| Parents: Baptized: Marriage: Occupation: |
Joseph F. Kampa Theresa Balder By Father Norbert Groth St. Lawrence Catholic Church Duelm, Benton, Minnesota December 8, 1896 Godparents were Robert Balder and Johanna Balder Jennie Harriet Septka January 9, 1924 Deadwood, Lawrence, South Dakota By Neil McDonough, Justice of the Peace Timberman in a sawmill [Source: 1930 U.S. Federal Census, Township 3, Lawrence, South Dakota; Roll T626-2226; Page 3B; Enumeration District 23] |
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| Children: | Merland D. | May 31, 1926 | † May 4, 1988 |
| Barbara | Apr. 15, 1931 | † July 6, 2004 |
| Divorced: | |
| Notes: | On June 3, 1905, Wilfred was 8 years old and living with his parents and four siblings in St. George, Benton, Minnesota. |
| On April 28, 1910, Wilfred was 13 years old and living with his parents and two siblings on the family farm in St. George Township, Benton, Minnesota. On June 5, 1918, Wilfred was 21 years old and living with his mother in Foley, Minnesota. He worked for her as well. He was described as being of medium height and build with blue eyes and brown hair. In the 1920 federal census, Wilfred was 23 years old, single and living with his brother Frank, sister-in-law Cora, and their 8 children. At the time of his marriage to Jennie Septka, Wilfred was 27 years old and living in Sturgis, Meade, South Dakota. At the time of the 1925 South Dakota State Census, Wilfred was 28 years old, married (in 1924), and of the Catholic faith. He was of German ethnicity. In the April 21, 1930 U.S. census, Wilfred was 31 years old, married and living with his wife Jennie and son Merland (age 3-10/12 yrs.) in Township 3, Lawrence County, South Dakota. He was working as a timberman in a sawmill. He said he was married when he was 25 and Jennie was 19 years old. He stated that he was born in Minnesota and both his parents were born in Germany [Source: 1930 U.S. Federal Census, Township 3, Lawrence, South Dakota; Roll T626-2226; Page 3B; Enumeration District 23]. Wilfred and Jennie were divorced sometime before Feb. 4, 1937 at which time Jennie married Carl Edward Lundgren. She later bore him two children: a boy, Carl Junior, and a girl, Barbara Jennett. Wilfred was living in Keystone, Pennington, South Dakota in 1939 [Source: Rapid City, South Dakota City Directory, 1939]. Wilfred died April 6, 1940 in Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota at the age of 43. (Spencer Stimler's memories of Wilfred Kampa): "[M]y dad talked about him a lot. They were close in age. I never saw Wilfred and assumed he passed away in my early youth ... [H]e moved to South Dakota .... When he died, Grandma Mary Stimler went back to retrieve his body and bring it back to Minnesota for burial." |
| Ancestry: | The Balder Line |
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