Emilia Pauline Kaiser

1865 - 1950  (84 years)

• Name	Emilia Pauline Kaiser  [1, 2]
  Birth	28 Sep 1865	G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	17 Jul 1950	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan   [1, 2, 3]
  Burial	Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Notes	Cass City Chronicle Volume 45 Cass City, Michigan, Friday, July 21, 1950 Page One Pioneer Died Day after 60th Wedding Anniversary Mrs. G. E. Krapf Was Found Dead in Home on Monday Afternoon When G. E. Krapf entered his residence on East Houghton Street on Monday afternoon after working in his garden, he found his wife dead in bed. She had been in apparent good health and had lain down to rest before Mr. Krapf left the house. Mr. and Mrs. Krapf were honered by a large group of friends at an "at home" gathering in the social room of the Evangelical United Brethern Church the previous afternoon, the occasion being their 50th wedding anniversary. Funeral services were conducted at the Evangelical United Brethern Church on Thursday afternoon by Rev. S.R. Wurtz, the pastor. Interment was made in Elkland cemetery. Mrs. Krapf was born in Goppingen, Germany, September 28, 1865, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Kaiser. She came to the country and settled in Cass City in 1888 with her brother, the late William Kaiser, and sister, now Mrs. Samuel Striffler, of San Diego, California. On July 10, 1890, she was united in marriage with George Emanuel Krapf in the Evangelical parsonage at Caro. Following their marriage, they made their home on a farm one mile north and two and a half miles east of Cass City, where they resided for three years. Then they moved to a farm two and one half miles east and one quarter mile south of Cass City. Here they lived for fifty years prior to moving to Cass City where she made her home until her death. Mrs. Krapf has been a member of the Evangelical United Brethren Church for the past sixty years. She is survived by her husband and one sister, Mrs. Samuel Striffler, of San Diego, California. One half brother and one stepsister preceded her in death. (Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, Summer 2007) Her death certificate shows her as the daughter of Rudolph Kaiser, with her mother's name not known.
  Person ID	I6029	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2021

  
  

  Father	Heinrich Rudolph Kaiser,   b. 20 Sep 1835, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Maria Barbara Zeller,   b. 30 Aug 1835, W?rttemberg, Germany d. 14 Dec 1872 (Age 37 years)
  Marriage	12 Jan 1862	Hohenstaufen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Family ID	F9404	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	George Emmanuel Krapf,   b. 20 Sep 1867, Elkland Township, Tuscola County, Michigan d. 3 Jun 1959, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	10 Jul 1890	Caro, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Headstones		Krapf, George and Emilia (Kaiser)
  Family ID	F3096	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Aug 2007

  
  

• Event Map		Marriage - 10 Jul 1890 - Caro, Tuscola County, Michigan Death - 17 Jul 1950 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Burial - - Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Documents

  Kaiser, Emelia (Mrs. George E. Krapf) Death Certificate Her first name is spelled Emelia on her tombstone, and presumed to more accurate than Amelia, as is shown on her death certificate

  
  

• Sources

  [S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982. [S1610] Jacobs, BonnieMargaret McDonald "The Family Benkelman" Unpublished Manuscript, 276 pages, October 1981 Version, (Copy owned by Barney Benkelman, Helena, Montana; which he xeroxed and sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas), p. 138 (Reliability: 3). [S595] Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, (Family Publication, published sporadically to record family milestones in connection with the annual Striffler-Benkelman Family Reunions, with Vol. 1, Number 1, published Sept. 7, 1936. Issues on file at the Rawson Memorial Library in Cass City, Michigan include Vol. 5 (1941), Vol. 7 (1944) and Volumes 8 (1945) through Vol. 28 (1968). Issues published from 1961 through 1964 were not assigned volume numbers, and 1963 appears to be missing. Xeroxes of the existing issues were also made by Melinda McLemore Strong in 2007. According to a article published by the Cass City Chronicle on August 6, 1981, commemorating the Fiftieth and Final Striffler-Benkelman Reunion, the final issue of the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST appears to have been Volume 28, published in 1968.), Volume 13, September 4, 1950. (Reliability: 3).