Werner von Trapp was born on 21 December 1915 at Thumersbach, Zell am See Bezirk, Salzburg, Austria.¹

     Werner, at age 33, married Erika Klambauer at age 26 on 27 December 1948, at Stowe, Lamoille, Vermont.

Austrian Girl And Von Trapp Son to Wed

STOWE Dr. and Mrs. Franz Klambauer of Salzburg. Austria, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Erika, to Werner V- Trapp, son of Baroness Maria Augusta Trapp and the late Baron George von Trapp. Miss Klambauer, a graduate of the University of Vienna Agriculture Department, was a close friend and classmate of Martina Trapp. The couple became acquainted in Austria before the Trapps fled that country before the war. Werner Trapp, who served with the 10th Mountain Division in Italy, received a leave of absence following the war, and visited Miss Klambauer in Salzburg. She flew to this country, landing a month ago in Boston. The couple will be married after Christmas. Trapp who was born in Austria, has taken the tenor part in tha Trapp Family Singers, and has operated the family 700-acre farm. The couple will move to the Trapp home "Cor Unum" and take over the farm.

CELEBRATE OCCASION

The engagement was celebrated in the chapel at Cor Unum yesterday and the Rev. Franz Wasner, musical and spiritual director of the family for 15 years, blessed the engagement riijgs. In his sermon he compared the bride with Rebecca of the Old Testament, who also left her parents and her home to join a husband in a faraway country. Then the couple pronounced their intentions and promise to marry. Then they placed the rings on each others fingers, and the whole family sang Bachs Thanksgiving Chorale. Everyone went in procession from the chapel to the family graveyard to ask in silent prayer the blessings of the late father, Baron Von Trapp. . A family dinner was held. Attending, in addition to family members living here, were Dr.and Mrs. Rupert Trapp of Hartford, Conn., Werners older brother. The family danced and sang traditional songs during the evening.^2,3

     Werner died on 11 October 2007, at Waitsfield, Washington, Vermont, at age 91. Hos cause of death was aspiration pneumonia, due to or consequence of basilar artery stroke..¹ He was buried at Trapp Family Lodge Grounds, Stowe, Lamoille, Vermont.¹

     (Harry) Lee Voorhees, son of Clarence Richard Voorhees and Kathryn Zeller, was born after 1940.

     Abram Voorhees, son of Jacques Voorhees 3rd and Ann Van Liew, was born on 7 April 1826.¹

     Abram married Sarah Ann Brunson on 17 November 1847.¹

     Abram died on 9 March 1883, at age 56,¹ and was buried at Elmwood Cemetery, New Brunswick, Middlesex, New Jersey.²

     Albert married Anna Van Dyke, daughter of Jan Van Dyke and Anna (Annetje) Verkerk.¹

     Ann married Abraham Beekman, son of Gerardus Christophe Beekman and Catrina (Catharine) Van Dyke, on 3 May 1776.¹

     Her married name was Beekman.¹