Kerper, Elizabeth Mrs. Mathias 1859-1890

KERPER, MEYERS

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 1/28/2010 at 04:34:13

From the Alton Democrat of feb 1, 1890
Mrs. Matt Kerper, of Granville, died last Saturday night of consumption. She was a good woman and was loved by all. Three children and her husband are left to mourn her death.
(From the 1885 Iowa State Census Sioux county Floyd Tsp. Matt Kerper age b. 1850, wife Elizabeth b. 1859, children - Susana b. 1881 and John b. 1883. In the 1925 census looking up John Kerper listed parents as Mathias Kerper and Elizabeth Meyers)