ENGEL BUCHMEIER MATTHIES
Engel Sophie Justine Buchmeier was born 8 FEB 1843 in Rolfshagen, Germany, the 2nd child of Christian Ludwig Buchmeier and Sophie Christine Lenore Sieckmann. She was christened in the Lutheran Church on 19 FEB 1843 at Obernkirchen. Sponsors were Engel Wilhelmina Tegtmeier, Sophie Charlotte Buchmeier, who was her grandmother and Wilhelmina Caroline Charlotte Sieckmann. At the age of 25 in 1868, she came to Beecher, IL with relatives. MAR 29, 1868 she married Frederick Heinrich Wilhelm Matthies Sr. at St. Pauls Luth. Church in Beecher. Mr. and Mrs. Matthies were in moderate circumstances when they came to this country. MAR 18, 1883 they homesteaded near Ohiowa, NE, Section 10 in Fillmore Co., where Fred Matthies died early in life in 1887, 8 months before his son William was born. They had 4 children.

OBITUARY: from THE OHIOWAN, THURSDAY MAY 15, 1902
After a painful illness lasting several weeks, Mrs. Sophia Matthies died at 8 o'clock on the evening of Sat. May 8, 1902 at the residence of her youngest son Louie. Sophia Buchmeier was born in Germany Feb. 8th, 1848. At the age of 20 she came with relatives to Beecher, IL where on the following year, 1869 she married Fred Matthies. Shortly after their marriage the Matthies family homesteaded in Fillmore Co., where they passed the remainder of their lives. Mr. Matthies died in 1887, July 5th. Mr. and Mrs. Matthies were in moderate circumstances when they came to this country. There accumulations at that time only aggregated $1400. The estate which now goes into the hands of the Matthies heirs contains over a section of fine Fillmore county land. Title to the real estate rests in the heirs upon death of the mother through provision contained in the will of Mr. Matthies. Fred, Henry and Louis are the surviving members of the Matthies family. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. M. Kossick and the remains were interred in the church yard of St. Johns East.

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