Obituary. Elsa (Fredriksen) ROE (1844-1910). "The Grim Reaper at Work," Jackson Republic (19 Aug 1910), p. 5, col. 6. Image courtesy of Verla Williams.
The Grim Reaper at Work.
A death that takes a loving' wife and mother from the home circle, occurred on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Aug. 11th, when Mrs. Andrew Roe passed peacefully away at her home in Enterprise township. She had been ailing for about three years but until the past three weeks was her illness of any serious nature.
Mrs. Andrew Roe was born in Norway, on Nov. 9, 1844, and immigrated to this country with her parents in 1857, settling in Wisconsin. In 1857 she was married to Andrew Roe, and to this union five children were born, four boys and one girl, all living but the eldest, a son, who died about twenty years ago. In 1868 the deceased with her husband came to.Minneaota and took up a homestead in Jackson county in Enterprise township, where they have made their home ever since.
She was a good Christian woman and a member of the Norwegian Evangelical church, and by her womanly qualities and pure life made a host of friends who with the sorrowing relatives are. left to mourn her departure from among them. A devoted wife and mother has gone to her final rest. She leaves a husband, four children and seven grand children.
The funeral services were held in this city in the Norwegian Lutheran church on Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. A. L. Wiek, of Minneapolis. The remains were interred in Riverside cemetery.
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