Fiegenbaum, Lizette Clara

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• Census: May 1870, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA
• Census: Jul 1870, Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, USA
• Census: Jun 1880, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA

Notes:

Birth:
Depending on the source, the name of this person might be Lizeett Clara or Clara Lizette. Lizette might be spelled with either a "z" or an "s;" or perhaps two of those letters. For the time being I am without a definitive, authoritative answer to how this person should be called.

Census:
According to the 1870 enumeration, the household consisted of Henry, age 50, a minister; Clara, age 47, at home; Mary, age 19, at home; Carri, age 17, at home; George, age 16, a clerk; Anna, age 13, at home; Minnie, age 11, at home; Legette, age 9, at home; Louis Deitch, age 26, a dry goods merchant; and Mike Connelly, age 22, a clerk.

Census:
According to the 1870 enumeration, the household consisted of Henry, age 50, clergyman of the Methodist church, and a citizen of the USA; Clara, age 46, keeping house; Mary, age 20, blind; Carrie, age 17; George, age 15, in school; Anna, age 13, in school; Minnie, age 11, in school; and Lizzetta, age 8, in school.

Census:
According to the 1880 enumeration, the household, living on 4th Street, in St. Joseph, consisted of Henry Fiegenbaum, age 60, married, minister; Clara, age 56, wife, married, keeping house; Mary, age 29, daughter, single,at home; George, age 25, son, single, doctor; Annie, age 23, daughter, single, at home; Minnie, age 20, daughter, single, at home; and Lizzette, age 18, daughter, single, at home.

Buried:
The funeral service was held at the family home and at the German Methodist Episcopal Church on 9 February. Lizette was buried at Mount Mora Cemetery on 13 February in Section/Range 6; Block 3; Lot 4.

Died:
According to cemetery records, Lizette died of malarial entercolitis.
     The following is a transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Mrs. Fred Neudorff which she reported had appeared on 7 February 1892, in the St. Joseph Herald, of St. Joseph, Missouri.

"At 6:45 a.m. yesterday, Mrs. Fred Neudorff died at her home, 1701 Levee Street, after an illness lasting two weeks. Mrs. Neudorff was 30 years of age, was a daughter of Rev. H. Fiegenbaum, an old and well known minister of the German M. E. Church, and the greater part of his life was passed in St. Joseph. About twelve years ago she was united in marriage to Mr. Fred Neudorff, well and favorably known in business circles, and now at the head of the Neudorff Hardware Company. Three children, one boy and two girls, blessed the union, and the family circle, now rudely shattered by death, was one of the happiest in all St. Joseph. Aside from her own family, the father and mother, a sister and a brother of Mrs. Neudorff live in St. Joseph, and a sister, Mrs. Thomas Curry, resides in Oregon, Missouri. Though devoted to her home and children, she found time to make many friends, and there is an unlimited number of them to mourn her early death. The funeral will take place Tuesday at 2 p.m. from the family residence and at 2:30 from the German Methodist Church."

     The following obituary was published in the The Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Missouri) on Friday, 12 February 1892.

          Obituary.
          Neudorff.

     This spake the Master to his angel, death: "Go, then this day among my chosen, take from the choicest mine own, bring me her soul to paradise; choose one who loves her fellow-men, whose life has been a blessing to her kind - whose hearts she has made strong, whose lives are nobler for her living; fit her to rank among the angels." And the Master's will was done. These lines come to us as we are called to face another of life's bitter trials we are forced to meet; there is no other way, therefore we bow in silence.
     On Saturday morning last, February 6, 1892, Clara Lissette, daughter of Rev. H. Fiegenbaum, and wife of Fred Neudorff, of St. Joseph, crossed over to the shores of eternity.
     The deceased was born in Wapello, Iowa, March 24, 1862, and was married to Fred Neudorff, St. Joseph, September 14, 1881.
     The taking off of this truly Christian life was the first to come to the home of Rev. Fiegenbaum, in twenty-seven years, and one can well know the deep grief that is felt by this noble Christian gentleman and wife and every individual member of the family.
     The deceased professed religion early in life and united with the German M. E. church in which she lived as consistent member until the Saviour [sic] said "it is enough, come up higher."
     We in our little, silent room must say to ourselves, why is it that such must go? One so good, so kind. Her's was a life without a blemish; her every act was one of kindness; her tongue uttered no words of malice, and where it could not praise was silent. And that strong, womanly face was an index of a character of that soul who lived only that others should be happy. Self denial to her was a pleasure if it was conducive to the happiness of others, and yet, such a life must pass away. No power could stay the dark shadowy hand of death.
     This death will be deeply regretted by not only a large circle of friends in St. Joseph, but by a large number of friends in Oregon, where the deceased spent several years of her earlier life, while her father was the pastor in charge of the German M. E. church.
     The deceased leaves behind, that she may beckon to come up higher - father, mother, husband, three children, four sisters, and one brother - Mrs. Tom Curry, of this city, being a sister.
     The husband has lost by this bereavement a noble, devoted companion; the father and mother a truly Christian, daughter, the children, a faithful, loving mother, and the community a warm, sympathetic friend.
     While we, in company with a large circle of friends in Oregon, grieve, we would recall the words of the wise man: "It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting." Our loss is her "eternal weight of glory."
     The funeral services were conducted from the German M. E. church, St. Joseph, on Tuesday, 9th inst., by Revs. Ott and Bushnell, of St. Joseph, and Rev. J. Tanner, of Lincoln, and the remains were laid to rest in the vault in Mt. Mora Cemetery until spring, when a suitable lot can be selected, and the remains then laid away until the final Resurrection Day.

Lizette married Neudorff, Frederick Franklin 14 Sep 1881, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA. Frederick (son of Neudorff, Louis Otto and Arnold, Anna Mary) was born 5 Jul 1859, Platte City, Platte County, Missouri, USA; died 4 May 1940, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA; was buried 6 May 1940, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
This approximate year of birth is calculated from the statement in her father's 1898 biographical sketch that Julia was 16 years old at that time.

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Buried:
According to cemetery records, Franklin was buried at Mount Mora Cemetery, St. Joseph, Missouri on 13 October 1892 in Section/Range 6; Block 3; Lot 4. This is the same location as the interment of his mother in February 1892. There is currently no explanation for why burial took place so long after death.

Died:

     The following is a transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Franklin Grant Neudorff which she reported had appeared on 21 February 1892, in the St. Joseph Herald, of St. Joseph, Missouri.

"Franklin Grant, only son of Fred Neudorff, died at the residence of his grandfather, Rev. H. Fiegenbaum, Fifth and Auguate Streets, at 3:00 a.m. yesterday, of typhoid fever, after an illness of two weeks. Franklin was six years and six months old and was seriously ill almost from the hour of the death of his mother, which occurred two weeks ago yesterday. The funeral will take place from the Fiegenbaum residence tomorrow at 2 p.m. and services will be held at the German M. E. Church, Third and Robidoux."

Notes:

Birth:
This approximate year of birth is calculated from the statement in her father's 1898 biographical sketch that Clara was 10 years old at that time.