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The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., March 23, 1933, page 2

MRS. BARBARA KUHN

Barbara Anna (Zwick) Kuhn, an early pioneer of Klickitat County, who died at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane on Wednesday, March 15 at the advanced age of 87 years, 10 months, and five days, and was buried Friday, March 17th from Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Goldendale, Washington. Interment was made in the family plot in the local Catholic cemetery .
She was born in Bavaria, Germany, May 20, 1846. She came to the United States with their parents when a small girl, moving to Ohio. Just before the Civil War she met and became engaged to Mr. John Peter Kuhn, who served a three-year enlistment in Company K, Seventy-Eighth Ohio Infantry. At the close of the war, in 1865, they were married. In 1880 they moved to Los Angeles, California, where they lived two years. In 1882 they moved to Walla Walla, Washington, coming to Klickitat County in 1883, where they took up a homestead at Sixprong. The little place was known as Kuhn, Washington, for many years. This was then a grazing section, very sparsely settled with white people -- often large droves of Indians passed through. Here the Kuhn family encountered many thrilling Indian experiences. At night they were often wakened by wild coyotes howling or Indian war whoops. Often, Indians would stop at the Kuhn home, and were never refused a meal. Later, when land boomed, it became a familiar saying: "All roads lead to Kuhns." Frequently two or three times a night they would get up and prepare a meal for homestead seekers.
Mrs. Kuhn was the mother of eleven children, six girls and five boys -- rearing this large family amid many hardships, inconveniences and privations in this almost uncivilized country. They acquired a 2,000 acre farm, combining farming and stock rasing.
In October, 1913 they moved to Goldendale, Washington, where three months later her husband died, on December 12th. Mrs. Kuhn lived here until 1922, when her health failed and she went to make her home at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Spokane, where her daughter, Sister Rita of the Sisters of Charity of Providence, resided. Here she passed away, eleven years later, after a well spent life.
She is survived by seven children: Sister Rita, Spokane, Washington; Sister Alexis, of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, San Francisco, California; Simeon P. Kuhn, Seattle, Washington; Mike J. Kuhn, Portland, Oregon; Mrs. Anna Cahill, Goldendale, Wash.; James B. Kuhn, Sixprong, Wash.; and Mrs. Matilda Henricks, The Dalles, Oregon. There are twenty grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.
Not only was Mrs. Kuhn a devoted wife and mother, a kind neighbor, a progressive citizen, but her faith in God was outstanding even in the wilderness. Though the pain of separation was a severe trial she willingly allowed three of her daughters to become the members of religious orders serving the sick, the poor and the orphan. She was rewarded even in this life by having the special privilege of spending the last years on earth in the religious environment of Sacred Heart Hospital, with the loving care of her daughter and the members of the religious community. Though her life for more than three score and ten was filled with the cares of home, she made this life one of prayer, union with her Maker through fidelity to his commands and councels, so that this truly Christian personality was exemplified in the home and among neighbors as well as in church. Her memory is thus indelibly impressed upon all who knew her.

The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., March 24, 1933, page 4

PIONEER BICKLETON WOMAN PASSES
(For The Agri.)

(Obituary for Mrs. Barbara Kuhn of Bickleton, prepared by Rev. Father T.A. Edwards of Goldendale)

Barbara Anna (Zwick) Kuhn, an early pioneer of Klickitat county, who died at Sacred Heart Hospital, in Spokane, on Wednesday, March 15th, at the advanced age of 87 years, 10 months, and five days, and was buried Friday, March 17th, from Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Goldendale, Washington, interment in the family plot in the local Catholic cemetery there, was born in Bavaria, Germany, May 20, 1846. She came to the United States with their parents when a small girl, moving to Ohio. Just before the Civil war she met and became engaged to Mr. John Peter Kuhn, who served a three-year enlistment in Company K, 78th Ohio Infantry. At the close of the war, in 1865, they were married. In 1880 they moved to Los Angeles, Calif., where they lived for two years. In 1880 they moved to Walla Walla, coming to Klickitat county in 1883, where they took up a homestead at Sixprong. The little place was known as Kuhn, Wash., for many years. This was then a grazing section, very sparsely settled with white people, -- often large droves of Indians passed through. Here the Kuhn family encountered many thrilling Indian experiences. At night they were often wakened by wild coyotes howling or Indian war whoops. Often Indians would stop at the Kuhn home, and were never refused a meal. Later, when land boomed, it became a familiar saying: "All roads lead to Kuns." Frequently two or three times a night they would get up and prepare a meal for homestead seekers.
Mrs. Kuhn was the mother of eleven children, 6 girls and 5 boys, rearing this large family amid many hardships, inconveniences and privations in this almost uncivilized country. They acquired a 2,000 acre farm, combining farming and stock rasing.
In October, 1913 they moved to Goldendale, Wash., where three months later her husband died, on December 12th. Mrs. Kuhn lived here until 1922, when her health failed and she went to make her home at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Spokane, where her daughter, Sister Rita of the Sisters of Charity of Providence, resided. Here she passed away, eleven years later, after a well spent life.
She is survived by seven children: Sister Rita, Spokane, Wash.; Sister Alexis, of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, San Francisco, Calif.; Simeon Kuhn, Seattle, Wash.; Mike J. Kuhn, Portland, Ore.; Mrs. Anna Cahill, Goldendale, Wash.; James B. Kuhn, Sixprong, Wash.; and Mrs. Matilda Henricks, The Dalles, Ore. There are twenty grand-children and two great-grand-children.
Not only was Mrs. Kuhn a devoted wife and mother, a kind neighbor and a progressive citizen, but her faith in God was outstanding even in the wilderness. Though the pain of separation was a severe trial she willingly allowed three of her daughters to become the members of religious orders serving the sick, the poor and the orphan. She was rewarded even in this life by having the special privilege of spending the last years on earth in the religious environment of Sacred Heart Hospital, with the loving care of her daughter and the members of the religious community. Though her life for more than three score and ten was filled with the cares of home, she made this life one of prayer, union with her Maker through fidelity to his commands and councels, so that this truly Christian personality was exemplified in the home and among neighbors as well as in church. Her memory is thus indelibly impressed upon all who knew her.