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Census Sunday: The Kahlig Family, 1880

1/11/2014

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Franz and Juditha Kahlig are two of my husband's 3x great-grandparents through his maternal grandmother's line. They immigrated to America from Austria (Oesterreich) in August 1871 with their three children, Ludmilla, Josef, and Aloisia.  Their ship manifest can be seen below:
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The Kahlig Family 1871 Immigrant Ship Manifest
Although the ship manifest indicates that their destination was Indiana, the Kahlig family ended up settling in Recovery Township, Mercer County, Ohio.  The township itself actually shares a border with Indiana, so they were, in fact, very close to Indiana.

The family is listed in the 1880 U.S. Census under the surname 'Kallack.'  Franz is listed as Frank (a very common Americanization) and Juditha is listed as 'Euphena.'  Three children are listed: Joseph, Loisa, and Caroline.  Caroline was born in 1873 and was Franz and Juditha's only child to be born in America.  (Loisa, my husband's great-great-grandmother, becomes 'Louisa' as an adult, and marries John M. Braun around 1890.)
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Kahlig Family, 1880 U.S. Census
The family's eldest child, Ludmilla, had already married and had a child by the time this census was taken.  Her husband was John Spangler and they were living in the same township as her parents. (She and her husband later moved their family across the border to Adams County, Indiana.)  Ludmilla adopted the more common first name of 'Amelia' and is referred to as both 'Emma' and 'Ludmilla' in her father's will.
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The Spangler Family, 1880 U.S. Census
According to the 1880 U.S. Agriculture Census, the Kahlig family owned a relatively small farm - a total of 40 acres, with 20 acres being used for production.  They had three horses, two milking cows, six swine and, eighty poultry.  They grew Indian corn, oats, and wheat.  Between 1880 and Franz's death in 1895, twenty more acres of land was added to the farm, as, in his will, Franz explicitly describes the location of sixty acres of land to be given to his wife, Juditha, upon his death. 
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Franz Kahlig 1880 U.S. Agriculture Census
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Jim Hammond
3/12/2014 12:22:46 pm

I am a descendent of this family.

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