JACOB KORTUM PASSES AWAY AFTER LONG ILLNESS.

Funeral Services Held Sunday at the Manning Opera House.

Jacob George Kortum was born in Lepkenhofen, Isle of Fehrmarn, Germany, March 11 (11 was crossed out in pen and 4 was written on original clipping - 4th is correct according to tombstone), 1846, and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. George Dammann, August 7, 1919, aged 73 years, 5 months and 3 days.

Beginning at about 15 years of age he sailed the seas as an able seaman and visited many parts of the world on voyages that lasted sometimes for a year. His was no easy life, sheltered and soft, but a life in the open with storms to fight, dangers to face and hard work to do.

In Landbirchen, Germany, December 12, 1867; he was married to Johanna Rehr, and to this union was born 13 children, four of whom died in infancy.

May 9, 1881, they came to America with a family of eight children the oldest but 11 years of age. Boldly striking out into the west they came to Walnut, Iowa. Here they stayed about five years and then moved to a farm south of Manning in 1886. Here he has lived, asking no odds of anyone, working hard and treating his fellows with the same courtesy he asked for himself. When times were hard and little to be had, he denied himself that his family might have enough to eat.

On September 19, 1915, his good wife partner of his toil, his joys and sorrows, passed into the great beyond and since that time he has made his home with his daughters, Mrs. Anna Fritz and Mrs. Rosie Dammann. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Hartivig of Fort Worth, and Mrs. de Bore of Galveston, Texas, and by nine children, 34 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. The children are as follows: Jacob F. Kortum of Ottumwa, Mrs. Anna Fritz of Manning, Peter Kortum of Worthington, Minnesota, Mrs. Meta Schafenburg of Sioux City, Mrs. Hanna Evers of Wheatland, Wyoming, Fred Kortum, Mrs. Emma Dammann and Mrs. Rose Dammann of Manning, and Mrs. Marie Freetly of Lake City, Iowa,

The funeral services were conducted in the Manning Opera House (Opera House was scratched out on original clipping) by the Rev. W. H. Meredith of the Methodist Church and interment was in the Manning Cemetery.

Brusque and rough on the exterior like a typical sailor, he was as kind hearted and obliging a neighbor as any could wish. So passed another of the early settlers. For the past two years he has suffered much and it is devoutly to be wished that he may now have a sweet and tranquil rest.
W.H.M.

CARD OP THANKS
We desire to express our sincere and heartfelt thanks to all those who so kindly assisted us in the illness and death of our kind and beloved father, Jacob George Kortum.
The children.


Jacob Kortum is buried in the Manning City Cemetery.
Section C Row #13 north - south.