- Obituary of Mrs. K.H. Schaper
Emma Louise Engelbrecht was bom near Drake, Mo., May 10, 1863. She was left an orphan at the age of thirteen. She was converted and united with the German
M.E. Church at the age of 17.
On Aug. 6, 1885, she was united in marriage to Rev. J. O. Jacob. This union was of brief duration, her husband being called from his labors Oct. 8,1887. Of this marriage were two children, Elmer, who passed away April 21, 1938, his home being in Tulsa, Okla., and Amelia, wife of W.J. Burgess, of Chula, Mo., who was born after the death of her father. Of this family there are eleven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Three brothers and three sisters preceded her in death. Those surviving are; John Engelbrecht, Stony Hill, Mo., Joseph and Mrs. Henry Oberg, Bay, Mo., Mrs. Henry Berger, Union, Mo., Gust Engelbrecht, Oxford, Nebr.
On June 26, 1895, Mrs. Jacob became the wife of Bro. K.H. Schaper, whose home was in the vicinity of the Zoar M.E. Church, a few miles north of Wright City.
Here prosperity and happiness crowned their lives until death again brought to her a broken home and a second widowhood in the going home of her husband on Jan. 2,1917.
The issue of this union consisted of five children all of whom are here to give loving tribute to a devoted and saintly mother and to cherish the memory of a kind and indulgent father. 'Tis beautiful indeed, to note that children bereft of their parents rise up in the strength of noble manhood and womanhood and call them blessed.
The children of this union are: George, on home farm, Troy; (Anna) Mrs. Clem Creech, Troy; (Marie) Mrs. Walter Bruning, Wright City; (Emma) Mrs. B. G. Meyer,
Topeka, Kan.; Esther, St. Louis. Of this family there are seven grandchildren. There are three surviving step-sons and a number of step-grandchildren to whom she was very
devoted.
Three words in this brief life history challenge attention-orphaned, widowed and converted. The first two suggest sorrow, loneliness and in many instances privation and
hardship of various kinds; but the word converted to God through Jesus Christ, how it sweetens the bitterness, softens the hardness and sanctifies all to the working out of the
exceeding and eternal weight of Glory.
Mother Schaper came to visit her daughter, Mrs. Clem Creech, and while there she was stricken with partial paralysis which rendered her helpless, but of which she did not suffer.
Friday morning, March 7, 1941, at 6:30 the second stroke summoned her to be absent from the body, but present with the Lord.
Loving care was ministered by Mrs. Creech and other members of the family up to the final moment of the closing of a beautiful life.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at the Wright City Methodist Church by her pastor. Rev. J. L. Nickerson, assisted by Rev. Louis J. Duewel of Troy.
Interment was in the Zoar cemetery.
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1863 - 1941 (77 years)
