After several years of failing health, William Eiche, 85, the last of the well known Eiche brothers, market gardeners, died on the farm of his birth in the Sumner Community at 9 a.m. today. Funeral services will be held at the Stanton & Stanton Chapel at 2 p.m. Saturday, the Rev. Vance Baird officiating. Burial will be in the Sumner cemetery.
He was born May 26, 1885, a son of Ferdinand and Margaret Eiche, and in his youth learned the baker's trade. For several years he was in partnership with the late William Koenig in a bakery at Nortonville, selling his interest to his partner in the early 1890s and making the run into the Indian Territory, where he obtained a claim near Yale, Okla.
On April 5, 1894, he married Miss Nettie Sandfort at Oskaloosa, and they went to housekeeping on his Oklahoma claim, where they lived for three years and then moved to the Sumner Community. Mrs. Eiche survives with three sons, Ernest Eiche, Denver; Clifford and Bruce Eiche of Sumner, who continue the gardening business established by their father and uncles.
Preceding him in death were four brothers, John, who died at Phoenix, Ariz.; Fred, Henry and Edward, and two sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Shumaker, Yale, Okla., and Mrs. Rose Estabrook, who lived in California.
- obit taken from the Sumner Cemetery book published by the Atchison County Kansas Genealogical Society
He was born May 26, 1885, a son of Ferdinand and Margaret Eiche, and in his youth learned the baker's trade. For several years he was in partnership with the late William Koenig in a bakery at Nortonville, selling his interest to his partner in the early 1890s and making the run into the Indian Territory, where he obtained a claim near Yale, Okla.
On April 5, 1894, he married Miss Nettie Sandfort at Oskaloosa, and they went to housekeeping on his Oklahoma claim, where they lived for three years and then moved to the Sumner Community. Mrs. Eiche survives with three sons, Ernest Eiche, Denver; Clifford and Bruce Eiche of Sumner, who continue the gardening business established by their father and uncles.
Preceding him in death were four brothers, John, who died at Phoenix, Ariz.; Fred, Henry and Edward, and two sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Shumaker, Yale, Okla., and Mrs. Rose Estabrook, who lived in California.
- obit taken from the Sumner Cemetery book published by the Atchison County Kansas Genealogical Society
After several years of failing health, William Eiche, 85, the last of the well known Eiche brothers, market gardeners, died on the farm of his birth in the Sumner Community at 9 a.m. today. Funeral services will be held at the Stanton & Stanton Chapel at 2 p.m. Saturday, the Rev. Vance Baird officiating. Burial will be in the Sumner cemetery.
He was born May 26, 1885, a son of Ferdinand and Margaret Eiche, and in his youth learned the baker's trade. For several years he was in partnership with the late William Koenig in a bakery at Nortonville, selling his interest to his partner in the early 1890s and making the run into the Indian Territory, where he obtained a claim near Yale, Okla.
On April 5, 1894, he married Miss Nettie Sandfort at Oskaloosa, and they went to housekeeping on his Oklahoma claim, where they lived for three years and then moved to the Sumner Community. Mrs. Eiche survives with three sons, Ernest Eiche, Denver; Clifford and Bruce Eiche of Sumner, who continue the gardening business established by their father and uncles.
Preceding him in death were four brothers, John, who died at Phoenix, Ariz.; Fred, Henry and Edward, and two sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Shumaker, Yale, Okla., and Mrs. Rose Estabrook, who lived in California.
- obit taken from the Sumner Cemetery book published by the Atchison County Kansas Genealogical Society
He was born May 26, 1885, a son of Ferdinand and Margaret Eiche, and in his youth learned the baker's trade. For several years he was in partnership with the late William Koenig in a bakery at Nortonville, selling his interest to his partner in the early 1890s and making the run into the Indian Territory, where he obtained a claim near Yale, Okla.
On April 5, 1894, he married Miss Nettie Sandfort at Oskaloosa, and they went to housekeeping on his Oklahoma claim, where they lived for three years and then moved to the Sumner Community. Mrs. Eiche survives with three sons, Ernest Eiche, Denver; Clifford and Bruce Eiche of Sumner, who continue the gardening business established by their father and uncles.
Preceding him in death were four brothers, John, who died at Phoenix, Ariz.; Fred, Henry and Edward, and two sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Shumaker, Yale, Okla., and Mrs. Rose Estabrook, who lived in California.
- obit taken from the Sumner Cemetery book published by the Atchison County Kansas Genealogical Society
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