Sheboygan Press, February 21, 1913 P. 1:
"EXTRA! WAR VETERAN CALLED

Word was received here this morning announcing the death of Ernst Kolb of the town of Meeme, a civil war veteran and a member of the Gustavis Wintermeyer Post of this city.

Mr. Kolb was born October 20, 1839, at Weimer, Saxony, Germany, and was one of a family of five, three sisters, Mrs. Teigner, Mrs. Wolters, and Mrs. Schuette, who survive him. His father was a charcoal burner, and in 1850 when Ernst was eleven years old, with his family they turned their faces "toward the setting sun" emigrating to America. They crossed the ocean in a sailing vessel and were on the water seven weeks before land was sighted. They landed at the port of New Orleans and then came to Wisconsin via the Mississippi river and the old Hennepin Canal. They settled in the township of Meeme, Manitowoc County, on a farm owned by Mr. Robert Fiedler. Here the decedent spent his boyhood days and part of his married life, and later purchased the farm now owned by his son Henry, and there he made his home until the final summons.

In 1861 when the call came for volunteers to put down the rebellion, he enlisted in Company D, 27th regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, and served until the end of the war when he was honorably discharged. He took part in the siege of Vicksburg, Battle of Jenkins Ferry as well as the ill fated Red River Expedition and later in the siege and capture of Mobile. He received his discharge August 29, 1865.

On March 25, 1866, he was married to Miss Emma Steinhaus, who died May 22, 1888. To them was born seven daughters and six sons, Mary, Rosa, Emilie, Lena, Alwine, Emma, Edmund, Henry, Fred, Emil, and Roland who survive him, August, who was killed in an accident on Sept. 14, 1890, and Lydia who died November 9, 1900. Besides there are three sisters and thirty grand children. He was an uncle of officer Charles Kolb of this city.

In May, 1911, in company with a delegation from the State of Wisconsin, he took part in the dedication of a monument in memory of the Wisconsin Volunteers at Vicksburg, the capture of which he took part in during the war. From there he went on and visited all that part of the South over which the active service of the war took him, South to Mobile, Ala., and up the Red River in Arkansas.

In the spring of 1912, he became ill and although he partly recovered, he never regained his strength. In June 1912 he decided to visit all his children and relatives once more. This trip took him to his children in Chicago, Davenport, Iowa, and Granville, North Dakota, New Richmond, Minn., Barron and Thorpe, Wis. Shortly after he returned to the home of his son Henry in the town of Meeme he was taken seriously ill and the end came yesterday. The funeral arrangements had not been fully arranged. Members of the Gustavis Wintermeyer Post will act as pall bearers. Interment will be in the town of Meeme cemetery."
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