Biographical on the Vonnegut Family  

...a relative, great-grandfather, Henry Schnull had established his three daughters - Emma, Nannie, and Julia, in cottages on the East Shore which became famous for their tennis court about 1904. One of these, called "Hilarity Hill", is where eleven little Vonnegut - Mueller - Schnull cousins grew-up

Matilde Schramm's father was Jacob Schramm, who came from Saxony, where for generations his family had been grain merchants. He brought with him five thousand dollars in gold, six hundred books, and boxes of household goods, including a dinner set of Meissen porcelain. He bought at once a section of land near Cumberland, Indiana. Jacob Schramm traveled extensively-once around the world, quite by himself. He prospered. He bought a great deal of land, one parcel of over two thousand acres on the old Michigan Road just northwest of Indianapolis. He loaned money, secured by good mortgages, to later arrivals in the vicinity.

Matilde Schramm met Henry Schnull on one of his early buying visits to her father's farm in 1854, and they were married in 1857. Matilda was Jacob’s only daughter, and he advanced Henry Schnull capital to help him start a wholesale grocery business and launch a successful mercantile career which made him a large fortune. Matilde was as stern and tough as Henry, but she had a warm, lovable disposition and was the real matriarch of the family.

Henry Schnull, with his brother, August, came to Indianapolis from the town of Hausberge in Westphalia about ten years before the Civil War. They had both been apprenticed as Kaufmann, or merchant, in Germany and knew the methods of trade and accounts. They first engaged in the business of buying and selling farm produce in central Indiana. They traveled about in a wagon to the farms in the area; bought grain, butter, eggs, chickens, and salted and smoked pork, and resold these farm products in the city at a profit.

As they prospered by the hardest kind of work, they enlarged their operation by trucking surpluses to Madison or Jeffersonville, Indiana, on the Ohio River, where the merchandise was loaded on huge barges which were floated down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. One or the other of the brothers would accompany the shipment and attend to the trading in New Orleans. Here they would sell the produce in a good market and buy coffee, rum and sorghum, which was called "New Orleans molasses." These products they then shipped north by barge and sold at a profit in Cincinnati or Indianapolis. They are said to have brought to Indianapolis one of the last shipments from the South before the river was closed by the Confederates at Memphis. The price of sorghum and coffee skyrocketed, and the Schnull Brothers then had sufficient capital to establish a wholesale grocery business and construct a warehouse which was still standing in 1981 on the southeast corner of Washington and Delaware Streets in Indianapolis. The firm was originally a partnership known as A. & H. Schnull, later as Schnull & Company. At the close of the Civil War, August announced that he had enough money and wanted to return to Germany. So he sold his interests to Henry and took two hundred thousand dollars back to Hausberge, where he bought a small Schloss and lived like a gentleman until his death in 1918.

The “Wholesale District.” It began in 1863 when two Westphalian emigrants, the brothers August and Henry Schnull, built the first wholesale house on the southwest corner of S. Meridian and W. Maryland Streets. Schnull’s Block comprised 102-108 S. Meridian and housed their wholesale grocery business. The Schnulls bought other properties and built speculative commercial buildings to house their other wholesale enterprises. With their profits the brothers founded Merchants National Bank in 1865. While August returned to Germany, Henry became one of the city’s most successful businessmen of the 19th century.

Henry Schnull, a man with unusual business vision, remained in Indianapolis and devoted his energies to developing a wholesale district for his adopted city. Schnull saw the residential area between the retail merchants on Washington Street and the Union Depot and freight depots on South Street as an ideal site for the wholesale trade. During the late 1860s, he pursued his ambitious vision of a wholesale district by purchasing lots, razing houses, erecting speculative wholesale houses, and persuading other businessmen to do the same. By the early 1870s, Schnull had succeeded: whole­saling was firmly established in the region between South and Washington Streets. (Wholesale District Plan, p. 18)
His efforts won Henry Schnull the epithet “Father of the Wholesale District.”

Henry Schnull elected to remain in the United States. He became one of the leading merchants of Indiana, and was a most highly regarded citizen. In addition to his wholesale grocery business he founded the Eagle Machine Works, which later became the great Atlas Engine Company, which manufactured stationary steam engines and farm implements. He also organized the American Woolen Company, the first textile mill in the State.

Shortly after passage in 1865 of the law authorizing national banks, he established and was first President of the Merchants National Bank of Indianapolis, which has survived all of the intervening panics and is still operating.

Henry Schnull was a man of immense industry, courage, and independence; intelligent, self-reliant, and resourceful; incorruptibly honest and reliable in his dealings; and completely dedicated to business and accumulation. He became very rich for his times, endowed his children with generous gifts, and left a fortune in 1905 which has assisted three generations of his progeny to live comfortably. He was so much engaged with his many activities that he was not much of a family man, and his children saw but little of him.

The Schramm letters, by Jacob Schramm; Emma (Schnull) Vonnegut Publisher: Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Society, 1935.

2 i. Emma Schnull was born 4 SEP 1857 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, and died 17 FEB 1939 in Culver, Marshall, Indiana. She married Clemens Vonnegut , Jr. 4 SEP 1878 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, son of Clemens Vonnegut , Sr. and Katharina Blank. He was born 19 NOV 1853 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, and died 18 JAN 1921 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana. He was buried 21 JAN 1921 in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Sec 6 Lot 4.
3 ii. Nanette Schnull was born FEB 1859 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, and died 16 OCT 1929 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana. She married Bernard Vonnegut 19 SEP 1883 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, son of Clemens Vonnegut , Sr. and Katharina Blank. He was born 8 AUG 1855 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, and died 7 AUG 1908 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana. He was buried 10 AUG 1908 in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Sec 6 Lot 4.
4 iii. Gustav A. Schnull was born JAN 1862 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, and died ABT 11 SEP 1936 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana.
5 iv. Julia W. Schnull was born MAY 1864 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, and died ABT 20 APR 1926 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana. She married George J. Mueller 17 OCT 1888 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, son of Charles G. Müeller , Sr. and Margaretha Esther Hüeman. He was born JUN 1860 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, and died 3 MAY 1931 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana.

6 i. Bertha Mathilde Schnull was born 26 JAN 1890 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, and died 25 FEB 1971 in Duarte, Los Angeles, California, USA. She married Francis Maus Fauvre 2 JAN 1915 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, son of Francis A. [ Maus ] Fauvre and Lillian R. Schnull. He was born 15 AUG 1888 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, and died BET APR 1970 AND APR 1972 in Newburgh, Warrick, Indiana, USA.
7 ii. Gertrude A. Schnull was born 14 MAR 1893 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, and died AFT 1914. She married 14 APR 1914 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana. John G. Rauch born 16 July 1890 and died 3 February 1976 was a prominent Indianapolis resident, lawyer, and civic leader. Graduating from Harvard Law School in 1914, he began practicing law in Indianapolis in 1915 and joined the firm of Rauch, Chase, and Kitchen in 1946. During his long career, he played an instrumental role in many civic organizations as President of the Board of Trustees for the Art Association of Indianapolis (1962-1976), Chairman of the Board of the Indiana Historical Society (1957-1976), an organizer of the Park School Foundation, and as Director of the Indianapolis Symphony and the Children's Museum. He also co-authored with his wife, Gertrude Schnull Rauch, "A Bibliography of Laws of Indiana, 1788-1927," and wrote "The Midwest Resort, a History of Harbor Springs, Michigan." JOHN RAUCH PAPERS, 1926-1977 Collection #M 0456 Indiana Historical Library

APPLES—Now have Grimes Golden. Delicious, Winter Banna, York, Rome, King David, Greenings and Stayman Winesap. Vonnegut Orchards, Culver, Ind. east side of Lake Maxinkuckee.

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Yeah, well, I've said in my speeches that everyone needs an extended family. The great American disease is loneliness. We no longer have extended family. But I had one. There were lots of Vonneguts in the phone book and my mother was a Lieber, and there were Liebers there too. And at Lake Maxinkuckee there were a row of cottages, one of which we owned, and so I was surrounded by relatives all of the time. You know, cousins, uncles and aunts. It was heaven. And that has since been dispersed.

2 - Clemens, Jr., born November 19, 1853 Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, m. Emma Schnall
2a - Bernard Vonnegut born August 8, 1855 Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, and died in August 7, 1908. married Nannie Schnull
3 - Franklin Vonnegut October 20, 1856 Indianapolis, Marion County, Indianad. 1952) married Pauline Von Hake
4 - George Vonnegut, born October 22, 1860 Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, married Lillie Goeller

Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana
Wednesday, January 19, 1921 Page 8

Vonnegut Rites Here Tommorrow
Nephews to Act as Pallbearers
at Funeral of Local Pioneer Merchant


Funeral services for Clemens Vonnegut, 67,years old, pioner Indianapolis meetchant, will be held from the Vonnegut home, 604 East Thirteenth stree, tommorrow morning. Six nephews of Mr. Vonnegut will act as pallbearers: Kurt, Alex, Irwin and Theodore Vonnegut and Clememns Mueller and John Raugh.

Mr. Vonnegut, who died at his home Tuesday morning following an illness, and result of being struck by anautomobile in December while soliciting for the community. He was born in Indianapolis, Nov 19, 1853 the eldest son four sons of Clemens COnnefut. Following schooling [in the] German-English Independent and Indianapolis high schools, he went to work in his father's hardware store on East Washington street.

A Civi Builder.
He later became local manager for the National Casket Company, remainign at that post for fisteen years. In 1908 he became vice president of the Vonnegut Hardware Company, the position he held at the time of his death.

He was a member of the Columbis Club, Hoosier Motor Club, active in the Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association, and at the time of his death was president of the Athenaeum. He was one of the directors of the Indiana Manufacturing Recirocal Association, and in 1894 served as a member of the Legislature as a representatinve of Marion county. He married Miss Emma Schnull in 1878. He was active in the musical life of the city, at one time being director of the Indianapolis Orchestra and the May Musical festival, and was an able amateur violinist.

Mr. Vonnegut is survived by the widow, two brothers: George and Franklin Vonnegut; a daughter, Mrs. W. K. Stewart and two sons: Anton and Walter. The funeral services will be private.

5 - ELLA NANETTE Vonnegut 16 OCT AND 16 NOV 1879 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana wife of William Kerfoot Stewart
6 - ANTON Scituate Vonnegut b. Dec 18, 1881 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana married Ina L. Holleweg May 1, 1912 Marion co., In. 65/588
7 - WALTER Vonnegut born 17 FEB 1884 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana married Margaret Potts

Mrs. B. Vonnegut Dies; Well Known Cottager
At Lake for 40 Years
Mrs. Bernard Vonnegut Passed Away Last Thursday Afternoon at Home In Indianapolis

Mrs. bernard Vonnegut, 70 years of age, age died Thursday afternnon, October 17, at her hom in Indianapolis. Mrs. Vonnegut was one of the pioneer cottagers of Lake Maxinkuckee and had been coming here each summer for forty years. She was well known through out the summer colony and her sunny disposition made her a host of friends who join in mourning her departure.

Mrs. Vonnegut was bon in Indianapolis, October 16, 1859, the daughter of Henry Schnull. She attended the German-English School and Baptist Seminary in Indianapolis and St. Mary's-of-the-Wood's, Terre Haute.

For many years she was an active member of the board of trustees of the Indinapolis Orphan's Home, and was a member of the All Souls Unitarian Church.

Survivors are a sister, Mrs. Clemens Vonnegut, a brother Gustav Schnull; a daughter, Mrs. Irma Lindener of Hamburg, Germany; four grandchildren and many loving nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held Saturday morning at Indianapolis, with interment in the Crown Hill Cemetery.
Culver Citizen - 23 October 1929.

8 - KURT Vonnegut b. NOV 24, 1884 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana married Edith Lieber
9 - IRMA Vonnegut born 29 JUN 1890 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana and died 5 NOV 1985 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, USA. She married [-?-] Lindener AFT 1908 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana.
10 - Alexander "ALEX" Vonnegut b. 19 Jul. 1888 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana and died 28 JUL 1975 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Burial: 07/31/1975 Section: 6 Lot: 4 m. JUN 12, 1915 Indianapolis, Marion co., In., 81/270 Raye Dryer born 12 JUN 1889 Maine died died 31 OCT 1983 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Burial: 11/03/1983 Section: 6 Lot: 4. Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana

11 - THEODORE Franklin Vonnegut June 21, 1880 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana married Lucy Lewis
12 - FELIX Von Hake Vonnegut b. DEC 19, 1881 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana died 28 Mar. 1946 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Burial: 04/01/1946 Section: 44 Lot: 311 Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana married Edna M. Goth JUN 6, 1905 Indianapolis, Marion In. 8/282 & 38/270 born 6 FEB 1886 in Minnesota and died 10 FEB 1976 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Burial: 02/13/1976 Section: 44 Lot: 311 daughter of Edward G. Goth and Ella M. Black
13 - ARTHUR Vonnegut b. JUN 13,1883 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana [Bk. H-1 pg. 237] married Lillian Fauvre

14 - Erwin George Vonnegut b. 2 Apr. 1890 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana and died 20 Apr 1978 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Burial: 04/23/1976 Section: 2 Lot: 52 Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana He married AFT 1918 Indiana Cecilia K. Kiley born FEB 1899 in Marion, Grant, Indiana and died 12 MAR 1967 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Burial: 03/15/1967 Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Section: 2 Lot: 52 daughter of Frank J. Kiley and Henrietta A. Ludwig.
15 - Ralph Clemens Vonnegut born 20 DEC 1896 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana married Eleanor Goodall
16 - Carl R. Vonnegut born BET 1901 AND 1902 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indianam. MARJORIE LEWIS
, Marion, Indiana.

Child,	Father	Mother	Sex	Color	Birth	County	Book/Page
VONNEGUT -	GEO,	LILLY GELLER	F	W	Mar. 21 1888	Marion co., In	H-3/119
VONNEGUT -	&GEOnbsp;	LILLIE GELLER	M	W,	APR 2 1890	Marion co., In.	H-4/45
VONNEGUT -	GEO	--- GOELLER	M	W	MAY 3 1902	Marion co., In.	H-9/263
VONNEGUT -	George	LILLY YELLER	M	W	DEC 20,1896	Marion co., In.	H-7/195

2nd Generation 5 - ELLA NANNETTE Vonnegut born BET 16 OCT AND 16 NOV 1879 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana died 9 DEC 1968 in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky Burial: 12/12/1968 Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Section: 6 Lot: 4 married 15 SEP 1903 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana William Kerfoot Stewart was born 26 Jul 1875 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana. He died 02 Mar 1959 in Louisville, Kentucky, at age 83, and his Burial: 03/05/1959 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Section: 6 Marker: N Lot: 4 in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana son of Martha Norman Mooklar and Charles G Stewart He was educated at Bachelor of Arts - Yale University in Jun 1899 in New Haven, Ct. He owned W. K. Stewart Co. Inc. Book Store., Between 1917-1959, Louisville, Kentucky. They have one child:

17 - Susan Kerfoot Stewart born on 4 Nov 1905 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana and died 30 OCT 2004. She married Joseph T. Mengel 5 JAN 1929 in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky. He was born 1896, and died AFT 1930; 2 children.

6 - ANTON Scituate Vonnegut born 18 DEC 1881 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana died 4 MAY 1964 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Burial: 05/07/1964 Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Section: 22 Lot: 53 m. 1 MAY 1912 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Ina Holleweg born 23 MAY 1886 Indiana died 4 JUL 1966 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Burial: 07/07/1966 Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Section: 22 Lot: 53 daughter of Louis Hollweg and Louise Koehrmann> Their three children are:

18 - Louise Antoinette Vonnegut was born ABT 1913 in Indianapolis, Marion , Indiana, USA, and died ABT 14 AUG 1943 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, She married Henry J. Peirce 10 JUN 1939 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana. He was born 19 FEB 1911, and died ABT 30 JAN 1993 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana
19 - Richard Vonnegut
20 - Antonette Vonnegut Burial: 08/28/1919 Section: 22 Lot: 53

7 - WALTER Vonnegut born 17 FEB 1884 in Indianapolis, Marion , Indiana died AFT 1939 married Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Margaret/Marjorie R. Potts born 23 MAR 1888 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana and died NOV 1936 in Borough, New York City, New York buried 3 DEC 1937 in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Sec 39 Lot 579 daughter of Alfred F. and May (Barnaby) Potts. He married New York, New York Rosalie [-?-] One daughter 1st mariage:

21 - Irma Ruth Vonnegut was born 28 SEP 1912 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana and died 6 JUN 1981 in LaJolla, San Diego, California, USA. She married Daniel Lynn Carroll , Sr. AFT 1930 [-?-] Carroll and [-?-] Tuttle. He was born 5 MAR 1910 in Minnesota and died 26 JUL 1981 in LaJolla, San Diego, California; 2 children

8 KURT Vonnegut b. 24 NOV 1884 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana died 1 OCT 1956 in Nashville, Brown, Indiana Burial: 10/03/1956 Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Section: 6 Lot: 4 married NOV 22, 1913 Indianapolis, Marion, In. (73/587) Edith Sophia Lieber 26 AUG 1888 in Indianapolis, Marion,Indiana d. May 14, 1944 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Burial: 05/16/1944 Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Section: 6 Lot: 4 d/o Albert Lieber and Alice S. Barus. They have three children:

22 - Bernard Vonnegut b. August 29, 1914 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana died April 25, 1997 Albany, Albany, New York married Lois Bowler
23 - Alice Vonnegut b. 1917 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana d. bef. 23 Sep. 1958 m. [-?-]
24 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. b. Nov. 11, 1922 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana m. 1 September 1945 Jane Marie Cox 1979; m. 2nd Jill Krementz

11 - THEODORE Franklin Vonnegut born 21 JUN 1880 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana died BET 25 DEC 1943 AND 18 OCT 1944 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Burial: 10/21/1944 Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Section: 2 Lot: 51 married 11 NOV 1904 in Gibson County, Indiana Lucy Lewis born 11 NOV 1881 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana died 6 AUG 1979 in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida Burial: 08/09/1979 Section: 2 Lot: 51 Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana



they had one child,

25 - Pauline Vonnegut m. [-?-] Eck d. Dec. 24, 2002 St. Petersburg, Fla. Burial: 09/02/2003 Section: 2 Lot: 51 Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana

ECK, PAULINE VONNEGUT, 90, of St. Petersburg, died Tuesday (Dec. 24, 2002) at Grace Healthcare of St. Petersburg. She came here in 1952 from her native Indianapolis. She was a 1933 graduate of Wheaton College and earned a master's degree from the University of Indiana. She retired after 30 years as a professor of zoology and biology at St. Petersburg Junior College. She also worked for the Foreign Service in Chile and received a Kappa Kappa Gamma foreign study fellowship at the University of Chile. She was president of the Business and Professional Women, South Pinellas Retired Educators, the Alpha Chi Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, Kappa Kappa Gamma, the Wesleyan Service Guild at Christ United Methodist Church and the National Retired Teachers Association division of the AARP. She was named St. Petersburg Panhellenic's Woman of the Year in 1989. She served on the board of directors of the St. Petersburg Audubon Society for 20 years and held leadership positions in the Florida and National Audubon Societies. She was a member of the National Society of Magna Charta Dames, the Indiana Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Society of Indiana Pioneers and the Indiana Academy of Science. Survivors include four cousins, Jennifer S. Christ, St. Petersburg, Richard Vonnegut and Walter Vonnegut, Indianapolis, and Kurt Vonnegut, New York. Anderson-McQueen Funeral Homes & Cremation Tribute Center-Ninth Street Chapel, St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg Times (FL), Date: December 31, 2002, Page: 5; 6B

13 - Arthur Vonnegut b. Jun 13, 1883 Marion county Indiana [Bk. H-1 pg. 237] died 13 JUN 1965 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana Burial: 06/16/1965 Section: 14 Lot: 10 married OCT 12, 1909 Marion co., In. 54/386 Lillian Maus Fauvre born 19 JUL 1883 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana died 11 DEC 1932 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana Burial: 04/13/1933 Section: 14 Lot: 10 Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana d/o Frank Maus & Lillian (Scholl) Fauvre, they have two children:

25a Franklin Fauvre Vonnegut born 30 JUL 1911 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
25b Virginia Vonnegut born 1 JUN 1913 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana and died 7 MAR 1982 in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida She married sft 1932 Ptolemy Durant Summey , Jr. son of Ptolemy Durant Summey , Sr. and Addie [-?-]. He was born 15 AUG 1914 in Dallas, Gaston, North Carolina and died 7 MAR 1997 in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida

15 - Ralph Clemens Vonnegut born 20 DEC 1896 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana died 12 NOV 1985 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Burial: 11/15/1985 Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Section: 36 Lot: 163 married 22 APR 1922 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Eleanor Josephine Goodall born 31 JAN 1899 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, USA, and died 8 APR 1979 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Burial: 04/11/1979 Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Section: 36 Lot: 163 daughter of Walter Jerome Goodall and Lulu M. Osterman Their Children:

26 - Ralph Clemens Vonnegut, Jr. b. July 23, 1929 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana d. Oct. 22, 2000 his former wife, Natalia Beck
27 - Walter G. Vonnegut, Indianapolis m. PHYLLIS MAISH

16 - Carl R. Vonnegut BET 1901 AND 1902 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana and died ABT 26 OCT 1938 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Burial: 10/29/1938 rown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Section: 2 Lot: 51 m. 5 FEB 1927 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana MARJORIE N. LEWIS orn FEB 1902 in Woodruff Place, Marion County, Indiana died aet 97 died 10 JUL 1999 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana Burial: 07/13/1999 Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Section: 2 Lot: 51 d/o Frank W. Lewis and Emma May Salter.

MARJORIE LEWIS VONNEGUT, 97, Indianapolis, died June 25. She had been a saleswoman for Arlene's Exclusive Ladieswear. Previously, she owned Marjorie Vonnegut Inc., a gift shop. She was a member of the Indianapolis Junior League and Christamore Aid Society. She also was a member of Woodstock Club, which her father, the late Frank W. Lewis, founded. Memorial contributions may be made to Hooverwood nursing home or Trinity Episcopal Church. Services: 11 a.m. July 13 in Flanner & Buchanan Broad Ripple Mortuary, with calling from 5 to 8 p.m. July 12. Burial: Crown Hill Cemetery. She was the widow of Carl R. Vonnegut. Survivors: children George L., Nancy L. Vonnegut five grandchildren four great-grandchildren.
Indianapolis Star, The (IN), Date: July 10, 1999, Page: B04

Their children:

28 - George Lewis Vonnegut born 30 APR 1929 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana and died 14 MAY 2004 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. Burial: 05/18/2004 Section: 3 Lot: 93; he married [-?-] Bates; child & dau m. [-?-] Batic
29 - Nancy L. Vonnegut m. [-?-] Noonan

19 - Richard Vonnegut He married [-?-] Martin. Their children:

i. Martin Hollweg Vonnegut was born 10 MAR 1949 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, USA, and died 2 FEB 1981 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana burial: 02/05/1981 Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Section: 22 Lot: 53
ii.[-?-] Vonnegut. He married Dianne Lynn From, daughter of [-?-]Living From and [-?-]Rawlings. She was born 24 MAR 1954 in Angola, Indiana, USA, and died 2 SEP 2005 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Burial: 09/09/2005 Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Section: 22 Lot: 53
iii. [-?-] Vonnegut.

21 - Irma Ruth Vonnegut born 28 SEP 1912 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana

Third Generation 22 - Bernard Vonnegut Jr. August 29, 1914 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana died April 25, 1997 died 25 APR 1997 in Albany, Albany, New York married Lois Bowler she died in 1972 Their children:

30 - Peter Vonnegut born 7 JUL 1945 in Elizabethtown, Essex, New York and died 16 DEC 2003 in East Greenbush, Rensselaer, New York; married [-?-] Minatoya. 2 children
31 - Scott Vonnegut of South Hero, VT,
32 - Terry Vonnegut of Albany,
33 - Kurt Vonnegut of Schuylerville, NY
34 - Alex Vonnegut of Cohoes

23 - Alice Vonnegut was born 1917 in Indianapolis, Marion , Indiana, USA, and died BEF 23 SEP 1958 in She was buried 26 SEP 1958 in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Sec 66 Lot 453. She married James C. Adams 4 JAN 1943 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA. He was born BEF 1919, and died BEF 23 SEP 1958 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana. He was buried 26 SEP 1958 in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Sec 66 Lot 453. their children:

35 - James Adams-Vonnegut (adopted by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
36 - Steven Adams-Vonnegut (adopted by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
37 - Kurt Adams-Vonnegut (adopted by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
38 - Peter Adams-Nice as infant went Birmingham, Alabama to live with a first cousin of his father's

24 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. b. Nov. 11, 1922 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana d. April 11, 2007 New York City, Manhatten Island, New York m. 1 September 1945 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Jane Marie Cox div. 1979 b. Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana d. 1986 probably Barstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, 1979; m. 2nd 24 Nov. 1979 Jill Krementz.

children 1st marriage: 39 - Mark Vonnegut m. [-?-] O'Shea; 2md [-?-] Sibert
40 - Edith Vonnegut m. Geraldo Rivera, divorced; 2nd [-?-] Squibb
41 - Nanette Vonnegut m [-?-] Prior
child 2nd marriage:
42 - Lilly Vonnegut d. infant

25a Franklin Fauvre Vonnegut was born 30 JUL 1911 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, and died 12 JUN 1995 in Riverside, Riverside County, California, . He married Margaret Stewart Kangeter 15 MAY 1944 in Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, daughter of John Henry Kangeter , Jr. and Isabel O'Neil. She was born 27 OCT 1918 in Virginia, and died 9 OCT 1992 in San Marcos, San Diego County, California. They had:

42a [-?-] Vonnegut married [-?-] Chambers
42b [-?-] Vonnegut
42c [-?-] Vonnegut

26 - Ralph C. Vonnegut, Jr. b. July 23, 1929 d. Oct. 22, 2000 Burial: 12/21/2001 Section: 36 Lot: 163 .

Ralph C. Vonnegut, Jr. July 23, 1929 – Oct. 22, 2000
Rochester Sentinel

Ralph C. Vonnegut, Jr., 71, Culver, died at 1 p.m. Sunday at his residence. He was born to Ralph, Sr. and Eleanor Goodall Vonnegut in Indianapolis.

Mr. Vonnegut was a retired self-employed truck driver. He was a 13-year resident of Culver and a member of the Sierra Club, Maxinkuckee Yacht Club and the Big Brothers & Big Sisters program.

Survivors include his former wife, Natalia Beck, Dunedin, Fla.; two sons, Robert and wife Beth, Islamorada, Fla.; Daniel and wife Heather, Brooklyn, N.Y.; two daughters, Nonie Vonnegut-Gabovitch and husband David, Indianapolis; Kristin Vonnegut-Huffman and husband Tom, Avon, Minn.; nine grandchildren; one brother, Walter G. Vonnegut, Indianapolis.

Services are at 4 p.m. Wednesday at his residence, 814 East Shore Drive, Culver. Private burial will take place. Friends may call from 3-4 p.m. Wednesday at the residence. Bonine Funeral Home, Culver, is in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be made to the Maxinkuckee Environmental Society, Marshall County Big Brothers & Big Sisters, the Culver Public Library or the Humane Society of Local and State Parks.

Indianapolis Star, The (IN) - October 24, 2000 Pg. B-04

RALPH C. VONNEGUT Jr., 71, Culver, formerly of Indianapolis, died Oct. 21. He was a retired truck driver. He was a veteran of the Korean War. He was a member of the Sierra Club, Maxinkuckee Yacht Club and Big Brothers. Memorial contributions may be made to a local Humane Society or to a state park. Calling: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Oct. 25 in the home of his daughter, Nonie Vonnegut-Gabovitch, 5719 Winthrop Ave., Indianapolis. Other survivors: children Robert, Daniel Vonnegut, Kristin Vonnegut-Huffman brother Walter G. Vonnegut former wife Natalia Beck nine grandchildren. Bonine Funeral Home, Culver, is handling arrangements.

He married Natalia Beck

43 - Robert Vonnegut m. Beth [-?-] , Islamorada, Fla.
44 - Daniel Vonnegut m. Heather [-?-] , Brooklyn, N.Y.
45 - Eleanor "Nonie" Vonnegut m. husband David Gabovitch, Indianapolis
46 - Kristin Vonnegut m. Tom Huffman, Avon, Minn.

27 - Walter G. Vonnegut, Indianapolis m. PHYLLIS MAISH born 7 MAY 1926 in Frankfort, Clinton, Indiana d. Jan. 4, 1999 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana Burial: 01/14/1999 Section: 36 Lot: 163 aughter of Homer C. Maish and Irene D. [-?-]

PHYLLIS MAISH VONNEGUT, 72, Indianapolis, died Jan. 4. She was a homemaker. She was a deacon and 50-year member of Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, president of the Review Club and vice president of the Indiana Daffodil Society. She was past president of the American Daffodil Society, the Blue Flower Garden Club and the Indiana Stamp Club. Mrs. Vonnegut was past treasurer of the Indianapolis Junior League and past board member of the Society of Indiana Pioneers. She was a graduate of Butler University and a 50-year member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Memorial contributions may be made to a favorite charity. Services: 11 a.m. Jan. 8 in Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. Calling: 4 to 8 p.m. Jan. 7 in Leppert & Hensley Mortuary. Burial: Crown Hill Cemetery. Survivors: husband Walter G. Vonnegut daughters Mary Sue V. McDonald, Elizabeth V. Brubeck, Virginia V. Hahn 10 grandchildren.
Indianapolis Star, The (IN), Date: January 6, 1999, Page: B07

47 - Mary Sue Vonnegut m. [-?-] McDonald
48 - Elizabeth Vonnegut m. [-?-] Brubeck
49 - Virginia Vonnegut m. [-?-] Hahn

Vonnegut burial at Crown Hill Cemtary, Indianapolis, Marion Indiana - this I can not fully connect to the above - some above is a good guess and infomration that is collected thus far.

CARRIE L. VONNEGUTT
Burial: 02/24/1895 Section: 2 Lot: 52
ALBERTA PAULINE VONNEGUT
Burial: 06/02/1893 Section: 2 Lot: 52
INFANT VONNEGUT
Burial: 03/29/1887 Section: 2 Lot: 52
Mrs. Vonnegut
burial 05/08/1890 Section: 2 Lot: 52

BETTY MAY VONNEGUT
Burial: 09/23/1911 Section: 6 Lot: 4

ELIZABETH COOPER VONNEGUT
Burial: 05/21/1987 Section: 29 Lot: 6

EMMA A. VONNEGUT
Burial: 12/30/1944 Section: 58 Lot: 12

Information that can't connect:

Indianapolis City Directory, 1889. Indianapolis, IN: R.L. Polk and Co., 1889 & 1890

Name: Henry Vonnegut
City: Indianapolis
State: IN
Occupation: plumber
Year: 1889
Location 2: b 268 S Penn

Name: Margaret Vonnegut (widow Henry)
City: Indianapolis
State: IN
Year: 1889
Location 2: 279 N Liberty


H. C. Chandler & Co.'s Business Directory For Indiana 1868
Merchant Tailors.
Mueller F C, 94 e Washington
Saloons.
Mueller Charles G, 25 s Delaware


Annual Report - Indiana Historical Society By Indiana Historical Society By Indiana Historical Society Published 1983 Indiana Historical Society pg. 82 - Richard Vonnegut Collection Photographs of the Vonnegut family and their summer cottage on Lake Maxinkuckee in the 18905. 10 items.