CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - JOHN H. SOOST

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JOHN H. SOOST

John Henry Soost died at his home in Magnet, February 6, 1912. He leaves 
to mourn his departure a devoted wife and three sons, Wm of this place, 
Fred of Bloomfield and Henry of McLean. Appropriate services were held at 
the M.E. Church, the Rev. Martin officiating, after which the remains were 
laid in their last resting place in the Magnet Cemetery. A host of friends 
extends condolence to the bereft ones.

Mr. Soost was born in Neukerchen, Holstein, Germany, January 18, 1839, was 
married to Miss Johanna Hagedorn in 1865, to this union were born three sons 
as above mentioned. With his family he came to this country and settled at 
Davenport, Iowa in 1881 and in 1888 came to Nebraska and settled on a farm 
near Plainview, later moving onto a farm near McLean where he lived until 
the spring of 1904 when he moved to Magnet where he lived until the Master 
called him home.