(1) This handwritten book is now deposited at The Iroquois County Genealogical Society, Old Courthouse Museum, Watseka, Illinois, where it can be seen by any interested in comparing this document to the original.

(2) There is no evidence that the Krumwiede parents emigrated. However, Juergen and Louise Sternberg did emigrate a few years later with their other daughters, including Louise who married Henry's brother August.

(3) This Bible has never been found, and a good search has been made for it among known family members.

(4) I cannot determine where this date comes from. According to the records at St. John's, and according to the tombstones, Henry K Krumwiede was born July 27, 1830; his WIFE was born April 30, 1834; and I cannot find the date May 14, 1834 anywhere. This could well be HER christening date. The only explanation I can offer for the wife's date of birth having been attached to Henry for so many years is that the original typist "skipped" a line in the transcript during typing.

(5) Herr Gross' original document says here, "Baltimore, Maryland." This has been proven untrue; Heinrich and Wilhelm both arrived at New York; if we have correctly identified their brother Frederich, he also arrived at New York. It still is possible that August came to this country through Baltimore, as his immigration record has not been found as of this date. The search has been complicated by a conflict between Herr Gross' indication that August arrived shortly before his marriage, and the information in the 1900 census, on which the census taker recorded August to have said that he arrived in 1849 - not 1859. This may mean nothing more than that the census taker had difficulty in understanding a person with a German accent.

(6) Friedrich arrived at New York in 1853. Henry, William and Dorothea arrived together in 1854. August's immigration record has not been found.

(7) I've left this typed as was in the original, but it actually should read "Spring Creek." This property, which has now been owned by the Kottke family for many years, is across Spring Creek from the location of St. John's Lutheran Cemetery.

(8) Suggested reading: Beckwith's History of Iroquois County, available from The Iroquois County Genealogical Society, Watseka, Illinois, or in most large libraries.

(9) This date puzzles me, since it is firmly established elsewhere in this document that Herr Gross published this document in 1941; in fact, I have two copies with that date appearing. The hand-written copy in the old book happens to be unreadable at that point, so there is no help there.

(10) Once again, it seems that the dates of birth for husband and wife were confused during translation of Herr Gross' document. According to the tombstone at St. John's Cemetery, August was born in 1834, and Louise was born in 1840.

(11) Said building was demolished in 1955 and replaced with the structure still standing at the same location in 1998, as this is being typed. I was a member of the first 8th-grade class to attend classes in the new building, and was honored to share the speakers' platform with State Senator Paul Simon at the building's dedication, at which time I spoke as representative for the student body.

(12) This clearly indicates a writing date of 1941 for this document.

(13) This date is suspect and has not been verified.

(14) Contact has been made with several descendants of Frederick. There is disagreement even among them regarding whether or not Frederick himself ever went to Minnesota. It IS generally agreed that he homesteaded three farms for three of his sons, but some descendants say that Frederick never left the Blue Island area, while others say he went to Minnesota, but came back to Blue Island.

(15) There is ABSOLUTELY NO documentation to support this statement. Every descendant who has been contacted is a Lutheran, and is not aware of any branch of the family that is Catholic.

(16) This has been shown to not be true. Though the girls may have lived with their grandparents for a time, Lydia is known to have been in Jennie Dacoss Krumwiede Clark's household even after Henry William and Jennie divorced. This is shown in census documents. Perhaps Clara stayed with Henry and Dorothea. Clara's identity is something of a mystery since our old records indicate that she is Lydia's daughter, not Elise's, but this may not be accurate. In any case, another descendant of Henry William Krumwiede has noticed that there is a "mystery" Krumwiede named Clara in Minnesota records. Apparently both Clara and Lydia accompanied their grandparents to Minnesota, and we know that Lydia married there.

(17) As of July 24, 1998, -- the last date a count of the data base was made -- there were 2,882 names in our data base, with 1,297 of those being direct descendants (by both birth and adoption) of either Heinrich Konrad Krumwiede or August Krumwiede (in some cases, descendants of both). The remainder are spouses of descendants and their parents, and members of collateral and allied families.

(18) No mention is made by Herr Gross of Henry C. Krumwiede's subsequent marriage to Minna Sprehe. This has always been a puzzle. Even though there were family upsets (even estrangements) over this marriage, at the time of Herr Gross' paper, the second generation from the marriage of Henry C. and Minna was well-established, and it seems enormously strange to me that a scholar of Herr Gross' reputation would have allowed this marriage to go unmentioned in a history document.

(19) Unfortunately, this appears to have never been done, the Hilgendorf brothers citing the pressing needs of their ministries as not allowing time, and no one else has ever tried to begin a narrative. Now, in 1998, that 2nd generation are deceased, along with most of the third.

(20) When this editor left Buckley in 1956, the population was 550. At one point in the last 40 years, the population reached 750. Population is again in 1996 shown on the city limits sign to be 550.

(21) Bantams (Banties, as we called them) were a common sight during my childhood, as were Guineas. For eggs and meat, the most common were Leghorns and Rhode Island Reds.

(22) There are several "Lincoln Miles," or "slabs," in Iroquois County, still in reasonable repair.

(23) Several are still of brick in 1998.

(24) Not true! Herr Gross published this document in 1941 - the year before my birth. On the farms, we did not have electricity until approximately 1947. I never lived in a house with hot running water and an indoor commode other than chamber pots until I left Buckley and farm life in 1956. In our second home, known then as "the Morgan place," we had the luxury of cold piped water, but water still had to be heated for baths on the stove in a copper boiler.

(25) I cannot hear the song "City of New Orleans" without experiencing a "chill" in my spine; though we lived 2 miles from the tracks, I heard that train nearly every morning. Perhaps that is why I am, to this day, an early-riser

(26) The typed copy in the possession of most of us says 1947 at this point; I consider that to have been a transcription error possibly caused by misreading of the hand-written notes taken during the oral translation.