Grayson family

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Nadezhda Bronski

She divorced and remarried  and moved in the early 1900s to Gori.

SURNAME: Also shown as Shoshavano


Carl Johan Carlson

According to Gustav Theodor Lind, the whole family, with all 11 children,
migrated from Sweden to Dayton, Iowa, in the 1880's.


Carl Johan Carlson

According to Gustav Theodor Lind, the whole family, with all 11 children,
migrated from Sweden to Dayton, Iowa, in the 1880's.


Charles Victor V. Anderson

GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Charles Victor


Esther Viola Sophia Lind

Born January 31, 1892, in Stanton, Iowa.  We have a copy of the baptismal certificate in Swedish, dated Feb 23, 1892. Lived in Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1954 and 1955. Ted once took me to the nursing home in Boone to see Esther. Died in Boone, Iowa, July 21, 1986, and buried in the Dayton cemetery.

Here is some information about Esther from her niece, Janice Lind.  "I just felt that I would like to add my two cents worth to Aunt Esther, Dad's sister.  She lived with us part of the time I lived with him.  I wasn't very happy at Dad's, but Aunt Esther was like a little ray of fresh sunshine.  She was a tiny little thing, especially compared to me.  And she had a delightful sense of humor.  She could play the piano beautifully.  The only time I ever heard music there was when Aunt Esther would sit down and play.  If I remember right, she could play classical as well as hymns.  The only time she would get mad at me was when I would talk on the phone.  Not that SHE wanted to talk on it or anyone else, she just didn't think I should.  But the funniest thing she did, was when we'd get the paper (can't remember if it was daily or weekly).  She'd immediately check the obits and jump up and down and say "Oh good!  Minnie Johnson (or some similar name) died!"  And I'd say "but Aunt Esther, she's you're friend.  Why are you so happy she died?"  And she'd say "because that's one less on the waiting list for me to get into the home!"  And then the poor thing finally made it to the top of the list and ended up staying there so very, very long.  But she was a delightful little lady and I think you should add that to the "tree" to give her some personality."


Carl Philip Paul Lind

Born July 20, 1899.  Known as ``Philip''.  Died January 12 or 27, 1927, in a
hunting accident: shot himself climbing over a fence.  His wife Odessa
remarried to Clarence Rueben Erickson, Aug 6, 1929, and they had another son
named Keith Gordon Ericson, who lives in Peoria (1991).  In 1955, Odessa was
living in Perry, Iowa.


(Franz Christoph) Heinrich Kinne

Franz Christoph K\"unne was born July 12, 1822, to Andreas Christoph K\"unne
and Sophie Christine Elisabeth Huse, in Hedeper, Germany, according to the
old church books.  He was baptised July 21, and confirmed Sunday, April 17,
1836, in Hedeper.  In the old church books from Hedeper is recorded the
marriage in July, 1849, of Franz Christoph K\"unne to Magdaline Dorothea
Henriette Ziehe.

I believe that in 1850 or 1851 he changed his name from Franz Christoph
K\"unne to Heinrich K\"unne and moved a few kilometers from Hedeper (in
Braunschweig) across the border to Roklum (in Saxony, Prussia), and presumably, later, Heinrich became Henry in America.  This is the only theory
that is consistent with the birth records for the children: they all mention
the same mother, but the father is Franz Christoph K\"unne for the first one,
and Heinrich K\"unne for the rest.  One possibility is that he had to avoid
some unpleasantness in Hedeper connected with the revolution, which occurred
in 1848.  We know that the move to Roklum occurred in 1850 or 1851 because
Dorothea was born in late 1849 in Hedeper, and Wilhelmine was born in late
1851 in Roklum.

In Germany, he is listed as a slate roofer (``Schieferdecker''), by trade.
Later, he dealt in the buying and selling of feed, grain, and other produce,
which trade he followed until he emigrated.  

Magdalene was not in good health and was anxious to come to America to be
with her sister Johanna .  They applied for emigration papers July
9, 1867, which were granted by the Prussian government in August, 1867.  In
August, 1867, the family sailed on the steamship Hermann from the port of
Bremen, Germany, and landed at Castle Garden, New York.  They were
accompanied by Henry Schmidt , and the Borcher family of Roklum,
according to the family history .

They went directly to Proviso, Illinois, (now part of Chicago) or maybe
Lyons, Illinois, (just next to Proviso); the obituary for daughter Johanna
says that they stopped for two years in Lyons, Illinois.  There they stayed
with Johanna.

They moved on to Dayton, Iowa, in 1868.  He died in 1897, and is buried in
Dayton, Iowa.

Henry Kinne told a story about walking to Dayton to mail a letter while his
horses rested during the noon hour.  He took with him a basket of eggs to
sell, but the storekeeper refused to buy them, so he had no money to buy the
stamp for the letter, and had to return home with the eggs and the unmailed
letter.

All the old church books for Hedeper are now in the church office in
Semmenstedt.  There are also some older records in the State Archives in
Wolfenb\"uttel.

Emilie remembers that Henry, her grandfather, was instrumental in
founding the Trinity Lutheran Church in Dayton Township.  Here part of a
newspaper article dated October 30, 1952, about the church.  ``As early as
1858 services were begun among the group of German settlers who lived
northwest of Dayton.  Pastor Vichensher came about once a month to some home
to hold services.  He usually walked the entire distance from Boone where he
lived, then went on to Fort Dodge for another service, making a round trip of
about 100 miles.  After about four years the people wanted a permanent
organization so in 1862 they organized the first congregation, although they
had no property or resident pastor for almost two decades.  Pastors came to
preach from Boone and Fort Dodge during these years with services still being
held in the homes.  In 1878 a decision was made to build on the southeast
corner of the Charles Schramm land two miles north and three miles west of
Dayton.  A frame building was erected with one end partitioned off for the
home of the pastor.  Here members worshiped until 1944 when the Swedish
Methodist church in the south part of Dayton was purchased and the
congregation moved to town.  Later in 1948 a house was purchased for the
Trinity parsonage.  In 1950 a new organ was dedicated for the church.''

Henry's descendants held annual reunions from 1931 to 1976, as described in
the newspaper article in the scrapbook.


He was instrumental in founding the Trinity Lutheran Church in Dayton Township


Magdalene Dorothea Henrietta Ziehe

Born April 17, 1825, in Roklum, Germany.
Baptised April 24 by J. A. Wiese.
Died July, 1891, according to Emilie Mathilda Theresa Kinne.

GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Magdalene Dorothea Henriette


August Bernhard Kinne

FamilySearch.org records a different death date: 20 Nov 1862.


Henrietta Wilhelmine Seelemann

Born October 18, 1842, in Gräfenhainichen, Germany.  The birth is recorded in the church book in the church in Gräfenhainichen as an out-of-wedlock birth, because the parents were divorced before the birth.  We don't know whether the father listed really is the father.

The name Seelemann is occasionally spelled as Seelmann.

Dan Grayson has a picture from his grandmother Emilie Kinne of a young man in a military uniform.  The name penciled on the back is Wilhelm Zander.  A similar picture of a young woman is labeled ``my mother's sister and brother'', presumably by Emilie.  Assuming the pictures go together, the young man is probably Friedrich Wilhelm Zander, and the woman could be Henriette Mathilde Zander.  Both pictures come from photography studios in Leipzig, and would have been taken about 1900.  Leipzig is a big city only 25 miles south of Raguhn and Gräfenhainichen, so family members could have easily travelled there.

From Wolfgang Windolph: The family Henriette Wilhelmine Seelemann and Carl Louis Wilhelm Zander or the young Friedrich Wilhelm Zander moved from Gräfenhainichen to Eschwege (Hessen). Reasons and date unknown. All Children of Friedrich Wilhelm Zander were born in Eschwege. At unknown date the family moved from Eschwege to the area of Raguhn-Bitterfeld.

Brigitte Weise has recorded a birth date of 1842/09/02 for her.


Marriage Notes for William Reichenbach and Henrietta Wilhelmine Seelemann-3342

Note: the birth record for Emilie Henrietta Seelemann shows no father, but her obituary says William Reichenbach is the name of her father.