Engel Poppen Plucker Obituary

 OBITUARY

 

ENGEL PLUCKER

 

August 12, 1838 – September 4, 1915

 

Miss Engel Poppen was born August 12, 1838 at Suurhusen, Ostfriesland, Germany, and died September 4, 1915 and was seventy-seven years and twenty-three days of age at the time of death.

            She was united in marriage to Mr. Menne Plucker on April 18, 1866, who still survives her.

            The young couple came to America a short time after their marriage and lived in Illinois from 1866 until some time in 1872 when they moved to Iowa living in that state until the year 1878 when they immigrated to Dakota, settling on a farm four miles northeast of Chancellor and upon which her and her husband have lived continuously up to the time of her death.

            She leaves to mourn her loss her aged husband seven children – all married, forty-two grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends.

            She was an every day Christian, being a faithful member of the Germantown Presbyterian Church from the time it was organized twenty-eight years ago until her death.  The beautifying influences of a pure religion were spread over a life and character as spotless and charming as was ever possessed by any of the noble women who have lived and died during the ages that are gone.  As such a life was a blessing and benefaction to all within the sphere of its influence so is the death of such as an irreparable loss to the home circle made desolate by her departure.  It is difficult to pay a fitting tribute to the memory of so noble a woman – one whose every day life was embellished by the most charming and lovable attributes of her sex.

            She could tell many interesting incidents of early pioneer experience with the Indians, the old time Dakota blizzards and other hardships through which she passed.