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According Julius Henry Kirmse, “As I remember it, Barbara had a sister in one of the near towns, probably Frona[Frohna]. She married a non Lutheran and her sister Barbara did not associate with her any more.”
This does not seem true for Barbara’s sister Renada for several reasons:
- Renada, is buried in the Lutheran cemetery at Longtown (See Chapter: Renada (Kraus) Krauss (1836 – 1910)).
- Renada’s husband, George Krauss, was a founding member of the Longtown Lutheran Church and eventually retired to the The Lutheran Altenheim (old peoples home) in St. Louis, Missouri. (See Chapter: George Krauss (1838 – 1923)).
- Julius remembers playing hide-and-seek among the coffins in George Krauss’s shop. So there was some association of these families.
If there was a rift, it was with the daughter of Renada and George Krauss, Catherine, who married James Proctor Dunn. Catherine died in 1905 and was buried in the Longtown York (Methodist) Cemetery.
Barbara’s other sister, Margaretha, married in Bavaria before she immigrated to Perry County. Since, her second child was baptized in the Altenburg Lutheran church, there is reason to believe that she was Lutheran.
If there was a rift, it was with Margaretha’s daughter, Barbara Schuetz, who married Ernest Stanglein and moved to near St. Louis, Missouri. Barbara and Ernest, were charter members of the Horine Presbyterian Church.