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Author: ELLinSpain
Surnames: kramer
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just a bit more:
August Kramer
Birth: Sep. 15, 1832
Minden
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Death: May 14, 1910
Linton
Greene County
Indiana, USA
Emigrated summer of 1850, built a cabin on land his father purchased for $1 per acre NE of
Linton; farmed and helped dig old canal near Bloomfield.
Helped found Saron German Reformed Church, signed its constitution in Feb 1854; there he
married Ellen. He lived and died at the old home place(which has since been stripped
over).
Family links:
Parents:
Frederick William Kramer (1802 - 1854)
Maria Wilhelmine Gershmier Kramer (1794 - 1876)
Spouse:
Ellen Adelheid Wehsel Kramer (1839 - 1934)
BURIED
German Memory Hill Cemetery
Linton
Greene County
Indiana
SAME CEMETERY
Frederick William Kramer
Birth: Mar. 6, 1802
Minden
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Death: Feb. 2, 1854
Linton
Greene County
Indiana, USA
Carpenter. Came to America with Mary Caroline in 1845 to Greene, Co. Lived with Mary
Caroline & her husband John Dederick Haseman until he purchased 40 acres of land NE of
Linton for $1 per acre. Sent for his wife, son & Minnie; settled on his land and died
there in 1854 (heart attack) just about three years after the 1st cabins construction. The
family plot there was later moved to Memory Hill.
Family links:
Children:
August Kramer (1832 - 1910)
Spouse:
Maria Wilhelmine Gershmier Kramer (1794 - 1876)
Birth: Jul. 23, 1794
Minden
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Death: Oct. 3, 1876
Linton
Greene County
Indiana
Ellen Adelheid Wehsel Kramer
Birth: Mar. 21, 1839
Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany
Death: Oct. 21, 1934
Linton
Greene County
Indiana, USA
Was born in Vechtl, Fuvshenau, Germany
Was called Ellen. Nicknamed Oelchen (little girl)
Farmwife in rural Linton, IN., Greene County, Stockton TWP until 1923 when her homeplace
was sold to be strip mined for coal. Moved across from church in town of Linton until her
death, Gerhart stayed with her.
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