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 
     
   

William and Sophia Pagenkopf
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