Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
Family: Justus Heinrich Kimm / Emma Schneider (F541)
m. 26 Dec 1866-
Father | Male
Justus Heinrich Kimm
Born 11 Sep 1839 Sand, Hesse Kassel, Germany 
Died 11 Sep 1931 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Buried Mound Cemetery, Watkins, Benton, Iowa, United States Married 26 Dec 1866 Father Jacob Conrad Kimm | F544 Group Sheet Mother Anna Elizabeth Welner | F544 Group Sheet
Mother | Female
Emma Schneider
Born 26 Feb 1850 Deavertown, Morgan, Ohio, United States Died 30 Oct 1931 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Buried 1 Nov 1931 Mound Cemetery, Watkins, Benton, Iowa, United States Father Greorg Schneider | F42 Group Sheet Mother Maria Regina Rothenberger | F42 Group Sheet
Child 1 | Female
Mayme Kimm
Born 12 Apr 1868 Atkins, Benton, Iowa, United States Died 1 Jan 1925 Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States Buried Watkins, Benton, Iowa, United States
Child 2 | Female
Laura Kimm
Born 12 Jul 1869 Atkins, Benton, Iowa, United States Died 15 Mar 1959 Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States Buried Spouse Clarence DeCroft Trout | F1078 Married 31 Dec 1889 Spouse Harry J. Hotchkiss | F965 Married 18 Feb 1925 Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States
Child 3 | Female
Emma Kimm
Born 27 Aug 1870 Atkins, Benton, Iowa, United States Died 3 Jun 1956 Little Falls, Morrison, Minnesota, United States Buried Spouse Samuel Lowe | F1081 Married 25 Feb 1890 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States
Child 4 | Male
Charles Edward Kimm
Born 6 Oct 1871 Sicily Grove, Benton, Iowa, United States Died 1 Sep 1951 Buried Mound Cemetery, Watkins, Benton, Iowa, United States
Child 5 | Male
Henry Gus Kimm
Born 3 Jan 1873 Atkins, Benton, Iowa, United States Died 19 Jan 1962 Marengo, Iowa, Iowa, United States Buried Watkins, Benton, Iowa, United States
Child 6 | Female
Ella Kimm
Born 14 Aug 1874 Died 14 Mar 1967 Buried Mound Cemetery, Benton, Iowa, United States Spouse Leroy Montague | F1080 Married 1 Apr 1893 Florence, Benton, Iowa, United States Spouse Frank O Merrifield | F1079 Married 22 Nov 1900 Marengo, Iowa, Iowa, United States
Child 7 | Female
Alice Kimm
Born 22 Apr 1876 Sicily Grove, Benton, Iowa, United States Died 14 Feb 1964 Buried Huron Cemetery, Huron, Beadle, South Dakota, United States Spouse Henry Peter Boon | F1000 Married 24 Apr 1895 Marengo, Iowa, United States
Child 8 | Male
Gus Henry Kimm
Born 7 Mar 1878 Sicily Grove, Benton, Iowa, United States Died 6 Oct 1950 Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States Buried Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Spouse Anna M Hanson | F1085 Married 19 Apr 1905
Child 9 | Male
Arthur Allen Kimm
Born 27 Jul 1879 Sicily Grove, Benton, Iowa, United States Died 24 Nov 1956 Buried Mound Cemetery, Benton, Iowa, United States
Child 10 | Female
Abbie Kimm
Born 8 Feb 1881 Sicily Grove, Benton, Iowa, United States Died 3 Oct 1963 Buried Spouse Frank Joseph Wodstrchill | F1077 Married 19 Jul 1899 Marengo, Iowa, Iowa, United States
Child 11 | Male
Archie Kimm
Born 4 Mar 1883 Atkins, Benton, Iowa, United States Died 22 Jan 1963 Belle Plaine, Benton, Iowa, United States Buried 24 Jan 1963 Cedar Momorial Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States
Child 12 | Male
John Kimm
Born 24 Oct 1884 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Died 27 Jul 1975 Buried Riverside Cemetery, Beadle, South Dakota, United States
Child 13 | Male
Thomas Matthew Kimm
Born 14 Oct 1886 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Died 3 Jul 1974 Buried Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States
Child 14 | Male
Albert Kimm
Born 31 Aug 1888 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Died 15 Oct 1918 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Buried 17 Oct 1918 Mound Cemetery, Watkins, Benton, Iowa, United States
Child 15 | Male
Martin Kimm
Born 14 Oct 1890 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Died 9 Sep 1962 Buried Mound Cemetery, Watkins, Benton, Iowa, United States
Child 16 | Female
Margaret Kimm
Born 9 Feb 1893 St. Clair Township, Benton, Iowa, United States Died 2 Feb 1963 Buried Spouse Martin George Johnson | F1076 Married 15 Nov 1909 Marengo, Iowa, Iowa, United States
Child 17 | Female
Delia Kimm
Born 1 Jun 1896 Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States Died 8 Mar 1901 Buried Mound Cemetery, Watkins, Benton, Iowa, United States
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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.