This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lau, Heinke Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/165 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, January 22, 1917 ANOTHER CASS COUNTY PIONEER PASSES AWAY Another of the pioneer residents of Cass County and one of its best beloved citizens passed from the ranks of the living on Wednesday, January 17th, when C.F. LAU passed away at his home in Murdock after an illness covering some duration. Mr. Lau had attained the ripe old age of eighty-four years, three months and two days at the time he was called from his earthly activities. There are few men in the county who possessed the confidence and esteem of his associates as did Mr. Lau during his long residence in Cass county and very few whose death was more sincerely mourned throughout the community than was that of this sturdy pioneer. The funeral services were held on Saturday from the Lutheran church at Murdock where Mr. Lau had been such a faithful attendant for many years. C.F. LAU was born September 22, 1832, in [looks like] Cokin, Germany, and on June 2, 1857 came to America, settling first in Illinois and later in Wisconsin. In the year 1873, he removed to Nebraska and has made his home here since that time engaging in farming on the fine land of Cass county and rearing his family in this community. Mr. Lau was united in marriage to Miss Maria HEINKE in Wisconsin in the fall of 1857. The wife preceeded him in death on November 28, 1901. To this union there were born fourteen children, two of whom have passed away and twelve left to mourn the loss of the kind and loving father and are, Charles, William, Emil, Louis, Ferdinand, Fred, Sarah, Alice, Maria, Augusta, Anna and Martha. Forty-eight grandchildren and twenty-four great grandchildren are also left to mourn his death. Mr. Lau also leaves two sisters surviving him. One of whom resides in Germany and the other in Washington. He was all his life a member of the Lutheran church and one of the founders of the congregation at Murdock and the oldest member of the church, serving during the years past as elder and treasurer of the church.