This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sittler, Reineke, Kern, Coliver, Winant, Heck, Gicker Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kg.2ADI/1791 Message Board Post: Pike Co. Democrat, Pittsfield, Pike, IL, March 9, 1910: "August Sittler, a pioneer of this city, where he had resided for over fifty years, died at the family home on North Monroe street, Sunday night, aged nearly 74 years. Mr. Sittler had been quite feeble and in poor health for the past year or two and by his last illness, a complication of diseases, was confined to his bed for several weeks before death relieved him of his sufferings. The deceased was born in Huelenthal, Prussia, June 15, 1836, and came to this country in 1853, stopping at Quincy and from there went to Kingston, then to Perry, and in 1858 to Pittsfield, where he has since resided and been engaged in conducting a shoe shop. He was married in 1861 to Caroline Reineke, and to this union 10 children were born, by all of whom and their mother, he is survived, his being the first death that has occurred in this large family. Of the children, all of whom are grown, there are three sons and seven daughters, all r! esiding in this place. In addition to their own ten children, the deceased and wife took Dan Reineke, a nephew, when a small child, and reared him to manhood. The children are as follows: Frank, Charles and Elmer Sittler; Mesdames Lizzie Kern, Hannah Kern, Nora Coliver, Nellie Winant, Ada Heck and the Misses Leta and Mildred Sittler. Funeral services, at which Rev. H. W. Brandt officiated, were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the house and at 2:30 at the German M.E. church, of which he had been a devout member for many years. He leaves one brother and one sister, both of whom were present at the funeral; they are Christopher Sittler and Mrs. Julia Gicker, both of Kingston, IL." (I am not related to this person.)