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Surnames: Koch, Cook, Muehlenbein, Newton, Knopfmeier
Classification: Query
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Mary Jane,
Thank you so much for your reply. You gave me so much information. Maybe one day I will be
able to find out who Mathias and George Frederick Kock's parents were.
I was so excited when I found out he had 2 brothers in the U.S. No one from are family
knew it. I found his obituary in a book called:
Translated Abstracts of Death Notices in the Portsmouth Correspondent 1894-1908
(Portsmouth Ohio)
Koch, Friedrich 04/09/1897
Died near Bloom Swich on Saturday; he was born on 13 April 1845 in Westheim, near
Germersheim, in the Pfalz; he came here in 1868; his wife, nee MARSH, bore him 20
children, of whom 17 are still living; 2 years ago he developed cancer of the throat,
which led to his death; of his brothers and sisters, Jakob, here, Mathias, in Evansville,
Indiana, and 2 sisters in Germany survive.
Are you researching any part of this family? If so I have alot of info on the decendants
of George Frederick Koch (Cook). Mathias's brother.
Again thank you so much
Debbie Goins