Anna Peper was born in Iowa Township, Crawford County, Iowa, on a farm, May 4, 1879, where she was educated in the public schools and grew to womanhood. She was baptized in the Lutheran Church in which faith she lived, attending to her religious duties in later years in the Presbyterian Church where she attended with comparative regularity.

She was united in marriage to Mr. Carl Hagedorn, November 24, 1897, and went to housekeeping on a farm west of Manning where they lived until 1912 when they moved to Manning where they have made their home until death which came in the afternoon of September 27, 1926, after a long illness; all was done that medical science and care could do to relieve her of her sickness; she made a courageous struggle for health, her indomitable will and patient endurance having much to do with prolonging her days, through death came as her external relief and she rests. She was at the time of her death 47 years, 4 months, 23 days old.

She was the mother of four children, three of whom died in infancy.

She is survived by her husband, Mr. Carl Hagedorn and a daughter, Leona, also by two sisters and one brother: Mrs. Peter Carsen, Mrs. William Jahn, and Mr. George Peper, Flandreau, South Dakota.

Her many friends and neighbors join in sympathy with her loved ones.

Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian Church at 2 o'clock, Rev. E.E. Zimmerman, pastor of the church, officiating. Interment was in the Manning Cemetery.