Person:Johannes Krumm (69)

Johannes Martin Krumm

Life in Germany

Johannes Martin Krumm, known in America simply as Martin Krumm, was chief magistrate and also a schoolmaster before immigrating to America. S9 Martin and his first wife, Anna Maria Renz had ten children before her death in 1831. They had been married for just over twenty years. Three of these children died young there in Bronnweiler, an infant in 1814; Maria Barbara in 1819; Jakob in 1823. Martin attended the Evangelical Lutheran church in both Germany and America. Dates for German births of his children come from the Bronnweiler family sheet I/36; from the Protestant church in Wuerttemberg, Germany. I have a copy of this document which shows that Martin Krumm married his second wife in February and had his first child with her the next month on March 16. S1

Family Lore

Family gossip has it that Mary Junger was pregnant by another man and her Father offered Johannes Martin Krumm a substantial amount of money, (supposedly $10,000) to marry his daughter and take her away to America so that she could have her baby away from shame. She was 26 and he was 47 at the time of their marriage. Note that Johannes and Anna (Mary) were married 1 Feb. 1832 then they had her child Heinrich Krumm on 16 Mar. 1832. We do not know who the father is for sure.

Another story tells that at the Death of Martin Krumm, each child was given the right to choose a "keepsake" from his personal possessions. That $10,000 was carried with them in a treasure chest across the ocean. This treasure chest was the family heirloom chosen by Martin's son, Harmon Krumm and passed down in that family and it's last known location is with Delbert Krumm who is now passed away. The family bible was claimed by Johann George Krumm and has been passed down now to his great grandson, Frederick John Krumm, II, who lives in Toledo, Ohio

From Carolyn Naas:

"I have heard a couple versions of the infamous story about the payment of money to give a baby a name. Personally, I believe it to be about Martin, b. 1812, because he had $10,000 to invest in a business which was a lot of money back then." S16

• • If this were true, why would Johann Martin Krumm marry Anna Junger? Why wouldn't young Martin Jr. have married her instead, if he was the father of the unborn child? And yet, WHERE did young Martin Jr. get that $10,000? Would his father have given him the "treasure" and not distributed it equally among his family? Martin Jr. was his first born, maybe there was a preferential treatment because of that? So many unanswered questions!!

From "The First Book of the Dead"

Page 75: "Edith (Yearling) knew that Martin married twice and when he emigrated in 1832, grown sons from his first marriage accompanied him.Just before he left Wurttemberg, he married a woman pregnant by another man. In Mifflin township Martin sired a second family, among them my grandmother's father, David. Five children lived in Martin's household at the time of the 1860 senses. And I believe that two had left home in addition to the non biological Krumm, whose name according to Edith, was Henry. She said she knew that because she was descended from him. I often heard it said Edith's mother and my grandmother were first cousins"twice". My father said it for the last time at Edith's interment when her sister in law, who was distancing herself, with whom Edith refuse to speak the last years of their life, reminded my father that he was"Edith's closest relative." Edith's mother, born Mary Krumm, like my grandmother had Miller as well as Krumm antecedents. Marriages between Miller's and Krumm's in both instances made them "first cousins twice." Mary and her children appear in photographs of the Miller reunion held that David Krumm's brick home around the turn of the century."

Page 77: "Edith believed that Martin Krumm had received a financial settlement when he married a second wife and that the non biological Krumm had started life with more money than Martin's other offspring. She obviously thought a lot about why that inheritance hadn't trickled down to her."S18

• • The fact remains that Edith Yearling was not a descendant of the "non-biological Henry Krumm" she was a grand daughter to Johann George Krumm, who would have been a "non-biological" half-brother to him

Immigration

Martin Krumm and his second wife, Mary Junger, came from Germany to Mifflin Township,Franklin County, Ohio in 1832. from Germany. Johannes Martin Krumm filed his application to emigrate at Württemberg, Germany in May 1832. He brought his wife and all eight of his children, ages 20 years to 2 months of age, that were alive at that time. He and his family would then take a coach quite a distance to the Rhine, or go by foot. Depending upon the port from which they left, Antwerpen, Rotterdam or Le Havre in France they would have had to cross France. It took them a long while to get to the harbour, where they could go on board. The trip across the ocean would have taken about 2 months, so it is safe to assume they would have arrived in America in the summer of 1832.

They came by ship across the Atlantic. After arrival they traveled across New York and Pennsylvania, taking a flatboat down the Ohio River and eventually arrived in Columbus, locating on Old James Road, North of 5th Avenue. This is now the site of McDonald-Douglas. There was a family cemetery at the site, the graves moved to Greenlawn cemetery in Columbus. Below is a map created in 1842 showing owners of land in Mifflin Township.

From Carolyn Naas:

"Basically, the children of Johann Martin's first wife were not farmers, with a couple exceptions. They were business people, and descendants were lawyers, a City Solicitor, one even sang at a Presidential inauguration. The children of Johann Martin's second wife were all farmers. Johann Martin lived in a log home on land which is presently the southwest corner of the Columbus airport. I have a picture taken probably in the late 1800's of the abandoned log home which was Johann Martin's. There is a Krumm Park nearby there which was originally property of William (son b. 1838) and Caroline Wickliffe Krumm, part of which could have been the original Johann Martin property" S16

• • The image of the map above shows the original land to be East of the location of today's Krumm Park.

Life in America

Land Records show Martin buying land on Nov. 27, 1832 from David Sweiger (or Swaysey) and wife; 40 acres in Mifflin township for $100. He purchased 20 acres more on Jan 4, 1833. S17 His occupation being a farmer on this land, where he raised his second family, those children born to Mary Junger to be farmers as well. He and Mary Junger had nine more children born after their immigration, here in Franklin County. They all grew to adulthood except for the last one, little Katie, who died at the age of 6 from a cold.

Death and Burial

Martin passed away in February of 1864. He has a tombstone in Greenlawn cemetery. Greenlawn burial records do NOT show that Johannes Martin was buried there in Section F with his wife and daughter Catharina. His name is engraved upon their marker. Questions: Was this an honorable mention? Maybe did he ask to have his body taken back home to Germany to be buried? Was he cremated here and never buried? Maybe he was buried there in Mifflin twp on his farm? We know there was a Mifflin cemetery there that was moved to make room for the airport... Maybe they could not find his body to move it at that time? His much younger second wife, lived on until 1888.

They have a nice tall obelisk monument and we visit there each memorial day to place Peone's at the site.

One year when we visited we found this monument toppled over, apparently due to a ground hog digging underneath causing it to become unstable on it's pedestal. We notified the cemetery office, and the following spring they strapped it to a back-hoe and righted it once again. Unfortunately the top ornament is still broken off and laying there on the ground to this day.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 German Protestant Church Record, Subject: Family Group Sheet. (copy supplied to me by Ruediger Kemmler).
2. ↑ Schenk, Trudy and Ruth Froelke. Wuerttemberg Emigration Index - Vol.I-VIII (8), Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1986, Record
   Number: 841051; volume four.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Tombstone, Record Type: Photograph of tombstone, Subject: grave marker.
4. ↑ Schenk, Trudy and Ruth Froelke. Wuerttemberg Emigration Index - Vol.I-VIII (8), Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1986, Record.
5. ↑ Tombstone, Record Type: Photograph of tombstone, Subject: grave marker
   2 sons and families buried in Catholic cemetery.
6. ↑ Richard Krumm, Great Grandson of Georg Krumm. Richard Krumm interview by Robert Krumm, Interviewer: Robert Krumm,Informant Address: Columbus, OH. (Jan 14, 1995).
7. ↑ German Protestant Church Record, Subject: Family Group Sheet. (copy supplied to me by Ruediger Kemmler)
   I_BRO-136 shows they left in May 1832; Sheet supplied by Ruedger Kemmler.
8. ↑ James Boyd Krumm. Krumm/Jacobs family information, Recipient: Kristina Kuhn Krumm, Address:Chillicothe, Ohio, Author E-mail: jkrumm at horizonview.net. (2001)
   James writes that the family left Germany Feb 17, 1832 with 2nd wife.Arrived U.S. May 18, 1832.
9. ↑ Schenk, Trudy and Ruth Froelke. Wuerttemberg Emigration Index - Vol.I-VIII (8), Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1986, Record
   Number: 841051; volume four.
10. ↑ Ruediger Kemmler. Krumm family in Germany research, Recipient: Kristina Kuhn Krumm,Address: Franz-Wuellner-Str. 11, 81247 Muenchen (Munich), Germany,Auth.
11.   Kristina Kuhn Krumm. Personal Knowledge.
12.   Carolyn Krumm Naas. Krumm family history book. (self published, Dayton, Ohio, 1995).
13.   Land records of Franklin County, Ohio. (Recorder's office, Columbus, Franklin Co., OH).
14.   edited by Lafayette Haymaker. The First Book of the Dead. (Mainesburg Press, New Albany, OH, 1995).
15. ↑ In Germany he belonged to the Evangelical (Lutheran) Church. He raised his children Lutheran however Henry and William converted to Catholic raising their children Catholic