Submitted by: Dan Rich
South Bend Tribune 5/20/1905
Sebastian Berner, a well known
resident of St. Joseph County since 1850, well-to-do farmer and
at one time proprietor of Berner grove between the city and South
Bend, died Monday morning at his county residence in Center
Township, four miles southwest of Mishawaka on the Turkey Creek
Road. He was 81 years old. For the last 22 years he had been an
invalid. Death was due to rheumatism and dropsy. He was bron in
Germany, March 23, 1824. He came to Starke County, Ind. in 1847,
and to South Bend in 1850, and has lived in the county ever
since.
On Octomer 5, 1858 he was married to Miss
Eva Marsch, who survices with the following children;
Samuel Berner and Mrs. George Zimmerman of Mishawaka;
Joseph, Henry and Thomas of Center Township.
The funeral was held from St. Joseph
Catholic Church in South Bend Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock,
the Rev. Father Lauth officiating. Internment was in Cedar
Grove Cemetery.