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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Kaess Family Photo
« on: Friday 20 November 15 22:07 GMT (UK)  »
Attached is a photo of Gerd Edwin Paul Kaess (1947-1972) before he left Germany for America in 1965. He was known as Gert Kaess in America.
I am looking for a cleanup of the photo.

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US Lookup Requests / Talmage E Dawson (1894-1974) Look Up Requests
« on: Thursday 19 November 15 20:01 GMT (UK)  »
Info on Talmage E Dawson (1894-1974) and Family

PFC Talmage Edward Dawson, b. Oct 9, 1894 in Topeka, Kansas- d. May 8 1974,
Northbrook, IL. Married many times. Married to Margaret Jane Swartz on Dec 11 1952 in Cook
County, Illinois. This may have been their 2nd marriage. One Daughter: Marie Ellen Dawson (1945-2012). One Daughter from unknown mother: (*) Dawson. Talmage was a native of Kansas. Worked as a Typographer for the Pittsburg Kansan, a Kansas newspaper. Registered for the Draft for WW1 in Crawford County, Kansas, on June 5 1917. Served in the U.S.Army in WW1 on the West Front in France. Enlisted in the U.S.Army in May 28 1918 and was Honorably discharged on Jun 8 1919. Served in HQ's Co, 351st Inf Reg, 88th Infantry Division. Saw action in Haute Alsace Sector.  Entitled to wear a gold war service decoration. Talmage’ name appears on a unit roster of the American 88th Division in WWI. Margaret J Dawson said he suffered from ’shell-shock.’
Talmage reputedly fought in Russia in 1919-1920 but this is only a family story passed down by his former wife Margaret Jane Swartz (1914-1997).

What I am looking for is info about the first wives (and families) of Talmage E Dawson- he appears to have been married multiple times based on the US census. I am also looking for info on Wanda Dawson, perhaps his 1st daughter who was reputedly born in the USA (Kansas or Illinois presumably)in circa 1932. Little is known about her except that she met her half-sister Mary Ellen Dawson (1945-2012) as a little girl in the 1950’s in Evanston, Illinois or nearby.
Other questions: Who is Talmage E Dawson’s Father? I have David Bennett Dawson but am unsure.
  There was also rumored to have been a (*) Dawson (b. abt 1955 or so in the USA) who was either a half brother or half cousin to Marie Ellen Dawson (b. 1945 in Chicago, d. 2012 in Cook County, IL). (*) was a direct descendant of Talmage Dawson. There was a grade school picture of (*) (black and white) from the circa 1960's, presumably in America. Any info on him (*) would be great.



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One Name Studies: H to M / Kaess
« on: Wednesday 18 November 15 19:45 GMT (UK)  »
Kaess (Käß or Käss) Family from Benningen am Neckar, Germany

Gerd Edwin Paul Kaess (1947-1972) came from Heutingsheim, Germany, in 1965 to Chicago as a legal U.S. Resident. We know this because he worked as a Printer in the Chicago area. He came to the Chicago area in the same era (within 10-15 years or so) as his Kulhanek cousins. Gerd married Marie Ellen Dawson (1945-2012) in abt 1967, presumably in Chicago as well. Gerd had two identical twin sons (*) born Oct 24 1967 in Chicago.
 Mary Ellen Dawson (1945-2012) is believed to be of Scotch-Irish, slight French, English and German-American extraction.
 The parents of Gerd Edwin Paul Kaess (1947-1972) are Paul Ernst Kaess (1921-2002) and Dorothea Dorschke (1922-1951). Paul came from a long line of Kaess' in Benningen am Neckar, Wuerttemberg, Germany. His parents were Friedrich Emil Kaess (1889-1968) and Anna Berta Falkenecker (1890-1970). Emil Friedrich Kaess is a rufname or preferred name for Friedrich Emil Kaess. The Falkenecker Family hails from Heutingsheim, Germany, a nearby town to Benningen. Gerd Edwin Paul Kaess was raised in a cute home on Bahnhofstrasse 33 in Heutingsheim, Germany, during the 1950's and early 1960's.
  The Kaess Family owned a vinyard in Benningen for at least two generations. They grew Trollinger and Lemberger wine there, but this was not their main occupation.
  The Kaess surname is believed to be an occupational surname related to cheese makers.   

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