TO RETA RAE ROGERS RELATIVE TO YOUR MESSAGE POSTED JANUARY 29, 2000:FROM THE INFORMATION IN YOUR MESSAGE OF JAN 29, I AM YOUR COUSIN. I AM THE SON OF JOHN AND INA SHANER KRAUSE. I TOO HAVE BEEN INTERESTED IN GATHERING DATA ON THE KRAUSE FAMILY AND AM GLAD TO FILL IN THE QUESTION MARKS. THE FIRST OF WHICH WILL VARIFY THE DATE OF 1872 AS THAT WHICH AUGUST AND HIS FAMILY REACHED THE USA. I BELIEVE THAT THE BIRTH DATES OF ERNEST AND ELIZABETH ARE REVERSED. UNCLE ERNEST WAS THE ONE WHO PERSONALLY TOLD ME THAT HE WAS THREE YEARS OLD WHEN THEY ARRIVED IN THIS COUNTRY. HE , WALTER AND MY FATHER (JOHN) ALL LIVE NEAR OR IN ALLEN, NEBRASKA. GRANDFATHER KRAUSE(AUGUST) IS BURIED IN THE HERMAN CEMETERY, IN HERMAN, NE. AS IS OUR GRANDMOTHER. I REMEMBER UNCLE HENRY WELL. HE CAME TO ALLEN TO VISIT SEVERAL TIMES IN THE LATE 1920 AND EARLY THIRTIES FROM COLO.

IAM IN MY 80'S SO I HAVE TIME TO DO GENEALOGY AND HAVE A LOT ON THE KRAUSE,S IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME. KEITH S. KRAUSE