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- Fond du Lac Commonwealth Reporter, Monday, January 16, 1928
Lucy Baus
COUNTY PIONEER TAKEN BY DEATH.
Mrs. M. Baus, 94, Succumbs at Home of Son In St. Cloud.
Mrs. Lucy Baus, 94, widow of Martin Baus, died Sunday at the home of her son, Valentine Baus, in St. Cloud. Mrs. Baus was born April 25, 1833, in Germany and when 18 years of age came to America, her family settling at Albany, N.Y. She was married to Martin Baus in 1863 and four years later they took up their home in the Town of Forest, where Mr. Baus died 34 years ago. In 1905 Mrs. Baus went to St. Cloud to reside with her son. She is survived by three sons, George, Valentine and Ben Baus of St. Cloud, and one daughter, Mrs. Nick Faber of Fond du Lac. She also leaves 25 grand children and 15 great-grandchildren. The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday from St. Claudius church at St. Cloud with burial at Holy Cross cemetery, Mt. Calvary, at 11:30 a.m.
Plymouth Review
Thurs. Jan. 19, 1928
St. Cloud
Mrs. Baus, Aged 95, Dies At St. Cloud
Mrs. Lucia Baus, aged 95, died Sunday, at 11:45 a.m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Val Baus, St. Cloud.
Mrs. Baus, whose maiden name was Lucia Sippel, was born April 25, 1833, in Germany. She came to America and lived in Albany, N.Y., where she was married in 1863. In 1867, she and her husband came to Wisconsin, and 1906 she came to St. Cloud to make her home with Mr. and Mrs. Val Baus.
Her husband died a number of years ago: but four children, twenty-five grandchildren, fifteen great grandchildren and one brother survive. The children are Mrs. Nic Faber, Fond du Lac, George, Val and Ben Baus of St. Cloud and the brother is Chas. Sipple, also of St. Cloud.
She was a member of the Christian Mothers society.
The funeral took place at ten o'clock yesterday morning, Jan. 17, at the Catholic church. Rev. Father Sippel officiating, with interment at Mt. Calvary.
N.B. Lucy Baus was the daughter of John Adam and Barbara Drechsler Sippel of Mt. Calvary WI. She was born in Rex (near Fulda), Hesse-Kassel, Germany on April 26, 1833. Lucy was preceded in death by a son, John Baus, and a daughter, Victoria Baus.
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