Histories

Father: George Kautz
Mother: Maria Anna Krautz
Married John George Bessmer December 5, 1867, Fremont Centre, N.Y. They had seven children, two sons and five daughters.
In March 1862 the family came to Kansas moving to the Michael Bessmer homestead near Hesston where they lived until February 1908 when they moved to Newton
where she resided until her death.