mersiowsky - 2-7-2017 at 11:48 AM
Henry Edwin (Eddie) Kunath
Thank you to Pat Larsen for providing this link to the World War I records of Henry Edwin (Eddie) Kunath, the son of Ida Lehman (Johann Carl August
Lehman and Maria Jannasch) and Wilhelm Kunath (married 22 Oct 1893 in Fedor to Ida). Wilhelm Kunath was one of the later arrivals to Lee County from
Leipa, Nieder Lausitz, Schlesien, Germany.
Eddie and Henry Urban had to go to Giddings to enlist in WW1-not sure whether that had anything to do with being Wendish or because their parents came
from Lee County.
Pat tells how she delivered the information about her World War I soldier to the Library of Congress and its subsequent publishing on their website: I
put everything in a box and mailed it to the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. As I was in the D.C. area, I had called the L.O.C. first to
see if they were interested. Later I called to be sure the box was received as it took a while before they had it digitized and online.
Dan Bednarski - 2-27-2017 at 12:25 PM
What a nice online remembrance of this American patriot! I enjoyed seeing the letters and the diary in particular.
Thank you, Pat Larsen, for sharing these materials. And thanks for all that you have done, and continue to do, in documenting our history.
Eddie Kunath's Bibles
ThorndaleWend - 3-24-2018 at 11:42 AM
When Eddie Kunath, who had no children, died my mother was named executor of his estate. All of his papers and books were unclaimed by relatives and
languished in a box until 2004 when my father died and I was helping Mother sort through things. That resulted in my sending his WWI photos and
papers to the Library of Congress. After Mother died I was still left with family Bibles that Eddie had kept including two New Testaments that were
embossed on the cover with his mother's name-one on a silver plate dated 1911, the other imprinted in the leather cover. This week I have been able
to send these to Ida's (daughter of Johann Carl August Lehman and Maria Jannasch) great-granddaughter in Alabama who has little knowledge of that side
of her family. At the same time I was able to suggest books and TWHS. This descendant books safaris and travels a lot. Pat