Herman Lampe was born at Mackellburg, Germany. At the age of five, he
   came with his parents to Lanham, Nebraska.
     Herman married Elizabeth Marie Timm in 1901. Elizabeth was born in
   Hanover, Kansas, in 1880. They lived in Lanham, Nebraska, where three of
   their children were born: Minnie, Augusta and Martin.
     They moved to Nashville, Kansas, in 1908. They purchased one hundred
   sixty acres of land one and one-half miles southwest of Nashville and
   built a three-room house. Five more children, Katherine, Elmer, Lawrance,
   Ella and Raymond, were born there.
     Herman was an elder and held various offices in the church.
     Elizabeth Marie Lampe died September 27, 1937, at the Nashville Hospital.
   Herman William Lampe died on his farm March 28, 1960. They are both buried
   in the Lutheran Cemetery at Nashville, Kansas.
                     
  Source:St. John's Lutheran Church Centennial 1893-1993, Nashville, Kansas, pg. 58 
  Submitted by: Fern Lampe