The majority of the time I have a reasonable idea how a relative met their spouse. Once in a while I do not. How John S. Driesbach met Sophia Dirks before their 1896 marriage was something of a question for me. They were married at the Lutheran Church in Coatsburg, Illinois, where Sophia had been […]

The discussion of John S. Driesbach and Sophia (Dirks) Driesbach continues. In February of 1914, Sophia (Dirks) Driesbach died in Coatsburg, Illinois. She was survived by her husband John S. It’s not entirely clear if he was living in Coatsburg when she died. His residence is not mentioned in her obituary and the reference to […]

Sophia Dreisbach died in Coatsburg, Adams County, Illinois, on 2 February 1914. In her early forties, Sophia died in the town where she had been born in 1868 and where she had spent much of her life. She was laid to rest in the Dirks family plot in Coatsburg’s Gray Cemetery. Sophia’s estate in Adams […]