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Kearney, Nebraska: 19 Jun 1937:
Jacob F Cornelius Funeral Will Be Held Tuesday.
Jacob Francis Cornelius, 69, a resident of Kearney for the past sixty-two years, died at his home here, 306 East Twenty-seventy street, early this morning. He was a Union Pacific railway shop employee here until his retirement six years ago.
Surviving are Mrs Cornelius, one son, Carl J. of Kearney, and three daughters: Mrs. Irvin S (Ella) Knoll of Detroit, Mich; Miss Margaret M. Cornelius, of Kearney, and Miss Dora Cornelius, of Lincoln.
A brother, Joseph Cornelius, of Lincoln, and two sisters, Mrs. Lena McCombs, of Omaha, and Mrs. Anna Sheville, of Chicago, also survive, as do seven grandchildren: Leo, Paul, Mary Ellen, Junior, George and Lela May Cornelius, Kearney, and Frank Knoll, Detroit.
Funeral Services will be held from the St James church here next Tuesday morning at nine-thirty o'clock. Interment will be made in the Kearney cemetery.
Mr Cornelius was one of the oldest and best-known residents of the city.
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Kearney, Nebraska: 19 Jun 1937:
Jacob F Cornelius Funeral Will Be Held Tuesday.
Jacob Francis Cornelius, 69, a resident of Kearney for the past sixty-two years, died at his home here, 306 East Twenty-seventy street, early this morning. He was a Union Pacific railway shop employee here until his retirement six years ago.
Surviving are Mrs Cornelius, one son, Carl J. of Kearney, and three daughters: Mrs. Irvin S (Ella) Knoll of Detroit, Mich; Miss Margaret M. Cornelius, of Kearney, and Miss Dora Cornelius, of Lincoln.
A brother, Joseph Cornelius, of Lincoln, and two sisters, Mrs. Lena McCombs, of Omaha, and Mrs. Anna Sheville, of Chicago, also survive, as do seven grandchildren: Leo, Paul, Mary Ellen, Junior, George and Lela May Cornelius, Kearney, and Frank Knoll, Detroit.
Funeral Services will be held from the St James church here next Tuesday morning at nine-thirty o'clock. Interment will be made in the Kearney cemetery.
Mr Cornelius was one of the oldest and best-known residents of the city.
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Family Members
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Clara H Cornelius Eberhardt
1851–1929
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Casper P. Cornelius
1853–1908
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Joseph Leo Cornelius
1857–1939
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John Cornelius
1859 – unknown
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Margaret L "Maggie" Cornelius Donahue
1861–1920
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Lena S Cornelius Sprague-McCombs
1863–1945
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Antone M. "Tony" Cornelius
1866–1933
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Philipp Stephan Cornelius
1870–1872
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Dr Maximillian Carl Cornelius
1873–1917
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