Mrs. Augusta Baltz Todd:  

     Mrs. Augusta Baltz Todd entered this earthly life in Germany near Berlin, July 23, 1853 and passed into the life beyond January 1, 1935. aged 81 years, 6 months, and 23 days.

When she was three years old her parents left the Fatherland and came to America, settling near Wheaton.  Her father died two years after coming to America and her mother passed away at the early age of forty-five.

     She was about seven years old when she came to live south of Shabbona.

December 19, 1871, she was united in marriage with William Todd.  This union was blessed with eight children, her husband and four children have preceded Mrs. Todd into the life beyond this vale of tears.

     Mrs. Todd is survived by two brothers, Walter and Henry Baltz, whose homes are in Ontario, Wisconsin; two sons, Edward of Sandwich and William of Shabbona; Mrs. Anna Frost of Shabbona, and Mrs. Stella Quilhot of Aurora; She has thirty-two grand children living, five having passed on; also thirty great-grandchildren living, two others having died.

     Since the death of her husband William Todd, Mrs. Todd has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Anna Frost, where she received all the loving care that a beloved and devoted daughter could give her.  To this home her children and grand children and great-grand children came bringing all the good cheer they could during her declining years, while she waited for life's sunset and the call to come home.

     For fifty-seven years Mrs. Todd has lived in this home from which she passed to that better home.

As a girl, Mrs. Todd attended the English Church which was such a spiritual power here in the early days.  From that church many of the loyal, devout workers came into the Congregational Church of Shabbona.

"Life's race well run, Life's work well done, Life's victory won, Now cometh rest."

     Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fred Frost.  Dr. Frank Hampton Fox conducted the service.  Roy Wormley sang the great favorite of so many people, "The Old Rugged Cross."