Name: Cordes and Konda Families 2012(1) new version_2020-02-07

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Francesca Helen Cordes: Birth: 10 JUL 1887 in Aleppo, Sedgwick, Kansas. Death: 22 MAR 1974 in Halstead, KS

  2. Philomena Cordes: Birth: 9 APR 1889 in Aleppo, Sedgwick, Kansas. Death: 17 JUL 1935 in Wichita Hospital, Wichita, KS

  3. Anna Katharina Cordes: Birth: 4 MAR 1891 in Aleppo, Sedgwick County, Kansas. Death: 23 OCT 1951 in Aleppo, Kansas

  4. Elizabeth Johanna Cordes: Birth: 4 APR 1893 in Aleppo, Sedgwick County, Kansas. Death: 7 MAY 1963 in Los Angeles, California

  5. Joseph Henry Cordes: Birth: 5 JAN 1896 in Aleppo, Sedgwick County, Kansas. Death: 18 FEB 1968 in Garden Plain, KS

  6. Maria Elizabeth Cordes: Birth: 13 MAY 1898 in Aleppo, Sedgwick County, Kansas. Death: 14 JUN 1929 in Aleppo, Kansas

  7. Anton Joseph Cordes: Birth: 31 OCT 1900 in Aleppo, Kansas. Death: 24 OCT 1983 in Conway Springs, Kansas

  8. Margaret Philomena Cordes: Birth: 8 NOV 1902 in Aleppo, Kansas. Death: 9 NOV 1986 in Conway Springs, KS

  9. Bernard Henry Cordes: Birth: 9 FEB 1906 in Aleppo, Sedgwick, KS. Death: 19 SEP 1987 in Greeley, Weld, CO

  10. Rosa Mary Cordes: Birth: 4 FEB 1912 in Aleppo, Sedgwick County, Kansas. Death: 23 APR 1998 in Via Christ Med. Ctr., Wichita, Kansas


Sources
1. Title:   Kansas, Registration Affidavits of Alien Enemies, 1917-1918
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;
2. Title:   Church Registries of the Catholic parish of St. Vincent

Notes
a. Note:   Bernard H. Cordes was born in Lotten, near Haselünne, the oldest child of peasant farmers. When he was 12 years old conscription into the military was made mandatory; a male could not leave the country without proof of having served in the military. Sometime in his youth he fled the country by way of swimming the Ems River, near Meppen, and crossing the peat bogs into the Netherlands. (According to Dad, after his mother died his father re-married, and he did not get along with his step-mother). He made his way into the U.S. in May of 1877, at the age of 23 years old on a ship named Rhein. (The ship's log is dated June 23, 1877) He went to Illinois, possibly to St. Libory, where his father's brother and family had moved to in 1866. In March, 1884, he arrived in Garden Plain, Kansas, working for the Klausmeyer family, and two years later married their daughter, Mary Francis Klausmeyer. They bought a farm in Aleppo, not far from the Klausmeyer family farm, where all the children were born. They raised primarily wheat, oats, barley and corn along with a large garden, fruit trees, and grape vines. They farmed with both horses and mules, raised beef, pork, chickens, geese, ducks and rabbits. A small creek went close by the house which provided the habitat for the geese and ducks. They both salted and smoked the meat to preserve it.
  The farm was only 1 and 1/2 miles from the church in Allepo so they could walk it easily in good weather.
  According to Alice (Cordes) Vierthaler, he was very crippled by arthritis but very kind and smiled a lot. He spoke little English, played fiddle for barn dances. Family and friends also came for card games, often lasting late into the night.
  Landowner's directory, 1915, Sedgwick County, KS
 NAME TOWNSHIP TWP RANGE SEC ACRE VALUE DESCRIPTION
 Cordes, B Garden Plain T27S R3W 20 160 6,830 NW4
 Cordes, B Garden Plain T27S R3W 21 160 7,530 NW4
  RHEIN 1868
 The RHEIN was built by Caird & Co, Greenock in 1868 for Norddeutscher Lloyd [North German Lloyd]. Her details were - 2,901 gross tons, length 332ft x beam 40ft, clipper stem, one funnel, two masts, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 13 knots. There was accommodation for 70-1st, 100-2nd and 600-3rd class passengers. Launched in August 1868, she sailed on her maiden voyage from Bremen to Southampton and New York on 3/10/1868. In 1878 her engines were compounded by the builders and on 16/10/1889 she left Bremen on her last voyage to Baltimore and New York. On 18/9/1890 she commenced her last Bremen - Baltimore voyage and the following year was sold to a British company. She was scrapped in 1893.
 

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