George Casper Rausch

From the Evening Tribune January 22, 1948

DEATH CLAIMS AGED CITIZEN

George Casper Rausch, 91, retired farmer of Milford center, Route 1, died last evening at the home of his son, of a cerebral hemorrhage following a stroke last Saturday.

He was in Union County on September 23, 1856, to George and Margaret (Gase) Rausch and was married on October 17, 1880, at St. John’s to the former Mary Bunsold, who died in 1883. He was married to the former Margaret Streng on November 23, 1884,. at St. John's. His second wife died in July of 1940. He was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church.

Survivors include a son by the first marriage, John Frank, and four sons and two daughters by the second: Daniel G., Edward, Walter, and Louis, and Mrs. Rosina Nicol and Mrs. Laura Kleiber; thirty grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. Mrs. Emma Mayer, Mrs. Lydia Ell and Edward, children by the first marriage, are deceased, as are five brothers and three sisters.

Funeral services are to be conducted on Saturday afternoon by the Rev, Carl E. Zehner at 1:30 o'clock at the residence and at 2 o'clock at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Burial will be in John's Lutheran cemetery.