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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.

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This is a translation of the original letter written in German. See the appendix at the end of this document for the

original document.

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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).

http://www.muehlen-mv.de/woldegk.htm

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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.

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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

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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,


|--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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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)

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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

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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


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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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


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

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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:

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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


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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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Ohio Soldiers in World War I

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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


1910 Census –Lived at 107 Belmore in East Cleveland.


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


Richardson, Grace Daughter WF 9 S

Ohio Ohio Germany

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/2572849/person/6477616990

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/2572849/person/6477827263

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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.


Richardson, Paul D. Head WM 51 M

Sales Mgr, Electric Company Ohio Ohio Ohio

Richardson, Martha K. Wife WF 51 M


1873/Na 1895


Ohio Ohio Germany


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


Stenographer, automobile co. Ohio Ohio Germany


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

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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.

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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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Letter to Alice and Bob Gridley from Charles M. Gable

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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.

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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 Three: Descendants of August Budde

This chapter is private.

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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.

http://www.smithancestry.com/gen/genl.htm#LaBornFredericka

http://www.smithancestry.com/places/meck/midogeldburg.htm

http://www.smithancestry.com/places/meck/midogeldburg.htm

http://www.smithancestry.com/sources/ships/rudolphhamburg.htm

http://www.smithancestry.com/story/rudolph.htm

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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.

http://www.smithancestry.com/gen/genw.htm#WestphalSophia

http://www.smithancestry.com/gen/genl.htm#LaBourneCarl

http://www.smithancestry.com/gen/genk.htm#KingGeorge

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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


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


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


William Wilkes Son WM 45 S

Cigar maker, factory Ohio Germany Germany

Amelia Wilkes Daughter WF 38 S


Ida Wilkes Daughter WF 30 S

Milliner, retail store Ohio Germany Germany

Louise Vilmar Head WF 58 Widow 3 / 3


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


| | |--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


| +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


1878


1881

Cigarmkr, r 551 St. Clair

1885

Cigarmkr, r 551 St. Clair

1888


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


Plumber (Wagner and Vilmar), r 1585 St. Clair


Plumber, 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




1912

Lawyer, 378 Rockefeller Bldg

1913

Lawyer, 378 Rockefeller Bldg, r 6520 Euclid Ave

1914




1915

Attorney at Law, 818-820 Society for Savings Bldg, r 6520 Euclid Ave

1916 Mrs., r 978 Parkwood dr


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.


Otto Vilmar Head WM 48 S

Proprietor, Plumbing shop Ohio Germany Germany

Louise Vilmar Mother WF 68 Widow


Edwin Striebinger

Brother in law WM 40 M

Attorney, General Practice Ohio Germany Germany

Lillian Striebinger Sister WF 38 M


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


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).


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


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.


William Morris Head WM 55

M / age at marr 35

Salesman, wholesale grocery Ohio England England

Ida Morris Wife WF 55 M / 34


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.


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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Appendix

Original of Walter Budde letter to Charles M. Gable

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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


| | +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,

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| | 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


| | +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


| | +Unknown

| |--5-William W. Wilk b. Mar 1867, Ohio, d. 17 Jan 1935, bur. Lakeview


| | +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,


| +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,


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