Life on the Kokenge Family Farm
On Saturday, April 14, 2001, after
the Kokenge Family Reunion in Alton, Iowa, several cousins made a pilgrimage out
to the old Kokenge farm 2.5 miles east of Alton. There they met Mr. Edward
Recker, who now resides in the farm house, and who agreed to let them look
around the farm and take photographs. This is the farm where Henry Kokenge
lived with his first wife, Catherine Goebel, who was the mother of his four
oldest children (Johnny, Anton, Ernest, and Anna). After Catherine's
death, Henry Kokenge married Josephine Nemmers, and they lived on this farm with
Henry's their ten children until after Josephine's untimely death in 1918. More
family history information will soon be added to this page to help flesh out the
story of life on the Kokenge farm.
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Verna Bunkers and
Barbara & Nils Pasternak walk in front of the farm house. |
Here's a view
from the back side of the farm house looking out past the land (left) to
the gravel road way. |
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The old barn is
still standing but is no longer in use. |
Nils Pasternak,
Dale Bunkers, and Rachel Bunkers- Harmes are on their way to peek
peek inside the barn door. |
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Here's a storage
shed (out back. What did it used to be?) |
The old machine
shed was later converted into a garage. |
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And let's not
forget the little outhouse on the prairie . . . . |
Verna and Barbara
return to pose on the front porch. |