BORN IN: Germany
DIED: 4/21/1891
AGED: 63
CAUSE OF DEATH: Hemorrhage of brain
DEATH LOCATION: Searsville
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CURRENT EVENTS:- 1831 Reaper (Cyrus McCormick)
- 1836 Revolver (Samuel Colt)
- 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
- 1846 Mexican-American War
- 1849 California Gold Rush
- 1850 California became the 31st State
- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
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OBITUARY ---------------MRS. AUGUSTUS EIKERENKOTTER
Times Gazette
May 2, 1891
On Tuesday morning last a physician was hastily summoned to proceed to Searsville and attend upon Mrs. Augusta Eikerenkotter who had suddenly been stricken with a serious illness at the old home, now a residence of her son, George. The worst of fears were soon confirmed and she lingered speechless and apparently unconscious until half past 10 o’clock when death ensued. She had gone to join her husband and the great majority in spirit land. No longer ago than last Friday night she took a happy part in the celebration among her old friends, the “Pioneers”. Not fifteen minutes before the fatal stroke she had signified her intention to go to the home of her daughter Mrs. Otto Klump in San Francisco that day. Upon the alarm, she was found almost ready for breakfast reclining upon the floor and she never rallied from the attack. Her age was sixty four years and she leaves six children unto whom she had been an affectionate mother. She was a native of Germany and came here with her husband from El Dorado County in 1853, having resided in this county ever since.
The funeral was held Thursday afternoon starting from the home ranch at Searsville at 2 o’clock. Services were officiated by Rev. L.D. Rathbone and the Congregational Church Choir consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Dodge, Mrs. J.B. Simms and Wm. McDonald sang several appropriate selections, The pall bearers were Wm. Lloyd, Jacob Kriess and Wm. Hughes of Redwood City, John H. Sears of La Honda, Thomas Shine of Woodside, and Joseph Spaulding of Mayfield. The funeral procession which formed to accompany the remains to Union Cemetery where the interment took place was very long and testified to the high esteem to which Mrs. Eikerenkotter was held. It consisted of some sixty carriages. Services were also held at the grave. The floral pieces were exceedingly numerous including all the flowers of the season. A floral pillow and several crosses were especially noted. There survives Mrs. Eikerenkotter’s five sons Edward, Charles, Julius, Albert and George all of this county and one daughter, Mrs. Otto Klump of San Francisco.
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