Franz Kemmerer was born about 1791 in Obrol [?].
He served as a soldier in the 11th Light Cavalry Regiment of Napoleon's Army.
He fought against and was captured by the Russians.
In 1814, he was settled in the Volga German colony of Yagodnaya Polyana.
Milovidov records that as of 1814, his father, mother, one brother, and one sister were still living in Obrol [?].
His children are recorded there on the 1834 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 183.
Milovidov records that Franz Kemmerer came from the Obrol [?] where he had been a peasant.
- 1834 Yagodnana Polyana Census (Household No. 183).
- Belousov, S.V. "Prisoners of war of Napoleon's army in the Volga region: the arrangement, content, relationships with the local population." Bulletin of the Samara State University, No. 1 (Samara, Russia: Samara State University, 2006): 48-55.
- Milovidov, B. P. "Prisoners of War of the Napoleonic Army in the Saratov Colonies in 1813-1820: New Documents." (p. 54, #141)
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