Dorothea Sophia KRüGER Koester, 1803-1866
Wife of a Pferdeknecht, Tagelöhner (horse groom, day laborer)
Arthur's great-aunt

 Father Christian Ephraim KRüGER, 1767-1840
 Mother Charlotte WENZEL Krüger
       Sister Hanna Maria Sophie KRüGER Neumann, ca 1793-1851
       Dorothea Sophia KRüGER Koester, 1803-1866
       Sister Maria Christina "Christina" KRüGER Schöttler, 1805-
       Sister Christina Friederica "Friederica" KRüGER, 1807-1809
       Stillborn sister, 1809
       Sister Christine Sophie Charlotte KRüGER, 1811-1813

 Husband Johann Martin KOESTER
       Son Johann Ephraim Christian KöSTER, 1823-
       Son Johann Carl Friedrich KOESTER, 1827-
       Son Wilhelm Christian Friedrich KöSTER, 1830-

Time Line

3 March 1803 - Born at Mildenitz, Kreis Stargard, Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Mildenitz Church

10 March 1803 - Baptized there. Godparents were Martien, journeyman carpenter, Dorothea Krüger and Mrs Kreinbrink, Schultz's wife

29 May 1805, age 2 - Sister Maria Christina "Christina" KRüGER Schöttler born there

18 April 1807, age 4 - Sister Christina Friederica "Friederica" KRüGER born there

19 January 1809, age 5 - Grandfather Christian KRüGER, age 65, died there of Schlagfluß (apoplexy, stroke)

24 March 1809, age 6 - Sister Christina Friederica "Friederica" KRüGER, age 1, died there

24 September 1809, age 6 - Sister stillborn there

12 February 1811, age 7 - Sister Christine Sophie Charlotte KRüGER born there

19 October 1813, age 10 - Sister Christine Sophie Charlotte KRüGER, age 2, died there

24 October 1817, age 14 - Sister Hanna Maria Sophie KRüGER, age 24, married Johann Friedrich NEUMANN, age 18, at Groß Daberkow, Kreis Stargard, Mecklenburg-Strelitz

19 March 1818, age 15 - Confirmed there

20 December 1823, age 20 - Son Johann Ephraim Christian KöSTER born at Mildenitz

19 November 1824, age 21 - Married Johann Martin KOESTER there

30 November 1827, age 24 - Son Johann Carl Friedrich KOESTER born there

12 October 1830, age 27 - Son Wilhelm Christian Friedrich KöSTER born there

22 November 1833, age 30 - Sister Maria Christina "Christina" KRüGER, age 28, married Carl Friedrich Wilhelm SCHöTTLER there

4 June 1840, age 37 - Father Christian Ephraim KRüGER, age 72, died there of Altersschwäche (debility/weakness of old age)

27 January 1851, age 47 - Sister Hanna Maria Sophie KRüGER Neumann, age 57, died at Lübbenow, Kreis Uckermark/Prenzlau, Brandenburg of Gicht (gout, podagra, rheumatism)

17 July 1857, age 54 - Sister's widower Johann Friedrich NEUMANN, age 58, died there of drowning

As of sometime before 1858 - Resided at Schlepkow, Kreis Uckermark/Prenzlau, Brandenburg

1858, age 54 - Son Johann Carl Friedrich KOESTER, age 30, married Caroline Marie Sophie EWERT, age 27, at Schönweder, Kreis Uckermark/Prenzlau, Brandenburg

27 October 1858, age 55 - Son Wilhelm Christian Friedrich KöSTER, age 28, married Wilhelmine Sophie Friederike BüLOW, age 28, at Schlepkow

2 December 1866, age 63 - Died there at 4:00 PM of Gicht (gout, podagra, rheumatism) She was survived by her husband and four adult children.

5 December 1866 - Buried there