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Idaho County
Free Press Friday, May
1, 1891 DEATH OF
A PATRIARCH JOHN
FREDERICK VON BERGE, died at
the residence of his youngest son, William Von Berge, in Grangeville, Friday,
April 24, 1891, at the advanced age of 90 years. Deceased was born in the
kingdom of Hanover, July 23, 1801. And was theretofore within three months,
lacking a day, of his 90th year. He came to the United States in 1847, and
settled in Cook Co., Illinois, where he resided until 1880, when he and his sons
came to Camas Prairie, where they have lived ever since. His two sons are J.H.
and William Von Berge, and the old gentleman lived to see his
great-grandchildren in the family of Henry Meyer. An attack of the grippe
weakened a system already enfeebled by the burden of a long, active, and useful
life, and he passed to the unknown land as peacefully as a tired child falls
asleep. Excerpt from
the book "Idaho County Voices";
"FREDERICK HENRY VON BERGE married ILSA MAGDELENA RODEHURST in
1837 in Germany.
Frederick and Ilsa's son,
John Henry von Berge, was born in Hanover, Germany, Province of Fowlingbustle,
on January 6, 1839. In 1879 Frederick Henry,
Ilsa Magdelena, John Henry and Henry Frederick (John and Sophie's son) started
to Camas Prairie, Idaho, from Chicago, Ill. Their first home was a small house a
quarter of a mile south what is now the homestead location, known today as the
Rudolph von Berge homesite. They lived on the Camas
Prairie less than a year when their home burned and they moved onto the Husaken
place a few miles west of Grangeville, near the present Grangeville Golf Course.
In that year, Ilsa Magdelena passed away."
Submitted by Chris
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