This file and photo for use on USGenWeb/MOGenWeb Lincoln County Heritage Pages courtesy of Patty Jamerson Archer, 30 September 1998.  Link change or update: Saturday, 22-Mar-2008 06:06:37 MDT

Families of Lincoln County, Missouri
Koester Children of Wilhelm and Mary Ann "Polly" (Kinion) Koster (about 1935)
Photo from the collection of Patty Jamerson Archer, information compiler, 1998.

Koester Children of Wilhelm and Mary Ann "Polly" (Kinion) Koster
(Taken in Lincoln Co., MO, about 1935)
(l to r): Lucy (Koester) Britton (wife of Wesley Britton), Kate (Koester)
McClellan (wife of Levi McClellan), John Koester (husband of Molly Slater),
Sarah (Koester) Cluny (wife of Daniel Cluny), Ellen (Koester) Holcomb (wife
of Leonard Holcomb).

Wilhelm KOSTER was born 1813 in Hannover, Germany and died between 1875-1880 in Lincoln Co., Missouri.  On March 7, 1850, at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church, he married Mary Ann "Polly" KINION (dau. of William Riley KINION and Rachel Rebecca (COX) KINION).  Mary was born in Lincoln County, Missouri, March 1830/34 and died there in 1920/22.

Their children were:  Mary Frances, Margaret Augusta, Ellen Elizabeth, Sarah Frances, John William Thomason, Sophronia Catherine, Lutisia, Elizabeth Ann, Bridget Amelia, Rebecca and Rachel.

Contributor Notes: If the baptismal records at St. Alphonsus read "Louisa" instead of "Lutisia", there may also have been a daughter Louisa.

This file and photo for use on USGenWeb/MOGenWeb Lincoln County Heritage Pages courtesy of Patty Jamerson Archer, 30 September 1998.  Link change or update: Saturday, 22-Mar-2008 06:06:37 MDT

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