Johanna Caroline Storjohann Drepper
Johanna Caroline ("Lena") Storjohann was born at Kaltenkirchen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, in April 1875. She immigrated from Germany to Crawford County, Iowa, via Quebec, Canada in 1882 with her parents Johann Storjohann and Margaretha Caroline Stegelmann Storjohann. She was accompanied by three half brothers - Chris, August, and William Henry Harm - and two brothers - John and Carl Storjohann. (William "Bill" Harm is subject of another biography here.)
In the late 1890s Lena Storjohann made her way westward to Fort Benton, Chouteau County, Montana, where she was living in 1900. By about 1908-09 Lena was living in Knox County where she married Edward Drepper in November 1909. One could surmise that her residency in Knox County was aided by her half brother Bill Harm, but little is known about this period in her life. Edward Drepper was also a German immigrant who came to the U.S. and Knox County in 1903. Lena and Edward settled on a farm in Santee Township where their daughter, Paula Drepper, was born in March 1912. Lena Storjohann Drepper died in April 1947. Edward Drepper died in 1949. Together they are buried in Bloomfield Cemetery.
Paula Drepper married Gust Schoenberner in Knox County. Gust Schoenberner, who was born in August 1904, was the son of German immigrants Gust and Alice Schoenberner who arrived in Knox County by way of Kansas. Gust and Paula Drepper Schoenberner had four sons and a daughter. One son and a daughter remain to live in Knox County.
