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- Butler County Press (David City, Nebr.), April 27, 1904, p. 8, col. 4
HENRY EITING DEAD.
Henry Eiting of Center Township, who died last Wednesday night, April 27th, of typhoid fever, was born in Brown county, Wisconsin, July 2, 1864, and [at] the time of his death was aged 39 years, 9 months and 25 days.
He moved to Butler county with his parents in 1879, when a lad of fourteen years. He was married to Anna Brochtrup September 5, 1903. This was purely a love match, and as they were not blessed with children, all affection was lavished on each other.
The funeral services were conducted from St. Francis Church in Center, at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, April 30th. Rev. Father Bex of Falls City was Celebrant Priest, being assisted by Rev. Father Caraher of David City; Hoffman, Luxemburg; Barden, St. Francis; McKenna, of Nebraska.
Mr. Eiting was conscious to the last moment, and was perfectly reconciled. He died as a Christian only dies hopeful, with perfect faith - troubled only about the comfort of the loved ones he was leaving behind, advising them not to weep for him.
He was anxious that his oldest brother, William, who lives in Wisconsin, should get to his bedside before he died. William arrived an hour ahead of death.
He died without suffering, and passed away as if going to sleep. He had picked out his own pall bearers, and made all the necessary arrangements for his own funeral, een to the spot in the cemetery where he desired his body to rest.
Three brothers and four sisters remain out of a family of fifteen children, to mourn the loss of a good man and affectionate brother.
Early in the winter Mr. Eiting took his wife to New Mexico for the benefit of her health, and especially as her ailment was pronounced by her physician tuberculosis, and the death of Mr. Eiting falls with peculiar force on his devoted wife, who feels that her husband sacrificed his life for her.
To the many friends of Mr. Eiting, his passing into the spirit land comes as a personal loss, because his affectionate nature did not stop with his own family, but reached out to his friends and neighbors. He was true to his moral ideals, faithful to his friends, and charitably disposed to all, The world gains a new hope for its faith in the immortality of the soul when a righteous man dies.
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1864 - 1904 (39 years)