All you ever wanted to know about me, part 2, my father's ancestors.

Anna as an older woman, click for larger picture.

All You Ever Wanted to Know
(and didn't want to know)
About Me

My Dad's Ancestors

First, My Dad's Paternal Great Great Grandparents.

Everything on this page is by permission of the surviving co author of the family history book. Bob Peckinpaugh even gave me the pictures from our side so I could scan them to put here.

Thanks so much Bob.

Two of my distant relatives did an extensive genealogy search on the family history and found out a lot of information about the male descendants of our family, from when they first came to this country in 1835. The first one that moved here was born in Germany in 1789. John T. Kuhlman brought his two sons and wife, Anna Elizabeth (Brockamp) with him. They settled in northwestern Ohio on swampy land, putting their home on stilts. Anna died in July of 1858 and John died in August of 1872.

My Dad's Paternal Great Grandparents

His older son also named John, but nicknamed Tete for his middle name of Theodore, also married a woman named Anna. Anna (Schwartzengraber) Kuhlman and Tete had 8 children. Tete was mechanically inclined and combining his resourcefulness designed boats called pirogues to get his produce to market because the swamp made roads impassable. His largest pirogue was 75 feet long and 6 feet wide. It held 500 bushels of wheat plus the pork that was packed on top of the wheat. He slept in the boat at night on his long trips.

During his lifetime he accumulated 600 acres of land and with his sons cleared, ditched and developed into valuable farmland. It was one of these sons who was my great grandfather, Frank, pictured, left.

All the pictures on this page can be clicked on for larger views.

My Dad's Paternal Grandparents

Frank was in the first generation who was born in the USA. He had seven siblings, Theodore, Barney, Anton, Henry, Francis Ferdinand, Mary Elizabeth, Frank and John. Frank was born in December in 1858. In April of 1880 he married a woman who was again named Anna, pictured to the right. That's her up on the top left of the page too. Looks like she has hardened herself.

Anna Catherine (Fox) Kuhlman was the daughter of Anthony and Mary Catherine (Halker) Fox. Her father had come to America when he was 13 years old and was taught the shoemakers trade. Anna was born October of 1861 in Ohio. Her maiden name, Fox was originally Fuechs as it was spelled when her family came here from Alsace-Lorraine, France.

Anna had 5 siblings and then her mother died when she was only 7 years old. She was sent to live with her godmother who had sons who were a little older than Anna. They teased and tormented her a lot.

When Anna married Frank in April of 1880, it was so unseasonably hot that "the cabbage plants had several leaves," and the sun was so hot for the wedding reception, held in the yard, that a big umbrella was brought out to shield the bride and groom. Frank was a tall man, as Anna said that when he held out his arm, she could stand under it. She was 5 foot 2 inches.

They set up housekeeping on a farm near Ottawa, Ohio. They had 8 children, the first, Joseph, being my grandfather. Frank was doing well financially and was purchasing land when he contracted Typhoid fever and died at the age of 37. His wife, Anna, and their baby, Martha, also caught it. Anna survived but the baby didn't.

The picture on the right is the original farm after Anna was widowed. That's a hired hand holding the horse on the left, Anna, Anna's son, Albert, holding another horse. That's a daughter Luella (Kuhlman) Otto, holding the baby and her daughters sitting in front of her. On the left you see just them, cut out from the larger picture. You can barely see a man in the wagon to the right, he's unidentified. Below and to the left is Frieda and Estelle Otto, and their uncle, Albert is shown below, right, in a close up from the same picture.

Anna moved to a smaller farm with her younger children and then lived with a daughter several years after that marriage. She died in August of 1948.

If you want to hear about the kind of life that my ancestors had in Germany, before they came over the ocean, you can go to this link and read a brief description.

Frank and Anna's first child, Joseph, is my grandfather.

My paternal grandparents. Joseph Kuhlman & Elizabeth (Otto) Kuhlman

Dad's Parents, Together

Grandpa

Grandma

With Family

Here are the pages about my dad, one made a couple years before I made this one.

As a Child As a Youth As an adult With us kids Middle Age Dad, Elderly

Cool pictures in a series of my dad's family, long ago.

1880	1900	1903	1917
Musicians	1937	1944	1949

All about me (list of pages)

Choose whatever may interest you. (or go back to whatever page you came from)

I'll include my list of all my "regular" web pages at the top of each page so if you get tired of hearing all about me, you can escape to some place else. But for now, here are some more personal pages...

These are somewhat better looking pages, with more information too.

Overview-Beginning My father's ancestors My mother's ancestors

My father My mother My siblings, as children

My father's parents My mother's parents My siblings, as adults

My childhood home My children, Index My husband

My pets (or go below) Places I have lived Favorite places I've visited

My favorite music Jobs I've had My gardens through the years

If you want to go to other pages in this series you can click on any of these. Most of these were made quickly, just to show my "artistry" (or lack of) in photography. Some are just fun pictures to look at. Below this series are many of my better pages, with both photos and stories about the people, places or things they are taken of.

Go To Other pages of pictures I have taken or that I like a lot.

Index of all pages about me
Random pictures of me
Pictures taken more recently
Pictures taken even more recently
Sitting at my good old computer
Pictures of sunsets I've taken
Pictures of pretty trees I've taken
More trees
Pictures of mountains I've taken
Pictures of interesting buildings I've taken Desert pictures
Pictures with water I've taken
Other Nature Pictures
Pictures outside of Raleigh I've taken
More Pictures outside of Raleigh
Pictures of interesting people I've taken
Cute pictures of my kids
More cute pics of my kids
Events pictures
Home Schooling Hosts & Their Families

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This page was created October 26, 2001,
and last revised September 17, 2002.

Overview-Beginning	My father's ancestors	My mother's ancestors
My father	My mother	My siblings, as children
My father's parents	My mother's parents	My siblings, as adults
My childhood home	My children, Index	My husband
My pets (or go below)	Places I have lived	Favorite places I've visited
My favorite music	Jobs I've had	My gardens through the years