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Early Settler – Frank H. Klenke – Holy Cross Cemetery, Windthorst, Ford County, Kansas

Frank H. Klenke was a member of the Aurora Colonization Society which was formed in Cincinnati, Ohio. Along with Henry Tasset and Herman...

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Early Settlers - The Hessmann Family – Holy Cross Cemetery, Windthorst, Ford County, Kansas

William, Bernard, August, and sister, Sophia were the children of Johann Gerhart Heinrich and Anna Marie Elizabeth Middelhoff Hessman....

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Ludwig & Maria Gertrud Hennecke – Holy Cross Cemetery, Windthorst, Ford County, Kansas

Early settlers of “the German community” of Windthorst included Ludwig Louis Hennecke and his wife, Maria Gertrud Hondorf Duetmann. The...

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Early Settlers – Hornung Family, Windthorst, Ford County, Kansas

The surname Hornung can be found throughout the cemeteries of Holy Cross and St. John’s. They can be traced back to Andreas and Anna...

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Peter Closen & Family – Holy Cross Cemetery, Windthorst, Ford County, Kansas

In the older section of Holy Cross Cemetery, there is a headstone which reads Peter Closen “arrived in U.S. in 1879.” No date of birth...

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The Honkomp/Buttenbohmer Family – Holy Cross Cemetery, Windthorst, Ford, Kansas

This story begins with the birth of Clemens Honkomp on September 7, 1817 in Germany. His wife, Anna Maria Elisabeth Bockhurst, was born...

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Joseph & Sophia Holtfrerich – Holy Cross Cemetery, Windthorst

The Holtfrerich story begins in Wilmesberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany with the birth of Maria Anna Sophia Hessmann on September 18,...

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Early Settlers – John A. and Mary Anna Pound Torline – Holy Cross Cemetery, Windthorst, Ford, Kansas

They are 51 headstones in Ford County with the surname of Torline with 35 of those in Holy Cross Cemetery alone. The oldest of those...