Kammlade, Laura (Mrs. Earl), 1883-1948

KAMMLADE, GRESS, KELLOGG, SPENCER, ERIKSON

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Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:38

Birth: 22 February 1883
Death: 14 June 1948

The Sioux County Cemetery Index has Kammlade, Laura, b. 1883, d. 1948, Greenwood Cemetery, Matlock IA
The South Dakota Death Index on Ancestry.com has Laura M. Kammlade, died 14 June 1948 in Sully County, South Dakota.

No obituary or death notice for her was found online in Sioux County newspapers or in NewspaperArchive.com.

FindaGrave.com has Laura May Kellogg Kammlade; born 22 Feb 1883 in Boscobel, Grant County, Wisconsin; died 14 June 1948 in Sully County, South Dakota; buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Matlock, Iowa. There is a photo of her headstone. It gives her spouse as Earl Fernando Kammlade (1886-1937, married 1925) and lists one child, Lysle Erik Erikson (1904-1965).

The marriage register for Kossuth County, Iowa for 1900 shows groom Arnel E. Erikson, age 25, resident of Ringsted, Iowa, a barber, born in Illinois, parents John E. Erikson and Christina Swanson, first marriage; bride Laura May Kellogg, age 18, resident of Whittemore, born in Wisconsin, parents George Kellogg and Etta Gress, first marriage; married at Algona, Iowa, March 13, 1900. (They evidently divorced, since he shows up in subsequent records with a wife named Anna, and died in Los Angeles, California, in 1956.)

No record was found of her second marriage, to Mr. Spencer.

The marriage certificate for her third marriage shows groom Earl F. Kammalade, age next birthday 40, resident of Matlock, a farmer, born in Matlock, parents George Kammalade and Frances Viola Nugent, first marriage; bride Laura May Spencer, maiden name Laura May Kellogg, age next birthday 40, resident of Sanborn, born at Boscobel, Wisconsin, parents George Kellogg and Henrietta Gress, third marriage; married at Orange City, Iowa, October 2, 1925.

In the 1930 U.S. census, Earl Kammlade (38) and wife Laura M. (40) were living in Summit Township, O’Brien County, Iowa, where he was a farmer.

At the time of his death in 1937, they were living in the Cornelius Apartments in Sioux City, where he worked as a laborer.

In the 1940 census, her age is given as 57 [??], widowed, born in Wisconsin, lived in Sioux City in 1935; education, 8th grade; unable to work; lodging with Frank and Mary Hollister.