Ogden Reporter
29 Sep 1887
Another old man is gone. Rich and ripe in the experience of the world, the hour glass of life empty and fruition full, after a well spent life, Father Barnhardt Goetzman is dead, dying in the arms of his children and the companion of his lifetime, at his home north of the city, on the 13th day of September, 1887 being 85 years of age.
Father Goetzman came down to us from a former generation. Nearly all the men and women who were boys and girls with him have passed over the river and he stood almost the sole survivor of his day and time. What a grand life, what a history has he lived and helped to make. He had passed the mile post that our God erects at the end of three score and ten years and could look back over the long pathway of his life without pain or regret over a single misdeed, or wrong done his fellow men. These old men are better far than we are. We are inclined at times to blame them for some to us old fashioned notions and actions, but they are right never the less and Father Goetzman was a perfect type of those grand old men whose sons and daughters are living monuments of proper training in youth and who now make up the world's best people. All honor and respect to these grand old men.
Father Goetzman was born on the Rhine in the Franco German province of Alsace, in the village of Rittershafen, of farmer parentage, April 19, 1802. He was in early life a great reader and by the aid of the local schools he was enabled to acquire a liberal education. He was apprenticed to learn the saddle and harness trade and while in that business he read and studied and became will informed upon all subjects. He was also a great traveler and visited nearly all the great cities and marts of trade in the old world. On one of his trips, and while in Russia or at Rome, his uncle acting for him drew from him a term seven years' service in the army, and being informed of the fact young Goetzman hurried home and served five years, at the end of which time he was granted a temporary furlough or leave of absence that he might get married, being held however subject to call in case the public service required him and he retained some of his military notions all his life. He was married to Mary E. Goetzman (no way related) in his native village on the 10th day of May, 1831. Mother Goetzman still survives him, hale and hearty in the 77th year of her age. After marriage he farmed as they farm in that country and in his residence had a saddle and harness shop wherein he did such work in that line as came to him to do. In 1840 he emigrated to this country and settled on Salt Creek, near the Muskingum River, in the county of that name in Ohio. He acquired a farm of about 100 acres of this prairie land but about 1845 or 1846, he, as well as several of his neighbors, became convinced that co-operation was the best plan for the farming community so far from market, etc., and they united with Dr. Giddings scheme of association and co-operation of which so much has been said and mother and father Goetzman, with others, conveyed their lands to someone in trust for such organization, only to find it all vanish and that he must begin life again with a large family and no property. But in 1853 he had gathered up enough to come to Iowa and he and his son Henry purchased a farm together north of this city. About ten years ago he sold out to Henry and bought the Ward farm on the old Ft. Dodge road, where he lived with his aged companion and youngest daughter, Kate, until his death.
He was the youngest of a family of nineteen children, all of whom are dead years ago. The mother of Fred and Lawrence Wahl was his sister and she and two others brothers were all of the family that came with Mr. Goetzman to this country.
He had eight children, five daughters, Mary, now dead, the wife of Samuel Graham; Caroline, Mrs. Jas. Sturtz; Magdaline, Mrs. John Bass; Dorotha, Mrs. A. M. Shaffer; Kate, single; and three sons, Henry of Dodge, Charles of this city and George of Beaver. Henry, Charles, Caroline and Mary were born in Aslace.
Father Goetzman in early life became a member of the Lutheran church and his life has always been that of an upright consistent Christian gentleman. He never had a lawsuit, never had a quarrel. The new era world regarded him as exacting and precise but his early training and particularly his army life gave him firmness and precision. He loved to see everything done right and everybody do right. He was well read in the bible and loved to quote it upon all occasions; he made that book his guide.
About six years ago the light of life's lamp became fitful and flickering with him. The heat of so many summers and the frosts of so many winters clouded his mental faculties and he lost the power of mind and memory to a great extent and gradually failing as the great light beyond the river grew brighter to him for a time he became as a child again, but yet during all his mental aberrations he never forgot the bible and would quote it often and with accuracy when to all else his mind was a blank. A short time before his death he suffered from a fracture of a limb, which hastened the hours of his dissolution. He was buried on the next day after his death by his old neighbors and friends in the little neighborhood graveyard nearby his Iowa home where his old neighbors that have died before him are buried. As old as he was, his own was the first death in his house, the first funeral cortege from his gate.
Peace and rest to the remains of the weary, noble old man.
29 Sep 1887
Another old man is gone. Rich and ripe in the experience of the world, the hour glass of life empty and fruition full, after a well spent life, Father Barnhardt Goetzman is dead, dying in the arms of his children and the companion of his lifetime, at his home north of the city, on the 13th day of September, 1887 being 85 years of age.
Father Goetzman came down to us from a former generation. Nearly all the men and women who were boys and girls with him have passed over the river and he stood almost the sole survivor of his day and time. What a grand life, what a history has he lived and helped to make. He had passed the mile post that our God erects at the end of three score and ten years and could look back over the long pathway of his life without pain or regret over a single misdeed, or wrong done his fellow men. These old men are better far than we are. We are inclined at times to blame them for some to us old fashioned notions and actions, but they are right never the less and Father Goetzman was a perfect type of those grand old men whose sons and daughters are living monuments of proper training in youth and who now make up the world's best people. All honor and respect to these grand old men.
Father Goetzman was born on the Rhine in the Franco German province of Alsace, in the village of Rittershafen, of farmer parentage, April 19, 1802. He was in early life a great reader and by the aid of the local schools he was enabled to acquire a liberal education. He was apprenticed to learn the saddle and harness trade and while in that business he read and studied and became will informed upon all subjects. He was also a great traveler and visited nearly all the great cities and marts of trade in the old world. On one of his trips, and while in Russia or at Rome, his uncle acting for him drew from him a term seven years' service in the army, and being informed of the fact young Goetzman hurried home and served five years, at the end of which time he was granted a temporary furlough or leave of absence that he might get married, being held however subject to call in case the public service required him and he retained some of his military notions all his life. He was married to Mary E. Goetzman (no way related) in his native village on the 10th day of May, 1831. Mother Goetzman still survives him, hale and hearty in the 77th year of her age. After marriage he farmed as they farm in that country and in his residence had a saddle and harness shop wherein he did such work in that line as came to him to do. In 1840 he emigrated to this country and settled on Salt Creek, near the Muskingum River, in the county of that name in Ohio. He acquired a farm of about 100 acres of this prairie land but about 1845 or 1846, he, as well as several of his neighbors, became convinced that co-operation was the best plan for the farming community so far from market, etc., and they united with Dr. Giddings scheme of association and co-operation of which so much has been said and mother and father Goetzman, with others, conveyed their lands to someone in trust for such organization, only to find it all vanish and that he must begin life again with a large family and no property. But in 1853 he had gathered up enough to come to Iowa and he and his son Henry purchased a farm together north of this city. About ten years ago he sold out to Henry and bought the Ward farm on the old Ft. Dodge road, where he lived with his aged companion and youngest daughter, Kate, until his death.
He was the youngest of a family of nineteen children, all of whom are dead years ago. The mother of Fred and Lawrence Wahl was his sister and she and two others brothers were all of the family that came with Mr. Goetzman to this country.
He had eight children, five daughters, Mary, now dead, the wife of Samuel Graham; Caroline, Mrs. Jas. Sturtz; Magdaline, Mrs. John Bass; Dorotha, Mrs. A. M. Shaffer; Kate, single; and three sons, Henry of Dodge, Charles of this city and George of Beaver. Henry, Charles, Caroline and Mary were born in Aslace.
Father Goetzman in early life became a member of the Lutheran church and his life has always been that of an upright consistent Christian gentleman. He never had a lawsuit, never had a quarrel. The new era world regarded him as exacting and precise but his early training and particularly his army life gave him firmness and precision. He loved to see everything done right and everybody do right. He was well read in the bible and loved to quote it upon all occasions; he made that book his guide.
About six years ago the light of life's lamp became fitful and flickering with him. The heat of so many summers and the frosts of so many winters clouded his mental faculties and he lost the power of mind and memory to a great extent and gradually failing as the great light beyond the river grew brighter to him for a time he became as a child again, but yet during all his mental aberrations he never forgot the bible and would quote it often and with accuracy when to all else his mind was a blank. A short time before his death he suffered from a fracture of a limb, which hastened the hours of his dissolution. He was buried on the next day after his death by his old neighbors and friends in the little neighborhood graveyard nearby his Iowa home where his old neighbors that have died before him are buried. As old as he was, his own was the first death in his house, the first funeral cortege from his gate.
Peace and rest to the remains of the weary, noble old man.
Ogden Reporter
29 Sep 1887
Another old man is gone. Rich and ripe in the experience of the world, the hour glass of life empty and fruition full, after a well spent life, Father Barnhardt Goetzman is dead, dying in the arms of his children and the companion of his lifetime, at his home north of the city, on the 13th day of September, 1887 being 85 years of age.
Father Goetzman came down to us from a former generation. Nearly all the men and women who were boys and girls with him have passed over the river and he stood almost the sole survivor of his day and time. What a grand life, what a history has he lived and helped to make. He had passed the mile post that our God erects at the end of three score and ten years and could look back over the long pathway of his life without pain or regret over a single misdeed, or wrong done his fellow men. These old men are better far than we are. We are inclined at times to blame them for some to us old fashioned notions and actions, but they are right never the less and Father Goetzman was a perfect type of those grand old men whose sons and daughters are living monuments of proper training in youth and who now make up the world's best people. All honor and respect to these grand old men.
Father Goetzman was born on the Rhine in the Franco German province of Alsace, in the village of Rittershafen, of farmer parentage, April 19, 1802. He was in early life a great reader and by the aid of the local schools he was enabled to acquire a liberal education. He was apprenticed to learn the saddle and harness trade and while in that business he read and studied and became will informed upon all subjects. He was also a great traveler and visited nearly all the great cities and marts of trade in the old world. On one of his trips, and while in Russia or at Rome, his uncle acting for him drew from him a term seven years' service in the army, and being informed of the fact young Goetzman hurried home and served five years, at the end of which time he was granted a temporary furlough or leave of absence that he might get married, being held however subject to call in case the public service required him and he retained some of his military notions all his life. He was married to Mary E. Goetzman (no way related) in his native village on the 10th day of May, 1831. Mother Goetzman still survives him, hale and hearty in the 77th year of her age. After marriage he farmed as they farm in that country and in his residence had a saddle and harness shop wherein he did such work in that line as came to him to do. In 1840 he emigrated to this country and settled on Salt Creek, near the Muskingum River, in the county of that name in Ohio. He acquired a farm of about 100 acres of this prairie land but about 1845 or 1846, he, as well as several of his neighbors, became convinced that co-operation was the best plan for the farming community so far from market, etc., and they united with Dr. Giddings scheme of association and co-operation of which so much has been said and mother and father Goetzman, with others, conveyed their lands to someone in trust for such organization, only to find it all vanish and that he must begin life again with a large family and no property. But in 1853 he had gathered up enough to come to Iowa and he and his son Henry purchased a farm together north of this city. About ten years ago he sold out to Henry and bought the Ward farm on the old Ft. Dodge road, where he lived with his aged companion and youngest daughter, Kate, until his death.
He was the youngest of a family of nineteen children, all of whom are dead years ago. The mother of Fred and Lawrence Wahl was his sister and she and two others brothers were all of the family that came with Mr. Goetzman to this country.
He had eight children, five daughters, Mary, now dead, the wife of Samuel Graham; Caroline, Mrs. Jas. Sturtz; Magdaline, Mrs. John Bass; Dorotha, Mrs. A. M. Shaffer; Kate, single; and three sons, Henry of Dodge, Charles of this city and George of Beaver. Henry, Charles, Caroline and Mary were born in Aslace.
Father Goetzman in early life became a member of the Lutheran church and his life has always been that of an upright consistent Christian gentleman. He never had a lawsuit, never had a quarrel. The new era world regarded him as exacting and precise but his early training and particularly his army life gave him firmness and precision. He loved to see everything done right and everybody do right. He was well read in the bible and loved to quote it upon all occasions; he made that book his guide.
About six years ago the light of life's lamp became fitful and flickering with him. The heat of so many summers and the frosts of so many winters clouded his mental faculties and he lost the power of mind and memory to a great extent and gradually failing as the great light beyond the river grew brighter to him for a time he became as a child again, but yet during all his mental aberrations he never forgot the bible and would quote it often and with accuracy when to all else his mind was a blank. A short time before his death he suffered from a fracture of a limb, which hastened the hours of his dissolution. He was buried on the next day after his death by his old neighbors and friends in the little neighborhood graveyard nearby his Iowa home where his old neighbors that have died before him are buried. As old as he was, his own was the first death in his house, the first funeral cortege from his gate.
Peace and rest to the remains of the weary, noble old man.
29 Sep 1887
Another old man is gone. Rich and ripe in the experience of the world, the hour glass of life empty and fruition full, after a well spent life, Father Barnhardt Goetzman is dead, dying in the arms of his children and the companion of his lifetime, at his home north of the city, on the 13th day of September, 1887 being 85 years of age.
Father Goetzman came down to us from a former generation. Nearly all the men and women who were boys and girls with him have passed over the river and he stood almost the sole survivor of his day and time. What a grand life, what a history has he lived and helped to make. He had passed the mile post that our God erects at the end of three score and ten years and could look back over the long pathway of his life without pain or regret over a single misdeed, or wrong done his fellow men. These old men are better far than we are. We are inclined at times to blame them for some to us old fashioned notions and actions, but they are right never the less and Father Goetzman was a perfect type of those grand old men whose sons and daughters are living monuments of proper training in youth and who now make up the world's best people. All honor and respect to these grand old men.
Father Goetzman was born on the Rhine in the Franco German province of Alsace, in the village of Rittershafen, of farmer parentage, April 19, 1802. He was in early life a great reader and by the aid of the local schools he was enabled to acquire a liberal education. He was apprenticed to learn the saddle and harness trade and while in that business he read and studied and became will informed upon all subjects. He was also a great traveler and visited nearly all the great cities and marts of trade in the old world. On one of his trips, and while in Russia or at Rome, his uncle acting for him drew from him a term seven years' service in the army, and being informed of the fact young Goetzman hurried home and served five years, at the end of which time he was granted a temporary furlough or leave of absence that he might get married, being held however subject to call in case the public service required him and he retained some of his military notions all his life. He was married to Mary E. Goetzman (no way related) in his native village on the 10th day of May, 1831. Mother Goetzman still survives him, hale and hearty in the 77th year of her age. After marriage he farmed as they farm in that country and in his residence had a saddle and harness shop wherein he did such work in that line as came to him to do. In 1840 he emigrated to this country and settled on Salt Creek, near the Muskingum River, in the county of that name in Ohio. He acquired a farm of about 100 acres of this prairie land but about 1845 or 1846, he, as well as several of his neighbors, became convinced that co-operation was the best plan for the farming community so far from market, etc., and they united with Dr. Giddings scheme of association and co-operation of which so much has been said and mother and father Goetzman, with others, conveyed their lands to someone in trust for such organization, only to find it all vanish and that he must begin life again with a large family and no property. But in 1853 he had gathered up enough to come to Iowa and he and his son Henry purchased a farm together north of this city. About ten years ago he sold out to Henry and bought the Ward farm on the old Ft. Dodge road, where he lived with his aged companion and youngest daughter, Kate, until his death.
He was the youngest of a family of nineteen children, all of whom are dead years ago. The mother of Fred and Lawrence Wahl was his sister and she and two others brothers were all of the family that came with Mr. Goetzman to this country.
He had eight children, five daughters, Mary, now dead, the wife of Samuel Graham; Caroline, Mrs. Jas. Sturtz; Magdaline, Mrs. John Bass; Dorotha, Mrs. A. M. Shaffer; Kate, single; and three sons, Henry of Dodge, Charles of this city and George of Beaver. Henry, Charles, Caroline and Mary were born in Aslace.
Father Goetzman in early life became a member of the Lutheran church and his life has always been that of an upright consistent Christian gentleman. He never had a lawsuit, never had a quarrel. The new era world regarded him as exacting and precise but his early training and particularly his army life gave him firmness and precision. He loved to see everything done right and everybody do right. He was well read in the bible and loved to quote it upon all occasions; he made that book his guide.
About six years ago the light of life's lamp became fitful and flickering with him. The heat of so many summers and the frosts of so many winters clouded his mental faculties and he lost the power of mind and memory to a great extent and gradually failing as the great light beyond the river grew brighter to him for a time he became as a child again, but yet during all his mental aberrations he never forgot the bible and would quote it often and with accuracy when to all else his mind was a blank. A short time before his death he suffered from a fracture of a limb, which hastened the hours of his dissolution. He was buried on the next day after his death by his old neighbors and friends in the little neighborhood graveyard nearby his Iowa home where his old neighbors that have died before him are buried. As old as he was, his own was the first death in his house, the first funeral cortege from his gate.
Peace and rest to the remains of the weary, noble old man.
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