ALICE GRINDROD GERMAN

MRS. N.B. GERMAN DIED AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY SUNDAY, JUNE 30, AT 2 O’CLOCK P.M. AFTER AN ILLNESS WHICH HAD LASTED SEVEN MONTHS.  HER DEATH WAS DUE TO COMPLICATION OF DISEASES, AND DURING THE LAST FEW MONTHS OF HER SICKNESS HER SUFFERING WAS INTENSE.  SHE WAS BORN IN ST. LOUIS, MO.  JULY 5, 1846, HER MAIDEN NAME BEING ALICE GRINDROD. SHE WAS 54 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AND 25 DAYS OLD.  ON FEBRUARY 20, 1861 SHE WAS MARRIED IN BURLINGTON TO HORACE G. HALL.   THEY CAME TO RINGGOLD COUNTY ABOUT THIRTY YEARS AGO.  TO THEM WERE BORN NINE CHILDREN, OF WHOM FIVE ARE LIVING-MRS. A.G. OSGOOD AND MRS. W. H. STILES OF MOUNT AYR; MRS. ELMER GERMAN OF LOTTS CREEK TOWNSHIP; ED H. HALL OF MOUNT AYR; AND CURTIS HALL OF LOTTS CREEK TOWNSHIP.  MR. HALL DIED ON MARCH 12, 1892 AND SHE WAS MARRIED A SECOND TIME ON JUNE 8, 1894, TO N.B. GERMAN WHO SURVIVES.  MRS. GERMAN HAD BEEN A MEMBER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH SINCE EARLY CHILDHOOD AND WAS A FAITHFUL CHRISTIAN.  THE FUNERAL WAS CONDUCTED FROM THE RESIDENCE MONDAY AFTERNOON AT 2 O’CLOCK BY REV. PVD VEDDER, AND THE INTERMENT WAS IN ROSE HILL CEMETERY.