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Carl Kalmbrunn

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Carl Kalmbrunn

Birth
Germany
Death
9 May 1950 (aged 77)
El Paso, Woodford County, Illinois, USA
Burial
El Paso, Woodford County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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The Kalmbrunn family came from an island in the north sea, Rugen, the town of Gingst. The given family name is Kalmbrunner. Carl was 10yrs of age when his family came here from Germany. Carl Kalmbrunn was from Bellflower and was also with a threshing crew. After the run was finished, they visited with Carl's brother and family, Christ Kalmbrunn, in Jackson, Minnesota where William Warsaw met his future wife, Lena Kalmbrunn. After corresponding for almost two years, they were married in Jackson, Minnesota on February 16, 1910. They settled on a farm in Anchor Township which was the Belsley homestead and is now owned by the Ivan Brucker family. A barn is now the only building standing on this land.

Carl Kalmbrunn also returned to Anchor to live and married Delia Hodges Custer. Delia had eleven children, five sons and six daughters by a previous marriage. A daughter Georgia (Coultas) and son Charles still live in Anchor. Carl and Delia had one daughter born of their marriage, Bertha, who lived in Peoria.
The Kalmbrunn family came from an island in the north sea, Rugen, the town of Gingst. The given family name is Kalmbrunner. Carl was 10yrs of age when his family came here from Germany. Carl Kalmbrunn was from Bellflower and was also with a threshing crew. After the run was finished, they visited with Carl's brother and family, Christ Kalmbrunn, in Jackson, Minnesota where William Warsaw met his future wife, Lena Kalmbrunn. After corresponding for almost two years, they were married in Jackson, Minnesota on February 16, 1910. They settled on a farm in Anchor Township which was the Belsley homestead and is now owned by the Ivan Brucker family. A barn is now the only building standing on this land.

Carl Kalmbrunn also returned to Anchor to live and married Delia Hodges Custer. Delia had eleven children, five sons and six daughters by a previous marriage. A daughter Georgia (Coultas) and son Charles still live in Anchor. Carl and Delia had one daughter born of their marriage, Bertha, who lived in Peoria.


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