Descendants of
George Adam Krumbholz
and his wife
Pauline Zeller
Second Generation

EMILY MARGARET2 KRUMBHOLZ (George1) was born at New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts on 30 January 1888 a daughter of George Adam Krumbholz and his wife Pauline Zeller.[1] She died at Buffalo, Erie County, New York, on 27 May 1974.[2] She married at New Bedford on 7 August 1912 ARNOLD KUNTZ.[3] He was born at Alsace, then a part of Germany, on 7 August 1887, a son of Leo Kuntz and his wife Emily Stadler. He died at Buffalo on 13 February 1968.[4]

Emily grew up in New Bedford, the eldest of five surviving children, where her parents were textile workers and active in the life of the small German-American community in that city.

Arnold came to America with his family when he was ten years old, according to the ship passenger list (age 12 based on his birth information). They came from Kirchheim, a small town in Alsace (population in 2014 was 679), 19 km west of Strasbourg. His parents, Leo, age 40, and Emilie, 38, and siblings Alfred, 11, Otto 7, Lena, 4, and Oscar, 2 years and six months, left the port of La Havre on the S.S. La Champagne on 9 June 1900, and arrived in New York harbor 17 June. Leo was described on the passenger list as a weaver. They indicated that they were headed for Warren, Rhode Island, where Leo's brother-in-law Joseph Weiger lived.[5]

The Kuntz family was living in Warren at the time of the birth of their next child, Emilie, on 16 April 1901,[6] but had moved to New Bedford by the 1910 census.[7]

Arnold and Emily married in 1912, when they were both in their mid 20s. The 1920 census reported them living at 48 Willow Street, New Bedford, with three children, Arnold, 6, Helen, 2, and Leona, seven months. Arnold was a loom fixer in a cotton mill. Arnold had become a citizen in 1919.[8]

Son Arnold recalled in 1985:

My parents both worked in various mills in New Bedford. My mother was a weaver and my father was a loom fixer. They left New Bedford when there was a large strike of mill workers in 1927, I think to work in a hospital in New York City. [9]

The 1930 census indicated a family in transition. Emily was living with her parents at 363 Cedar Street, New Bedford. with her were her three youngest children, Helen, 13, Leona, 11, and Lawrence, 8.[10] Arnold Kuntz and his eldest son Arnold, called "George A. Kuntz" in the census record, resided at 239 Essex Avenue, Buffalo, Erie County, New York. The elded Arnold, age 42, worked as a watchman at a chemical plant; his son, age 16, was also a laborer at a chemical plant.[11] The son described the experienced in a letter in 1985:

My father left New York City to come to work in Buffalo, NY, as a Security Guard for Buffalo Electro-Chemical Co.--now FNC Co. He worked at this for 20 years then retired. I came to Buffalo in November 1929. The rest of the family came in 1930 from New Bedford. My father was bothered with stomach trouble and had to stay home quite often. That is why my mother worked. They were good parents. [12]

The 1940 census reported the family at 47 Wyandotte Street, Buffalo, as follows:[13]

Line Name Related Sex Race Age MS Ed B 1935 Residence Occupation
58. Kuntz, Arnold* head M W 52 M 6th Germany same house watchman, Bfo Elec Chem
59. Kuntz, Emily M. wife F W 52 M 7th MA same house home housework
60. Kuntz, Arnold G. son M W 26 S 8th MA same house oper chem, Bfo Elec Chem
61. Kuntz, Leona M. daughter F W 20 S H3 MA same house out of work
62. Kuntz, Lawrence F. son M W 18 S H3 MA same house CCC road const

This depression era census also gathered economic data. Arnold Kuntz, who provided the information to the census taker, rented their home for $32.50/month. He worked the previous 52 weeks as a watchman for $ 1560. Son Arnold worked 52 weeks for $ 1845. Leona had been out of work for 68 weeks. I have not found daughter Helen Kuntz in the 1940 census; she was 24 years old.

When Arnold died in 1968 in Buffalo, his last reported address was Angola, Erie County.[14] Emily was reported residing in Buffalo when she died in 1974.[15] Arnold Kuntz and his wife Emily Margaret Krumbholz had the following children:

  1. ARNOLD GEORGE3 KUNTZ b. at New Bedford on 6 November 1913;[16] d. on December 1987;[17] m. at Buffalo on 11 May 1940 ANNA SKARA,[18] b. at Brantford, Ontario.[19] Arnold and Anna had the following child:
    1. Arnold George4 Kuntz, Jr., b. at Buffalo on 9 September 1940,[20] m. at New York on 8 October 1966 Donna L. Butkowski.[21]
  2. HELEN ANNA3 KUNTZ b. at New Bedford on 3 January 1916;[22] d. on 23 February 2016;[23] m. EDWARD BLASZKOWIAK,[24] b. on 15 March 1914, d. on 30 July 1975.[25] Edward served in the Army from 12 January 1945 to 4 February 1946.[26] Edward and Helen had the following children:[27]
    1. Joan4 Blaszkowiak m. ________ Warner.
    2. Carol4 Blaszkowiak m. Robert Sikorski.
    3. Peggy4 Blaszkowiak m. ________ Gabioud
  3. LEONA MAE3 KUNTZ b. at New Bedford on 14 May 1919;[28] m. at Fairborn, Greene County, Ohio CHARLES SMITH.[29]
  4. LAWRENCE3 KUNTZ b. at New Bedford on 24 February 1924;[30] living at Fort Erie, Ontario, in 1983.[31]

NOTES

1Massachusetts Archives, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 20 March 2018), vol. 385, p. 156, e. 122, New Bedford Births, 1888, Elsa P. Krumholtz.
2Social Security Administration, "U.S. Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 April 2017), Emily Kuntz, 051-52-0865.
3Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915, v. 610, p. 287, e. 580, New Bedford Marriages: Kuntz-Krumbholz, ; digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 20 March 2018).
4Letter from Arnold G. Kuntz, to Charles A. Maxfield, 21 February 1985; held by Charles A. Maxfield; "U.S. Social Security Death Index", Arnold Kuntz, 106-05-1726.
5United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, "Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957," digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 March 2018), List or Manifest of Alien Immigrants for the Commission of Immigration, S.S. La Champagne, 17 June 1900, p. 2; National Archives at Washington, D.C., Microfilm Publication T715.
6"Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914," database, Family Search (famliysearch.org : accessed 29 March 2018), Emilie Kuntz.
7Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 184, roll 578, p. 18B, household 127, Leo Kuntz family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 March 2018); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
8Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 125, roll 685, p. 21A, household 503, Arnold Kuntz family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 23 December 2015); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
9Letter, Arnold G. Kuntz to Charles A. Maxfield, 21 February 1985.
10Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 100, p. 20A, household 336, George A. Krumbholt family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 23 December 2015); NARA microfilm record group T626; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
11Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, Buffalo, Erie County, New York, ED 254, p. 38A, household 56, Arnold Koontz family.
12Letter, Arnold G. Kuntz to Charles A. Maxfield, 21 February 1985.
13Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population, Buffalo, Erie County, New York, enumeration district (ED) 64-469, roll 2837, p. 8B, household 184, Arnold Kuntz family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 March 2018); NARA microfilm group T627.
14"U.S. Social Security Death Index", database, Ancestry, Arnold Kuntz, 106-05-1726.
15"U.S. Social Security Death Index", database, Ancestry, Emily Kuntz, 051-52-0865.
16Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915, v. 614, p. 394, e. 3214, New Bedford Births, Arnold George Kuntz.
17 "U.S. Social Security Death Index", database, Ancestry, Arnold Kuntz, 106-05-1727.
18New York State Department of Health; Albany, NY, "New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 March 2018), Arnold Kuntz, no 10415; name of bride from Letter, Arnold G. Kuntz to Charles A. Maxfield, 21 February 1985.
19Letter, Arnold G. Kuntz to Charles A. Maxfield, 21 February 1985.
20Ibid.
21"New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967," Kuntz-Butkowski, no 53039.
22Massachusetts, Commonwealth of, Secretary of the Commonwealth, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1916-1920," digital image, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 27 March 2018), Births, New Bedford, 1917, p. 315, e. 32; Helen Kuntz.
23"Helen Blaszkowiak," obituary, Buffalo News, 26 February 2016; Genealogy Bank (: on line transcription 27 March 2018), genealogybank.com.
24Letter, Arnold G. Kuntz to Charles A. Maxfield, 21 February 1985.
25"U.S. Social Security Death Index", database, Ancestry, Edward Blaszkowiak, 134-01-1328.
26United States, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D. C., "Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File, 1850-2010," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 March 2018), Edward Blaszkowiak.
27"Helen Blaszkowiak," Buffalo News. 26 February 2016.
28"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1916-1920," Births, New Bedford, 1919, p. 106, certificate 3127; Leona Mae Kuntz.
29Letter, Arnold G. Kuntz to Charles A. Maxfield, 21 February 1985.
30Ibid.
31Ibid.

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