This is part of a article that I found on a website containing history of the Apostolic Christian Church. I just copied the references to Hohulin’s. I wonder if Gottlieb would be amazed by how Ezra’s family still has a heart for God’s word.
In recent years my cousins Tim and Mike Hohulin served as Pastors in the Apostolic Christian Church.
Mark Hohulin
THOSE WHO SPOKE THE WORD
CONGERVILLE AND GOODFIELD APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH
GOTTLIEB HOHULIN 1834 - 1915
GOTTLIEB HOHULIN
PROMINENT TEACHER AND MINISTER DIED AT GOODFIELD - FUNERAL SUNDAY.
GOTTLEIB HOHULIN DIED AT HIS LATE HOME AT GOODFIELD ON WEDNESDAY OF LAST WEEK. HE WAS ONE OF THE OLDEST RESIDENTS AND MOST PROMINENT CITIZENS OF THE COUNTY, ALTHOUGH A GENTLEMAN OF UNOBTRUSIVE PERSONALITY. THE FUNERAL WAS HELD FROM THE AMISH CHURCH AT GOODFIELD ON SUNDAY, AND IT IS ESTIMATED THAT ABOUT 1200 PEOPLE WERE IN ATTENDANCE. THEY CAME IN 130 AUTOMOBILES BESIDES A NUMBER TO TEAMS FURNISHED CONVEYANCES.
GOTTLEIB HOHULIN WAS BORN IN BADEN, GERMANY, MARCH, 1834, DIED AT GOODFIELD, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 11, 1915. HE CAME TO AMERICA IN 1859, AND SETTLED IN MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP, WOODFORD COUNTY. HE TAUGHT GERMAN SCHOOL DURING THE WINTER MONTHS FOR THE FIRST THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF HIS RESIDENCE IN ILLINOIS; HE ALSO TAUGHT SCHOOL IN KANSAS. HE WAS MARRIED OVER FIFTY YEARS AGO TO AUGUSTINE WENGER, WHO SURVIVES HIM AND IS LIVING AT GOODFIELD. THEY HAD A FAMILY OF SEVEN CHILDREN, FOUR BOYS AND THREE GIRLS, SAM AND JOHN LIVE AT GOODFIELD, SEVEN MILES SOUTH OF EUREKA AND ARE ENGAGED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THE WELL KNOWN HOHULIN LAWN FENCES; MRS. JOHN STOLLER LIVES AT MORTON; MRS. HANNAH MOSER IS DECEASED; JOE AND TIM ARE FARMERS IN STEPHEN COUNTY, MINN.; MRS. LIZZIE YERGLER, OF GOODFIELD. MR. HOHULIN HAD BEEN A MINISTER OF THE AMISH CHURCH FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS, AND WAS ONE OF THE OLDEST MINISTERS OF THIS CHURCH IN AMERICA.
PEOPLE WERE PRESENT AT THE FUNERAL FROM SEVERAL OF THE SURROUNDING STATES.
SAMUEL HOHULIN 1869 - 1929
DEATH ENDS LONG BUSINESS CAREER
TRIBUTE OF A FRIEND TO SAMUEL HOHULIN, WELL KNOWN GOODFIELD CITIZEN
IT WAS MY PRIVILEGE TO KNOW REV. SAMUEL HOHULIN FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. I KNEW THE FAMILY WELL. HE WAS A SON OF MR. AND MRS. GOTTLIEB HOHULIN AND WAS BORN JAN. 7, 1869, ON A FARM SIX MILES SOUTH OF EUREKA, WOODFORD COUNTY, ILLINOIS, WHERE HE LIVED WITH HIS PARENTS UNTIL 1893, WHEN HE BEGAN WORKING FOR HAECKER & SCHUMACHER IN THE IMPLEMENT BUSINESS IN GOODFIELD. HE WAS MARRIED TO LENA HELDERLE AT MACKINAW DELLS IN 1895.
ON SEPT. 15, 1893, HE AND HIS BROTHERS, JOHN AND TIM, BOUGHT OUT THE IMPLEMENT BUSINESS OF HAECKER & SCHUMACHER, ADDED A BLACKSMITH SHOP AND STARTED A FENCE FACTORY, IN 1902 THEY STARTED A GENERAL STORE. THESE BROTHERS WERE IN BUSINESS TOGETHER UNTIL FEBRUARY, 1907, WHEN TIM SOLD HIS SHARE TO THE OTHER TWO BROTHERS AND MOVED TO MINNESOTA. THE FIRM THEN WAS CALLED HOHULIN BROS.
THEY SOLD THE IMPLEMENT BUSINESS AND BLACKSMITH SHOP AND GAVE ALL OF THEIR TIME TO THE MANUFACTURING OF CHAIN-LINK AND ORNAMENTAL FENCING AND CONTINUED THE GENERAL STORE. SAM WAS GIFTED WITH MARKED BUSINESS ABILITY AND GOODFIELD OWES MUCH OF ITS PRESENT "UP-TO-DATE" PROSPERITY TO THIS.
HIS FRIENDS WERE LEGION AND HIS COUNSEL WAS OFTEN SOUGHT; HE WAS EVER READY TO HELP HIS FRIENDS. HE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT GAILEY AND LEARNED TO READ AND WRITE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. HE WAS MUCH INTERESTED IN EDUCATION AND SCHOOL MATTERS IN GENERAL, AND SERVED AS DIRECTOR OF THE GOODFIELD SCHOOL A NUMBER OF YEARS.
HE WAS EVER TRUE TO HIS RELIGIOUS VIEWS AND STOOD FIRMLY FOR THE THINGS HIS CONSCIENCE TOLD HIM WERE RIGHT. HE BECAME A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT AN EARLY AGE AND BEGAN PREACHING ABOUT FIFTEEN YEARS AGO.
IT CAN BR TRULY SAID OF SAM THAT HE WAS A SELF-MADE MAN; BEGINNING AT THE FOOT OF THE LADDER, CLIMBING BY DEGREES UNTIL BE LEAVES A FINE BUSINESS TO HIS SPLENDID BOYS AND GIRLS AND A BEAUTIFUL HOME FOR THE NOBLE WIFE AND MOTHER, WHO BY HER LOVE AND DEVOTION ENABLED HIM TO DO THIS.
HE WAS CALLED TO MEET HIS "PILOT, FACE TO FACE" ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1929. HE LEAVES HIS WIDOW AND THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: MRS. E. WOERTZ, ELI, RUTH, JOHN, BEN, CHRIS, EDWIN, LYDIA AND LAWRENCE, ALL OF GOODFIELD. THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS AND SISTERS: JOHN HOHULIN, MRS. J. STOLLER AND MRS. LIZZIE YERGLER, OF GOODFIELD; JOSEPH, OF MORRIS, MINN.; AND TIM, OF FORT SCOTT, KAN. ONE SISTER, HANNAH, DIED MAY 13, 1900. HIS FATHER DIED AUG. 11, 1915, AND HIS MOTHER, DEC. 12, 1915.
THE FUNERAL OF MR. HOHULIN WAS HELD AT ONE P. M. SUNDAY, MAY 11, IN THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AT GOODFIELD. THE REV. JACOB STETTNER, OF ELGIN, ILL., PREACHED IN GERMAN AND THE REV. NOAH SCHROCK, OF OAKVILLE, IA., PREACHED IN ENGLISH. THEIR TEXT WAS TAKEN FROM ST. JOHN, 7TH CHAPTER. A VERY LARGE CONCOURSE OF PEOPLE (2000 OR MORE) CAME TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS. FRIENDS AND RELATIVES FROM OHIO, MICHIGAN, INDIANA, KANSAS, MISSOURI, OKLAHOMA AND MINNESOTA WERE THERE.
SAM WILL BE GREATLY MISSED IN THE COMMUNITY WHERE HE HAS BEEN A LEADING FORCE. TO THE BEREAVED WIDOW AND CHILDREN. I GIVE MY HEARTFELT SYMPATHY. - A FRIEND.
ELDER EDWIN HOHULIN 1910 - 1943
EDWIN HOHULIN
THE FUNERAL OF EDWIN HOHULIN, 81, OF GOODFIELD WAS HELD AT 10 A. M. MONDAY AT GOODFIELD APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
BURIAL WAS IN GOODFIELD-CONGERVILLE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY.
VISITATION WAS HELD SUNDAY AT KNAPP-JOHNSON FUNERAL HOME, MORTON, AND FOR ONE HOUR BEFORE THE SERVICE AT THE CHURCH MONDAY.
MR. HOHULIN DIED AT 7:45 P. M. THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 1992, AT APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN HOME, EUREKA.
HE WAS BORN APRIL 12, 1910, IN GOODFIELD, A SON OF SAMUEL AND MAGDALENA HELDERLE HOHULIN. HE MARRIED ELSIE STOLLER APRIL 21, 1935, IN GRIDLEY. SHE SURVIVES.
ALSO SURVIVING ARE THREE SONS, SAMUEL E., LEXINGTON; WILLIAM S., GOODFIELD; AND JAMES L., MORTON; ONE DAUGHTER, LEANN BUCHER, INDIANAPOLIS; THREE BROTHERS, BEN AND JOHN, BOTH OF GOODFIELD, AND CHRIS, EUREKA; TWO SISTERS, RUTH HOHULIN, GOODFIELD, AND LYDIA HEINIGER, MORTON; 17 GRANDCHILDREN; AND 11 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.
HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE SON, TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER.
MR. HOHULIN WAS AMONG SIX PARTNERS AT HOHULIN BROTHERS FENCE CO., WHERE HE WORKED FOR 60 YEARS.
HE WAS A MEMBER OF GOODFIELD APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH FOR 59 YEARS, WHERE HE TAUGHT SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR 15 YEARS, WAS A MINISTER FOR THE CHURCH FOR 35 YEARS AND SERVED AS AN ORDAINED ELDER FOR 18 YEARS.
DURING HIS MINISTRY AT GOODFIELD, HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN STARING A BIBLE CLASS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AND LATER ESTABLISHING A PERMANENT APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THAT AREA. THROUGH HIS LEADERSHIP, THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL AT ATHENS, ALA., WAS FOUNDED.
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