(The following information was kindly supplied by Grace Kuschnereit grace@wichita.fn.net who also supplied the origin of the Kuschnereit name.)
KUSCHNEREIT FAMILY 1910 NEW YORK CITY
Helen Kuschnereit married Julius Katski
Swalska East Prussia Immigrated to the USA app. 1910
Helen's on August was 15 at this time. Helen and Julius had one daughter named Anna.
Anna married a Wishner They made their home in Sargantville, Penn. I believe they had two sons and one daughter. (If you called Martha at the number I gave to you, she would know.)
Helen's son was named August. August was 17 and married Amelia Edinger (23) from Poland. They had 10 children . 8 children lived to become adults. At this time 3 daughters are still living. The oldest daughter 's memory is vague.
Family : Twins August Anna born 1913
August married Daphne from St. Thomas Island (A nurse)
* a son Edward married and divorced Barbara one son , Thomas that was adopted by his stepfather, named Grimes Edward has remarried and I believe has adopted a son.
*one daughter, Emily. Emily has married and divorced. She has one daughter, Alexis. They live at ***(Grace asked me to withhold addresses) Her mother, Daphne , lives with them. They all go by the Kuschnereit name.
Anna married Vincent Sheehan from Brooklyn
* one son , Vincent never married but now approaching 60, he is dating a nice lady. He has taken care of his parents. His mother Anna needs constant care at this time.
Address is*******
Bertha married William McIntyre
* one son named William married ? . William has three children Kerry, Kelly and Scott. The girls, I think the oldest is an military officer stationed in Washington, DC. The other girl is married , was teaching school , I have no idea what Scott is doing. Their dad taught wood working class in a middle high school.
Albert married Ellie from Indiana. Lived in Victorville, CA. They built the second house there in Applevalley. After about 15 years of marriage they had three sons in less than 3 years. A divorce soon followed At this time Albert fell in love with his younger brother's wife.
*Sons names are Thomas, Thadius and Ted married Doris of Victorville --- one son , two daughters
*Albert
*Carol married Larry Grierson They have 2 sons and one daughter Jon, Daniel and Kelsey Carol is a nurse and Larry works for Pendleton Woolen Mills. Address is ****
*Allison married Paul Heimowitz one daughter, Elise Allison teaches in high school Address is
Edward married Doris of Victorville they had twin son named David and Gene. When Doris left Ed for his brother Albert he kept the twins. He married Loretta in CA. She had one daughter named Linda. They had one daughter named Margaret who has never married. Her ******
When Albert was in the radio business in NYC before WW2 , he had a falling out with his father. Using the excuse that Kuschnereit was a hard name to remember he legally changed his last name. He told me he opened the phone book and put his finger on a name. He become Albert Duval. After the war and they lived in California he talked his younger brother, Edward to join him in business and to legally change his name, too. The family said that the French name he choose helped ruin his business in a German section of NYC. Due to health reasons he moved to California where it was dryer. He and Doris ended up in Tucson where he worked for the University. He was one of three that wired the famous observatory on Mount Kitt. He was a very, very intelligent man with his eighth grade education. The Tucson where Doris still lives is ***
As soon as her twin boys by Edward graduated from high school they went to AZ. They have been in Tucson and very close contact with Doris. One works as a welder with the mines and the other is a professional cook.
Gustav was the fourth son. I married him in Dodge City , Ks. I met him when he was stationed there after coming back from France. He was in the second week landing of Normandy Beach. He was in engineers building temporary runways for aeroplanes. He had been in Iceland for a couple years and was on his way to the states by way of England when he was detoured.
He settled in California with his brothers after the war. He did not like any part of it, including them wanting him to change the Kuschnereit name. He come through KS, married me and moved to NY for a year. We ended back in Dodge City where we lived until moving to Wichita.
We had three sons and two daughters. Their names are Gene, Rody, Gwendolyn, Elizabeth and Sam .
Elizabeth was twenty when she was killed and Sam was fourteen.
* Gene married Susan Walker of Dodge City They have four children
Michael married Brenda Snow of Farmington, NM
children Jamie and John Kuschnereit. At this time he is the only one of August's great-grandsons to carry the Kuschnereit name.
Patrick married Cindy two daughters Zimberly and Katlyn Grace ******
Dawn married Jeff Johnson one son, Zackery They live about 80 miles north of
Las Vegas. Can't find their address, just the phone number. He was a Seal in the Marines
Brenda married Dwayne from Minnesota. They never add their last name , I can't remember it. one son ,Josh He too was in the Marines
* Rody married Constnace Pelton of Wichita. Originally her family come from Dodge City. They have two daughters, Stacey and Stephenie. Stephenie married Devon Dennis they have a new son named Austin Rody. My son is the proudest of grandfathers. He feels he finally got his boy. The name Rody is a family name from my side. My maiden name was Rodarmel. Since there was no males to carry on my father's branch of the family, I gave the nickname to my second son. It has worked out well for him as he uses it as kind of a trade name in Denver, CO for his business.
*Gwendolyn married Kent Shepherd. She met him when he was stationed at McConnel Air force Base, after she finished college, she too joined the Air force. They were stationed at Lowery in Denver before they got out as they wanted to live halfway between both sides of their families. He is from Pocatello, Idaho. They have one son, Brandon who is in college at this time. Gwen lives in the high mountains of Colorado, Leadville. Her husband lives in the home in Denver. In the winter she works in Leadville's college computer as an assistant then does costuming for one of the large high schools in Denver. In the summer she has a shop in the front three rooms of her house and her husband comes to Leadville. She has Mtn. Top Quilts. We are both quilters. He has his own business wiring offices for computers and etc.
Martha married Michael Burgun they had two sons and one daughter
*Michael married Diane They had son Michael, daughter Wendy (teacher in Florida) and Robert
Michael moved back o Florida and I do not have his present address. I think he has worked for IBM since the beginning.
*Albert married Sue they live in Vermont or Maine they have two sons
*Carol married Kurt Yerg they have two daughters Kelly and Carol Martha lives with her daughter, Carol, now.
Margaret married Edward Swaine they had two daughters
*Maureen is married to Frank Consiglio She had a daughter by a former marriage named Kathleen Laporte
Margie has the same address. Her granddaughter rents an apartment from her. Margie is widowed, too. Her husband was killed in auto accident.
*Diane has medical problems since birth.
NOTE - If I have made any errors or there is something you can add, please email me - kuschnereit@hotmail.com