferson, Jefferson Co., WI
September 16, 1928
p. 5, c. 4
JOHN KELLER
John Keller was born on a farm in Farmington, Jefferson County, Wis., November 25th, 1865, and Died very suddenly and unexpectedly Sunday morning, Sep. 12th, 1926, at 1:15 in his home at 1203 Sanborn street this city, his age being 60 years, 9 months and 18 days.
He was a strong and seemingly healthy man, and when the report of his sudden demise was circulated and carried to his friends, it seemed impossible that one so little suspected of ill health could have fallen in death.
Mr. Keller returned from Clark Co. on Thursday, where at Lynn and Neillsville he is well known as a successful cattle buyer and shipper; usually well, and of good spirits, little realizing that this should be his last trip to the place where his business interests centered. With but a slight discomfort in the region of his heart, he with his family, retired early Saturday evening, hoping to sleep the night thru; but at 1:15 early Sunday morning the death summons came and in spite of all that his wife and daughter, Eunice, could do he passed away, even before his family physician could arrive at his bedside.
With aching heart midst the confusion that sudden death brings, we cry with the poet of old:
How vain is all beneath the skies!
How transient every earthly bless!
How slender all the fondest ties
That bind us to a world like this!
The evening cloud, the morning dew,
The withring grass, the fading flower,
Of earthly hopes are emblems true
The glory of a passing hour
But we must not let confusion reigh within our mortal bodies, lest we loose sight of those greater this of which the dame poet speaks when he says:
But though earth's fairest blossoms die
And all beneath the skies is vain,
There is a brighter world on high,
Beyond the reach of care and pain.
Then let the pope of joys to come
dispel our cares and chase our fears:
If God be ours we're traveling home,
Though traveling through a vale of tears.
November 1st, 1905, Mr. Keller was united in marriage to Martha Strutz of Concord, Jefferson Co., which union was blessed with one daughter.
According to the church record, when but 14 years old, he opended his heart and received Christ as his personal Saviour and joined the church the same year, namely, in 1879 under the successfull ministery of Rev. August Heullster who conducted a long and successful revival at that time.
Brother Keller held important offices of trust in the Evangelical church and always was ready to support the cause which he was convinced was right. Taking life serious, he believed it more profitable to live the clean and honest life and has built up for himself a reputation that is highly esteemed by the good people of his acquaintance.
He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Eunice, three brothers, William of this city, Fred of Helenville, and Michael of Neillsville; four sisters, Mrs. Lillian Powell and Mrs. Maggie Miller, both of Whitewater, Mrs. Emma Howell of Los Angeles, Cal., and Mrs. Sarah Cassidy of Chicago, with a host of relatives and friends.
Funeral services will be held at 2:45 P. M., Thursday, Sept. 16th, at his home in this city and at 3 o'clock in the Evangelical Church here, after which the body will be committed to the grave in the Greenwood cemetery, there to rest until the resurrection morning.
Pallbearers are: August Linder, Wm. W. Wittenwyler, John Gross, Wm. Walther, Wm. Lempke and Jos. Kohldoff. Rev. John A. Marks Will officiate.
Burial location: Section D, Row 9
THE JEFFERSON BANNER
Jefferson, Jefferson Co., WI
September 16, 1928
SULLIVAN
The sad news of the death of John Keller of jefferson reached our village Sunday. Mr. Keller was a resident of Sullivan a few years ago having moved to Jefferson from here. The family have the sympathy of our community.
THE JEFFERSON BANNER
Jefferson, Jefferson Co., WI
September 16, 1928
p. 5, c. 4
JOHN KELLER
John Keller was born on a farm in Farmington, Jefferson County, Wis., November 25th, 1865, and Died very suddenly and unexpectedly Sunday morning, Sep. 12th, 1926, at 1:15 in his home at 1203 Sanborn street this city, his age being 60 years, 9 months and 18 days.
He was a strong and seemingly healthy man, and when the report of his sudden demise was circulated and carried to his friends, it seemed impossible that one so little suspected of ill health could have fallen in death.
Mr. Keller returned from Clark Co. on Thursday, where at Lynn and Neillsville he is well known as a successful cattle buyer and shipper; usually well, and of good spirits, little realizing that this should be his last trip to the place where his business interests centered. With but a slight discomfort in the region of his heart, he with his family, retired early Saturday evening, hoping to sleep the night thru; but at 1:15 early Sunday morning the death summons came and in spite of all that his wife and daughter, Eunice, could do he passed away, even before his family physician could arrive at his bedside.
With aching heart midst the confusion that sudden death brings, we cry with the poet of old:
How vain is all beneath the skies!
How transient every earthly bless!
How slender all the fondest ties
That bind us to a world like this!
The evening cloud, the morning dew,
The withring grass, the fading flower,
Of earthly hopes are emblems true
The glory of a passing hour
But we must not let confusion reigh within our mortal bodies, lest we loose sight of those greater this of which the dame poet speaks when he says:
But though earth's fairest blossoms die
And all beneath the skies is vain,
There is a brighter world on high,
Beyond the reach of care and pain.
Then let the pope of joys to come
dispel our cares and chase our fears:
If God be ours we're traveling home,
Though traveling through a vale of tears.
November 1st, 1905, Mr. Keller was united in marriage to Martha Strutz of Concord, Jefferson Co., which union was blessed with one daughter.
According to the church record, when but 14 years old, he opended his heart and received Christ as his personal Saviour and joined the church the same year, namely, in 1879 under the successfull ministery of Rev. August Heullster who conducted a long and successful revival at that time.
Brother Keller held important offices of trust in the Evangelical church and always was ready to support the cause which he was convinced was right. Taking life serious, he believed it more profitable to live the clean and honest life and has built up for himself a reputation that is highly esteemed by the good people of his acquaintance.
He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Eunice, three brothers, William of this city, Fred of Helenville, and Michael of Neillsville; four sisters, Mrs. Lillian Powell and Mrs. Maggie Miller, both of Whitewater, Mrs. Emma Howell of Los Angeles, Cal., and Mrs. Sarah Cassidy of Chicago, with a host of relatives and friends.
Funeral services will be held at 2:45 P. M., Thursday, Sept. 16th, at his home in this city and at 3 o'clock in the Evangelical Church here, after which the body will be committed to the grave in the Greenwood cemetery, there to rest until the resurrection morning.
Pallbearers are: August Linder, Wm. W. Wittenwyler, John Gross, Wm. Walther, Wm. Lempke and Jos. Kohldoff. Rev. John A. Marks Will officiate.
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