Christian Friedrich "August" Julius Roloff/Rohloff was born to Johann Gottlieb and Luise (Kröning) Roloff in Gross Raddow, Kreis Regenwalde, Pommern Province, Prussia.
"August" Rohloff, an aged and respected resident of Sharon township, died at the family home last Friday, after an illness of more than six months, death being due to that incurable malady, cancer of the stomach. The deceased, who was born in Pomerania and was sixty-four years of age at the time of his death.
August was married to Johanne Dorothea "Caroline" Steffen on 19 November, 1869 in Pomerania, who survives him. He was in the Prussian Army and a Grenadier in the lst company of the Colbergscher Grenadier Regiment (2 Pommerscher) No. 9 in the victorious campaign of 1870-71, Franco-Prussian War.
He immigrated to the U.S. in 1877 with his wife and 4 children, one of whom died enroute and was buried at sea. To this union seven children were born, of whom five are now living, viz: Fred and Julius of North Dakota, Herman, Bertha and Mrs. Amelia Boldt of this county. He is also survived by a brother, Ferdinand of Le Sueur County and a sister, Marie Sophia Frederike (Roloff) Habeck in Pomerania, Prussia, and a number of grand children. The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the German Baptist Church in Sharon. Rev. A. B. Boulter of Minnneapolis, and Rev. Hugh Owen, Pastor of the Welch Church, officiating. The remains were laid to rest in the German Baptist Cemetery (now Hillside Cemetery) in the presence of the sorrowing relatives and a large number of his friends and neighbors, who took this occasion to show their esteem for the deceased.
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Ferdinand Rohloff
"August" Rohloff, an aged and respected resident of Sharon township, died at the family home last Friday, after an illness of more than six months, death being due to that incurable malady, cancer of the stomach. The deceased, who was born in Pomerania and was sixty-four years of age at the time of his death.
August was married to Johanne Dorothea "Caroline" Steffen on 19 November, 1869 in Pomerania, who survives him. He was in the Prussian Army and a Grenadier in the lst company of the Colbergscher Grenadier Regiment (2 Pommerscher) No. 9 in the victorious campaign of 1870-71, Franco-Prussian War.
He immigrated to the U.S. in 1877 with his wife and 4 children, one of whom died enroute and was buried at sea. To this union seven children were born, of whom five are now living, viz: Fred and Julius of North Dakota, Herman, Bertha and Mrs. Amelia Boldt of this county. He is also survived by a brother, Ferdinand of Le Sueur County and a sister, Marie Sophia Frederike (Roloff) Habeck in Pomerania, Prussia, and a number of grand children. The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the German Baptist Church in Sharon. Rev. A. B. Boulter of Minnneapolis, and Rev. Hugh Owen, Pastor of the Welch Church, officiating. The remains were laid to rest in the German Baptist Cemetery (now Hillside Cemetery) in the presence of the sorrowing relatives and a large number of his friends and neighbors, who took this occasion to show their esteem for the deceased.
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Ferdinand Rohloff
Christian Friedrich "August" Julius Roloff/Rohloff was born to Johann Gottlieb and Luise (Kröning) Roloff in Gross Raddow, Kreis Regenwalde, Pommern Province, Prussia.
"August" Rohloff, an aged and respected resident of Sharon township, died at the family home last Friday, after an illness of more than six months, death being due to that incurable malady, cancer of the stomach. The deceased, who was born in Pomerania and was sixty-four years of age at the time of his death.
August was married to Johanne Dorothea "Caroline" Steffen on 19 November, 1869 in Pomerania, who survives him. He was in the Prussian Army and a Grenadier in the lst company of the Colbergscher Grenadier Regiment (2 Pommerscher) No. 9 in the victorious campaign of 1870-71, Franco-Prussian War.
He immigrated to the U.S. in 1877 with his wife and 4 children, one of whom died enroute and was buried at sea. To this union seven children were born, of whom five are now living, viz: Fred and Julius of North Dakota, Herman, Bertha and Mrs. Amelia Boldt of this county. He is also survived by a brother, Ferdinand of Le Sueur County and a sister, Marie Sophia Frederike (Roloff) Habeck in Pomerania, Prussia, and a number of grand children. The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the German Baptist Church in Sharon. Rev. A. B. Boulter of Minnneapolis, and Rev. Hugh Owen, Pastor of the Welch Church, officiating. The remains were laid to rest in the German Baptist Cemetery (now Hillside Cemetery) in the presence of the sorrowing relatives and a large number of his friends and neighbors, who took this occasion to show their esteem for the deceased.
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Ferdinand Rohloff
"August" Rohloff, an aged and respected resident of Sharon township, died at the family home last Friday, after an illness of more than six months, death being due to that incurable malady, cancer of the stomach. The deceased, who was born in Pomerania and was sixty-four years of age at the time of his death.
August was married to Johanne Dorothea "Caroline" Steffen on 19 November, 1869 in Pomerania, who survives him. He was in the Prussian Army and a Grenadier in the lst company of the Colbergscher Grenadier Regiment (2 Pommerscher) No. 9 in the victorious campaign of 1870-71, Franco-Prussian War.
He immigrated to the U.S. in 1877 with his wife and 4 children, one of whom died enroute and was buried at sea. To this union seven children were born, of whom five are now living, viz: Fred and Julius of North Dakota, Herman, Bertha and Mrs. Amelia Boldt of this county. He is also survived by a brother, Ferdinand of Le Sueur County and a sister, Marie Sophia Frederike (Roloff) Habeck in Pomerania, Prussia, and a number of grand children. The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the German Baptist Church in Sharon. Rev. A. B. Boulter of Minnneapolis, and Rev. Hugh Owen, Pastor of the Welch Church, officiating. The remains were laid to rest in the German Baptist Cemetery (now Hillside Cemetery) in the presence of the sorrowing relatives and a large number of his friends and neighbors, who took this occasion to show their esteem for the deceased.
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Ferdinand Rohloff
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CAROLINE BORN FEB. 24, 1839 DIED FEB. 25, 1930. ROHLOFF
AUGUST BORN JULY 16, 1846 DIED JULY 15, 1910.
CARL F. BORN OCT. 30, 1872 DIED MAY 29, 1894
IN MEMORY OF FATHER AND MOTHER
BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD (Stone is polished red granite 43" high square pillar on a 16 1/2" high square granite base on 22" high square cement base. Cement edge outlines one grave site and half of another)
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