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- Waterloo Courier Monday May 10, 1948
Osage: Mrs. Sophie Pint, 77, died Saturday evening at the Mitchell county memorial hospital, from influenza and a heart condition; had been ill several weeks; funeral Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Sacred Heart church; burial in Sacred Heart cemetery in the family lot.
Nee Sophie Braun, daughter of John and Barbara Braun was born March 21, 1871 in Wisconsin. As a child she moved with parents to near Stacyville; married to John Pint in 1893, and the couple established their first home at Stacyville, then moved to farm near New Haven, later to Meyer, coming to Osage in 1914
The day following the arrival of the couple is Osage, Mr. Pint died suddenly leaving Mrs. Pint with care of the 12 living children, the youngest of whom was but one and one-half years of age.
John Pint, a son, has managed the home farm and the mother has since made her home on the farm located directly east of the Osage fairgrounds.
Leaves following children: Anton, Elma; Lawrence, Osage; William, Floyd; Mrs. Lawrence Hutchcroft, Cedar Rapids; Mrs. Roman Michels, Stacyville; Mrs. Leslie Colton, Orchard; Frank, Mitchell; Mrs. Joseph McGrane, Elma; Mrs. John Novotny, Osage; John, on the home farm; Joseph, Decorah; 49 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren; five sisters, Mrs. Mary Shampine and Mrs. Frank Winkels, Adams Minn.; Mrs. Christine Mandler and Mrs. Francis Fuller, Osage; Mrs. Katherine Rohlinger, Campbellsport, Wis.
One brother, Tony precededing her besides her husband, were two sons, Harold in infancy and Fred; one brother, Casper, and eight grandchildren. Lover of children, Mrs. Pint often wished she might see her fiftieth grandchild alive.
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1871 - 1948 (77 years)
