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Koehn, Marie Wedel (1866-1945)

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1945 May 3 p. 3

Birth date: 1866

text of obituary:

MRS. JOHN H. KOEHN

Mrs. John H. Koehn, nee Marie Wedel, daughter of karl and Eva Koehn Wedel, was born December 22, 1866, in the village of Mesiliski, in the Province Wolhynien, Russia.

During that rather massive emigration movement of the Russian Mennonites to America in the year 1874, she came with her parents, three sisters and two brothers to settle on the prairies of Kansas. Here the family made their new home near what today is known as Galva, in McPherson County.


The Mennonite obituary: 1945 Jun 12 p. 14