Louisa Hensel Kraus born in Syracuse, New York. Her family later moved to Kansas. There she met her husband, Francis Xavier Kraus. They moved to Seatttle, WA and later settled outside Weiser, Idaho on Sturgill Creek. They has five children, Agnes, twin daughters Lydia and Lena, Minnie and Joseph. Grandma Kraus was loved by her family and friends.

FROM WEISER SIGNAL - JULY 1948
LAST RITES HELD FOR MRS. KRAUS

Funeral servies for Mrs. Louise Hensel Kraus, who died Friday, June 29, were held at two-thirty o'clock on Friday afternoon, July 2, in Weiser. Rev. Kay Parrish officated.

Mrs. E.C. Look sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and Wilmar James Smith, Weiser, sang "Sometime We'll Understand." They were accompanied on the piano by Lila Clark, Weiser, who also played the background music.

Pallbearers were John Snyder, Boise, S.D. Ulrich, Caldwell, E.C. Look and W.C. Swigert, Wilder, and Marion W. Smith and Frank H. Townley, Jr., Weiser. Interment was in Hillcrest Cemetery.

Louise Hensel Kraus was born April 17, 1857, in Syracuse, N.Y. the fifth of thirteen children of Joseph and Barbara Hensel. When about two years of age she moved with her family to Weston, MO., and a few years later to eastern Kansas where they homesteaded.

She was married on Nov. 12, 1879 to Francis X. Kraus and to them was born four daughters and one son. The family left for Seattle, Wash.; in the fall of 1889 then in 1895, they moved to Washington County, Idaho, where Mrs. Kraus made her home until after the death of her husband on April 10, 1922.

For the past twenty-five years she lived in a small house at the home her daughter, Mrs. Fred L. Smith in the Fargo community.

She was critically ill for eighteen days on Tuesday evening, June 29, 1948, she passed away at the age of 91 years, two months and twelve days.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Agnes R. Ross and Mrs. Fred L. Smith, both of Wilder. Mrs F.H. Townley and Mrs. Ben F. Ross, Weiser; nine grandchildren; eighteen great-grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. John L. Kraus, Manhattan, Kans., two brothers, F.J. Hensel, Seattle, Wash. and Fred Hensel, Los Angeles, Calif., and a number of nieces and nephews.


CARD OF THANKS

Words cannot express our appreciation of the help, kindness and sympathy extended by our many friends during the illness, death and funeral of our beloved mother, Louise Hensel Kraus.

Mrs. Agnes R. Ross
Mr. & Mrs. F.H. Townley, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben F. Ross
Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Smith