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John Kraft[1,2]

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Birth  8 May 1824    [3
Sex  Male 
Eby ID  00069-4177 
Died  16 Sep 1886    [4
Person ID  I20341 
Last Modified  29 Aug 2004 
 
Father  John Kraft, b. 14 Feb 1771, Auspack, Prussia, Germany 
Mother  Magdalena Bechtel, b. 19 Feb 1789 
Group Sheet  F969 
 
Family 1  Angeline Hermance, b. 2 Jul 1828 
Married  10 Oct 1848    [5
Children 
 1. Magdalena Kraft, b. 7 Mar 1850
 2. Mary Kraft, b. 9 Jun 1851
 3. Aaron Kraft, b. 21 May 1852
 4. John Kraft, b. 6 Dec 1853
 5. Caroline A. Kraft, b. 14 Nov 1854
 6. Hannah C. Kraft, b. 30 Nov 1856
 7. Angeline E. Kraft, b. 10 Oct 1858
 8. Eliza Kraft, b. 18 Jun 1860
 9. John M. Kraft, b. 25 Apr 1862
 10. Harriet M. Kraft, b. 27 Oct 1863
 11. Josephine H. Kraft, b. 28 Jun 1866
 12. Charles A. Kraft, b. 27 Mar 1869, Bridgeport, Waterloo Co., Ontario
Group Sheet  F4766 
 
Notes  John Kraft, "fourth and youngest son of John and Magdalena (Bechtel) Kraft, was born May 8th, 1824. On October 10th, 1848, he was married to Angeline, daughter of Morgan L. and Harriet (Babcock) Hermance. She is a twin sister to Mrs. Abraham C. Clemmer and was born July 2nd, 1828. After their marriage they moved on the west half of lot No. 112, German Company's Tract, about a mile east of Bridgeport, Waterloo County, Ontario. Here they resided until the beginning of March, 1874, when they moved to near Marion, Marion County, Kansas, where he followed farming until his death which took place September 16th, 1886. They had a family of twelve children, of whom six died in infancy."
 
Sources  1. [S1]   Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., Ezra E. Eby, (Berlin, Ontario, 1895), 867   [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
2. [S1]   Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., Ezra E. Eby, (Berlin, Ontario, 1895), 225   [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
3. [S1]   Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., Ezra E. Eby, (Berlin, Ontario, 1895), 867   [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
4. [S1]   Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., Ezra E. Eby, (Berlin, Ontario, 1895), 867   [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
5. [S1]   Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., Ezra E. Eby, (Berlin, Ontario, 1895), 867   [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
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