Maria Barbara Zeller

Notes:

According to "Deutschland Heiraten, 1558-1929", database on FamilySearch, she was a daughter of Johann Georg Zeller and Eva Margaretha Luther.

Maria married Heinrich Rudolph Kaiser on 12 Jan 1862 in Hohenstaufen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany. Heinrich was born on 20 Sep 1835 in G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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.

Emilia married George Emmanuel Krapf on 10 Jul 1890 in Caro, Tuscola County, Michigan. George (son of Johann Friedrich "Frederick" Krapf and Maria Dorothea "Dorothy" Benkelman) was born on 20 Sep 1867 in Elkland Township, Tuscola County, Michigan; died on 3 Jun 1959 in Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan; was buried in Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]