OBITUARY for Appleton Esler 1859 - 1938

While wandering around Ancestry I noticed I had a leaf hint for my step great grandfather Appleton Esler.  He raised my grandmother since she was a baby and was considered her father.

I found his obituary that was shared by a member.  What it tells me is who his first wife was, the mother of his first two children.

This is the Obituary as written in the Kanabec County Times
Mora , Kanabec County , Minnesota Thursday December 15.1938

PIONEER MORA RESIDENT PASSES AWAY TUESDAY

Death of A N Esler follows illness of several months duration

     On Tuesday morning, December 13, A N Esler , pioneer resident of the village of Mora, passed away at his home after a lingering illness of several months duration.
     Appleton Nashua Esler was born on February 25, 1859 and passed away on December 13, at the advanced age of seventy nine years ,nine months and eighteen days.  He was the eldest child of Jesse w and Maria Keeler Esler being born on a farm near Chaseburg, Wisconsin , where he lived with his parents until he was united in marriage to Minnie Schnik in September 1883.  They moved to Jackson, Minnesota from Wisconsin and resided there for several years.  It was while they made their home at Jackson that Mrs. Esler passed away.
     He was united in marriage to Catherine Gallagher on December 12, 1893 at La Crosse Wisconsin and they later moved to Big Lake, Minnesota where they resided for a short time before they moved to Mora in the year 1898, where the family has since resided.
     He is resided by his widow Mrs Catherine Esler and five children, namely Mrs H M Halvorson of McGrath, R G Esler of Mora, Mrs A J Kramer and J Wayne Esler of Flint Michigan and Mrs W H Day of Ogilvie, besides one brother D M Esler of Motley, Minnesota , two daughter in laws, three son in laws, sixteen grandchildren and one great grandson besides numerous other relatives and a host of friends.
     Funeral services will be held at the M E Church in Mora on Sunday afternoon December 18, at 2 o clock, the Rev John Blackhurst officiating assisted y the Rev Homer I Munson pastor of the church.
     The vocal selections will be rendered by a quartet composed of Alyre, Ellen and Walter Swanson and Wesley Grimm , accompanied at the piano by Mrs A W Jackson.
     The pallbearers will be the following C E Williams, William Currie , L L Safford, walter Edgar, J B Gerham and A L Johnston.
     Mrs Kramer and Wayne Esler who visited with their father at their parents home here last week returned to their homes in Flint Michigan Thursday and will be unable to attend the funeral.

I am happy to be able to find the information for Appleton's first wife the mother of my great great aunt and uncle but I have not been able to find further information on Minnie Schnik.  Ancestry hints go towards some one else. I have a message out to the ancestry member who shared the obituary maybe she has more information.

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