Kurtz, Joseph J.

ARNDT, KIPP, KURTZ

Posted By: Deborah Brownfield - Stanley (email)
Date: 2/9/2006 at 08:28:42

ARNDT. V.2, Fulton’s History of Jefferson County, Iowa, p. 397.

JOSEPH J. KURTZ, born July 5, 1860 in Walnut township, married in August 1885 MISS MARY ARNDT, daughter of FERDINAND and MARY (KIPP) ARNDT, who were natives of Germany, in which country MRS. KURTZ was born in Oct. 1863. Her parents died in their native land, after which she came to the U.S. when 18 years of age. Her girlhood days had been spent upon her father’s farm and like most German housewives her mother carefully trained her in the work of the household. The death of MRS. ARNDT occurred in 1872 and MR. ARNDT passed away in 1896, having never left their native country.