Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Trauer, Fred 1866 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

FRED TRAUER

ONE and one-half miles south of Heizer, Barton County, Kansas, is the one red
[sic] and sixty acre tract of Fred Trauer, and it is as pretty a piece of
tillable land as one would care to farm. It contains a small orchard and is
planned with wheat and corn. He purchased the place in 1898, it formerly having
been the homestead of A. M. Burt. It is nicely fenced and divided into fields,
and is in a high state of cultivation; but the buildings are those purchased
with the farm and are hardly as good as he would like and it is his intention to
replace them with more modern structures at no distant day.

   Fred Trauer was, born on November 1, 1866, in Holland, Germany, and his
parents emigrated to the United States in 1868 and settled in Dearborn County,
Indiana, and in 1878, when he was twelve years of age, they came to Barton
County, Kansas. He was educated in the public schools and assisted his parents
on the farm until he was a man in stature, and then he became a renter on his
own account and farmed for several years; or until 1898, when he bought the
quarter section on which he lives. The period between 1893 to 1897, when he was
struggling to make enough on the rented land to make a first payment on land he
might purchase he recalls with many shakes of the head, because that was the
saddest period of his entire life and his greatest struggle.

   Fred Trauer and Miss Matilda Burgtorf were married on September 1G, 1897, and
they are the parents of six children, to-wit: Betta, 12; Louis, 11, Lena, 9;
Albert, 6, Edna, 4 and Freddie, 2.

   Mrs. Matilda Trauer is the third child of August and Caroline Burgtorf, who
settled in the county, two and one-half miles south of Heizer, about 1872. They
drove overland from Cape Geradeau County, Mo., and on the way fell in with the
teams of E. L. Chapman, who was enroute with his family to make their home in
this county. Mr. Burgtorf died in 1882, leaving a widow and six children who are
still residents of the county.


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Biographical History Of Barton County


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