Can anyone help Linda? Please respond directly to her and to the list, as I don't know if she's on the list or not. Ideas on places to look are always helpful for the list! Mary List Mom >From: "Linda Kanthack" <[email protected]> >Subject: Ramsey County Query >Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 17:23:58 -0500 > >Hello, > >My great grandmother, Sophie Kanthack, was a life-long resident of St. >Paul. I have a news article noting her passing (which I believe was 1938) >in which they call her a "St. Paul Pioneer." I believe she married a >pastor and may have worked with him to establish one of the very earliest >churches in St. Paul. I vaguely recall that it may have been a small >stone church surrounded by a stone wall. I'm fairly sure it was torn down >for a freeway project many many years ago. She was my dad's grandma and >all I remember him saying was that she arrived in America on a steamship >with her uncle when she was 16, and that she was from Germany >(Bavaria?). And that she was already here in America when "the kaiser" >was still in power in Germany(WWI?). > >Is there anything you can tell me about my great grandmother? Can you at >least tell me where to start looking? My father's gone now (he died in >1986) and I am trying to piece together the details of his (and our) history. > >Thank you for your time. >Linda Kanthack >(daughter of Edward J Kanthack, granddaughter of Goldie Kanthack -nee >O'Donahue -unsure of the spelling, and great granddaughter of Sophie. I >have no idea what my great grandfather's name was.) > >