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History of the Budde Family
By Alice Kalush1
9/29/2014
Chapter One: Budde Family in Germany
The Budde family history starts in Woldegk, Mecklenberg, Germany in 1747 when Andreas Budde, the mill master from
Petersdorf buys the mill in Woldegk. The mill is passed down through descendants ending with Otto Budde Jr who died
in 1952 and was run thereafter by his wife Marie Wilk Budde. The mill is now a local historical museum. The mill
stands in front of the Neubrandenburger gate at Muhlenburg.
The postcard below came from Walter and Elling (Schmidt) Budde in a letter to my father Charles M. Gable written May
21, 1948. The accompanying letter which describes life as a farmer and a miller in Woldegk shortly after World War II
ended. The Buddes lived in the home at the back of the photo.
Otto Budde Mill in Woldegk, Germany
1 Alice Gable Kalush is the granddaughter of Charles Dudley Gable and Hazel Ruth.
2
This is a translation of the original letter written in German. See the appendix at the end of this document for the
original document.
3
History of the Otto Budde Mill
Woldegk has been a city of many mills for many years. Below is a history of the Otto Budde Mill in Woldegk obtained
from Kathe Schmidt and her husband Erich Kuhlman. Kathe is a Budde descendant from Karen Dickson Gridley in 1978
whose mother was born in Woldegk. Kathe and Erich Kuhlman Schmidt lived in Hamburg.
There is more about theWoldegk mills on the web site: http://www.muehlen-mv.de/woldegk.htm.
The Otto Budde mill is titled Museumsmühle (Buddesche Mühle).
4
Early Budde family in Woldegk
The first Budde in Woldegk was Andreas Budde a millmaster from Petersdorf (which is located 4 miles northwest of
Woldegk on Highway B104), who purchased the mill in 1747. When Andreas Budde died in 1786, the mill was taken
over by his son Johann Friedrick Budde who married Eva Dorothea Witten the same year. Johann was a senator in
1811-1813. In 1822 Johann’s son Christoph takes over the mill from his widowed mother for 2200 taler.
1-Andreas Budde
+Unknown
|--2-Johann Friedrick Budde
+Eva Dorothea Witten m. 1786
|--3-Christoph Budde b. 1803, d. 1872, Woldegk, Germany
Christoph Budde married Marie Christina Picht2 and had seven children.
3-Christoph Budde b. 1803, d. 1872, Woldegk, Germany
+Marie Christina Picht b. 27 Oct 1810, d. 21 Jan 1886, Woldegk, Germany, bur.
24 Jan 1886
|--4-Wilhelmine Sophia Therese (Minnie, Mary) Budde b. 24 Mar 1834, Woldegk,
| Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany, d. 9 Jul 1880, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County,
| Ohio, bur. 11 Jul 1880, Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
|--4-Caroline (Lena) or Carolina Johanna Maria Budde b. 1 Apr 1830, Woldegk,
| Muhlenberg, Germany, d. 9 Apr 1922, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio,
| bur Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
|--4-August(us) Carl Budde b. 1 or 24 May 1842 or May 1841, Woldegk,
| Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany, d. 10 Jul 1904, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA
|--4-Carl Friedrich Christoph (Karl) Budde b. 7 Aug 1838, Woldegk, Mecklenburg
| Strelitz, Germany, d. Bef 1924, Germany
|--4-Otto Friedrich August Budde b. 4 Sep 1844, Woldegk, Mecklenburg Strelitz,
| Germany, d. Germany
|--4-Emilie Mathilde Therese (Amelia) Budde b. 17 Apr 1836, Woldegk,
| Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany, d. 16 Sep 1907
|--4-Johanna Christina Maria (Hannken) Budde b. 23 Mar 1832, Woldegk,
| Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany, d. 20 Nov 1905, Woldegk, Mecklenburg
| Strelitz, Germany
Probably Maria Picht
2 The family has two copies of the photo on the right. The one from Hazel Ruth Gable is labeled “___ Reinke, mother of Wilhelmina
Budde Kumrow, grandmother of Marie, Ida and Martha Kumrow”. The one from Ida Kumrow Jury is labeled “Probably Marie Picht.
Written on back “Reincke, wife of Otto Budde. Grandmother of Ida K. Kumrow”. Note: Marie Picht’s husband was Christoph
Budde.
5
Emilie Budde married Carl Zander or Saunders in 1858 and had at least five children
based on the photo to the left.
Johanna (Jennie, Hannken) married Friedrich
Schmidt in 1858 and had two children:
Friedrich and Otto. Otto was the father of
Elling Schmidt Budde (wife of Walter Budde),
who were the source of some of the
information in this document. Photo of
Friedrich and Jennie and their sons at right.
Hannken was also the great grandmother of
Kathe Schmidt Kuhlman, who was the source
of some of this information.
Karl married Auguste Negendank in 1867 and
had four children: Carl Otto, Marie, Ida and Emilie. Carl Jr. was the father of
Walter Budde (Elling Schmidt Budde’s husband). Karl bought the mill with the
hand mill from his father in 1867 for $4500. In 1883 the old wooden mill was
torn down and a Dutch mill built which still stands today (see photo earlier in this
document). In 1898 Karl sold it to his son (Carl) Otto for 24,000 marks. After his
death in 1906 Otto Jr’s wife Marie (born Wilk)
ran the mill. Otto Budde’s son Walter takes
over the property in 1931. The mill was last
used in 1943. Since 1969 the mill has been a local historical museum.
Otto married Adolfina Negendank in 1872 and had four children: Anna, Otto, Martha
and Else. The photo at the left is of Otto (father).
The Cleveland branch of this family is discussed in Chapters 2, 3 and 4..
Hannken and Friedrich Schmidt and sons
Otto Budde
Emilie Budde Saunders and children
6
Early Schütt and Picht families in Woldegk3
Marie Christina Picht Budde’s grandfather was Christian Schütt who was a baker and lived in Woldegk. Christian’s son
Joachim Friedrich Schütt was a farmer and lived in Woldegk. He married Anna Sophia Bruhn and had nine children.
0-Christian Schütt b. Bef 1736, Woldegk, Mecklenberg Strelitz, Germany, d. Woldegk, Mecklenberg Strelitz, Germany
+Unknown
|-1-"Johann" Joachim Friedrich Schütt b. 3 Jan 1756, d. 2 Sep 1845
+Anna Sophia Bruhns b. 1765, d. 31 Mar 1813
|-2-Maria Christina Schütt b. 24 Oct 1785, Woldegk, Mecklenburg Strelitz,
| Germany, d. 8 Dec 1854, Woldegk, Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany
|--2-Joachim Friedrich Schütt b. 6 Oct 1787
|--2-Christian Friedrich Schütt b. 21 Dec 1789, d. 17 May 1857
|--2-Marie Sophie Schütt b. 5 Feb 1792
|--2-Johann Michael Schütt b. 5 Jul 1793
|--2-Joachim Friederich Schütt b. 24 May 1795, d. 20 Feb 1871
|--2-Christine Dorothea Sophie Schütt b. 29 Nov 1797, d. 23 Jan 1877
|--2-Anne Sophie Marie Schütt b. 19 Oct 1800
|--2-Johann Andreas Schütt b. 8 Aug 1803, d. 9 Oct 1877
Maria Christina Schütt had two husbands. Her first husband was Georg David Picht and was the father of Maria
Christina Picht Budde. Her second husband was Heinrich Bernhard Christian Reinke and they had six children. All of
these people lived in Woldegk.
--2-Maria Christina Schütt b. 24 Oct 1785, Woldegk, Mecklenburg Strelitz,
Germany, d. 8 Dec 1854, Woldegk, Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany
+Georg David Picht b. 8 Jan 1784, m. 28 Nov 1809, Woldegk, Mecklenburg
Strelitz, Germany, d. 12 Mar 1813
|--3-Marie Christina Picht b. 27 Oct 1810, d. 21 Jan 1886, Woldegk,
| Germany, bur. 24 Jan 1886
+Heinrich Reinke
|--3-Johanna Christina Caroline Reincke b. 24 Dec 1815, Woldegk,
| Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany, d. 27 Feb 1893, Woldegk, Mecklenburg
| Strelitz, Germany
|--3-Johann Friedrich Christian Reincke b. 24 Dec 1815, Woldegk,
| Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany
|--3-Johanna Maria Sophia Reinke b. 31 Oct 1817, Woldegk, Mecklenburg
| Strelitz, Germany
|--3-Sophia Christina Dorothea Reincke b. 16 Oct 1822
|--3-Hanna Wilhelmina Henriette Reincke b. 5 Aug 1824, Woldegk,
| Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany
|--3-Carl Friedrich August Reinke b. 13 Apr 1826, Woldegk, Mecklenburg
| Strelitz, Germany, d. 31 Dec 1910, Woldegk, Mecklenburg Strelitz,
| Germany
3 Patricia Kizele from Germany is the source of this information which came from Woldegk church records
7
Chapter Two: Wilhelmina Budde Kumrow and descendants
The Story of Wilhelmina Budde Kumrow and her daughters4
Wilhelmina Budde (daughter of Christoph
Budde and Marie Picht) married Friedrich
Kumrow (Kummerow) in Woldegk, he was the
father of her three daughters Marie, Ida and
Martha. Friedrich died before 1872. The
name Wilhelmina was for Queen Wilhelmina.
According to Kathe Schmidt Kuhlman (Eleanor
Yoder’s second cousin in Germany), after
Friedrich died, she was lonesome and became
friendly with a dancing teacher named ____
Meinhardt. She became pregnant. In those
days, this was disgraceful and apparently was
still remembered in Woldegk in the 1970s.
This is why she decided to come to America.
Probably ___ Meinhardt , father of Otto Kumrow
4-Wilhelmine Sophia Therese (Minnie, Mary) Budde b. 24 Mar 1834, Woldegk,
Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany, d. 9 Jul 1880, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County,
Ohio, bur. 11 Jul 1880, Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
+Johann or Frederick (Fredrich) Kumrow or Kummerow b. Germany, d. Bef 1872,
Woldegk, Germany
|--5-Marie (Mary) Hazel Kumrow b. 13 Apr 1860, Woldegk, Germany, d. 11 Dec
| 1942, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
|--5-Ida Emlie Kumrow b. 1862 or Sep 14, 1863, Woldegk, Mecklenburg Strelitz,
| Germany, d. 10 Jan 1952
|--5-Martha Kumrow b. 1868, d. 1950
+Unknown Meinhardt or Reinhardt or Reinhold
|--5-Otto W. Kumrow b. 25 Apr 1874, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH, d. 28 Jun 1954,
| Salt Lake City, , Utah, bur. Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah
4 From various documents written collaboratively by Wilhelmina’s descendants Eleanor Yoder, Jean Richardson, Charles M. Gable,
Hazel Ruth Gable, Alice Gridley and others.
Marie, Wilhelmina, Ida and Martha Budde circa 1872
probably Wilhelmina Budde Kumrow, photo taken in Stettin Germany
8
While pregnant with Otto, Wilhelmina and her daughters immigrated aboard the steamship Thuringa in steerage from
Hamburg via Southhampton to New York arriving on Oct 29, 1873. They then traveled to Cleveland, Ohio. Below they
are shown in the New York passenger list. Wilhelmina’s brother , August Budde, who was a baker in Cleveland and may
have given her money to come. When they immigrated Wilhelmina was 39, Marie 13, Ida 9 and Martha 5. Otto was
born in Cleveland on April 25, 1874.
In the 1880 Census on June 13, 1880, Wilhelmina and her daughters are shown living at 792 St. Clair Street in Cleveland,
Ohio with her brother August. Today this address is in the warehouse district near the Port of Cleveland. This record
lists their last name as “Hurnan”5. The census mentions that Mary (Wilhelmina) has bronchitis.
Name Sex/Age Relation Profession Birthplace Father Mother
Budde, August WM 48 head keeps bakery Germany Germany Germany
Hurnan, Mary WF 44 sister keeping house Germany Germany Germany
Hurnan, Mary WF 20 niece clerk in store Germany Germany Germany
Hurnan, Ida WF 17 niece at home Germany Germany Germany
Hurnan, Martha WF 12 niece at school Germany Germany Germany
Hurnan, Otto WM 6 nephew
Ohio Germany Germany
Wilhelmina dies on July 9, 1880 leaving her children orphans. Wilhelmina’s oldest daughter Marie married Richard
Ruth in May 1881 and her brother August married Augusta Schultz in Nov 1881.
According to family sources, Ida and Martha lived with a kindly neighbor named Mrs. Meinke and helped with
housekeeping and they lived with their sister Marie and helped take care of her children. Otto Kumrow lived with
Marie. I found no records for 1881-1882. After a search of the Cleveland City directory I found that Ida or Martha were
listed at 32 Clifton Street from 1883-1891. A search for the address 32 Clifton Street in the 1880s Cleveland City
directories brought up Herman and Theresa Mink (later their name was changed to Meink). The Meink family lived at
32 Clifton Street from 1880-1899. The 1896 Cleveland City directory shows Marie and Richard, Ida, Martha and Otto
living at 970 Scovill Avenue, though this is probably incorrect since Martha was married in 1895. This was the only time
I found Ida and Martha living with Richard and Marie Ruth. I also never found them living with Wilhelmina’s Cleveland
siblings August Budde after 1880 or with Lena Budde Wilk and her husband Otto. Richard and Marie Ruth frequently
moved during this period. August Budde (during 1874-1885) and his sister Lena Budde Wilk (during 1865-1886) lived a
few blocks apart on St. Clair Avenue.
5 This could either be a misspelling of Kumrow or possibly the surname of Wilhelmina Budde Kumrow’s second husband Meinhardt.
9
Meink Family – 1880 Census – 32 Clifton Street, Cleveland, OH
Name Relation Profession Birthplace Father Mother
Mink, Herman WM 32 head Machinist Germany Germany Germany
Mink, Theresa WF 29 Wife Keeping house Ohio Germany Ohio
Mink, Eliza WF 11 Daughter At school Ohio Germany Ohio
Mink, Frederick WM 8 Son At school Ohio Germany Ohio
Mink, William WM 4 Son
Ohio Germany Ohio
Mink, Charlie WM 1 Son
Ohio Germany Ohio
Chapter Two Section One: Marie Kumrow Ruth and Descendants
Marie (Mary) Hazel Kumrow Ruth and Richard Frank Ruth
6
Marie Kumrow was the daughter of Wilhelmina Budde and Frederick Kumrow. According to family sources her husband,
Richard Frank Ruth, was the son of Franz Ruth (captain of an ocean going sailing ship) and Wilhelmina Koenig. Richard
Frank Ruth (my great grandfather) came to Cleveland, Ohio in 1868. He had been a captain in the German army,
disliked the militaristic government in Germany and resigned to come to America. His beliefs about militarism were
obviously passed down to his descendants because my parents and grandparents in the Gable family also did not
believe in military service. He was a Captain at twenty-one. He could speak English, French and German easily. After
6 The picture of Richard Frank Ruth was taken at his home on Redell Ave
10
arriving in America he insisted on speaking English even at home with family. Even though there were many German
immigrants living in Cleveland at the time, he chose to live in a part of the city with other German immigrants (which
was also true of his wife’s family, the Kumrows). A brother (Bernhardt Ruth) moved to St. Louis, where there were also
many German immigrants. Bernhardt’s family continued to speak German at home but apparently it didn’t make a
difference in their pronunciation of English. Their father was a captain on an ocean going sailing ship and there was a
story told that one time he was gone for a year and was believed lost. A great deal was made of Christmas as my
grandmother believed the Christmas tree originated in Germany. 7
MarieKumrow married Richard Frank Ruth (son of Franz Ruth and Wilhelmina Koenig8) and had 5 children. They lived
in Cleveland, Ohio. Richard Frank Ruth may have been the brother of Bernhardt Ruth from St. Louis. Family sources
say his parents were Franz Ruth and Wilhelmina Koenig.
7 The source of this story is Hazel Ruth Gable told to my sister Martha Gable Bland as part of a school writing assignment around
1967. 8 Ruth or Charles Gable were the source of the parents names, but I don’t know where she got it from.
11
5-Richard Frank Ruth b. 1847 or Sep 1849, Germany, d. 24 Mar 1908, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, bur. Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
+Marie (Mary) Hazel Kumrow b. 13 Apr 1860, Woldegk, Germany, m. 16 May 1881, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, d. 11 Dec 1942, Cleveland Heights,
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, bur. Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
|--6-Hazel Ursula Ruth b. 27 Jun 1889, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, d. 8 | May 1975, Rossmoor Manor, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California,
| bur. Cremated
|--6-Wilhelmina (Minnie) (Mamie) (Mary) Ruth b. 10 Dec 1881, Cleveland, Ohio, d. 12 Dec 1915, bur. 14 Dec 1915, Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
|--6-Effie Ruth b. 13 Sep 1885, d. 17 Dec 1918, bur. Woodland Cemetery,
| Cleveland, Ohio
|--6-Frederick or Franklyn ? Ruth b. Abt 1883, bur. 12 Dec 1887, Woodland
| Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
|--6-Elsie Ruth b. Abt 1887, d. 3 Aug 1888, Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
I have three photos of Richard Frank Ruth as a young man. The one to the left
is taken in Stettin, Germany (now Sczcecin, Poland). There is another labeled on
the back as being taken in Hamburg (where the ship left from) and one taken in
Cleveland, Ohio. He immigrated to America in the same year (1873) as his wife
Marie Kumrow according to the 1900 census but I don’t know if they met in
Germany, on board ship or in Cleveland. My contact with access to church
records in Woldegk did not find the Ruth family name listed there. However,
there is a photo that is probably Wilhelmina Budde Kumrow (shown earlier in
this document) also taken in Stettin, which is the nearest small city to Woldegk.
Richard Ruth started out as a grocer and then became an agent or salesman.
Between 1891 and 1896 he worked in the bottling business for lager beer, ale
and porter, first with Heinzerling and Ruth and later at Woodland Avenue
Bottling Works, which he ran. The Ruths moved to Goshen, Indiana for a few
years and then returned to Cleveland, Ohio to work again as a salesman. They
lived at 7819 Redell Street NE until Richard died in 1908. Later Marie Ruth
moved in with her daughter Hazel and husband Charles Dudley Gable and
assisted with raising Charles Marvin Gable and Glenn Shaw, the son of her
deceased daughter Wilhelmina “Minnie” Ruth and Russell A. Shaw. The Gables lived at 1624 Rydalmount Road in
Cleveland Heights.
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Year Information9
Census 1880 (Marie) 792 St Clair Street with brother August Budde
1881 Marriage Certificate, Cuyahoga County, OH, probably Cleveland
1883 grocer, 379 Scovill Ave
1884 grocer, 1640 Broadway, r same
1885 agt, 63 Slater
1886 grocer, 1330 E. Madison Ave, r. 85 Rawlings Ave
1887 salesman, r 266 Liberty
1888 salesman, r 264 1/2 Liberty
1891 Heinzerling & Ruth, 83 Woodland Ave, r 163 Congress
1894 Ruth Richard F, Successor to Heinzerling & Ruth, 83 Woodland Ave, r 47 New St, bottler of lager beer, ale and porter, dealer in wines and liquors
1896 agt Woodland Avenue Bottling Works, 1109 Woodland Ave, r 970 Scovill Ave
Between Goshen, Indiana 10
Census 1900 salesman, 30 Redell Street
1904 salesman, r 43 Redell Street
1905 salesman, r 7819 (old 95) Redell NE, lists daughter Wilhelmina as stenogr same addr
1906 salesman, r 7819 (old 95) Redell
1907 salesman, r 7819 Redell NE
1908 salesman, r 7819 Redell NE, same address in RFR Death Certificate 3/1908
Census 1910 100?? Parkgate Avenue
1911 Marie (widow Richard) 10021 Parkgate Ave, Hazel U stenogr same addr
1913 No entry Mary, Effie stenogr, r 1170 E 112th NE
1916 widow Richard, 12111 Saywell Ave NE
Census 1920 With son in law Charles Dudley Gable, 1402 Hopkins Ave
Census 1930 With son in law Charles Dudley Gable, 1624 Rydalmount Road
Census 1940 With son in law Charles Dudley Gable, 1624 Rydalmount Road
1946 1624 Rydalmount Road, Cleveland Heights, OH on Death Certificate
1891 Cleveland City Directory
9 All of the data in the table is from the Cleveland City Directory unless indicated otherwise. Charles Dudley Gable is Marie’s
daughter Hazel Ursula Ruth’s husband. Effie is Marie’s daughter.
10
Date based Hazel Ruth Gable’s memories of visits to her aunt Ida Kumrow Jury’s home before and after train trips to Goshen which happened near the time she was eight in 1897 (see Ida Kumrow Jury later in this document)
13
Marriage Certificate for Richard F. Ruth and Mary Kumrow, May 17, 1881
1900 Census –They lived at 30 Redell Street in Cleveland, Ohio. They could all read, write and speak English. They
rented.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children DOB Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated Ruth, Richard F. head WM 50
M 19yrs
Sep 1849 salesman Germany Germany Germany 1873 /Na
Ruth, Mary wife WF 39 M 19yrs 5 / 3 Apr 1861
Germany Germany Germany 1873
Ruth, Wilhelmena daughter WF18 S
Dec 1881 stenographer Ohio Germany Germany
Ruth, Effie daughter WF 14 S
Sep 1885 at school Ohio Germany Germany
Ruth, Hazel O. daughter WF 10 S
Jun 1889 at school Ohio Germany Germany
14
1910 Census – Wilhelmina and her husband Russell Shaw who had been married 1 year. Marie Ruth rented. They lived
at 1101? Parkgate Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated
Ruth, Marie head WF 50 widow 3 / 3
Germany Germany Germany 1874 Shaw, Wilhelmina daughter WF 27 M 1 yr
Ohio Germany Germany
Ruth, Effie daughter WF 24 S
stenographer, insurance firm Ohio Germany Germany
Ruth, Hazel U. daughter WF 20 S
stenographer, plumbing firm Ohio Germany Germany
Shaw, Russel A.
son in law WM 24 M 1 yr
carpenter, contracting firm PA PA PA
Marie’s death certificate lists her parents as Fred Kumrow and Wilhelmine Budde from Germany.
17
Charles Dudley Gable and Hazel Ursula Ruth
Hazel Ursula Ruth was the daughter of Marie Kumrow Ruth and Richard Frank Ruth. Hazel Ursula Ruth married Charles
Dudley Gable. Charles Dudley Gable11 was the son of David Gable and Mary A. Rickert who lived first in Medina County,
Ohio and later in Cleveland, Ohio. Hazel and Charles lived in Cleveland Heights until about 1955 when they moved to
Walnut Creek, California to be near their son Charles Marvin Gable and his family. Charles Dudley Gable worked as an
Assistant Comptroller for Cleveland Trust Company and was on the Cleveland Heights School Board.
6-Hazel Ursula Ruth b. 27 Jun 1889, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, d. 8 May
1975, Rossmoor Manor, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California, bur.
Cremated
+Charles Dudley Gable b. 18 Sep 1887, Medina County, Ohio, m. 9 May 1912,
Cleveland, OH, d. 10 Apr 1963, Concord Community Hospital, Concord, Contra
Costa County, California, bur. Cremated
|--7-Charles Marvin Gable b. 15 Oct 1918, Cleveland, OH, d. 28 Feb 2004, Las
| Cruces, NM, bur. Jan 2008, Cremated, Scattered Ashes In Organ Mtns Near
| Las Cruces
| +Ruth Musser Kraiss b. 10 Nov 1918, Philadelphia, PA, c. 20 Apr 1919,
| Trinity Reformed Church, Mountville, PA, m. 22 Nov 1950, First
| Congregational Church, Berkeley, CA, d. 24 Jan 2008, Las Cruces, NM, bur.
| Jan 2008, Cremated, Scattered Ashes In Organ Mtns Near Las Cruces
|--7-Charles (baby) Gable b. 12 Jun 1916, d. 12 Sep 1916
11
There is more about the Gable family in my document “Connecting the Gable Family”, which documents the descendants of Benjamin Gable and Anna Koppes, David Gable’s parents.
Hazel Ruth Gable
Charles Dudley Gable
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Wilhelmina Ruth and Russell Shaw
Marie Kumrow and Richard Ruth’s daughter Wilhelmina “Minnie” married Russell Shaw in 1909 and their son Glenn
Richard was born in 1910. Wilhelmina died of pneumonia in 1915 during the flu epidemic. Don’t know what
happened to his father. Glenn was raised by Minnie’s sister Hazel Ruth Gable and her husband Charles Dudley Gable.
During my childhood we visited Glenn and his family regularly in Mentor, Ohio.
6-Wilhelmina (Minnie) (Mamie) (Mary) Ruth b. 10 Dec 1881, Cleveland, Ohio, d.
12 Dec 1915, bur. 14 Dec 1915, Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
+Russell A. Shaw b. 13 Feb 1888, Mt. Pleasant, PA, m. 1909, d. 15 Jun 1960,
Los Angeles, , California
|--7-Glenn Richard Shaw b. 8 May 1910, Cleveland, OH, d. 19 Dec 1984, Mentor,
| Ohio, bur. Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
+Constance Norah Mottershaw b. 10 May 1908, Northwich, Cheshire, England,
m. 15 Jan 1938, Cleveland, OH, d. 29 Dec 1987, Mentor, Ohio, bur. Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
19
Effie Ruth and Carl Schultz
Their daughter Effie Ruth married Carl Schultz in 1913. Effie died in 1918 during the World War I flu epidemic. She had
no children.
20
Bernhardt Ruth and Family
My grandmother Hazel Ruth Gable told my sister Martha that Richard Frank Ruth had a brother who lived in Saint Louis. There was a John A. Ruth and his wife Frances living in St. Louis, Missouri that ran a photographic studio. There are several pictures of my dad (Charles M. Gable) taken there during his childhood and I have photos of a visit there while I was a child. There was a Bernhardt and Hedwig Schuste Ruth living in St. Louis in 1900 which lists their children Gerda, Walter and Werner but not the older children. I also found passenger list where Richard Ruth visited Germany in 1890 with his niece Gerda (age 5) and nephew Ernst (age 7). They traveled on the Eider from Bremen, Germany and all are listed as US residents at the time. 4-Bernhardt Ruth b. 13 Oct 1848, Germany, d. 25 Jan 1905, St. Louis, Missouri
+Hedwig Schuste b. Dec 1851, Germany, m. 1872, d. 26 Oct 1911, St. Louis,
Missouri
|--5-John A. Ruth b. July 21, 1878 or abt 1879, Germany, d. after 1940
|-- 5-Alfred H. Ruth b. Jul 1875, Germany, d. 31 Oct 1908, St. Louis, Missouri
|--5-Walter H. Ruth b. 4 Jan 1890, St. Louis, Missouri, d. Jul 1963, Albany
| County, NY
|--5-Werner Ruth b. 18 May 1892, Missouri, d. Apr 1967, St. Louis, Missouri
|--5-Gerda Ruth b. 21 Dec 1882, Germany, d. Mar 1971, Lakeport, Lake, CA
|--5-Ernest Frank Ruth b. 3 Jan 1880, Germany
John A. Ruth
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1900 Census – 919 Withnell Street, St. Louis, MO
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital DOB
Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated Ruth, Bernhardt head WM 51
M 28 yr
Nov 1848
Day laborer Germany Germany Germany 1884
Ruth, Hedwig wife WF 48
M 28 yr
Dec 1851 7 / 6
Germany Germany Germany 1888
Ruth, Gerda Daughter WF 17 S
Dec 1882
Tailoress Germany Germany Germany 1888
Ruth, Walter Son WM 10 S
Jan 1890
At school Missouri Germany Germany
Ruth, Werner. Son WM 8 S
May 1892
At school Missouri Germany Germany
22
Here is a death record for Alfred Ruth which lists his parents:
Here is a birth record for Walter Herbert Ruth which lists his parents:
23
Here is a 1917 passport application for Bernhardt’s son Walter that says that Bernhardt Ruth was born in Berlin,
Germany and immigrated in 1883 from Bremen, Germany and has lived in that he lived in the United States from 1883
to 1904 in Cleveland, Ohio and St. Louis, MO.
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Chapter Two Section Two: Ida Kumrow and John Grove Jury
Ida Kumrow was the daughter of Wilhelmina Budde Kumrow and Frederick Kumrow. John Grove Jury was the son of Abner Townsend Jury (1832 - 1901) and Rebecca Davis Jury (1837 - 1916). This branch of the Budde family has been active in collecting family history. Eleanor Jury Yoder collected family stories from her mother Ida Kumrow Jury and Ida’s sisters Marie and Martha with collaboration from Hazel Ruth Gable and Grace Richardson which are included later in this document. Ida Kumrow and her best friend Agnes Westropp ran a millinery store on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland. Their store was nearby the Jury Bros grocery store. The Jury brothers married Ida and Agnes. Ida’s grandchildren also visited Budde relatives (Erich and Kathe Budde Kuhlman) in Hamburg, Germany in 1953, 1958 and 1978. Letters describing these visits are included later in the private portion of this document. |--5-Ida Emilie Kumrow b. 14 Sep 1863, Woldegk, Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany,
| d. 10 Jan 1952
| +John Grove Jury b. 18 Dec 1864, Licking Township, Licking County, Ohio, m.
| 1 Jun 1898, d. 26 Jul 1945, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
| |--6-Eleanor Jury b. 1 Jan 1902, d. 31 Dec 1994
| | +Lester Leo Yoder b. 13 Sep 1900, m. Abt 1928, d. 21 Jul 1997
| |--6-Marian Jury b. 27 Sep 1904, d. 14 Jul 1994, Phoenix, , Arizona
| | +Stanley Tucker (Stan) Gridley b. 4 Aug 1899, m. 11 Aug 1928, d. 27 May
| | 1972, Cleveland, OH
| |--6-Elton Wright Jury b. Abt Apr 1899, d. 24 Jul 1899, Licking Township,
| | Licking County, Ohio
1895 Cleveland Directory:
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1907 Cleveland directory
1900 Census – John Grove Jury and his wife Ida at 861 Fairmount Street, Cleveland, Ohio. He was a grocer. They
rented.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children DOB Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated
Jury, J. G. Head WM 35 M 2 yr
Dec 1864 grocer Ohio Ohio Ohio
Jury, Ida Wife WF 35 M 2 yr 1 / 0
Sept 1864
Germany Germany Germany 1878
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1910 Census –Lived (rented) at 2136 Fairmount Road in Cleveland, Ohio.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated Jury, John G. Head WM 45
M 12 yr
Proprietor, Grocery Ohio Virginia Ohio
Jury, Ida K. Wife WF 47
M 12 yr 3 / 2
Germany Germany Germany
Jury, Eleanor Daughter WF 8 S
Ohio Ohio Germany
Jury, Marian Daughter WF 6 S
Ohio Ohio Germany
1920 Census – Lived at 14017 Windermere Hill Road in East Cleveland, Ohio. They were still living in the same location
according to 1930 and 1940 Census.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated Jury, John G. Head WM 55 M
Salesman, grocery store Ohio Virginia Ohio
Jury, Ida K. Wife WF 56 M
Prussia Prussia Prussia 1875
Jury, Eleanor Daughter WF 18 S
Ohio Ohio Prussia
Jury, Marian Daughter WF 16 S
Ohio Ohio Prussia
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Cleveland City Directory
Year John G. Jury Paul Richardson Ida E Kumrow Martha E Kumrow
1883
clerk, bds 32 Clifton
1884
r 32 Clifton
1885 clerk, 1933 Euclid Ave
1886 ditto
r 32 Clifton
1887 ditto
r 32 Clifton
1888
28 Chestnut - switching residence address with brother Ellsworth
clerk, bds 32 Clifton
1891 34 Chestnut
clerk W. T. Bell, r 32 Clifton
1892
Westropp & Kumrow, r 1950 Euclid Ave
1894
Westropp & Kumrow, r 1950 Euclid Ave
1895 clerk, 2289 Euclid, r 2278 Euclid ave
Westropp & Kumrow, r 2289 1/2 Euclid Ave
1896 ditto
Kumrow & Horner (Ida Kumrow and Jessie Horner, millinery, 2291 Euclid Ave), r 970 Scovill Ave telegr, r 970 Scovill Ave
1898
Kumrow & Horner, bus & r 400 Wade Park Ave
1907
Jury Bros Grocery 10627 Euclid, r2136 Fairmount Rd
belmont rd & windermere terrace
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Chapter Two Section Three: Martha Kumrow and Paul Richardson
Martha Kumrow was the daughter of Wilhelmina Budde Kumrow and Frederick Kumrow. Paul Richardson was the son
of Rev. David K Richardson (1836 – 1877) and Susannah Lawrence Hosack (1835 – 1917). Martha Kumrow and Paul
Richardson had two daughters Grace and Jean. The Richardsons lived in East Cleveland except during the 1920s while
they lived in Minneapolis.
|--5-Martha Kumrow b. 3 May 1868, d. 8 Nov 1950
+Paul D. Richardson b. 8 Nov 1868, Bryan, Defiance Co, OH, m. 18 Jul 1895,
d. 8 Oct 1923, Minneapolis, , Minnesota
|--6-Grace Richardson b. 11 Jan 1901, d. 24 May 1980
| +David Greiling b. 13 Nov 1901, m. 1932, d. 9 Nov 1989
|--6-Jean Richardson b. 8 Dec 1905, d. 28 or 29 Jan 2003, Wooster, , Ohio
1900 Census – Paul and Martha lived at 17 Elsinore Ave in East Cleveland, OH. They had been married 5 years. Paul
was a salesman.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children DOB Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated Richardson, Paul D. . Head WM 31 M 5 yrs
Nov 1868 salesman Ohio Ohio Ohio
Jury, Ida Wife WF 32 M 5 yrs 0 / 0
May 1868
Germany Germany Germany 1873
1910 Census –Lived at 107 Belmore in East Cleveland.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated
Richardson, Paul Head WM 41
M 14 yrs
Dept. Manager, Brush Café(?) Ohio Ohio Ohio
Richardson, Martha Wife WF 41
M 14 yrs 2 / 2
Germany Germany Germany
Richardson, Grace Daughter WF 9 S
Ohio Ohio Germany
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Richardson, Jean Daughter WF 4 S
Ohio Ohio Germany
1920 Census – Lived (rented) at 2315 Grand Avenue South, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated
Richardson, Paul D. Head WM 51 M
Sales Mgr, Electric Company Ohio Ohio Ohio
Richardson, Martha K. Wife WF 51 M
Germany Germany Germany
1873/Na 1895
Richardson, Grace Daughter WF 18 S
Ohio Ohio Germany
Richardson, Jean Daughter WF 14 S
Ohio Ohio Germany
1930 Census – Lived (rented) at 1758 Wymore Avenue, East Cleveland, OH.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated Richardson, Martha K. Head WF 61 Widow
Germany Germany Germany 1873/Na
Richardson, Grace Daughter WF 29 S
Stenographer, automobile co. Ohio Ohio Germany
Richardson, Jean Daughter WF 24 S
Stenographer, college Ohio Ohio Germany
1940 Census – Lived (rented) at 1830 Roxford, East Cleveland, OH (same house as in 1935).
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated Education
Richardson, Martha K. Head WF 71 Widow
Germany Germany Germany Na
8th
Richardson, Jean M. Daughter WF 34 S
Secretary college Ohio Ohio Germany
C4
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Chapter Two Section Four: Otto Kumrow and Theresa Werner
Otto Kumrow was the son of Wilhelmina Budde Kumrow and her second husband Meinhardt (first name unknown)12
and stepbrother of Marie Kumrow Ruth, Ida Kumrow Jury and Martha Kumrow Richardson. He was conceived before
Wilhelmina and her daughters left Germany and born in Cleveland, Ohio after they arrived.
According to his niece Hazel Ruth Gable:
“Uncle Otto worked in Wisconsin for a while at an ore mining office – then he went to Utah with copper company, first
living in Ogden and then in Salt Lake City. He had a very good job there . I think he was comptroller for the company.
His wife’s name was Theresa and they never had children. They always seemed glamorous to us as they sent such
wonderful boxes of gifts at Christmas time to all of us in Cleveland. I never saw Uncle Otto unless it was when I was too
young to remember. Grace and Jean Richardson visited them.”
Otto left Cleveland some time after 1896. I couldn’t find him in either the 1900 or 1910 census. Otto and Theresa were
married in 1903 in Salt Lake City. According to the Census and the Salt Lake City Directory, Otto and Theresa lived in Salt
Lake City beginning in 1908. He worked as a auditor at Utah Copper Company: Magna Plant (1917), Utah Copper
Company (1919), Arthur Plant (1924, 1929), Utah Copper Company (1934, 1936, 1939). The 1920 census lists them
living on Utah Copper Row (Arthur Mill). The 1930 and 1940 Census shows them at 16 Arthur Row in Garfield, Salt Lake,
Utah.
+Unknown Meinhardt or Reinhardt or Reinhold
5-Otto W. Kumrow b. 25 Apr 1874, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH, d. 28 Jun 1954, Salt
Lake City, , Utah, bur. Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah
+Theresa Werner b. 1880, m. 15 Dec 1903, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, d.
1940
|--2-Infant Kumrow b. 1906, d. 1906
12
There is some confusion about the name of Wilhelmina Budde Kumrow’s second husband (they might not have actually been married, but he was father of Otto Kumrow, who took the surname of his sisters). The family thought his name was Meinhardt or Reinhardt. Hazel Ruth Gable was sure it was Meinhardt. The source of this confusion may be caused by the names of Maria Picht’s (Wilhelmina’s mother) step siblings (last name Reinke) and the Meink family who helped Ida and Martha Kumrow after Wilhelmina died. His last name might have been Hurnan (seen in the 1880 Census for Wilhelmina and her four children – if that isn’t a misspelling of Kumrow).
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Chapter Two Section Five: More Memories
Ida Kumrow Jury (born Sept 14, 1863, died January 1952)13
By Eleanor Jury Yoder14
Ida Wilhelmina Kumrow (mother of Marian Jury Gridley and Eleanor Jury Yoder) was born in Woldegk, Mecklenburg
Strelitz, Germany, in 1863. Her father died when she was small (I don’t know his last name) and her mother married
again. We do not know much about this man but thing his last name may have been Reinhardt 15or something like that.
Grace Greiling thinks he was a dancing teacher. Grandmother had a son by him, Otto, but Otto went by the name
Kumrow. We don’t know whether Reinhardt died or what happened to him but Grandmother came to America about
1873 with her four children – Marie (Mary) (age 13), Ida Wilhelmina Kumrow (age 11), Martha (age 6) and Otto16, a small
child. Note: (written before Karen Dickson gave us some further information from Kathe Schmidt Kuhlman in August
1978; also see some corrections from Hazel Gable’s17 letters which follow), especially re Meinhardt.)
Grandmother and her children came to Cleveland where her brother, August Budde, had a bakery18. August may have
given Wilhelmina money to come to America. Ida helped in the bakery, thus developing a slight curvature of the spine,
one hip being higher than the other from carrying loads of bread.
Grandmother died before the family was fully grown. Ida remembered jumping on her mother’s back to relieve her
pain. I think she died of some kind of lung disease or tuberculosis of the bowels.
Mary married Richard Ruth. The other children were still unmarried.19 Mary took care of Otto and the girls lived with
Mrs. Meinke where they did some housework in the evenings afer after work and on Sundays. We don’t know whether
Mrs. Meinke20 took them in to earn a little money or whether she took them in out of the goodness of her heart. (Hazel
Ruth inclines to the latter idea). Later the girls went to live with Mary.
Martha was a telegraph operator. Ida worked in a department store, Bells, and later started a millinery shop with Agnes
Westropp, a friend she met at church. Eventually the two partners married the two partners of Jury Brothers’ grocery
store which was located a couple stores down the street from theirs. Ida married John Groves Jury and Agnes married
Colonel Ellsworth Jury. The third brother Charles Jury, had a coal company. The men courted their future wives, not by
13
There are at least three different versions of this document. The first has more detail but is missing the leftmost few characters on each line. The second appears to be a slightly updated transcript typed by Ruth M. K. Gable. The third (and most recent) came from Alice Gridley (wife of Bob Gridley) with the Budde/Kumrow descendants chart in 1991. I’m using the earliest version of the document. I’m assuming this document was originally written in December 1970 or January 1971 because Hazel Ruth Gable’s response to it is dated Jan. 20, 1971. 14
Eleanor Yoder was Ida Kumrow Jury’s daughter. 15
Hazel Ruth Gable thought it was Meinhard. 16
Actually Otto was born April 25, 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio. 17
Hazel Ruth Gable was Marie Kumrow Ruth’s daughter. 18
The 1880 Census on June 5th
shows Mary and her four children living with August Budde at 792 St. Clair Street in Cleveland. It also notes that Wilhelmina (Mary) has bronchitis at the time of the census. Wilhelmina died one month later on July 9, 1880 and was buried in Woodland Cemetery. 19
Ida married John Grove Jury on June 1, 1898 and Martha married Paul Richardson on July 18, 1895. 20
Some research using the Cleveland City Directory shows Ida or Martha Kumrow living at 32 Clifton Street between 1883 and 1891. Herman and Theresa Meink are listed as living at 32 Clifton Street between 1881 and 1899 and their family is shown in the 1880 Census at that address. Their name is listed as Mink, Menk and Meink in various places. The only time I found listings for Ida and Martha living with Marie and Richard Ruth was in the 1896 Cleveland Directory and 970 Scovill Avenue. This is obviously partially incorrect because Martha married Paul Richardson in 1895. Marie and Richard Ruth frequently moved during this period, though some of the entries may be business addresses.
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conventional means, but by shoveling snow from the walk in front of their millinery store and by taking them fruit and
special foods from the grocery store.
When Mary had children, Ida asked them to call her Ida as she felt she was too young to be called “aunt”. Thus, Mamie
(Wilhelmina Ruth Shaw), Effie and Hazel always called her and Martha by their first names.
The name Wilhelmina was for Queen Wilhelmina of Germany. I always thought the three Kumrow girls had the same
middle name, “Wilhelmina”, but Hazel doesn’t think so.21
Ida never spoke much of her childhood and youth. One thing she did say was that she never had taste grapes as
wonderful as those she remembered in Germany. The family came to America in steerage22 and I think the memory
was so terrible none of them wanted to talk of it. She and Martha never spoke German when they could talk English
after they got here – they seemed to want to forget the past and move on to the future.
21
According to church birth records obtained through Patricia Kizele from Woldegk, Germany, their birth names were: Marie Wilhelmine Caroline, Ida Caroline Wilhelmine and Martha Emilie Auguste Budde. 22
Wilhe Kumerow 39, Marie 13, Ida 9 and Martha 5 are listed in the New York passenger list of the Thuringia which arrived in New York on Oct 29, 1873. They are described as “momma” and “her children”.
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Excerpts from Hazel Ruth Gable’s response to the above account23
I was interested in all the information you sent and looked it over carefully. On reading the story you have written
about your mother, I find small discrepancies in dates as I knew them. They aren’t important but I wondered if you just
figured them out or if you remember them as your mother told them to you.
My mother (Marie Kumrow Ruth) was very certain that her birth date was 186024 and as she was thirteen when they
came here, that would make their sailing date 1873. You say that your mother (Ida Kumrow) was twelve when they
came here. My mother always said she was thirteen and your mother was eleven. Martha was five when they came
here. I remember Uncle Otto’s father rather as Meinhardt, not Reinhardt, and had the idea that he either died or they
were separated before they came here and that Otto was born here shortly after they came here. This is just a feeling
from various things I heard rather than fact.
I am not sure of what you have written about your mother and Agnes (Westropp) having a store near Jury Bros. I do
know what when our family moved back from Goshen, Indiana25, we came to your mother’s store and rooms in back of
the store and that was on Wade Park Avenue. Did your father have a store on Wade Park?26 The first I remember is his
store on Euclid Avenue. I do remember something being said about the fact that your mother was going with John Jury.
I was eight at the time. We didn’t stay with your folks on Fairmount as you mention. We just came there the night we
were to take the train for Goshen. I remember being wakened and carried on someone’s shoulder to the train. It was
on Wade Park Avenue that we stayed with your mother until we found a house.
You mention that Jean (Richardson) thinks our mothers’ father (Christoph Budde)was a miller. I don’t think there was
any doubt of it.27 My mother often mentioned that he was. I do not remember that Agnes lived with your mother on
Wade Park Avenue. I have no memory of seeing her nor meeting her until after your mother and father were married.
It seems I would have remembered her if she had lived there. As I said I was eight at the time and do remember many
things that happened there. I have a picture of me standing in front of the store, not showing the store but I remember
that it was taken there on my way to school. That was before Wade Park School was built and we all went to Hough
Avenue School. Are you interested in all this?
P.S. On re-reading this letter hope you don’t think I’m trying to say I know- it-all. I don’t, but would be interested in
hearing whether your father and his brother had a store on Wade Park before they had the one on Euclid. We recented
a house on Redell right near your mother’s store and we lived there when Grace and you were born. Lived there until
23
The top of this document says “Excerpts from Hazel’s letter of Jan, 20, 1971. The earliest version of the previous document has an additional section headed “Hazel added these items:”. 24
According to birth records from the Woldegk church, Marie was born on April 13, 1860, Ida Sep 14, 1863 and Martha May 3, 1868. 25
Goshen , Indiana for the RUTHS??? Came back about 1896-1898 26
According to the 1895 Cleveland City Directory the Jury Brothers store was at 2289 Euclid Avenue and their residence at 2278. In 1895 Westropp & Kumrow was listed at 2289 ½ Euclid which was also Ida Kumrow’s residence address. (Martha was married in 1895 and Ida in 1898). Hazel Ruth would have been eight in 1897. In 1891 Ida worked at W. T. Bell. In 1892, 1894 Ida worked at Westropp & Kumrow with residence 1950 Euclid. In 1896 Ida and Martha are listed with Richard and Marie Ruth on Scovill Avenue. Ida is listed as working with Kumrow and (Jessie) Horner in the 1896, 1898 directories with the business and residence address listed as 400 Wade Park in 1898. The 1907 directory was the first one that referred to the store as Jury Bros. In 1907 the store was at 10627 Euclid, and John Grove Jury lived at 2136 Fairmount Rd. However, starting in 1885 John Grove Jury and Colonel E. Jury were running a grocery first at 1933 Euclid (1885 – at which time Ida and Martha still lived on Clifton), and between 1888 and 1891 the Jurys were at 28 or 34 Chestnut. According to the 1900 Census John and Ida Jury lived at 861 Fairmount Rd, 1910 at 2136 Fairmount Road, 1920, 1930 & 1940 Census at 14017 Windemere Rd. 27
This is confirmed by the History of the Otto Budde mill obtained from Kathe Schmidt Kulhman in August 1978.
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just after I graduated from high school. -- I almost destroyed this letter. It sounds as tho I’m picking at details. I don’t
mean to.
Excerpts From Hazel’s Letter in Answer to Grace Richardson’s28 letter
It is cold and rainy, a good day to stay indoor, so I thought I would push myself into answering your letter asking for
information about our family. I agree with Eleanor that non eof us was very bright not to get this information when our
mothers could tell us.
I have no point of reference as fars as our grandparents are cocnerned. Our grandfather must have died at least a few
years before our mother’s family came to this country. I remember that our grandmother died when she was 46, but
that doesn’t help. My mother was born in 1860, was 13 years old when they came here, so as our grandmother must
have been pregnant when they came. Otto must have been born in 1873. He was 80 when he died so it must have
been 1953 when he died. My mother died in 1972. My mother and yours were almost the same age when they died,
within a month, eight years apart.
You’ve skipped my generation. My mother’s children Wilhelmina (Mamie), Franklyn, Effie, Elsie and I (Hazel). Charles,
my son was born in 1918, and if you want this birth date you should have Glenn’s (Mamie’s son) as that is the same
generation. Glenn was born in 1910. His wife’s name was Connie Mottershaw; Charles’ wife’s name was Ruth Kraiss.
I have a fairly clear idea of Woodland Cemetery as we went there often. Our grndmother is buried there, also my father
and mother, Glenn’s mother and my mother’s two little children, the boy Franklyn, 4 years old, and the baby girl, Elsie, 8
months. Wooland Cemetery ran from Quincy to Woodland Avenue. We drove down 70th Street. There never was a
headstone for the graves but when my mother died we got a large stone with all the names on it. The Buddes had a lot
next to ours but many years later when I was grown up, they had the bodies taken up and, I think, had them buried in
Lake View Cemetery. At that time we bought the Budde lot from them. None of our family was buried in Erie
Cemetery but the Wilk family have a large lot there.
28
Grace and Jean Richardson are Martha Kumrow Richardson’s daughters.
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More Additions by Hazel Ruth Gable:
Uncle Otto worked in Wisconsin for a while at an ore mining office – then he went to Utah with copper company, first
living in Ogden and then in Salt Lake City. He had a very good job there . I think he was comptroller for the compnay.
His wife’s name was Theresa and they never had children. They always seemed glamorous to us as they sent such
wonderful boxes of gifts at Christmas time to all of us in Cleveland. I never saw Uncle Otto unless it was when I was too
young to remember. Grace and Jean Richardson visited them.
To give an idea of Ida’s character, Hazel told of seing a customer come to the door of Ida’s and Agnes’ living quarters
behind their millinery shop, on a Sunday and give Ida some money in payment of a bill. Ida would not accept it because
it was Sunday and she would not do business on Sunday. Hazel remembers how impressed she was.
Hazel remembers Martha’s wedding to Paul Richardson. Mary and Ida lived side by side on Fairmount Street in
Cleveland (East 107th Street) at an early date in their married lives. When Martha was married they connected the two
porches and used both houses for the wedding.
Hazel remembers staying with Ida on a couple of occasions along with her mother and the rest of the family when the
Ruths were without a house but about to leave for Goshen to live, and also another time. Small living quarters didn’t
make any difference when a relative needed a place eto stay. One of Ida’s homes where they stayed were the few
rooms back of the millinery store.
Jean thinks Grandfather was a miller because Jean has a leather case which her mother (Martha Kumrow) told her was
used by her father (Ida’s father, also) to hang his watch in when he was working in the mill.
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More Additions from Alice Gridley’s version of this document
Ida was a quiet woman and loved the Chautauqua Institute, NY, where she took courses. Ida lived on Terrace Rd in E.
Cleveland, Ohio, part of lot originally owned by Martha and Paul Richardson. She was in her early 40s when Marian
was born.
Both Ida and Martha finished grade school (8th grade) but did not go to high school as far as we know.
Otto Budde was the son (or grandson?) of August Budde. Otto taught math to Bob Gridley in high school; Bob (Gridley)
remembers him as very bright. Bob was aware that they were related somehow but neither ever mentioned it.
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Chapter Two Section Six: Excerpts from “Jury Family History” by Robert Gridley, written in 2006.
THERE ARE PHOTOS TO ADD HERE
John Grove Jury and Ida Kumrow
John Jury, was the son of Abner and Rebecca Jury29. John started life on the family farm in Jacksontown, along with four
older brothers, James Willerie (Erie), Ellsworth Jacob (Colonel), Townsend Cory, Charles Davis and a younger sister, Mary
May (Mame).
Excerpt from Eleanor Jury Yoder’s account of John’s early life:30
He came to Cleveland and went into partnership with one of his older brothers (Colonel).
The only thing that jolted his life from its rut of monotony and routine was the arrival of the millinery firm of
“Westropp and Kumrow” next door. The heads of the company were mere girls and it quite provoked John that
they should try to run a business, unassisted. It bothered him to such an extent that he felt it his duty to take a
broom from the frail young girl’s hand whenever he would see her try to tidy up her place. He found many
excuses to send fruit and other delicacies from his store to the little store next door. Before long, however, the
sense of thrift encouraged in him by his grandmother prompted him to send more practical gifts such as
vegetables and fresh eggs instead of the luxuries he had chosen before. When without warning, the older girl
and his brother announce their marriage, the little girl and John decided to follow their example. And so in
quite a simple manner, the interests of the two firms merged, and the participants in the deal lived, with more
or less monotony, happily forever after.
Eleanor Jury Yoder
John and Ida Jury had three children, although Elton Wright Jury died at 3 months. Eleanor was born on January 1,
1902. Marian followed on September 27, 1904.
The following is an account by Judy Yoder Webster written 14 May 2006.
Mother – Mom, we called her both depending upon our moods of the day, was born on January 1, 1902, probably on a
snowy, bluster day if Cleveland was living up to its weathering weather standards at that time. Her parents named her
Eleanor Jury without a middle name and often mother told us that she regretted not having one. We must assume that
she was born at home as hospitals were not the standard birthing center for that day. She lived with her mother, Ida
and her father, John and her younger sister, Marian in a humble Victorian house on Fairmount Street in East Cleveland.
Later that house would become a Thrift Shop operated by the hospital and I remember taking an arm load of bridesmaid
and prom dresses there to be sold. Years after that visit the house disappeared into the miasma of the neighborhood
and was, no doubt, reconstituted into some other building of a grander nature. When she and Aunt Marian were in
grammar school they moved to a new house that grandma built on Terrace Road, still in East Cleveland.
29
John Grove Jury, husband of Ida Kumrow, was the son of Abner Townsend Jury (b 26 Sep 1832, Loudoun County, VA m 27 Jacksontown, Licking Township, Licking County, OH, d 2 July 1901 Licking Township) and Rebecca Davis (b 4 Jun 1837 Licking Township, d 16 Jun 1916 Licking Township). John (birth 18 Dec 1864 Licking Township, D 26 Jul 1945 Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH) 30
Yoder, Eleanor, 1920. John Groves Davis. Theme written by Eleanor Jury Yoder for Freshman English at College for Women, Western Reserve University (now Mather College), Case Western Reserve University) in 1920. (John Groves Davis is really John Groves Jury)
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Mom’s childhood was a happy one we believe, for she talked often of playing with her sister, and her two cousins, Jean
and Grace, who lived next door. Jean told us they played endless “pretend” games using colorful wooden blocks in the
upstairs living room. Sometimes they pretended to live in “Brownietown” which was outside along the stone wall
across the street. That became a shoe store and each stone became a box with colored shoes. On Sundays the “Big
Girls” and the “Little Girls” would traipse off to Sunday School in their organdy dresses that grandma Jury had made.
They each wore a different color but the dresses were identical. During the summer evenings they would sit on the
back porch steps talking and playing as well as sitting on the large front porch. That space probably consumed most of
their playing time during the warmer seasons. Mother also talked fondly of her favorite time when they would create
doll houses out of cardboard boxes from Grandpa’s store. They cut out pictures from magazines. Curtains would go up
on the sides of the boxes for windows; chairs, beds, sofas, lamps were placed in the boxes and the fun and imagining
would go on for days. When Grace and Jean’s family moved to Minneapolis she went ot visit them in the summers and
she never grew tired of recalling the days they were together walking along the lakes and enjoying the freedoms new to
her and but now much more available to girls of this generation.
Stopped on page 22.
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Chapter 4: Descendants of Caroline (Lena) Budde
Lena Budde and Otto Wilk
Caroline (Lena) Budde is the daughter of Christoph Budde and Maria Picht. Otto Wilk is the son of John and Sophia
Wilkes.
4-Caroline (Lena) or Carolina Johanna Maria Budde b. 1 Apr 1830, Woldegk,
Muhlenberg, Germany, d. 9 Apr 1922, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, bur.
Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
+Johann Frederick Otto "Otto" Wilk b. 1824, Germany, m. 26 Dec 1860, ,
Cuyahoga County, OH, d. 27 Feb 1886, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, bur.
Erie Street Cemetery or Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
|--5-Louise M. Wilk b. Jul 1851, Germany, d. 23 Nov 1921
| +Frederick Vilmar b. Abt 1845, Germany, m. 10 Mar 1870, Cuyahoga Co., OH,
| d. abt 1889, bef 1894
|--5-Ida Wilk b. 25 Oct 1875, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, d. 14 Oct 1941,
| Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, bur. Lakeview Cemetery,
| Cleveland, Ohio
| +William Morris b. 1875, m. 14 Sep 1910, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
|--5-Amelia Wilk b. 3 Mar 1868, d. 18 Mar 1952, bur. Lakeview Cemetery,
| Cleveland, Ohio
| +Unknown
|--5-William W. Wilk b. Mar 1867, Ohio, d. 17 Jan 1935, bur. Lakeview Cemetery,
| Cleveland, Ohio
| +Unknown
|--5-Mary L. "Lizzie" Wilk b. 13 Feb 1858, Ohio, d. 16 Feb 1939, Cleveland,
| Cuyahoga County, Ohio, bur. Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
+Thompson W. Morehead b. 1851, m. 23 Oct 1895, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, d. 15
Jul 1898, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
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During Immigration: Otto, Carole and two month old Louise Wilk are listed as passengers on the Rudolph which arrived
in New York on October 30, 1857 leaving from Hamburg, Germany. They traveled on the same voyage as Fredericka la
Bourne King, who was eleven at the time of the voyage and describes the voyage in the following 1923 newspaper
article. All of the Wilk family did survive the voyage.31
/This newspaper article was copied by Joseph F. Mesker from original notes recorded in the summer of 1923 by a reporter to the Niagara Falls Gazette. Transcribed by William E. Smith in 1981. "Auntie" King died in 1925.
.... THIRD STREET WOMAN WAS ABOARD ILL-FATED RUDOLPH POISON SHIP ....
Lost Mother and Father at Sea
Mrs. Fredericka ("Auntie") King relates adventure of crossing Atlantic on sailboat in 1857
....Is only survivor of the family of immigrants...
As she rested in her comfortable chair last evening and slowly turned the pages of yesterday's edition of the Niagara Falls Gazette, Mrs. Fredericka King of No. 621 Third Street, 76 years old, had a thrill which would be difficult for a second party to conceive and far more difficult to describe. She was reading an account of the
greatest adventure of her life.
Mrs. King, who lives with her daughter, Mrs. Henrietta Royce, is one of the survivors of the "poison" ship which made the fatal trip from Hamburg to New York back
in 1857. The story of the trip was related to a reporter today with the same accuracy of fact and coherence with which it has been told to children and grandchildren many, many times.
"Auntie" King's memory is remarkably perfect for her advanced years. In fact, she appears today to be more observing of detail than the average person. Her story would read after this fashion.
Her Story
Her uncles, aunts and cousins were in America. She lived with her father in the little village of Mido (in Germany, now in Alsace-Lorraine). He was a supervisor over
a sheep ranch, a master shepherd. She recalls meeting him at the door as he returned each summer from a trip to Berlin where the wool from the sheep was sold.
She even remembers the bags of gold that he received in return for the wool, and used it to pay the shepherds and the owner of the sheep.
School facilities in Mido were minus, it seems. It was necessary for her to go to the adjoining town, Geldburg, for her education. She recalls romping along the roadways to the schoolhouse. But this is wandering from the story of the "poison" ship.
The "Poison" Ship
At last it was decided that the family would go to America. The first day of September, little Fredericka celebrated her eleventh birthday. On the fifteenth of
September, the Rudolph, for that was the name of the ill-fated ship, sailed from Hamburg.
There was joy in the hearts of all as the big sailboat cleared the harbor and set out for its trip across the Atlantic -- at that time a big undertaking. The weather was
perfect at the start. After one day out, the seas began to roll heavily; there was a storm. Seasickness prevailed through the ship.
There was a young man. Mrs. King does not recall his name. She says that perhaps she never knew it. She remembers having seen him. He posed as a physician and
prescribed medicine for the seasickness.
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Source: http://www.smithancestry.com/story/rudolph.htm, Brian J. Smith.
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Mother Stricken
Two days out, one of the male passengers became seriously ill. He died and was buried at sea. Then Mrs. King's mother, Sophia la Bourne, was stricken. She had taken some of the medicine. Little Fredericka and her three sisters, all of whom have died since, stood at their mother's death bed.
There was little time for ceremony at sea. Scarcely had the dear mother's life passed when the ship's officers ordered the customary wrapping in burlap. The ship was near land -- presumably an island. A red flag was displayed on the top mast. A small boat came from the shore and took the remains away. Today, Mrs. King has no
idea where her mother was laid to rest or what rites were performed at the grave.
Father a Victim
The next day, the father, Carl la Bourne, sturdy shepherd from France, paid the sacrifice demanded by the poison medicine, and was buried at sea before his daughters had a chance to view his remains.
And so the trip continued for six weeks and three days. The unfortunate passengers who had taken the fatal medicine passed away, one by one, and were lowered into the waiting waste of sea. There was panic among the passengers. The weather was terrible and the ship was tossed about on the sea as a piece of driftwood. While the
four daughters, grief-stricken and practically penniless, huddled together below the wave-swept decks and prepared to face the world alone.
Fake Doctor
Mrs. King does not know what became of the fake doctor. She recalls conversation with fellow passengers, during which she was informed that the young man was in irons below decks and that the ship officials were going to have him punished when the boat made port. Perhaps he was missing when the boat docked, and perhaps he
was on board and turned over to American authorities. Mrs. King was never informed of the disposition made of him.
But there was one little bright spot on the trip -- two, in fact. As the boat neared port, a little boy and a little girl were born to two young mothers; the boy was called
Rudolph for the ship.
In America
Landed in America, Fredericka and her sisters, with a group of near and distant relatives and three strangers in all, made their way to Niagara Falls. Fredericka stopped at the home of her uncle, Mr. Westfall, of Swamp Road, as Pine Avenue was then called. The four girls went to work.
March 27, 1867, Fredericka, then a young woman of twenty years, married George King, a French-Canadian. They were married in the Congregation Church at Suspension Bridge. They made their home here and in Buffalo until Mr. King died, 35 years ago. The Mrs. Katherine Hagaman of Kent, Ohio, referred to as a survivor
of the "poison" ship in last night's Gazette, is a cousin by marriage to Mrs. King. Mrs. King's mother and Mrs. Hagaman's step-mother were sisters.
It is only six years now that Mrs. King has been able to read English. For many, many years she struggled on through the many troubles in life without the opportunity
of learning to read English. Now, settled down in her daughter's home, she anxiously waits the coming of the evening newspaper every day, and she taught herself after she reached the three score and ten mark. Mrs. King is very alert, has a most pleasing personality, and is an excellent conversationalist.
The marriage record below for Caroline Budde and Otto Wilk in Cuyahoga County in 1860 was probably a reaffirmation
of vows, but I believe they were actually married previously in Woldegk, Germany (possibly in 1852, based on Otto’s
1886 death date and the 1900 census record saying they were married 34 years). Their oldest daughter, Louise Wilk
Vilmar born in July 1857, was born in Germany and their other children were born in Cleveland, OH.
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1870 Census – 5th Ward Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
Name Sex/Age Profession Birthplace
Otto Wilk WM 47 Saloon keeper Mecklinburg
Caroline Wilk WF 40 Keeping house Mecklinburg
Mary Wilk WF 12
Ohio
William Wilk WM 8
Ohio
Amelia Wilk WF 4
Ohio
1880 Census – 495 St. Clair Street, Cleveland, OH
Name Sex/Age Relation Marital Profession Birthplace Father Mother
Otto Wilk WM 56 head M Saloon Prussia Prussia Prussia
Caroline Wilk WF 50 Wife M keeping house Prussia Prussia Prussia
Mary Wilk WF 20 Daughter S At home Ohio Prussia Prussia
Amelia Wilk WF 13 Daughter S at school Ohio Prussia Prussia
Edna Wilk WF 6 Daughter S At school Ohio Prussia Prussia
1900 Census – 1885 (really 1585) St. Clair Street, Cleveland, OH (rented). Note: Louisa Vilmar is Lena Wilk’s daughter
and owned the home they all lived in free.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital DOB
Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated
Lena WIlk Head WF 70 Widow 34 yrs
Apr 1830 5 / 5
Germany Germany Germany 1857
Mary Wilk Daughter WF 42 Widow Feb 1858
Housework Ohio Germany Germany
William Wilk Son WM 33 S
Mar 1867
Cigar maker Ohio Germany Germany
Amelia Wilk Daughter WF 32 S
Mar 1868
Cashier Ohio Germany Germany
Ida Wilk Daughter WF 27 S
Oct 1872
Milliner Ohio Germany Germany
Louisa Vilmar Head WF 48
Widow 19 yrs
July 1851 5 / 3
Germany Germany Germany 1857
Otto Vilmar Son WM 24 S Oct 1870
Plumber Ohio Germany Germany
Sallina Vilmar Daughter WF 20 S
July 1879
Teacher Public School Ohio Germany Germany
Fred Vilmar Son WF 18 S
Mar 1882
Dry Goods Clerk Ohio Germany Germany
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1910 Census – 974 Parkwood (Caroline Wilkes), 978 Parkwood (Louise Vilmar), Cleveland, OH. They both owned their
homes free and clear.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated Caroline Wilkes Head WF 80 Widow 5 / 5
Germany Germany Germany 1859 / Na
Marie Morehead Daughter WF 45 Widow 0 / 0
Ohio Germany Germany
William Wilkes Son WM 45 S
Cigar maker, factory Ohio Germany Germany
Amelia Wilkes Daughter WF 38 S
Ohio Germany Germany
Ida Wilkes Daughter WF 30 S
Milliner, retail store Ohio Germany Germany
Louise Vilmar Head WF 58 Widow 3 / 3
Germany Germany Germany
1859 / Na 1862
Otto Vilmar Son WM 38 S Plumber, own store Ohio Germany Germany
Lillian Vilmar Daughter WF 28 S
Teacher Public School Ohio Germany Germany
Fred Vilmar Son WF 28 S
Draftsman, Automobile fac Ohio Germany Germany
1920 Census – 10828 Bryant (? On street name), Cleveland, OH (owned, mortgaged). It is confirmed that Caroline
Budde Wilks came from Woldegk, Mecklenburg, Germany. Also believe her husband Otto Wilk came from Woldegk .
So Hanover is incorrect.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated Marie Morehead Head WF 60 Widow 0 / 0
Ohio Hanover Hanover
William Wilks Brother WM 54 S
Cigar maker, factory Ohio Hanover Hanover
Amelia Wilks Sister WF 47 S
Ohio Hanover Hanover
Caroline Wilks Mother WF 80 Widow 5 / 5
Hanover Hanover Hanover 1857 / Na
1930 Census – 12817 Ashbury Ave, Cleveland, OH
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated Amelia Wilkes Head 60 S
None Ohio Germany Germany
Mary Morehead Sister 70 Widow
None Ohio Germany Germany
William Wilkes Brother 65 S
Retired Ohio Germany Germany
Amelia and William never married. Amelia lived with her sister Ida Wilk Morris in 1940 census.
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Chapter Four Section One: Louise Wilk and Frederick Vilmar
Louise was the daughter of Otto Wilk and Caroline Budde. She married Frederick Vilmar in 1870. The 1888 Cleveland
directory lists Frederick Vilmar as a cigarmaker, living at 495 St. Clair (with mother-in-law Caroline Wilk). The 1900
census lists Louise as a widow and says they were married 19 years, so this means Frederick died about 1889. The last
Cleveland City directory listing Frederick is 1888, and Louise first appears in 1892. After Frederick’s death Louise and
her children lived with her mother.
|--5-Louise M. Wilk b. Jul 1851, Germany, d. 23 Nov 1921
| +Frederick Vilmar b. Abt 1845, Germany, m. 10 Mar 1870, Cuyahoga Co., OH,
| d. abt 1889, bef 1894
| |--6-Otto C. Vilmar b. Oct 1870, Ohio, d. 1937, Miami, Dade County, Florida
| | +Melva L. "Lea" LaFellette b. 4 Sep 1879, m. 31 Oct 1922, , Cuyahoga
| | County, OH, d. Mar 1965, Florida
| |--6-Fred W. Vilmar b. 17 Mar 1882, Ohio, d. 13 Feb 1935, bur. Lakeview
| | Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
| | +Marguerite "Rita" E. Moss b. Abt 1893, d. 2 Nov 1956, bur. Lakeview
| | Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
| | |--7-Fred Moss Vilmar b. 3 Jan 1917, d. 29 Jul 2006, , Kalamazoo Co.,
| | | Michigan, bur. Fort Custer National Cemetery, Augusta. Kalamazoo, MI
| | | +Mary Margaret McGarr b. 12 Dec 1922, Lakewood, Ocean County, NJ, m.
| | | 18 Aug 1944, d. 25 Mar 2006, bur. Fort Custer National Cemetery,
| | | Augusta. Kalamazoo, MI
| | |--7-Jack "Bud" Vilmar b. 27 Sep 1919, d. 28 Dec 1977, bur. Santa Fe
| | | National Cemetery, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
| | |--7-Margaret L. Vilmar
| |--6-Lillian (Sallina)(Lotta) Vilmar b. 13 Jul 1879, Cleveland, Cuyahoga
| | County, Ohio, d. 21 Dec 1941, Bedford, Cuyahoga, Ohio, bur. Lake View
| | Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
| +Edwin Louis Striebinger b. 26 Mar 1879, m. 30 Jun 1915, Cuyahoga Co.,
| OH, d. 24 Dec 1943, Bedford, Cuyahoga, Ohio, bur. Lake View Cemetery,
| Cleveland, Ohio
| |--7-Jean Striebinger
| +Baron D W van Welderen Rengers
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Cleveland City Directory
Frederick/ Louise Vilmar Otto Vilmar Frederick W. Vilmar Lillian Vilmar
1871 Cigar maker, r 577 St. Clair
1874
Cigar mnfr, r 641 St. Clair
1875
Cigar mnfr, r 641 St. Clair
1878
Cigar mnfr, r 551 St. Clair
1881
Cigarmkr, r 551 St. Clair
1885
Cigarmkr, r 551 St. Clair
1888
Cigar mnfr, r 495 St. Clair
1892
Mrs, saloon, 741 St. Clair
Clerk, Am. Ex. Co., r 741 St. Clair
Frederick/ Louise Vilmar Otto Vilmar Frederick W. Vilmar
Lillian Vilmar / Edwin L. Striebinger
1894 Widow Fred, r 672 St. Clair
Plumber, r 672 St. Clair
1895 Widow Frederick, r 1585 St. Clair
Plumber (Wagner and Vilmar), r 1585 St. Clair
1896 Widow Frederick, r 1585 St. Clair
Plumber (Wagner and Vilmar), r 1585 St. Clair
1900 Widow Frederick, r 1585 St. Clair
Plumber, r 1585 St. Clair
1904 Widow Frederick, r 1585 St. Clair
Plumber, r 1585 St. Clair Draftsman, r 1585 St. Clair Teacher, r 1585 St. Clair
Edwin: Lawyer, r 6520 (old 1428) Euclid Ave
1907
Widow Frederick, r 978 Parkwood dr
Plumber, 6023 Superior Ave NE, r 978 Parkwood Dr NE
Draftsman, r 978 Parkwood Dr. NE Teacher, r 978 Parkwood dr NE
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1909
E: Lawyer, r 6520 Euclid Ave
1910
Widow Frederick, r 978 Parkwood dr
Plumber, 5523 Superior Ave NE, r 978 Parkwood Dr NE
Draftsman, r 978 Parkwood Dr. NE Teacher, r 978 Parkwood dr NE
1912
Lawyer, 378 Rockefeller Bldg
1913
Lawyer, 378 Rockefeller Bldg, r 6520 Euclid Ave
1914
Widow Frederick, r 978 Parkwood dr
Plumber, 5523 Superior Ave NE, r 978 Parkwood Dr NE
Draftsman, r 978 Parkwood Dr. NE Teacher, r 978 Parkwood dr NE
1915
Attorney at Law, 818-820 Society for Savings Bldg, r 6520 Euclid Ave
1916 Mrs., r 978 Parkwood dr
Plumber, 5523 Superior Ave NE, r 978 Parkwood Dr NE
Sales mngr, Parrish and Bingham Co, r 978 Parkwood Dr. NE
1917
Lawyer, 324 Columbia Bldg
1920 Wid Fred, r 2069 Abington Rd.
Plumber, 5523 Superior Ave NE, r 2069 Abington Rd
Pres, Glass Coating Co, r 1494 E. 106th
Lawyer, 1108 Ulmer Bldg, r 2069 Abington Rd
1923
Treas, Am Stamping Co, r 1494 E. 106th
1925
ns SW 19th St 1 S, Miami, FL
Treas, Am Stamping Co, r 1494 E. 106th Lawyer, r 2069 Abington Rd
1926
Treas, Am Stamping Co, r 1494 E. 106th
1929 - 1937
2229 SW 17th ter, Miami, FL
(1928) 2069 Abington Rd
1870 Census – 5th Ward Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH, Married in Feb 1870 according to census. There is a Barney Vilmar
living in the next household on the census record.
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Name Sex/Age Profession Birthplace
Frederick Vilmar WM 25 Cigar maker Hessen Cassel
Louise Vilmar WF 19 Keeping house Prussia
Barney Vilmar WM 26 House Carpenter Prussia
1880 Census – 581 St. Clair Street, Cleveland, OH
On same page as Frederick and Mary Meinke (Mink) family (maybe a brother of Herman) – see Wilhelmina Budde
Kumrow and her daughters. Lotta (later Lillian) born in June of 1880. William WIlke was Louise’s brother (cigar maker
in other census years).
Name Sex/Age Relation Marital Profession Birthplace Father Mother
Frederick Vilmar WM 36 Head M Cigar maker Prussia Prussia Prussia
Louise Vilmar WF 28 Wife M Keeping house Ohio Prussia Prussia
Otto Vilmar WM 9 Son S At school Ohio Prussia Ohio
Lotta Vilmar WF 11/12 Daughter
S
Ohio Prussia Ohio
William Wilke WM 19 Boarder S Cigar maker Ohio Prussia Prussia
1900, 1910 Census – lived with mother Caroline Wilk (see above)
1920 Census – 978 Parkwood Dr., Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH. Louise Vilmar lived with son Otto and daughter Lillian
Striebinger and her family.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated
Otto Vilmar Head WM 48 S
Proprietor, Plumbing shop Ohio Germany Germany
Louise Vilmar Mother WF 68 Widow
Germany Germany Germany
Edwin Striebinger
Brother in law WM 40 M
Attorney, General Practice Ohio Germany Germany
Lillian Striebinger Sister WF 38 M
Ohio Germany Germany
Jean Striebinger Niece
WF 1 4/12 S
Ohio Ohio Ohio
Frances Pruss Servant WF 19 S
Housework, General Ohio Poland Poland
Anna Jean Frey
WF 39 S
Nurse, Private Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland UNK
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Otto C. Vilmar and Melva L. “Lea” LaFellette
1930 Census – 2229 17 ter SW, Miami, Dade, Florida
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated
Otto Vilmar Head WM 60 M / age 52
Caretaker, estate Ohio Ohio Ohio
Lea Vilmar Wife WF 50
M / age 42
Georgia Georgia Georgia
Frederick W. Vilmar and Marguerite “Rita” Moss
1920 Census -1494 E 106th Street, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH (owned, free and clear).
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated
Fred W. Vilmar Head WM 38 M
Mechanical engr, Store (??) Costing Co. Ohio Berlin Alsace/Lorraine
Margerite Vilmar Wife WF 28 M
Canada Canada Canada Unk / Na
Fred M. Vilmar Son
WM 2 11/12 S
Ohio Ohio Canada
Jack L. Vilmar Son 3/12 S
Ohio Ohio Canada
1930 Census – 1494 E 106th Street, Cleveland, OH, Owned free and clear.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated Fred W. Vilmar Head WM 38 M
Mechanical Engr Ohio Berlin Alsace/Loraine
Margerite Wife WF 28 M
Canada Canada Canada Unk, Na Fred M. Vilmar Son
WM 2 11/12 S
Ohio Ohio Canada
Jack L. Vilmar Son
WM 3/12 S
Ohio Ohio Canada
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1940 Census – Tract CH-14, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, OH, same house as 1935.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated Margaret Vilmar Wife WF 47 widow
Canada Canada Canada Unk, Na
Frederick Vilmar Son WM 23 S
Ohio Ohio Canada
Jack. Vilmar Son WM 20 S
Ohio Ohio Canada Margaret
Vilmar Daughter WF 17 S
Ohio Ohio Canada
Fred Moss Vilmar and Mary M. McGarr32
Ensign F. M. Vilmar, USNR, was designated Naval Aviator #9496 in 1941. Entered active service via the pre-war Aviation
Cadet (AVCAD) program.
Obituary: Passed away Saturday, July 29, 2006 at The Springs at the Fountains, Kalamazoo.
Frederick was born on January 3, 1917, the son of Frederick and Marguerite (Moss) Vilmar. Fred attended Case School of
Applied Science before entering the US Navy in 1939, where he obtained the rank of Lt. Commander. During WW II, he
served as a lighter-than-air (airship) pilot, and following the war he flew advertising blimps commercially for Douglas
Leigh.
He married Mary M. McGarr on August 18, 1944, and she preceded him in death on March 25, 2006. They made their
home in Red Lion, PA, where Fred worked with Read Standard Corporation. In 1963, the family moved to Saginaw,
where Fred worked for Baker Perkins until retiring in 1983. In 2002,
Fred and Mary moved to The Fountains at Bronson Place, Kalamazoo. He was a former member of the Saginaw Gun
Club, the American Legion, and the Germania Town and Country Club.
Surviving are one daughter, Jacqueline (Dan) Skarritt of Bangor; one son, Jon (Liz) Vilmar of Dallas, TX; 6 grandchildren,
Kate (Eric) Swanborg of Los Angeles, CA, Matthew (Robin) Skarritt of Granger, IN, Christina Vilmar and Max Vilmar, both
of Dallas, TX, Micah Vilmar of Jacksonville, FL, Chris (Rachel) Vilmar of Atlanta, GA; three great-granddaughters, Hannah
and Vivian Swanborg and Ella Vilmar; and one sister, Margaret (Garnett) Moneymaker of Albuquerque, NM.
According to his wishes, cremation has taken place with a private service and burial at Fort Custer National Cemetery,
Augusta.
Jack L. Vilmar
Jack Vilmar was a private in the US Army during World War II serving during 1941-1942 and lived in Cleveland, Ohio at
the time of his enlistment. He was married in Cuyahoga county, OH between 1946-1948, wife not listed.
Margaret Vilmar
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From Find A Grave.com Memorial # 48009239
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Margaret Vilmar was married in Cuyahoga county, Ohio between 1954-1956, husband not listed. She attended
Allegheny College in Meadville, PA in 1941.
Lillian Vilmar and Edwin L. Striebinger
Lillian Vilmar was the daughter of Otto Wilk and Caroline Budde. Edwin Striebinger was the son of Michael Striebinger
and Margaret Weckerling. Michael Striebinger was the son of Jacob Phillip Striebinger and Christina Bauman. Along
with his brothers Martin, Phillip and Jacob, Michael started Striebinger Brothers (a wholesale grocery business) and later
in 1872 the Striebinger House hotel, a well known Cleveland hotel. Edwin attended Western Reserve and Harvard
University.
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1920 Census – see above with mother Louise Vilmar
1930 Census –2069 Abington Road, Cleveland, Ohio (valued at $18000, rented)
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated Edwin Striebinger Head WM 47 M
Dealer, Real Estate Ohio Ohio Ohio
Lilian Striebinger Wife WF 45 M
Ohio Ohio Ohio
Gene Striebinger Daughter WF 11 S
Ohio Ohio Ohio
Ida Pfleider ?? WF 40 S
Ohio Germany Ohio
Jean Striebinger and Baron D. W. Van Welderen Rengers
Jean Striebinger was the daughter of Edwin L. Striebinger and Lillian Vilmar. She married Baron Rengers of the
Netherlands. I found a few newspaper articles in various parts of US about Baronness van Welderen Rengers that
sound like a social register.
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Chapter Four Section Two: Other Siblings
Mary Wilk and Thompson (Thomas) Morehead
|--5-Mary L. "Lizzie" Wilk b. 13 Feb 1858, Ohio, d. 16 Feb 1939, Cleveland,
| Cuyahoga County, Ohio, bur. Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
+Thompson W. Morehead b. 1851, m. 23 Oct 1895, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, d. 15
Jul 1898, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Mary Wilk was the daughter of Otto WIlk and Caroline Budde. She married Thompson W. Morehead in 1895, who was
listed as an engineer in the 1895 Cleveland City directory and died in 1898. They had no children. See lived with her
mother from 1900 on.
According to the 1899 Cleveland City directory, Thomas was a clerk at Striebinger House. There is more about
Striebinger House earlier in this document. Mary L. Wilk Morehead's niece Lillian Vilmar, daughter of Louise Wilk Vilmar
and Frederick Vilmar, married Edwin L. Striebinger.
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Ida Wilk and William Morris
|--5-Ida Wilk b. 25 Oct 1875, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, d. 14 Oct 1941,
| Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
| +William Morris b. 1875, m. 14 Sep 1910, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
There is nothing to indicate that Ida and William had children.
1920 Census – 108X 99th Street, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated
unreadable Ida Morris Wife WF 44 S
none Ohio Germany Germany
1930 Census – 2636 Colchester, Cleveland Heights, Cleveland, OH, home valued at $25,000, rented.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated
William Morris Head WM 55
M / age at marr 35
Salesman, wholesale grocery Ohio England England
Ida Morris Wife WF 55 M / 34
Ohio Germany Germany
1940 Census – 2636 Colchester, Cleveland Heights, Cleveland, OH, home valued at $12,000, owned.
William and Ida completed 8 years of school, Amelia 2 years of High School. Same house as 1935.
Name Relation Sex/Age Marital Children Profession Birthplace Father Mother Immigrated
William Morris Head WM 65
M / age at marr 35
Salesman, wholesale grocery Ohio
Ida Morris Wife WF 65 M / 34
Ohio
Amelia Wilk Sister in law WF 75 S
Ohio
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Descendants of Andreas Budde --------------------------------------------------
Please forward me any additions or corrections to this chart. Thanks!
This chart includes only dead people.
Last Updated: 6/04/2013
1-Andreas Budde
+Unknown
|--2-Johann Friedrick Budde
+Eva Dorothea Witten m. 1786
|--3-Christoph Budde b. 1803, d. 1872, Woldegk, Germany
+Marie Christina Picht b. 27 Oct 1810, d. 21 Jan 1886, Woldegk, Germany,
bur. 24 Jan 1886
|--4-Wilhelmine Sophia Therese (Minnie, Mary) Budde b. 24 Mar 1834,
| Woldegk, Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany, d. 9 Jul 1880, Cleveland,
| Cuyahoga County, Ohio, bur. 11 Jul 1880, Woodland Cemetery,
| Cleveland, Ohio
| +Johann or Frederick (Fredrich) Kumrow or Kummerow b. Germany, d. Bef
| 1872, Woldegk, Germany
| |--5-Marie (Mary) Hazel Kumrow b. 13 Apr 1860, Woldegk, Germany, d. 11
| | Dec 1942, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, bur. Woodland
| | Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
| | +Richard Frank Ruth b. Sep 1849, Germany, m. 16 May 1881,
| | Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, d. 24 Mar 1908, Cleveland,
| | Cuyahoga County, Ohio, bur. Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
| | |--6-Hazel Ursula Ruth b. 27 Jun 1889, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County,
| | | Ohio, d. 8 May 1975, Rossmoor Manor, Walnut Creek, Contra
| | | Costa County, California, bur. Cremated
| | | +Charles Dudley Gable b. 18 Sep 1887, Medina County, Ohio, m. 9
| | | May 1912, Cleveland, OH, d. 10 Apr 1963, Concord Community
| | | Hospital, Concord, Contra Costa County, California, bur.
| | | Cremated
| | | |--7-Charles Marvin Gable b. 15 Oct 1918, Cleveland, OH, d. 28
| | | | Feb 2004, Las Cruces, NM, bur. Jan 2008, Cremated,
| | | | Scattered Ashes In Organ Mtns Near Las Cruces
| | | | +Ruth Musser Kraiss b. 10 Nov 1918, Philadelphia, PA, c. 20
| | | | Apr 1919, Trinity Reformed Church, Mountville, PA, m. 22
| | | | Nov 1950, First Congregational Church, Berkeley, CA, d. 24
| | | | Jan 2008, Las Cruces, NM, bur. Jan 2008, Cremated,
| | | | Scattered Ashes In Organ Mtns Near Las Cruces
| | | |--7-Charles (baby) Gable b. 12 Jun 1916, d. 12 Sep 1916
| | |--6-Wilhelmina (Minnie) (Mamie) (Mary) Ruth b. 10 Dec 1881,
| | | Cleveland, Ohio, d. 12 Dec 1915, bur. 14 Dec 1915, Woodland
| | | Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
| | | +Russell A. Shaw b. 13 Feb 1888, Mt. Pleasant, PA, m. 1909, d.
| | | 15 Jun 1960, Los Angeles, , California
| | | |--7-Glenn Richard Shaw b. 8 May 1910, Cleveland, OH, d. 19 Dec
| | | | 1984, Mentor, Ohio, bur. Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland,
| | | | Ohio
| | | +Constance Norah Mottershaw b. 10 May 1908, Northwich,
| | | Cheshire, England, m. 15 Jan 1938, Cleveland, OH, d. 29 Dec
| | | 1987, Mentor, Ohio, bur. Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland,
| | | Ohio
| | |--6-Effie Ruth b. 13 Sep 1885, d. 17 Dec 1918, bur. Lake View
| | | Cemetery or Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
| | | +Carl J. Schultz or Shultz b. 1886, m. 1913
| | |--6-Frederick or Franklyn ? Ruth b. 1 Apr 1883, bur. 12 Dec 1887,
| | | Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
| | |--6-Elsie Ruth b. 29 Aug 1887, d. 3 Aug 1888, Woodland Cemetery,
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| | | Cleveland, Ohio
| |--5-Ida Emlie Kumrow b. 14 Sep 1863, Woldegk, Mecklenburg Strelitz,
| | Germany, d. 10 Jan 1952
| | +John Grove Jury b. 18 Dec 1864, Licking Township, Licking County,
| | Ohio, m. 1 Jun 1898, d. 26 Jul 1945, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County,
| | Ohio
| | |--6-Eleanor Jury b. 1 Jan 1902, d. 31 Dec 1994
| | | +Lester Leo Yoder b. 13 Sep 1900, m. Abt 1928, d. 21 Jul 1997,
| | | bur. Glenview Cemetery, East Palestine, Columbiana County,
| | | Ohio
| | |--6-Marian Jury b. 27 Sep 1904, d. 14 Jul 1994, Phoenix, , Arizona
| | | +Stanley Tucker (Stan) Gridley b. 4 Aug 1899, m. 11 Aug 1928,
| | | d. 27 May 1972, Cleveland, OH
| | |--6-Elton Wright Jury b. Abt Apr 1899, d. 24 Jul 1899, Licking
| | | Township, Licking County, Ohio
| |--5-Martha Kumrow b. 3 May 1868, d. 8 Nov 1950
| +Paul D. Richardson b. 8 Nov 1868, Bryan, Defiance Co, OH, m. 18
| Jul 1895, d. 8 Oct 1923, Minneapolis, , Minnesota
| |--6-Grace Richardson b. 11 Jan 1901, d. 24 May 1980
| | +David Greiling b. 13 Nov 1901, m. 1932, d. 9 Nov 1989
| | |--7-David Scott Greiling b. 25 Mar 1935, d. 24 Jul 1968, Viet
| | | Nam MIA
| |--6-Jean Richardson b. 8 Dec 1905, d. 28 or 29 Jan 2003, Wooster,
| | , Ohio
| +Unknown Meinhardt or Reinhardt or Reinhold
| |--5-Otto W. Kumrow b. 25 Apr 1874, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH, d. 28 Jun
| | 1954, Salt Lake City, , Utah, bur. Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt
| | Lake City, Utah
| +Theresa Werner b. 1880, m. 15 Dec 1903, Salt Lake City, Salt
| Lake, Utah, d. 1940
| |--6-Infant Kumrow b. 1906, d. 1906
|--4-Caroline (Lena) or Carolina Johanna Maria Budde b. 1 Apr 1830,
| Woldegk, Muhlenberg, Germany, d. 9 Apr 1922, Cleveland, Cuyahoga
| County, Ohio, bur. Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
| +Johann Frederick Otto "Otto" Wilk b. 1824, Germany, m. 26 Dec 1860,
| , Cuyahoga County, OH, d. 27 Feb 1886, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County,
| Ohio, bur. Erie Street Cemetery or Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
| |--5-Louise M. Wilk b. Jul 1851, Germany, d. 23 Nov 1921
| | +Frederick Vilmar b. Abt 1845, Germany, m. 10 Mar 1870, Cuyahoga
| | Co., OH, d. abt 1889, bef 1894
| | |--6-Otto C. Vilmar b. Oct 1870, Ohio, d. 1937, Miami, Dade County,
| | | Florida
| | | +Melva L. "Lea" LaFellette b. 4 Sep 1879, m. 31 Oct 1922, ,
| | | Cuyahoga County, OH, d. Mar 1965, Florida
| | |--6-Fred W. Vilmar b. 17 Mar 1882, Ohio, d. 13 Feb 1935, bur.
| | | Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
| | | +Marguerite "Rita" E. Moss b. Abt 1893, d. 2 Nov 1956, bur.
| | | Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
| | | |--7-Fred Moss Vilmar b. 3 Jan 1917, d. 29 Jul 2006, , Kalamazoo
| | | | Co., Michigan, bur. Fort Custer National Cemetery, Augusta.
| | | | Kalamazoo, MI
| | | | +Mary Margaret McGarr b. 12 Dec 1922, Lakewood, Ocean
| | | | County, NJ, m. 18 Aug 1944, d. 25 Mar 2006, bur. Fort
| | | | Custer National Cemetery, Augusta. Kalamazoo, MI
| | | |--7-Jack "Bud" Vilmar b. 27 Sep 1919, d. 28 Dec 1977, bur.
| | | | Santa Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
| | |--6-Lillian (Sallina)(Lotta) Vilmar b. 13 Jul 1879, Cleveland,
| | | Cuyahoga County, Ohio, d. 21 Dec 1941, Bedford, Cuyahoga,
| | | Ohio, bur. Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
| | +Edwin Louis Striebinger b. 26 Mar 1879, m. 30 Jun 1915,
| | Cuyahoga Co., OH, d. 24 Dec 1943, Bedford, Cuyahoga, Ohio,
65
| | bur. Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
| |--5-Ida Wilk b. 25 Oct 1875, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, d. 14 Oct
| | 1941, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, bur. Lakeview
| | Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
| | +William Morris b. 1875, m. 14 Sep 1910, Cleveland, Cuyahoga
| | County, Ohio
| |--5-Amelia Wilk b. 3 Mar 1868, d. 18 Mar 1952, bur. Lakeview
| | Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
| | +Unknown
| |--5-William W. Wilk b. Mar 1867, Ohio, d. 17 Jan 1935, bur. Lakeview
| | Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
| | +Unknown
| |--5-Mary L. "Lizzie" Wilk b. 13 Feb 1858, Ohio, d. 16 Feb 1939,
| | Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, bur. Lakeview Cemetery,
| | Cleveland, Ohio
| +Thompson W. Morehead b. 1851, m. 23 Oct 1895, Cuyahoga County,
| Ohio, d. 15 Jul 1898, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
|--4-August(us) Carl Budde b. 1 or 24 May 1842 or May 1841, Woldegk,
| Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany, d. 10 Jul 1904, Cuyahoga County,
| Ohio, USA
|--4-Carl Friedrich Christoph (Karl) Budde b. 7 Aug 1838, Woldegk,
| Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany, d. Bef 1924, Germany
|--4-Otto Friedrich August Budde b. 4 Sep 1844, Woldegk, Mecklenburg
| Strelitz, Germany, d. Germany
|--4-Emilie Mathilde Therese (Amelia) Budde b. 17 Apr 1836, Woldegk,
| Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany, d. 16 Sep 1907
| +Carl Zander or Sanders or Saunders m. 3 Sep 1858, Woldegk,
| Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany
| +Falk
|--4-Johanna Christina Maria (Hannken) Budde b. 23 Mar 1832, Woldegk,
| Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany, d. 20 Nov 1905, Woldegk, Mecklenburg
| Strelitz, Germany
+Friedrich Schmidt m. 8 Jul 1858, Woldegk, Mecklenburg Strelitz,
Germany
|--5-Otto August Wilhelm Schmidt b. 2 Jul 1864, Woldegk, Mecklenburg
| Strelitz, Germany
|--5-Friedrich August Wilhelm Schmidt b. 23 Apr 1859, Woldegk,
| Mecklenburg Strelitz, Germany
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