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Charles Kokenge
14 Apr 1856 – 1918
| Birth | 14 Apr 1856 |
| Death | 1918 |
| Cemetery | Saint Marys Catholic Cemetery Allen Township , Noble County , Indiana , USA |
| Added by | Kennetta Lemon on 29 May 2012 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42101184 |
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CHARLES KOKENGE, the principal dealer in hardware, tinware and stoves, at Avilla, Noble county, Ind., was born in. Minster, Ohio, April 14, 1856, a son of Joseph and Agnes (Heitkamp) Kokenge, natives of Germany. Joseph Kokenge cameto the United States when a boy, and grew to manhood in Minster, Ohio, where he learned the carpenter's trade, which, in conjunction with school-teaching, afforded him the means for a comfortable subsistence. He married Miss Heitkamp in Minster, and to this union were born eight children, viz: Mary, Charles, Barney, Henry, Elizabeth, Louise, Joseph and Amelia — all reared in the Catholic faith. In this faith the father passed away in 1875; his widow, also a devout Catholic, still resides at the old home in Minster. Charles Kokenge attended the parochial school at Minster until fourteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to a tinsmith in Glandorf, Ohio, with whom he served three years, and afterward worked as a journeyman, in various towns, until twenty-nine years old. In 1885 he settled in Avilla, Ind., and for five years, in partnership with A. Vogeding, conducted a hardware and tinware store and shop, but at the expiration of that period started his present establishment on his sole account, now carrying a full line of stoves, hardware, etc., and manufacturing tinware of every variety to order, beside keeping on hand a ready-made stock for instant delivery, and doing, also, general repair work. The marriage of Mr. Kokenge took place at Glandorf, Ohio, May 12, 1885, to Miss Mary Helmer, who was born in Avilla, Ind. , October 15, 1865, a daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Kreienbrink) Helmer, natives of the Buckeye state and of German extraction. Mr. and Mrs. Helmer were the parents of six children — Henry, John, Joseph, two deceased and Mary (Mrs. Kokenge). Both parents were called to rest in 1872, dying in the Catholic faith. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Kokenge has been blessed with five children, born in the following order: Charles, Loretta, Lucinda, Edward and Irvin. They belong to the congregation of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, at Avilla, of which Mr. Kokenge is a trustee, and he is also a member of St. Joseph society and the Benevolent society at Glandorf. Mr. Kokenge has been an industrious and temperate man all his life and owns a neat dwelling in Avilla, where his leisure hours are passed in domestic felicity and the enjoyment of the society of his numerous friends. - 1898 History of the Catholic Church in Indiana, Volume 2, p.835: https://archive.org/details/historyofcatholi02blan_0/page/n813/mode/1up
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