1-3-1916
Adam Leis
Aged Resident Is Summoned
Adam Leis, For Fifty Years a Resident OF Ottoville, Passed To Great Beyond Monday Evening, Death Following a Paralytic Stroke – Was Well Known Throughout Putnam County
Adam Leis, well known throughout Putnam County and a pioneer resident, died at the family home two and a half miles west of Ottoville Monday evening, at 11 o’clock. Mr. Leis was stricken with paralysis about noon Monday, but his condition was not considered serious and his death came quite unexpectedly.
The deceased was born in Schmiweiler, Bavaria, on August 28, 1834, and was past 81 years old. He came to America at the age of seventeen years and located in Sandusky, coming from there to Ottoville about fifty years ago. On September 15, 1863, the deceased was united in marriage to Catherine Miller, at Sandusky, and for more than fifty-two years Mr. and Mrs. Leis traveled life’s pathway together.
To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Leis were born thirteen children, five of whom have preceded their father in death. Surviving are the wife, one brother, Paul Leis, Sandusky, and eight children, Peter, Joseph, John, Michael, and Charles, all of Ottoville; Mrs. Mary Sellet, Mrs. William Shumacher, and Miss Rosa Leis, Dayton.
Funeral services over the remains will be held at the Immaculate Conception church at Ottoville Friday morning at 8:30 o’clock, and interment in the Catholic Cemetery at that place.
Adam Leis
Aged Resident Is Summoned
Adam Leis, For Fifty Years a Resident OF Ottoville, Passed To Great Beyond Monday Evening, Death Following a Paralytic Stroke – Was Well Known Throughout Putnam County
Adam Leis, well known throughout Putnam County and a pioneer resident, died at the family home two and a half miles west of Ottoville Monday evening, at 11 o’clock. Mr. Leis was stricken with paralysis about noon Monday, but his condition was not considered serious and his death came quite unexpectedly.
The deceased was born in Schmiweiler, Bavaria, on August 28, 1834, and was past 81 years old. He came to America at the age of seventeen years and located in Sandusky, coming from there to Ottoville about fifty years ago. On September 15, 1863, the deceased was united in marriage to Catherine Miller, at Sandusky, and for more than fifty-two years Mr. and Mrs. Leis traveled life’s pathway together.
To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Leis were born thirteen children, five of whom have preceded their father in death. Surviving are the wife, one brother, Paul Leis, Sandusky, and eight children, Peter, Joseph, John, Michael, and Charles, all of Ottoville; Mrs. Mary Sellet, Mrs. William Shumacher, and Miss Rosa Leis, Dayton.
Funeral services over the remains will be held at the Immaculate Conception church at Ottoville Friday morning at 8:30 o’clock, and interment in the Catholic Cemetery at that place.
1-3-1916
Adam Leis
Aged Resident Is Summoned
Adam Leis, For Fifty Years a Resident OF Ottoville, Passed To Great Beyond Monday Evening, Death Following a Paralytic Stroke – Was Well Known Throughout Putnam County
Adam Leis, well known throughout Putnam County and a pioneer resident, died at the family home two and a half miles west of Ottoville Monday evening, at 11 o’clock. Mr. Leis was stricken with paralysis about noon Monday, but his condition was not considered serious and his death came quite unexpectedly.
The deceased was born in Schmiweiler, Bavaria, on August 28, 1834, and was past 81 years old. He came to America at the age of seventeen years and located in Sandusky, coming from there to Ottoville about fifty years ago. On September 15, 1863, the deceased was united in marriage to Catherine Miller, at Sandusky, and for more than fifty-two years Mr. and Mrs. Leis traveled life’s pathway together.
To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Leis were born thirteen children, five of whom have preceded their father in death. Surviving are the wife, one brother, Paul Leis, Sandusky, and eight children, Peter, Joseph, John, Michael, and Charles, all of Ottoville; Mrs. Mary Sellet, Mrs. William Shumacher, and Miss Rosa Leis, Dayton.
Funeral services over the remains will be held at the Immaculate Conception church at Ottoville Friday morning at 8:30 o’clock, and interment in the Catholic Cemetery at that place.
Adam Leis
Aged Resident Is Summoned
Adam Leis, For Fifty Years a Resident OF Ottoville, Passed To Great Beyond Monday Evening, Death Following a Paralytic Stroke – Was Well Known Throughout Putnam County
Adam Leis, well known throughout Putnam County and a pioneer resident, died at the family home two and a half miles west of Ottoville Monday evening, at 11 o’clock. Mr. Leis was stricken with paralysis about noon Monday, but his condition was not considered serious and his death came quite unexpectedly.
The deceased was born in Schmiweiler, Bavaria, on August 28, 1834, and was past 81 years old. He came to America at the age of seventeen years and located in Sandusky, coming from there to Ottoville about fifty years ago. On September 15, 1863, the deceased was united in marriage to Catherine Miller, at Sandusky, and for more than fifty-two years Mr. and Mrs. Leis traveled life’s pathway together.
To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Leis were born thirteen children, five of whom have preceded their father in death. Surviving are the wife, one brother, Paul Leis, Sandusky, and eight children, Peter, Joseph, John, Michael, and Charles, all of Ottoville; Mrs. Mary Sellet, Mrs. William Shumacher, and Miss Rosa Leis, Dayton.
Funeral services over the remains will be held at the Immaculate Conception church at Ottoville Friday morning at 8:30 o’clock, and interment in the Catholic Cemetery at that place.
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