{"id":3632,"date":"2009-04-15T23:00:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/15\/the-death-and-burial-of-elias-lather-1831\/"},"modified":"2009-04-15T23:00:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T06:00:44","slug":"the-death-and-burial-of-elias-lather-1831","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/3632","title":{"rendered":"The Death and Burial of Elias Lather – 1831"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 17 Mar 1831, Elias Lather died of consumption (tuberculosis) in Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hessen-Darmstadt (now Germany). He was buried in Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hessen-Darmstadt (now Germany) on 19 Mar 1831.<\/p>\n

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The Death and Burial Record of Elias Lather – 1831<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SOURCE: Kirtorf Evangelische Kirche (Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hessen-Darmstadt), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sterb=Protokoll der Pfarrei Kirtorf f\u00ed\u00bcr das Jahr 1831. [Death Records of the Kirtorf Parish for the Year 1831.],\u201d page 8, Elias Lather, 18 March 1822; filmed as Kirchenbuchduplikat 1808-1875; FHL INTL microfilm 0,855,111.<\/p>\n

Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Death and Burial Record of Elias Lather<\/a>. This PDF document includes an image of the original document, a transcription in German Gothic, a transcription in modern German, and a translation in English. Translated from the German, the record reads:<\/p>\n

8.
\nElias Lather<\/p>\n

Between one and two o’clock in the afternoon on Wednesday, the seventeenth of March, in the year of the Lord eighteen-hundred thirty-one, Elias Lather, citizen and baker here in Kirtorf, forty-nine years four months and twenty-two days old, died of consumption, and was buried in the earth according to Christian custom at twelve o’clock noon on the eighteenth of the above-mentioned month, in the presence of Konrad Lather, citizen and milliner here, and Peter Haus, citizen and baker here, who have signed the present document next to me, the minister.
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 [signed] Konrad Lather
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 [signed] Peter Haus
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 [signed] Johann Konrad Spamer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Elias Lather was apparently the father of Johann Georg Lather and Henrich Lather.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2009 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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