Obit of Mrs Katherine KOELFGEN (b.1835 d.1924), Nicollet Co., MN
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From The Nicollet Leader, Saturday September 20, 1924 issue:

Funeral services for Mrs Katherine Koelfgen, one of the pioneer mothers 
of the Middle Lake community, whose death occurred last week Wednesday at 
St Joseph's hospital in Mankato, were conducted at the Middle Lake Catholic 
church Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. Rev Fr Hrachovsky of Nicollet,
assisted by Rev George Galles of St Paul, conducted the mass. The
pallbearers, six grand-children of the deceased, were:
Harvey and Roy Patterson, Jay Wintheiser and Leo Koelfgen of Minneapolis, 
John Wintheiser, St Peter, and Joseph Schouviller of Nicollet. 
Interment was made in the church cemetery at Middle Lake. Mrs Koelfgen
was born in Luxemburg in March, 1836 and was therefore 88 years of age 
at the time of her death. She came to America in 1856, settling in Belvue, 
Iowa. While here she was married to Mathias Koelfgen. A year later the
young couple came to Nicollet county and purchased a farm in Granby 
township, where they lived until the Indian outbreak in 1862, when they 
moved to St Peter, returning to their farm five years later. Mr Koelfgen
died in 1876, and from that time until 1889, when she retired, Mrs Koelfgen 
managed the farm with the help of her children. During the last eighteen 
years she made her home with her daughter, Mrs Nick Schouviller at Morgan. 
She is survived by eight children, 46 grandchildren, 94 great grandchildren. 
The children who are left to mourn are: Mrs Nic Schouviller of Morgan; 
Mrs Frank Patterson, Mrs Dave Wintheiser, John, Joseph, and Henry Koelfgen 
of Mineapolis; Nic Koelfgen of St Paul and Mrs Jos Wintheiser of St Peter. 
One daughter, Mrs Lizzie Lang of Waseca, preceded her in death. 
All the children were present at the funeral.