Fremont County CoArchives Obituaries.....Koch, August November 26, 1941
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Newspaper probably Wet Mountain Tribune or Canon City Record

August Koch of Westcliffe Dies Following Fall

Believed the last of the original German colony which settled the Wet Mountain
Valley in 1871, August Koch, 75, died at a Canon City hospital at 9 o'clock
Wednesday evening [Nov. 26, 1941] from shock, resulting from a fall last
Saturday afternoon, when his leg was fractured. A widely known valley rancher,
he had resided in Canon City [Fremont County] since December of last year, the
Koch home being at 512 North Seventh Street. His hip was fractured Saturday when
he stepped on a pencil, which rolled and caused him to fall.  Wednesday evening
hospital attendants were setting the fracture in the hospital operating room
when he suffered a heart attack and died instantly.

Born in Frankfurt-on-the-Maine, Germany, on April 29, 1866, Mr. Koch was a boy
of only five years of age when a German colony set out from Chicago for the
west.  Traveling on horseback and in prairie schooners, the party passed through
Canon City in late 1871, continued on into the Wet Mountain Valley.  Mr. Koch's
father, the late Frederick Koch, was one of the leaders.  They settled on what
is now Colony creek, later moved to the present Koch ranch, about two miles
south of Hillside [Fremont County].  That had been the family home until they
moved to Canon City a year ago, with the exception of one brief period when Mr.
Koch resided here. In addition to ranching, he operated a retail ice business in
the valley from 1918 to 1937.  He was a member of Hope Lutheran church of
Westcliffe and a former member of Canon City Elks Lodge No. 610 and the W.O.W
lodge.  He was married at Westcliffe on November 13, 1889, to Miss Mary Knoll
[Noll].  They celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary two years ago.

His wife survives as do nine children, Gustav of Hillside, Miss Katie Koch,
Ernest and Chrisey Koch of Canon City, Otto of Chico, Calif., Henry and Mrs.
Norton Hunt of Denver, Theodore and George of Pueblo [all now deceased], as well
as 20 grandchildren. Funeral arrangements have not been completed pending word
from out-of-town relatives.  The body of Mr. Koch is in care of the Canon
mortuary.

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