Charles Bausch - 1879

BAUSCH, KIMBELL, HERMES

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Date: 7/15/2009 at 21:12:40

CHARLES BAUSCH, farmer, Sec. 25; P.O. Bellevue; born in Nassau,
Germany, in 1821; came to America in 1847; settled in Jackson Co. in 1848; entered
forty acres, and now has 640. First wife was Augusta Kimbell, a sister of Richard
Kimbell, of Bellevue; was born in Germany, in 1820; came to America in 1847; married
in 1848; they had seven children - Charles, Berta, John, Mena, Catherine, Louisa
and Emeline. Mrs. Bausch died Aug. 6, 1862. Second wife was Miss Hermes; born
in Hanover in 1821; came to America in 1861, and married in 1864. Mr. Bausch is
a man of public enterprise; he built the schoolhouse in District No. 5, and has been
School Trustee for four years. - Source: 1879 History of Jackson County Iowa, pg 678.