Joseph Kulzer emigrated from Moosbach, Bavaria as a young man in the company of his parents, his younger married sister Barbara Zeis, her husband Joseph Zeis and a future sister-in-law Franziska Bosl. They arrived in New York City on June 18, 1867.
The group traveled to central Minnesota where they filed for homestead near Meire Grove, Grove Township, Stearns County. Joseph was nearly blind since birth. He and his parents built up a farm that he inherited after their deaths ten years later.
At age 36 years old, on August 29, 1878, Joseph married Elizabeth Zins. He and Elizabeth, sadly, lost five young children in August 1893 when a diphtheria epidemic swept through the Stearns County communities. All five children were buried in St. John Cemetery at Meire Grove in graves hand dug by his brother and neighbor John Adam Kulzer. One young daughter, Franziska, ran away from the Kulzer family home into the woods hoping to escape the illness, but to no avail, diphtheria claimed her. Her body was found dead in the trees.
One month after the epidemic, Elizabeth birthed their daughter Josephine Kulzer.
According to oral family history, Joseph was known throughout the communities for the odd team he drove consisting of a bay horse hitched behind a white horse. The single file team walked very slowly. He was not sighted sufficiently to read or write but he could drive a buggy.
He and Elizabeth left the Stearns County Minnesota area soon after the epidemic that claimed the lives of their children. They moved to Marion County, Oregon near the Benedictine Abbey at Mount Angel where they birthed their last child. The Kulzer's farmed in Monitor precinct along Butte Creek northeast of Mount Angel. They're buried in Mt. Angel, OR. Elizabeth lived to be 102 years old.
The Kulzer's eight children: John, Joseph, Franziska, George, Maria, Katherine, Josephine Ballweber, Katie Crooks.
John, their oldest and only surviving child from the diphtheria epidemic, and daughter Josephine, born just after the plague, moved to Oregon with their parents. Youngest child, Katie, was born in Oregon and lived to be 94 years old.
The Joseph Kulzer Farm, one mile west of Monitor, received Century Farm designation in October 1995. According to the Statesman Journal News of Salem, OR, it was owned at that time by Kathleen F. Charpilloz. written by Gregory Dorr
The group traveled to central Minnesota where they filed for homestead near Meire Grove, Grove Township, Stearns County. Joseph was nearly blind since birth. He and his parents built up a farm that he inherited after their deaths ten years later.
At age 36 years old, on August 29, 1878, Joseph married Elizabeth Zins. He and Elizabeth, sadly, lost five young children in August 1893 when a diphtheria epidemic swept through the Stearns County communities. All five children were buried in St. John Cemetery at Meire Grove in graves hand dug by his brother and neighbor John Adam Kulzer. One young daughter, Franziska, ran away from the Kulzer family home into the woods hoping to escape the illness, but to no avail, diphtheria claimed her. Her body was found dead in the trees.
One month after the epidemic, Elizabeth birthed their daughter Josephine Kulzer.
According to oral family history, Joseph was known throughout the communities for the odd team he drove consisting of a bay horse hitched behind a white horse. The single file team walked very slowly. He was not sighted sufficiently to read or write but he could drive a buggy.
He and Elizabeth left the Stearns County Minnesota area soon after the epidemic that claimed the lives of their children. They moved to Marion County, Oregon near the Benedictine Abbey at Mount Angel where they birthed their last child. The Kulzer's farmed in Monitor precinct along Butte Creek northeast of Mount Angel. They're buried in Mt. Angel, OR. Elizabeth lived to be 102 years old.
The Kulzer's eight children: John, Joseph, Franziska, George, Maria, Katherine, Josephine Ballweber, Katie Crooks.
John, their oldest and only surviving child from the diphtheria epidemic, and daughter Josephine, born just after the plague, moved to Oregon with their parents. Youngest child, Katie, was born in Oregon and lived to be 94 years old.
The Joseph Kulzer Farm, one mile west of Monitor, received Century Farm designation in October 1995. According to the Statesman Journal News of Salem, OR, it was owned at that time by Kathleen F. Charpilloz. written by Gregory Dorr
Joseph Kulzer emigrated from Moosbach, Bavaria as a young man in the company of his parents, his younger married sister Barbara Zeis, her husband Joseph Zeis and a future sister-in-law Franziska Bosl. They arrived in New York City on June 18, 1867.
The group traveled to central Minnesota where they filed for homestead near Meire Grove, Grove Township, Stearns County. Joseph was nearly blind since birth. He and his parents built up a farm that he inherited after their deaths ten years later.
At age 36 years old, on August 29, 1878, Joseph married Elizabeth Zins. He and Elizabeth, sadly, lost five young children in August 1893 when a diphtheria epidemic swept through the Stearns County communities. All five children were buried in St. John Cemetery at Meire Grove in graves hand dug by his brother and neighbor John Adam Kulzer. One young daughter, Franziska, ran away from the Kulzer family home into the woods hoping to escape the illness, but to no avail, diphtheria claimed her. Her body was found dead in the trees.
One month after the epidemic, Elizabeth birthed their daughter Josephine Kulzer.
According to oral family history, Joseph was known throughout the communities for the odd team he drove consisting of a bay horse hitched behind a white horse. The single file team walked very slowly. He was not sighted sufficiently to read or write but he could drive a buggy.
He and Elizabeth left the Stearns County Minnesota area soon after the epidemic that claimed the lives of their children. They moved to Marion County, Oregon near the Benedictine Abbey at Mount Angel where they birthed their last child. The Kulzer's farmed in Monitor precinct along Butte Creek northeast of Mount Angel. They're buried in Mt. Angel, OR. Elizabeth lived to be 102 years old.
The Kulzer's eight children: John, Joseph, Franziska, George, Maria, Katherine, Josephine Ballweber, Katie Crooks.
John, their oldest and only surviving child from the diphtheria epidemic, and daughter Josephine, born just after the plague, moved to Oregon with their parents. Youngest child, Katie, was born in Oregon and lived to be 94 years old.
The Joseph Kulzer Farm, one mile west of Monitor, received Century Farm designation in October 1995. According to the Statesman Journal News of Salem, OR, it was owned at that time by Kathleen F. Charpilloz. written by Gregory Dorr
The group traveled to central Minnesota where they filed for homestead near Meire Grove, Grove Township, Stearns County. Joseph was nearly blind since birth. He and his parents built up a farm that he inherited after their deaths ten years later.
At age 36 years old, on August 29, 1878, Joseph married Elizabeth Zins. He and Elizabeth, sadly, lost five young children in August 1893 when a diphtheria epidemic swept through the Stearns County communities. All five children were buried in St. John Cemetery at Meire Grove in graves hand dug by his brother and neighbor John Adam Kulzer. One young daughter, Franziska, ran away from the Kulzer family home into the woods hoping to escape the illness, but to no avail, diphtheria claimed her. Her body was found dead in the trees.
One month after the epidemic, Elizabeth birthed their daughter Josephine Kulzer.
According to oral family history, Joseph was known throughout the communities for the odd team he drove consisting of a bay horse hitched behind a white horse. The single file team walked very slowly. He was not sighted sufficiently to read or write but he could drive a buggy.
He and Elizabeth left the Stearns County Minnesota area soon after the epidemic that claimed the lives of their children. They moved to Marion County, Oregon near the Benedictine Abbey at Mount Angel where they birthed their last child. The Kulzer's farmed in Monitor precinct along Butte Creek northeast of Mount Angel. They're buried in Mt. Angel, OR. Elizabeth lived to be 102 years old.
The Kulzer's eight children: John, Joseph, Franziska, George, Maria, Katherine, Josephine Ballweber, Katie Crooks.
John, their oldest and only surviving child from the diphtheria epidemic, and daughter Josephine, born just after the plague, moved to Oregon with their parents. Youngest child, Katie, was born in Oregon and lived to be 94 years old.
The Joseph Kulzer Farm, one mile west of Monitor, received Century Farm designation in October 1995. According to the Statesman Journal News of Salem, OR, it was owned at that time by Kathleen F. Charpilloz. written by Gregory Dorr
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