Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
Family: Justus Heinrich Kimm / Emma Schneider (F541)
m. 26 Dec 1866-
Male
Justus Heinrich Kimm
Birth 11 Sep 1839 Sand, Hesse Kassel, Germany 
Death 11 Sep 1931 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Burial Mound Cemetery, Watkins, Benton, Iowa, United States Marriage 26 Dec 1866 Father Jacob Conrad Kimm | F544 Group Sheet Mother Anna Elizabeth Welner | F544 Group Sheet
Female
Emma Schneider
Birth 26 Feb 1850 Deavertown, Morgan, Ohio, United States Death 30 Oct 1931 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Burial 1 Nov 1931 Mound Cemetery, Watkins, Benton, Iowa, United States Father Greorg Schneider | F42 Group Sheet Mother Maria Regina Rothenberger | F42 Group Sheet
Female
Mayme Kimm
Birth 12 Apr 1868 Atkins, Benton, Iowa, United States Death 1 Jan 1925 Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States Burial Watkins, Benton, Iowa, United States
Female
Laura Kimm
Birth 12 Jul 1869 Atkins, Benton, Iowa, United States Death 15 Mar 1959 Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States Burial Spouse Clarence DeCroft Trout | F1078 Marriage 31 Dec 1889 Spouse Harry J. Hotchkiss | F965 Marriage 18 Feb 1925 Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States
Female
Emma Kimm
Birth 27 Aug 1870 Atkins, Benton, Iowa, United States Death 3 Jun 1956 Little Falls, Morrison, Minnesota, United States Burial Spouse Samuel Lowe | F1081 Marriage 25 Feb 1890 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States
Male
Charles Edward Kimm
Birth 6 Oct 1871 Sicily Grove, Benton, Iowa, United States Death 1 Sep 1951 Burial Mound Cemetery, Watkins, Benton, Iowa, United States
Male
Henry Gus Kimm
Birth 3 Jan 1873 Atkins, Benton, Iowa, United States Death 19 Jan 1962 Marengo, Iowa, Iowa, United States Burial Watkins, Benton, Iowa, United States
Female
Ella Kimm
Birth 14 Aug 1874 Death 14 Mar 1967 Burial Mound Cemetery, Benton, Iowa, United States Spouse Leroy Montague | F1080 Marriage 1 Apr 1893 Florence, Benton, Iowa, United States Spouse Frank O Merrifield | F1079 Marriage 22 Nov 1900 Marengo, Iowa, Iowa, United States
Female
Alice Kimm
Birth 22 Apr 1876 Sicily Grove, Benton, Iowa, United States Death 14 Feb 1964 Burial Huron Cemetery, Huron, Beadle, South Dakota, United States Spouse Henry Peter Boon | F1000 Marriage 24 Apr 1895 Marengo, Iowa, United States
Male
Gus Henry Kimm
Birth 7 Mar 1878 Sicily Grove, Benton, Iowa, United States Death 6 Oct 1950 Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States Burial Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Spouse Anna M Hanson | F1085 Marriage 19 Apr 1905
Male
Arthur Allen Kimm
Birth 27 Jul 1879 Sicily Grove, Benton, Iowa, United States Death 24 Nov 1956 Burial Mound Cemetery, Benton, Iowa, United States
Female
Abbie Kimm
Birth 8 Feb 1881 Sicily Grove, Benton, Iowa, United States Death 3 Oct 1963 Burial Spouse Frank Joseph Wodstrchill | F1077 Marriage 19 Jul 1899 Marengo, Iowa, Iowa, United States
Male
Archie Kimm
Birth 4 Mar 1883 Atkins, Benton, Iowa, United States Death 22 Jan 1963 Belle Plaine, Benton, Iowa, United States Burial 24 Jan 1963 Cedar Momorial Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States
Male
John Kimm
Birth 24 Oct 1884 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Death 27 Jul 1975 Burial Riverside Cemetery, Beadle, South Dakota, United States
Male
Thomas Matthew Kimm
Birth 14 Oct 1886 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Death 3 Jul 1974 Burial Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States
Male
Albert Kimm
Birth 31 Aug 1888 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Death 15 Oct 1918 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Burial 17 Oct 1918 Mound Cemetery, Watkins, Benton, Iowa, United States
Male
Martin Kimm
Birth 14 Oct 1890 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Death 9 Sep 1962 Burial Mound Cemetery, Watkins, Benton, Iowa, United States
Female
Margaret Kimm
Birth 9 Feb 1893 St. Clair Township, Benton, Iowa, United States Death 2 Feb 1963 Burial Spouse Martin George Johnson | F1076 Marriage 15 Nov 1909 Marengo, Iowa, Iowa, United States
Female
Delia Kimm
Birth 1 Jun 1896 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Death 8 Mar 1901 Burial Mound Cemetery, Watkins, Benton, Iowa, United States
-
Notes Alt. Marriage:
"Mother of 17 Children Dies At Blairstown"
Benton County news
Special to Daily Times
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.