Joseph Kaufman

Mother & N R imm 1876(PEK) - Father (Joseph) & child (Maria) imm 1877 (SRM p 62 - age given as 20 in 1833 at birth of daughter Maria) death given on tombstone is 1810 PEK - Freni Kaufman [Ka3.274, formerly Ka3.374] was the 4th child of Joseph Kaufman [Ka2.27] and Katharina Gering [Ge2.51]. Freni was married about 1870 to a man named Friederich Kind. In the book Elder N. R. and Fannie Kaufman Family Record it is stated "Freni Kaufman Kind remained in Russia with her family." [KaNr vi] In another source it states that she and her husband "...may have immigrated to South America." [NsS1107] There is little more than these meager bits of information about her. With regard to the parents of Freni Kaufman Kind and her brother Napoleon R. Kaufman it is stated in that Kaufman book, "In 1876, at the age of fourteen years, Napoleon R. Kaufman, and his mother, and somewhat later, his father, Joseph, emigrated [sic] to America. Limited financial means delayed the emigration [sic]...." [KaNr 20] In the obituary of Napoleon Kaufman in the Moundridge Journal it states that Napoleon came to America when he was 15 with his parents. [MdJo 4-4-29] That would likely be in 1877. Napoleon R Kaufman became a minister and then elder in the Hopefield Mennonite Church at Moundridge. I was unable to locate the parents Joseph Kaufman [Ka2.27] and Katharina Gering [Ge2.51] or their child Napoleon Kaufman [Ka3.276] on any ship list.(James W Krehbiel 2006) - Joseph as a forest ranger received a buckshot to his arm and he carried it the remainder of his life. He also served as schoolteacher, attorney & minister.

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