Illinois: History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. 
William Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

MRS. ELIZABETH STURMAR, farmer; P.O. Meredosia, Morgan Co.; widow 
of Kasper Sturmar, who was born in Germany in 1827. He served as a 
soldier in the German army, and in 1851 came to the United States; 
remained in Beardstown, this county, some time, and worked by the 
month on the farm of Mr. Skinner for three years. He married in 
1856, Miss Elizabeth Kahlman (the subject of this sketch), who was 
born in Hanover, Germany, in March, 1824; was educated in her 
native land, and emigrated to the United States in 1855. They had 
no children of their own, but they raised and educated two adopted 
children, viz.: Henry Schleter, born in Beardstown, this county, 
in April, 1870; and Samuel Kahlman, born in August, 1873, in 
Indian Creek Precinct, this county. Since the death of her 
husband, who died in March, 1871, Mrs. Sturmar has managed the 
farm, which consists of 200 acres, about half of which is under 
cultivation, the remainder being timer land. Mrs. Sturmar is a 
member of the Lutheran church.

Sturmar Skinner Kahlman Schleter 
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Germany Morgan-IL