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Peter Koenig

Birth	:	17 Nov 1860 Ontario, Canada
Death	:	12 May 1948 Sterling, Logan County, Colorado, USA
Burial	:	Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Shawnee, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.0167700, -94.7228800
Plot	:	Lot 0047, Space 01, Section 1-140
Inscription	:	KOENIG PETER NOV. 17, 1860 - MAY 12, 1948 MARGARET H. WIFE OF PETER JUNE 13, 1869 - MAY 2, 1936 MAGGIE KOENIG STOLTZ DAUGHTER OF PETER & MAGDALENA SEPT. 9, 1883 - FEB. 9, 1913 CLARENCE CLAYTON SON O
Description	:	Tombstone, top right, inscription: KOENIG PETER NOV. 17, 1860 - MAY 12, 1948 MARGARET H. WIFE OF PETER JUNE 13, 1869 - MAY 2, 1936 MAGGIE KOENIG STOLTZ DAUGHTER OF PETER & MAGDALENA SEPT. 9, 1883 - FEB. 9, 1913 CLARENCE CLAYTON SON OF PETER & MAGDALENA AUG. 31, 1898 - FEB. 14, 1907 Tombstone, second one down, inscription: KOENIG MAGDALENA WIFE OF PETER JULY 12, 1862 - FEB. 21, 1905 EMMA ELIZABETH DAUGHTER OF PETER & MAGDALENA AUG. 11, 1886 - SEPT. 19, 1899 --- Article from "Sterling Centennial Logan County Family History, 1884-1894" (edited) - The Peter Koenig Family - Peter Koenig was born in the village of Mildmay, Ontario, Canada November 17, 1860. Peter grew... Read More	Tombstone, top right, inscription: KOENIG PETER NOV. 17, 1860 - MAY 12, 1948 MARGARET H. WIFE OF PETER JUNE 13, 1869 - MAY 2, 1936 MAGGIE KOENIG STOLTZ DAUGHTER OF PETER & MAGDALENA SEPT. 9, 1883 - FEB. 9, 1913 CLARENCE CLAYTON SON OF PETER & MAGDALENA AUG. 31, 1898 - FEB. 14, 1907 Tombstone, second one down, inscription: KOENIG MAGDALENA WIFE OF PETER JULY 12, 1862 - FEB. 21, 1905 EMMA ELIZABETH DAUGHTER OF PETER & MAGDALENA AUG. 11, 1886 - SEPT. 19, 1899 --- Article from "Sterling Centennial Logan County Family History, 1884-1894" (edited) - The Peter Koenig Family - Peter Koenig was born in the village of Mildmay, Ontario, Canada November 17, 1860. Peter grew up speaking German as his parents Ludwig (Lewis) and Elizabeth Koenig had emigrated to Canada from Germany in the 1850s. Always ambitious, Peter apprenticed to a blacksmith at an early age and photos show his powerful chest and shoulders which developed from working the blacksmith bellows. By the time he was twenty, however, his lungs were being badly affected by the smoke of the blacksmith shop and he had to look for another occupation. His physical strength led him to become an apprentice stonemason. Most of the large homes were made of the native grey stone and his work was in great demand. Many of the homes he built in the 1880s are still occupied one hundred years later. In 1882, he married Magdalena Heist and shortly afterward, purchased his father's farm. Peter's brother John had left Canada and had settled in Nebraska a few miles from the first homestead claim in the US. John asked his aging parents to return with him to Nebraska while he and his family were visiting Canada. When John, his wife and 13 children left in their covered wagon for their new home, the elder Koenigs went with them. Thus Peter purchased his father's farm which was the original Royal land grant. The grant had been filed under Lewis King, the Anglican version of Ludwig Koenig. In only a few years the Westward Expansion bug bit Peter also and he and Henry Thurkhorn went to Nebraska to look for homestead land. However, they had arrived too late and all of the land had been claimed. He was advised to look for land around the new town of Greeley, Colorado, but he found the same problem there. The only land available was across the Platte River in the sandhills several miles east of the new town of Sterling. Peter returned to Canada, loaded his belongings including a team of horses in a boxcar and he and his family moved to Colorado. By then, the family included three daughters, Maggie, Lydia, and Emma, and one son, baby Jacob Edward. One can only imagine Magdaena's thoughts as she recalled the plush woods of her Canadian home as she surveyed the endless dry prairie surrounding her new home at LeRoy. This was the third settlement of the area as the rainless summers had driven two earlier sets of homesteaders away. Peter was businessman enough to realize that the only sure money to be made probably wouldn't be from farming, so he opened a general store. The Evangelical Church was central in the lives of the Koenigs as it was in those of most of the settlers of German ancestry. Peter was able to put his earlier training as a stone mason to use when the new stone church was to be built. Although all church services were conducted in German and Peter staunchly read his German Bible, Peter spoke English and he and his brother Will, who had joined the Colorado family, decided to change the pronunciation of the family name from "Kanig" to "Konig," thus making it sound more Anglicanized. The family in Nebraska and in Canada still use the German pronunciation. Each year seemed to bring another child into the family. In the eleven years between 1889 and 1900, five boys and one girl were born. They were Elizabeth, Erwin Henry ("Fat"), Simon Peter ("Sib"), Elroy ("Short"), Clarence and Percy Milton ("Doc"). Then in 1905, Magdalena, expecting her eleventh child, suddenly died. Left a widower with ten children, Peter returned to Canada to seek a wife and mother for his children. When he returned to Sterling, he brought his new wife, Margaret, Magdalena's younger sister, and her twin sons, Clinton and Clayton Astell. In July, 1906, their first son, John Wesley, was born, and eighteen months later in January, 1908, Vergil was born. In 1936, Margaret died and Peter remarried, he was never able to find another woman as kind as Magdalena and Margaret had been. He died May 12, 1948 leaving many descendants. ------- Peter Koenig's name appears on page 207 of the "History of the State of Colorado" by Frank Hall. ------- Peter Koenig's children with Magdalena Heist: 1. Maggie Koenig b: 09 SEP 1883 in Canada; d. 9 Feb 1913 in Sterling, CO 2. Lydia Ann Koenig b: 29 DEC 1884 in Canada; d. 6 May, 1981 in CA 3. Emma E. Koenig b: 11 AUG 1886 in Canada; d 19 Sept 1899 in Sterling, CO of typhoid fever 4. Jacob Edward Koenig b: 13 MAY 1888 in Canada; d. 31 May, in Sterling, CO 5. Ervin Henry "Fat" Koenig b: 06 JUL 1891 I Leroy, CO; d. 20 Sept 1984 in CA 6. Simon Peter "Sib" Koenig b: 06 DEC 1892 in Leroy, CO; d. 4 June, 1988 in Sterling, CO 7. Elroy Lewis "Short" Koenig b: 27 SEP 1894 in Sterling, CO; d. 24 Nov 1918 in Sterling CO of flu 8. Elsie M. Koenig b: 19 MAY 1896 in Sterling, CO; d. 6 Jan 1983 in hospital in Denver; buried in Sterling, CO 9. Clarence Clayton Koenig b: 31 AUG 1898; d. 4 Feb 1907 in Sterling, CO of spinal meningitis 10. Percy Milton "Doc" Koenig b: 30 JUN 1900 in Sterling, CO; d. 15 Nov 1987 in Austin, TX Peter Koenig's children with Margaret Heist: 1. John Wesley Koenig b: 15 JUL 1906 2. Vergil C. Koenig b: 22 JAN 1908 Margaret Heist's children 1. Clinton A. Astell b: 8 Apr in Canada; d. 7 Sept 1975 in Sterling, CO 2. Clayton J. Astell b 8 Apr in Canada; d. 15 July 1974 in Sterling, CO 1930 Federal census: Name: Peter Koenig Home in 1930: Sterling, Logan, Colorado Age: 69 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1861 Birthplace: Ontario Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's Name: Maggie H Koenig Race: White Rent/home value: $9,000 Age at first marriage: 22 Parents' birthplace - Father: Baden Mother: Baden Name Age Peter Koenig 69 Maggie H Koenig 60 John W Koenig 23 Virgil C Koenig 22 ----- More on Peter Koenig

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Where is Peter Koenig's memorial?
Peter Koenig's memorial is located at: Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Shawnee, Johnson County, USA.
When did Peter Koenig death?
Peter Koenig death on 12 May 1948 in Sterling, Logan County, Colorado, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Peter Koenig's memorial?
Latitude: 39.0167700
Longitude: -94.7228800

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Magdalena Heist Koenig

(1862 - 1905)

Margaret “Maggie” Heist Koenig

(1869 - 1936)

Children

Lydia Ann Koenig Anderson

(1884 - 1981)

Emma Elizabeth Koenig

(1886 - 1899)

Jacob Edward Koenig

(1888 - 1956)

Simon Peter “Sib” Koenig

(1892 - 1988)

Elroy Lewis “Short” Koenig

(1894 - 1918)

Clarence Clayton Koenig

(1898 - 1907)

John Wesley Koenig

(1906 - 1993)

Vergil C. Koenig

(1908 - 1979)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery
Shawnee, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0167700, -94.7228800

2. Shawnee Cemetery
Shawnee, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0181007, -94.7228012

3. Pleasant View Cemetery
Shawnee, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0192490, -94.7236862

4. Shawnee Indian Cemetery
Shawnee, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0210800, -94.7123400

5. Campbell Cemetery
Shawnee, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0294952, -94.7087479

6. Antioch Pioneer Cemetery
Merriam, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9934807, -94.6868896

7. Resurrection Catholic Cemetery
Lenexa, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9763985, -94.7277985

8. Cross Cemetery (Defunct)
Mission, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0223083, -94.6582565

9. Lenexa Cemetery
Lenexa, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9681015, -94.7416992

10. Shawnee Friends Mission Cemetery
Mission, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0185800, -94.6568200

11. Saint Johns Catholic Cemetery
Lenexa, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9666748, -94.7418594

12. Saint Michaels Memorial Garden and Columbarium
Mission, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0081100, -94.6495800

13. Highland Cemetery
Prairie Village, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0111008, -94.6444016

14. Asbury Memorial Garden
Prairie Village, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9932800, -94.6470000

15. Southminster Presbyterian Church Columbarium
Prairie Village, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0145600, -94.6407400

16. Valley View Columbarium and Memorial Garden
Overland Park, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9579200, -94.6838010

17. Village Presbyterian Church Columbarium
Prairie Village, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0083300, -94.6299900

18. Colonial Church Garden of Life
Prairie Village, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0009900, -94.6300200

19. Christ Church Anglican Disciples' Garden
Overland Park, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9649200, -94.6502000

20. Old Mission United Methodist Church Columbarium
Fairway, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0293200, -94.6246500

21. Woolford Farm Grounds
Prairie Village, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9822388, -94.6332169

22. Shawnee Methodist Mission Cemetery
Fairway, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0307846, -94.6217880

23. Corinth Cemetery
Prairie Village, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9783000, -94.6266700

24. Old Monticello Cemetery
Shawnee, Johnson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9951973, -94.8359833