Catharina Maria STAPEL

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Katharina Stapel was born in Westphalia, Germany, in 1800. Part of the family lore about Katharina is that she remembered watching Napoleon's army marching toward Moscow in 1812. Family tradition also remembers her family as belonging to the nobility and lists Paderborn as the probable birthplace.

Katharina and Bernard Brockman were married in Germany and their four children were born there. They left Germany, the family story has it, so that Bernard, well-educated, tall and stately, could avoid being conscripted into the elite guard of the Kaiser. They came to America by steamship in 1842. Their ten year-old daughter died en route. They landed in New Orleans, made their way up the Mississippi to St. Louis and then to Fort Madison. They settled in St. Paul, Iowa, where Bernard farmed until his death on March 23, 1875. He is buried in the cemetery there. Katharina later moved out to Nebraska where their son Martin had gone to homestead. She died in St. Stephen's in 1887 and is buried there.

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