Ida Rose Kraft one of 12 children born of German Immigrants Johan (John) Kasper Kraft and Karoline (Kraft) Kraft )Different Families)
The following is a story from a sister-in-law to her daughter Emma.
Karoline was very religious and wanted Ida to marry a traveling evangelist. Rev. McKay. Things didn't go according to plan, however, and Ida got pregnant at 16. When the man came back through town, Karoline expected that he would do the honorable thing and marry her. Ida's brothers, however, were less trusting. They waited at the train station and caught the man trying to take the midnight train out of town. The man still wasn't going to be persuaded to marry until the boys slung a rope over the rafters of the depot. This disgraced the whole family and the Revels didn't want Cynthia to marry George because of Ida's affair. Emma did not know the whole story until after Ida died and had carried a grudge against her mom her whole life...not understanding the whole situation until Cynthia told her. Albert believed to his dying day that the evangelist had some kind of candy that made Ida not know what she was doing. John and Tracy also had little to do with the family after that.
She next married Jasper Bouslaugh, son of Judge Joseph Rench Bouslaugh and Margaret Thomas on 8 Nov 1906 in Omaha, Neb. He was a civil war vet and records show Ida collected a Civil War Pension. Ida was then 19 and Jasper was 65. The interesting thing is that Jasper's first wife Martha Ann was still living in Mapleton with several adult children from that marriage. Jasper must have divorced Martha and married Ida. In the wedding record, they were married in Omaha, Neb. and Jasper married Ida McKay confirming that she had been married to the evangelist (father of Emma). Jasper was the biological father of Ted.
The 1930 census says Ed was 39 and Ida was 25 when they married. Ed adopted both Emma and Ted and raised them as his own although Ida and he never had any children of their own.
The following is a story from a sister-in-law to her daughter Emma.
Karoline was very religious and wanted Ida to marry a traveling evangelist. Rev. McKay. Things didn't go according to plan, however, and Ida got pregnant at 16. When the man came back through town, Karoline expected that he would do the honorable thing and marry her. Ida's brothers, however, were less trusting. They waited at the train station and caught the man trying to take the midnight train out of town. The man still wasn't going to be persuaded to marry until the boys slung a rope over the rafters of the depot. This disgraced the whole family and the Revels didn't want Cynthia to marry George because of Ida's affair. Emma did not know the whole story until after Ida died and had carried a grudge against her mom her whole life...not understanding the whole situation until Cynthia told her. Albert believed to his dying day that the evangelist had some kind of candy that made Ida not know what she was doing. John and Tracy also had little to do with the family after that.
She next married Jasper Bouslaugh, son of Judge Joseph Rench Bouslaugh and Margaret Thomas on 8 Nov 1906 in Omaha, Neb. He was a civil war vet and records show Ida collected a Civil War Pension. Ida was then 19 and Jasper was 65. The interesting thing is that Jasper's first wife Martha Ann was still living in Mapleton with several adult children from that marriage. Jasper must have divorced Martha and married Ida. In the wedding record, they were married in Omaha, Neb. and Jasper married Ida McKay confirming that she had been married to the evangelist (father of Emma). Jasper was the biological father of Ted.
The 1930 census says Ed was 39 and Ida was 25 when they married. Ed adopted both Emma and Ted and raised them as his own although Ida and he never had any children of their own.
Ida Rose Kraft one of 12 children born of German Immigrants Johan (John) Kasper Kraft and Karoline (Kraft) Kraft )Different Families)
The following is a story from a sister-in-law to her daughter Emma.
Karoline was very religious and wanted Ida to marry a traveling evangelist. Rev. McKay. Things didn't go according to plan, however, and Ida got pregnant at 16. When the man came back through town, Karoline expected that he would do the honorable thing and marry her. Ida's brothers, however, were less trusting. They waited at the train station and caught the man trying to take the midnight train out of town. The man still wasn't going to be persuaded to marry until the boys slung a rope over the rafters of the depot. This disgraced the whole family and the Revels didn't want Cynthia to marry George because of Ida's affair. Emma did not know the whole story until after Ida died and had carried a grudge against her mom her whole life...not understanding the whole situation until Cynthia told her. Albert believed to his dying day that the evangelist had some kind of candy that made Ida not know what she was doing. John and Tracy also had little to do with the family after that.
She next married Jasper Bouslaugh, son of Judge Joseph Rench Bouslaugh and Margaret Thomas on 8 Nov 1906 in Omaha, Neb. He was a civil war vet and records show Ida collected a Civil War Pension. Ida was then 19 and Jasper was 65. The interesting thing is that Jasper's first wife Martha Ann was still living in Mapleton with several adult children from that marriage. Jasper must have divorced Martha and married Ida. In the wedding record, they were married in Omaha, Neb. and Jasper married Ida McKay confirming that she had been married to the evangelist (father of Emma). Jasper was the biological father of Ted.
The 1930 census says Ed was 39 and Ida was 25 when they married. Ed adopted both Emma and Ted and raised them as his own although Ida and he never had any children of their own.
The following is a story from a sister-in-law to her daughter Emma.
Karoline was very religious and wanted Ida to marry a traveling evangelist. Rev. McKay. Things didn't go according to plan, however, and Ida got pregnant at 16. When the man came back through town, Karoline expected that he would do the honorable thing and marry her. Ida's brothers, however, were less trusting. They waited at the train station and caught the man trying to take the midnight train out of town. The man still wasn't going to be persuaded to marry until the boys slung a rope over the rafters of the depot. This disgraced the whole family and the Revels didn't want Cynthia to marry George because of Ida's affair. Emma did not know the whole story until after Ida died and had carried a grudge against her mom her whole life...not understanding the whole situation until Cynthia told her. Albert believed to his dying day that the evangelist had some kind of candy that made Ida not know what she was doing. John and Tracy also had little to do with the family after that.
She next married Jasper Bouslaugh, son of Judge Joseph Rench Bouslaugh and Margaret Thomas on 8 Nov 1906 in Omaha, Neb. He was a civil war vet and records show Ida collected a Civil War Pension. Ida was then 19 and Jasper was 65. The interesting thing is that Jasper's first wife Martha Ann was still living in Mapleton with several adult children from that marriage. Jasper must have divorced Martha and married Ida. In the wedding record, they were married in Omaha, Neb. and Jasper married Ida McKay confirming that she had been married to the evangelist (father of Emma). Jasper was the biological father of Ted.
The 1930 census says Ed was 39 and Ida was 25 when they married. Ed adopted both Emma and Ted and raised them as his own although Ida and he never had any children of their own.
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