Notes for Christine STAACK

Notes for Christine STAACK

SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Genealogical Society of UT. Mrs. C.M. Mueller, 818 5th Ave, Salt Lake City UT. (Emigration) Submitted by Christina Magdalena Mahrt great grand daughter. Information was obtained by correspondence with Parish Register of Haddeby, Schlewwig, Holstein, Germany. (abt 1950)

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ON THE DEATH OF CHRISTINA STAACK-HOLST

The services of Mrs. Christina Stoke Holst were held at the Vale Presbyterian Church on Friday afternoon, Rev. C.D. Erskine of Sturgis officinting. Interment was made in the Vale cemetery. Deceased died of dropsy on Monday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Holdren of Vale, after an illness of over a year. Six children survive the mother Mrs. William Holdren, Mrs. O. Arndt, Mrs. Peter Felion, John Holst, Wm. Holst, all residing in or near Vale, and Mrs. Boyson Ross of Akron, Iowa. The deceased was born in Slagswig, Germany, October 28th 1826. She came to this country in 1851, and married Johan Holst in 1852. In 1865 the family came to Dakota Territory, and in 1883 moved to the Black Hills. The church edifice was filled with sorrowing friends, which attests the high esteem in which she was held. The sympathy of the community is extended to the bereaved family.

There are 2 mistakes in the above article.

1st was Christina last name it should of been written as Staack not Stoke.

2nd was were she was born, it should of been spelled Schleswig, not Slagswig.

(Richard J. Duprel (1990)

Christena arrived port of New Orleans in June 1850 this per papers at the Sturgis, SD. court house in 1989>