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Adolph Gotlieb Kelm

Husband of Ottilie Annie Stein · 1885–1955

Adolph Gotlieb Kelm

Confirmed

Husband of Ottilie Annie Stein · 1885–1955

Born
in Colorado County, Texas
Died
at Richmond, Fort Bend County, Texas
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED husband of Ottilie Annie Stein, the sister of Emma Stein Ladusch. The Colorado County, Texas, marriage index has Adolph Kelm and Ottilie Stein on 6 December 1906, and the 1940 census index of Fort Bend County has Adolph Kelm, 54, a farmer, with Ottilie, 53, his wife S1635; Emma’s death notices of 1952 name her sister as “Mrs. Adolph Kelm of Rosenberg” S1610. Every record here is read from an index or from newspaper text; no image is yet read. Added to the family tree on 10 October 2026

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1885
Born in Colorado County, Texas, on 31 July 1885; died at Richmond, Fort Bend County, Texas, on 25 November 1955, his home then at Rosenberg. All of this is from the index of his Texas death certificate, which names him Adolph Gotlieb Kelm S1638

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents
The same index gives his father as William Kelm and his mother as Mary Fisher S1638. Neither is entered in this record as a person: the names rest on the index alone and no other record of them has been read

Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it

Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: his birth and death dates rest on the death certificate index alone; that the man who died in 1955 is the groom of 1906 rests on the name, on Rosenberg and on the 1940 household, not on one record that says so; the 1910, 1920 and 1930 censuses of his household have not been read; his children are not named here. The images of the 1955 certificate and of the 1906 marriage record would settle the dates and the identity. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.

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Adolph Gotlieb Kelm · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

3 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S1610Death and funeral notices of Mrs. Emma Stein Ladusch, Austin, Texas, 1952. The Austin American, 31 March 1952, p. 3, 1 April, p. 10, and 2 April, p. 19; Austin American-Statesman, 31 March 1952, p. 5, and 1 April, p. 12; Newspapers.com. Read from the page text (OCR), not from the page images. Confirmed Of 4412 Avenue D; a lifelong resident of Austin; died in a local hospital Sunday (30 March); survived by her husband, Mr. Otto Ladusch; two daughters, Mrs. Tom Wesson and Mrs. Will Kretschmar, both of Austin; two sisters, Mrs. Will Frederick of Bartlett and Mrs. Adolph Kelm of Rosenberg (one paper prints “Klem”); four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren (not named here); member of St. Martin’s Lutheran Church and Violet Lodge No. 26, the Sons of Hermann; funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday at Cook Funeral Home; burial at Oakwood. No parents are named.
  2. S1635Texas death certificate no. 30494 (1966) — Ottilie Annie Kelm; with the Colorado County marriage index, 6 December 1906, and the 1940 census of Fort Bend County. Ancestry records 583221 (death certificates), 155057599 (1940 census). Read from the indexes only; no image is yet read. Born 27 November 1886, Austin; died 6 May 1966, Richmond, Fort Bend County; residence Rosenberg; father Henry Stein; mother “Mary Emmit”. Marriage index: Adolph Kelm and Ottilie Stein. 1940: Adolph Kelm, 54, farmer, and Ottilie, 53, wife.
  3. S1638Texas death certificate (1955) — Adolph Gotlieb Kelm, Fort Bend County. Ancestry, “Texas Death Certificates”, record 22124109. Read from the index only; the image is not yet read. Born 31 July 1885, Colorado County, Texas; died 25 November 1955, Richmond, Fort Bend County; residence Rosenberg; father William Kelm; mother Mary Fisher. His marriage of 6 December 1906 and his household of 1940 are under S1635.

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