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John Gottlieb Kummer

Birth	:	14 Sep 1850 Switzerland
Death	:	24 Oct 1931 Columbus, Platte County, Nebraska, USA
Burial	:	Frankston Cemetery, Frankston, Frankston City, Australia
Coordinate	:	-38.1475230, 145.1342170
Description	:	KUMMER--J.G. KUMMER, GRUETLI PIONEER, PASSES AWAY AT FAMILY HOME HERE - Was Successful Farmer and Resident of County More Than 60 Years; Funeral Tomorrow Following an illness of several months' duration, John G. Kummer, 81, resident of Platte county for more than 60 years and for many years a prominent farmer in the Gruetli neighborhood in Loup township, passed away at his home, 1060 Twenty-first avenue, at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. Death was due to uremia. Mr. Kummer had been in failing health since early spring, but was able to be up and about the house and lawn... Read More	KUMMER--J.G. KUMMER, GRUETLI PIONEER, PASSES AWAY AT FAMILY HOME HERE - Was Successful Farmer and Resident of County More Than 60 Years; Funeral Tomorrow Following an illness of several months' duration, John G. Kummer, 81, resident of Platte county for more than 60 years and for many years a prominent farmer in the Gruetli neighborhood in Loup township, passed away at his home, 1060 Twenty-first avenue, at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. Death was due to uremia. Mr. Kummer had been in failing health since early spring, but was able to be up and about the house and lawn daily until four weeks ago when he beame bedfast. He was born on Sept. 14, 1850, in Canton Berne, Switzerland, one of a family of six children. When he was 18 years old, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kummer, decided to migrate with their family to America to make their home. Upon arrival on the eastern coast, they came directly to Columbus, and then went to the Gruetli neighborhood, homesteading a farm seven miles northwest of Duncan. Here he assisted his father with the farming until he attained his majority, when he homesteaded for himself an 80-acre tract of land one mile north of the home place. Farming alone there, he applied himself diligently to his work and in the course of a few years was on the road to financial independence. On Mar. 29, 1884, he married Miss Marie Egger. In the years that ensued, emulating together the true pioneer spirit of thrift and hard work, they won enviable success and increased their land holdings around the original homestead to 520 acres. Mr. Kummer was preceded in death by Mrs. Kummer, who passed away on May 10, 1903. For ten years after her death, he remained on the farm and then, in 1913, he turned the mangement of the farm over to his two eldest sons, John, jr., and William Kummer, and retired from active farm life. Since that time he has made his home in Columbus with his two daughters, Misses Pauline and Ida Kummer. Besides the two daughters here and the two sons on the farm, he is survived by another daughter, Mrs. Chris Boss, of Silver Creek; one son, Arthur Kummer of Columbus; one sister, Mrs. Rosetta Schneider, of Columbus, and nine grandchildren. Throughout the years he spent upon the farm in the Gruetli neighborhood, Mr. Kummer took an active part in the development and civic life in the community. He served as assessor in Loup township for more than 20 years and was treasurer of the school board in his home district for a number of years. Always a man of high ideals and sterling honesty, he was respected and held in highest esteem by all who knew him. He was a devout member of the Evangelical church both at Gruetli and later, in Columbus. Following a brief prayer service at the family home at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow, the funeral services will be held at the Evangelical Protestant church here at 2 p.m. tomorrow, Rev. J.H. Steger, the pastor officiating. The funeral cortege will then proceed to the Gruetli cemetery where burial will be made. The body will lie in state at the Gass funeral home this evening and at the church tomorrow from 9 a.m. until the hour of the funeral. COLUMBUS DAILY GELEGRAM, 26 October 1931 Info donated by: Find A Grave contributor Jane Farrell

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John Gottlieb Kummer death on 24 Oct 1931 in Columbus, Platte County, Nebraska, USA
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Latitude: -38.1475230
Longitude: 145.1342170

Family Members:

Parent

Samuel Kummer

(1821 - 1874)

Spouse

Mary Eward Egger Kummer

(1859 - 1903)

Siblings

William Kummer

(1852 - 1921)

Mary Kummer Scherrer

(1858 - 1883)

Jacob Kummer

(1859 - 1872)

Children

John Gerald Kummer Sr.

(1886 - 1974)

Martha M. Kummer Boss

(1887 - 1978)

William Wilhelm Kummer

(1889 - 1962)

Arthur William Kummer

(1893 - 1987)

Matilda M Kummer

(1899 - 1901)

Ida E Kummer

(1899 - 1946)

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