Fourth Generation

44. Theodore Henry KRUMWIEDE was born on 12 Jul 1889. (Larry C. Johnson reports his records show a birth year of 1890 for Theodore.) He died before 1989. Assumed He served in the U.S. Army during World War I. He served as a Captain on the staff of General Pershing. A photograph of Theodore syas "General Krumwiede," but such a rise in rank has not been verified. These hand-written notes were found in the Original Krumwiede Family Reunion book. From the tone of others of the notes, they appear to have been written by Dorothy Jean Krumwiede Traub Raney.

Stories My Dad Told Me (Theodore Henry Krumwiede):
His grandmother and grandfather (August) Krumwiede (grandmother's first name unknown to me) emigrated from Saxony Germany at ages 16 and 17 to Buckley, Illinois to escape from Prussianism (mandatory military service). They had 4 sons and divided their farm amongst their four sons. His mother, Eugenia DaCosse married and was widowed -- one son Eddie Hammond -- then married his father, Henry Krumwiede and they had six children. There was a half sister, Lydia, born before the marriage. They divorced and his mother remarried Phil Clark and they lost one child. The Dacosses emigrated to the Clifton area from Alsace Lorraine. Henry Krumwiede moved to Indiana and had another large family.
Lydia's daughter Clara visited Lorraine and Larry Baron's in 1930 and my cousin Lorraine Wasmer, Clifton, went to see her.

Theodore Henry KRUMWIEDE and Dorothy Agnes RIGBY were married on 4 Sep 1919 in Glasgow, Scotland. Dorothy Agnes RIGBY (daughter of (Father of Dorothy Agnes) RIGBY and (Mother of Dorothy Agnes Rigby) PATON) was born on 14 Dec 1897. She died before 1997. Assumed Theodore Henry KRUMWIEDE and Dorothy Agnes RIGBY had the following children:

+150	i.	Dorothy Jean KRUMWIEDE.
+151	ii.	Theodore Henry KRUMWIEDE JR.