Do you have any further information on this man's Kiess ancestors? I am a descendant of Kiesses who came over from Württemberg in 1805 and settled in Lycoming county, PA
Do you know anything about where in Wurttemberg your ancestors came from or what their names were? Mine came from Mohringen (which is now a part of Stuttgart).
Carl Kiess of Washington, District of Columbia County, District Of Columbia was born on October 18, 1887. Carl Kiess was married to Harriet Knudsen Kiess, and died at age 80 years old in October 1967.
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...
Did you know medics, doctors and nurses used to prescribe narcotics as treatment?
Radium water, cough syrup made of alcohol, marijuana, and morphine, cocaine toothache drops for children, snake oil - medicine has changed quite a bit in the past 100 years or so, as has the way that ...