Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
Family: Frank O Merrifield / Ella Kimm (F1079)
m. 22 Nov 1900
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Male
Frank O Merrifield
Birth 11 Jul 1878 Iowa, Iowa, United States 
Death 1940 Burial Mound Cemetery, Benton, Iowa, United States Marriage 22 Nov 1900 [1] Marengo, Iowa, Iowa, United States [1] Father Mother
Female
Ella Kimm
Birth 14 Aug 1874 Death 14 Mar 1967 Burial Mound Cemetery, Benton, Iowa, United States Other Spouse Leroy Montague | F1080 Marriage 1 Apr 1893 Florence, Benton, Iowa, United States Father Justus Heinrich Kimm | F541 Group Sheet Mother Emma Schneider | F541 Group Sheet
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Sources - [S82] Iowa. Venton., Iowa, Benton County, Vinton -Cedar Valley Daily Times (Newspaper), "Mother of 17 Children Dies at Blairstown," 31 Oct 1931, p. 3; digital images. (Reliability: 3).
"Mother of 17 Children Dies At Blairstown" Blairstown, Oct. 31-Mrs. Emma Kimm, 81 years old, widow of G. H. Kimm, died Friday morning at her Blairstown home of pneumonia following an illness of only a few days. Her husband's death occured six weeks ago. Services will be held sunday at 2.00 p.m. in the Presbyterian church here, with the Rev. J.B. C. Peck conducting the rites. Burial will be in Mound cemetery at Watkins. Six grandsons, who were pallbearers for Mr. Kimm, will act as casket bearers for their aged grandmother Mrs. Kimm was the mother of seventeen children. Emma Schneider, daughter of Gregory and Regina Schneider, was born Feb. 26, 1850, at Deavertown, Ohio, coming to Iowa, when a small child with her parents. She was married Dec.. 26, 1876 at Marengo. the Kimms moved to a farm northeast of Blairstown in 1886 from a place near Norway. They went to Huron, S. D., in 1010 retuning here last year. Fourteen children surviving are: Henry, Archie, Martin, Matt, and Gus H., of Blairstown, Charles of Coggon, Mrs. Laura Hotchkiss and Mrs. Ella Merrifield of Cedar Rapids, Aurthur of Wolsey, S, D., Mrs. Emma Lowe. Mrs. Allce Boone, Mrs. Maggie Johnson, Mrs. Abbie Wodstrichill and John, of Huron S.D.. The family includes sixty grandchildren and forty-five great grandchildren. Other relatives living are four sister Mrs. A. S. Kimm of Blairstown, Mrs. John Lauger of Des Moines, Mrs Rose Bansch of Atkinson, Neb., and Mrs. Laura Swick of Watkins, her twin.
31 Oct 1931.
- [S82] Iowa. Venton., Iowa, Benton County, Vinton -Cedar Valley Daily Times (Newspaper), "Mother of 17 Children Dies at Blairstown," 31 Oct 1931, p. 3; digital images. (Reliability: 3).