William and Sophia Pagenkopf
In the year 1858, Gottlieb Pagenkopf and family came directly from Germany
and settled in the Lyon Creek area, on a farm now occupied by Wilbur Hummel. His
father, Martin, a widower, came with the family and lived in a dugout on the
same property, west of what is now the Alex Lorei farm. Gottlieb's son, Louis,
homesteaded on a farm southeast of the original place which is now the home of
Ralph Schlesener. Then Louis bought his son, William, the Nitsche farm, located
northeast of his father's. Louis also bought his other son, Ed, the adjoining
quarter to the north, which was later known as the Wm. Vahsholtz place. After
it was sold to Wm. Vahsholtz, Louis and family and son Ed all moved to Nashville,
Kansas, buying property there.
William and Sophia, nee Kleinschmidt, lived nearly fifty years on this
place, raising two children: Selma, who married Dr. Harold Ollhoff and lives in
Sterling, Colorado; and Raymond, who married Lillian Albrecht and now farms
and lives on his home place, being the fourth generation Pagenkopf living nearly
130 years later just two miles from the great-grandfather's homestead.
Source: Woodbine, Kansas Centennial, 1887 - 1987,
Woodbine through the years pg. 107
Submitted by Lillian Pagenkopf