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Amandus Daniel Baer

Birth	:	5 Jan 1858 Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death	:	3 Oct 1923 Ness County, Kansas, USA
Burial	:	Ransom Cemetery, Ransom, Ness County, USA
Coordinate	:	38.6316986, -99.9156036
Description	:	Amandus Daniel Baer was born in Schuylkill County, Penn. January 5th, 1858, and died very suddenly of apoplexy, at his home in Ransom, Kansas, Oct. 3rd, 1923, at the age of 65 years, 8 months and 28 days. He was married to Emma Mast, May 19th, 1877 and to this union five children were born, Mamie, William, Roy, Anna and ( ) dying in infancy. Amandus Baer came to Ness County along with a colony of Pennsylvania German settlers who located along what is known as the “Dutch Flats”, and entered some land three miles east of Ransom. Mention of some... Read More	Amandus Daniel Baer was born in Schuylkill County, Penn. January 5th, 1858, and died very suddenly of apoplexy, at his home in Ransom, Kansas, Oct. 3rd, 1923, at the age of 65 years, 8 months and 28 days. He was married to Emma Mast, May 19th, 1877 and to this union five children were born, Mamie, William, Roy, Anna and ( ) dying in infancy. Amandus Baer came to Ness County along with a colony of Pennsylvania German settlers who located along what is known as the “Dutch Flats”, and entered some land three miles east of Ransom. Mention of some of his early toils and difficulties tends to throw light on the early history and development of this part of the state. When he arrived in Kansas he did not have enough money to buy a yoke of cattle. It was not easy to make a living and secure the bare necessities for several years, as many other pioneers found out, and many who came at that time became discouraged and left Kansas, and thus never realized the prosperity which eventually came to those who persisted and remained. In order to secure the means to buy food Mr. Baer spent several winters as a section hand on the Santa Fe Railroad, walking all the way to Dodge City in order to secure employment in that capacity. Several summers he played his part as a hand in the harvest fields in McPherson County. One farmer for whom he worked as a hand did not have the money to pay his wage after he had finished. Thus with the hardest kind of manual toil he earned and saved enough to buy a yoke of cattle. Those oxen gave him the power to drag a plow thru the virgin soil of his claim, and he then started to farming in earnest. His pioneer home was a sod house, and in that humble home, which was typical of all habitation in Ness County at that date, his children were born and reared. In later years Mr. Baer enjoyed a comfortable prosperity, but he got his start and made most of his early fortune on the old home claim and farm. He was a grain raiser, and the annual crops paid him a dividend. He has never been a speculator in land, and his ownership extended to only a half section and yet out of that he became financially independent. His life was severe struggle but in less than twenty-five years he found himself independent. For many years he served as a trustee of Nevada township, favored education, and encouraged long sessions of the local schools, and one of the best rural schools Ness County ever had was the Fairview School. Mr. Baer remained on the old homestead until Mrs. Baer’s death in 1910, when he retired from active farming and had since made his home in Ransom. In 1916 he was married to Miss Lillian Behler of New Ring-gold, Pennsylvania, and besides a wife he leaves to mourn his loss one brother, Fred Baer, of Pennsylvania, his son William of Ransom and six grandchildren and a host of friends. The funeral services were held at the home on Friday, October the 5th, and the remains were laid to rest in the family lot in the Ransom Cemetery. Ransom Record, October 11, 1923

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Amandus Daniel Baer death on 3 Oct 1923 in Ness County, Kansas, USA
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Latitude: 38.6316986
Longitude: -99.9156036

Family Members:

Spouse

Emma Mast Baer

(1858 - 1910)

Children

William Franklin Baer

(1884 - 1944)

Roy Harrison Baer

(1888 - 1921)

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Coordinate: 38.6316986, -99.9156036

2. Cyrus Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.6833000, -99.8491974

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7. Prairie Chapel Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.5946999, -100.0730972

8. Rauch Family Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.7086090, -100.0799100

9. Ness City Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.4587500, -99.8911900

10. Sacred Heart Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.4435997, -99.9011002

11. Utica Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.4350014, -99.8724976

13. Chenoweth Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.4211006, -99.8752975

14. Ramsey Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.5750008, -99.6414032

15. Saint Marys Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.5668983, -99.6406021

16. Bazine Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.4766998, -99.6956024

17. Mishler Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.3921300, -99.9910300

18. Zion Lutheran Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.8782997, -99.8927994

19. McCracken Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.5758018, -99.5761032

20. Emanuel Lutheran Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.8800100, -99.7442700

21. Beeler Cemetery
Ness County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4502983, -100.1967010

22. Kunze Cemetery
Ness County, USA
Coordinate: 38.3424988, -99.9047012

23. Alanthus Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.7731018, -100.2822037

24. White Rock Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.6258011, -100.3311005