Obit for Mrs Sophia MIESKE (d.1904), Nicollet Co., MN ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find the submitter information or other files for this county. FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Conrad Irrgang Submitted: April 2002 ========================================================================= From The Nicollet Leader, December 31, 1904: Chronicle of the death of Mrs Sophia Mieske, who passed away at the home of her son, Ardy Johnson, at 8:30 o'clock last Monday morning. She was 68 years of age and was a native of Germany. She came to this country in 1851 and first settled in Joliet, Illinois where she remained three years, then removed to LeSueur County, Minnesota, then to Nicollet County in this township. She is survived by four sons, William Engel, Ardy Johnson and Otto Mieske of Nicollet and D T Johnson of Hendricks, Minnesota.