Published as it appeared on Dec. 23, 1898, in the (Portland) Oregonian, Page 6, Column 4.
Mrs. Johanna Kriens died at her home a few miles south and east of Philomath Sunday, aged 68 years. She was the mother of the young man of the same name who was drowned in the Willamette near Salem a couple of years ago.
Published as it appeared on Dec. 23, 1898, in the Lebanon Express, Page 3, Column 2.
Mrs. Kriens, mother of K.K. Kriens and Mrs. B. F. Dodge of this city, died at her home at Philomath last Sunday, of typhoid fever. Mrs. Dodge attended her mother during her illness.
Published as it appeared on Dec. 23, 1898, in the Lebanon Express, Page 3, Column 2.
Editor’s note: According to a family history record on Ancestry.com, Johanna “Janna” Peorius Kriens was born Aug. 28, 1830, in Hannover, Germany. She married Kriene Meinen Kriens in Hannover on May 16, 1849, and their first two children were born there. By 1857, the family had immigrated to the United States and settled in the Ackley, Iowa, area, where most of the couple’s 13 children were born over the next 16 years. The family lived in Iowa in 1870 and in Barton County, Kansas, in 1880 before eventually moving to the Philomath area. Her son William drowned in the Willamette River at Salem on Feb. 22, 1897, after falling from the steamer Ramona, where he worked as a cook. Johanna Kriens died Dec. 17, 1898, at age 68, according to her grave marker and Mount Union Cemetery records. The newspaper notices reported that she died on a Sunday, which would have been Dec. 18.