This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ABEL, PFLIEGER, BESTE, WALTERS, BROWN Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2EC.2ACE/2771 Message Board Post: Obituary of Hortense Abel nee Pflieger Source: Wausau Record Herald, Friday July 19, 1929 edition, pg. 4 Located at the Wausau Public library. "Mrs. Hortense Abel, nee Gerrick, (NOTE: this is incorrect. She was a Pflieger) a pioneer resident of Rothschild, passed away this morning at 3:00 o’clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ray Beste of Rothschild, after an illness of a day. Funeral services are to be conducted Monday morning at 9:oo o’clock at St. Mary’s church, the Rev. Father J.R. Hauck officiating, and burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. The deceased was born in Alsace-Loraine, France, March 4, 1850, where she lived until she was sixteen years of age. At that time she moved to Paris with her family and during her residence there witnessed the siege by Napoleon in 1870 about which she had told many interesting stories to her children and friends. Shortly after the Paris battle she came to the United States and lived for years at Cincinnati. She was married in Covington, Kentucky, in 1876 to John Abel who then operated a tobacco plantation near that city. After residing in Kentucky a few years the couple returned to Cincinnati where they made their home until moving to Rothschild forty-six years ago. They were among the first settlers in the Rothschild vicinity. Mr. Abel passed away at Rothschild in 1908. Mrs. Abel was a member of the Christian Mothers and St. Elizabeth societies of St. Mary’s church and a member of the War Mothers. Surviving are six children, Paul Abel of Halder and Leo and John Abel, Mrs. Ray Beste, Mrs. Frank Walters and Mrs. Thomas Brown of Rothschild: twety-five grandchildren and one great-grandchild." If anyone has a connection or information on this family, I would appreciate hearing from you. Kathleen