UNDERHILL - Peter Holl, for thirty years a resident of Oconto County died at his home in Underhill at two o'clock Monday afternoon (July 24, 1911), death resulting from Tuberculosis.
Shortly after his dinner on Monday Mr. Holl took a nap and in about ten minutes he was found dead on his bed. He was a life-long Democrat and served on the town board as assessor, and as clerk of the school district for many years.
Deceased was born in Brown County, Wis., April 10, 1861 and came to this county in 1881, settling in the Town of How. The property on which he resided later became part of the Town of Underhill. He never moved from the property on which he settled and by good management and hard work kept adding to it. He was a thrifty man and one of the substantial, prosperous farmers who have done so much toward the upbuilding of Oconto County.
In the spring of 1886 he was married to miss Lizzie Prinz who died on the 12th of July, 1898 (also of TB). The two sons born to them, Joseph and Peter, still reside at home. In the fall of 1899 Mr. Holl was married to Miss Minnie Guelker, who with five children survive him. The children are; Fred, Frances, Julius, Mabel, and Matthew. Five brothers and two sisters are left to morn his death. John, Jacob, Matthew and Ed, all reside in Oconto County and Henry in Brown County. One of his sister, Mrs. (Catherine) G. Edward Kaye, lives in Green Bay, and the other, Mrs. (Anne) Frank Witters, in Marshfield.
Rev. Fr. Schmidt sung a solumn requiem mass in St. Michael's Catholic Church at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, and interment was had at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery (now named St. Michaels).
Peter Holl was a devout Catholic, a kind and loving husband and father, an honest, upright and highly respected citizen, in whose death not only his family suffers a great loss, but the community as well.
(note: Peter Holl is the son of Jacob Holl and Margaret Dollar Holl)