2. George Lewis KORNGAEBLE was born on 29 Nov 1847 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co, PA. He was buried in 1896 in Winfield Scott Township Cemetery, Winfield, Henry Co, IA. He died on 12 Jun 1896 in Winfield, Henry Co, IA. Possible died from some disease contracted from a farm animal From his obituary:
"George Lewis Kongable, deceased, who was a respected and representative
farmer of Scott township, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November
29, 1847, his parents being George and Mary Kongable, both of whom were
natives of Pennsylvania. His boyhood was passed in the state of his nativity
and when he was a youth of eighteen years he went to Butler county, Ohio,
with some companions, spending ten years in that locality. After being
employed by others for a time he invested in land and became the owner
of a good farm, which he brought under a high state of cultivation. At
length he sold that property, however, and in 1877 removed to Iowa, settling
in
Louisa County, where he was employed at farm labor for several years.
On the 7th of October, 1880, Mr. Kongable was united in marriage to Miss Laura Belle Wynkoop, a native of Butler county, Ohio, who spent a portion of her girlhood in Preble County, that state, removing to Iowa after her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Kongable began domestic life upon a farm near Morning Sun, Louisa County, where they lived for two years, when, having sold his property in Ohio, Mr. Kongable took up his abode upon a rented farm two and a half miles east of Winfield, living there for about eight years. He then purchased eighty acres of land in the southeast corner of section 21, Scott Township, upon which there was an old house and a shed, constituting the only improvements. After his death Mrs. Kongable rebuilt and remodeled the house until it is now a comfortable residence of eight rooms. The second year after taking up his abode here he built a good barn and did considerable tiling. He carried on general farming and in addition to raising the cereals best adapted to the soil and climate he also gave considerable attention to raising horses, cattle and hogs.
Mrs. Kongable was a daughter of Isaac and Jane (Everson) Wynkoop, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of Buler county, Ohio. They resided for a time in Butler County but in 1872 purchased a farm in Preble County, Ohio, near Eaton, where their remaining days were passed. the father departing this life in 1899, while the mother's death occurred in February, 1905. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Kongable were born five children, who are yet living, and they lost a daughter Minite Edith who died in 1887 at the age of two years. Those who still survive are: Jennie Elizabeth, Ora Edgar, James Everson, William Ellis, and Clara Belle.
Mr. Kongable continued to reside upon the homestead place and through
its cultivation and improvement provided for his family up to the time
of his death, which occurred June 12, 1896. He displayed many excellent
traits of character, so that he won strong friendships and his loss was
deeply deplored therefore by many outside of his mediate family. A worthy
Christian gentleman, he held membership in the United Presbyterian church
and was one of its trustees. His political allegiance was given to the
Republican party. He left to his family a good property and also the priceless
heritage of an untarnished name. Mrs. Kongable still resides with her children
upon
the farm left to her by her husband and has also rented eighty acres
just north of the home place which her sons operate in connection with
their own farm."
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Lewis decided to go West, as did William Frederick and Mary Jane Kongabel.
Lewis stopped off in Ohio where he met Laura Belle Wynkoop. A few years
after they married Lewis and Laura moved to a farm east of Winfield IA.
living there until 1889 when they bought the farm 1 mile south of Winfield
which is now farmed to their grandson Keith Kongabel.
He was married to Laura Belle WYNKOOP on 7 Oct 1880 in Butler
Co, OH. Laura Belle WYNKOOP was born on 6 Oct 1858 in Preble Co, OH. She
was buried in 1948 in Winfield Scott Township Cemetery, Winfield, Henry
Co, IA. She died on 14 Jun 1948 in New London, Henry Co, IA. Remained on
the Winfield south farm after Lewis' death, raising the children, until
1923, when James took over the farm. She and Clara
moved to New London, IA, where she died. George Lewis KORNGAEBLE and
Laura
Belle WYNKOOP had the following
children:
- +6 i. Jennie Elizabeth KONGABLE.
- +7 ii. Ora Edgar KONGABLE.
- 8 iii.Minti Edith KONGABLE was born in 1885 in Morning Sun, Louisa Co, IA. She died in 1887 in Morning Sun, Louisa Co, IA. She was buried in 1887 in Winfield Scott Township Cemetery, Winfield, Henry Co, IA.
- +9 iv. James Everson (Jim) KONGABLE.
- +10 v. Ellis William KONGABLE.
- +11 vi. Clara Belle KONGABLE.
Charge, New Bloomfield, Perry Co, PA. She died in 1913 in Landisburg Reformed Charge, New Bloomfield, Perry Co, PA. She was buried in 1913 in German Cemetery, New Bloomfield, Spring Twnshp, Perry Co, PA. Buried under name Mrs. William H. Thomas Great-grand-daughter of Lizzie Kongable wrote:
8/1/73
- "Now the George & Elizabeth Schreckengast that must of been my
great
grand parents. There (sic) buried in Little German (Cemetery) near New
Bloomfield (PA). Then Mary that I believe was a daughter of these
people. There were more I believe some brothers. I think of there
names. There is a Mary Susan and George Korngable buried up in
Elliotsburg where my mother is buried too. My grandparents too,
Elizabeth, Lizzzie as you called the name, here was married to William
H. Thomas. Had 2 girls, May Susan Kintner of Freeport, Ilinois. Emma
Thomas mine mother. So the Schrengast were my great great grandparents. Kongable George was and Mary Susan was my great grandparents.
- I believe there was a sister of my Grandma called Jennie in family.
Is there some relation by the name off Reynolds or some name near this?
I see here there was a Mary Reynolds as I read the letter now I came
to it.
Did you know a John Korngable in Lincoln or Waterloo (IA). I never
talked about him as I never knew and just did not like him. He took the
Kongable. He died years ago, but I think the Kitners knew him not your
family.
The name Emma: My mother, Lizzie, Jennie Reynold's brother. Mary Susan Kitner was my aunt. Dates I can't give. Some I know came from Phila PA. Carpet weavers they were. I heard my Grandma talk about Will. Is that William?"
- "The Korngables were the carpet weavers. If you want the death of my
grandmother Elizabeth G. Thomas. She died nearly 42 or 45 years ago (1928
or 1931). You write to the Perry County Times, New Bloomfield, there. Mary
Lebow still remembers her. She is older than me. She knew her very well.
They may type it up if they have the record. I talked to her about three
yrs ago. Tell her Estella M. McMurtrie told you. She'll know me by that
name."
- 12 i. William MILLER was born about 1875. Probably born in or near Elliottsburg, Perry Co, PA
- 13 i. John Korngable THOMAS was born in Landisburg Reformed Charge, New Bloomfield, Perry Co, PA. He died in Lincoln, Tama Co, IA.
- +14 ii.Emma Florence THOMAS.
- +15 iii.Mary Susan THOMAS.
Landisburg Reformed Charge, New Bloomfield, Perry Co, PA. Birth/Baptismal Certificate
RECORD OF BIRTH & BAPTISM
TO THESE TWO PARENTS: As George Korngabel and his wife M. Elizabeth a daughter of Schreckengast was born a son on the 28th day of December in the year of our Lord 1855. This child was born in Spring township in Perry County in the State of Pennsylvania in North America; was baptized by the Reverend C. Linebauch and received the name of William. The Rev. Charles H. Leinbach served the Landisburg Reformed Charge from 1842 to 1859. He was christened on 28 Dec 1855 in Landisburg Reformed Charge, New Bloomfield, Perry Co, PA.
Record of Birth & Baptism
TO THOSE TWO PARENTS: As Georg Korngabel and his Wife Elizabeth a daughter of Schreckengast was born a Son on the 28th day of December in the year of our Lord 1855. This child was born in Spring Township in Perry county, in the State of Pennsylvania in North America; was baptized by the Rev'd. Linebauch and receive the name William.
WITNESSES: (blank) He was buried in 1908 in Summit View Cemetery, Guthrie,
Logan Co,
OK. He died on 8 Jul 1908 in Guthrie, Logan Co, OK. Lena May Kongabel
Benson wrote her grandchildren:
"Your great, great, grandparents, George and Elizabeth Korngabel, came
from Germany, settled in New Bloomfield, Perry County, Pennsylvania, where
their son, William Frederick Korngabel, your great grandfather, was born
December 28, 1855. He was a farmer and blacksmith. While
young he decided to come 'out west' to Ohio, then to Morning Sun, Iowa.He
worked at his blacksmith trade and there met twin sisters, Henrietta and
Annetta Crocker, who were born October 27, 1862, at Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Died at his farm in Guthrie OK on 7/8/1905 of Typhoid Fever. When William
Frederick Kongabel and Henrietta Crocker were married, they belonged to
a United Presbyterian Church and all through the years when they moved
from place to place, he always moved where there was a U. P. Church. Many
of his children and grandchildren are faithful members of this church at
present time.
William Frederick Kongable always went to church with his family, even
when we only had wagon or buggy, in hot or cold weather. I (Lena May) remember
one time we went 10 miles across Platte River in Nebraska - this river
was a mile wide, frozen over with ice, and temperature 48
degrees below zero. The team we drove was put in Livery stable and
fed while we were at church.
He was married to Henriette CROCKER on 13 Sep 1883 in Morning Sun,
Louisa Co, IA. Henriette CROCKER was born on 11 Oct 1862 in Newburyport,
Essex Co, MA.
When were Henrietta and Annetta born? Family tradition has passed down the birthdate of 27 Oct 1862, but Harold Philp Vance located the following birth records for children who were, unfortunately, not named at the time of the recording:
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WILLIAM FRANCIS GALVIN, SECRETARY
ARCHIVES DIVISION
COPY OF RECORD OF BIRTH
B 000569
Name: (TWIN) CROCKER
Date of Birth: OCTOBER 11, 1862
Place of Birth: NEWBURYPORT
Sex: FEMALE Color: WHITE
FATHER
MOTHER
Name: JOHN
Maiden Name: SARAH
Residence: NEWBURYPORT Residence: NEWBURYPORT
Birthplace: DIGBY, N.S. Birthplace: DIGBY, N.S.
Occupation: ----- Occupation: -----
Date of Original Record: 1862 Date of Amended Record: -----
Year 1862
Vol. 150
Page 263
No. 261
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WILLIAM FRANCIS GALVIN, SECRETARY
ARCHIVES DIVISION
COPY OF RECORD OF BIRTH
B 000570
Name: (TWIN) CROCKER
Date of Birth: OCTOBER 11, 1862
Place of Birth: NEWBURYPORT
Sex: FEMALE Color: WHITE
FATHER
MOTHER
Name: JOHN Maiden Name: SARAH
Residence: NEWBURYPORT Residence: NEWBURYPORT
Birthplace: DIGBY, N.S. Birthplace: DIGBY, N.S.
Occupation: ----- Occupation: -----
Date of Original Record: 1862 Date of Amended Record: -----
Year 1862
Vol. 150
Page 263
No. 262
She was adopted on 1 Jul 1872 in Half-orphaned in Mass, brought to Morning
Sun, Iowa at age 10. In 1865, the Howard Mission school principal, the
Reverend Russell G. Toles, went to Boston to help that city's ministers
organize the Associationoi for the Relief of Little Wanderers. Under this
group's direction the Boston chairty, sometimes known as the Baldwin Place
Home for Little Wanderers, was created as a refuge for the children of
the immigrant poor and for those who had been orphaned or left destitute
by the Civil War. Toles then left Howard Missino in New York
and took on the role of the first superintendent of Boston's newest
charity. ... From the first the home took in children from not only Boston
but from surrounding states, and there was no discrimination on the basis
of age, sex, religion, or race. ... Those that could be placed in private
homes were given over to families to be legally adopted or "treated as
a member of the family": indenture was not
approved, and the home stressed that children were not to be used as
servants or hired help. The need for the home, as well as its acceptance
and success, can be seen in the numbers of children
received in the first five years of operation. Between 1865 and 1870,
at least twenty-five hundred children entered the charity's care, with
a number placed beyond the boundaries of Massachusetts. In fact, soon after
the charity opened, children were being found new homes, perhaps thinking
of the hymn often sung by the home's youth choir - "Oh, think of a home
over there." By September 1865 three companies had gone west, ad for the
next forty years, from one to four companies of
children were placed out each year. The manner in which placements
were made by the New England Home for Little Wanderers did not differ dramatically
from the practices of
other agencies. Nevertheless, ... there were definite ideas about correct
procedures. First, the home staff targeted "a large town or small city
of 8,000 or 12,000 people, with good schools and churches, and a good farming
country around it." Ministers and prominent citizens were asked if they
would aid in finding placement homes. When the answer came in the affirmative,
groups of children were organized with as many as four adults in charge;
one of these agents would precede the group to the town, arrange for local
ministers to be involved, reserve rooms in the local hotel (usually hotels
gave free lodging to the children), and see that handbills and posters
were printed. Interestingly, reports of these emigrations stressed the
large amounts of food taken along for the train trip and the face that
the children had hotel accommodations until they were placed with families
that had applied for and been accepted as worthy. Of his experience in
Adrian, Michigan, one minister reported that fifteen children had been
placed, but determining the suitability of homes had been difficult: "Others
would apply and examine the children about as a man would a horse or ox.
'How much can I make out of this boy? ... seemed to be the idea. My answer
was, 'Nay, if it is simply a matter of profit and loss, you must apply
elsewhere. These children have souls to save as well as work to do.'" ...
In fact, by 1890 the home was making it clear to all concerned that is
placed out were to be
"treated as *sons* and *daughters* (emphasis in original), and that
legal adoptioon was highly encouraged."
[The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America, Marilyn Irvin Holt,
University of Nebraska Press, 1992, pp. 103-105.]
For many descendants of the place out and the population of placed out
still living, the unknowns of the system create a circumstance by which
they have no knowledge of their place in America's history or of past family
histories and the whereabouts of relatives. This is a fact off late twentieth-century
America. A prevailing misconceptioon of the system is that all of those
placed
out were orphans. Most were not, having at least one parent living.
Countless children were handed over by parents who could not care for them,
and thousands of others had been institutionalized as
"half-orphans" or because of destitution before the emigrated to new
homes.
Placing out is much more than an account of children sent to faraway homes and separated from poverty-stricken families or removed from streets and orphan asylums. The system itself tells much about what America was like, what care existed for the poor, and what Americans believed about social welfare and themselves during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
[Ibid, pp. 157-159.]
Baldwin Place Home for Little Wanderers
Officers of the Home:
Rev. R. G. Toles, Suprt ... C. H. Minor, Asst' Supt. ... R. B. Graham,
Visiting Agent
Rev. S. S. Cummings, Missionary Agent
AGREEMENT
Morning Sun, Iowa, July 1, 1872
The undersigned agrees to receive to receive into his family Henrietta
Crocker to be treated in all respects as a daughter. She is to receive
a good common school education, to attend Church and Sunday-School, and
to be cared for in sickness and in health. I will not dispose of
the child in any way without the consent of the officers of the BALDWIN
PLACE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERER, located in the City of Boston, State of
Massachusetts. If I do not wish to retain the child I promise to return
the same to the above-named institution, at my own expenses,
if required. Should circumstances arise which should make my home unsuited
to the wants of the child, or on proof being brought forward that the child
was not properly treated or cared for, I will surrender the child to the
Officers of the Home on their requisition, at their expense.
In consideration that I can have the full and entire control of the above-named child till of age, I cheerfully subscribe to the above conditions.
/s/ Thos. Spalding
WITNESS: C. C. Childs
RECOMMENDATION
We, the undersigned, being personally acquainted with Mr. Thomas Spalding of Morning Sun, Iowa, and family, cheerfully recommend them as s uitable person to be entrusted with the spiritual as well as temporal welfare of any child.
/s/ Huy Wallace, Pastor
UP Church
H. C. Blake
M. Ochiltree
(*To be signed by the pastor of the church to which you belong, and two responsible citizens.)
[Original in the possession of Harold J. Kongabel, son of Henrietta
Crocker Kongabel.] She was buried in 1949 in Summit View Cemetery, Guthrie,
Logan Co, OK. She died on 25 Jul 1949 in
Guthrie, Logan Co, OK. Died in Benedictine Heights Hospital, Guthrie
From Lena May Kongable Benson: Henrietta Crocker Kongable, born Oct. 27,
1862, had six toes on both
feet, six fingers on hands, extra fingers were removed when a child.
Her twin sister Annetta Crocker Wyckoff did not have any extra fingers
or toes. Neither did any of her four daughters or three sons.
Henrietta had nine chilidren:
- 1. Lena May had no extra fingers or toes
2. George Frederick had [extra fingers and toes]
3. Edna Blanche fingers
4. Winnie Pearl had tiny pea-sized finger with tiny nail, on one of her little fingers. Was removed when a baby.
5. Nellie M. had both extra fingers and toes, were taken off.
6. Howard Spalding 2 bean-like fingers, 6 toes, 6 fingers on one hand
7. Monnie Ruth
8. William Crocker 6 fingers, 5 toes
9. Harold J. had no extra fingers or toes.
The 1870 Federal Census for Essex Co, Mass, Ward Five, on 7 July 1870 (Microfilm M-593, Roll 611), Page 17, Line 18, showed Henrietta Crocker, age 7, Female White, cannot read or write, and her sister, age 7, Female White, cannot read or write, twins, living in Dwelling Unite 138, Family 157, with Sarah Crocker, age 42, Female White, born in Nova Scotia, keeping the home. Two other children lived in the home: Dora, age 5, Female White, cannot read or write, and Dennis, age
1, Male White, cannot read or write.
When Henrietta and her twin sister Annetta were 7 years old, they were put in an orphan's home in Boston, Massachusetts. Baldwin Place Home for Little Wanderers now the New England Home for Little Wanderers,20 Linden Street,Boston MA 02134
Marilyn Sneden, adoption coordinator
617-232-8610 or 617-428-0234
June Leonard (Wed & Thurs)
617-232-8610 or 617-428-0258
"In June, 1872, they were taken to Morning Sun, Iowa for adoption. Henrietta Crocker was adopted by Thomas and Mary Spalding and lived in their home until she married William Frederick Kongabel on September 13, 1883. It was about this time he began leaving the letter "r" out of his name, spelling it Kongabel.
After marriage they went to Delmont, South Dakota, and settled on a
Tree Claim farm, where they built a house and set out trees to pay U.S.
government for title to this land. Staying there 4 years, they sold it
and moved near Majors, Buffalo County, Nebraska, on a farm. They now had
2 children, your grandmother, Lena May, born 10/19/1884, and George Frederick,
born 6/16/1886, near Delmont South Dakota. They lived in Nebraska 12 years,
where following children were born:
Edna Blanch, 3/2/1889; Winnie Pearl, 11/13/1891; Nellie M., 12/15/1893;
Howard Spalding; 4/4/1897; Monnie Ruth, 3/30/1899. They then moved near
Olathe, KS, for 1 year, where son, William Crocker, was born 12/19/1901.
Next year leaved near Ottawa, KS, for 1 year.
Then moved to a farm near Guthrie, OK, in 1903. On 5/25/1905, Harold
J. was born.
When family moved from Nebraska to Kansas, the mother and children, except two, came on passenger train, the father and 2 girls, Edna and Winnie, came in freight car with their furniture and horses and cattle.
It was here your grandmother, Lena May Kongable, lived with her parents
and attended Logan County High School."
Henrietta lived at farm home near Guthrie until 1919 when she moved
to Guthrie city. At the time of her death at age 86 she was living with
her daughter, Lena May, at 801 E. Vilas. William Frederick (Will) KORNGAEBEL
and Henriette CROCKER had the following children:
- +16 i. Lena May KONGABLE.
+17 ii. George Frederick KONGABLE.
+18 iii. Edna Blanche KONGABLE.
+19 iv. Winnie Pearl KONGABLE.
+20 v. Nellie M. KONGABLE.
21 vi.Howard Spalding KONGABLE was born on 4 Apr 1897 in Buffalo Co, NE. He died on 4 Oct 1918 in Camp Pike, AR. Died in Influenza epidemic; in Army camp during WWI "2 bean-like fingers, 6 toes, 6 finers on one hand"
+22 vii. Monnie Ruth KONGABLE.
+23 viii.William Crocker (Bill) KONGABLE.
+24 ix. Harold J. KONGABEL.
Parents Child Birth/Baptism Date
KORNGAEBEL, George Mary Christian (sic) April 19, 1860 & Mary Elizabeth
July 15, 1860 She died on 7 Jan 1939 in Winfield, Henry Co, IA. She was
buried on 9 Jan 1939 in Winfield Scott Township Cemetery, Winfield, Henry
Co, IA. She was Methodist. Lived around New London IA
She was married to James Adelbert (Del) REYNOLDS on 8 Aug 1882 in Burlington,
Des Moines Co, IA. James Adelbert (Del) REYNOLDS was born on 2 Aug 1861
in South Milford, La Grange Co, IN. He died on 6 Feb 1941 in Burlington,
Des Moines Co, IA. He was buried on 8 Feb 1941 in Winfield Scott Township
Cemetery, Winfield, Henry Co, IA. He was a Broommaker and Farmer, Sawyer.
He was Methodist. Mary Christian (Christina) (Jane) KORNGAEBEL and James
Adelbert (Del) REYNOLDS had the following children:
- +25 i. Charles Lewis REYNOLDS.
+26 ii. Flora May REYNOLDS.
+27 iii. Dora Alice REYNOLDS.
+28 iv. Frederick Benton REYNOLDS.
+29 v. Glen Horace REYNOLDS.
+30 vi. John Howard REYNOLDS.
+31 vii. Lily Rose REYNOLDS.