Alfred Frederick Christian Speth

  Noted events in his life were:

• Miscellaneous. Mr. Alfred C. Speth, 67, passed away Saturday in a Devils Lake, N.D. hospital, after an extended illness. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 in the Karrmann Funeral Home. Rev. R.R. Doering, Pastor of the First English Lutheran church of Platteville, officiated. Burial was made in the Belmont cemetery.
Mr. Speth was born on a farm near Belmont. He attended the Belmont schools and lived in the Belmont area until 1952. He lived in Rockford, Ill., where he was employed in a furniture factory from 1952 to 1957. For the past two years he had made his home with his daughter in Devils Lake, N.D. His wife died in 1920.
Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Arnold Dreher, Minneapolis, Minn., and Miss Delphone Speth, Devils Lake, N.D.; one son, Delbert Speth, Milwaukee; one sister, Mrs. Steinhoff, Platteville; one granddaughter, and many other relatives.
The Platteville Journal and Grant County News 1 Oct 1959

Alfred married Marie Wilhelmine Engelke, daughter of Heinrich Johann Engelke and Louise Dorothea Charlotte Riechers. (Marie Wilhelmine Engelke was born in Mar 1896 and was buried in Belmont, WI, Belmont Cemetery.)