A Flu Victim's Estate

This notice appeared in the Hobart News of February 13, 1919.

Thus were scattered the worldly goods of Ulric Blickensderfer, "an old soldier and a highly respected citizen," and a casualty of the Spanish influenza.

The Blickensderfers' children are a mystery. Neither Ulric's obituary, nor his wife's in 1911, mentioned any children, although both mentioned other surviving relatives. And yet the News, in connection with the disposal of the estate, said offhandedly: "Mr. and Mrs. Blickensderfer are both dead and the sons, who are well-to-do reside in the city" — the only reference I've seen to any children of theirs. I have not been able to find the family in any census.

As for William Raschka, I know of no family connection to the Blickensderfers.

He did, however, have a family connection to the purchasers of Ulric's house in Ainsworth. His niece, Myrtle (née Nelson), and her husband, Ernest Sitzenstock, Jr., bought the six-room frame house and the acre of ground it sat on for $900. I do not know exactly where the house was, or whether it's still standing.


Sources:
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 13 Feb. 1919.
♦ "Mrs. Blickensderfer Dead." Hobart News 16 Nov. 1911.
♦ "Notice of Public Sale of Personal Property." Hobart Gazette 14 Feb. 1919.
♦ "Notice of Public Sale of Personal Property." Hobart News 13 Feb. 1919.
♦ Untitled obituary. Hobart Gazette 11 Oct. 1918.