Hubert Kohlgraf

KOHLGRAF, KOLEGRAFF, GROSS

Posted By: Jane Kolegraff Wendell (email)
Date: 9/30/2002 at 14:19:06

CASCADE PIONEER, June 9, 1899:

AN AGED CITIZEN

Mr Hubbard Kolegraff Passes Away At The Age Of Eighty-Five.

Wednesday, June 7, at 10:55 p.m., the spirit of Hubbard Kolegraff winged its silent flight from its tenement of clay to the realms of eternity. The infirmities of age and the weight of his eighty-five years was the cause of his death.

Hubbard Kolegraff was born in Kellendorf, Prussia, in 1814. In 1841 he was married to Miss Mary Briggen, and in 1853 husband and wife came to America to better their fortunes in the great western hemisphere. They settled in St. Mary's Ridge, Wisconsin, and followed the occupation of farming. Following the tide of western emigration they moved to South Dakota, settling on a farm near Zells Station. At this place Mrs. Kolegraff died 14 years ago, and since then the subject of this sketch has made his home in Cascade with his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Gross.
Two sons and two daughters survive their aged father, viz: Philip Kolegraff, Zells Station, S.D.; Adam Kolegraff, Hopesdale, N. Dak.; Mrs. Christina Gross, Cascade, and Mrs. Kate Filber, Watertown, S.D.

Funeral services will be held this morning at 9 o'clock in St. Mary's church, of which deceased was a consistent member, Rev. Father John B. Albers officiating.