CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - Magdelina Suing
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Hartington Herald 3-7-1918

Drove here by Oxen Team Dies at the age of 90 years

	One of the oldest of Cedar County’s pioneer women, Mrs. Bernard 
Suing passed away Monday, March 4th at the home of her daughter, Mrs. 
Peter Dreesen, where she had resided for the past two years.

	Magdelina Koch was born in Frankfort, Germany August 24, 1828, 
and grew to womanhood there. When according to custom, the family home 
was turned over to the eldest son upon his marriage this brave young 
girl and her sister, the late Mrs. Peters, would not be dependent upon 
relatives but made plans to make a home in a new land, and sailed for 
America, landing in Baltimore. Strangers in a strange land. While the 
two girls, 21 and 22 years of age sat frightened and weeping in the waiting 
room, a milkman walked through the room and seeing them in trouble, 
offered his help. By means of his assistance, they found employment and 
remained in the city for several years. It was here that the deceased 
met and married Bernard Suing on April 10, 1853. The continued to make 
their home there for a few years until like many other young people they 
learned of the advantages of the west and came to Dubuque, Iowa, afterward 
moving to New Vienna where they remained until 1861. Then with a company of 
seven other families they planned and determined to take advantage of the 
government homestead law, and set out for the then almost unexplored West. 
When the company, consisting of the Abel, Lammers, Klug, Weiseler, Kohl, 
Wuebben, Gerhard Arens and Suing families had come as far as Omaha, they 
met a man from St. Helena, John Becker and he persuaded them to seek for no 
better land then they could find in Cedar County.  And so they all set out 
in their wagons drawn by ox teams, and arrived here and settled near St. 
Helena on July 3, 1861. 

	The Suings started to build their log home 18 x 24, which they had 
completed but not roofed when winter came on, and so they used the canvas 
off the wagons for roofing. 

	Mr. and Mrs. Suing lived on the homestead until 1892 when they 
moved to Hartington. After the death of her husband in 1894, Mrs. Suing kept 
her own home until 1898, when ill health caused her to break up housekeeping 
and go to live with her sons and daughters. She generally stayed about two 
years at each home.

	The late Mrs. Suing was a fine type of Christian woman, always ready 
to lend a helping hand in sickness or distress. She was a devout member of 
the Catholic Church and one of the charter members of the Christian Mothers 
society of Holy Trinity parish.

	She leaves to mourn their loss nine children. John B. Suing of 
Fordyce, Henry B. Suing of Spokane, Wash., Mrs. Peter Dreesen, of East Bow, 
Mrs. John J. Becker, Sioux City, Iowa, Joe A. Suing on the old homestead at 
St. Helena, Frank J. Suing, Fordyce; Mrs. Matt Dreesen, East Bow, Mrs. F.M. 
Goeden of Exspanse Junct, Canada.