Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 484-485:
Klie. The Klie family, so worthily represented in Colchester South by men of the highest integrity and public spirit, originated in Germany, the emigrant ancestor being Godfrey Klie, the grandfather of Henry and Albert Klie. He was born in Germany, where he became a property owner. He married Charlotte Stolter, and to them were born: Augustus, who went to California, and was never afterwards heard from; Henry; Charles, a soldier in the heavy cavalry, who was killed in the Austro-Prussian war; Augusta, who married William Raywinkle, and died at Oshkosh, Wisconsin; Georgena, who married Mr. Hibbey, and died in Chicago; George, who was the first of the family to leave Germany, and who died in Grosse Ile, Michigan, where he had a farm; Mina, who married Mr. Stootman, and died in Detroit; John, who lived at Cairo, Michigan, where he died; Jerry, of New Canaan, Colchester North, who owns one-half of the farm upon which the family settled on coming to this country; Rachel, who married George Geisel, and lives at Woodslee; and Ernest, who died in Germany. In 1855 the family left Germany for Canada, and in time settled on a 200-acre tract in the New Canaan settlement of Colchester North, a wild tract that one would hardly think fit for farming. Upon this place they build a log house and began the difficult task of clearing the land. Here Godfrey Klie died at the age of eighty-two years, and his wife at the age of seventy-eight years.
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Ernest
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Augusta Klie †
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