
The first child in the family of JACOB SCHMIDT and KATHARINA KROEN 

is a son, STEFAN, born in 1868 in Limbach. He married ELISE NERAD 

in 1894.



STEFAN SCHMIDT and ELISE NERAD had four children: Julianna, Ludwig,

Rosina, who died in infancy, and Theresia.



STEFAN came back to Germany with the family in 1946, but his wife 

was on a different train and was taken off the train when she 

became ill. She disappeared and was never heard of again.