MRS. AMELIA KOCH - Biography

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This biography appears on page 644-645 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

MRS. AMELIA KOCH, widow, Sec. 31; P. O. Burlington; born in Einstein,
Bavaria, Feb. 22, 1835; daughter of Francis and Elizabeth Mayer; she
came with her parents, in 1847, to Bloomfield, Wis. her father bought
eighty acres of land in Bloomfield, with residence and all improvements;
her mother died June 6, 1865, and her father died Feb. 27, 1875. On Feb.
1, 1859, she was married, in Burlington, to Anton Koch, and located
here; her husband owned 130 acres in Sec. 31, with residence and barns;
he married before, Margaret Feinstein, who died in Burlington in
September, 1858; they had no children; Mrs. Koch had nine children, six
of whom are dead; her husband, Anton Koch, was born in Fulda, near
Bavaria, Sept. 8, 1811, and died in Burlington in 1873. On Dec. 3, 1865,
while Mr. and Mrs. Koch were at church, a hired man named Peter Frohm,
while attempting to rob the house, murdered two of Mrs. Koch's children,
and another child of her sister's, three children in all, but did not
succeed in finding the money that was fortunately hidden away. Her three
children still living are named Eva J., Maria E., Annie E.