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Author: RobertaEstes13
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I'm tryng to locate the descendants of the Kirsch family from Lawrenceburg and Aurora
in Dearborn County, Indiana. They immigrated from Mutterstadt Germany in 1848 settling
first on a farm in Ripley County, Indiana.
I am posting this message on all message boards of surnames of families known to descend
from this couple. If you have information, please contact me at restes(a)comcast.net or
bobbi48114(a)yahoo.com.
Philip Jacob Kirsch (1806-1880) and Katharina Barbara Lemmert (1807-1889) had the
following children:
1. Philip Jacob Kirsch b 1830 died 1905 never married
2. Katharina Barbara Kirsch b (1833-1900) married Johann Martin Koehler (1829-1879) and
had the following children (there may be more children):
a. Mary Koehler b 1851 - nothing more known
b. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Koehler (1854-1884) married Christian Knoebel b 1850 and had the
following children:
b1 Harry Knoebel b 1876 - nothing more known
b2 Karl Edward Knoebel (1880-1964) married Margaret Elizabeth Fisher (1890-1976) and had
two children, Edward Winfield Knoebel b 1917, nothing more known, and Margaret Irene
Knoebel (1923-2005) who married Irvin William Bultiman and had 4 children
c. Mamie Koehler b 1869 married John Fichter - nothing more known
After Johann Martin Koehler's death, Barbara Kirsch married Charles Schnell in 1880
but had no children.
3. Johannes (John) Kirsch (1835- after1917) - nothing more known. May have married Mary
Blatz in Ripley County in 1856. Lived in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1917.
4. Martin Kirsch b 1838, dead before 1917 probably before 1904. served in Civil War,
nothing more known
5. Jacob Kirsch (1841-1917) married Barbara Drechsel (1848-1930). They had the Kirsch
House (later Neaman Hotel) beside the depot in Aurora. They had the following children:
a. Nora Kirsch (1888-1949) married Curtis Lore and moved to Rushville, Indiana. They had
the following children:
a1 Edith Barbara Lore (1908-1960) married John Whitney Ferverda and moved to Silver Lake,
Indiana. They had two children, Barbara Jean Ferverda and Harold Lore Ferverda.
a2 Mildred Elvira Lore (1899-1987) married Claude Martin and had James Martin who married
Inez Spiker and had 4 children and Jerry Martin who married Shirley and had unknown
children
a3 Eloise Lore (1903-1996) who married Warren Cook and Al Rutland and had no children
a4 Curtis Lore (1891-1912) never married
b. Caroline (Carrie) Kirsch (1871-1906) married Joseph Wymond and had no children
c. Margaret Louise (Lou) Kirsch (1873-1940) married Todd Fiske, then a Wellesley and had
no children
d. Edward Kirsch (1870-1924), died in Edwardsport, Indiana, may have lived in Somerset,
Kentucky, married Emma Miller and has the following children:
d1. Juanita Kirsch - nothing known
d2. Devero Hoffer Kirsch (1899-1975), died in Seelyville, Vigo Co., Indiana, married Mary
Schlater and had daughter Mary Kirsch about whom nothing is known.
e. George Martin Kirsch, known as Martin, (1868-1949), married Maude Powers (1871-1941)
and had children:
e1. Edgar Kirsch (1889-1964) married Freida Neely (1895-1937), nothing more known
e2. Cecile Kirsch (1892-1988), died in Anderson, Indiana, married Frank Toner
(1890-1973), children unknown.
f.. Ida Caroline "Carrie" Kirsch (1876-1966) married William Galbreath and had
no children
6. William Kirsch (b 1844 died before Sept 1904), married Carolyn Kuntz, had 2 boys and 1
girl, names unknown
7. Anna Maria "Mary" Kirsch (b 1847, died after 1917), married Bernhardt Kramer
and lived in St. Louis, Missouri in 1917.
In my (deceased) Mother's things, I found a 1965 letter from a lady who I think is
Lorine Weatherby who lived in Cincinnatti, Ohio. There is information regarding other
family members, but I don't know how they connect. I have transcribed the relevant
portions below. Lorine mentions:
Cousins Eleanor, Robert and Donald Young
Ray and Wilbur Bosse (noted as Aunt Lou's grandsons - however, I thought she never had
children)
Edna Lunt (was elderly in 1965)
Lorine gives a summary of her family as follows:
Lorine's sister is Mardie Endres, retired principal in Cincinnatti, in 1965 teaching
English at Presbyterian Mission College in Mississippi
Mardie's Dau Linda - junior at Trinity University in San Antonio (Presbyterian)
Mardie's Dau Erin - married living in Anaheim California, has baby boy
Lorine's Sister (Juanita Heather I believe, married to Walter Heather in Cincinnati,
Ohio)
Juanita's son Roger has two boys and a 3 year old girl
Juanita's daughter Nita has two boys 9 and 6
Juanita's son Loren Heather (the youngest) - heart specialist at LA county hospital,
Ca. (later at University of California at Irvine) - lives at Newport Beach, 4 sons, 12, 9,
4 and 18 mos
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