Union Cemetery

Schafer, August

BORN: 1848
BORN IN: Germany
DIED: 7/4/1900
AGED: 52
CAUSE OF DEATH: Appendicitis
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City

OCCUPATION: Laborer,GraveDigger

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  • 1849 California Gold Rush
  • 1850 California became the 31st State
  • 1860 The Pony Express
  • 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
  • 1861 American Civil War
  • 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
  • 1866 Ku Klux Klan
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
  • 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
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AUGUST SCHAFER

Redwood City Democrat

July 5, 1900

August Schafer, a well-known resident of this city, died at his home on Third Street yesterday at 8 o’clock, having been ill less than a week. The cause of his demise was liver trouble and appendicitis. Deceased had been in the employ of James Crowe as grave-digger since 1874. He leaves a wife and four children, two of whom are quite young. The family, while owning their own home, are in poor circumstances, and will miss the provider whom death has called away. The funeral will take place tomorrow at 2 o’clock, services being held at the residence. Interment will be in Union Cemetery.

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