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Ottilie Annie Stein Kelm

Sister of Emma Stein Ladusch · 1886–1966

Ottilie Annie Stein Kelm

Confirmed

Sister of Emma Stein Ladusch · 1886–1966

Born
in Austin County, Texas
Died
at Richmond, Fort Bend County, Texas
Parents
Henry Stein
Sources
4

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED daughter of Henry Stein and sister of Emma Stein Ladusch. The index of her Texas death certificate, no. 30494, names her father as Henry Stein and gives her home as Rosenberg S1635; Emma’s death notices of 1952 name a sister, “Mrs. Adolph Kelm of Rosenberg” S1610. Most of the death certificate is read from the index; its image was read on 1 October 2026 for her birthplace, her mother’s name and the informant, her son. Added to the family tree on 10 October 2026

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1886
Born in Austin County, Texas, on 27 November 1886; died at Richmond, Fort Bend County, Texas, on 6 May 1966. The dates are from the death certificate index S1635. The birthplace was corrected on 10 October 2026: the image of the certificate, read on 1 October 2026, says “Austin Co., Texas”, so the index’s “Austin” is the county and not the city
Census1906
Ottilie Stein married Adolph Gotlieb Kelm in Colorado County, Texas, on 6 December 1906, by the county marriage index; the 1940 census index of Fort Bend County has Adolph Kelm, 54, a farmer, and Ottilie, 53, his wife S1635

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents1880
Her mother was Mary Emmit Probable confirm or correct →. Evidence: the index of her death certificate gives her mother as “Mary Emmit” S1635; the 1880 census has her father’s wife as Mary, 35, born Texas S919; and an 1871 baptism register at New Ulm names Henry Stein’s wife as Maria née Emmert S633. Weak: the certificate’s informant was her son, who was not a witness to her birth; her sister Emma’s certificate calls their mother Amanda “Emmerd”, and no record explains the second given name. Since 10 October 2026 this record carries Henry’s wife as Mary Emmit, Probable; Ottilie is not yet joined to her in the family tree. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.

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Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: the marriage and census records here are read from indexes, not images; whether she and Emma were full or half sisters is not settled; whether she had children is not known, and none is named here. A marriage record for her parents would settle her mother’s name. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.

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Ottilie Annie Stein Kelm · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

4 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. S633Evangelical Lutheran baptism register, New Ulm, Austin County, Texas, 1871, entry 74. Ancestry record 150386361. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Johann Wilhelm Dietrich, born at New Ulm 8 October 1871, baptised 10 December 1871; parents Heinrich Stein, from Sege(?), district of Eisenach, and Maria geb. Emmert, of New Ulm, Texas; sponsors Dietrich Stein, Johann Michael Fodor(?) and Maria Bader(?). The home village is hard to read; Eisenach and Emmert are clear. The register calls the mother Maria, not Amanda.
  2. S9191880 U.S. census, Justice Precinct 5, Austin County, Texas, SD 5, ED 7, p. 50, dwelling 413, family 417: Henry Stein household. Ancestry record 40319705. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Enumerated 23 June 1880: Henry Stein, 32, farmer, born Saxe-Weimar; Mary, wife, 35, keeping house, born Texas; William, son, 8; Anna, daughter, 6; Emma, daughter, 5; Adolph, son, 2; Bertha, daughter, 7 months; John, 13, working on the farm (his relationship is overwritten); Dietrick, father, 68, widowed, born Saxe-Weimar. The census states relationships. Emma, 5, fits Emma Stein Ladusch, born 21 March 1875; William, 8, fits the Johann Wilhelm Dietrich baptised at New Ulm in 1871 (S633). Collection: 1880 United States Federal Census.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

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