Kreiling Family

Generation 1

Bernhard Kreiling (Reference # 108) was born in Germany. It is unknown when he immigrated to the United States. He died at Topeka or Easton, Forest City Twp., Mason Co., IL. His wife was also born in Germany but further information is not known. They had at least one child:
  1. John F. Kreiling

Generation 2

John F. Kreiling (Reference # 54) was born 25 December 1858 at Topeka or Easton, Forest City Twp., Mason Co., IL and died 5 January 1935 at Topeka or Easton, Forest City Twp., Mason Co., IL. He was born and died on the same farm where he had lived his entire life and he was a farmer by occupation. He married Lena Thies (Reference # 55) c1883 in Illinois. She was born 30 October 1864 in Germany and died 7 December 1950. She immigrated to the United States c1879-1880 and lived and worked as a maid in New York City for a time. Her employer taught her English on Sundays but she never learned to read or write in English and used a German Bible throughout her life. My father has the Bible and I have a quilt pieced by her in the 1930s and quilted by my grandmother in the 1980s. They had the following children:
  1. Unknown child
  2. Unknown child
  3. Hanna Kreiling
  4. Louis Kreiling
  5. Herman or Harmon Kreiling
  6. Margaret Maria Kreiling
  7. Caroline Kreiling
  8. Augusta Krause
  9. Laura Kreiling
  10. Matilda Kreiling

Generation 3

Margaret Maria Kreiling (Reference # 27) was born 29 June 1888 at Topeka, Mason Co., IL and died 14 September 1957 at Denver, Denver Co., CO. She married Harry Thurston Lowers (Reference # 26) on 4 February 1908 at Topeka or Easton, Mason Co., IL. They were married either in a Lutheran Church or at home. Harry Thurston Lowers was born 5 November 1885 at Ottawa, LaSalle Co., IL and died 25 February 1967 at Fort Morgan, Morgan Co., CO. For further information see the Lowers Family. They had the following children:
  1. Alice Lena Lowers
  2. Esther Mino Lowers
  3. John Thurston Lowers
  4. Clark Dickinson Lowers
  5. son
  6. Margaret Virginia Lowers
  7. Mildred Agnes Lowers
  8. Harold Kreiling Lowers
  9. Lawrence Leonard Lowers

Sources

1900 Census, Forest City Twp., Mason Co., IL, Dist. 68, Sheet 10

Interviews with Alice Lowers Clore by Cathi Clore Frost

Obituary of Augusta Krause

Petition made by Augusta Krause for Admission of Will to Probate, Cook Co., IL, Sept. 1962

Interview with Debra Compton Silvey by Cathi Clore Frost 10 March 1996

Funeral program of Margaret Jo Harter

Funeral program of Patricia Loraine Lowers

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31 October 1997