Per Tombstone, Washington Death Records & obit Death year was 1939
Funeral services were held this morning at the Zion Congregational church here for John Vehrs, 71, one of the early pioneers of Adams county who died at his home in Spokane on Tuesday. Mr. Vehrs had been in ill health for some time but the immediate cause of his death was a paralytic stroke. Interment will be in the Ritzville cemetery.
He came here many years ago and settled Where Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Sumpter now live. He had been living in Spokane since 1933.
Mr. Vehrs is survived by three sons, Joe of Ritzville and Peter and Edward of Spokane; and four daughters, Mrs. Harvey Sumpter of Ritzville; Gretchen Vehrs of Portland, Oregon; Mrs. Anna Wren of Bremerton and Mrs. Dora Poole of Alaska.
Ritzville Journal Times May 18, 1939 Sue Gardner & gapwork90
Transcribed from "An Illustrated History of The Big Bend Country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties, State of Washington", published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.
JOHAN N. G. VEHRS, whose postoffice address is Ritzville, and who lives on a farm three miles west from that city, is a native of Germany, born March 6, 1868. He is the son of Peter and Antge C. Vehrs, who came from their native country, Germany, to America, in 1869 and located in Illinois and engaged in farming. They came to Adams county and took a homestead where our subject now lives. The father later purchased three quarter-sections of land from the railroad company, making him the possessor in all of a complete section of choice agricultural land. The father is now living at the age of seventy-two years, but the mother passed away in 1899.
The subject of our sketch received a grammar school education, and at the age of twenty-seven he assumed the management of his father's farm, which he still retains. From time to time he has purchased land for himself until they now own fourteen hundred and forty acres and cultivates it all, raising as high as twenty-six thousand bushels of wheat in a single season. He keeps on his farm thirty-two head of draft horses.
In the year 1895 Mr. Vehrs was married to Miss Margaret Clodius, a brief sketch of whose life is incorporated with the sketch of her father, C. F. Clodius, which appears elsewhere in this volume. To this union have been born four children, all now living, Gretchen, Anna, Peter and Joseph.
Mr. Vehrs is a member of a family which originally contained six children, only one of whom, besides himself, is now living, Margaret Maud, now Mrs. J. Denakas, of Adams county.
In political matters, Mr. Vehrs is affiliated with the Republican party, in the workings of which he takes a deep and aggressive interest. He holds membership in the German Congregationalist church.
Funeral services were held this morning at the Zion Congregational church here for John Vehrs, 71, one of the early pioneers of Adams county who died at his home in Spokane on Tuesday. Mr. Vehrs had been in ill health for some time but the immediate cause of his death was a paralytic stroke. Interment will be in the Ritzville cemetery.
He came here many years ago and settled Where Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Sumpter now live. He had been living in Spokane since 1933.
Mr. Vehrs is survived by three sons, Joe of Ritzville and Peter and Edward of Spokane; and four daughters, Mrs. Harvey Sumpter of Ritzville; Gretchen Vehrs of Portland, Oregon; Mrs. Anna Wren of Bremerton and Mrs. Dora Poole of Alaska.
Ritzville Journal Times May 18, 1939 Sue Gardner & gapwork90
Transcribed from "An Illustrated History of The Big Bend Country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties, State of Washington", published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.
JOHAN N. G. VEHRS, whose postoffice address is Ritzville, and who lives on a farm three miles west from that city, is a native of Germany, born March 6, 1868. He is the son of Peter and Antge C. Vehrs, who came from their native country, Germany, to America, in 1869 and located in Illinois and engaged in farming. They came to Adams county and took a homestead where our subject now lives. The father later purchased three quarter-sections of land from the railroad company, making him the possessor in all of a complete section of choice agricultural land. The father is now living at the age of seventy-two years, but the mother passed away in 1899.
The subject of our sketch received a grammar school education, and at the age of twenty-seven he assumed the management of his father's farm, which he still retains. From time to time he has purchased land for himself until they now own fourteen hundred and forty acres and cultivates it all, raising as high as twenty-six thousand bushels of wheat in a single season. He keeps on his farm thirty-two head of draft horses.
In the year 1895 Mr. Vehrs was married to Miss Margaret Clodius, a brief sketch of whose life is incorporated with the sketch of her father, C. F. Clodius, which appears elsewhere in this volume. To this union have been born four children, all now living, Gretchen, Anna, Peter and Joseph.
Mr. Vehrs is a member of a family which originally contained six children, only one of whom, besides himself, is now living, Margaret Maud, now Mrs. J. Denakas, of Adams county.
In political matters, Mr. Vehrs is affiliated with the Republican party, in the workings of which he takes a deep and aggressive interest. He holds membership in the German Congregationalist church.
Per Tombstone, Washington Death Records & obit Death year was 1939
Funeral services were held this morning at the Zion Congregational church here for John Vehrs, 71, one of the early pioneers of Adams county who died at his home in Spokane on Tuesday. Mr. Vehrs had been in ill health for some time but the immediate cause of his death was a paralytic stroke. Interment will be in the Ritzville cemetery.
He came here many years ago and settled Where Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Sumpter now live. He had been living in Spokane since 1933.
Mr. Vehrs is survived by three sons, Joe of Ritzville and Peter and Edward of Spokane; and four daughters, Mrs. Harvey Sumpter of Ritzville; Gretchen Vehrs of Portland, Oregon; Mrs. Anna Wren of Bremerton and Mrs. Dora Poole of Alaska.
Ritzville Journal Times May 18, 1939 Sue Gardner & gapwork90
Transcribed from "An Illustrated History of The Big Bend Country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties, State of Washington", published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.
JOHAN N. G. VEHRS, whose postoffice address is Ritzville, and who lives on a farm three miles west from that city, is a native of Germany, born March 6, 1868. He is the son of Peter and Antge C. Vehrs, who came from their native country, Germany, to America, in 1869 and located in Illinois and engaged in farming. They came to Adams county and took a homestead where our subject now lives. The father later purchased three quarter-sections of land from the railroad company, making him the possessor in all of a complete section of choice agricultural land. The father is now living at the age of seventy-two years, but the mother passed away in 1899.
The subject of our sketch received a grammar school education, and at the age of twenty-seven he assumed the management of his father's farm, which he still retains. From time to time he has purchased land for himself until they now own fourteen hundred and forty acres and cultivates it all, raising as high as twenty-six thousand bushels of wheat in a single season. He keeps on his farm thirty-two head of draft horses.
In the year 1895 Mr. Vehrs was married to Miss Margaret Clodius, a brief sketch of whose life is incorporated with the sketch of her father, C. F. Clodius, which appears elsewhere in this volume. To this union have been born four children, all now living, Gretchen, Anna, Peter and Joseph.
Mr. Vehrs is a member of a family which originally contained six children, only one of whom, besides himself, is now living, Margaret Maud, now Mrs. J. Denakas, of Adams county.
In political matters, Mr. Vehrs is affiliated with the Republican party, in the workings of which he takes a deep and aggressive interest. He holds membership in the German Congregationalist church.
Funeral services were held this morning at the Zion Congregational church here for John Vehrs, 71, one of the early pioneers of Adams county who died at his home in Spokane on Tuesday. Mr. Vehrs had been in ill health for some time but the immediate cause of his death was a paralytic stroke. Interment will be in the Ritzville cemetery.
He came here many years ago and settled Where Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Sumpter now live. He had been living in Spokane since 1933.
Mr. Vehrs is survived by three sons, Joe of Ritzville and Peter and Edward of Spokane; and four daughters, Mrs. Harvey Sumpter of Ritzville; Gretchen Vehrs of Portland, Oregon; Mrs. Anna Wren of Bremerton and Mrs. Dora Poole of Alaska.
Ritzville Journal Times May 18, 1939 Sue Gardner & gapwork90
Transcribed from "An Illustrated History of The Big Bend Country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties, State of Washington", published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.
JOHAN N. G. VEHRS, whose postoffice address is Ritzville, and who lives on a farm three miles west from that city, is a native of Germany, born March 6, 1868. He is the son of Peter and Antge C. Vehrs, who came from their native country, Germany, to America, in 1869 and located in Illinois and engaged in farming. They came to Adams county and took a homestead where our subject now lives. The father later purchased three quarter-sections of land from the railroad company, making him the possessor in all of a complete section of choice agricultural land. The father is now living at the age of seventy-two years, but the mother passed away in 1899.
The subject of our sketch received a grammar school education, and at the age of twenty-seven he assumed the management of his father's farm, which he still retains. From time to time he has purchased land for himself until they now own fourteen hundred and forty acres and cultivates it all, raising as high as twenty-six thousand bushels of wheat in a single season. He keeps on his farm thirty-two head of draft horses.
In the year 1895 Mr. Vehrs was married to Miss Margaret Clodius, a brief sketch of whose life is incorporated with the sketch of her father, C. F. Clodius, which appears elsewhere in this volume. To this union have been born four children, all now living, Gretchen, Anna, Peter and Joseph.
Mr. Vehrs is a member of a family which originally contained six children, only one of whom, besides himself, is now living, Margaret Maud, now Mrs. J. Denakas, of Adams county.
In political matters, Mr. Vehrs is affiliated with the Republican party, in the workings of which he takes a deep and aggressive interest. He holds membership in the German Congregationalist church.
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