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VISITING MOTHER KRUMMEL, RICE, KANSAS, 1905

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12" x 12" laminated digital print with collaged text.

 

Sizelove Family Photographs and Narrative History Series, Kansas

 

VISITING MOTHER KRUMMEL, RICE, KANSAS: Engel Christiana Ernestine Kirchoff married Lewis Krummel in Hamburg, Germany in 1877. By 1884, they had four children, Charles 6, Frieda 4, Amanda 1 and baby Max. They left Hamburg that year and sailed to America. They settled in Rice, Kansas. Many German immigrants lived there. Lewis necame a tenant farmer. In 1890, he bought the land he farmed. The Krummels all became naturalized citizens. When WWI started, they never spoke German again.

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