DEATH OF AN AGED BROWN COUNTY LADY
Mrs Petronella Watermolen Passes Away in Town of Bellevue
Aged 82 and has been living in this county for last half century - Six sons and One daughter besides Husband Survive.

Mrs Petronella Watermolen, a resident of Brown county, for 50 years died yesterday at her home in the town of Bellevue of dropsy at the age of 82.  She had been lingering since last winter with the malady at which time she contracted a cold.
Funeral service for the aged lady will be conducted tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at the Finger church in the town of Preble and burial will be made at the church cemetery.  Rev Volebracht will officiate.
Deceased was born in Louvaine, Belgium in 1824 and came to this country in 1857. Her husband Christopher Watermolen, purchased the farm in Bellevue then and they have lived on it since that year.
Six sons and one daughter, besides the husband survive, Mrs Watermolen.  They are Joseph of Preble, William of Bellevue, Henry of this city, Mrs William Rentmeister of Preble, Philip and John F of the city and John B of Bellevue.

                                                       
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