Goepper - 1916 page Q

24 Jan 5F taxes this year were $750, plumber's bill $800.
10 Feb Helen (Hubbard) and Viola (Cross) had a fight, Helen pinched Viola, and Viola bit
Helen and so they had it* "But between the caretakers and Elders they both got the
'buckrum' taken out of them, enough to behave for a while at least- "
11 Feb Marie walks outdoors and around the house with her crutches.
15 Feb Mrs. Dederick came to order some little baby jackets to be knit for St. Margaret's Home
in Albany.
16 Feb Eldress Annie took Florence Bourne to Homeopathic Hospital in Albany to be operated
on for appendicitis and other troubles by Dr. Hacker.
17 Feb Florence operated on and came through the operation very well.
21 Feb Florence not doing well and Grace thinks she will never come home alive.
Eldress Annie is hopeful as thedoctors see no reason why she should not recover.
24 Feb Eldress Anna received phone call at dinner time that Florence is dying so Hugo took Mary
and her to power house. Nothing could be done to save Florence so Eldress Anna came
home by 5 pm. At 7 pm phone call that Florence was dead. Mary came later, said doc-
tors claimed it was a most successful operation in every way but that Florence "was poisoned
through and through with typhoid bacteria in the gall bladder. They drained the bladder
and had it examined at the laboratory and they said it was full of typhoid bacteria. She
died very hard, screamed to the last breath ..." !n the operation they removed the
appendix, straightened the womb, drained the gall bladder and removed hemorrhoids.
Florence only 28 years old, came here to live from Mt. Lebanon about 2 years ago.
25 Feb Eldress Anna went to Albany with Florence's clothes to lay her out in. In afternoon
Albert went in family sleigh to bringFlorence's body home. Placed her in meeting room.
Beautiful coffin - $30, embalming $10.
26 Febq High fierce gales of wind, almost a blizzard. Albert and Joe digging$he gratfe. We sent
hot coffee and lunch to them. They got through at 10:30, soaked through. Florence looks
very natural and nice. The undertaker, Mr. Dasher, "used the new process of tinting the
corpse.a natural color and it is certainlya great improvement over the old awful ghastly
color."
27 Feb Practiced funeral songs in a.m. Brought corpse to Maggie's room and again arranged for
Sun. burial. NF and CF folks here. Almost all spoke or started a song. Hired hands and
friends attend. Pall bearers were Herbert Hall, James^rownell, George Duncan and
Albert & Hugo Stroebel with undertaker. We sang "A Rest," "Over the River of Death,"
"I Shall Know My Own in Heaven," "Waiting and Watching" and at last "Will You Go
With Me to Heaven." CF floral piece was white hyacinths and carnations with ferns; SF
sent roses, calla lilies and ferns. These were later placed in dining room. Flowers from
Ida Otto, (Mrs. Dederick's daughter's governess) were buried with Florence, flowers
from Mrs. Rochester went fo grace. None of sisters went to grave -too bad under foot.
2 Mar A. Goepper says she makes 35 pies every week, A 60* bucket of compound lasts 15 weeks
and makes 425 piec. Also makes 36 loaves of bread per week In winter and more in
summer or total of 1880 loaves.
Marie goes to dining room for meals now but cannot sit down so stands and eats.
8 Mar Hugo, George, Eldress Annie, Deborah, Ella, Grace, Pauline, Helen, Susan, Eleanor
and Marion went by sleigh to Mrs. Kate Tribley's after dinner and had a good time. Had
supper of potato salad, sliced ham, macaroni w/o cheese, tea, coffee, oranges, nut cake,
lemon layer cake, jelly tarts, pineapple Jello, pineapple sauce, crab apple jelly, cabbage
slaw and apples. With 5 of Tribley family, were 16 at table. After supper had games.
Home at 10:30 p.m. thru 50 mph winds and drifting snow.
Rest of family had supper in cook room to save work and there was a jo6ly good time.