Tombstone Tuesday: Lorenz Pape

Lorenz Pape was born October 30, 1862, in Boedefeld, Westphalia, Germany, the youngest of four sons of Jacob Pape (born about 1818) and Maria Elisabeth Gierse (born about 1830).  He is the youngest brother of my great-grandfather John Pape (1851-1945).

Lorenz married Maria Henrietta Kamp (born December 17, 1862, in Duesseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, died between 1896 and 1899 in Germany).  They had six children:  Karl (1889-1958), Joseph (1891-1936), Maria (1892-1977), August (1893-1947), Ewald Theodore (1894-1976), and Petronella "Nellie" (1896-1930).

After Maria Henrietta's death, Lorenz married Maria Brauman and had two more children:  Lorenz Jr. (1899-1977) and Margaret "Grete" (1904-1988).

Lorenz and his two oldest sons left Antwerp, Belgium, on May 15, 1913, and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 27, on their way to join John's family in Evanston, Illinois.  The next four children followed in December 1913, and Grete immigrated in 1923.  Only his second wife Maria and son Lorenz Jr. stayed in Germany.

By 1914, Lorenz was living at 1622 Forest Avenue in Wilmette, Illinois, and working as a painter with his sons Karl and August.  On the 1920 Census, though, he's living in Port Edwards in Wood County, Wisconsin, along with Karl, Ewald, and Nellie (Maria married Herman Walter there the previous year).

Lorenz died March 23, 1932, in Nekoosa, Wood County, Wisconsin, following a six-week illness with pneumonia.  He is buried at Sacred Heart Cemetery in Nekoosa, section E, row 2.

The photo above was taken by his great-grandson Dale Arendt, a descendant of George and Nellie Pape Arendt.

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