"Ritzville Journal-Times," Ritzville, WA, Obituaries, Rev. Henry Franz Michel, Thursday, October 16, 1924 issue.
Henry Franz Michel
Rev. Henry Franz Michel, age 70, a resident of Washington for 43 years, and pioneer of the covered wagon train days, died at 12:18 a.m. last Saturday morning October 11, at his home at Tacoma. He was a German Methodist minister and was born in Russia in the old Messer colony, where he was united in marriage to Katherine Maria Oestreich, to whom four children were born. Henry of Humboldt, South Dakota, and Lydia Hansen of Tacoma, survive. His first wife passed away at Walla Walla in 1900 after which Rev. Michel remarried to Miss Johanna Oepke of Walla Walla, who also survives him.
Rev. Michel came to America in 1876 and first settled in Kansas and Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1882 he and quite a number of pioneer Ritzville residents took their families overland to the far west, all settling near Walla Walla. Later some moved to Ritzville and started raising wheat. Rev. Michel and several families moved to Bickleton, but later they all joined at Ritzville, where Rev. Michel bought and farmed the land now owned by J. F. Koch. He also acted as German Methodist minister near Ritzville. He removed to Tacoma in 1901 and has made his home there since.
Besides those mentioned Mr. Michel is survived by one sister, Mrs. Peter Betz of Great Bend, Kansas. Burial took place at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 14th, at the Tacoma cemetery, Tacoma, Wash.
Henry Franz Michel
Rev. Henry Franz Michel, age 70, a resident of Washington for 43 years, and pioneer of the covered wagon train days, died at 12:18 a.m. last Saturday morning October 11, at his home at Tacoma. He was a German Methodist minister and was born in Russia in the old Messer colony, where he was united in marriage to Katherine Maria Oestreich, to whom four children were born. Henry of Humboldt, South Dakota, and Lydia Hansen of Tacoma, survive. His first wife passed away at Walla Walla in 1900 after which Rev. Michel remarried to Miss Johanna Oepke of Walla Walla, who also survives him.
Rev. Michel came to America in 1876 and first settled in Kansas and Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1882 he and quite a number of pioneer Ritzville residents took their families overland to the far west, all settling near Walla Walla. Later some moved to Ritzville and started raising wheat. Rev. Michel and several families moved to Bickleton, but later they all joined at Ritzville, where Rev. Michel bought and farmed the land now owned by J. F. Koch. He also acted as German Methodist minister near Ritzville. He removed to Tacoma in 1901 and has made his home there since.
Besides those mentioned Mr. Michel is survived by one sister, Mrs. Peter Betz of Great Bend, Kansas. Burial took place at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 14th, at the Tacoma cemetery, Tacoma, Wash.
"Ritzville Journal-Times," Ritzville, WA, Obituaries, Rev. Henry Franz Michel, Thursday, October 16, 1924 issue.
Henry Franz Michel
Rev. Henry Franz Michel, age 70, a resident of Washington for 43 years, and pioneer of the covered wagon train days, died at 12:18 a.m. last Saturday morning October 11, at his home at Tacoma. He was a German Methodist minister and was born in Russia in the old Messer colony, where he was united in marriage to Katherine Maria Oestreich, to whom four children were born. Henry of Humboldt, South Dakota, and Lydia Hansen of Tacoma, survive. His first wife passed away at Walla Walla in 1900 after which Rev. Michel remarried to Miss Johanna Oepke of Walla Walla, who also survives him.
Rev. Michel came to America in 1876 and first settled in Kansas and Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1882 he and quite a number of pioneer Ritzville residents took their families overland to the far west, all settling near Walla Walla. Later some moved to Ritzville and started raising wheat. Rev. Michel and several families moved to Bickleton, but later they all joined at Ritzville, where Rev. Michel bought and farmed the land now owned by J. F. Koch. He also acted as German Methodist minister near Ritzville. He removed to Tacoma in 1901 and has made his home there since.
Besides those mentioned Mr. Michel is survived by one sister, Mrs. Peter Betz of Great Bend, Kansas. Burial took place at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 14th, at the Tacoma cemetery, Tacoma, Wash.
Henry Franz Michel
Rev. Henry Franz Michel, age 70, a resident of Washington for 43 years, and pioneer of the covered wagon train days, died at 12:18 a.m. last Saturday morning October 11, at his home at Tacoma. He was a German Methodist minister and was born in Russia in the old Messer colony, where he was united in marriage to Katherine Maria Oestreich, to whom four children were born. Henry of Humboldt, South Dakota, and Lydia Hansen of Tacoma, survive. His first wife passed away at Walla Walla in 1900 after which Rev. Michel remarried to Miss Johanna Oepke of Walla Walla, who also survives him.
Rev. Michel came to America in 1876 and first settled in Kansas and Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1882 he and quite a number of pioneer Ritzville residents took their families overland to the far west, all settling near Walla Walla. Later some moved to Ritzville and started raising wheat. Rev. Michel and several families moved to Bickleton, but later they all joined at Ritzville, where Rev. Michel bought and farmed the land now owned by J. F. Koch. He also acted as German Methodist minister near Ritzville. He removed to Tacoma in 1901 and has made his home there since.
Besides those mentioned Mr. Michel is survived by one sister, Mrs. Peter Betz of Great Bend, Kansas. Burial took place at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 14th, at the Tacoma cemetery, Tacoma, Wash.
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