This is a history of Joseph and Elisabeth Marie Schneider Koch, who came to America on December 4, 1893, from Sarreinsming in the Lorraine area of France (also known as Lothringen in German). The family settled in Alton, Iowa in 1894, and most of them stayed in northwest corner of Iowa or southwest Minnesota. Family names include Sanford, Wiltgen, Ahlers, Dirckx, Raymond, Rattray. More complete family trees are located on Rootsweb.com and on Ancestry.com.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Betty Koch
Betty was born in 1928. She never married and now lives in Sioux City, Iowa, where she sold school supplies for over 42 years.
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