Left Nine Children

LEFT NINE CHILDREN

Sad Death of the Mother of Nine Young Children.

Grip has claimed many victims but the last one Friday was peculiarly sad. This morning at 4 o'clock Anna Maria, the wife of William Hoeft, 503 W. Jefferson st., died leaving her husband and nine children, the oldest 15 years old and the youngest a baby three months old. The funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Bethlehem church, Rev. John Neumann officiating.

Mrs. Hoeft was born July 8, '60, in Ebbhausen, Obr Amt Nagold, Wurtemberg, Germany, and was the daughter of Adam Spathelf. She with her parents immigrated to America in '69 settling in the township of Freedom. She was married to William Hoeft Mar. 23, '82. Her husband, and nine children, William, Albert, Frederic, Lydia, Henry, Olga, Oswald, Clara and the baby, her mother, Frederick and Helena, wife of George Krause and Christina, of Toledo, Margaret, wife of Christian Klatz and Jacob, of Freedom, brothers and sisters, survive her. She was a faithful wife and mother, and her large family will greatly miss her. Her afflicted husband has no near relatives in this country which makes the finding of suitable help in his family all the more difficult. He has the sympathy of his friends.