ERNEST P. KAULFUS
Ernest P. Kaulfus, b May 25,1891, d July 27,1975 in Temple, Texas and
buried in the Pieper Family Plot in the Barclay Cemetery, Falls County, Texas -
was a son of Ed and Augusta (Eisman) Kaulfus, Sr. On November 2,1911 in a double
wedding ceremony in Rose- bud, Texas, Ernest married Lena Margaret Kasner, b
June 11, 1891 in Barclay, Texas, d April 19, 1931 in Rowena, Texas and buried in
Barclay Cemetery - a daughter of Albert Rudolph and Lena M. (Pieper) Kasner.
Ernest and Lena had five children:
Selma Katherine Kaulfus, b August 2, 1912 in Rosebud, Texas - married
November 14, 1931 to Harold Henry Uhlhorn.
Edward A. Kaulfus, b May 31, 1914 in Rosebud- married November 6, 1935 to
Alice Kosel.
Helen Ida Kaulfus, b January 30, 1917 in Rosebud
t - married December 24, 1938 to Aubrey Andrews.
Elizabeth Kaulfus, b July 24, 1919 in Rosebud, d July 27, 1919.
Ernest B. Kaulfus, b February 24, 1924 in Rosebud - married in 1946 to
Billie McCorkille, who died l in 1948; and married second in 1949 to Thea
Hansch.
Lena
began school in Barclay, and completed at the Kasner School. She
was baptized in the Lutheran Faith by Reverend William Mueller, a traveling
pastor from Giddings, Texas. Ernest and Lena were cotton and corn farmers on the
Kasner farm, and were members of the Lutheran Church. Lena suffered with asthma,
and in 1917 they moved to Corpus Christi for about six months - returning to
Rosebud, where they lived until 1920 when they moved to
Runnels County, Texas, bought a 120-acre
farm four miles south of Rowena, Texas - raising
cotton and maize crops. In the spring of 1931, Lena and her family were enroute to f Rosebud
to visit her sister, Ida Kasner, who was very ill. They had a car wreck near
Bangs, Texas, and Lena sustained internal injuries from which she never
recovered.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of
these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 264 column 2 and page 265 column 1.
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