Aberdeen Weekly News Thursday, May 13, 1915
Michael Ryman, who was 78 years old last August, died at the home of his son, Casper Ryman, near Mansfield Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock of a stroke of apoplexy. The funeral was held Saturday at 1 o’clock at the home and at 2:30 o’clock at the Warner M. E. church, the Rev. C. F. Strutz, pastor of the Evangelical church at Aberdeen, officiating.
Michael Ryman was a pioneer of Brown county locating with his family on the farm on which he died in 1885. In 1901 he removed to California, but returned here in 1908 where he since resided. The deceased was born in Switzerland in August, 1835. In 1861 he was married to Magdalena Bossly. Two years later, the young couple came to America, locating in Sullivan county, New York, where they resided until they came to Brown county in 1885. They were the parents of eleven children, two of whom are dead. Mrs. Ryman died in November, 1913. The surviving children are Michael of Buena Park, Cal., Edward, of Onaka, Edmunds county, and John, William, Casper, Mrs. Mattie Neiger, Mrs. Anna Wilson, Mrs. Katie Payne and Mrs Amelia Hye, all of Brown county.
~Transcribed by volunteer researcher, Kathy Smith