Excerpts of Letters Home from Joseph Hesselschwardt, 1899 - 1900

 

TO THE PHILIPPINES

Defiance Daily Crescent, August 25, 1899, page 1

"George Hesselschwardt is in receipt of the following letter from J. S. Hesselschwardt, who was a member of Company M, who has joined the regular army and is now enroute to the Philippines.

"SUNDAY, JULY 30th, '99, and on the ship.

MY DEAR COUSINS:

George and Mary, I take the pleasure once more to address you a few lines to let you know that I am well and improving on my trip so far. I am about two thousand miles from 'Frisco,' Cal., out on the dark blue sea and we expect to land at Honolulu by Monday night and so I will finish my letter after I get there...

George, tell the Co. M boys that I send my best to all, and that we get plenty to eat and I have drawn my second set of clothes and my bill for both suits is only $4.40, and that we wear tan shoes and cream colored shirts, and Oh, but we swell up. George, the news is scarce, for there is nothing to see but sky and sea...

The name of the boat we are going over on is Tartar and she is a nice, old rocking chair, you bet...  

The steamship, Tartar

The Defiance Daily Crescent, December 27, 1899

"BEER.  The Soldiers in the Philippines Have It On the Firing Line

Defiance County Boy Tells of His Experience Battling in Our New Possession.

He Likes Army Life.

Cebu, P. I. October 12, 1899

Dear Cousins George and Mary Hesselschwardt,

You must excuse me for not writing sooner, but I had a very bad arm caused by being vaccinated, but it is all right now... We are on our post and guard duty all the time, .. I thank you as ever so much for the papers you sent me.

George, it is nice to be a soldier in the Philippines. We have both Anhauser Busch and Schlitz beer, right out on the firing line.

On Sept. 27th, I lined myself up for my first battle; it did not seem like going to battle when we lined up, but the farther on the hills we got, it more it cheered us, for we knocked those cities all to glory...We line up at St. Nickle's church and started for the mountain on (a hunt for the enemy). I was picked as one of Company H sharpshooters and the first capture we made, we got ten bushels of rice and $29.60 in cash, and three bolo knives, and a box of silverware worth about $200.

Bolo knives

At about 2;30 p.m. we halted to camp for the night at the foot of the hills and put out our outpost. At 8:30 p.m. we had our first (enemy). Company H got him. He was shot three times and then he was finished off with the butt of a gun by Private Warner of Deshler. Company H did a search for more (enemy), but could not find any, so we went to bed and at 5:30 a.m. we had our breakfast and at 6:30, started for the top of the hill and at 9 a.m. were fired upon and then the battle began.

The first shot just missed my left ear and the second one went over the top of my head, and I saw the (enemy) and returned the salute, and I never saw him since... in the next four days we captured seven horses, four large guns and thirty-seven rifles and forty-eight bolo knives...

The company then marched to Cebu, after taking seven lives and wounding seventy-nine. Seventy seven of the enemy were captured. Hesselschwardt's estimate was that 980 Army men were against 15,000 of the enemy. They continued to fight the guerillas in the hills and did not lose a man, but they had two wounded, one shot in the leg and the other caught in a trap where a stick entered his leg.

The Defiance Daily Crescent, December 27,1899

"LETTER FROM THE PHILIPPINES

SOLDIER WRITES OF CONDITIONS AS THEY EXIST.

REMOVAL OF THE CANTEEN CAUSES FAR MORE INJURY TO THE SOLDIERS AS STRONG NATIVE DRINK IS USED

At this point, Joseph Hesselschardt was still on Cebu Island, where he was enjoying good health. The Philippine Nationalists continued to create trouble for the army, cutting telegraph wires, stealing horses, and threatening peaceful citizens to join the rebellion or be killed.

Joseph has ten months yet to serve,but felt he might be 8 months there and then home for the rest. To re-enlist would bring him a $250 bonus,if he didn't go home, so he was weighing that decision. But he commented that "the money must be paid first as promises have not been holding good of late."

The closing of the csnteen had affected soldier morale for the soldiers no longer had their beer, but instead some native drink which was much stronger and made the soldiers drunk,rebellious, and prone to trouble. 

The Crescent-News, December 18, 1900

FIGHTING IN THE PHILIPPINES

A LETTER FROM J.S. HASSELSWERTH, WHO SAYS THE

WAR IS NOT OVER

American Soldier Camps Nightly Fired Upon.

The Service is Nothing Like a Summer Picnic Occasion.

Describes Their Troubles.

Elpardo, Cebu, P.I.

October 30, 1900

My Dear Cousins, George and Maria:

I have the pleasure once more to write you a few lines in regard to my good health and soldiering in the Philippines.

I have read in some papers that the people of the United States think that the war in these islands is about all over with. But we boys here don't think so. We are doing more fighting here in one month than we did all together last year. But we still hold our own. My company is one of the best and when we come along, the (enemy) is always kicking his last.

It is dangerous here now that a man is not safe to lay his rifle down or he will hear bullets all around him, and at night, they come down out of the hills and fire into our camp, and then fly to the hills again. But we have caught them a few times and made it quite interesting for them.

One night they fired into our camp at half past 8. Some of us had gone to bed. We soon got up again, and that next morning we went up to the hill where the (enemy) had been firing from and we found seven dead (men).  Of course, we didn't do any shooting, but we could see that Mr. Kragjorgensen had wished them all goodbye. 

The Krag-Jorgensen rifle used by the American Army in the Philippines

The next night we received an order that they expected an attack at a town about seven miles west of Elpardo. We quickly started and kept off the main road so no one could see us. We got lost, but it was lucky that we did, for if we hadn't, we would have got there too soon, and this way we arrived in time to come up from behind and we opened up on them from the opposite side. When the smoke cleared away, we were all able to march back our seven miles. But twenty-three (enemies) did no more fighting from that night on. They are too slick for us with their guns. They always get away with them some way. We can never find them.

My company is one of the luckiest in the Philippines. We have lost but three men since we left the state of Pennsylvania. One of them died of heart diseas, another had consumption and died on the transport Tartar while in Manila Bay. The other one died in Manila from the effects of whiskey. The rest of us are able to do our duty. In the last month we have had but very little rest..."

Joseph was one of the prolific writers about the war; more of his letters can be found by searching Newspaper Archives. He kept his family in Defiance informed, and thankfully, lived to come home and marry in 1903.

Dianne Kline, Researcher

Spanish - American War and Philippine Insurrection Soldier - Pvt./ Corp. Joseph Hesselschwardt - Part 1

 

#11 Private Joseph Hesselschwardt
#12 E. Gleason (not on the roster)

Private Joseph Hasselschwardt repeated in his letters home that he loved the Army. His letters, sent to his cousins, George and Anna Hasselschwardt back in Defiance, helped reveal his personality, his adventures, and his love for the military.

Born in New Bavaria, Henry County, on November 4, 1872, to George and Theresa (Metz) Hesselschwardt, he was part of a large family. At the age of 25, he enlisted to participate in the Spanish-American War. It was a short service and he mustered out with his company in May, 1898. On June 23, 1898, he reenlisted for the Philippine-American War/ Philippine Insurrection.

Many of Joseph's letters are marked Cebu, the yellow area above.

In December of 1898, the Treaty of Paris was signed giving the U.S. power over the Philippines. This was not acceptable to most Filipinos, and in January 1899, the Philippine Nationalists declared independence. The fighting began on February 4, 1899, with the Battle of Manila. Many rules of war were broken by both sides. The Filipinos used guerilla warfare for the most part, wearing peasant clothes instead of uniforms, so they could not easily be detected, and depended on quick strikes. It was a challenge for the Americans. The war officially ended in 1902 when the Philippine Organizational Act was passed which allowed for an Assembly to be formed and granted the islands' independence. Two world wars stood in the way of actually accomplishing this, until 1942 when the Treaty of Manila under Theodore Roosevelt completed the independence plan.

Wounded American soldiers in the Philippines

Joseph reenlisted three times, beginning in June 1898 and his last between September 30, 1902, and September 2, 1905. He was not always in the Philippines during his last years; we know he resided in Vancouver, Washington in 1903 when he married Ida Diemer. He was 31 at the time, occupation Soldier, and she was 19 with a residence in New Bavaria. Ida was the daughter of Henry and Kate (Ritz) Diemer

"WILL WED IN THE WEST

Miss Ida Diemer, of New Bavaria, who has been visiting in this city (Defiance), left this morning for Vancouver, Washington, where early next week, she will be united in marriage to Joseph Hasselswerth, a former Defiance boy.

The groom is a cousin of George Hasselswerth, of this city. He has been in the service of the United States army for the past five years. He is now Corporal of his company. Mr. Hasselswerth was also a member of Company M, in the Spanish-American War."

The family moved back, probably when his enlistment ended, between 1905 and 1907. In 1910, their second and only living child, Evelyn, was two years old and had been born in Ohio. Their first son, George Heinrich Freidrich, died at the age of 3 and his birthplace is not known. The 1910 Federal Census enumerated them in Pleasant Township, Henry County, living next to Ida's widowed father, who worked in a factory, and two of her sisters who were still at home. Joseph worked as a teamster. In 1913, he applied for his military pension.

Now it was time to raise a family and that they did, having four daughters and five sons: George (deceased at 3), Evelyn, Marie, Paul (committed suicide in 1935 at 23), Leo, Lodema, Earl "Abe", Vero "Neal", Joan "Roni."

In September 1918, he was required to register for the World War I draft in Defiance at the age of 45. At that time, he was a laborer at the American Steel Package Company in Defiance. He described himself as tall with a medium build with dark brown eyes and black hair.

For at least 30 years, Joseph Hesselswardt and family lived at 119 Seneca Street in Defiance and attended St. John Catholic Church. Joseph, at one time, was vice-commander of the local V.F.W. He lived, worked hard and contributed in Defiance for the rest of his life  

Riverside Cemetery

"WAR VETERAN, 77, VICTIM OF STROKE

Defiance Man Fought in Cuba

Corporal Joseph Hesselschwardt, 77, veteran of the Spanish-American War, died Sunday at 5:07 p.m. at his home at 119 Seneca st. following a stroke and illness of several weeks.

Mr. Hesselschwardt served nine years in three enlistments in Co. M of the Sixth Ohio Volunteers and saw service in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

Last employed at the American Steel Package Co, he retired 20 years ago.

Born in New Bavaria, Nov. 5, 1872, son of George and Theresa Metz Hesselschwardt, he married Ida Diemer of New Bavaria, in Vancouver, Washington, Nov. 18, 1903.

Surviving besides the widow are four daughters, Mrs. Dennis Kilpatrick (Evelyn), Mrs. Harold Boggs (Marie), Mrs. Ed Sontchi (Lodema), all of Defiance, and Joan, at home.; three sons, Leo, Earl and Verl, of Defiance; a sister, Mrs. Mary Hutter, Buffalo, N.Y. and six grandchildren. Two sons, Paul and Fred, preceeded him in death.

VFW Post No. 3360, of which Mr. Hesselschwardt was a member, will conduct military rites. Services will be held at St. John's Catholic Church Thursday at 9:30 a.m. The body is at Smith Brothers funeral home."

(The Crescent-News, October 9, 1950, p. 8)

Other Defiance newspapers added that the burial would be at Riverside Cemetery with the VFW commanders and chaplain in charge of military rites there. The firing squad consisted of John Feasel, Frank Donley, Frank Cleases, and Frank Smith. Serving in the Color Guard were John Seither and Sam Morgan, while the buglers were Fred Greiser and William Kimberly.

The pall bearers were Angus Cowle, Gale Hale, P. W. Ryan, Kenneth Smith, Charles Young, and A.B. Fullmer.

Riverside Cemetery, Defiance, Ohio

Ida Diemer Hesselschwardt lived on until February 1970, with her daughter, Joan, on Seneca Street. The Defiance Crescent-News reported on February 11, 1970:

"MRS. IDA J. HESSELSCHWARDT

Services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday for Mrs. Ida J. Hesselschwardt, 85, 119 Seneca. She died at 8:45 p.m. Tuesday in Defiance Hospital where she was taken earlier in the day by the rescue squad. She had been in failing health for the past 10 years.

Born Nov. 18, 1884, in New Bavaria, she was the daughter of Henry and Catherine (Ritz) Diemer. On Nov. 18, 1903, she and Joseph Hesselschwardt were married in Vancouver, Wash.  He died Oct. 8, 1950.

Mrs. Hesselschwardt was a member of St. John's Catholic Church.

Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Harold (Marie) Boggs, Mrs. Evelyn Kilpatrick, Mrs. Lodema Sontchi and Miss Joan Hesselschwardt, all Defiance; three sons, Leo and Verl, Defiance, and Earl, Miamisburg; a sister, Mrs. John Hoffman, Toledo; nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were two sons; three sisters, Mrs. Amelia Bartel, Toledo, Mrs. Kate Muir and Mrs. Mary Cutcher and a brother in infancy.

Services will be held in St. John's Catholic Church with Msgr. John J. Vogel officiating and burial will follow in Riverside Cemetery. Friends may call after 7 o'clock this evening in the Rupp Funeral Home, where the Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Thursday."

**As you have noticed, the spelliing of the surname changed throughout the years, but finally seemed to land on Hesselschwardt. It was found in many forms from Hasselwerth to Hasselschwardt

**Part 2 will contain some of Joseph's letters home, edited because they were lengthy. 

Dianne Kline, Researcher

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A Drunken Fight Ends Badly in Delaware Bend - June 1911

 

When the enumerator for the Federal Census entered the village of Delaware Bend in 1910, he found the John P. Wagner family with a paid for home and a lively family of five children at home. 

Johan Peter Wagner, a son of German immigrants, and his wife Mary A. Gillium (Guilliaume), of French descent, were 48 and 45 years old, respectively then. Their oldest children, sons Millard and Oddie Orville had moved out.

Left at home in 1910 were Ethel, 18; Mabel, 16;  Clarence, 13, Marybell, 10 and Beatrice, 5. Father John worked as a carpenter on houses, and he and Mary had been married twenty-five years. The Wagners were a well-established family in the area. 

On Wednesday, July 3, 1911, their lives changed forever. The first reports appeared in the paper before the coroner had finished his inquest: 

"VIOLENT DEATH

INFLICTED IN FIGHT NEAR DELAWARE BEND

While returning to Delaware Bend from Sherwood on Monday evening...John Wagner received injuries from which he died on Wednesday evening. Little can be learned of the exact circumstance, but what can be seems to be as follows:

Al Birkmier was at Sherwood with a load of grain and Wagner left town riding on Birkmier's wagon. Some time after this, the latter appeared at The Bend and going to the residence of Rev. Father Thies, told him he had injured Wagner.

Father Thiess got up a relief party and went out along the road and found Wagner with his skull crushed. He never regained consciousness...

Birkmier is now in jail at Defiance but has little to say bearing on the subject and probably won't have until the hearing....'"

(Hicksville Tribune, July 13, 1911)

The above article appeared long after the facts had been ascertained by the coroner and his parade of witnesses that included Carl Fahy, Frank Anderson, Father Thies, Frank Limbaugh, J. P. Eiser, Dr. Reynolds and Dr. Lindersmith, Frank Shindler, and Mrs. Charles Anthony.

Frank Shindler helped set the scene for the tragedy. His testimony was printed in the Defiance Daily Crescent-News on July 11, 1911:

"...on the evening of July 3rd, I (Frank) met Berkmier at Sherwood with a load of sacks; invited me to ride home, got on the wagon, so did Wagner; stopped at Holzer's saloon where Berkmier said he had business and went in, leaving Wagner and myself in the wagon; there were ten or twelve bundles of sacks, some groceries and sugar and some loose lumber, the length of hay racks, in the wagon.

Wagner laid down on the sacks in the rear of the wagon. Berkmier remained in the saloon an hour and I got tired of holding his horses and waiting on him and left the team and walked home along the track. Wagner was lying on the sacks when I left; late in the night I was awakened by Berkmier who came into my house and said, 'Lou, go with me up the road. Jack (John) and I got into a fight; the last time I hit him he was standing up, and he fell off the wagon...he said that Wagner had thrown off his sacks, and that he had caught him as he threw off the last bundle; he then grabbed the sugar when Berkmier said he stopped him."

Berkmier told Shindler that he unhooked the team and both got off the wagon in front of the Anthony house and they had a couple fights. He hooked the wagon back up, but Wagner came at him again, so he hit Wagner so that Wagner fell off the wagon.

Mrs. Charles (Susie) Anthony, who lived two miles west of Delaware Bend, about a one and one-half miles from Sherwood, testified that she was in bed and heard the wagon because her dog barked. She heard someone strike something several times, and heard:

"A man exclaimed, D-- You! You would throw my sacks off the wagon...saw the man walk to the head of the horses and put off the neck yoke, saw this distinctly... that the team was about a hundred feet from the door; that she had a clear, unobstructed view...she heard the rattle of the rings in the neck yoke as he put it back in its place; he then got on the wagon and drove off. "

Susie Anthony didn't know what had happened until the next day when Jake Sailor and Henry Foss of Sherwood came to investigate. Then they saw two pools of blood in the road. Berkmier came to find out what she had heard the night before, but she would not answer his questions,

Dr. Lindersmith was called between 11 and midnight that night to attend to Wagner, finding him lying on the east side of the road, breathing hard. Berkmier showed up and commented that he had to do it.

That was the extent of his explanation at that point.

The body was taken to the Wagner house where Dr. Reynolds was also called. They tried to operate on the head wound, but found the skull fractured. They determined that the wound could not have been caused by a fall, but rather by a pommeling by a blunt instrument, in this case the heavy neck yoke.

On July 20, the Coroner's findings appeared in the Defiance Daily Crescent News on page 1:

"Coroner E. E. K. Chapman has filed his findings in the Berkmier case. His findings are that John Wagner came to his death through violence at the hands of Albert Berkmier, of his own admission, producing a fracture of the temporal and parietal bones of the left side of the skull with accompanying and resulting compression and complication and injury to the brain so as to produce death.

The act was committed the night of July third on the road between Sherwood and the Bend. Death resulted in forty-one hours."

Albert Berkmier, Delaware Bend, was indicted for first-degree murder by the grand jury, but pled guilty to manslaughter which was allowed by the court. The penalty was one to twenty years in the penitentiary. Albert was sentenced to the full twenty years in the Ohio Penitentiary.

Dianne Kline, Researcher

Spanish - American Soldiers - Private Haddie M. Warren

 

#7 Corporal Herman F. Bartells and #8 Private Haddie M. Warren

Private Haddix ("Haddie") M. Warren

Private Warren was given the name Haddix at birth, the maiden name of his paternal grandmother. His nickname, "Haddie," was used by many. Born in Defiance to parents, Isaac Nathan and Mary Ellen (Gooden) Warren sometime in 1875, he grew up with an older sister, Darcy D. Two other siblings died in early childhood. 

When he was 23, he enlisted into Company M on July 2, 1898, and was placed in the fourth squad, with Harry Vanhorn as his leader. He became sick that first winter and was discharged with a Surgeon's Certificate of Disability on January 8, 1899.

Then he became lost...

With no census records since 1880 in Defiance, no obituary or place of burial found anywhere, and no mentions in the newspapers, we were left with only two pieces of information.

1. Christiana Rakestraw, a Hicksville resident, named Haddie Warren in her will as next of kin, a grandnephew. Unfortunately, no one knew where he was either in 1906.

2. In 1913, at the age of 39, he was admitted to the Home for Disabled Soldiers in Leavenworth, Kansas. He was specifically identified as a Spanish-American War veteran from Defiance, Ohio.

His disabilities included lumbago (lower back pain), enteritis (an inflammation of the small intestine/stomach/colon), and chronic bronchitis. He was admitted on April 1, 1913.

His prior residence was listed as Kansas City, Missouri at admittance, with his sister, Daisy Hogan of North Baltimore, Ohio, as contact. Haddie was described as a single man, 5'9 1/2 feet tall with a ruddy complexion and brown hair and eyes. He was discharged about four months later on September 8, 1913.

From that day, no trace has been found for him in any state and all national cemeteries have been checked. If you have information to add, please email defiancegenealogy2002@yahoo.com.

Dianne Kline, Researcher

Spanish - American War Soldiers - Corporal Herman F. Bartels

 

# 7 Corporal Herman Frederich Wilhelm Bartels

Corporal Herman F. Bartels was a well-liked member of Company M, 6th O.V.I.  He enlisted as a private at the age of 22, and by November 7, 1898, had been promoted to Corporal. He was a tailor by trade, and the men generally described him as the "happy tailor."

"Herman Bartels, the practical tailor of the company, is much sought for service as we have received our uniforms, to sew the officer's stripes and lengthen and shorten the private's trousers." (Defiance Express, July 7, 1898)

"Herman Bartels, our happy tailor, is always looking for trouble and is one of us who takes things too easy to get sick." (Camp Chat, Defiance Daily Crescent, September 22, 1898)

"Herman Bartels, our happy tailor, is improving his leisure time in reading the high class literature of our regiment. So far, he has completed 'The Life of Jesse James,' Diamond Dick Jr. 'series, and is now reading the adventures of Frank Merriwell.  (Defiance Daily Crescent, October 6, 1898)

Herman was born in Defiance on January 23 1876, to Christian Wilhelm F. Bartels and Marie/ Mary S. Rieckhof. A note on a public tree (chickylava) on Ancestry noted that he was raised by the Schwable family of Defiance after he left home at 12. His father was very abusive toward him and he was forced to leave. He learned the tailoring trade at a very young age. 

When Herman came back from the Army, he was employed by the railroad as a fireman. In 1900, he lived as a single man in Lavina Stump's boarding house in Canton, Stark County; he was 23. However, by the 1910 census, he had moved to Massillon in the same county, where he lived with his wife Della and son, Clarence, age 8. He married Della Maybelle Watkins, the daughter of William and Ann (Richardson) Watkins on September 19, 1900, in Carroll County when he was 24 and she was 21. It was the first marriage for both. Clarence was born in 1904. 

It took a while to discover, but the final conclusion was that Della and  Herman divorced sometime between late 1910 and 1914. In 1922, Della remarried to George H. Williams in Ontario, Canada. George has been living in Ontario for at least fifteen days before this wedding to establish residency. She was from Cleveland. Why did they go to Canada to marry?  Here is their wedding certificate: 

(Click to enlarge.)_

Some strange things were noticed on this document. The bride was now going by Mrs. Della Watkins, calling herself a widow and using her maiden name. Someone had mistakenly written in Wm. Bartels, her former husband using one of his middle names, Wilhelm, as her father, although Ann Richardson as her mother is correct. Why the deceit?  Della died in Bedford County, PA in 1930 at the age of 51.  

In the meantime, on November 11, 1914, Herman, 37, married his second wife, Beatrice Williams, aged 20 in Dillonvale, Jefferson County. The marriage certificate verified his birth in Defiance and his occupation as a Railroader. Beatrice was the daughter of Thomas and Johanna (Ulrich) Williams.

By the Federal Census of 1920, Herman and Beatrice owned a home in Dillonvale, Jefferson County, Ohio, and Herman was a railroad engineer. They also had two sons: William F. - 3 and Howard W., 1.

Herman Bartels with sons, William Elisha and Howard Walter (Ancestry)

Even though Herman was 42, he was required to register for the World War I draft in 1918 in Jefferson County. He described himself there as tall, of medium build, with gray eyes and brown hair.

At some point, the family moved to 238 Plymouth Street in Toledo, Ohio, where they were enumerated on the 1940 census. Herman, 64, was still working 50 hours a week as a railroad engineer with a total salary of $3,000 a year. Beatrice was home with her adult sons, William, now 23, and Howard, 21. Herman was almost ready to retire.

Captioned "Bea and Herm"  (Ancestry)

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Herman died on May 1, 1954, at the age of 78, and he was buried in Toledo Memorial Park, Sylvania, Ohio.  His obituary appeared in the Toledo Blade on that same day"

"HERMAN F. BARTELS

Herman F. Bartels, 78, of 238 Plymouth St., died today in St. Charles Hospital after a 9 month illness.

Born in Defiance, Mr. Bartels lived in Toledo 30 years. He was an engineer for the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad 44 years, retiring in 1941.

A veteran of the Spanish-American War, he was a member of the Veterans Railroad Organization, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Smithfield Lodge, F & AM, Smithfield, Ohio

Surviving are his wife Beatrice U.; sons Clarence - Bedford, William E. - Phoenix, Ariz. and Howard W., - Toledo; six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Services will be Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Eggleston Meinert Mortuary. Burial will be in the mortuary. The body will be in the mortuary after noon tomorrow.

Twelve years later, Beatrice died on March 9, 1966, while living in the Toledo area. Also in the Toledo Blade:

"BEATRICE BARTELS

Mrs. Beatrice U. Bartels, 70, died today in the home of her son, Howard W. Bartels, 5859 Summit St., Sylvania.

Born in Dillonvale, O., Mrs. Bartels lived in the Toledo area since 1924. She was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

Also surviving are her son, William E., of San Francisco, and three grandchildren.

The body will be in the Reeb Mortuary, Sylvana, after 7 o'clock tonight. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday in the mortuary, with burial in Toledo Memorial Park."

Dianne Kline, Researcher