First White Woman Settler Dies

EFFERDING

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 8/25/2011 at 14:49:09

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, May 3, 1894.

First White Woman Settler Dies-

Mrs. Hannah Efferding, the first white woman who ever settled in Tete Des Morts township, died at the home of her son, Louis, about four miles north of town, yesterday evening. Mrs. Efferding came to Tete Des Morts with her late husband Louis in 1838.