HINDERK BUUS OBIT

Recently I have come into possession of some obituaries pertaining to my mother’s maternal grandparents. Most interesting to me is the phrasing of the obit writer and the addition of some unnecessary information. Here I’ve tried to put together facts along with the poetic phrases used in days gone by.

 

Hinderk Buus was the grandfather of my mother's mother. I will publish her maternal lineage shortly.

HINDERK BUUS

OBITUARY

 

The last days of the centenarian came to a close at 10:30 on Wednesday, February 22, 1911. His days of sickness were few and with little discomfort to this siren. But the burning candle of life grew fainter and fainter until the pulse failed to beat and the failure of the respiratory organs became evident to those at the bedside. The man who trod this vale for a hundred years and more, he whose every physical constitution was of the rugged type became stifled and the pallid cheek and the shrunken eye told them that he was no more. His days were grown ripe in years and his wish was and had for sometime been that he could rest and be with his Father in Heaven. Such comfort was his when death drew nearer. He was pleased when he knew that only a few more hours and there would be eternal happiness in wait for him, so near at his door, and though so aged, he was conscious to the last and congratulated on the very morning of his death, George Buus, a grandson, upon the marriage this young man was about to join in.

 

The Lutheran Church at Twixlum, Ostfriesland, Germany

Hindrick Buus was born at Twixlum, Ostfriesland, Germany [also known as Prussia] on October 25, 1810 to Herbert and Obina(?) Buus and came to this country in 1865. The first few years he spent in Illinois after which eight years were passed in Iowa, when at the close of that period he moved on to his farm near Lennox, South Dakota where he remained until his death. His wife, Antje (Anne) Seine Gattin Ailts was born March 10, 1810 also in Germany. In 1880 they lived in Pleasant Valley Township, Grundy County, Iowa. Antje died in 1889, 22 years ago this coming May. After her death, Hinderk remained, living with his son, Harm Buus.

Here the Hinderk Buus family is shown together - perhaps in front of the Harm Buus home.

 

The following are children who survive him and who were present at the funeral: Berent Buus of Lennox, Herbert Buus of Rock Rapids, Iowa, Henry Buus of Lennox, Mrs. John Meester of Rock Rapids, Iowa, and Harm Buus of Lennox. Mrs. John Haan, the oldest of the family, preceded her father in death thirty-one years to the very day of his funeral.

 

Among the numerous relatives that attended were: Mrs. John Slight of Parkersburg, Iowa, Mrs. O. Neihhuis of Aplington, Iowa, Mrs. John Haan, Jr. and C. Henrich all of Rock Rapids, Iowa. The funeral took place last Saturday at the home at 12 o’clock, conducted by Rev. A. Peterson and H. Gerdes. Interment was made in the Presbyterian Church cemetery southwest of Lennox, SD.

 

The Lennox Independent

March 3, 1911