Auswanderung aus dem ehem. Landkreis Homberg/Efze

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A Conrad Kraft emigrated from Germany through Le Havre to the port of New Orleans on the ship, Brunswick. He arrived on 3/8/1849. Many of the German settlers in New Albany,IN came through New Orleans. The 1860 census places Conrad Kraft, aged 35, in New Albany, Floyd Co., IN. He was born in Germany. his wife, Mary Kraft, aged 34, was born in Hesse-Darmstadt. Her mother, Margaret Garnet, aged 60, lived with them and was also born in Hesse-Darmstadt. There are five children of Conrad and Mary in the household: August, age 10, Mary,age 7, Margaret, age 5, and two children, aged 2 and 1, whose names are illegible. All of the children were born in Indiana. The 1880 census has Conrad, aged 54, listed as a saloon keeper, born in Germany. The household is in the 4th Ward, New Albany, Floyd, Indiana. Mary, his wife, is now 53 and she keeps house. Margaret Garnet is no longer in the household as she died in 1779. There are five children listed: J. A., age 29, who works in a furniture store, Mary, age 27, who is keeping house, George C., age 16, who stays in the saloon, Katie, age 13 and Charlie, Age 9. The last two are attending school. The two chuildren who were two and 1 in the 1860 census are not mentioned Presumably they have left the household or are dead. The list of Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920, states that Conrad Kraft, age 74, a white male, died in New Albany on 12/20/1899.