Philip Vollrath

From the Marysville Tribune February 18, 1931

MR. VOLLRATH DIED TUESDAY

WELL-KNOWN UNION TOWNSHIP FARMER SUCCUMBED FUNERAL SERVICES FRIDAY

Philip Vollrath, aged 76 years, well-known Union Township farmer, died Tuesday evening of kidney trouble and complications. He had been failing in strength for several months.

He was born in Darby township February 25, 1854, and had lived in the vicinity of Chuckery all of his life. He was a son of Adam and Elizabeth Weidman Vollrath. His parents were natives of Germany. He was married to Anna Barbara Rausch, February 28, 1878.

Besides his wife, there remain three children, George Vollrath, Mrs. Margaret Doellinger, Mrs. Martin Bunsold, all of near Chuckery; a brother, John Vollrath, and step-sister, Mrs. Casper Buck (spelling?), reside in Marysville. A brother, Adam Vollrath, and two sisters, Mrs. George Doellinger and Mrs. Katherine Kile, are deceased. Two sisters also died in infancy. Mr. Vollrath was a charter member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at Chuckery.

Funeral services Friday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the residence, and at 2 o’clock at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, officiated by the Rev. C. J. Waccholz and interment in St. Paul’s cemetery in charge of L. H. Miller, funeral director of Marysville.