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- Memoirs of the Miami Valley, pp 351-399
Charles Krebs. During a long period of years the late Charles Krebs was identified with agricultural pursuits in Butler county, where he established a reputation for unsullied citizenship and industrious application to the best tenets of his vocation. He was born at Escher, Erhausen, Germany, June 26, 1837, and was but sixteen years of age when he first came to the United States, where he remained only one year. He then returned to his native land for a like period, but, having become imbued with the spirit of America again came to this country, this time to settle permanently. Locating at Hamilton, as a young man he worked at fanning near Flenners Corners, and while there met and married his first wife, Mary Rabbett, of Butler county. After her death he married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter and Catherine (Fellsman) [Salzman] Kehm, natives of France, the former of whom emigrated to the United States alone at the age of twenty years, and the latter of whom came with her parents as a child of four years. They settled first at Monroe, Ohio, after their marriage, and Mr. Kehm also followed his trade of wagon maker at Hamilton, which was the family home for twelve years. Eventually he moved to LeSourdsville, where both he and his wife passed away. They were the parents of six children, namely: Phoebe, who is deceased; Elizabeth, who became Mrs. Krebs; August, who is deceased; Caroline, a resident of Shelby county, Ohio; Maggie, living at Chicago, 111. ; and John, who lives at Minneapolis, Minn. Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Krebs located on a farm in Lemon township, Butler county, where they lived for two years, subsequently going to southeastern Kansas, where they tried their fortunes for three years. Not being satisfied with that part of the country, they returned to Ohio, and for three years resided at Symmes Corners, subsequently going to Darrtown, which was their home for six years. Finally they took up their residence on a farm of 160 acres, the Adam Flenner place in Milford township, on which they made many valuable improvements and carried on extensive agricultural operations until they went to the Jones farm near Oxford. They then moved to Oxford, where they resided for three years, and where Mr. Kreb's death occurred September 30, 1914, he being buried at Darrtown. Mr. Krebs was always a farmer and a good one, and was a man widely and favorably known for his integrity and probity. He was a well-educated man and one well posted on a number of important topics, and the high esteem in which he was held by his fellow-citizens led them to elect him to a number of offices of trust in his township, in all of which he discharged his duties conscientiously and ably and with all due fidelity. His political views made him a Democrat and he was a faithful member of the Lutheran church, to which belongs his wife, one of the well known and highly esteemed women of Milford township. They were the parents of the following children: Dora, who married Elmer Coulter, of Oxford; Katie, who married Daniel Hetzel, of Pershing, Ind.; Lewis, who died in September, 1915, in Kansas; Edgar, who is engaged in farming at Morning Sun, Ohio; Charles, a farmer and stockman of Milford township; and Nellie, who in August, 1909, married J. R. Harris, a farmer and stockman of Milford township, and has three children, James, Robert and Dwight.
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1837 - 1914 (77 years)