Clemens KRAMER
NOTES: 1. Clemens was part owner and operator of a general store and harness shop known as Rohenkohl and Kramer. In 1879 he took up farming two milees east of Dyersville. His first wife died in 1890 and he later married Elizabeth Reitz. He spent his last years on a farm near Lexington, Oklahoma. He died enroute to the funeral of his borther Frank. Unidentified, he was buried in Kansas City, Missouri, A week later, his family hearing he had not arrieved in Dyersville traced him to KC. They had him exhumed and reburied in Lexington. He was 63 when he died. 2. The children Louis, Herman, Catherine and Mayme were listed with the second wife from the extraced records but no birth dates were given.
He married Mary Bruggermann 15 Nov 1870 at Dyersville, Dubuque, Iowa . Mary Bruggermann was born at of Steinfeld, Oldenburg, Germany Abt 1848 .
They were the parents of 8
children:
Louis Kramer
born Abt 1872.
Herman Kramer
born Abt 1874.
Catherine Kramer
born Abt 1876.
Mayme Kramer
born Abt 1878.
John L. Kramer
born 1871.
Anna Elisabeth Kramer
born 6 Sep 1881.
Frank Kramer
born 1884.
Rose Kramer
born 11 Jan 1888.
Clemens Kramer died 4 Nov 1906 at Dyersville, Dubuque, Iowa .