Anna was her mother's twelveth child and she was her father's fifth child. That is to say Anna's mother was previously married and widowed. She did raise all 15 children with her in the same home until her early death at age 44 years..
Anna was six years old when her mother Crescens died in 1877 and eleven when her father Johann Jaeger passed away.
At the time of her dad's death in 1881, Anna and many of her siblings became young orphans. Where would they find foster homes? Three of her brothers were fortunate to find lodging with neighbors and remained in their home area around St. Martin, MN, albeit in separate homes. Four siblings trekked north to Pierz, Minnesota to live in homes of their Jaeger relatives and that left Anna who found a home with her older sister Josephine Finneman in Maine Prairie Township, near beautiful Pearl Lake, twenty-five miles distance from her home farm west of St. Martin.
Josephine (Mrs Anton Finneman) was sixteen years older than Anna, married, raising two sons and was pregnant. She was also hosting in her home her husband's parents, Anton and Katie Finneman.
Anna grew to womanhood living with the Finneman's nine years. On May 13, 1890 she married north in Pierz, MN in the presence of her sisters living in the Pierz area to her Maine Prairie Township neighbor Martin Koller. He was a year and one half older, from Little Kohler, WI (a small place near Sheboygan named for his family) and was farming 120 acres adjacent on the south side of the Finneman farm. Both farms were just east of the waters of Pearl Lake, on the north side of Maine Prairie settlement.
By 1895, the new couple had three children (a fourth child had died as an infant) when Anna died from tuberculosis or consumption as it was known. Martin was devastated. Henry was four, Rosina was three, and William was six months old. Martin sent the children to live with his parents and sister in Wisconsin as he coped with his loss. He left Minnesota and moved to western North Dakota, near Hebron, where he started a new farm and married Maria Halzshak, a recent Austrian immigrant, when he sent for his children. Martin and Maria had no children of their own and they raised his three children to adulthood.
Martin buried Anna at Pearl Lake's Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery. Today, the community is known as Marty, MN. She became the fourth Jaeger sister to die before the age of 25, three of them from tuberculosis. Dreaded consumption was especially hard on young wives and mothers.
Anna and Martin's oldest child Henry Koller was killed at age twenty-three in a North Dakota farming accident and his only child, a five-day-old son, later became Catholic priest Fr. Luke Koller OSB.
Anna and Martin's middle child, Rosina, became Sr. M. Innocent Koller OSB and lived a long life teaching in schools across the Middle West. She is buried at the Mount Marty College, Sacred Heart Convent cemetery in Yankton, SD. Their third and youngest child, William married and lived his life in the Seattle area where he and his wife Stella raised three girls.
The death date on Anna Koller's monument is inaccurate. She died in 1895 not 1894.
written by great nephew Gregory Dorr
Anna was six years old when her mother Crescens died in 1877 and eleven when her father Johann Jaeger passed away.
At the time of her dad's death in 1881, Anna and many of her siblings became young orphans. Where would they find foster homes? Three of her brothers were fortunate to find lodging with neighbors and remained in their home area around St. Martin, MN, albeit in separate homes. Four siblings trekked north to Pierz, Minnesota to live in homes of their Jaeger relatives and that left Anna who found a home with her older sister Josephine Finneman in Maine Prairie Township, near beautiful Pearl Lake, twenty-five miles distance from her home farm west of St. Martin.
Josephine (Mrs Anton Finneman) was sixteen years older than Anna, married, raising two sons and was pregnant. She was also hosting in her home her husband's parents, Anton and Katie Finneman.
Anna grew to womanhood living with the Finneman's nine years. On May 13, 1890 she married north in Pierz, MN in the presence of her sisters living in the Pierz area to her Maine Prairie Township neighbor Martin Koller. He was a year and one half older, from Little Kohler, WI (a small place near Sheboygan named for his family) and was farming 120 acres adjacent on the south side of the Finneman farm. Both farms were just east of the waters of Pearl Lake, on the north side of Maine Prairie settlement.
By 1895, the new couple had three children (a fourth child had died as an infant) when Anna died from tuberculosis or consumption as it was known. Martin was devastated. Henry was four, Rosina was three, and William was six months old. Martin sent the children to live with his parents and sister in Wisconsin as he coped with his loss. He left Minnesota and moved to western North Dakota, near Hebron, where he started a new farm and married Maria Halzshak, a recent Austrian immigrant, when he sent for his children. Martin and Maria had no children of their own and they raised his three children to adulthood.
Martin buried Anna at Pearl Lake's Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery. Today, the community is known as Marty, MN. She became the fourth Jaeger sister to die before the age of 25, three of them from tuberculosis. Dreaded consumption was especially hard on young wives and mothers.
Anna and Martin's oldest child Henry Koller was killed at age twenty-three in a North Dakota farming accident and his only child, a five-day-old son, later became Catholic priest Fr. Luke Koller OSB.
Anna and Martin's middle child, Rosina, became Sr. M. Innocent Koller OSB and lived a long life teaching in schools across the Middle West. She is buried at the Mount Marty College, Sacred Heart Convent cemetery in Yankton, SD. Their third and youngest child, William married and lived his life in the Seattle area where he and his wife Stella raised three girls.
The death date on Anna Koller's monument is inaccurate. She died in 1895 not 1894.
written by great nephew Gregory Dorr
Anna was her mother's twelveth child and she was her father's fifth child. That is to say Anna's mother was previously married and widowed. She did raise all 15 children with her in the same home until her early death at age 44 years..
Anna was six years old when her mother Crescens died in 1877 and eleven when her father Johann Jaeger passed away.
At the time of her dad's death in 1881, Anna and many of her siblings became young orphans. Where would they find foster homes? Three of her brothers were fortunate to find lodging with neighbors and remained in their home area around St. Martin, MN, albeit in separate homes. Four siblings trekked north to Pierz, Minnesota to live in homes of their Jaeger relatives and that left Anna who found a home with her older sister Josephine Finneman in Maine Prairie Township, near beautiful Pearl Lake, twenty-five miles distance from her home farm west of St. Martin.
Josephine (Mrs Anton Finneman) was sixteen years older than Anna, married, raising two sons and was pregnant. She was also hosting in her home her husband's parents, Anton and Katie Finneman.
Anna grew to womanhood living with the Finneman's nine years. On May 13, 1890 she married north in Pierz, MN in the presence of her sisters living in the Pierz area to her Maine Prairie Township neighbor Martin Koller. He was a year and one half older, from Little Kohler, WI (a small place near Sheboygan named for his family) and was farming 120 acres adjacent on the south side of the Finneman farm. Both farms were just east of the waters of Pearl Lake, on the north side of Maine Prairie settlement.
By 1895, the new couple had three children (a fourth child had died as an infant) when Anna died from tuberculosis or consumption as it was known. Martin was devastated. Henry was four, Rosina was three, and William was six months old. Martin sent the children to live with his parents and sister in Wisconsin as he coped with his loss. He left Minnesota and moved to western North Dakota, near Hebron, where he started a new farm and married Maria Halzshak, a recent Austrian immigrant, when he sent for his children. Martin and Maria had no children of their own and they raised his three children to adulthood.
Martin buried Anna at Pearl Lake's Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery. Today, the community is known as Marty, MN. She became the fourth Jaeger sister to die before the age of 25, three of them from tuberculosis. Dreaded consumption was especially hard on young wives and mothers.
Anna and Martin's oldest child Henry Koller was killed at age twenty-three in a North Dakota farming accident and his only child, a five-day-old son, later became Catholic priest Fr. Luke Koller OSB.
Anna and Martin's middle child, Rosina, became Sr. M. Innocent Koller OSB and lived a long life teaching in schools across the Middle West. She is buried at the Mount Marty College, Sacred Heart Convent cemetery in Yankton, SD. Their third and youngest child, William married and lived his life in the Seattle area where he and his wife Stella raised three girls.
The death date on Anna Koller's monument is inaccurate. She died in 1895 not 1894.
written by great nephew Gregory Dorr
Anna was six years old when her mother Crescens died in 1877 and eleven when her father Johann Jaeger passed away.
At the time of her dad's death in 1881, Anna and many of her siblings became young orphans. Where would they find foster homes? Three of her brothers were fortunate to find lodging with neighbors and remained in their home area around St. Martin, MN, albeit in separate homes. Four siblings trekked north to Pierz, Minnesota to live in homes of their Jaeger relatives and that left Anna who found a home with her older sister Josephine Finneman in Maine Prairie Township, near beautiful Pearl Lake, twenty-five miles distance from her home farm west of St. Martin.
Josephine (Mrs Anton Finneman) was sixteen years older than Anna, married, raising two sons and was pregnant. She was also hosting in her home her husband's parents, Anton and Katie Finneman.
Anna grew to womanhood living with the Finneman's nine years. On May 13, 1890 she married north in Pierz, MN in the presence of her sisters living in the Pierz area to her Maine Prairie Township neighbor Martin Koller. He was a year and one half older, from Little Kohler, WI (a small place near Sheboygan named for his family) and was farming 120 acres adjacent on the south side of the Finneman farm. Both farms were just east of the waters of Pearl Lake, on the north side of Maine Prairie settlement.
By 1895, the new couple had three children (a fourth child had died as an infant) when Anna died from tuberculosis or consumption as it was known. Martin was devastated. Henry was four, Rosina was three, and William was six months old. Martin sent the children to live with his parents and sister in Wisconsin as he coped with his loss. He left Minnesota and moved to western North Dakota, near Hebron, where he started a new farm and married Maria Halzshak, a recent Austrian immigrant, when he sent for his children. Martin and Maria had no children of their own and they raised his three children to adulthood.
Martin buried Anna at Pearl Lake's Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery. Today, the community is known as Marty, MN. She became the fourth Jaeger sister to die before the age of 25, three of them from tuberculosis. Dreaded consumption was especially hard on young wives and mothers.
Anna and Martin's oldest child Henry Koller was killed at age twenty-three in a North Dakota farming accident and his only child, a five-day-old son, later became Catholic priest Fr. Luke Koller OSB.
Anna and Martin's middle child, Rosina, became Sr. M. Innocent Koller OSB and lived a long life teaching in schools across the Middle West. She is buried at the Mount Marty College, Sacred Heart Convent cemetery in Yankton, SD. Their third and youngest child, William married and lived his life in the Seattle area where he and his wife Stella raised three girls.
The death date on Anna Koller's monument is inaccurate. She died in 1895 not 1894.
written by great nephew Gregory Dorr
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