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Memorial Card · primary-source record

Nels Peterson

circa 1846 – January 17, 1917

Died 17 January 1917

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At-a-glance facts

Record type

Memorial Card

Date of death

January 17, 1917

Date of birth

circa 1846

Age at death

71 years

The memorial card

From the funeral card

In Loving Remembrance of

Nels Peterson,

Died Jan. 17, 1917.

Aged 71 Years.

Gone but not forgotten

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.

Copyright on the card is 1898 by H. F. Wendell, Leipsic, O[hio] — the printer's imprint, not a place of death. The card carries no place of death. Birth year (circa 1846) is computed from the card's stated age (71) at death and is not stated on the card itself.

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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
2026-08-10
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Image vs transcription
Both — photograph of the card and a transcription on this page

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