Marshall-Brown-Smith County KS Archives Biographies.....Yaussi, Rudolph 1851 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

RUDOLPH YAUSSI.

    Rudolph Yaussi, one of the well-known and successful farmers of Walnut
township, Marshall county, was born in Switzerland on February 15, 1851, the son
of Christian and Elizabeth (Begert) Yaussi, the former of whom died in
Switzerland and the latter spent her last years in Marysville, Marshall county.

    Christian Yaussi followed the butcher business in Berne until his death in
1863. Five years after his death the mother with her six children came to the
United States locating near Hiawatha, Brown county, Kansas, on a farm, where she
resided for many years, coming to Marysville, Kansas, where some of her children
resided, in her later years, and where she died at the age of eighty-five, loved
and respected by all who knew her, for her kind and hospitable disposition and
true Christian spirit.

    Christian and Elizabeth Yaussi were the parents of seven children as follow:
Rosa, Fred J., Elizabeth, Rudolph, Gottlieb, Frank and Mary. Rosa, now deceased,
was the wife of John Detwiler; Fred J. is deceased; Elizabeth, the wife of
Gottlieb Buehler, died in Switzerland; Gottlieb is a prosperous farmer in Brown
county, Kansas; Frank is a well-known merchant in Marysville, and Mary is the
wife of John Aegerter, of Garber, Oklahoma, and Rudolph is the subject of this
sketch.

    Rudolph Yaussi was educated in the schools of Switzerland and at the age of
seventeen he came to the United States with his mother and the rest Rudolph
worked as a farm hand in Kansas and Missouri for some years; rented and worked a
farm in Missouri one year. He then returned to Brown county, Kansas, where he
acquired eighty acres of land, which he farmed for a few years; he then sold out
and moved overland to Smith county, Kansas, where he traded a good team of mules
for a relinquishment on a one hundred and sixty acre homestead of raw land. Here
he made his home in a "dugout" in true pioneer style, suffered untold agony with
rheumatism for months, but stayed with it and his tireless energy won for him a
fair return for his work.. After six years he sold his place in Smith county and
came to Marysvilie, where he purchased two hundred and forty acres four miles
west of town, on which he resided about fifteen years. He sold this place to two
of his sons and bought a two-hundred-acre farm nearer Marysville, where he now
resides, and which he has made one of the best in the county, both as a live
stock and grain farm.

    In 1876 Rudolph Yaussi was united in marriage to Mary Aegerter, and to them
were born ten children: Rosie, John, Emma, William, Mary, Frank, Lida, Rudolph,
Edward and Sophia.

    In 1896 Mary (Aegerter) Yaussi died in Marysville, Kansas. Some years later
Rudolph Yaussi was married to Mary (Studach) Goepfert, a native of Switzerland,
and to them was born one child, a daughter, Zella, now attending the high school
at Marysville.

    Mr. and Mrs. Yaussi are consistent adherents of the Evangelical church. Mr.
Yaussi is also a member of the Swiss and Turner societies of Marysville.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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