Wilhelmine Schwartz Wenzel was born in Germany. A.D. 1853. At two years of age she removed with her parents to Iowa. In 1873 she was united in matrimony with Charles Wenzel and their marriage was blessed with ten children all of whom still live to hold the memory of her sacred; one daughter being married and living in Audubon county. Her death came quite suddenly from heart failure. May 6th, at 3 a.m. Although she had been in poor health for some time it was supposed that she was improving in health.

Another home is left disconsolate. A gentle wife and loving mother's place about the hearth stone can never again be filled: and as the father gathers his motherless children about him - she is not there - then it is that their heart strings will seem almost to break, and no word that human tongue may utter can alleviate the pain.

Friends sympathy may out in all possible fullness but the vacancy in the hearts of the bereaved ones is yet unfilled. A time alone can heal the wounds made by that stern reaper who is no respecter of person. Such is the fate of all.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. M. Bruggeman at the Evangelical Lutheran church where congregated some five hundred friends and relatives to pay their last respects to an old neighbor. The text selected were the last words of Paul in the seventh and eighth verses of the fourth chapter of Timothy II. The procession formed, was composed of some twenty odd teams that followed the remains to its final resting place at the Nishnabotna Cemetery.