Howdy 2C,1R Kate-
You can't believe how excited I was to get your reply. I've been at this
since 1979 and you are the first
Klein descendant I've contacted.
Actually, I just don't know where to start.
My wife and I visited your grandmother, Jessie Allison in Delphos in 1984
and had a very pleasant time with her. In fact subsequent correspondence
from her gave me the clue connecting the Peter Klein's of Sharon, WI with
Christian. I have a 50+ page genealogy of the
Peters family which my cousin
Marianna (
Fleshman)
Krone and her daughter were given several years ago in
Sharon.
Marianna has also loaned me a box containing 80+ pictures of Klein's,
Stauffers, Fergusons etc which I'm trying to scan and get identified.
I believe Katharine's maiden name was
Platt. I found an affidavit in the
Walworth Co. courthouse which amended the grantee's name in a deed recorded
in 1854 from Joseph
Blatt to Joseph
Platt. I believe Joseph was Katharine's
brother whom she joined after emigrating from Alsace.
My wife and I were in Waldhambach, Alsace in 1983 and found Christian's
birth certificate which gave his father's name as Pierre and mother Barbara
(surname also
Klein). I have a
Klein cousin, Phyllis (
Stauffer)
Murrellcoming up from
San Diego next week to help me try to ID some of these
pictures and I'm trying to get my Alsace stuff in order to show her so will
try to do the same for you.
BTW, to make sure we don't lose each other thru the eccentricities of the
computer world, my address is:
Tom
Hollis, 16568 Apple St., Fountain Valley, CA 92708-2305
Phone (714) 839-7077
Tom at
TOM-HOLLIS@worldnet.att.net