Individual Details

Gottfried "John" Graefe

(Abt 1803/04 - 26 May 1894)

Augusta's death certificate has the name John Grafe listed as her father.

Events

Birth	Abt 1803/04	Wintersdorf, Province of Saxony, Germany
Immigration	17 May 1849	on the Johann Smidt, New Orleans, Louisiana from Bremen, Germany
Census	1850	District 1, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States
Census	1860	Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States
Census	16 Jun 1870	4th Ward, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States
Census	1880	Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States
Will	22 Mar 1892	Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States
Death	26 May 1894	Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States
Burial	27 May 1894	Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States

Families

Spouse	Christiane (1806 - )
Child	Wilhelmina "Minnie or Miena" Graefe (1826 - 1916)
Child	Augusta Emilie Graefe (1834 - 1916)

Notes

Birth

Wintersdorf is a former municipality in the district Altenburger Land, in Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 December 2007, it is part of the town Meuselwitz.

Immigration

1849 is the date his two daughters list as their immigration.

Steerage passengers
15 Gottfried Graefe 45 m merchant Wintersdorf (Country to which they belong)
16 Wilhelmine " 21 f "
17 Augusta " 15 f "

Gottfried Graefe
Arrival Date: 17 May 1849
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Bremen, Germany
Ship Name: Johann Smidt
Port of Arrival: New Orleans, Louisiana
National Archives' Series Number: M259_30

Census

Godfried Grafe
Age: 46
Estimated birth year: abt 1804
Birth Place: Germany
Gender: Male
Home in 1850
(City,County,State): Louisville District 1, Jefferson, Kentucky

16 Gotfried Grafe, 46 M, Tobaccoist, Germany
Augusta Grafe,, 35 F, Germany

(35?, should be 15, or this is someone else!)

Census

A Geo. Grafe, 50 yrs (b. ~1810) from Saxony, is living with GH and Augusta in the 1860 census. See 1860 census notes under GH Hollenkamp

Census

1870 GRAFFA GOTFRIED Jefferson County KY 364 4 W. Louisville KY 1870
In the 1870 census, a Gotfried Graffa, 67 yrs (b.~1803) from Saxony, is living with Augusta Hollenkamp and JH Ruwe. See 1870 census notes under Augusta Graff

Henry Reve 62
Minnie Reve 42
Gotfried Graffa 67
Augusta Hollenkamp 37
Henry Hollenkamp 12
Mary Hollenkamp 10
Minnie Hollenkamp 8

Census

125 Lampton Str.
Godfrey GRAFFE Self Male W 76 SAXONY Retired Merchant SAXONY SAXONY
Augusta HOLLENKAMP Daughter, widowed M Female W 46 SAXONY Keeps House SAXONY SAXONY
Henry HOLLENKAMP Son S Male W 23 KY Shipping Clerk SAXONY SAXONY
Minnie HOLLENKAMP Dau Female W 18 KY Sales Lady SAXONY SAXONY

Will

I Gottfried Graefe, of Louisville Ky do make publish and declare the following writing to be my last will and testament hereby revoking any and all wills heretofore made by me after the payment of my debts and funeral expenses. I give, devise and bequeath to my daughter Augusta Emilie Hollenkamp all of my estate, real personal and mixed and wherever situate to be hers absolutely and forever, and I appoint her executrix without bond and request that no appraisement or inventory be take of my estate. IN testimony of all which have hereunto subscribed my name this March 22nd 1892,
Witnesses: Gottfried Graefe
George R Lochre
J H Hollenkamp

State of Kentucky
At a County Court held for Jefferson County at the Courthouse in the City of Louisville on the 31st day of May 1894 the foregoing instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Gottfried Graefe deceased late of this county was produced in Court and proven by the testimony of George R Lochre and H Hollenkamp the subscribing witnesses thereto where upon the same was established by the Court to be the last will and testament of said testator and ordered to be recorded and is recorded in my office as Clerk of said court Attest Geo H Webb Clerk

Death

Grafe, Gottfried, Male White Widowed, 90, Gen Debility, Duration of Disease 4, Doctor Godshand, Date of Death 26, Germany, 621 Lampton, Date of Burial 27, Canstill Schildt

Burial

Section A, lot 559, grave 1. Owners of lot 559 are John H Ruwe and George Kramer.

Endnotes

1. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1870 census - 67 yrs.

2. Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/ Copyright © 1998-2000, MyFamily.com Inc. and its subsidiaries.), Ancestry.com. New Orleans Passenger Lists, 1820-1945 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2006..

3. Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/ Copyright © 1998-2000, MyFamily.com Inc. and its subsidiaries.), Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Louisville District 1, Jefferson, Kentucky; Roll: M432_206; Page: 2; Image: 4..

4. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1850 > KENTUCKY > JEFFERSON > LOUISVILLE DIST 1 Series: M432 Roll: 206 Page: 2.

5. U.S Federal Census - 1870, 4th Ward, Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY (researched by Shirley Duncan rec'vd Oct. 3, 1998).

6. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1870 > KENTUCKY > JEFFERSON > 4-WD LOUISVILLE Series: M593 Roll: 474 Page: 364.

7. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints., Transcription of the United States Federal Population Census - 1880 (http://www.familysearch.org/ Oct. 2002).

8. Gary Hollenkamp, Hollenkamp Genealogy (http://www.hollenkamponline.com/ : accessed 3 March 2010), .

9. "Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1965," database, Ancestry.com (: accessed 12 May 2020), Gottfried Grafe; citing Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives; Frankfort, Kentucky.

10. Gary Hollenkamp, Hollenkamp Genealogy (http://www.hollenkamponline.com/ : accessed 3 March 2010), .