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Julius Henry Kirmse was a grandson of Julius and Barbara (Kraus) Kirmse.
When Julius Heinrich Kirmse was born on January 20, 1905, in Ellis County, Oklahoma Territory, his father, Wilhelm, was 29 and his mother, Martha, was 25. He married Hilda Ida Brunken and they had four children together. He then married Hildegard Frieda Kletke on August 19, 1951, in Alva, Oklahoma. He died on December 4, 1998, in Alva, Oklahoma, at the age of 93, and was buried there.
Contributions
Julius was a member of the “Three Cousins” who teamed to research their family history. Julius traveled to Perry County, visited and interviewed relatives. He would relate stories about what he remembered and learned.
Julius and his wife, Hildegard, also independently researched family histories and they accumulated several boxes of family history files. Unfortunately, these files disappeared after their deaths. Fortunately, Julius had shared most of the information with his sister, Norma (Kirmse) Rauh and cousin, Helen (Kirmse) Hacker.