Photo 44-JSH-5

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kruegerville. Located at W11722 Swamp Road, Marion.
The dairy barn is gone. The blacksmith shop in top left corner of photo is gone. The shop that is shaped like a barn has been added onto. The main house has been altered.garage added. owned by Orvil & Ann Krueger.

Orvil Krueger home on Swamp Road.

Orvil grew up here and still resides. He is 88. His father AC and Mother Hertha ( Spiegel) Krueger built the home. They had 11 children. Henry, Albert, Willard, Marvin, Leon, Harvey, Harold,Orvil, Adeline, Marcella, Evelyn and one who died (at birth?). AC and Hertha and some of the children are buried in the cemetery located south of Marion on State Road 110. Orvil has recently added on an enclosed ramp to the west side of the house and is in process of adding a sun room onto the front of the house where the cement roof over the root cellar was. Most of the land has been sold to the neighboring farmers.

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