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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. George Adam Kress: Birth: 14 APR 1816 in Gersbach, Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Death: AFT 8 JUL 1841

  2. Louisa Katharina Kress: Birth: 25 FEB 1819 in Gersbach, Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Death: 3 SEP 1885 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, USA

  3. Katharina Charlotta Kress: Birth: 24 MAY 1821 in Gersbach, Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Death: 5 SEP 1892 in Clermont, Ohio, USA

  4. Rudolph Adam Kress: Birth: 8 MAY 1824 in Gersbach, Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Death: 9 JUL 1886 in Franklin, Brown, Ohio, USA

  5. Katherina Margaretha Kress: Birth: 12 FEB 1827 in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Death: 17 APR 1862 in Franklin, Brown, Ohio, USA

  6. Heinrich Kress: Birth: 24 MAR 1831 in Franklin, Brown, Ohio, USA. Death: 18 OCT 1913 in Manchester, Adams, Ohio, USA

  7. Frederick A Kress: Birth: 24 MAR 1831 in Franklin, Brown, Ohio, USA. Death: 1834 in Brown, Ohio, USA

  8. Maria Kress: Birth: 7 AUG 1834 in Brown, Ohio, USA. Death: 1879 in Indiana, USA

  9. Phillip Jacob Kress: Birth: 6 FEB 1837 in Brown, Ohio, USA. Death: 16 JAN 1916 in Brown, Ohio, USA


Sources
1. Title:   Pedigree Resource File
2. Title:   Arnheim Lutheran Church Parish Register, Books I & II
Author:   B C Nishimoto
Publication:   Name: 1992;
3. Title:   Kautz, Larry
4. Title:   Kress Family
Publication:   Name: Ancestry Public Trees; Location: ancestry.com;
5. Title:   Find a Grave Memorial Page
6. Title:   1860 United States Federal Census
7. Title:   1870 United States Federal Census
8. Title:   1880 United States Federal Census

Notes
a. Note:   Pedigree Resource File Pin #819361
  Brown County Common Pleas Court Journal #6, Series I (1830 - 1833), abstracted by Brown County Genealogical Society:
 pg 44 - "Kress, George Adam - Native of Bavaria, arrived with family in Philadelphia on the 6th day of September 1828. Age 36, Catherine his wife is 31 years of age. Children: George Adam age 14, Louisa age 10, Catherine age 8, Rudolph age 5 and Margaret age 3. Has resided in Franklin Township for a period of time. Makes declaration of intent November 4, 1830."
  From Find a Grave:
 "From the book "A History of Adams County, Ohio" From its earliest Settlement to the Present time. By Nelson W. Evans & Emmond B. Stivers.
 "HENRY KRESS, farmer, residing near Manchester, was born March 24, 1831, near Russellville, Brown County, Ohio. His father, George Adam Kress, was born in Bamasants, Rhine, Bavaria. His mother Katherine Miller, was born in the same place. There they were married, and five of their children were born in Germany. In 1828, they came to the United States and located near Russellville, Brown County. They had seven more children in this country, four of whom died in infancy."
  From Find a Grave:
 "Katharina Barbara Muller Kress was born 13 September 1797 in the village of Kroppen. Governing city was Trulben. She married George Adam Kress 4 May 1815 in Kroeppen, Bayern, Germany. Her parents were Johann Rudolph Mueller and Anna Margaretha Mangold. She was the mother of:
 George Adam Kress b. 14 Apr 1816 - Germany
 Louise Katharina Kress b. 25 Feb 1819 - Germany
 Katharina Charlotta Kress b. 24 May 1821 - Germany, d. 5 Sep 1892- Clemont Co., Ohio
 Rudolph Adam Kress b. 8 May 1824 Germany, d.9 Jul 1886 - Brown Co., Ohio.
 Katharina Margaretha Kress b. 12 Feb 1827 - Germany, d. 17 Apr 1862 - Brown Co., Ohio
 Heinrich Kress b. 24 Mar 1831 - Brown Co., Ohio,d. 18 Nov 1913 - Adams Co., Ohio
 Maria Kress b. 7 Aug 1834 - Brown Co., Ohio
 Phillip Jacob Kress b. 6 Feb 1837 - Brown Co., Ohio; d. 16 Jan 1916 - Brown Co., Ohio.
  Source: The Arnheim Lutheran Church Parish Register, Book I"



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