Catharina Thiessen

Birth: Jun. 30, 1840 Death: Mar. 21, 1909

Catherine Thiessen [1840 – 1909] Calumet County Reporter --- March 24, 1909

Mrs. Catherine Thiessen died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. V. Voelker, at St. Anna, Sunday morning at 8:00. Catherine Thiessen was born in Bieckendorf Sleswich Holstein, Germany, on June 25, 1840, and migrated to America with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Claus Tams; and settled on a farm know now as the Richert farm. They were among the first people who settled in this vicinity and cleared the way to one of the richest farming districts in Wisconsin. In 1858 she was married to Claus Thiessen and settled on a farm near this village. They also lived at Kiel, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Green Bay. The greater part of her life though, was spent at New Holstein until the last few years when she has been living with her daughter at whose home she passed away. Her married life though was beset with many troubles was a happy one. Nine children came to bless her, of whom only three are living, George, the eldest now making his home at Manilla, Mrs. Val. Voelker of St. Anna and Herman of this village. Her life has been a very useful one and many are the friends who will long remember her kind and cheerful face, as it lightened the heavy load of many toiling along life's weary way.