Ernest Kahmeyer Jr. was born September 19, 1901, at Hampton, Nebraska, one
  of seven children born to Ernest and Mary Nunnenkamp Kahmeyer Sr. He was
  confirmed March 28, 1915, in St. John's Lutheran Church at Nashville, Kansas.
  Malinda (Hellman) Kahmeyer was born April 11, 1899, at Herington, Kansas, one
  of eight children born to Henry and Wilhelmina (Schumacker) Hellman. She was
  confirmed March 16, 1913, at St. John's Lutheran Church, Nashville, Kansas.
    Ernest and Malinda were married October 16, 1921, at the parsonage in
  Nashville, Kansas, by the Reverend F. Duecker. To this union ten children
  were born, nine daughters and one son.
    Imogene married W.P. Wiske and they had four children. Ruby married Roland
  L. Dirks and they had four children. Dale married Harriette Randolpf and they
  had three children. Verna Lee married Lloyd Klusman and they had five
  children. Eunice married Lawrence Winter and they had four children. Arleen
  married Hal John Pirkey. Leona married Lindy Lechner and they had six children.
  Doris married Melvin Allender and they had four children. Frances married
  Kenneth Larkin and they had three children. Linda Sue married Duane Brown
  and they had two children.
    All of Ernest and Malinda's children were baptized at St. John's Lutheran
  Church and nine of the children were also confirmed there. Several of their
  children were also married at St. John's.
    Ernest and Malinda farmed in the Isabel, Nashville, and Zenda communities
  and were members of St. John's Lutheran Church.
    Sometime in 1945, the family moved to Harper and attended the church in
  Argonia. Ernest worked for the Railroad Company. In 1952, they moved to
  Medicine Lodge, Kansas, where they lived until the Lord called them home to
  Him.
    Ernest and Malinda were charter members of Trinity Lutheran Church in
  Medicine Lodge. They celebrated their twenty-fifth and fiftieth anniver-
  saries there. They wree laid to rest in the Highland Cemetery at Medicine
  Lodge, Kansas.
    The descendents of Ernest and Malinda consist of nine children and spouses
  (one daughter and a son-in-law are deceased), thirty-five grandchildren,
  fifty-two great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren. Four
  grandchildren and two great-grandchildren are deceased.
    These descendents ahve started their own newsletter, "The Nutty Clusters,"
  which is printed four times per year; the editor is Cathy Klusman of Wichita,
  Kansas.
    Since losing their parents, this family reunites each year on the Sunday
  before Thanksgiving when several of the children plan the day and play host.
                  
  Source:St. John's Lutheran Church Centennial 1893-1993, Nashville, Kansas, pg. 46 
  Submitted by: Eunice Winter