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Joseph Melchoir Ilg

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Joseph Melchoir Ilg

Birth
St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
Death
29 May 1972 (aged 73)
St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
Burial
Cremated. Specifically: Ashes scattered in the Meremac River in Missouri Add to Map
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Joseph Ilg is my great-grandfather. He worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 41 years before retiring in 1964. He started working for them in 1923 on a German imported roller press, the first of its kind west of the Mississippi.

**Information paraphrased from original obituary posted in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, date printed unknown.

He died from Cancer at the age of 73. He was cremated and his ashes were spread in the Big River.
Joseph Ilg is my great-grandfather. He worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 41 years before retiring in 1964. He started working for them in 1923 on a German imported roller press, the first of its kind west of the Mississippi.

**Information paraphrased from original obituary posted in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, date printed unknown.

He died from Cancer at the age of 73. He was cremated and his ashes were spread in the Big River.


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