Obituary printed in a Benson newspaper, Benson, Nebraska (note: Benson is now incorporated into Omaha, Nebraska)

Her birth place is now known as Eckernförde is a German town in Schleswig-Holstein, Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde, (source—internet)

*Note: there is some confusion as to the death date of Paul Stoltenberg (here it says June 11, 1900—on his obituary in a Thursday paper, the article said he died on a Tuesday, which would have been June 12, 1900). Both his and Sophie’s obituaries are based on somebody else’s transcription—the newspaper articles aren’t there, and the tombstones only have birth/death years.

Mrs. Sophie Stoltenberg

Died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Voss, 6310 Binney, on Wednesday evening at 5:30 o’clock, after a prolonged illness of many years.

Funeral services to be held at the home Friday, August 28, Rev. C. J. Ringer, pastor of the First English Lutheran church, officiating. Interment will be at Fort Calhoun, where she will be laid to rest beside her husband, Paul Stoltenberg, who died June 11, 1900.*

Mrs. Sophie Stoltenberg was one of the early Nebraska pioneers. She was born in Eckenfuerda, Germany in 1833, coming to America with her parents in 1854, settling in Commerce, Iowa. She was married to Paul Stoltenberg on June 5, 1856, after which Mr. and Mrs. Stoltenberg located in Fort Calhoun. They were continual residents of Calhoun and vicinity for about 38 years. About ten years after the death of her husband, she came to make her home in Benson, residing with her children, who were located there.

She was 81 years old at the time of her death, and is survived by seven children: Henry of Florence, Charles and George of Dunning, Nebraska, Edward of Benson, Mrs. H. Melotz of Florence, and Mrs. Charles Voss of Benson. All were at her bedside. * Minnie (Mrs. William Kruse). She was born 4 May 1833.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska ~~~

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