When Mette Katherine Fillerup was born on 18 April 1852, in Halk, Haderslev, Denmark, her father, Jørgen Nielsen Fillerup, was 31 and her mother, Ellen Marie Hansdatter, was 26. She married Peter E Skow on 15 December 1874, in Black Hawk, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She immigrated to United States in 1872 and lived in Plum Creek Township, Kossuth, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Wesley, Kossuth, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. She died on 14 October 1944, in Palo Alto, Iowa, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Wesley, Kossuth, Iowa, United States.