Barbara (Kraus) Kirmse Family
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- WHAT: Portrait of Barbara (Kraus) and Julius Kirmse.
- WHEN: Circa 1900 – just a guess from their apparent ages.
- WHERE: Frohna, Missouri as per the photographer identity on the picture frame ” P.J. Lreders FROHNA, MO”
Marriage Record
On November 20, 1866, Julius Kirmse was married to Barbara Kraus (Perry County Marriage Records #2656). Reverend John Bisel, pastor of Friendenburg Lutheran Church, performed the ceremony. The bride, a native of Hutschdorf, Bavaria, was born on May 17, 1842, and immigrated to Perry County, Missouri via New Orleans and Cape Girardeau. The groom, a native of Fichtenhainichen, Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg was born February 6, 1835, immigrated to New York in 1853 and subsequently migrated to Perry County, Missouri by 1895.
2565 p.35 Julius Kermson To Mar Bet. Barbara Kraus
I subscriber, do hereby certify that I have this day Julius Kermson & Barbara Kraus in the holy bonds of Matrimony. Perryville 20th Nov 1866. In Peace Luth Pastor Recorded July 15th 1867. Attest James C Noell Recorder By Wm A Castam Depty
Information Source
Ancestry.com. Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. Original data: Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm.
Notes
- The marriage record for Julius Kirmse and Barbara Kraus gives Julius’s surname with a phonetic spelling “Kermson”. Barbara’s maiden name is correctly listed as Kraus.
- Perryville is the county seat of Perry County, Missouri where the marriage was recorded. Rev. Friedrich C. Bessel was pastor (1863-1872) of the Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church which is in Friedenberg, Missouri. Rev. Bessel also served as pastor (1864-1866) of Salem Lutheran Church, Farrar, Missouri of which Julius was a founding member (1859-1915).
Julius Kirmse Farm
After Julius and Barbara (Kraus) Kirmse were married, they made their home on a farm near Farrar, Missouri.
- WHAT: Former Julius Kirmse Farm
- WHEN: ca 2000
- WHERE: Farrar, Missouri
- SOURCE: Helen (Kirmse) Hacker shared this picture in October, 2003
MAP
The following map shows the location of the 40 acre property that Julius Kirmse purchased in 1859 (Now owned by Julius and Barbara (Kraus) Kirmse’s granddaughter, Helen (Kirmse) Hacker).
- WHAT: Township 1993-1994 landowners map showing the location of former Julius Kirmse farm
- WHEN: 1993-1994
- WHERE: Salem Township, Perry County, Missouri
Notes
- Julius Kirmse was a farmer for more than a half-century in Perry County, Missouri.
- The original house on the Kirmse farm was a log cabin. Kirmse later built a three-room house, the walls of which are a solid gravel material.
- The log cabin was later torn down and a new frame six-room house was added to the three-rooms.
- The farm is now owned and lived on by Julius and Barbara Kirmse’s granddaughter Helen (Kirmse) Hacker and her family.
- The farm was designated a Missouri Century Farm through the University of Missouri Extension Center in 1986.
Family
Julius Kirmse and his wife, Barbara, had seven children, all reaching adulthood except one: Marie, who was born February 7, 1868; John, born October 3, 1869, but died less than twenty-six days later; Karl (Charles) August, born September 2, 1870; Joseph, born January 18, 1873; William Kirmse, born on May 21, 1875; Louis, born October 9, 1877, and Johanne Katarina Kirmse, born June 13, 1880.
More details of the Julius and Barbara (Kraus) Kirmse family are given in the next chapter, Barbara (Kraus) Kirmse New Testament and Children Birth Records.
Death
Julius Kirmse died of acute bronchitis on December 12, 1915 (Missouri Vital Records Perry Deaths 1915:#2781). He was nearly eighty-one years old, survived by his wife, Barbara, and six grown, married children and numerous grandchildren (Perry County Probate, Estates #2352). His remains were interned in the graveyard of Salem Lutheran Church, at Farrar.
Barbara Kirmse survived her husband by almost five years. She died of influenza on February 20, 1920 (Missouri Vital Records Perry Deaths 1920:#8314). She was over seventy-seven years old. She, too, was buried in the Salem Lutheran cemetery.