Descendants of Ferdinand "Fred" Krause, Sr.

Ferdinand “Fred” Krause, Sr., and his wife, Amalia Splitt, were born in Prussia in the late-1840’s.
They and their four oldest children emigrated to America in about 1880 and settled in Wilton Township. They eventually had five more children.

The children married into families such as Arndt, Gehrke, Groenveldt, Prochnow and Kerchoff.