She married Roy Bottom and they lived on a farm one mile south of Buck's Grove, where she passed away in 1962. Their oldest daughter, Wilma and husband, live in Topeka where he words for Midwest Wholesale Company. Their children are Leon, Judy and Susie.
     Goldie and husband live in Beattie, Kansas, where Ausin is employed by the State Highway Commission.
     Ralph and family live on a farm two miles south of Buck's Grove Church. Their children are Eugene, Charlene, Darlene and Linda.
     Betty married Rodney Smith and live in Beattie with their five children; War, Julie Lee, Blain, Ronald and Lee Roy.
     Vern, his wife and two children live in Topeka.
     Albert works in Topeka. His children are Steve, Diane, Daryl, Karen and Sharon.
     Lora May and husband, Tom Wyatt, live in Manhattan, Kansas. They have two children, Tommy and Janette.
     Gene and wife, Kathleen, live on a farm near Hutchinson, and he is employed by Cessna Aircraft.
     Lorah Kroth taught school in Jackson and Pottawatomie Counties, Kansas. She transferred to South Dakota for several years, and is presently teaching the primary room in Ellis, Nebraska. She lives in Beatrice and commutes each day to school.

KATE KROTH VENNEBERG
"My Memoirs of the Henry and Louisiana Kroth
Family and their Decemdants" by May Venneberg Watts


     Memories, memories, how they linger and how glad I am to have such fond memories of a happy childhood, and had Kate Kroth for my mother.
     Kate, the second daughter of Henry and Louisiana Kroth, was a pretty brown-eyed young lady of 25 when she married John Venneberg (a young man of the community) in a simple home wedding at 4:oo P.m. 'March 29, 1893, performed by Rev. Gray of the Methodist Church (of which she and John were both members). John was the second son of the Frederic Ve=ebergs, a German family from Wisconsin, who were late settlers. They were a large, frugal and ambitious family. John began work , chores for Robert Loughmiller, when he was 17 years old.
     Kate and John began their married life with a Christian home, in a house John had built, "High on a Windy Hill," on his 80 acre farm. It was located one mile south and 1/2 mile west of the Buck's Grove Church. Much had to be done to the bare surroundings. First they had to have a well drilled, the well drillers by the name of H.C. Wetly and Bill Bell drilled a well close by the house where they seemed to have found a water vein by a "water witch."
     In time they had an orchard planted, also grapevines, currant and gooseberry bushes and rhubarb. And, of course, there was a garden. There were flower beds also as they both loved flowers.


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