Family Search: When Private Lorenzo Marquis Kress was born on 22 January 1886, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, his father, August Alonzo Kress, was 34 and his mother, Elisabeth Thiel, was 23. He married Agnes Elizabeth Smith on 30 September 1919, in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Waterloo North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1891. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1931, at the age of 45, his occupation is listed as treer. He died on 28 August 1954, in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 68, and was buried in Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Articles in the blog about this soldier…
“They were both fine fellows.”: “Dutch” Kress and “Butch” Cramond of Galt, Ontario
Avid baseball player.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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