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Mourning Card · primary-source record

Otto Kohlman

July 13, 1889

Died 13 July 1889

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At-a-glance facts

Record type

Mourning Card

Date of death

July 13, 1889

The mourning card

From the funeral card

There is no Death! what seems so is transition;

This life of Mortal breath

Is but a suburb of the life elysian,

Whose portal we call Death.

In Loving Remembrance of

Otto Kohlman,

Died July 13, 1889.

A precious one from us has gone,

A voice we loved is stilled;

A place is vacant in our home,

Which never can be filled.

God in His wisdom has recalled,

The boon His love had given;

And though the body moulders here,

The soul is safe in Heaven.

Transcribed from the photograph. The day of death reads as July 13 on the photograph but the gold print is small; treat the exact day as probable. The card is a black mourning card with gold print, photographed alongside the card of Chas. Reinhardt (indexed separately), which was found in Chicago, Illinois.

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Source & citation

Source type
Photograph & transcription
Provenance
From the Ancestors at Rest archive — founded 2004 by Brian and substantially built out across two decades by Lorine McGinnis Schulze of Olive Tree Genealogy.
Transcribed by
Ancestors at Rest archive — original contributor not recorded.
Last verified
2026-06-12
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Image vs transcription
Both — photograph of the card and a transcription on this page

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