I spent some time this past week searching online past issues of the Hampshire (Illinois) Register via the Ella Johnson Memorial Public Library in Hampshire Illinois website. I ran across several interesting articles from the “Burlington” column of the Register. Some of the articles are from the 1940s and 1950s. The Schlicks were a very social group of people. They were always visiting each other on the weekends or staying for awhile at Mary Anne (or “Annie) Armbrust/Schlick and Joseph Schlick’s home at Main and Water Streets in beautiful downtown Burlington Illinois in Kane County. I will be sharing several of these postings online.

Today, I am going to feature Martin Armbrust’s obituary. Martin was the father of Mary Anne Schlick and the father – in – law of Joseph Schlick, Sr. The obituary featured below was published in a January 1914 issue of The Hampshire Register.

I think it is interesting to point out the last sentence of the obituary. We forget that many families ended up taking in family members unable to take care of themselves later in life. Annie Schlick also took care of Marie Sittler (Hoffman/Lycke) when her mother, Annie’s sister Caroline Armbrust/Sittler died after giving birth to Marie. Today’s times we live in move family members to assisted or long term care facilities.