According to the church records at the Salem Evangelical Church in Farmington, Michigan, Karl F. A. Kynast was born in what was then Gebersdorf, Silesia, Germany, This is now Sosnowa (Sosnowiec), Poland. He was the son of August Wilhelm Kynast and Charlotte Emmeline Bruske. He and his brother Oswald operated a furniture making/undertaking business in Farmington village on Grand River Avenue. Karl did the undertaking. On December 3, 1879, he married Sarah Ann Stehle at her family home in Franklin, Michigan. Baptist minister Isaac Bloomer performed the ceremony. Karl and Sarah had one son, Edmund Lawrence Kynast, born in Farmington on January 13, 1882. Karl died of a massive heart attack ("paralysis of the heart") on September 26, 1884, at approximately 1:30 in the morning. According to the local papers, he died as he sat up in bed to get his son a glass of water. While there is no record of where Karl was buried, his father August did own three grave lots in Farmington's Oakwood Cemetery. The city of Farmington has no record of the lots ever being used, but according to them, notification of burials was not required back then. Karl was most likely placed in one of these lots.
Biography compiled by Jeff Stehle. Please credit appropriately.
Biography compiled by Jeff Stehle. Please credit appropriately.
According to the church records at the Salem Evangelical Church in Farmington, Michigan, Karl F. A. Kynast was born in what was then Gebersdorf, Silesia, Germany, This is now Sosnowa (Sosnowiec), Poland. He was the son of August Wilhelm Kynast and Charlotte Emmeline Bruske. He and his brother Oswald operated a furniture making/undertaking business in Farmington village on Grand River Avenue. Karl did the undertaking. On December 3, 1879, he married Sarah Ann Stehle at her family home in Franklin, Michigan. Baptist minister Isaac Bloomer performed the ceremony. Karl and Sarah had one son, Edmund Lawrence Kynast, born in Farmington on January 13, 1882. Karl died of a massive heart attack ("paralysis of the heart") on September 26, 1884, at approximately 1:30 in the morning. According to the local papers, he died as he sat up in bed to get his son a glass of water. While there is no record of where Karl was buried, his father August did own three grave lots in Farmington's Oakwood Cemetery. The city of Farmington has no record of the lots ever being used, but according to them, notification of burials was not required back then. Karl was most likely placed in one of these lots.
Biography compiled by Jeff Stehle. Please credit appropriately.
Biography compiled by Jeff Stehle. Please credit appropriately.
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