Konrad Johann "John" Albrecht was the son of Johann Friedrich Albrecht and Anna Barbara Schmidt Albrecht. He was born on 3 December 1845 in Alexandersreut, a tiny village in the state of Baden-Wurttemburg, near Crailsheim in Germany. Around June 1886, he emigrated to the United States and settled on a farm 9 miles south and 2 miles west of Doland, South Dakota. John was a shoemaker by trade, but farmed all of his life. He married Eva Katharina Hoffman on 7 Nov 1871 in Germany (b.30 Mar 1851-d.22 Sept 1893). Children of this marriage were:

Kathrina Barbara: 6 May 1872 - 5 Nov 1956
Henry Leonard: 31 Dec 1873 - 18 June 1896
Leonard Henry Fredrick: 7 Jan 1876 - 30 Nov 1943
John Henry: 25 April 1878 - 28 April 1964
Katharine Margaret: 12 Aug 1879 - 10 Dec 1879
Katharine Wilhelmina: 29 Oct 1880 - 23 Aug 1901
John August: 4 July 1882 - 4 March 1885
Katharine Louise: 30 Jan 1885 - 8 Sept 1970
Mary Bertha: 13 Mar 1886 - 18 Oct 1886
Cathrine Rosa: 18 Jun 1887 - April 1971
Emma Bertha: 24 May 1889 - 3 Oct 1889
Matilda Bertha: 30 June 1892 - 15 Dec 1972
Eva Katharine: 21 Sept 1893 - 30 Sept 1893

After the death of his wife, Eva Katharina (Hoffman) Albrecht on 23 Sept 1893, John later married his bother Henry's widow, Rosina (b.1859, d.1939) on 3 June 1908. The family moved to a farm near Stetsonville, Wisconsin. Rosina had two sons by her first husband: Carl and Fritz.

John had 3 brothers [Andrew, Conrad & Henry] and 3 sisters [Barbara (Meyers), Cathrine and Rosena]. John passed away in Wisconsin on 1 April 1917 and was buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery near Doland, Spink County, South Dakota.

Source: Handwritten Family History by Matilda Albrecht Randall, dated 3 January 1966 and Family History by Keith Lounsbury, son of Burt and Katharine Louise Albrecht Lounsbury, dated 29 March 1999.