Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Warren County.

FRITZ SCHRAH was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1842, and is a son of 
Philip and Catherine (Schafer) Schrah.  After arriving at man's estate 
he came to the United States and stopped for a brief time in New York, 
and then went to St. Louis, where he remained for two years engaged in a 
malt house.  He next went to Evansville, Ind., and remained there two 
years, and next came to the Gaspar Quarry, where he has been since 1872 
managing the quarry.  He married, 1870, Margaret, daughter of John 
Lapes, of Evansville.  This union has resulted in the birth of seven 
children, as follows:  Lizzie, Charles, Katie, Fritz R., Lena, an 
infant, deceased, and John P.  In politics Mr. Schrah is a Republican.  
He is a member of the Masonic order, and of the Protestant German 
Church.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Schrah were educated in Germany.  She came to 
the United States in 1865.

Lapes Schafer Schrah
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Bavaria-Germany NY IN St._Louis-St._Louis-MO

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