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For our grandchildren's heritage books -- the 4 times great grandparents. The journaling:
Joseph and Catherine (Katie) Gerber Kuhns are your great-great-great-great grandparents on my dad’s side of the family. Joseph's father,
Samuel,was a shoemaker until shoe factories caused hand made shoes to become an unprofitable work. Joseph was only five years old when
his mother died. The children were all under the age of twelve at that time,so Samuel found it necessary to place his children in the homes of
neighbors. The children worked for their room and board as was the custom in those days. The families with whom the children lived were all
Old Order Mennonites.
Katie was born in Ohio. My grandma, Gobby, adored her grandmother. She said she was a “little tiny thing” but could work on the farm as
well as anyone. She and Joseph were married 56 years. They were parents to six sons and six daughters. They were two of the first people
of the Amish faith to settle in Seward County, Nebraska, and they were instrmental in starting the first church of that faith near Milford. They
then settled in Shickley, Nebraska, the place of Joseph’s death. He spoke Pennsylvania Dutch, an unwritten dialect (and one my grandmother
and her brothers and sisters also spoke). He enjoyed fellowship and discussion especially with his neighbors. He was a hearty singer and
led his family in singing together in the home. He also led many songs in church services -- bridging the time between seated voluntary
leaders and that of the chorister standing before the audience. He led the first song at the dedication of the Salem Mennonite Church near
Shickley on December 4, 1904 (the song was No. 126 in the German Songbook). Joseph, Katie, and their family were among the charter
members of this Shickley church.
After Joseph’s death iun 1914, Katie moved back to Seward County, living with her daughter Lizzie until her death in 1927. At the time of
her death their family of 12 children had grown to include 58 grandchildren, 74 great-grandchildren, 4 great-great-grandchildren. Seventeen
grandchildren and five great-grandchildren preceded her in death.
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