Son of Heinrich Friedrich & Margaretha Helene Bohlene Behlers - Husband of Marie Elizabeth Schwemer Behlers.

Amandus Theodore Behlers(A. T.)was a big, husky man born in Oberhausen be Dorum Hanover, Germany. He was an officer and engineer in the German army. He came to the US on August 28, 1862 to New York. He married his wife Marie Elizabeth Schwemer in 1866 in Chicago. They had five daughters and five sons. They lived in Illinois and Homesteaded land there until 1879 when he and his family came to Nebraska. He and his brother Henry F. married half-sisters. He was on the local school board and told teachers to teach English, not German. Amandus T. Behlers took a trip to Germany in 1874. His parents were still living there. They were considered quite well to do in Germany. When he arrived there, it was evening, he rapped on the door and asked if Hinnrich Behlers was there. When his father heard his voice, he ran to the door and said "This is my son Amandus Theodore from America".


The following obituary was contributed by findagraver Kathy Cranston Percy -

Homes are Saddened
Death Casts Over Them a Dark Pall of Bereavement
BEHLERS

Last Saturday afternoon as the sun sank low in the western sky to close the Christmas week with its hallowed associations suggestive of peace on earth, Amandus T. Behlers entered the shadows of the night of death whose dreamless sleep is to be succeeded by a morning of splendor and bright refulgence not of the celestial sun and more eternal than the stars. He had been gradually failing in health for some time, and calmly awaited the end with sublime faith in the future life.

The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon at the home in this city, Rev. Guy R. Birch, pastor of the Scribner Congregational church conducting the services, followed by the interment in the Wisner cemetery. The pallbearers were: D. H. McNamara, J.T. Fleming, S.G. Karlen, Otto Breetzke, James and Jerome Brazda.

Amandus Theodore Behlers was born September 9, 1841, at Oberhausen, Hanover, Germany, and attained to the age of 77 years, 3 months and 19 days. He landed in America August 28, 1862, and was united in marriage with Marie Schwemer at Chicago, February 7, 1866. Two years later they moved to Nelson, Illinois where Mr. Behlers spent several years as a railroad section foreman. In 1879 he came to this county, locating on and improving a farm in Grant township, having bought the land six years before. He was a successful farmer and stockman, and by good management, industry and patient thrift accumulated a competency and in 1902 Mr. and Mrs. Behlers retired to a home in Wisner to enjoy a well-earned rest from the hard labors and self denials of the pioneer days through which they in common with their early neighbors had lived. Mrs. Behlers passed to the beyond February 5, 1916. They were the parents of ten children, five of whom died in infancy and childhood. The living children are Mrs. Emma Timberman, of Huron, South Dakota; Mrs. Margaretha McKown of Wisner; Mrs. Mary Finch of Lindsay, California; Charles F. Behlers, on the old home farm, and Mrs. Catherine Rehpohl, of Hitchcock, South Dakota. Their other descendants are seventeen grandchildren and one great grandchild.

The other surviving relatives are three sisters in Germany, a sister-in-law, Mrs. Katie Behlers of Wisner, and her children.

Mr. Behlers was a man of unusually active mind and clear judgment on every question that was of interest. He was a close observer of current events and activities and a voracious reader of books, his taste leading him to study history as well as to enjoy literature. The Bible was a favorite volume, and he had read it entirely through once before he was thirty years old, a second time before he was sixty and was well through it for the third time before his failing strength compelled him to forego the enjoyment of the printed page. His intelligence and his character made him a man to be honored and trusted, and all who were associated with him respected him throughout his life and will ever honor his memory.

The funeral of Mr. Behlers was attended by the following relatives from abroad: Mr. and Mrs. William Rehpohl of Hitchcock, South Dakota; Mr. Emma Timberman of Huron, South Dakota; Miss Irene McKown of Omaha, and an old friend A. C. Peterson of Crofton, this state.