Kaut House on Little Sandy Road. Razed 2005.
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Johannes (John) Christian Kaut home built 1855

John Christian Kauth (Kaut), farmer and blacksmith, was born in Schmahingen, Bavaria, Germany 17 Oct 1811.

John immigrated with his parents, sister, wife, and children aboard the Barque Cuxhaven from Cuxhaven to New York City in 1839.

John first lived with his wife and children in a brick, two-story, ell-shaped home with a porch at the northeast corner of Main Street and Cedar Alley in Greenuosburg (as it was known then). John’s blacksmith shop and barn were located behind his home, nearer to the Ohio River.

John’s parents are believed to have travelled further west along the Ohio River to settle in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where they both died within a short time of one another in 1841. John wrote in his family Bible that his parents died 1841 in “Keperida, MO.”

Next, John bought a large plot of land that extended from the hills to the Little Sandy River and to the adjacent hills and bottomlands along Alcorn Road. There, he built the red brick, ell-shaped, two-story home you see this photo. The red bricks were homemade from clay pits located on John’s farm in 1855. A brick hand-dated “1855” was retrieved from the home during demolition by Greg Bentley.

The Kaut Family Cemetery is located just behind where the house once stood and is easily visible from the road. John’s large, tall memorial appears in the top-right area of the photo. John was a master mason.

Additionally, the Kaut Post Office was operated by Ben Watson Kaut (grandson of Johannes Kaut) on “Kaut Hill” Alcorn Road on the farm of Charles Henry and Neva (Kaut) Boyle. The Boyle Family Cemetery is located here.

Refer to the Greenup genealogical Society room at the library. There is a book called a family history and photographs which covers the Kaut, Boyle, Kidwell, Palmer, Sizemore, and Hunt families.