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| Birth |
18 Mar 1858 |
Geoys, Austria-Hungary |
| Sex |
Male |
| Died |
1911 |
Alton, IA |
| Person ID |
I0069 |
Hawley Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
23 May 2006 |
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| Father |
Andrew KASCHMITTER, b. Sep 1817, Neusiedel-am-See |
| Mother |
Anna PFEMETER |
| Group Sheet |
F028 |
Hawley Family Tree |
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| Family 1 |
Anna FILZ, b. 9 Apr 1860, Geoys, Hungary |
| Married |
16 Nov 1880 |
| Children |
| | 1. Caroline Julianna Mary KASCHMITTER, b. 24 Feb 1888, Rock Valley, IA |
| | 2. Louisa KASCHMITTER, b. 29 Oct 1881, Loretto, Tennessee |
| | 3. John KASCHMITTER, b. 28 Jul 1883, Loretto, Tennessee |
| | 4. Otto KASCHMITTER, b. 24 Aug 1890, Alton, Iowa |
| | 5. Mary Clara KASCHMITTER, b. 4 Jun 1893, Alton, Iowa |
| | 6. Clothilda KASCHMITTER, b. 19 Oct 1895, Alton, Iowa |
| | 7. Henry George KASCHMITTER |
| | 8. Richard Ferdinand KASCHMITTER |
| | 9. Gertrud KASCHMITTER |
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| Group Sheet |
F027 |
Hawley Family Tree |
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| Notes |
- Louisa in her recollections recalls that her father lived for a short time also in Fairbault, Minnesota, but the family moved to Rock Valley in 1887 where Jospeh was employed as a section foreman by the railroad at $1.25 a day for a 10-hour day, and nothing for patrolling the road during heavy rainstorms at night. A devout Catholic, he wanted his children to have the benefit of a Catholic education and he therefore moved to Alton in 1887 where he was employed by the Omaha railroad as section foreman until April 4, 1904, when he was appointed town marshall. According to the news item in the Alton Democrat announcing his death in 1911, Joseph resigned as town marshall in 1906 to work for the church at the request of Father Brune who was then pastor, but resumed his duties as town marshall in 1907 when the town council offered him the job at an improved salary. The paper adds that "he served the town faithfully until he was brutally shot down in the performance of his duties."
As Marshall, Joseph made it his practice to go to the railraod station at midnight every night when several trains were passsing through. Returning home from the station at 1:00 a. m. on March 25, 1911, Joseph saw that two men who had just gotten off the train were walking ahead of him but suddenly disappeared behind a building. They may have planned to rob him for as he was approaching they suddenly stepped out from their hiding place and may have then noticed that he wore a star. Without hesitation they fired and after he had fallen tot he ground they fired again. After the assailants had fled, Joseph managed to stagger towards a restaurant where the owner admitted him and immediately called for both a priest and a doctor. Joseph lingered on for two more days and died at 4:00 a. m., March 27, 1911. His last words, spoken in German, were: "It was God's will."
He seems to have had a presientiment of what was to come since he felt nervous for some time before the tragedy, got medicine for the ailment, and in returning home that night, walked in the middle of the street rather than on the sidewalk. This information was given to the family by his wife after his death.
Seven years after the death of her first husband, Anna Filz Kaschmitter married William Schreier at Alton on June 4, 1918. Mr. Schreier also died in February 1925. Anna survived until May 13, 1943 when she too, died at the home of her daughter, Caroline, at Wilmont, Minnesota. She was buried in Alton.
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