1917 Necrologist Report
(Transcribed and copyrighted July 5, 2001, by Lawrence B. Peet, Joliet, Illinois. Permission granted to copy for non-commercial use only. All in Italics, block type and upper case surnames are added to or modified from the original by the transcriber.)
(The 1917 Old Settlers’ Association Necrology Report, as prepared by Estelle M. Castle, printed in the Joliet Evening Herald-News, October 6, 1917, transcribed by Lawrence B. Peet.)
Ranks Of Pioneers Thinning; Necrology List For One Year By Estelle M. Castle.
During the year from Oct. 1916 to Oct. 1, this year, the ranks of the pioneers of Will county, have been noticeably thinned. Three years ago there were 114 deaths from within and outside the membership of the Will County Pioneers’ Association, two years ago 227 was the number and last year 433. A slight decrease was shown this year with a total of (missing, 317 by my count – L. B. Peet)
To the younger generation, these pioneers have, in their lifetime, offered examples of integrity and ability that have given character to the community life of Will county.
As necrologist I present the following as near a complete list as was (missing)ilable of the old settlers called to their eternal rest.
Oct. 3, 1916 – Charles H. MOULTON, 72, at his home in Wilmington; an Alton conductor for thirty years.
Oct. 4, 1916 – Olaf PETERSON, 63 (possibly 68); resident of Joliet thirty years.
Oct. 4, 1916 – Ignatius SITTEL, 68 (possibly 63), at Lockport, (missing).
Oct. 5, 1916 – Mrs. Caroline Mathilda DODGE, died at her home in Crete, where she had lived since 1837.
Oct. 5, 1916 – Mrs. Ellen Louise KENDALL, 74, a resident of Lockport for forty years.
Oct. 5, 1916 – Charles MOULTON, pioneer, at his home in Ritchie, where he had lived for (missing)y years.
Oct. 6, 1916 – Mrs. Amelia Marie HEILSCHER, the mother of Ernest HEILSCHER, a resident thirty-five years.
Oct. 6, 1916 – William N. REED, 76, at his home in Elwood.
Oct. 6, 1916 – James BARNHART, 76, civil war veteran and editor of the first newspaper in Peotone, where he lived for fifty-six years.
Oct. 7, 1916 – John SEHRING, 91, a pioneer of Mokena, at the home of his daughter in Aurora.
Oct. 8, 1916 – Mrs. Sophie LVECKE, 80, many years a resident of Crete.
Oct. 9, 1916 – The Rev. Richard SCHIELE, 71, pastor of First German Lutheran church in Joliet thirty years.
Oct. 9, 1916 – Thomas McGRATH, 78, at his home in Wilton Center, a resident of Will county over fifty years.
Oct. 9, 1916 – William FALKE, ( possibly FAIKE), 71, at his home in Crete township.
Oct. 10, 1916 – Joseph FORD, 58, a lifelong resident of Joliet.
Oct. 16, 1916 – Mrs. Mary REAM, at her home in Joliet, a lifelong resident.
Oct. 16, 1916 – John ARMAGAST, 60, Plainfield pioneer, at his home in Joliet.
Oct. 22, 1916 – Patrick BYRNE, 62, at his home in Joliet.
Oct. 23, 1916 – Mrs. Susan BROEN, (possibly BRUEN), 72, in Wilmington, lived in Will county fifty-four years.
Oct. 24, 1916 – Charles HACKER, Sr., 70, civil war veteran and resident of Mokena forty-(missing) years.
Oct. 24, 1916 – Henry JENSEN, 71, pioneer resident at New Lenox for fifty years.
Oct. 24, 1916 – Mrs. Margaret WALSH, 69, at her home in Wilmington, burial in Manhattan.
Oct. 27, 1916 – Mrs. Richard WELSH, 77, resident of Manhattan forty-two years.
Oct. 26, 1916 – John C. BELLS, (illegible, possibly 68), in Joliet, burial in Chicago; uncle of John, Mary and Julia BRAY.
Oct. 31, 1916 – Mrs. Thomas LACEY, 57; lifelong resident of Florence township; buried in Wilmington.
Nov. 1, 1916 – Silas G. PRATT, (illegible age); concert pianist and composer; for many years teacher of piano in Joliet; died in Pittsburgh, (missing, presumed to be Pa. – L.B. Peet); buried in Chicago.
Nov. 3, 1916 – Mrs. William C. ALBERTS, 65, at her home in Peotone; a resident of Will county forty years.
Nov. 4, 1916 – Andrew JACOBSON, 72; a prominent resident of Wilmington; died of (hea)rt failure in that city.
Nov. 7, 1916 – Mrs. Elizabeth VRO (illegible, 4 or 5 letters in name, the VR are the only letters clearly readable, the ending letter might be an “M,” or an “R” and another letter.– L. B. Peet) , 85, at her home in Wilmington, where she had lived for twenty-five years, and a resident of Illinois for more than seventy years.
Nov. 8, 1916 – Dr. James A. CLYNE, 58; a practicing physician in Joliet for thirty years, and a surgeon for the Alton railroad company for twenty years. He was a brother of John T. CLYNE.
Nov. 10, 1916 – Mrs. Ella M. BEDFORD, 51; a resident of Joliet for twenty-five years; died in Wilton Center, where she lived her girlhood days.
Nov. 11, 1916 – Mrs. John W. JOHNSON, 93; a resident of Will county for more than (missing)y years; died at the Salem Home for the Aged.
Nov. 13, 1916 – Henry T. TOMPKINS, 66, at St. Joseph’s hospital.(in Joliet– L. B. Peet)
Nov. 18, 1916 – Robert Gordon COOK, 57, a resident of Joliet all his life; the oldest engineer on the Santa Fe, in the service thirty-three years; pensioned a few months before his death.
Nov. 18, 1916 – Edward SAVAGE, 8_ (looks like 85), a former resident of Joliet, at his home in South Dakota.
Nov. 18, 1916 – Mrs. Dorothea KNOOP, 80, in Peotone where she had lived for fifty-two years.
Nov. 22, 1916 – Mrs. Helen HUES, 91, Plainfield pioneer and a sister of the late Mrs. (missing two or three letters)cene VAN DYKE; died at her home in (missing two or three letters)erett, Washington.
Nov. 24, 1916 – Charles W. EFNER, 79, at the (missing two or three letters)ne in Joliet.
Nov. 24, 1916 – James W. MATHER, 76, at Muskegon, Michigan; a brother of Asa and Jonathan MATHER of Joliet.
Nov. 27, 1916 – Bernard MURRAY, 58, died suddenly at his home in Lockport.
Nov. 27, 1916 – Mrs. Barbara MEYERS, 80; burial in Plainfield.
Nov. 27, 1916 – John LOEFFLER, 76, at his home in Joliet, where he had lived for forty-two years; a member of Bartleson Post, G. A. R.
Dec. 1, 1916 – William CHENEY, 75, at his home in Lockport; a resident for fifty-two years and a member of Bartleson Post, G. A. R.
Dec. 2, 1916 – John D. PAIGE, 79, of Joliet; mayor, chief of police, fire marshal for ten years, with several minor offices, and for ten years preceding his death township school treasurer.
Dec. 2, 1916 – Mrs. Louise MARTIN, 76, an old Lockport resident; died at her home in Chicago; burial in Lockport.
Dec. 2, 1916 – Mrs. John ELLIOT, an old resident of Wheatland, at the home of her daughter; burial in Scotch cemetery.
Dec. 2, 1916 – Charles A. STEINER, 57, a prominent Plainfield farmer; lived on a farm all his life; died at his home in Plainfield.
Dec. 3, 1916 – Mrs. Anna BLEE, 73 (possibly 78), at her home in Joliet.
Dec. 4, 1916 – Lawrence RILEY, 61, a resident of Will county all his life, at his home in Joliet.
Dec. 5, 1916 – Alfred LINDBERG, 55, a resident of Joliet thirty years, at his home in this city.
Dec. 5, 1916 – William MOSEL, 69, at his home in Homer township.
Dec. 5, 1916 – Mrs. Henrietta SPECKMAN, 86, at the family home in Joliet.
Dec. 6, 1916 – John STUKEL, 87 (possibly 82), lived in Joliet many years; a veteran of the Austrian-Italian war in 1856.
Dec. 6, 1916 – Mrs. Elizabeth YATES, 70, a Joliet resident for forty-six years, at her home in this city.
Dec. 6, 1916 – Ernest RUNNE, Sr., a resident of Crete for sixty-seven years, at Bay (missing)inette, Alabama; burial in Crete.
Dec. 8, 1916 – Mrs. Robert RESNER, Sr., 63; lived in Lockport thirty-seven years.
Dec. 8, 1916 – Alfred VAN FLEET, 74, an old Joliet resident, in Seattle, Washington; burial in Joliet; a member of Bartleson Post, G. A. R.
Dec. 8, 1916 – Elesha BROWN, 80, Plainfield resident for more than fifty years.
Dec. 9, 1916 – Mrs. Harriet FRANCIS, 70, at her home in New Lenox; was born and spent all her life in New Lenox township.
Dec. 11, 1916 – Capt. William GOUGAR, 72, Will county pioneer, died and was buried in Kankakee.
Dec. 12, 1916 – Miss Annie M. INGOLDSBY, 63, at the home of her sister in Troy; burial in Joliet.
Dec. 12, 1916 – Frederick DEUTSCH, 88, former Joliet resident, died at his home in Chicago; burial in Joliet.
Dec. 14, 1916 – Mrs. William HARWOOD, 81, a resident of Joliet for fifty years, at her home in this city; she was a leader in church work and women’s clubs and in the starting of the Business Woman’s Home.
Dec. 16, 1916 – Mrs. Margaret LEE, 69, at her home in Joliet.
Dec. 16, 1916 – Diedrich STASSEN, 70, pioneer resident, at his home in Peotone.
Dec. 20, 1916 – Mrs. Jean MATTHEWS, 77, pioneer resident and a sister of the late Mrs. Robert S. CAMERON; died in Riverside, Illinois.
Dec. 22, 1916 – John L. DOERFLER, 65, at his home in Joliet.
Dec. 23, 1916 – James TYRRELL, 68, at his home in Joliet; a resident for fifty years.
Dec. 25, 1916 – Needham Perry COOPER, 83, pioneer resident of New Lenox, at the home of his daughter in Troy; burial in New Lenox.
Dec. 25, 1916 – Mrs. William HANRAHAN, 76, a pioneer of Will county, at her home in Lockport.
Dec. 28, 1916 – Mrs. Mary E. SLAUGHTER, 70, at her home in Joliet.
Dec. 28, 1916 – Mrs. Conrad Schults SCHWEER, at her home in Crete, where she had lived for forty years.
Dec. 30, 1916 – J. A. KINSELLA, 5_ (possibly 52, 53, or 58), prominent resident of Will county; died at his home in Joliet.
Dec. 30, 1916 – Ms. Henry WINKLER, 83, at her home on the Plainfield road; burial in Elmhurst, Joliet.
Dec. 31, 1916 – Lyman HAWLEY, 76, pioneer resident of Lockport; at his home in Chicago; burial in Lockport.
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Jan. 2, 1917 – John Edward BUSH, 81, at his home in this city, pioneer grain merchant. Mr. Bush was a resident of Joliet for fifty-five years and lived forty-six years in the home where he died.
Jan. 5, 1917 – David R. SWEETWOOD, 68, at his home in Wilton Center.
Jan. 5, 1917 – Mrs. Emma Godfrey POTTER, 64, at her home in this city; a resident for thirty-one years.
Jan. 5, 1917 – Philip ARNOLD, 76, pioneer resident of Monee for forty-two years.
Jan. 6, 1917 – Thomas FEWTRELL, 58, in point of service the oldest employee of the Illinois Steel company in Joliet, a period of forty-six years.
Jan. 6, 1917 – Mrs. Elliott Rogers GIFFIN, 58, Green Garden pioneer and many years resident of Lockport, at her home in Ringstead, Iowa.
Jan. 10, 1917 – Mrs. Emma VAN HORNE, 74, pioneer of Will county and resident of Joliet forty-two years; prominent in church work and “mother” of the Marguerite chapter of the Eastern Star, and Bethany Shrine White Shrine of Jerusalem.
Jan. 10, 1917 – Mrs. Anna EATON, 70, pioneer resident of Lockport, at the home of her brother in Kenosha, Wisconsin; burial in Lockport.
Jan. 10, 1917 – Frances Ernest FLOYD, (perhaps Francis) 71, an old resident, at his home in Joliet.
Jan. 10, 1917 – Philip GARDNER, 84, at his home in this city.
Jan. 10, 1917 – Miss Mary Frances MARKERT, 54, in her home in Wilmington, where she lived all her life.
Jan. 12, 1917 – Mrs. Sarah A. LISCOMB, 81, an old resident, in Soldiers’ Widows’ Home; burial in Lockport.
Jan. 12, 1917 – William A. SPANGLER, 72, a resident of this city for fifty years.
Jan. 16, 1917 – Mrs. Elizabeth Mary FLOYD, 67, followed her husband, who died six days previous; they were residents of Joliet and vicinity for forty years.
Jan. 16, 1917 – Mrs. Anna Scott MEERS, 49, wife of Attorney Eneisha MEERS, died following an operation. Mrs. Meers was prominent in social and church circles and president of the Ladies Visitation and Aid society.
Jan. 17, 1917 – Mrs. Julia A. MATHER, 79, pioneer Will county, at her home in Joliet.
Jan. 17, 1917 – Henry ANGLEMIRE, 78, an old resident, at his home in Chicago, burial in Joliet.
Jan. 19, 1917 – James A. NOLAN, 89, pioneer resident, at the home of his daughter in this city.
Jan. 19, 1917 – Mrs. Sarah DAY, 76, at her home in Wheatland; resident of Will county fifty-six years.
Jan. 20, 1917 – Joseph E. GOUGAR, 83, at his home in Joliet. He was born in New Lenox and was the oldest native born citizen of the Hickory creek settlement east of Joliet, and said to be the second white child born in Will county.
Jan. 20, 1917 – Mrs. Caroline WATHLER, 81, pioneer, Monee resident for fifty-one years.
Jan. 21, 1917 – William DOUBLEDAY, 70, a resident of Joliet thirty-five years and employe of the steel mills thirty-three years; a well known musician and organizer and leader of church choirs.
Jan. 21, 1917 – William DRIFUS, 67, native pioneer of Homer and resident of DuPage for thirty years, at his home in Naperville. (Just, exactly, what is a “native pioneer?” This is a good example of the debasement of the term “pioneer” over the life span of The Old Settlers’ Association. No negative reflection on Mr. Drifus intended by my remarks.– L. B. Peet)
Jan. 21, 1917 – Frank HARDER, 75; has resided in Lockport township more than sixty years.
Jan. 22, 1917 – Mrs. Marie BEHRENS, 89, resident of Monee fifty-six years.
Jan. 24, 1917 – James BOUCHER, 61, a Joliet resident more than forty years.
Jan. 25, 1917 – Mrs. Lizzie J. FRANCIS, 68, a resident of Will county all her life, native of New Lenox, died in Joliet, where she had lived many years; burial in New Lenox; active in church and club work.
Jan. 24, 1917 – Mrs. Elizabeth KRAUSE, 81, Wilmington pioneer, a resident for sixty-one years.
Jan. 25, 1917 – William H. BIRDSALL, 80, a resident of Joliet for many years, a civil war veteran and member of Bartleson Post, G. A. R.
Jan. 25, 1917 – Joseph TEHLE, 79, Will county resident for sixty-two years, secretary of the pioneers’ association for several years prior to his death.
Jan. 26, 1917 – Hugh C. WILSON, Sr., 79, resident of Will county over fifty years, at the home of his son in Divernon, Illinois; burial in Braceville.
Jan. 27, 1917 – David DEMAR, 74, at the Soldiers’ Home in Quincy; burial in Lockport.
Jan. 27, 1917 – Loren Ambrose NORTON, 80, resident of Lockport for sixty years, at the home of his daughter in Chicago; burial in Lockport, Illinois.
Jan. 28, 1917 – Michael J. KRAUSE, 79, an old Will county resident, at St. Joseph’s hospital; burial in Joliet.
Jan. 28, 1917 – James O’REILLY, 88, at his home in Custer; burial in Braidwood.
Jan. 28, 1917 – George GEISSLER, 63, many years a resident of Will county, at his home in Joliet township.
Jan. 29, 1917 – Mrs. Matilda DENISON, pioneer resident of Will county, at the home of her daughter in Lockport.
Jan. 29, 1917 – Mrs. W. B. OWEN, 75, pioneer resident of Frankfort township and New Lenox, at her home in Los Angeles, California; burial in New Lenox.
Jan. 30, 1917 – Mrs. Hannah Haley GEELAM, 82, pioneer resident of Will county, at her home in Chicago.
Jan. 30, 1917 – Mrs. Harriet M. FUREMAN, (possibly FURSMAN), 77, an old resident, at her home in Joliet.
Jan. 31, 1917 – Ferdinand MUNCH, 56, a lifelong resident of Joliet, well known business man and an employe of the Joliet Herald-News since its founding in 1904.
Jan. 31, 1917 – Simon RABER, 64, an old Will county resident, at his home in Joliet; burial in Plainfield.
Jan. 31, 1917 – Andrew ERICKSON, 60, resident of Joliet for thirty-seven years, at his home in this city.
Feb. 2, 1917 – Mrs. J. Fred WILCOX, 70, lifelong resident of this city, at her home on Ottawa street; a daughter of one of Joliet’s oldest and most prominent citizens and very active in church and social circles.
Feb. 3, 1917 – A. J. WUNDERLICH, 56, native resident for many years, a steel blower in the converting plant of the Illinois Steel company.
Feb. 3, 1917 – Mrs. George W. KITE, 69, former Joliet and Channahon resident, at her home in Chicago, burial in Channahon.
Feb. 4, 1917 – Mrs. Anna (possibly Anne) L. PALMER, 82, Will county pioneer, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph SUTHERLAND, Joliet.
Feb. 5, 1917 – Sister M. ANASTASIA, 70, formerly Miss Jane RYAN of Lockport, in Holy Cross convent in South Bend, Indiana, a sister of Mrs. Margaret D’Arcy, Joliet.
Feb. 5, 1917 – Mrs. Mary BARBOUR, 97, at her home in Joliet; burial in Wheatland U. P. cemetery.
Feb. 6, 1917 – Mrs. Martin GLEASON, an old resident, at the home of her daughter in Plainfield.
Feb. 6, 1917 – John STEWART, 88, pioneer resident of Plainfield, at his home in North Yakima, Washington.
Feb. 7, 1917 – Frederic E. VIERIGG, 62, many years a resident, at his home in Joliet.
Feb. 7, 1917 – Mrs. Ann HOGAN, 82, pioneer of Will county, at the home of her daughter in Chicago.
Feb. 7, 1917 – John J. PORTSMOUTH, 71, at the home of his daughter in this city, pioneer and civil war veteran, employe of Moore Brothers’ foundry for forty-five years.
Feb. 7, 1917 – William Mitchell HAMILTON, 66, an employe of the I. S. P. (Illinois State Prison) for many years; Masonic fraternity in charge of funeral services.
Feb. 7, 1917 – Thomas H. MATTHEWS, 78, at his home in this city; services in charge of Matteson lodge, A. F. and A. M.
Feb. 8, 1917 – Mrs. John T. CAMPBELL, well known former New Lenox resident, at her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota; burial in New Lenox.
Feb. 10, 1917 – Hugh McPARTLIN, 69, an old resident at his home in Joliet.
Feb. 10, 1917 – John FRICKES, 77, at his home north of Plainfield.
Feb. 10, 1917 – John E. MACKIN, 93, oldest male resident of Lockport, a resident for sixty-two years.
Feb. 10, 1917 – W. T. MAGEE, 60, a former resident of Joliet, at his home in Chicago; burial in Joliet.
Feb. 11, 1917 – Miss Julia E. BAKER, 79, an old Manhattan resident, at her home in Chicago.
Feb. 13, 1917 – Conrad BITTERMAN, 64, resident of Joliet for fifty-eight years and employe of Moore Brothers for forty years, at his home in this city.
Feb. 13, 1917 – Mrs. Mary L. SAVAGE, 79, mother of Attorney John H. SAVAGE, at her home in Homer township.
Feb. 13, 1917 – Mrs. Sarah C. MAGEE, at her home in this city.
Feb. 15, 1917 – Christian HAUCK, 56, Mokena pioneer, at his home in Joliet., born and lived in Joliet
Feb. 13, 1917 – Mrs. Mary A. STEVENS, 71, born and lived in Joliet sixty-seven years, died at the home of her daughter in Hillsdale, Michigan.
Feb. 14, 1917 – Joseph WALTZ, 63, pioneer resident of Green Garden, at his home near Monee, burial in Green Garden.
Feb. 14, 1917 – Mrs. William REED, 78 (possibly 73), Will county resident since 1854, at her home in Elwood.
Feb. 16, 1917 – Mrs. Katherine W. HYEN, 81, pioneer settler of Green Garden township, died at her home in that place after a fifty-three years residence.
Feb. 18 (possibly 19), 1917 – Dr. Roland B. REED, 77, an old Joliet resident, in Port Orange, Florida. Mr. Reed was active in railroad construction and a surgeon in the civil war.
Feb. 19, 1917 – William P. JONES, veteran employe of the Illinois Steel company, at his home in this city.
Feb. 21, 1917 – Jacob LANTZ, resident of Wheatland since 1850, at his home in Aberdeen, Kansas.
Feb. 22, 1917 – John NORTON, 81, pioneer settler and veteran empolye of the steel mills, died at his home in this city.
Feb. 26, 1917 – Mrs. Royal E. BARBER, 89, mother of Mayor Barber and pioneer resident of Joliet, at her home on Western avenue.
Feb. 28, 1917 – Mrs. Barbara KESTEL, 81, New Lenox pioneer, at her home in Chicago.
March 1, 1917 – Mrs. M. SEAHILL, 84, resident of Joliet for sixty years, at her home in Iowa avenue.
March 2, 1917 – Chris MATTHEWS, 70, pioneer resident, at his home in Anderson, Indiana.
March 3, 1917 – Mrs. Rica HEISE, 77, a resident of Wheatland township for fifty years.
March 4, 1917 – William HILDEBRAND, 82, resident of Joliet forty-five years, burial in charge of Masonic fraternity.
March 5, 1917 – Joseph GILES, 82, veteran employe of the steel mills.
March 5, 1917 – John SCHWESER, 79, at his home in Mokena, where he had lived for seventy years.
March 6, 1917 – Mrs. William WINZENBERG, 68, at her home in Crete.
March 8, 1917 – John Bernard FITHIAN, 67, probate judge of Will county and a resident of Joliet for forty-four years, an eminent jurist, prominent in church and Masonic work; burial from the Masonic temple under the auspices of Joliet Commandery No. 4, Knights Templar.
March 8, 1917 – William COCHRAN, 96, retired farmer and leader in the Wheatland Scotch community for sixty years, at the home of his daughter in Oswego township..
March 9, 1917 – William H. VAN FLEET, 82, at his home in this city.
March 11, 1917 – Frank W. CULVER, 59, a resident of Plainfield township all his life, at the farm.
March 13, 1917 – William FITZGERALD, (unreadable, possibly 53,58,63,68 or maybe, even 88 any one would be almost a guess. – L. B. Peet), at his home in Manhattan; burial in Wilmington.
March (possibly 13), 1917 – Henry SWIVAL, 82, for forty-nine years a resident of Florence township, at his home near Wilmington.
March 13, 1917 – Mrs. Joschim (possibly Jouchim or Joachim) JARCHON, at the home in Peotone. She had been a resident of Green Garden and Peotone townships for sixty years.
March 13, 1917 – Simon SHAFER, 78, a resident of DuPage for many years, died in St. Petersburg, Florida.
March 14, 1917 – Elvis POTTER, 66, veteran Santa Fe engineer, at the home of his son in Chicago; burial in Higinbotham cemetery.
March 19, 1917 – Mrs. Mary FANT, resident of Joliet for fifty years.
March 20, 1917 – Lorenzo PERRY, 81, at his home in Plainfield, where he lived more than fifty years.
March 21, 1917 – Jacob STONITSCH, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Andrew KRAKAR.
March 22, 1917 – Mrs. Ann Louise KLEMME, (age unreadable, 60, 80, or 90), mother of Mrs. O. B. BENSON.
March 23, 1917 – Mrs. Elizabeth Sawyer ROGERS, 63, a resident of Joliet for half century, at her home in this city.
March 24, 1917 – William MILLER, (age unreadable), resident of Will county sixty-two years, at his home in Union street, Joliet.
April 1, 1917 – Herman KREUGER, 73, at his home in Lockport.
April 1, 1917 – Mrs. Martha Dakin RANDALL, 80, at her home in Linden avenue; prominent church and charity worker.
April 2, 1917 – Miss Katherine I. McPARTLIN, pioneer millinery and business woman.
April 3, 1917 – Stephen W. CUMMINGS, 75, pioneer resident of Joliet, at his home in Chicago; veteran of the civil war, member of Bartleson Post, G. A. R.
April 3, 1917 – William COULEHAN, 74, at his home in Joliet; burial in Minooka.
April 4, 1917 – James DOYLE, 76 (possibly 78), an old Will county resident, at the Old Soldiers’ Home in Quincy, Illinois.
April 5. 1917 – Mrs. Sophia STEVENS, 70, resident of Joliet for thirty-three years, died in Chicago, burial in Oakwood, Joliet.
April 9, 1917 – James McCABE, 75, old resident of Joliet; prominent temperance worker and one of the organizers of the Father Matthews society.
April 13, 1917 – Mrs. Ellen NICHOLSON, 80, a Joliet resident for many years, at home in Bloomington.
April 15, 1917 – Robert WHITE, 77, at home in Wilmington.
April 16, 1917 – Mrs. Margaret DOUGHERTY, 86, pioneer resident, at her home in Lockport.
April 18, 1917 – Edward KINSELLA, 87, pioneer of Wilmington, at his home in Chicago; burial in Wilmington.
April 19, 1917 – Charles WILSON, 76, Homer pioneer , on his farm, where he had lived twenty-five years.
April 19, 1917 – Mrs. A. E. SINGLETON, 53, an old Lockport resident.
April 19, 1917 – John NYSTROM, 63, at his home in Lockport.
April 21, 1917 – Mother M. LUCIA, 64, formerly Miss Mary RAUB, at St. Francis convent, born in Joliet and forty-seven years in religious work..
April 23, 1917 – Mrs. John NYSTROM, 70, at her home in Lockport. Mrs. Nystrom died four days after her husband.
April 23, 1917 – Philip KLEPPER, 74, at his home in Frankfort.
April 28, 1917 – Mrs. B. W. GREEN, 60, a native of Wheatland township, at the home in Plainfield. In her bible, after her death, was found her obituary written by herself.
April 29, 1917 – Samuel B. HUGHES, 88 (possibly 63, 68, or 83), a resident of Joliet forty years, at the home of his daughter, a veteran of the civil war.
April 30, 1917 – James PLATT, 64 pioneer resident, at his home in Joliet; burial in Seward.
May 1, 1917 – Mrs. Mary O’BRIEN, 69, on the farm in Channahon township, where she had lived fifty years.
May 2, 1917 – Patrick SULLIVAN, at his home in this city.
May 2, 1917 – Mrs. Dora Thorpe WINEMAN, 65, native pioneer, at her home in Chicago; burial in Lockport.
May 4, 1917 – James P. GALLAGHER, 53, well known business man, at his home in Joliet.
May 4, 1917 – Francis B. YOUNG, 74, an old resident and veteran of the civil war, at his home in Joliet.
May 4, 1917 – Mrs. Louise SELTZ, (possibly SEITZ), 83, at St. Joseph’s hospital; burial in Mt. Olivet (Joliet).
May 5, 1917 – The Rev. Orville R. DICKINSON, 80, a retired Baptist minister; resident of Will county nearly a half century; at his home in New Lenox; burial from Wilton Center Baptist church, where he had been pastor for thirty years.
May 6, 1917 – Mrs. Eliza J. STAFFORD, 62, an old Joliet resident, at home in Chicago; burial in Joliet.
May 7, 1917 – Duke SIMPSON, resident of Joliet thirty years, at his home in Bisbee, Arizona.
May 8, 1917 – John PALMER, an old resident, at his home in Joliet; burial in Essex (Illinois).
May 8, 1917 – Martin SANDROCH, 94, at his home south of Mokena. One of Mokena’s oldest settlers.
May 8, 1917 – Anthony FOLEY, a resident of Joliet for thirty years, well known railroad contractor, at his home in Nashville, Tennessee.
May 10, 1917 – Michael KERNAN, 68, at his home in Troy.
May 11, 1917 – Joseph MARK, 72, at his home in Lockport.
May 11, 1917 – John EFFTING, 61, native, at his home in Lockport.
May 12, 1917 – Mrs. Jane SHERIDAN, 87, at the home in this city; a resident for forty-five years.
May 12, 1917 – Adolph SHARQUIST, 76; burial in Oakwood (cemetery, Joliet).
May 13, 1917 – Mrs. Isaac JONES, 70, a former Joliet resident, at her home in Chicago; burial in Joliet.
May 13, 1917 – Mrs. A. E. STEAD, 73, former Joliet resident; died in Chicago.
May 14, 1917 – Mrs. Anna NORD, 81, at the home in this city.
May 15, 1917 – Mrs. Esther RIXY, 65, at the home in this city.
May 15, 1917 – Henry DOLLINGER, 80, pioneer resident, at his home in Lockport.
May 15, 1917 – Rev. A. B. METTLER, (possibly METTIER), 79, an old Joliet resident and a veteran of the civil war; died at the Soldiers’ Home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
May 15, 1917 – John T. HAYES, 63, a resident of Joliet for thirty years and well known official of the steel mills, at his home in this city.
May 15, 1917 – David MEADER, 79, pioneer of Will county; at the Ingraham home near Manhattan.
May 17, 1917 – Otto James BRADY, 50 (possibly 60), resident of Joliet for thirty years; assistant master mechanic U. S. steel mills.
May 18, 1917 – Charles WOTERICH, 76, at his home in Manhattan.
May 19, 1917 – Capt. Sidney V. ARNOLD, 72, former resident of Lockport, at his home in Ipswich, South Dakota. He was a veteran of the civil war.
May 20, 1917 – Mrs. Knight BROWN, 57, former Wilmington resident, at her home in Pratt, Kansas.
May 21, 1917 – Dawson B. PAUL, 56, well known resident of this city.
May 21, 1917 – Jerome B. STEWART, 70, prominent resident of Wilmington.
May 22, 1917 – Mrs. Marcia E. LEES, 85, at the home of son in Battle Creek, Michigan; Lockport pioneer; prominent in local musical circles.
May 22, 1917 – Mrs. Eliza ARMSTRONG, 75, resident of Will county more than fifty years, at St. Joseph hospital (Joliet).
May 23, 1917 – Mrs. Alice Lumley HALKYARD, 77, mother of Frank LUMLEY, at her home in this city.
May 23, 1917 – Valentine DIETZ, 77, at his home in this city.
May 26, 1917 – Miss Julia SCHICK, 81, born and raised in Mokena; died in Mrecy hospital, Chicago; burial in Mokena.
May 26, 1917 – Mrs. Elizabeth HEATH, 68, at the home of her sister, Mrs. W. H. HUNTER; burial in Lockport.
May 27, 1917 – Nathaniel BOYCE, 80, pioneer resident of Homer township, at his home east of Lockport.
May 27, 1917 – Alexander Monroe STORM, 66, a prominent farmer and resident of New Lenox township for fifty-six years, at his home in New Lenox.
June 3, 1917 – Michael MEAGAN, 78 (possibly 73), one of the oldest employes of the Illinois Steel company; resident of Joliet forty-four years.
June 3, 1917 – John KOLAR, 84, resident of Homer for forty-nine years; at his home, east of Lockport.
June 4, 1917 – Fred LEPPLER, Sr., 79, resident of Will county for fifty-two years, at his home in Frankfort.
June 5, 1917 – Mrs. Maria Powhan HARVEY, 61, at her home in Oswego township; burial in Wheatland cemetery.
June 6, 1917 – Mrs. Jane C. WEEKS, (age unreadable) resident of Will county for eighty-one years and of Joliet for seventy-one years, at her home in this city; mother of the late Mrs. George H. Monroe.
June 6, 1917 – Mrs. Francis WOOCK, 92, a resident of Lockport fifty-one years, at the home in that city.
June 6, 1917 – Mrs. Martha E. POWELL, 83, at the home in Joliet.
June 6, 1917 – Mrs. Fred BORMS, 63, resident of Peotone, forty-three years.
June 11, 1917 – Mrs. William WATSON, in Greenberg, Indiana, a Joliet resident for many years.
June 15, 1917 – The Rev. Thomas M. GUNN, (unreadable age, possibly 75), a pastor forty years ago of the First Presbyterian church, Joliet, died at his home in Seattle, Washington.
June 16, 1917 – Guy Frederick LUREMAN, 78, at his home in this city. He had lived in Joliet more than a half century and was a veteran of the civil war.
June 17, 1917 – Mrs. Lizzie Craig HAVEN, 77, widow of the late Dwight HAVEN Sr., of New Lenox; pioneer New Lenox township and organizer of New Lenox Episcopal church.
June 17, 1917 – Mrs. J. S. OVERHOLZER, 70, an old resident, at her home in this city.
June 21, 1917 – John RYAN, 67, former Joliet resident, at his home in Gary, Indiana.
June 22, 1917 – Dr. Alfred NASH, 83, a practicing physician of this city for thirty-seven years. He was the oldest living graduate of the University of Michigan, a surgeon in the army thru the civil war, and a member of the G. A. R. Burial in Mateer, Michigan.
June 22, 1917 – Joel DOWD, 82, pioneer of Plainfield, at his home in Chatsworth, Illinois. Mr. Dowd was a Plainfield merchant a half century ago. Burial in Plainfield.
June 22, 1917 – John MARTIN, 52, at his home in Joliet.
June 25, 1917 – Mrs. Margaret BANNON, 74, a resident of Joliet for forty-three years.
June 26, 1917 – Mrs. John W. McDONALD, 59, at her home near Channahon.
June 26, 1917 – James W. FAULKNER, 62, well known businessman and politician.
June 26, 1917 – William HAMILTON, 70 at his home in Joliet.
June 26, 1917 – Mrs. Caroline LATZ, 76, at the home in Joliet.
June 27, 1917 – John T. WHITE, 49, for twenty-five years practicing attorney in Joliet, at his home in this city. Came to Will county when an infant.
June 29, 1917 – Charles R. HAYS, 65, time keeper at Illinois state penitentiary; resident of Joliet for twenty-five years.
June 30, 1917 – Mrs. Julia Prior McHUGH, pioneer resident of Lockport, at the home in Chicago.
July 1, 1917 – August ANDERSON, 77, at his home in Lockport.
July 2, 1917 – Mrs. Maria BRAUN, 76, at her home in this city. A resident of Jolietfor fifty years.
July 2, 1917 – Mrs. Bridget DONNELLY, 86, died died at her home in Joliet where she resided fifty-six years.
Michael E, CLARE, 58, at his home in Chicago; born and raised in Joliet. (No date given – L. B. Peet)
July 3, 1917 – Capt. James G. ELWOOD, 78, a native of Lockport and resident of Joliet seventy-four years. Mr. Elwood was once mayor. Prominent in city and social affairs; also in Masonic and G. A. R. circles. A leader in business, political, fraternal and patriotic life for half a century.
July 4, 1917 – Mrs. Katherine HENNEBERRY, 64, Wilmington pioneer, at her home in Minooka.
July 6 (possibly July 5), 1917 – Mrs. Catherine PITTS, 75, a pioneer resident, at her home in Joliet.
July 6, 1917 – Mrs. Rosan Elizabeth STILLMAN, 92; a resident of Will county eighty-one years; sister of the late Mrs. Jane WEEKS.
July 11, 1917 – John W. KROHN, 62; prominent railroad man and member of JolietCommandery No. 4, Knights Templar.
July 15, 1917 – George A. BUCK, 88, a resident of Manhattan since 1854, and of Joliet since 1882; prominent farmer and politician in the early days of Manhattan.
July 15, 1917 – William Warren BISHOP, (date unreadable 50, 60, or 80), in St. Paul; former Joliet business man and brother of Mrs. John LAMBERT.
July 15, 1917 – Mrs. Mary J. PALMER, 86, at her home in Morgan Park; pioneer of Will county.
July 15, 1917 – Mrs. Lucy A. MORRISON, 65, widow of John MORRISON, died in the Morrison home in Third avenue.
July 15, 1917 – Mrs. Agusta STEFFAN, 77, died in Wilmington, where she had been a resident fifty years.
July 19, 1917 – Rodger McCANN, 71, Joliet resident fifty years and veteran employe of the Illinois Steel company.
July 20, 1917 – Mrs. Sarah DREW, 71; a native of Will county and a resident of Joliet forty years.
July 20, 1917 – L. J. RAYNOR, 63, for more than fifty years a resident of Joliet; many years active in the social and political affairs of Joliet; member of Joliet Commandery No. 4, Knights Templar.
July 21, 1917 – Henry CRICH, 74, an old Joliet resident.
July 26, 1917 – Emma A. CALDWELL, 67, in Joliet; pioneer of Frankfort.
July 26, 1917 – The Rev. Jacob W. MOHR, 64 (possibly 84), pioneer minister in Evangelical church, Joliet; resident of Joliet for thirty-four years.
July 26, 1917 – Edward HALL, 59, native of Wilmington and resident of Joliet thirty-four years.
July 26, 1917 – Mrs. Susan BRAUN, 83, in Joliet.
July 27, 1917 – Mrs. Eugene BOLLIG, 67, resided in Joliet forty-three years; sister of the late Joseph BRAUN, Sr.
July 28, 1917 – Isaac BURNELL, former well known resident of Joliet, died in Palo Alto, California.
July 30, 1917 – Mrs. Jonas BRONK, 83, Homer township.
Aug. 2, 1917 – Martin WAGNER, 57, former Mayor and pioneer resident of Lockport, at his home in Lockport.
Aug. 3, 1917 – Mrs. Abigail McDONALD, 84, a Lockport pioneer.
Aug. 5, 1917 – The Rev. Walter EVANS, 55, pioneer of Plainfield, former Congregational minister.
Aug. 6, 1917 – Joseph BIETH, 51, native of Joliet, at his home in Fairmont, Minnesota.
Aug. 7, 1917 – Chester N. MARSHALL, 83, at his home south of Marley.
Mrs. Lavina B. STEWART, a former resident of Joliet, at her home in Oracle, Arizona. Mrs. Stewart left Joliet twenty-eight years ago.
Aug. 13, 1917 – Mrs. Edith C, FULLER, widow of the late Buell A. FULLER of this city, died at her home in Rochester, New York.
Aug. 18, 1917 – Eli BUTTON, 65, New Lenox pioneer; died in Silver Cross hospital.
Aug. 18, 1917 – Mrs. Dean R. BATTLES, in Milford, Massachusetts, a resident of Joliet many years; buried in Oakwood cemetery, Joliet.
Aug. 20, 1917 – George W. BIEBAR, 79 years; the oldest employe of the Michigan Central; in the service fifty-five years and thirty-three years passenger conductor on the “Cut-Off” line. He was a Mason fifty-five years and a member of the Joliet Commandery.
Aug. 21, 1917 – Odessa Mary NEISWANDER, 51, at her home in Rockdale; burial in Plainfield.
Aug. 24, 1917 – Miss Mary CARSON, a Joliet Pioneer, died suddenly at her home in (illegible) Lake; burial in Joliet.
Aug. 28, 1917 – Sybella GREEN, 72, at her home in Joliet.
Aug. 29, 1917 – Eli RHODES, 87, a resident of Will county for more than seventy years, died at his home in Plainfield.
Aug. 29, 1917 – Mrs. M. L. POOLE, died at her home in Hildebran, North Carolina; a former Will county resident; sister of Mrs. T. R. BLAIR; burial in Joliet.
Aug. 31, 1917 – Thomas J. McCARTNEY, 66 years old; a resident of Joliet for many years and an employe of the Gas company for many years. He died in Chicago.
Aug. 31, 1917 – Isaac RICHARDS, 72, at his home in Joliet.
Sept. 2, 1917 – Mrs. Ann DELANEY, 74, at her home in Joliet; burial in Manhattan.
Sept. 2 (possibly Sept. 3), 1917 – Jacob BENSENBAUGH, an old Plainfield resident, at his home in Los Angeles.
Sept. 5, 1917 – Miss Mary J. THAYER, 73, for many years a resident of Will county and thirty years of Joliet. Died at her home in Joliet and was buried in Wilton Center.
Sept. 7, 1917 – Mrs. Catherine SCHOITZ, 83 (possibly 88), pioneer at her home in Joliet.
Sept. 11, 1917 – Mrs. Boel POLSON, 75, at the Salem Home for the Aged (Joliet).
Sept. 14, 1917 – Samuel MARSHALL, 73 (or 78), retired farmer of Wesley, died at his home in Wilmington.
Sept. 14, 1917 – Frank H. HALL, 60, a pioneer newspaper man of Joliet, died in Fremont, Nebraska. Mr. Hall came to Joliet in 1877 and spent the greater part of the succeeding forty years in Joliet.
Sept. 14, 1917 – Thomas R. DAVIS, 67, in Joliet. He was a resident of Joliet twenty-five years.
Sept. 22 (possibly 23), 1917 – Mrs. Anna M. HORALY, 75 years, pioneer of Will county; died at her home in Lorenzo.
Sept. 22, 1917 – John SUTTER, at his home in Mokena. For many years Mr. Sutter conducted a general merchandise store in eastern Will county.
Sept. 22, 1917 – Mrs. Catherine CASEY, an old Joliet resident, died at her home in Gary.
Sept. 25, 1917 – Mrs. Charlotte Pomeroy NASH, 73 (possibly 78), widow of the late Dr. Alfred NASH, died in Joliet; body cremated in Chicago; ashes taken to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for burial.
Sept. 25, 1917 – Thomas Clifton SHEPHERD, 77, early landscape gardener of Joliet. He changed the wild site of West park into the beautiful city park, and was its superintendent for seven years.
Sept. 28, 1917 – James HURLEY, 68 years, former Lockport resident; died at his home in Wilmington.
Sept. 28, 1917 – Robert STORM, 75, resident of Will county for more than fifty years and of Homer most of his life.
Sept. 28, 1917 – Michael M. BOWE, (possibly BOWS), 47 years. Native of Will county; member of city school board; died of injuries received in auto accident.