Mr. and Mrs. Peters came to this country in 1873, first living at Lake View, Chicago, then at Kouts, Ind., and later at Lowell, Ind.
Rudolph Peters died June 2, 1908, at the age of 66 years, while the family was residing on a farm near Lowell, and was buried in Lowell cemetery.
After the death of her husband, Mrs. Peters lived with her married daughters. Mrs. Peters has been ailing for a year and a half and was not able any more to go to church, but she kept on fostering her religious life by reading her hymn book and by prayer.
Shortly before her end the hymn "Who knows how near my end may be" was read to her, and that seemed to give her much satisfaction and comfort. The closing verse of that hymn reads as follows"
And this I live in God at peace,
And die without a thought of fear,
Content to take what God decrees;
For through His Son my faith is clear,
His grace shall be in death, my stay,
And peace shall bless my dying day.
And so Mrs. Peters fell asleep in Jesus May 17th at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Leinen, at Argo, Ill., aged 78 years, 1 month and 20 days.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. A.H. Lange, of the Zion Lutheran church, of Summit, Ill., and the burial took place in the Lowell cemetery on May 20.
Those to mourn her loss are: Her children -- Mrs. Mary Leinen, of Argo, Ill., Henry Peters, of Crown Point, Miss Anna Peters, of Chicago, and Mrs. Bert Westbay, of Warren, Ohio; a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Alten, of Chicago, and four grand children.
One of the sons of Mrs. Peters, Rudolph, died in infancy, and her daughter Emma, wife of Jesse Daum, died in 1924, at the age of 45 years.
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