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1 . Your name Judy A. Evans ( 1 D //_ I
Date of f o r m ApH 1 5, 1976
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2 . Your college: Rock Valley College
Rockford, Illinois
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FAM1 LY DATA
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Grandfather (your father's side)
Name Edward C. EVANS Current Residence
Date of birth
Date of death
1870
1953
Place of birth Athens County
Place of burial Ohio
Education(number of years);
grr.de schoo 1 high school
Occupation(s)
l s t Grocery Stores
2nd
3rd
vocational
College
4 th
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
_1 s t
2nd
3rd
A th
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Dates
_D a t e s
Dates
Religion unknown
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Republican
Place of Marriage to your grandmother Unknown date
NOTE: If your father was raised (to age 18) by a stepfather or another
relative give that data on the back of this page. (A-l)
Grandmother (your father's side)
Name Jenny KELLY Current Residence Deceased
Date of birth _ 1875
Date of death "T9W
Place of birth
Place of burial
Unknown
Helsonyille, Ohio
Education (number of years):
grade school jj high school
college
vocational
Occupation (s)
lst Housewife
2nd
3rd
4 th
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
Religion Catholic
1 s t
2nd
3rd
4th
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Da tes
Date s
Da t e s
Date s
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc
Republican
Place of marriage to your grandfather
da ti
NOTE: If your lather was raised 'in age 18) by a stepmother or
another relative give that data on t h c- back of this page
(A-2) .
A -2 Step^randf ather (your father's side)
N a -.
Current Residence
Date of birth
Date of death
Place of birth
Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade school high school
college
Occupation(s)
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Religion
Dates
Dates
Da tes
Dates
Is t.
2nd
.3rd_
4th
voca tional
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
D a t e s
Dates
Dates
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities , etc
Place of marriage to your grandmother_
B-2 S tepgrandmo ther (your father's side)
date
Name
Date of birth
Date of death
Current Residence
Place of birth
Place of burial
Education (number of years):
grade school high school
coll e ge
vo c a t i ona 1
Occupation(s)
1st
2nd
3rd
4 th
Dates
Da tes
Dates
Dates
1st
2nd
_3rd_
4 t h
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Dates
Da tes
Da les
Re 1 i gion
' o 1 i C 1 c a 1 party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandfather
I) a I e
Grandfather (your mother's side)
N a m v Michael Rohert MCBRIDE
n.ite of birth February 16, 1882
Date of death November 6, 1969
Current Res id one e Deceased
Place of birth McCarthy, Ohio
Place of burial Logan, Hocking, Ohio
Education (number of years):
grade school 8 high school
vocational
college
Occupation(s)
1st Mechanic
Ma
2nd Machinist
3rd
4 th
Dates 1900-1909 1st
Dates 1909-1962 2nd
Da tes 3rd
Dates 4th
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Logan » Ohio p ate s 1900-1909
Columbus, Ohio Dates 1909-1912
Logan, Ohio Dates 1912-1946
Lancaster, Ohio Dates 1946-1955
Religion
Cathol ic
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, c l c
Democrat
Place of marriage to your grandmother date
NOTE: Tf your mother was raised by a stepfather or another relative (to
age 18) give that data on the back of this page (C-l)
Grandmother (your mother's side)
Name Catherine Shorr
Date of birth December 31, 1888
Date of death
Current Residence
Place of birth |_p(
Place of burial
Oh in
3hio__
Education (number of years)
grade school X high school li
vocational
coll e g e
Occupation (s)
]st Housewife
2nd
3rd
4th
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
PEACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Same as Husband Dates
2nd
3rd
4 th
Da I vr.
Da t e s
Dates
R e 1 i g i o n
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Democrat
Plate of marriage to your grandf a ther_ Date
NOTE: If your mother was raised by a stepmother or another re I at ive (to
Hi grive that data on the back of this page ( D- 2 )
C-2 S tepgrandf ather (your mother's side)
Name
Date of birth
Date 01 death
Education (number of years)
grade school high school
Occupation(s)
1st
2nd
3rd
4 th
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
Current Residence
Place of birth
Place of burial
vo cational
col lege
1st
2nd
3rd_
4th
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
Religion
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc
Place of marriage to your grandmother
D-2 S t e p gr a n dmo t h e r (your mother's side)
N a m e
Date of birth
Date of death
Date
Current Residence
Place of birth
Education (number of years)
grade school high school
Occupation(s)
1st
2nd
3rd
4 th
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
Place of burial
vocal lona 1
col lege
1st
2nd
3rd
4 th
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Dates
D a t e s
D a ten
Re 1 I gion
Political party, civil or social dubs, sororities, etc
Clare of marriage t o your grandfather
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CHILDREN of A & B (or A- 2 or B-2) - your father's name should appear below
I . Name Ira Christopher EVANS
Place of birth Nelsonville, Ohio date 1903
Number of years of schooling' High School Occupation Sales
Res i dene e Detroit, Mich, m a r i t a i statu s Married
Number of children 0 Death 1945
Name Catherine EVANS
p l a c c o f birth" NeTsonvTFTe, Ohio dat e 1904
Number of years of schoolin g 8 0 c c u p a t ion
Res idenceljpppr SanDuSky, Ohio Marital s tatus_Marri£d
Number of children Q Death
n a me Donald A. EVANS
Place of birth Nelsonville. Ohio date Oct. 1906
Number of years of schooling High School Occupation Sales
Res i dence Royal Oak. Mich. Mar j tal Status Married
Number of children 5 Death 1970
Name Charles Edward FVANS
Place of birth Nelsonville. Ohio d 1 1 e_ Jan . . 26^ 1908
Number of years of schooling . 9 yrs. . Occupation Baker .
Residence Rockford, Illinois m a r i t a l statu s_ Married
Number of childre n 5 d eat h Jan. 6, 1965
Name Mary EVANS _
Place of birth NeTsonvflle, Ohio date 1910
Number of years of schooling High School Occupation SeaitlStreSS
Residence Columbus , Ohio Marital Status Married
Number of" children 0 . Death July, 1966
Name Joseph EVANS
lace of birth Nelsonville. Ohio date 1912
Number of years of schooling Hi qh School Occupation Office Work
Residence B1 oomi nqburq , Ohio Marital status Married
Number of children 12 death 1973
Name Paul EVANS
Place of birth Nelsonville, Ohio d a t e 1914.
Number of years of schooling Hiqh School Occupation jjrocer.
Residenc e Dayton, Ohio m a r i t a l status Married
Number of children 3 death 1969
Name Harry EVANS
Place of birth Nelsonville, Ohio date 1915 .
Number of years of schooling Hiqh School O c c u p a t i o n_CjuinJx Audi tOr_
Residenc e Nelsonville, Ohio m aritai statu s Married
Number of children 4 death ,
Name Elizabeth EVANS
Place "of birth Nelsbnvi 11 e , Ohi 0 date 1917
Number of years of schooling HighSchOOl Occupation _ Housewife
Residence Malta, Ohio _ Marital st at us _ Married
Number of children 1 donth ~
Nam e
Place of birth date
Number of years of schooling Occupation .
R v s i d e n c e _ Mar 1 t a 1 S t i\ t us
Number ol children dealli
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CHILDREN of C and D (or C-2, D-2)-your mother's name should appear below
. - Bernard F. MCBRIDE
Logan, Ohio
Place of bir t h
Number of years of schooling College
date Sept. 20, 1905
_o ccupatio n Chemist
Residence St. Louis, Mich. Marital Status Married
Number of children 8 death
date April 12, 1908
Anna Margaret MCBRIDE
i of birth Logan, Ohio
Number of years of schooling 8th Grade Occupation Housewife
e Hcckins County, Ohftexital Stat us Married
Number of children 5 death February 17, 1976
Name Gertrude Catheri ne MCBRIDE
Place of birth Columbus, Ohio date February 18.
Number of years of schooling High School Occupation Housewife
Residence F.cckford, Illinois Marital Status Married
1910
Number of children
death -
John W. MCBRIDE
Place of birth Logan, Ohio
Number of years of schooling
Residence Kt. Pleasant, Mich. Marital
Number of children
date October 7, 1916
High School Occupation Oil Fields
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status Married
death
Name Joseph E. MCERIDE
of birth Logan, Ohio"
Number of years
Res id e nee
D- Number of children
date May, 1919
f schooling High SchooT 0 ccupat Ion
Feoria, Illinois Marital status Married
Sales
death
Name Robert Jay MCBRIDE
Place of birth Logan, Ohio
date Sept. 6, 1922
CoTleae
Number of years of schooling
Residence LongBeach, IndiafMari'tal Status
Number of children 7 death
Occupation Trucking Industry, V,p,
Married
Name
Place of birth
Number of years of schooling
Re s i d e nc e
Number of children-
date
Marital Status
death
Occupation
Name
Place of birth
Number of years of schooling
Residence
date
Occupatio n
Number of children
Marital Statu s
death
Name
Place of birth
date
Number of years of schooling
Residence Marital Status
Number of children'.
Occupa C ion
death
ir).
N a me
Place of birth
Number of yearn of Hfhooling
Kef) I d v n c e
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Ma r i I a I Stat u h
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Oc ' upat ion
Your Father
N ame Charles Edward EVANS
Current Residence
Deceased
Date of birth Jan. 26, 1908
Date of Death Jan. 6, 1965
Place of birth Nelsonville, Ohio
Place of burial Rockford, Illinois
Education (number of years)
grade school X high school
vocational
college
Occupation(s)
1st Baker
2nd
3rd
4th
Dates 1923-1965
Date s
Dates
Dates
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
lst Versilles, Ind. Dates 1933
2nd Malta, Ohio
Dates
1934
3rd Columbus, Ohio
Dates 1937
4th Omaha, Nebraska
Dates 1944
Catholic
Religion_
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc
Independent
Knights of Columbus
Place of marriage to your mother
date
NOTE: If you were raised by a stepfather or another relative give that da
on the back of this page. (E-2)
Your Mother
Name Gertrude Catherine MCBRIDE
Date of birth Feb. 18, 1910
Date of death ~
Education (number of years)
grade school X high r school
Current Residence Rockford, IL
Place of birth Columbus, Ohio
Place of burial
vocational
college
Occupation(s)
1st Housewife
2nd
3rd
4th
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
lst Same as above Dates
2nd
3rd
4 th
D a t e s
Dates
Dates
Re l i g i o n Catholic
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc
Independent
Place of marriage to your father_
date
NOTE: If you were raised by a stepmother or another relative give that da
on the back of this page (F-2).
E-2 Stepfather
Name
Date of birth Place of birth
Date of death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
• Je school high school vocational college
Occupation (s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates 1st Dates
2nd Da t e s 2 nd D a t e s
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
4th Dates 4th Dates
Re 1 i g ion
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
PI i e of marriage to your mother Date
P-2 Stepmother
Name
Ditcofbirth Placeofbirth
Dateofdeath Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade school high school vocational college
Occupation (s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1 s t Da t e s 1 s t Da t e s
2nd Dates 2nd Dates_
3r d _ Dates 3rd Dates_
4th Dates 4th Dates
Re 1 1 gion
Political party, < i v i 1 or social clubs, sororities, etc .
Plan- of marriage to your father
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CHILDREN OF E AND F (or E-2.F-2) -YOUR NAME SHOULD APPEAR BELOW
Name Charles Robert EVANS
Place of birth Malta, UMo Date of birth February 18, 1935
Number of years of schooling 16 Occupation Accountant
Residence NorthbrQOk, IL Marital Status Married
Number of children 2 death -
Name Mary Catherine EVANS
Place of birth Columbus, Ohio Date of birth July 23, 1937
Number of years of schooling 18 Occupation Principal
Residence Joliet, IL Marital Status Single
Number of children death -
Name JoAnne Elizabeth EVANS
Place of birth Columbus, Ohio Date of birth Jan. 4, 1940
Number of years of schooling 16 Occupation Teacher
Residence Wilmette, IL Marital Status Single
Number of children death -
Name Thomas Edward EVANS
Place of birth Columbus, Ohio Date of birth Sept. 19. 1944
Number of years of schooling 16 Occupation Accountant
Residence Rockford, IL Marital Status Married
Number of children 2 death
Name Linda Suzanne EVANS
Place of birth Omaha, Nebraska Date of birth
Number of years of schooling 16 Occupation Housewife
Residence Clinton, Iowa Marital Status Married
Number of children 1 death
Name
Place of birth Date of birth
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Name
Place of birth Date of birth
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Name
Place of birth Date of birth
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
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administrative rights, to the Rock Valley College Family History
Collection, deposited in the Rockford Public Library, Rockford
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Sources
Personal Interviews
Gertrude C. McBride Evans, Mother of Subject
Thomas E. Evans, Subject
Linda Suzanne Evans Fleming, Sister of Subject
Family Geneology
Geneology of John Schorr, researched by Richard Till
Part I
Christopher EVANS, dates unknown, born in England in Wales.
He moved to the United States in 1840. His profession was
mining and he settled in the coal mining districts of Pennsyl-
vania. He later moved to southern Ohio. He authored several
mining books, including one that was used in classrooms, on
mining procedures. His lifestyle and his wife's name was not
uncovered in research.
Edward Christopher EVANS, 1870 - 1953, born in Athens
County, Ohio.
Jennifer Koping KELLY, 1875 - 1940, birthplace unknown.
Edward was raised in the mine districts of Pennsylvania
and Ohio. He spent his lifetime working on the fringes of the
mines. He owned several grocery stores in the small mining
towns of southern Ohio. Each one went into bankruptcy after he
gave out too much credit to the people, and then the mines
closed. In his later life he operated a candy store and had
the terminal for the local bus lines in Nelsonville, Ohio. He
spent a lot of time with his grandchildren and enjoyed giving
candy to them. His store was a must in any trip to southern
Ohio. He did not practise any religion but set up his own
values and morals and lived very strictly according to them. He
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also stressed his wife's religion to them. Jennifer was adopted
when she was very young by the Kelly family in Rock Island, Illinois.
Her adopted father worked for the government arsenal in Rock Island.
There is very little known about her real parents or what happened
to them. The Kelly family was very religious and raised Jennifer
as a Catholic. She could not, by law, become a Catholic until she
was of age. She was very sickly and often was not able to
raise her family. Jennifer and Edward were staunch Republicans
and Edward ran for local congressman once, but was defeated.
He was considered the head republican for the county and
conferred with state and federal republicans during his later
life. They had nine children, Ira Christopher Evans, Catherine
Evans Fishbaugh, Donald Evans, Charles Edward Evans, Mary Evans
Davis, Joseph Evans, Harry Evans, Paul Evans, and Elizabeth
Evans. Five of the six boys and Mary Evans died of cancer. The
other three are still living.
The six boys were mischievous children who liked to play
tricks. In fact, Charles Edward Evans had part of a thumb and
two fingers missing from playing with caps. As a family they
also pulled together, especially during the depression, getting
work whenever and whereever they could. The whole family picked
onions in the onion fields around Carey, Ohio.
Charles Edward EVANS, Jan. 26, 1908 - Jan. 6, 1965, born
in Nelsonville, Hocking, Ohio.
Part II
John SCHORR, dates unknown, born in Zaarbruck Alsace, France.
A prominent citizen of the Department of Zaarbruch, Alsace,
France, he came to the United States in 1835. This was at the
insistance of his neighbors, most of whom were soldiers of
Napoleon and restless under the rule of the reinstated Bourbons.
He was to observe the United States and select a location for
his neighbors.
After passing through the flat lands of Perry, Fairfield,
and the Pickaway plaines, he decided that they were not to
his liking. In the Hocking Valley Ohio, he saw his fatherland
again and three miles north of Logan, Ohio he "set his stakes".
) On the highest hill in the township from whose summet can be
seen a scape of country ten to twenty miles distant. With
the valley of Hocking spread below, he set a stone marked with
a cross for a church when his people had settled. Then he
returned to the Old Country and in 1837, the colony of twenty-
six families arrived to buy the land Herr Schorr chose.
George SHORR, 1864 - 1946, born in Logan, Hocking, Ohio.
Anna Jane FLUM, 1866 - 1944, born in Logan Hocking, Ohio.
George and Anna were strict Germans who lived in southern
Ohio all of their lives. Anna died in 1944 and George entered
the hospital the week of the funeral and never left. He died
in 1946. Their children include Mary Shorr, April 6, 1882 to
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March 16, 1893; Edward Vincent Shorr, May 18, 1884, married to
Monica Frances McGonagle. Gertrude Cecelia Shorr, December 20,
1888 to --. Married to Michael Robert McBride. Joseph Lawrence
Shorr, March 24, 1891. Married to Olive Susan Smech. Barbara
Agnes Shorr, December 25, 1893 to January 5, 1930. Married to
Charles Vere Dalton. Charles Leo Shorr, July 22, 1896 to --.
Married to Edith Lenna Piper. John Henry Shorr, July 19, 1899
to --. Married to Gretchen Maryanne Solon. Florence Anastasia
Shorr, April 25, 1902 to --. Married to Robert Woltring
Harrison.
Michael Robert MCBRIDE, February 16, 1882 - November 6,
1969, born in McCarthur Ohio.
Catherine SCHORR, December 31, 1888 --, born in Logan,
Hocking Ohio.
Michael was a short Irishman with a temper and a taste
for whiskey. He spent much of his younger life with his aunts.
Catherine was a rather tall German, also with a temper, and a
strict Catholic background. She controlled the household and
the money for the family. Michael spent his early adult life
as a car mechanic working in this new and unusual field. Most
of the early time they did not own a car, but often took rides
with their children to test his work. The kids got rides in
most of the cars at that time. They then moved to Columbus in
1909 at which time he became a machinist. Later they moved
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back to Logan and spent the depression there. During the 1920 's
Michael was also a whiskey runner for the bootleggers that abound
in the Logan area. Local distillers were considered the best
in the country and Straitsville whiskey often showed up as far
away as Oregon and Washinton. There are still some of these
bootleggers still living in the area. They made it through the
depression with the cooperation of their children. After the
children left home, they moved to Lancaster, Ohio. On their
50th wedding anniversary, they purchased their first home in
Sugar Grove, Ohio. This was several acres with 3/4 wooded. He
had a large garden. Michael worked as a machinist until he
was 74. He then was in an auto crash and then had to quit. He
loved to read and spent his later years either reading or
working in his garden. Kate as her friends call her, is still
living in Logan, Ohio with a housekeeper. Their children
are Bernard Frederick McBride, born September 20th, 1906. Married
to Emma Elizabeth Franz. Anna Margaret McBride, April 12, 1908 to
February 17, 1976. She was married to John Forman Kuhn. Ger-
trude Catherine McBride, February 18, 1910 to --. She was
married to Charles Edward Evans. John William McBride, Novem-
ber 7, 1916 to --. Married to Blanch Anders, Patricia Coving-
ton, and presently Juanita Stouse. Joseph Edward McBride,
May 22, 1919, to --. Married to Madelyn Bennett. And Robert
James McBride, September 6, 1922 to --. Married to Maxine
Stine.
Gertrude Catherine McBRIDE, February 18,1910- born in Col umbus , Ohio
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Part III
Charles and Gertrude, were married on August 21, 1933, in Logan
Ohio. They immediately moved to Versailles Indiana, where Charles
had a job in a small bakery. They lived in a hotel for the year
or so which they lived there. They spent a typical life as a newly
wed couple, meeting other people and enjoying the small town atmosphere
in southern Indiana. They then moved to Malta, Ohio where their oldest
was born. After one year they moved to Columbus , Ohio where Charles
worked for a large bakery called Omar. They then spent 7 years here
and purchased their first home. After Tom was born, they moved to
Omaha, Nebraska, with Gertrude having to wait until the doctor would
allow her to travel. After four years they moved to Rockford, 111.
where Charles became a production manager of Rockford Bakeries , Inc.
They first moved to 726 Locust St. in the northwest part of Rockford.
They had a quiet life with the family being an important part of
everyone's life. Charles spent 70 to80 hours working, so the family
was very mother-centered. Because of the amount of work spent and
the sucess of the business , they were in the middle-cless level with
the bills paid and a comfitable life. Religion also was an important
thread that ran through the whole life. The children were educated
in local Catholic schools. All of the children were able to obtain
a four year degree with Mary Kay completing her Master Degree. In
1957 they moved to 420 Fairview Blvd. on the far east side of town.
Charles died on January 6,1965 of Cancer. Their children were
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Robert Charles Evans , February 18,1935 to -.married to Kathleen
McDermott, Mary Caterine Evans, July 23,1937 to -,an Adrian Dominican
Nun, JoAnne Elizabeth Evans .January 4,1940 to -,an Adrian Dominican
Nun, Thomas Edward Evans .September 19,1944 to -.married to Judith
Ann Engle, Linda Suzanne Evans .February 9, 1948, married to Charles
Fleming.
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I. Your name Sally .R. BREED FISCHER
Date of form „ a ( 1 0 H
.November . 1974
?.. Your (.o i lege: kock Va I ley (,ol lege (ID //
foTkTbrcT, Illinois
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South Atlantic (Ga. , Fla., N.C., S.C.) East South Central (La. , Miss. , Ala. ,Tenn, Ky
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Pacific (Cal., WashJ (Hawaii, Alaska) HI. Wis.)
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5. Please check all occupational categories In which members of your family whom you have
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X Farming x Mln ing x Shopkeeplng or small business
X Transportation B I g Business Manufacturing
Professions x Industrial labor Other
Please check a 1 1 religious groups to which members of your family whom you have discussed
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Quaker Mormon x Other Protestant Other
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^ews X Central Europeans I tal I ans Slavs
"Irish X Bri t Ish Native Americans over several generations
'East Asian Other
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FAMILY DATA
A. Grandfather (your father's side)
Name Prank pn, BREED Current Residence
If deao, date onfcWtb 2Q. ont,nw 1061
Stockton Township
Place of birth J0 Daviess Gtv.. Illinois Data of Birth 1Qf ,Tari„aT.y 1flQn
Education (number of years):
grade school 0 high school vocational college
Occupatlon(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st far.torv worker Dates 1912-1911.1 1st Waterloo. Iowa Dates i g] p_i i
2nd farmer Dates 191^-191x9 2nd Stockton. 111. Dates lgik-lr
rural
3rd Dates 3rd Sol Daviess County . Tl .Dates 19l5-Uc
^th Dates Ath Stockton, 111. Dates 19U9-63
R« 1 ' 9 1 on a^.itai unUoH h.o thpen
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. Republican
Place of Marriage to your grandmother , date c q„ _+ 777"-
NOTE: If your father was raised (to age 18) by a stepfather or another relative give
that data on the back of this page. (A-1)
B. Grandmother (your father's side)
Name Bertha E. HTNTZ Currant Residence
If dead, date of death 20. October 196"
Place of birth 0 Germany Date of bl rth 26. March 1891
Education (number of years):
grade school high school vocational col lege_
Occupatlon(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st House Cleaner Dates 1906-12 1st Waterloo. Iowa Dates 1912- 111
rural Jo
2nd Housewife Dates 1912-61 2nd Daviess bounty. 111. Dates 191U-U'""
3rd Factory Worker Dates 191+9-53 3rd Stockton, 111. Dates 19Ll9-63
kth Dates *»th Datesl911i-15
Re I i g I on Lutheran
* Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc. Republican
Place of marriage to your grandfather .......... DATE
Note
! Ka^°aatJaSfi»fh»afta«,WdtA*? We8^)? stepmother or another relative give
I Stepyrandfather (your father's side)
Current Residence
I I Hate of death
Pl.ice nf birth Date of Birth
Education (number of years)
grade school high school vocational college
Occupat lon(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates 1st Dates
2nd Dates 2nd Dates
}rd Dates 3rd Dates
^ th Dates *qh Dates
Rc I i g i on
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
ace nf marriage to your grandmother date
2 Stepgrandmother (your fathar's side)
Nar*e Currant Residence
I f dead , date of1 death
Place of birth Date of birth
Education (number of years):
grade school high school vocational college
Occupat ion(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates 1st Dates
2nd Dates 2nd Dates
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
Religion
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandfather
Date
3.
Grandfather (your mother's side)
Current Residence
Name A1hpT-+ w.^ MrKTT.T.TPS
If deaa, date of death p-| ifa-r. 1 Q73
Woodbine Township
Place of birth ,Tn rtev1ftSR nt.v.. TlUnnis Date of birth ?1 . December 1384
Education (number of years):
grade school § high school 1 jr ? vocational college
Occupatlon(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st ice Business Dates 19 . - 1st Dates
2nd Butcher & Car Salesman Dates 1912-15 2nd Dates
3rd 'Farmer Dates 1915-50 3rd Dates
*»th Butcher Dates 1956-59 frth Dates
Religion Methodist -60 year church choir member
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. cpubliC-m, member
Kavanaugh Lod^e "36 Aff & Aid and iviartha Jhapter, LiTitt' ' ul' "ti.u fiatjlerii ular
Place of1 marriage to your grandmother ner n0me , .voodLine Twp., Jo l)avfote 1 , June- 1C) 15
Note: If your mother was raised by a rwpTETflBT W inULlier relJLlVH (to age 18)
give that data on the back of this page (C-l)
Grandmother (your mother's side)
Name Jean Mary BROWN ^ Current Residence
I f dead, date of* death j T\,a. 1 4^
Woodbine Township
Place of birth ,Tn navies ntv.. TninMs Date of birth j r MaTV»h i^r
Education (number of years;
grade school high school 2 or 3 vocational college
Occupatlon(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
. (after leaving home)
lst Homemaker Dates 1915-Uo 1st --pt .. Elizabeth, 111. Dates 915-16
farm in woodbine twp.
2nd Dates 2nd lizabeth, J .11. Dates 916-48
3rd Dates 3rd | Dates
Re 1 I g I on Methodist
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Republican,
Place of marriage to your grandfather' OodDir.v- C iv p' . 1 J o . Jav . uty idate > ^u"e '^'^
Note: If your mother was raised by a stepmother or another r'»i«Mw» 1 ?J
„Ivc Jo«.« un tne oac* or this page (D-2)
I S I epg randf a the r (your mother's side)
N.jine
I f (It- .id, 'lair- of death
N ... ..I liiiili
I illll . 1 1 i • hi (in iinlif r 'if y . 1 ill)
<i i .i.li' .. iii it ) l 1 1 i <j 1 1 s choo I
<)c t up, 1 1 I on ( s )
Ut
>.l
3rd
<Uh
_Dates_
_Dates_
Dates
Dates
Current Residence
I). llC llf I'll III
vocal I una I
co I logo
1 s t_
2nd_
3rd_
*4th
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
"el i g i on
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Plac<" of marriage to your grandmother
Dates
Dates
Dates
date
? Stc(if|r.indmothiT (your mother's side)
Name
I f de.jd, Hale of death
Pl*cc of birth
Education (number of years)
qradc school h i gh school
Occupot ion(s)
I'.t
?nd
3rd
Dates
_Dates_
Dates
Current Residence
Date of bi rth
vocat lona I
lst_
_2nd_
3rd
R»; I i 'j i on
tical port/, civil or soc i al c 1 ubs , sororities, etc.
col lege
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Dates
Dates
ac«* of marriage to your grandfather
Date
CHILDREN ot A & b A~ I or B- I } ~ your father's name should appear below
' • Name Rasnqp B. BREED
Place of b.rtn T „ ^.visas r:t,Ynt update 17 January 1910
Number of years of schooling 8 ,. Occupation retired mechanic
Residence Ma^h^l 1 town . Towa Marital Status marrieT ~
Number of ch I Idren five ' '
2' Name Eariene June BREED HUNT
Place of birth Stockton, Jo Daviess,, 111, date 4, June 1914
Number of year's of 3 chbo H ng' 12*T nurses trainQccuoatlbn registered nurse
Res I denceRpckford. Illinois Marital Status widow 11
Number of children three ———————————
3. Harne Carson Franklin BREED
Place of b I rthStockton, Jo Day., 111."— date 6, May 1916
Number of years of schooling 12 Occupation tool & die MaKer
Res I dence Stockton, Jo Day., 111. Marl tat §tatuS marrTSS" ""
Number of chl tdren two ————————————
Name Murnice ■ Roma in BREED ■. : '.
Place of b I rthStockton, Jo Day., 111. " ' date 8, August, 1918
Number of years oTs choo ting'' TZ 111 ' ' ticcupat 1 ort &>U^^ P^' —
Res I dence Stockton, Illinois Marital ftatus man lyu.
Number of ch f idren two ~~™
Name Aleda Belle BREED ALBRECHT
Place of birth Stockton, Jo Day. Cty., IlT.~ date 17, April 1920
Number of years 0/ schooling TT" ' Occupation homenakei
oDri)ng Green,
children sixteen
Res I dence oprflng Green , W iscJEb/? FsTa tus
Number of
S. Name Wayne Elezer BREED
Place or'"b I rth Stockton, Jo Pay., 111. "* <Tate 22, July 1922
Number of years oY schooling ^ ' "dccupa'ti On farmer " "
Residence T»*'\> Elizabeth, 'TTT'.""" Status married —
Number of ch 1 1 dren three
Name Verla Mae BREED STURTEVANT
Place of bt rth__g^ockton," J'd'Uav., HIT " date 18, May 1924
Number of years 'oT schooling ^ Occupation lactbry worker
Res I dence Savanna, Illinois ~" HarHtfi! 5tatu8 married
Number of ch I Idren two *""~ ——————
Name
Place of birth ~ "" date
Number of years of schooling Occupation"
Residence MarTTal Status "
Number of children — —
Name
Place of bl rth ' date
Number of years of schoeiTng ""Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of chl Idren ———«——
0. Name
Place of birth ' ■■.<■■ —
Number of years of schooling Occupation"
Res 1 dence ~- — ~ iWIJ-al iiV«»..«
Number of mi lUimi ___«erltaT Status
•<tN ul (. and 0 (or (.-I, [)-l)-your mother's name should appear below
N. Ill II
I I ,. .*
M.IMll.' l
.Reola. JSajci«a-feiajLLl£S_BHEED
■ l /'-.ir . of scno
(TTruj
12.
d.>lo 5j June 1922
'' .Sural RH .flhfit.h. Illinois
'•' 'hlldrcn three
Occupat i on Home maker
Marital Status married
,T^n Mr>KTl.T.TPS GOPPERNOLL
'I I In I (h JnnJMna .Tn FtlV - . T
il.r f '. I y
He «■ i drnce
Numbc
• •.II s of school I n<
Dav
111
nq 12
' " ^H1.1 . stockton
r of en i 1 dren three
Illinois
date 20, May 1924
Occupation Homemaker
Marl tal Status married*
'« i «■
P I jcc of lj i r th
of years of s choo ling
Pes i dencc
Number of r.h i 1 d ren
rrrrrTrr,
U. H.im,-
PI. if
Numiini uf ^ears of s choo 1 i ng
Hr ■. i den re
Number <if < h i 1 dren
date
6"c cupatl on
Marital Status
Marital Status
date
Occupa t i On
Nan*-
P I ,icf of h ! r t h
Number of years of schoo 1 I ng
Me s i den ce
I <■ i of ch I 1 dren
date
Occupa t Ion
Marital Status
N.irnr
P I .ice of birth
Number of years of schoo ling
Re* i dence
NumLi.-r of ch i Td ren
date
becupat lOri
Marital Status
7. No-c
P I ace of birth
Nijmb#> r of /ears of school Ing
Pe-. i dence
Su-nber of ch i 1 dren
_ date
"Occupation
Marital Status
P I ace of birth
Number of /cars of school Ing
Pes i dence
Number o f children
date
________ becupat I on
Marl tal Status
Name
P I ace or birth
Humour of years of s choo ling
Res ' dence
Number of child ren
10. Name
P I ace of b I r i h
."W ' o* ^ e a r s of schooling
Kes i dencc
Numbe r of ch i I dren
date
Occupat lOn
Mar I tal Status
date
Occupat I On"
Mar I tal Status
Your Father
Name Wayne Elezer BRSED
I f dead, date of death
Current Residence rural B^Ra.beth, Illinois
g+^irt»n Tr» navi peg H+y j ] ] ^ n^ n Date of birth 22. July 1922
Education (number of years) ' —
Place of birth
ducat ion (nu
grade school
Occupatlon(s)
high school ^.
vocat ional
col lege
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
1st
farit.nry worker, . ,
Dates
1 940-4?.
1st
Stockton, Illinois Dates ;
2nd
Army Air Fornft
Dates
1942-4S
2nd
rural Elizabeth. ""Illinois Oates
3rd
Rarmer . , ,
Dates
1943- pre sent
3rd
Dates
Ath
Dates
«»th
Dates
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. Republican, member Kavan^ugh
tee #36 AF frAM. Elizabeth School Board, Committeeman' rat ' 'Jvb'od bi he Twp. ASCS
Place of marriage to your" rural Elizabeth, Illinois
NOTE: If you were raised by a stepfather c
of this page. (E-2)
date 18. June 1942
give that data on the back
Your Mother
Name Reola Marion McKILLTPS BREED
If dead, date of death
Place of bi rth Woodbine Twp., Jo Dav. Gty., 111. n
Education (number of years)
Current Residence rural Elizabeth, Illinois
Of birth 5, June 1922
grade school
Occupat ion (s)
lst sflcrfitary
high school ^
lona I
co I lege
2nd homemaker
3rd
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates lQU0-4^ 1st Stockton. Illinois Dates 1 Q41
Dates 191+2- preset Dates
Dates 3rd Dates
Polltical^yrelvll or social clubs, sororities, etc. Republican, Between the Bookend?
Place of marriage to your father , „, , , ,, T,
iin-rf- ,r rural Eliabetn, 111,
NOTE: If you were raised by a stepmother or another relatr
this page (F-2).
fixt.fmfii.fin
date 18, June 1942
Ive that data on the back of
E- I Stcpf athc
Name
I f dead , date of death
Place of birth
Education (number of years)
grade school high school
Occupat i on ( 5 )
1st
2nd
3rd
_Dates
Dates
_Dates
Dates
1 s t_
2nd
_3rd_
Date of bi rth
vocational
col lege
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
<<th
Re 1 i g i on
Pollticaf parlies, civil 6r" ?6£I81 clubs, fraternities, etc,
Place of marriage to your mother
Dates
_Dates_
Dates
Date
F-2 S tepmothe r
Name
I f dead J date of death
Place of birth
Education (number of years)
grade school high school
Occupat i on (s )
1st
2nd
Dates
Dates
Dates
vocat lonal
1st.
_2nd_
3rd
Date of bi rth
col lege
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
3'd^
Re I i g i on
Po I 1 1 i ca r pa r t y , civil or soc I a I c lubs , sororities, etc.
ace of marriage to your TTTKeT
Dates
Dates
Dates
date
CHILDREN of E and F (or E-2, F-2) - your name
appear below
Name Mary Jean BREED MILLER
Place of birth Free port, Illinois'
Number of years of schooling
Residence Monroe, Wisconsin
Number of ch
16 +
151
Name Sally R0ola BREED FISCHER
P I ace of b i r th Freeport, Illinois
Number of years of schooling T5"
Residence Rockford, Illinois
Number of ch M dren one
Date of birth 5, January 1949
Occupat J on teacher-homemaker
Marital It atus married
Name Darcy Waynette BREED
Place of birth Savanna, Illinois
Number of years of Schooling presently in Oth grade'
Res i dence rural Elizabeth, Illinois'" ~~~
Number of ch i ? dren
ite of birth 23, May 1952
Occupation hometoaker
* tat us married
:e of birth 25, April 196I
Occupation student
Status
single
Name
P lace of bi rth_
Number of years
Res i dence
Number of
of school I ng
TO
: bi rth
Occupation
Name
P 1 ace of bi rth
Number of years of school ing
Res i dence
Number of ch i 1 dren
Name
Place of bl rth
Number of years of school i rig
Res i dence
Number of ch I Idren
rth
Name
P 1 ace of" birth ' ~
Number of years of school Ing
Res i dence
Bate of birth
Occupation
Number of ch i 1 dren
Name
P 1 ace of birth
tatus
Number of years of schooling"
Res i dence
tat Ion
Number of ch i 1 drert
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GENKALOGY CHART
Lly Reola BSEED Fischer
orn 23, May 1952
arried 7/, August 1971
ied
jfavne Elezer BREED.
Father
B 22, July 1922
M 18, June 1942
D
Frank Otis, BREED
Reola Marion MCKILLIPS
Mother
B 5, June 1922
M 18, June 1942
D
Grandfather
B 19, January 1890
M 4, September 1912
D 20, October, 1961
Bertha E. HINTZ
Grandmother
Elezer Everett BHEi
Great grandfath
b 1858
M 28, April 1881
D 191!4
1 Cecelia Viola HA.NLE
Great grandmoth
8 29, July 1861
D 191+1+
Chrigtftphej.JHNTZ ..
B
M
D
B 26, March I89I
D 20, October, 1961
1900
Augusta TESSMER
B 24, March I858
D 1928
Albert Earl MPKIUTFB-
Grandfather
B21, December 1884
M 2, June 1915
D 21, March 1973
,Jean Mary BfiQJflj
Grandmother
B 1, March 1888
D 1, February 1948
B I 8 te^nstar 18
M 23, March 1881
D 7, August 1945
Louisa BORSCH
B 6, September 18
D 26, March 1933
Afinm RRDIrfWn
B April, 1848
M 1. March 1882
D 18, December 19
Hannah EADIE
B 27, August 1854
D 4,, March 1938
D -I
Mfl rt^. &
B 16, June 16
D 15, March 1
Oliver \ AN _
Mary " —
B V'.sepTIFri
*llen BREED
B 27, Jan.l6 3C
Elizabeth WH HELER
M II4 , Nov. 1622 Agnes PRATCHETT
■Allen BREED
B 16UI
John BREED
Yinerva TRICh
-1
Wiiiiar. ?. Xf
5#7
*1
3 2. Raj
Samuel HIRST
B 12, Pebrua
.
B ~ 7, A " '
Anirew BROWN
1 -T-=!Q Fischer
May 1952
7, August 1971
GENKALOGV CHART
Wayne Elezer 3RSED
!, July 1922
M 18, June 1942
Beola Marlon MCKILiIPS
B 5. June 1922
M 18, June 1942
Prank Otis BREED
I 19, January 1890
1 4, September 1912
'20, October, 1961
Bertna E. HINTZ
ndmotn
B 26, March 1891
D 20, October, 1961
Grandfather
B21, December 1884
M 2, June 1915
D 21, March 1973
Jean Mary PH"WM
1, March 1888
1, February 1948
Elezer. Everett BKEiD
Great grandfather
1858
M 28, April 1881
191U
ICeceJia Viola MANLBI. _
Great grandmother
B 29, July 1861
Christopher . HIKE
Rrarile
-1T7T
J M
" D IS
B 16, June 1835
D 15, March 1891
Oliver MANLBY
Joseph BREKP
B 1 1 ,
M 20,
.& 23.
Mar. , I7II4
June. 1753
Any. \ 1786
ah BREED
B 176" 1
B 1H,
February 1795
M 12, "Dec, '1766
Lv 1 i i a
iBACOW
M
D 28,
April 1877
D 22, Aug. Il850
Anna HTISCHISON
B a bo
D
It 1723
Lucy
COLE
B 1769
B 19,
D 22,
January 1789, D
September 1873
Augusta Tg
B 24, March 1858
D 1928
111 jam AJwrtKcKiLi.lPS
B I S lyf.llfa,, 1«5(7
M 23, March 1881
D 7. August 1945
Louisa [jORSCH
B 6, September I856
D 26, March 1933
Will i
M 1856
D 16, May 1895
Amanla L. MILLER
2, May IB 36
D 1862
Abigail FAWCETT
D 21, Novembe
Samuel HORS
D 1856
Abraham MILLER
B 12, February
M Mav 1851
D 2k. March 1915
Catharina HORSCH
1871
"TB1B"
WAKEFIELD
D 18, December 1921
Hannah EADIE
B 27, August 1854
•d4., March 1938
l8b,9, approx.
ohn EADIE, Sr.
;ember 1820
;ember 1855
:h 1899
Mary STATHAM
■B 22, September 1825
D 10, March 191b,
3,
Cathe
BATjIE
nuury 1M20
Thomas STATHAM
B 19, October 1778
M 1817
D 19, October 1851
Hannah HASLEM
Anna ROLLS
B 1», Oct. 16H]
M 17, Dec. 1709
D 1738
Timothy BR"Fp
B ' ' 1
M-3, Mar. 1679
Mary
B l'\Sep.l671
..11 enBRJSEI) _
B 27, JanTTETjO
lilitabelV /WELLER
a
M ll|, Nov. 1622
Allen BREED
OUR BREED FAMILY HISTORY
Agnes Pratchett and John Breed hL3d a son, Allen, born in
1601 in Westoninge, Bedford County, England. He married Elizabeth
//heeler at Puiloxhill, Bedfordshire, England on Novemoer 1^., 1622.
They had a son also named Allen who was born there on January 27,
16 30. Allen, Elizabeth, and their son went to New England with
Winthrop' s company and settled in Lynn, Massachusetts perhaps as
early as I63O. (There Allen married again, a widow named Elizabeth
Knight on January 28, 1856 3
Allen (their son) was a husbandmen in Lynn and served in
Kine Phillio's .Var. He married Mary (who died on September 30,
1671), and their eldest son's name was Timothy (as in his father's
will) who was also in King Philip's W .r and lived in Lynn, Mass.
He married Sarah Newhall and they had a son Joseph, born on
October 16, 1681, the eldest of eight children. (Tim remarried
Sarah Bran in February, 1693 or ' 9iu) Joseph became a cooner living
in Marblehead, Mass., marrying Anna Rolls (born or. October 17, 1688)
in December 1709. They had a son, Joseph Jr. born on Karen 13,
17lU,at ''arblehead, a son Samuel, and a daughter Mary (who was
born on June 30, 1713 and married Benjamin Hutchison and they had
a son Amos who was oorn in Lynn on August 18, 17U-3). Joseph Jr.
became a shipwright in Charlestown, Mass. and married Hary Salter
in Boston on May 20, 1736 and later married i-ydia Bacon (born
about 1723) on June 20, 175^ at King's Chapel in Boston. Joseph
ani Lydia had a son Joseph (III) and they lived in Charleston
imt.il the town was burned by the British after Bunker (Breed's)
Hill. Joseph put in a claim for the loss of his property which
was also destroyed. He then moved to Weston, Mass. where he died
on April 23, 1786.
2
Supposedly Joseph (III) (born in 1761) and perhaps his
brother were Tories in the early 17 /CPs.1 But after the British
destroyed their father's barn and other property after Bunker's
Hill, Joseph enlisted in the Continental Army thre^e times — 1777 ,
1779, and 1780. He married Anna Hutchinson (who was born in 1769
to Amos Huchinson and his wife, Amos being the first cousin of
Joseph) on Decemoer 12, 1786. at Hillsdale, New York where he lived
for twelve to fifteen years. . The couple had a son Amos and one
named Obediah who was born in Hillsdale on February 18, 1795 (my
great, great, great grandfather), and probably other children.
They moved to Butternut, Otseeo County for twenty years, and then
liven in Truxton for fifteen years, and Joseph died in Lincklaen,
Augsst 22, 18^0 (all the touns being in New York state).
Obe iah settled in 0tse?o County with his naretits when cuite
a y.o :r? man and there he married Lucy Cole also a native of i.'ew
York. The. had nine children there, five. of whom were still living in
1889 namely: Obediah (also snelled ^badiah nd ^oadioh) who was
born in September 1% , 1815; Amos; Charles; Electa: and 3radley
who was born on December 27, 183?.-^ Obediah, the father, was in
the War of 1812 and came to Chicago when it w-.s but a small settle-
ment of carins. His son Obediah probably proceeded his father in
coming to Illinois in 1835 or 1837 startin^with a team, of horses
traveling through. Canada, crossing the Rock River where Pockford
is now situated (when at that time there was just on cabin). ne
continued to Jo Daviess County were he assisted in the development
of m ; nine? in the county which he did for seven years. He then
"pre-empted the land comprising a part of his"farm paying one dol-
lar and twenty-five cents ar acre in section two of Elizabeth
Townshic.^- He married nary Cook on August 23» lfiUU ann the,, had
thirteen children. ^
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Obidiah's brother, Charles, went to the same-county; sometime,
perhaps with his father, and farmed near Pi tchervi 1 le con':ne to
the county at the age of twenty-five and he married Catherine Smith
in l8l|.9 and they had five chilar-en.
Bradley was probably Obidiah* Sr. ' s youngest son (he is more
than twenty-three years younger than Obidiah, Jr.). Bradley
probably came to the county with his parents who, when they arrived
farmed near Pitcherville (and. near his son Charles) a town which
has long ceased to exist and in fact, no one knew where it had been.
According to an old plat book of the county it was near the north-
eastern border of Stockton Township (see map, pageB). ^ (The town
of Stockton may have been further south ^t that time than it is
presently). Bradley owned land in sections two and three of the
townshin as did his father and Charles (this land is now situated
on the northern edge of Ua5 Route 20 on the western edge of present
day Stockton). Bradley married Martha Millett (who was born about
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June 16, 1835, around mid-19th century. In the Stockton Cemetary
Obediah Breed, who died on April 28, 1877 at the age of eighty-four
and his wife Lucy, who died at the age of eiehty four on September 22,
l873f are buried near Bradley, who died on April 3, 1900 and his
wife Martha, who died on March 15, 1893.^
Bradley and Martha had at least two children: Sueene (1853-
1929) and he married Emma ( 18^7-1910) and both are buried at
Stockton, and Elezer Everett Breed who was born in 1858. Elezer
married Cecelia Viola Manley (who was born on July 29, 1861) on
April 28. l88l in Rush, Illinois (see map. cage I ) and they are
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my great, sreat, grandparents . Her parents were Minerva Trickey
and Oliver Austin Manley also inhabitants of Stockton Township
where Oliver owned land in section eleven of the township, which
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was very close to where Bradley's father's land was. 7 (Cecelia
had a brorher Otis, who was born in March of 1 1866 and married
Kate Nadiff ( who died in 1922), and they had at least two sons
Merle and Albert?) 'Otis war a participant in the land r':sl- when
the government opened land for settlement in Oklahoma in 1900
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and obtained title to three-hundred and twenty acres,)
Elezer and Cecelia farmed around the villages of Warren and
Stockton in Jo Daviess Cojnty and had four children, one oeing
my arandf Jtther, Frank. (The Breed's marriage license page 5)
(Their family picture pase 7)
nterview with Beth Breed, member of the Dajghtere of the
American Revolution, November 17, 197i|..
^All^of history before Obidiah, 3r. is from the Breed Famil
Association in research for the DAR.
^Figured date for birth from date of death and age on tomb
stone in Stockton Cemetary.
^■Portrai t and Biograchi cal Album of Jo Daviess County, 111.
( Chicago, ill. , Chapman Brothers, Ibb9T7 P 653 .
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-^Hi s tory of Jo Daviess County, 111. (Chicago: H, F. ^-etl &
Company, Times Building, ld7ti ) , p7 7U5 .
6Ibid,p.777.
^Atlas of Jo Daviess County and _the state of 111. (Chicago:
Warner- HTFFi ns and Berrs, 1 5 7 2 ) , p. 0.
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Marriage license of Elezer and Cecelia Breed.
^Tombstone? at Stockton ^emetary.
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FRANK OTIS BREED, HIS CHILDHOOD
(my paternal grandfather)
Frank Otis Breed was born on January 19, 1890 to Cecelia
Manley and Slezer Everett Breed on a farm between Stockton and
Warren Illinois He had an older sister, nabel and an older broth-
er, James and on July 6, 1897 another brother Clair was born.^
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There were also two children who died in infancy.
Little is known of .Frank's childhood. His family thinks he
went through the first eight grades at a country school near
Warren in Jo Daviess County. During grade school and during his
teens he probably helped farm at home. In about 1908 or 1909
when Frank was about eighteen or nineteen, he became sick with
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tuburculosis and went to a sanitarium in Oklahoma.
Later he went with his brother, Jim who went.rto Wyoming -to
farm near a town cai led ■ Hillsdale . James married 1-1arie Cashnan
and they Vd two sons, Everett and Paul, and a daughter, Dorothy.
Clair also had two sons and a daughter and lived in Wisconsin '
Raoids, Wisconsin. Mabel married Hsnry Wixson and they settled
in Jo Daviess County near what was once a village called Morseville.
and -her and her husband had a son and a daughter.
Elezer, like his son, also had tuburculosis and finally re-
tired from farming when he became ill. He and Cecelia moved to
Stockton where two year? later, in 19 ll|. , Elezer died and is buried
in .Ladies Union Cemetary, Stockton.
Cecelia was to live quite abit longer than her husband and
get to meet all her grandchildren. She was a very religious lady, a
faithful member and regular attender of the Evangelical United Brethren - Onrch •
in Stockton which she joined in 1377 and in which Frank was also
a member. She worked herd for the Ladies tJnion which she help .
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found, and was also a Sunday School teacher and a steward.^ She
often traveled in the winter, but saw her grandchildren who lived
near quite often and they remember her fondly.
She eventually moved in with her daughter when she was no
longer able to live alone. A newspaper article datec November 20,
i31|2, stated how Celia (as she must sometimes have Deen called),
was ill and her two sons from out of state, came to visit her.
She d i% at the age of eighty-three at her daughter's home in 19kh
after she had spent nearly -ier entire life in the Stockton Town-
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shio yi»cinty. Her son Clair died on September 21, 1950.
When Frank returned home from -Vyoming he probably did farm-
work in the area. It is not known when he met his future wife,
Bertha Hintz, but it was probably in 1911 or 1912. They either
met through friends or nerhaps at a dance since Bertha liked to
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dance alot, but rrank would never learn.
••■Clair Breed's obituary from the Stockton Herald hews, Sent. 2
1950.
Cecelia Breed's obituary from the "StocKton Herald Mews , "I9/4.4.
-^Interview with her grandson, Wayne Breed in Septeno^r, 197^..
^"Interview with her granddaughter , Earlene Hunt in Sept., I97U
^Eleaer Breed's tombstone in Ladies Union Cemetarv, Stockton.
^Newspaper article f rom"stockton Herald "ews", Novemoer 20,
19I|.2 on Cecelia Manley's bein? ill.
^Interview with Carson 3reed. her firandson on November 16. 197
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BERTHA E. HINT7, HER CHILDHOOD
(my paternal erandmot^er )
Bertha E. Hintz was born on March 26, 1891 to Augusta Tessmer
(who was born on March 2k, 18^6 in Germany) and Christopher Hints
(also probably born in Germany) in Stettin (?) Germany (now be-
lieved to be a part of Poland). Her father worked in a government
owned stable as a manager and he and his family also: took care of
a small plot of land of about five acres. ^ Here the,y raised vege-
tables, pigs and probably other things. They had seven children:
Elizabeth, Frank August (born on May 20, 1882), Anna Ddrthea Maria
(born on July 1, I08I4.), Herman, Bertha, Martha (born in I89I4. ) , and
Marie (born on March 25, 1897). Augusta wanted to bfing her
family to America, but it is thought that Christopher did not want
to go and in fact, felt he would not make the voyage. Possibly
Augusta's relatives, the Tessmers who were living near Warren,
Illinois, sponsored their voyage through their ch irch (helped raise
money or something) and they started out when Bertha was nine years
old, in 1900, But Christooher was right--he did not see the
United States for he died on board ship. 3 His wife and family con-
tinued on without their husband and father. Bert-ia told stories
later of their crossing the Atlantic and how one Polish family
always "stele" Marie, the youngest, because she was so cute. rthile
their father w^'s ill the older children would have to babysit,
Marie while their mother cared for him. There was also a wealthy
man aboard with his young granddaughter. Evidently she was not
toilet trained, and whenever she soiled he would throw overboard
her beautiful lace panties much to the amusement of Bertha and
her f ami ly. k
The Hintz' s probably came straight to their relatives in Jo
Daviess County after reaching the United States and then lived in
various homes around Warren. The younger ones attended school
there until the eighth grade and learned English then. Marie and
Bertha and perhaps others of their siblings were confirmed into
the Lutheran Church in Warren.-' Marie and 3ertha were both eood
artists and a couple members of the family learned to play tie
accordian and were quite musical.
Elizabeth had not come to the United States with her parents
because she was already married in Germany and had children. But
she lost her family in some kind of epidemic (influenza perhaps)
and she came to America a few years after them. She married Frank
Droose hereP-Her sister Ann, .married Wilhelm Broee in 1901, shortly
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after they arrived and they had eight children. Herman married
Emma Teccer.dorf and they had a lar^e family.''" Frank married and
he died or. April 2), 19^9 and Marie, the youngest, married Emil
Kant on. October 6, 1916 and they had four children: '-ore thy,
Or ville, Viola, and Lois. Martha died at the age of twelve on
°ctober 10, 1906. Augusta, their mother, remarried in about
1908 to William Zunker in either Jo Daviess or Stephenson County.
Bertha worked after eighth srade doing ho isework for the
"well-to-do" Sround Warren. On .January 17. 1910 she save birth
to a son she nnmed Roscoe B. 'who was born around warren/*
None of Bertha's family is now living but they left aiot
of children (grandchildren, treat grandchildren), many of whom
live around the Jo Daviess County area.
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~ Interview Sept, 197U with Carson Breed, her son.
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Anna Hintz Broge ' s obituary.
^Interview with Earlene Breed Hunt. Sept.. 197k.
"letter from Verla Breed -turtevant, November, 197^.
Interview with Emil Kant, October, 1T71;.
Date from the family Bible.
BERTHA AND FRANK BREED, their life together
( n,y paternal grand parents )
Frank Breed and Bertha Hintz met in 191] or 912 and were mar-
ried on September [>, 1912 in Apple River, Jo Daviess County,
Illinois. They hail their pictures taken around the time thej were
married and a bracelet Bert-, a is wearin" in hers was <?iven to her
by Frank Probably a? an engagement or wed linrr present.
For the first couple of year.'' of their marriage Frank, Bertha,
ana her tor Ross, lived in Waterloo, Lowa where Frank worked in
a factory. They returned to c'o Daviess County in 1911; and lived
in ar apartment above a store in Stockton fop a short while.
Bertha's brother-in-law, Emil Kant, remembers visiting thei there.
They scon moved to a farm sout: of Stockton where their first
daughter was born, Earlene June, on June >• , 191li. She was a small
baby, small enough to fit in a shoe box and earned the n'.ckt one
Dolly which she still keeps today. This far1": was owned by >-r. . feed
Hermann whom Frank heloed with the far"- work and bertha k spt house.
;Vhen Dol'ly was born he save Bertha a rocking chair to rock the
baby in and later gave a small one to Dolly which she still has
tod ay .
They moved to another farm nearby ..here Mr, ■ rw.nr.ti
Frank !?et started on his own. On this farm two sons were born:
Carson Franklin on May 6,1916 and "irnioe homain on August 8, 1918,
About a year after Murnioe was born they moved again, this time
to a farm owned by Frank's ""other (though she never lived there)
w'f ich he bought from her. Or: April 17, 1920 they had arof
daughter, A led a He 1 I , on July 22, 1922 a son Wayne (my father) and
Verla Mae, their youngest was born on "ay 18. 192i| . There are
few details of their experiences their firs! few years of marriage,
but w.i tb the ir sevon children they were plenty busy, no doubt.
•V the tir.e Vorla wa: born Ross, now fourteen, had finis-hed eislith
grade *nd worked as a mechanic and j n the trucking business for
awhile. He lived at home part of the time.
iVhile famine* they raised everything — ;ows, • orre • jhickens,
:'h's and lucks. As the children grew :p they be^un ioin:'<: many
of the chores. The boys did most of the' field wor* milking, and
carrying wood although Dolly. bei rr-t one of the oldest; helped with
haying before the younger boy? were hi it enough tc 'hey used teams
of h: orses for field work, One ti?e when they wer" In .1'r.r water
from the house well to the n i Murnice, t! e son who J ways seemed
to be in trouble, decided to have their horse, Tops, pull a wagon
with the water buckets or.. As Hum 5 ce was Leading '-. i - , he broke
away from his grip and headed for Vorla. nis sister, who was
playing nearby. fortunately the hocse missed her, but <o:/'jf: and
broke the wagon. They also used the hors •<• to p ; 1 i their t. + •>-
seated bufrgy which almost upsel one rainy night. One winter Carson
and M irni :e were cleaning t ie b irr s and out now s * raw in for the
cattle i n i the boys sot inte a lii tie f i*j,ht--Carson go? hit in the
no?e . 1 1-a tor as he was choppin r ijood, Carson sot hit with 3 piece
of wood--Ufrain in the nose. That night the boys w»r< trying t 3
milk a cow which h^d just had a calf, Murnice told C irson ie was
^ro • n - Into the ho ise to set some rloves, but, actually he had no in-
tention of ret irning to help old the cow so she would no* :< ' ok .
Carson ended up getting kicked — again in the nose and ..-at furious
with his brother who ended ip having to milk the cow I 1 m self. Ber
too helped outside, out stil] always put a good meal on the tablu
for 'he large family.
The airls also h id outside chores like es*?-Ruth'»ri ng and trur-
denina thoush Verla said later she dislike-, faming excent for the
gardening and baby animals. Berthu, their mom hid lots ol warden
[which she enjoyed and kept anrd^nr evn in her later years J and
she also earned hundreds 6f Jars of fruit ind vegetables <»ach year.
They stored many ve ?et ables in thier dirt-floored basement where
they would keep several months like carrot: , onions, and beets, etc.
Bertha wo ild sew. for the girls and also matched aiot. The ■• ; r ' s
were responsible for inuc o*' ' he hoisework--maki n?: beds every day
and certain weekly chores such as s ; i Li k ' ne th< pun? every Frida
Their house was rot too large, the boys shared a rou-i, as did the
oldest girls, and Verla, ■.-.'hen she was young slept ii u room it1,
ler oarents. They i .! a summer kitchen at one time so not to
leat up the noise too much while cojuit g in the summer. They also
lad a wood -ind coal burning stove in the living rc >m which was
taken down In the spring and the room was on y used in the .. . er
when guests came. Then in the fall awain the >ipes were painted
with stove black, the furnace put back up, and lighted--!' or a few
ho-.rs t*ierr whs always nlot of smolto in the ho so ' ron- the new
paint being singed. In the winter they used the living room since
the;, deeded the room, being in the house more. The pipes went
through the girl's and their parents' rooms but the hoys were often
-. ' f ?.old'.
At ni rht in the living room, * e family ofter » 3d rd * iits'i .
Their little terrier, Tippy, always danced in front, of i-'rank who
t her let the doc get on a ci air an ■ coveit) him up with a sheeoskin
coat. But as the hoys went to bed. especially C, .>*.-• or:, 'ho do if
would try to sneak out of the room to go upstairs with him. He
rarely mad-:- it past Bo rthu, who always told him to go !. a\ lown,
but if be did he. ! dash upstairs ar>d into bed with Carson he' J go
way deep into the covers. But every night Bertha world corne in,
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> s : Carson if the clog was there (and Carson would pretend he
whs sleepinglj so she'd lift the blankets off and there was the cog.
In 1025, while route 78 was being built through Stockton,
Frank war hiehway superintendent for two year.-.. They also bought
their first car that year, a 102^ Ford for seven hundred dollar:;.
In those cars the gears were in the floor pedel with 1 low, high,
and neutral or, different levels. About the second time Frank put
<•■,•■ car ir the corn crib they were usinp as a parage, he sfcoDned
■ little too hard on the pedeJ and went, past neutral. He ironed late-
Ly si outed, "Whoa, whoa J" to t.r. 1 o new "horse" to stop it! This %r
went throusrht aloi,--tho younger nids took to ro school lifter it was
n.-- ] oncer t m family car and eventually it, was converted into a
W - '.in,
rheir second dsr w« • a ur.ed tVnr ' ac "'pujik bought in Preeport,
Illinois. Prank, not use to a manual shift, irove the car home in
secon i ( h dr.i vo of about twenty-five miles) ant; when he sot home
it was steaming away ind so was he thinking he had been sold a
peal Lemon. As he was "cus in?" away at the ear. his son Carson
told urn what had hap <ened and becan showint? him now ir worked and
his dad then exclaime how much faster it went that way.
Although bertha, having 1 i ved in ij err. any for r 're years, knew
lerr'MM, .-'re tauc^t her children very little-- just n mbers and s few
sayina ; • oer as; tonally s to them i n (}orrr.&n like "win Tannebaum"
(which she also sang to her srandchi ldren inri i remember her singing
"Still e is'j.-ht" to mn), Although her children now wish 'Sh would
h3ve taur!- ». them more she •eoo-ihly did nor. because her nrothcr' s
children ?ould barely speak lintrlis when they started schooi and
she tho t that Was wror. *. She always told her nephews and nieces
when they visited to "5peak Rnslishj"
She did cnr.vorr.e in reman with her mother, Aug ista Zunker,
w.p cane to live with them in 192b. They did this especially . hon
they ' : nut wan the children to know what they were talking about.
>\ >r ist.fi Li r ;al y sat in a certain spot in the kitchen and did patch-
rk, 'in everlasting chore, and crocheted. In 19?.'! or so bertha
] i :ame very ill and finally went to the hospital for in operation.
T> en frrandrruj ZunBer would shout to the kids in German to je-l them
to help with sunper, or whatever. Also at that time Prank had heen
hurl and had a hi nod clot in hie. \ecr 30 while his wife war in the
Hi0pnj t 1 his daughter Do'ly .::jrnd for him. tihi le Bertha was Ln th(
he;: t i t ?» 1 her mother passed aw-ty and Bertha war- in such a serioua
condit Ion r.he war not told ri 'ht a ay ana did no*" go to the funeral.
The children in school «fir«> called home that day and it must have
Lid t ' mi :
•'■ i-t broth ir (""rank ilsc came to 1'vo with them in about
1910 and stayed several years. He was a b.i eater but not much of
a worker. nr: day is he, hi i roti er-in-law Prank and some of the
boy 3 were ". n the I 'rid c itting the corn t>y ha no ana saoc^it.^ it,
ir. roe early sprinrr of the year, it started to rain. Uncle
Frank a lid they better so h ••■ so * ley don't act struck by lightening
but 'rrar.k ^reed said, you cat "">t struck by lightening in bed,
but you still <?o to bed every n'rrht. The Breeds also visited
Bertha's • - i a t i vf r sometimes ->rd si 1 the older ore? wo ild «nea«
German- .jabber ■ nr? away • nd Bertha's husband would just s i t back ana
Tn the fall of the year, after the ni«s were sold the "a-ily
1 , >s 1 nl ' • ' ' ■ 1 othi it.t f ron
ordpr catalogs. The;, waited for the packages to arrive, all wrapped
ur in heavv brown paoer. They then usor; the paper in mattresses
as ins ilation. Every fall the kids would take clean grain sacks
out to the cornfields and get their sacks full of husks (in the sum-
mer they used straw) to put ifl the mattresses with the brown paper
outside and covered with ticking. Then they often had a feather
mattress on top of this. I remember Grandma's feather oeds in
her upstairs bedrooms. Bertha was a very thrifty person, never l
wasteful, and she let her husband take care of finances.
The children do not remember the depression as beine all
that bad since they always ate well and only had to buy essentials
like suerar, salt. etc. They did leave their farm then though when
they could not keep up with the payments. Havine such a bis family
the kids were always busy. When Frank lived with them Murnice
began learning how to play his accordian as did Carson who now en-
joys playing his own home organ. Aleda Belle took lessons on the
violin, but that instrument did not suit her or her to it perhaps.
Once Murnice got an air rifle and hit n5.s older sister Doily right
in the you-know-where and she wouldn't talk to him for a month.
In 1930 Ross married and they h-d two sons, «James and Eunene,
but they were divorced in 1936. At this time Dolly, Murnice, and
Carson were in high school and the rest still attending xankee
Hollow School, aooit one and one-half ^iles from their here, as
all the older ones had. Carson an-i Murnice were in the same class
bee use Carson started a year late because he had yellow jaundice
when he was six. Then when he did start Murnice missed his older
brothe. r so much Erank sent him too, thinking he' d soon tire of
it. Instead the opoosite happened—he really liked school and con-
tin. :ed. Everv ni?ht Frank instituted a study h .. jr for the school-a?
children. Murnice did euitevin school and always toox this oppor-
tunity to reao a library book or anything other tnan schoolwork.
He would hide whatever in his schoolbook, so hes father would not
know. His siblings never told nowever, since their father Drobablv
would have disliked that worse than "urrrce's extra reading. Fran1-:
did most ot the disciplining in the household with words though
and not spankings. Their children considered them quite strict
parents.
The school was a major entertainment center of that day,
much as it is now for school .families. Their country school, how-
ever, was also a church for awhile which they attended pretty regu-
larly—either Sunday School or the worship service every week.
After church there were occass i onally baseball g ,mes or picnics.
They started attending the Evangelical Gnited 3rethen Church in
Stockton where Frank was a member. There was also a Community
Club which met at the school once a month on Friday nights where
all the neighbors got together. Sometimes they had pot luck din-
ners and at Christmas the children would say nieces, give plays,
and have a grab bag. The fa mily also went to the Breed Re inior annua
that was held until the 191+0' s and saw m ny of their relatives.
This was held at different parks in the area, often in Kraoe *Jark
in Freenort, and was sometim:s attended by a co -pie of hundred Breeds
Stockton , the nearest town, was not much different in the
thirties than it is today. They went to oand conderts there on
Wednesday nights in the summer and did their shopoing there. The
six youngest children all attended high school there. The older
ones walked usually as they had to grade school though sometimes
the oldesfe daughter. Dolly, would ride a horse and leave it at her
Grandma 3reed's. The younger ones got to drive a c >r to school.
Their subjects are subjects teenagers still take today. They also
often visited their Gramd^a there , which they all enjoyed.
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Earlene (Dolly) was the next to leave horr.e after Ross. After
hif?h school graduation in 1932 she worked in Stockton keeping house
for people and in 193U went to aockford, Illinois to nurses training
at the Swedish American Hospital. She received uer registration
in 1937 ^nd worked at the hospital in oostectrics On June 6,
1938 she married Linden Hunt (born or. February 7, 1917 in Unionville,
Iowa) and they had three children: Joey Lynn, Terry *ayne; and
Linda Larlene.
In the late " thi rties the family raised another boy, Bertha's
nephew who was just a toddler when he came. .Vhen his mother re-
married and came to get him ne did not want to leave. Verla and
rtayne were the only ones home at 'his time and enjoyed 'cheir baby
"brother". Carson and "urnice had graduated in 1935, and Murnice,
who really never cared for the farm, started at Kraft's Cheese comoany.
Carson farmed at home, then worked for a farmer, and in 1936, when
his parents moved^ he took over their farm (which Frank had bought
for one-hundred and fifty dollars an acre ana had sixty acres and
also rented some more). Carson married on Octo_ber 18, 19 3°. to Jean
Pohl and they had two children, Judy and Uary. Murnice also married
that year on December 23 to Beth Hillary and the j too had a son
and daughter, Jeff ard Jennifer.
.Vhen fhey moved Verla had to transfer to another grade school
called Soring Valley. Aleda 3 el le graduated in 193^ and s^e mar-
ried Delmar Alorecht that August 25 and they farmed with Carson
for awhile. All in all, the Alorechts had sixteen children; Sherry,
3onnie, Arlon. Kenny, Virgil, Adela, ^avid, Duane, Kyle, Larry,
Debbie, Wendy, Danny, ^athy ana Tim--a list my sister and I used
to tr, and see who could finish first and if we rememoered everyone!
Wayne graduated in 191+0 and Verla in 1914.2. She married Jack
Sturt-ev tnt after working at the Savanna Army ^epot; on January 26,
19U5 and they had two daughters, Vickie Rae and Jackie Kay born in 19U6
and II4.7 »-^la '5"mom wanted her to have a big church wedding but
Verla felt this would be too much for her mother. All the wed-
dings were small, and Frank and Bertha discussed upcoming mar-
rages with their chilrren except for Aleda Belle's s' nee she
eloped for they thought her to young to marry.
In 191+3 or so Bertha and Frank mov d to a farm near Schapville
Illinois and now *-.here was just the two of them. In 19'.jb they
again movec to uent in Stephenson County, and this was to be their
last farm for it was here Frank had his first of what was to be
several strokes. J-n 19U6 he suffered his first stroke and lost
the use of one of his arms and partial use of the on" les. The
couole left the farm and moved to a house they purchased on East
Queen Street in Stockton. From about 191+9 through 1953 or so
Bertha walked to her job at ^twoods Factory.
I remember my grandparents at this home. By the time I
was old enough to remember them. Grandpa could novt walk without
assistance and his soeech was imoaired. He was always a more
quiet- man anyway than his wife who was a sood talker who most of
their children taKe after, a trait which I too inherited. Bertha
kept a garden in town and made a rock garden also. ohe always had
many flowers outside around the house. Their house was small, a
kitchen, liv'ne room, and dining room (which was used as a sewing
room and later as a bedroom) and upstairs ware two small bedrooms.
She made rues for some of her grandchildren one ai wnich-I still have.
On October 22, 1961 Frank arid Bertha were found dead In t^eir
home by their son, ^'urnice1. Aoparently tne, had been ill and had
died a couole of days earlier on the twentieth. The coroner was not
sure of the ca ise of death when his s -spicion of botulism:- (from home-
canned food) was never confirmed by the laboratory tests. Bertha
may have had a heart attack and Frank, wno the doctors a : hort while
before this, did not know what was keepine him alive, may have
died while trying to roach hor. Bertha once s -.id that her and
her husband were a team, making decisions togetner and she believed
if Frank died she would not live long af-er. The children consi-
der their oarents a nroia ~i an honest, hard-working co iple and
believe they had a fine, and enjoyable family lify.
History taken from interviews with Frank and Bertha Breed's
children: Carson, Dolly, Wayne and Murnice and from a letter
from Verla.
Birth dates from Family Bible ,
iFrank and Bertha's marriage license page 23.
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WAYNE BREED, HIS EARLY LIFE
(my father)
Wayne Breed was the youngest son of Bertha and Frank Breed
and born or. July 22, 1922 on their farm in Stockton Township, Jo
Daviess County, Illinois. His middle name is Elezer after his
Grandpa Breed, but he really never appreciatea the odo name and
now generally uses the initial "E". Being a rather small boy and
the youngest son he is said, by his brothers and sisters, to have
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gotten a little spoiled. He was (and is) a picky eater and as a
child never wanted anything on his plate to touch and used a
different spoon to eat different things with. He wouldn't eat
peaches, because th^y were slippery going down, or jello, because
he thought it was alive since it wriggled. He was also fussy about
his belongings-would never sleep with his brothers or even let
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anyone touch his bed."
As '.a very young child he had rickets. At the age of seven
or so he had ear trouble and eventually had a mastoid operation
plus had his tonsils and aednoids removed at Sti Francis Hosoital,
Freeport, Illinois. After ^is operation he stayed with his
Grandma Breed for a short time, who lived in Stockton. Her grand-
children always thought it was a real treat to visit her. She
made the best blackraspberry jam in town and also made the largest
suerar cookies with one huge raisin in the midnle. She was small
in size and always wore the starchiest sun oonnets. aprons, and
dresses and low-he«led shoes, with a button strap. She kept a neat,
cozy home where Verla, Wayne's younger sister, st:yed quite often
as a teenager and attended church with her as she quite religious.
Wayne and Verla also clayed with their maternal Tranrimother
who lived with their family when they were preschoolers. They
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would play mail carrier with a shoe box as the rail box. Their
Grandma would read the "letters" in German, since that's all she
spoke and they thought this was really funny since they could not
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understand her.
Wayne attended Yankee Hollow School about a mile walk from
their home through eighth grade when he graduated top in his
class. . .also bottom because he was the only one] The school had
picnics and other activities.
During his last year at Yankee Hollow some members of the
family got scarlet fever ana the whole household was quarantined,
someone even had to come in and milk the cows. Wayne was only
sick a short while and ended up spending much of the several weeks
sledding. They all had quite a few play things including ice
skates, sleds, and a homemade wagon and they also went swimming in
the summer in a nearby stream. Shortly before the end of eighth
grade his family moved to a farm further from school and he had
to walk ciite a distance to finish school that spring.
In the early thirties, when Dad was about ten or sothis pa-
rents crot their first, radio. Before this time they often visited
their neighbors who had one and would listen all evening.
He entered Stockton High School in 1936 and was a member of
the Future Farmers of America and its dairy judging team through
high school. For a co iple of years he joinedthe Glee Club and as
a senior, acted in a play. He nest remembers being on the wrestling
team in the lightweight division, starting in the ninety-five pound
class as a freshman and as a senior wrestled in the one-hundred
twenty-five or thirty-five class. His nicknum?, according to his
yearbook, was "Pai".^ The class of 191+0 was the largest to gradu-
ate from Stockton, up to that time, graduating about Si&ty.
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After graduation in June, 19i;0 ho worked at home for aw lie
as he had done since he was a child--helping with the field work,
milking,- etc. In January of 19U1 he began working at the ^raft
Cheese Company in Stockton making boxes outside of the plant for
thirty.-five cents an hour. After a week of that he moved inside
and became a cheesemaker' s helper for which he got a raise. He
lived at home while working there. At Kraft's he met his future
wife who also was an employee. He and Reola HcKillips were mar-
ried and lived from June, 131; 2 until October of that year in
Stockton '.hen he joined the Army Air Force during World »^ar II.
He enlisted in Galena, Illinois along with a friend, Carson
Herring, who had graduated 'with him and who also got married the
same day he did. Wayne was inducted at Des Moines, Iowa and with
Cirson, left for basic training at Fort ^odge, Iowa, He was then
stationed at Coffeeville, Kansas for a while and then was stationed
at Eagle Pass, Texas for six months from November, 19U2 through
May, 19Ll3. He saw his new bride at Christmas when she visited him
and also had a three day leave in April. From Eagle Pass he went
to the' Salt Lake City r. -Utah base for overseas training. Then he
went to Mew York aboard a troop train that went through his home-
town of Stockton.
In June of 19i;3 he went to Glasgow, Scotland on the ship the
"Queen Elizabeth" with about eighteen thousand trooos aboard. As
they were crossing the Atlantic they were chased by U-boats. from
time to time. He was all over England and finally stayed at
Bobbinrrtorr Field, Herts County, England, near London. Here he was an
airplane mechanic' or a "munitions worker for an air material squa-
dron."^Tl,ey were bombed by V-2 rockets several times but fortunate-
ly, he- was not wounded. One day a friend visited him in a one-star
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general 's plane which they then took to London for a night on
the town. TT i s outfit was later sent to a place near uxford where
they set up a fighter base.
On the day after VF Day, the surrender of Germany in the late
sampler of 19l±$, his unit flew over some cities that had been .
bombed including London; Calais. France; Brussels , Belgium; Antwerp,
Germany and the cities that were once Cologne,. France and
Dunkeroue, Germany and the Siegrie^ Line. He stayed another month
in Encrland and on the trip home Japan^ surrendered . He returned
to Stockton to live as a civilian once' again. h
■^-Interviews with Earlene oreed Hunt and Carson Breed, ""ayne's
siblings, Sept., 197*4-.
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Letter from Verla Breed Sturtevant, Wayne's sister, Nov., 19711.
""The Stockton Blackhawk-IQ^O" fron Stockton High School.
^Newspaper article in 1^<|3 from the"Stockton Herald News*'.
-'Most of history from interview with Wayne 3reed, Sept., 1971+.
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HANNAH AND THOMAS STATHAM
(my maternal sreat, great, great grandparents)
Thomas Statham was born about Octooer 19, 1778 ne.^r Man-
chester, England. He had either two brothers, Charles and James,
or one brother named either Charles or James. In 1817 he married
Hannah Haslem who was born in 1791+ in England and had two brothers
and six sisters. For the next ten years they lived in and near
Derbyshire, England and had five living children and two who died
in infantcy. Their names were: Ann, Ellen, Elizabeth, Mary (who
is my great, great grandmother) born on September 22, 1825, and
Hannah.
On November 1, 1627 the family started for the United States
from Liverpool, England on the ship the "Great Britain." But a
short distance out their sni-1 collided with another vessel making
it necessary to return to England for repairs. They began their
journey again in January, 1828 and arrived at New York after more
than sever, weeks of travel on March 17, 1828. They located in
New York for fourteen years where five more children were born:
Sarah, Jane, John, Martha, and Matilda, and another who died. It
must have been a custom at that time to give the same name to two
children when the first has died for it happened three times in
this family. While in New York, Mary was converted to Protestanism
in a revival.1 In New York they lived in Albany, Utica, Oneida,
and Caterafrus successively until in 181+2 when they went to Jo
Daviess bounty, Illinois going through Chicago which at that time
was a mere village.
Soon they mov^d to a farm west of Elizabeth, Illinois in
that county and built a reck house there and farmed the land until
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his death on October 19, 18^1 at .the age of sixty-three years.
His wife, Hannah, stayed on the farm until her de^th on November 16,
1866 and they are both buried at Evergreen Cemetary, Hanover,
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Illinois .
^Mary Statham Eadie's obituary probably from the Elizabeth,
Illinois paper of that time, around November 16, 1866.
^Entire history based on an article in an unpublished
pamphlet, Statham and Eadie-Stevenson CJeneologie s .
BENJAMIN AND CATHERINE SADIE
(my maternal great, great, gre^t grandparents)
On January 3» 18^0 at uaroels, Scotland, Benjamin Eadie
and Catherine Stevenson Hart were united in marriage. They both
had had previous marriages. Benjamin's resulted with four
children: Thomas, Robert, Mary, and "-ate) and Catherine had
three (Robert, Martha, and Nanny) with her first husband, a Mr.
Hart.
Benjamin and Catherine were both probably born in the 1760's
or 1790' s in Scotland. Catherine had three sisters and a brother.
The couple lived in Scotland . all . of their lives it is believed.
John (my great, sreat grandfather) was born to them on
September 2, 1820 and a daughter, Ann Stevenson Eadie, was born
around I832. She later married Thomas Burns and had seven children.
The Stevensons believe their lineage and that of Robert
Louis Stevenson are connected since both families came from Ren-
frewshire, Scotland, but this has not been confirmed.
Entire history based on an article in an unpublished
pamphlet, Statham and Eddie-Stevenson Geneologies.
MARY AND JOHN EADIE
(my material great, groat grandparents)
John Eadie, Sr. war, born on September 2, 1820 in Henlrew-
shire, Scotland, the youngest boy of the family, and lived with
or near his parents near Glasgow Scotland until he was twenty-two.
(see page ) At the age of twelve he ended his education and
herded cattle and later worked on a farm until the asp of seven-
teen in 1837, at which time he beean working in limestone Quarries
for the next five years. In the soring of I8I4.2 he set sail for
the United States from Glasgow and landed at the New York harbor
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about seven weeks later with aoout thirty dollars. He proceeded
via the Hudson River and the Erie Canel to Buffalo and by the
Great Lakes to Chicago. This was in I8I4.2 and they hac to do ible
up teams to pull the wagons to come through Chicago where State
Street is currently. From Chicago he went to Fulton County/ Illinois
for four months and in February, , I8J4.3 he went to Jo Daviess County
in that state, one of the later pioneer settlers. There he met
Mary Statham, who had come to this county at the age of two and
one-half with her family from ^nfland where she was oorn in
Derbyshire on September 22, l825> (see page ). T'.ey were married
on August 8, I8I4.5 (marriaue recorded at the-. County Court House,
Galena, Illinois), and he continued workinc in the lead mines where
he had b'-en working since he came to the county. 2
In l8!i.6 they bought eighty acres of land from the government
(section thirty-four) in E15zabeth Towship, Jo Daviess County. 1
That ye-.r the couple also welcomed their first, ehiLd, Benjamin.
John Eadie visiter) California in l0li9 returning about two years
later by way of the Isthmus of Punanma Ho continued farming while
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eight more children, v"a most estimable family, - were born between
181+8 and L86fi including: lilizabeth (later Mrs. Samuel wfhite of
Elizabeth Township); Thomas ulitn ■ifWWM* — ifWWWPW I iiiB|i|HlTiM i ,
Hannah (my great grandmother); John Jr., Margaret A. (wo later
became »virs. Wi Lliam Kraser and lived in Kansas); Robert (who lived
near Thomas), Catherine S. (later was Mrs. ft-ate Arnold): and
w/i lliam Wallace. (Their sen ■•tfohh Jr., a merchant in Hanover, mar-
ried UUve Craig who wag the great, great granddaughter of Daniel
Boone. )^ In May 29, ,.1858 Mary h^adie joinea the Presbyterian Church
of Elizabeth, Illinois and later joined the church at Hanover,
Illinois wV-en they moved there. ^
In lfi69 the Eadies bought two hundred and seventy-two acres,
section thi rty- three , in the^same' township~>al though they had a
Hanover address. They had a f"lne residence and good stock buildings
at this farm." In 1 87 1 John Sr. returned to Scotland and while
there heard of the Great Chicago Fire. When he returned he Drought
back the eldest four or five omhaned children of his sister, Ann
(see pa;TR ), to live with his family.^
On Mary and John iadie's fiftieth wedding anniversary on
August 8, 1895 they could not get their family together for a
celebration, but at Thanksgiving time, Jn November 2b, 109b, they
had a reunion witn all nine of their children present. Pictures
were taken of the couple witn their children ano also of fif-
teen of tieir :randchiluren (both pictures are in the possession
of Reola Preed ) . Their chi dren cave them a family Bibi le and a
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set ol parlor furniture.
The couple retired in their later years and lived in the
village of Hanover. On March 11, 139^, "the village of liar over
was thrown Into a state of sympathetic excitement by the announce-
ment that John Had i a , Sr. had fallen while on hi." wuy home from
downtown and expired within moments." His obituary continues w.i th
a very complete description of his death, an attack of "apoplexy."
An t! at ti is Solid Republ ican - and pioneer .settlor of Jo ■ ' . v i es 3
C( inty '' . . .was a man thoroughly devoted' to his family, and an
earnest supporter of the Chrrsji an* religi on holdine membership in
t! • Pirst resbyterian Church of this city (Hanover). Wis life
was an excellent example representing the essence of the faith
which he professed. He possessed great love for his native land
and at the same time was a m st patriotic subject of his adopted
country . "13 • >" *
Mary died on March 10, 1911; and is buried with her husband
in the Everrrreen Cemetary, Harrover, Illinois. Her obituary states
she was a most devoted mother even to her husband's nieces and nephews.
"She was t he oldest settler in Hanover an the time of her death.
Mrs. Sadie lived a life and possessed a character, denoting a
close companionship with her Master." She went on missions of
love no matter what the weather and her strenphtb of character en-
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deared nop to everyone who ide her acquaintance.
Portrait and Bi ographi es Album of Jo D nhess County , 1 1 1 i no i f ,
(Chicago^ 111. : Chapman Brothers^ THaTJ, p. 592 .
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Statham ana Eadie-Stevenson Ceneolo^ies , an unpublished pam-
phlet,
^History of Jp Daviess Cqyjity, Illinois, (Chicago: H. f. Ketl
and Co., Times Building, I878), p. 7^6.
'■'■The leneology
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John Eadie s obituary, from the Hanover newspaper of that
time, about ^arch 12, lbl">9.
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°(}eneoloey .
'Mary Eadie's obituary from the Hanover hewjjpaper, around March 1J,
Mi glory . of £o Davi cas County , p. 7'(6.
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Seneolopy .
Newspaper article probably from the Hanover newpaper about their
anniversary dated around Nuvetnbor' 27 , 1890.
^ L John Eadie's obituary.
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Mary Eadie's obituary.
ADAM AND HANNAH BROWN
(my maternal great grandparents)
Adam Brown was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in the month of
April in l8U8--he never knew the exact date of his birth. His
parents, Jean (Anderson) and Andrew Brown} set out for America
with Adam, a small child of one and one half, an older sister,
Jean, and an older brother, Janes. On the way across the Atlan*
tic, as they were nearing the States, %s. Brown suddenly took
ill, passed away on the shin, and probably was buried at sea.
After landing in New York, the Browns proceeded westward
and settled in Chicago, In a couple of years the elder Mr,
Brown remarried and this broke up the family (Adam's family
learned nothing more than this about his parents). In about 1Q5U-
Adam was brought to Jo Daviess County, Illinois by a woman who
was a member of the Eadie family of Hanover, Illinois in that
county. (His obituary states he was an orphan when. coming to
the county.) He lived with this lady whom everyone called "Aunt
Grant", until he was old enough to make his own living by working
on a farm.
Around the age of twenty-one he desired to see the groat
western country and he, accompanied by Benjamin Eadie of Hanover
who was about twenty- three , set out for Montana, Idaho, and the
mountains as pioneers in that part of the country. Mr. Eadie and
Adam, in partnership, established an oxenteam freight line from
the central part of Idaho to Butte and 3illings, Montana, They
had as many as one hundred head of oxen at one time to pull the
great lines of frei2ht wagons. Often the heavy wagons 'broke down,
got stuck in mud, or upset on the narrow mountainous trails. And
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it was on one of these trips that Mr. Brown was badly hurt and
never fully recovered. The long trips of several hundred miles
were only made v when /the seasons permitted. They would try to . >
start only after the snow melted in the spring and the ground was
settled. Then in the fall they had to be careful not to wait toe
long before finding winter quarters. One winter Brown and Sadie
lived in a cave, .or dug-out as they called it, which seemed quite
comfortable from the way they described it later to their families.
In 1881, after ten years in the freight business, Mr. Brown
and his partner returned to Jo Daviess County. In the spring of
1882 Adam purchased a farm south of Woodbine, Illinois. On March 1
of that year he married Miss Hannah Eadie of Hanovei; the sister
of his friend Benjamin. (Reola Breed hat? original marriage certifi-
cate .y. Hannah was born on August- 27~': 185U' neVr- fc-lirsbcth, Illinois,
% daughter- of John and Mary- Eadie . ( see page ) and lived - there and. in
ganover with .them before- her marriage. She was a seamstress at this
Hannah and Adam Brown had four children all oorn at tneir farm
near Woodbine: Harry Eadie was born on November 19, I883, Raymond
J. was born on February 22, 1886, Jean Mary, my grandmother, was
born on March 1, 1888, and Robert "•nderson was born on January 27 »
18%..
The Browns farmed on that first farm for the rest of their
lives. Adam was a great lover of fine cattle and they had many
herds of them which were sent to the Chicago market. He also al-
ways hud several teams of solenoid horses on his farm.
Adam became very ill in the e^rly winter of 1921, and, although
it seemed he might pull through, he passed away about six weeks
later in FLnley Hospital in Dubuque, Iowa on December 16, 1921.
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His family was with him at the time of death. His obituary read
that Adam was a "prominent farmer" and ". . .a respected citizen
of the community and was held in high esteem by thore '.■.ho knew him."
"His strength of character endeared him to everyone who made his
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acquaintance; "
After her husband's death, Hannah kept the farm going with
•the help of her son Ray and hired hands. They also had a woman
who lived with them in later years who worked in the house. Hannah
was active in church, both the Presbyterian in Elizabeth, Illinois
and the Woodbine Evangelical United Brethren where she taught Sunday
School. My mother and her sister remember often visiting their
grandmother on Sunday afternoons. They rarely stayed the night
however because her house had no electricity until about 1933 and
they had tc carry kercrene lamps around from room tc pock, a little
if
frightening to the young girls. Hannah died on March 1939 at
the age of eighty-three years, six months and seven days. She and
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Adam are buried in Evergreen Cemetary, Hanover, Illinois,
' ' The Browns' sons all married: Harry married Anna Charlotte
Dittmar on Ocotber llj., 1919 at Fulton, Illinois and they farmed
near Derinda Center in Jo Daviess County. She died on March 22.
1962 following a long illness and Harry is presently in the Eliza-
beth Nursing Home, the only member of the family left; Ray stayed
on the farm after his mother's death until he married Helen 3oevers
on October 2k, 1914-6 in St. Louis, Missouri. They moved to her
family home in t-ialena, Illinois and later built a house next door.
She died on January 25, 1972 and he died on October 2k. 197U; Bob
served with the army in 1918-19, married Edna Mouein on June 2k,
X92% in Elizabeth and they had a son, William Robert born on April d.
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1926 in Freeport, Illinois. They lived in Elizabeth until her
death on December 23, 193U. Eob then worked in Rockford, Illinois
for^while and on June 30, 19li6 he married Deloras Bartels. They
lived in Dubuque, Iowa and she died there in February of 1963 and
he on September 8, 197J±. William has married and has a son, Adam
born in May, 1972, named after his great-grandfather.
Although I did not meet my grandmother I knew all of my great-
uncles Brown. During my childhood, most of the holidays, Easter,
Christmas, etc. were celebrated with my mother's relatives and her
uncles and their wives were there (until sickness made it difficult
for them to come). Uncle Ray and uncle Harry were pretty cuiet men
and Uncle Bob was the teaser. I do not remember Harry's wife very
well but both of my other aunts were very nice ladies especially
Aunt Helen who never had a harsh word for anyone,
"'"Found his parents names on his marriage license to Hannah
Eadie, March 1, 1882,, at Jo Daviess County Court House, Galena, 111.
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Information about Adam's childhood, days in Montana, and mar-
riage as told to Reola Mc^illips Breed when a senior in high school
for a pap^>% by her mother, Jean Brown McKillips (her memories of
her father'1, sprint, 19U0,
^Ad am Brown's obituaries from area newspapers at the time of
his death. December l8, 1921.
^"Interview with Reola McKillips Breed, September, 197li.
^Hannah Brown's obituary from Elizabeth Weekly News, March li , 1938 ,
Information about the thrown brothers from newspaper accounts
of all of their marriages and obituaries for Raymond and Kel^n, Robert
Edna, and Deloras, and Charlotte Brown.
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$SVthe ]>l_<«- of the Oertl.lcnte which comes attached to the Licence, but Is IN ADDITION THER}^,,""" *
ILillTOIS STATS SOAHL 0_T KKfiJCTK.
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JEAN MARY BROWN, Hr!R CHILDHOOD
my maternal grandrontner
•Jean Mary Brown was born to Hannah Eadie and Adam Brown on
March 1, 1888 on their farm in Woodbine Townshio, Jo Daviess
County, Illinois. She had two older brothers, Raymond and Harry
and in 1892 another brother, Robert, was born. They all attended
grade school at the //oodbine School, a one room country school.
There is still a .Voodbine School which closed in the fifties and
since has boon used as a church and meeting place, but it is be-
lieved that when they wentithere may have been a different school,
one of brick.
In 1895 Jean, along with her family, attended her maternal
grandparents fiftieth wedding anniversary celebration and she saw
ali of her cousins, Jean never knew her paternal grandparents
nor any of her cousins on her father's side. She quite often
saw her mother's relatives especially a cousin named Ida who
was herbage and lived in Hanover 'which was not too far away,
Around 1908, while in her teens, Jean attended Spworth" Semina
in i'ipworth, Iowa, this taking the place of high school. It is
known she studied music there but it is not known what else she
studied. She had many piano books (some of which I use today,
since I am a nvusic major) and must have been a- fairly advanced
player. Her p'arents had both a piano and an organ for her.
She transferred from Rpworth to Upper Icwa University, in
Fayette, Iowa. She apparently did not like the first school
because she received post cards saying "nope you like it better
at your new school." She kept one huse scrapbook especially
made for post c-rds which was full by the time she married. She
received cards from friends from the schools when she was home ar. d
while at school got them from her brothers, relatives, und her
husband- to-be . ^ At least one of her brothers also went away to
school in Filton, Illinois.
Until she was married when she was twenty-seven years old,
she lived with her parents, except when s^e was away at school in
Iowa. Sin.ce she had brothers she probably did not do alot of
field work but did have her chores . ( perhaps" gardening and milking)
In the house she helped with the housework, did much embroidery
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work and textile painting.
Scrapbook of post cards in the possession of Reola '"'cKillips
Breed .
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Most of history taken from an interview with Reola ricKillips
Breed, Jean Brown's daughter. ( September , 197U ) .
ALEXANDER AND ABIGAIL McKILLIPS
(my maternal great, great, great grandparents)
"In 1792 in County Down, England, Alexander McKillips was born.
His father's ancestry is supposedly traced to an old Scotch fami-
ly that settled in the north of Ireland. As a young man he emi-
grated to America and became a farmer in Virginia where he met
tflpid married Abigail Eawcett who was born in Bath County, Ireland,
Her parents were natives of Wales and she probably came to Virginia
with them as a young girl.
Abigail gave birth to six children while they farmed in
Virginia, In I83I4. the family went west and settled in Council Hill
Township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois. While there, Indian and
white renegades captured, beat, and tied Alexander. This sort of
thing happened quite frequently in this areaat that time since it
was still basically unsettled.
The family eventually moved to Menominee Township, same county*
Where he entered a claim, and lived there for some time. In lS5>2
they left the farm and moved to Franklin Street in Galena, Illinois^
where they were buried after Abigail's death in l8£6 and his death
in 1862.
Alexander was tc have been a "man of strong and decided
views' in politics" as a stanch Democrat and "a politician of much
local fame." "'He was held in esteem for his abilities and many
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good qualities."
Their children went their separate ways &3 they grew: Ben«-
jamin visited Kansas and Missouri and eventually returned to Ill-
inois settling in Clayton County with his wife and two -children,
(he died ir. 1865>)J Alexander H&e lived near Kansas City, Kansas
,-with his wife; Matilda Blackman lived with her' husband in St.
Paul, Minnesota; Sliza J. Dryden died in Chicago in 1889;
Emeline who married Melville Clemens and lived in Brooklyn New
York; and William P., my great, great grandfather. ^
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■"•Interview with Verna Thomas Hutchison who was told the story
'by her grandpa, Alexander McKillips' grandson, September, 197U-.
Portrai t and 3iographical Album o_f Jo Daviess County , 111.,
fChicago, rill. : Chapman Brothers, 1889), p. 1+33^
'.>' -^Majority of history Ibid., rtj.lij & •
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WILLIAM P. AND AMANDA McKILLIPS
(my maternal great, great grandparents)
Amanda L; Miller was born on about May 2 or 3, 1836 to
Abraham and Matilda Wakefield Miller (my great, great, great
grandparents), the latter of English descent, who were natives
of Pennsylvania. She married William P. McKillips in 1856 in
Jo Daviess County, Illinois. William was born on January 1, I83I
the youngest of six children in Warren Springs, Bath County,
Virginia (now West Virginia). As a child of three or so. he went
with his family to Jo Daviess County , Illinois, and received his
education there (see page ). He moved to Galena as a young man
and it was probably there that he met his future wife. While
there he also made the acquaintance of the future hero U. S. Grant .
William A. (my great grandfather), their first child, was born in
Galena in 18 >7.
In 1859 they moved near Weston, Illinois and started a pros-
perous smelting business in Elizabeth, Township which they continued
with for sixteen years. There, ten more children were born: Matilda
in 1859 (who was remembered by her great-niece as a woman who
often stretched her tales and also got things done rather slowly
so that when anyone was not as quick as he thought they should be
my grandfather, Albert McKillips (her great-nephew) would compere
them to his, "Aunt Til') (She had a m i 1 1 i ne ty, in Elizabeth and late
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in life married Robert Fowler); George in 1861 who later lived in
Cherokee County, Iowa; Fannie in l863> Edwin (or maybe Edward) in
186? who became a farmer in Woodbine Township; Ella A. in 1867;
and Frank in 1869 who was member of the "Woodbine Silver Cornet
Band when he was young ami Mary and Benjamin who died yo .n«r, maybe
at birth. The children were all no have had much musical taste
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and ability.
On November 21, 1871 the family suffered the lose of their
mother Amanda at the ace of thirty-five. Shs was said to have
been "a true wife and tender mother and her loss was sincerely
mourned, not only by hen own family, but also a largo circle of
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friends. Since the younger children were unable to t Re cars of
themselves the older ones, especially William and Matilda took
care of them and kept house. Matilda took care of the household
at least until her mid-thirties or longer. There was also a
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Mrs. Woods who helped out.
In 1872 William P. purchased a farm of one-hnndred -sixty acres from
Illinois Ontral R>iTroad worth about four thousand dollars and
the family moved to the new residence in I' 7U. which was located in
Thomoson Township and he later added one hundred sixty-nine acres
which were in Woodbine Township but nearby. The original farm was
virgin soil (never- boon -plowed ) , but he "brought it to a high
state of cultivation, and, with the fine residence and other build-
ings he ' had )erected thereon, it (was) one of the oest properties
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in the neishborhood . " In 1887 the house was totally destroyed by
fire but scon another was built which he "elegantly furnished with
everything necessary for comfort and convenience,"
For awhile Mr. McKill ips was the only representative ^merican-
born citizen living in Thompson Township. He was a Rf publican
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with fairly independent political ideas. rie was a believer in
Christianity but did not belone to a church. He served as a
Highway Commissioner for five years and also as a school director.
He also was a memoer of a Lodae in Elizabeth, Illinois.
William P. moved to Elizabeth in his later years ?nd died
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thorn on May 16 or 17, .i 895 at the arte of sixty-four years,
four months, and seventeen days and is buried along with his
.wife in the Elizabeth Cemetary.*^
■' Interview with Verna McKillips Hutchison in. Sept*, 19?:; as told
to her by ner mother, Clara McKillios Tnomas (the great-niece),
"Interview with Reola McKillips Breed in Gent., 1971,. an
she remembered her father, Albert.
-'Interview with Mrs. Hutchison,
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Port ra i 1 and Biographical Album of fo Davjp r: County , 111.
(Chicago: Chapman brothers, 11189 ) , p.~I;lh, "~
-''Interview with Mrs. Hutchison.
^Portrait and Bio era phi a I A] bum , p . l± 1 5 .
7 Ibid.
History of «Io Davie s.s bounty . Illinois. (Cnicago: H. F, Ketl
& Co., Times Building, I878 ) , p. 792.
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Most of history taken from nortrai t and ^ • hi. --1
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Tombstones for both William and Amanda McKillios in the
Elizabeth Cemetary.
CATHARINA AND SAMUEL HORSCH
(my maternal great, great grandparents)
Samuel Horsch was born on February 12, 1881 in Bavaria,
Germany. Catharina (as spelled on tombstone though another
source spells it Catharine) Horsch (her maiden name) was born
on August 7» l830» probably also in Bavaria}" They were married
in May, 1851 in Jo Daviess County (marriage recorded at that
county court house) in Illinois after "they had voyaged across the
Atlantic ucean together from Germany,
..... .They first lived near Giiena, Illinois in that county and
moved to Scales Mound later, a village about ten miles away. In
1862 they, moved to one hundred and twenty acres in Woodbine Township
in section 12, in the' same county. They continued to farm for
■the rest of their lives.
They had nine children: David, William, Mary, Louisa (my great,
grandmother), her twin brother, August (who later married and was
killed in a silver mine)2 Annie H., Samuel, Elias H. , and Fred-
erick^ who was born ~in .1870, married-Marie (1881-1962) and he died
In 191+3 and they are buried along side his parents in Woodbine).
; 'Samuel died on March 21±t 1905?. The obituary said he was
one cf the old residents of Woodbine and had been poorly for some
time. His wife, Catharina died on January 7, 1913 and they are
both buried in the Woodbine Cemetary
"'" ■'■Date of her birth & their deaths on tombstone in Woodbine.
^Interview with Verna Hutchison on October 25, 197U.
^Most of information came from: Hi story of Jo Davi e s s County,
Illinol s (Chicago: H. F. &etl Co., Times building, Ib?o), p. 773.
fSamuel Horsch' s obituary from Stockton Herald hews, 3-29-190^.
LOUISA AN!) W LI I \K ?V-;KI! hi??.
(my maternal «roat grandparents)
William A. McKillips was born on June 18, 18^7 in Jalena
and moved to Elizabeth Township (both in Jo Daviess County,
Illinois) at the age of two near a settlement called Weston
which no longer exists (see page ). lie once told one of his Grand-
daughters that while liv ir.g there he watched the Home Guard drill
in a field near his home called Green's Bottom and his mother
cooked dinner for the men. These men may have been training for
the Cicil War or perhaps this was after the war. William deci-
ded he wanted to join the men so he could be a drur.rr.er boy be-
cause the drummer boy in this outfit wore a nice coat with pretty
buttons and he thought that would be fun to wear. He also
hauled lead 10 Galena with his father from their smelt. This
trip «->f about fifteen miles was a Ion? way with horses and the
heavy load so they would have to stop along the way over night.
All in all it was quite an exciting trip to him..^ His mother died
when he was fourteen and he helped at home alot. Shortly after his
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mother died the family moved to Woodbine Township.
William A. married Louisa Horsch on March 23, l88l. She was
born September 6, l8$6 in Thompson Township (see page ) «' The
couple first lived on a farm in Woodbine Township and here they
had their first child, a daughter, Clara, was born on October 17f
1882, Shortly after they bought another farm nearby. Here the
couple had two sons--Albert Larl (my grandfather) and Harrison>fonroe
born on Septv l£,l858« The family raised everything, just like most
farms in the county~-chickens , dairy and beef cattle, pigs, hay,
oats, etc. and farmin? at that time meant they were ail busy all
of the tine. Its* known if William and Louisa attended school but
William could read and wrote well. On the other hand_, Louisa
had people read to her, although this might have been because
she had poor eyesight in her later years. But in their family
Bible there are some scribbles', which she made meaning she pro-
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bably could not write.
William and Louisa farmed until 1907-08 when they sold their
farm, retired and moved to the village of Elizabeth on ^ain Street.
Their farm home, (which was not at the time in possession of any
McKillipsl burned down in 1973. Their children marri ed+--Cl ara
went to high school for three years in Elizabeth and lived with
her Aunt Matilda while attending. Clara married George Thomas
(March 7, 1873- February 21, 1957rtSifee they had five daughters,
Delma, Ila, Onita, Etha, and Verna> and a son George. Clara ..
recently celebrated her ninety-second birthday at her home in
Stockton. Illinois. Albert married Jean Brown (see page ).
Harry married Ada Allen on October 21, 1913' they had one son,
Allen, ( presently living^in California and he has two sons)and
a daughter, Darlene (now Mrs. Melvin Schulz and they too have two
sons), Harry died in the fall of. 1971. *t
After his retirement William often helped his son Albert on
his farm. .William had bought the farm, in 1911; for about one-
hundred dollars an acre for a total of twenty-three thousand,
seven hundred and fifty dollars for the two-hundred and twenty-
six acres plus some old farm building?- Later William sold the
farm to his son.^
In the early 1930's, Mrs, McKillips' health began to fail
and she lost her eyesight completely. She died on March 26, 1933
at the a??e of seventy-six yoars and six months, after a purlytic
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stroke.-" William then went to live with his daughter on a farm
outside of Woodbine and he died at her home on August 7, 19l|5.^
William and Lo.:isa are buried at the Elizabeth Cemetary near
his parents.
Interview with Verna Thomas Hutchison, the ^c^illips '
granddaughter^ as she remembered talking with her grandfather.
1 ^Facts from William's childhood from For trai t and 3i opraohi c al
Album of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, (Chicago: Cnapman srotr.ers,
TEJJTT p. TTFT
^Louisa McKillins' obituary from an area newspaper at the
time of- her death, March 26, 1933.
^"Harry McKillips' obituary from the "Stockton rienald News"
during the fall of" 1971.
■^Tombstone of George Thomas at Woodbine Cemetary.
"Interview with Reola McKillips 3reed in November, 197U (she
had looked over the deed to the farm which -William had bought that
now belongs to her and her husband.).
William A. McKillips' obituary from an area newspaper at the
time of his death, August 7, 19kS»
^Tombstones at Elizabeth Cemetary.
ALBERT EAR!, McKILLI'JS, HIS CHILDHOOD
(My maternal grandfather)
On' December 21, l88u. Albert Earl McKillips wa? born and, to
his parents, was probably a welcome Christmas present since he
was their first son, and as farmers, sons are always appreciated.
He was born on a farm owned by his father situated in the northern
part of Woodbine Township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois. We know
little of his early years. He had an older sister, Clara, who
once told her daughter of an important event which she remembered
which occurred in about 1887.^* She was holding onto the hand of
one of her parents and her younger borther, Albert was being held
up to see the incredible machine--the first train from the East
to come through woodbine!*"
' ' In 1888 another boy, Harry, was born. The three attended
Apple River School which still exists although now carrier- the
name of Miller School, which was fairly .near their home.
Albert completed the eight erades. after which he helped his father
on the farm. At the turn iof the century farming definitely was
alot more work and took more than one man to run. They raised
the usual farm animals and crops raised in the area, dairy and
beef cattle, chickens, pigs, probably oatsr aorn'rand hay.
Around 1907 he attenden school for awhile in Epworth Seminary,
Epworth, Iowa. -His future wife also went there although its not
cle'ar if they ever attended at the same time. Anyway Albert did
not meet her there for he knew her most of his life as a neighbor.
They must have courted for several years since they did not marry
until he wis thirty-one year? old.
Before his marriaee Albert farmed a farm in Woodbine Township
that his father owned. He probably did this at the same time he
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ran a small, but unusial double business with his brother, *iarry.
An advertisement for it read (in about 191U ) , "McKillips Bros.
Meat Warket-Agent for Studebaker and Maxwell Cars."3He also was
in the ice business for awhile around this timo.^"
-"Dateiof first train clarified in Elizabeth Centennial BooK,
1968; r ■'" -• v-~. • - ".. - ~ ' ---U^r..;-!;, l~
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Interview with Verna Thomas Hutchison, Sept., 197U as told
to her by her mother, Glara McKillips Thomas.
^A "magazine-like "Souvenier of Elizabeth and Hanover made
in 1911* , p. 37.
^Majority of history from interview with Reola McKillips
Breed, his daughter, September, 1971+.
• JEAN AND ALBERT . He KILL I PS , THEIR LIVES TOSET'IER
(my maternal grandparents)
Jean Mary Brown and Albert Earl McKillips were married on
June 2, 1915 after a courtship of several years. They were married
at her' parents' home with her relatives as guests. The paper
said of the wedding, "Both of the contracting parties are well-
known and highly esteemed in the vicinity of Elizabeth and Wood-
bine. . . 'On their extended honeymoon they went to the "Great
Exhibition in Calif ornia . and- many of the_western states where they
visited many of both of their relatives. They too.c lots of pic-
tures on their trip which are very interesting and in the pos-
session of their daughter. , ". .
They returned to Elizabeth where for a short while they lived
in town in an apartment. In 1916 they moved to a fajmn three miles
east of Elizabeth in Woodbine Township. Albert purchased the
farm from his father (according to the deed he bought it in 1926
and paid abo it the same price his father paid , in -191U , about one-
hundred dollars an acre). In the early years at the farm they
raised pigs, chickens, beef cattle, and milked about fifteen cows
by hand. They also hid teams of horses for farmwork. Albert's
father, William, helped out alot and they also had hired hands
in the summer who lived with them. , '"•
Their farm buildings were quite old and they soon began
thinking of building all new buildings nearer the main road. They
began in 1918 and the house was completed in 1919. It is a quite
lar^e two-story frame house with four bedrooms upstairs and four
rooms downstairs. They also built two barns and a hog house with
the help'Of neighbors, a barn-raising (the house was built by pro-
fessional carpenters). The old buildings were torn down and all; that
now remains i 2 the basement and well and indentations in t'n ■-
prround where the buildings had been.
Neighbors often heloed each other then especially at harvesttir.e
Neighbors also visited back and forth much more often than is true
today, and the HcKillips knew many of their neighbors quite well.
There are pictures of the men at the McKillips' farm with the
machinery of the day.
\- In 1922,' Reola iMarion (my mother), was born to them at their
home. Their second daughter was born on Hay 20, 1921+. named Lois
Jean. The girls attended school about' a mile away and they also
helped with the chores and housework. They had no' sons and this
trend was to continue when neither Reola or Lois had sons, f
The Depression was not .terribly bad for them for they always had
plenty to eat although they did have money troubles with their
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farm payments as so many did at that time.
" In ,1Q[;0 their eldest daughter graduated from high school and
soon moved toa neighboring town where she worked. It was in this
year they also purchased their first new car f juiniiilmi 11 1— paw ),
Lois graduated in 19U2 and began working at the Farm Bureau in
Elizabeth living at home. In 19146 Reola returned to the farm with
her husband wh© began working with Albert. Jean and Albert were
both very active in church affairs and members of the First
Methodist Church in Elizabeth. Albert continued in the choir
which he had joined about the time they were married. They were
both quite interested in music and had a piano in their home most
of the time. Jean played piano quite well although didn't, play s.o
much as she grew older. Albert played the violin at one tine.
Both of their daughters took oiano lessons as youngsters.
Jean and Albert were both registered Republicans although they
were not so active politically.
In 191+6 Jean became ill and war confined to bed where she re-
mained for the rest of her life. For two years her daughters
and husband cured for her and she died of cancer on February 1, I9I4.8
short one month of being sixty years old.-^
^""Elizabeth Weekly News" about their wedding and honeymoon.
^Most of history from interview with Recla Breed, Sept., 197l|..
' -'"Elizabeth Weekly News", Jean McKillips'. obituary, February,
191*8.
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REOLA McKILLI°S, HtrR EARLY LIFE
(my mother)
Reo'la Marion McKillips was born to Albert and Jean McKillips
on June 6, 1922 in a house which her parents had just recently
built.' She has lived on this farm about three miles from Elizabeth,
in Woodbine Township, " Jo Daviess County, Illinois since that tine
except for a few years after she graduated from high school.
She had a younger sister, Lois, as a playmate ind also oc-
cassionally saw some of her cousins. They were never crowded in
their home having only four in the family and an eight-room house,
When she was four years old the family took a trip to Kansas to
visit relatives and they went in their Studebaker which had mohair
cushions and vases for flowers between the front and back seats.
She went to Terrapin Ridge School (currently a private resi-
dence) which was a mile from their home near a main hishway. Lois k. §hv
usually walked but occassionally got rides from the neighbors.
'When it snowed heavily all the' neighbors would pitch in to shovel
themselves out by hand. The McKillips only lived a mile from the
hiehway and they were still sometimes snowed in for a week--the
neighbors further down the road were often snowed in for two.
They always wore cotton dresses with tan stockings to school
which they disliked and even talk of them disgustedly today. To
and from school in the winter they had snow pants or overhalls.
Durins the depression the family received a pair of shoes from
a "thoughtful" aunt and Reola's mother made her wear them to school.
They got their first radio when Reola was about five years
old--an Atwater-Kent that ran off a battery and had a bie horn
on the top. She also remembers getting permenents with the elec-
tric curlers of that time when each curler hooked up to an electric
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wire and often you ourned your heaa! Lois and Reola seemed more
fortunate than some, growing up in the depression, for in Reola's
attic are many toys the girls recei ved--doll s and their acce-
sories including a bed, swing,, chest full of clothes, and a buggy.
At the age of nine Reola learned to milk by hand and is still
at it though now they have machines. She even received a milkiha stool.
At that time their herd consisted of about fifteen cows and they
sold the cream for butter (until about 19l\.2 when they started
selling all of the milk) and gave the milk to the pi^s. They did
this so they did not have to worry aoout ref ridgerating the milk.
The crirls also gathered eggs and' other chores. One time a cow had
twins so their father gave each of the ?irls one--they named '•-.hem
May ano June after the months they were both born in. They also
had horses for teams for farm work which they learned to drive by
themselves in the field and also rode sometimes.
Be,ola and Lois also die hou sework-- du sting the mepboard every
week, etc. and Reola had to make' a cake every Saturday (from scratch,
of course and without an electric mixer) in case company would
drop in the next day. Still today she does not like to mix things
by hand because her mom m.jde her cream the shortening: and sucar so
well. The girls were lucky though since their dad heloed with the.
cishes'every night and they did not ha-<-e to (a reason that my own
sisters arid I have used to try and get out of that terrible chore).
On some Sundays the family went to Jean's mother's farm to visit,
which was only a mile away.
In 1936 Reola started hish school at Elizabeth and became a
B student. During her sophomore year she was a cheerleader and
all during high school attended many basketball games. She was
in two school plays, a member of the Glee Club, and vice-presi-
dent of her senior class. She usually rode to school with
neighbors the first couple of years and then drove herself. and
her sister Lois who started high sc 'ooi in 1938. During her time
at home her family was auite involved with the Methodist Church
in Elizabeth and attended regularly and Reola joined its choir
while she was in high school. While in high school Reola also
got to visit the big city of Chicaeo and some of her family's friends
Who lived 'thar'.Q She graduated in June, 19U0 and that summer her
family again visited Kansas.
In November, I9J4.O. Reola began working as a secretary at
Kraft Cheese Company in Stockton, Illinois. She lived at home for
a year moving to Stockton to an apartment on Benton Street in 19/j.l.
In that year she also met her future husband, Wayne Breed at drafts.
They dated for about a year, going to movies at the Stockton
theater and to dances at the"Paiace" in Galena, Illinois. They
both enjoyed dancint? and became quite good partners for they were
married in 19L|.2.
History written from interviews with Lois McKillips Coppernoll'.
Oct.,- 197U and Reola McKillips Breed, Sept., 197U-.
ETHEL AND ALBERT McKILLIPS. THEIR LIFE' TOGETHER
(ny maternal grandfather and step-f?randmother )
After his wife died in 191+8, Albert remained on the farm
and his daughters and son-in-law lived with him. In 19i;9 the
household welcomed the first grandchild-niece-and-daughter of
Wayne and Reola.
On March 5» 19$0 Albert married a widow, Ethel Mae Reed Fraser
in. a cerempjiy held after the regular church service at noon in the
First Methodist Church, in Elizabeth. The reception following was
attended by two-hundred guests.''" Ethel Reed was born on January 19,
1890 to Richard and Elizabeth Balbach Reed and grew up around
Elizabeth, attend ing Hickory Grove School for eight years and
graduating from Elizabeth High School in 1908. As a young girl
she remembers doing her chores, milking, etc., and helping with
the housework. She had one brother. Freeman and a sister Leone.
She married ^ames H. Fraser in 1911. For awhile he worked
for the railroad and he also managed the hatchery. They had one
son, Harvey Reed Frarer born on August 11, 1916 and who, after
graduating from Elizabeth in 193U was appointed to rfest Point.
He now has a doctorate from the University of Illinois in theoreti-
cal and apclied mechanics and is presently president of School of
Mines and Technology in Rapid City in South Dakota, He was a oof-
fessor at West Point and retired from the Army as a brigadeer gen-
eral, He married Jean Mueller from Freeport, Illinois and they
have three children: Dr. Harvey R. Fraser, Jr., presently living
in California; Janet Hale (Mrs. David) (who has two children, Heather
and David), and Joan Kay who is a student at Arizona State Univer-
sity at Tempe, Arizona. Ethel's first husband killed by a train
in l^hS.2
The newlyweds moved to her house in Elizabeth following a
short trip. They had known each other through the church and to
everyone seemed a most perfect couple — Ethel and Albert.
One of the first things they did together was to help
Albert's youngest daughter with her wedding. Lois married Gilbert
CoDpernoll (born on January 10, 1921)) from Stockton, Illinois on
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June 18, 19p0. They have farmed since that time and raised three
daughters: ' 'Ann vTean, born on Hay 17, 1951 and is currently a
graduate student at Western University, '"'acomb, Illinois; Sue
Rebecca, born on May 8, 1952 and married Darrell Roberts in January
of 1970—they are parents of two girls, Joan Lynn (born on June29,
1970) and Jean Marie (born on June 18, 1971); and Gail Marie,
born on April 30» 1953 and is presently a senior at WesternlH inOi5-
Even though Ethel and Albert married relatively late in life,
she was sixty and he was sixty-five, they had twenty-three beauti-
ful years together. I. .remember my grandfather from the time he was
about seventy-two, not even one-fifth of his life. Since' my
grandmother died before I was born, Ethel is the grandma I remember
and is she the perfect grandma, right down to the delicious sugar
cookies and the bedtime stories she read us until s~e was hoarse.
When she married Albert she already had two grandchildren of her o*)\
plus Albert had a granddaughter, find he soon had four more. She
helped each time one of Albert's daughters had a baby, even when
Reola and 'Wayne had their last daughter nine years after their second
child, making a total of six granddaughters for Albert. Ethel and
Albert often babysat for Lois and Reola especially as Reola lived
only three miles away. I remember staying there on Saturday nights
dancing with my older sister to "Lawrence Welk" and watching wre^t-
1 ir.°r which, I 'learned later was a show my Grandma liked and not
sc much Grar.dpa.
At Christmas time my family always got together with ny
mother's relatives at least twice — once .at our house on Christmas
Day and , since my grandpa's birthday was on Dec-ember 21, we
went to his house for a party before Christmas. He would often
play Santa Claus only we always knew it because his hands, which
showed alot of hard work, always gave him away.
Ethel and Albert worked at the locker in Elizabeth from 19^2-
19^1 and I remember once missing the bus at school and walking
up to my grandparents (since they lived in town we always went
there if we had to stay after school for meetings, etc. and my
younger sister still does). They were working and since x could
not get in I had to walk all the way to the locker. It was very
cold that day and 1 was not dressed for the long walk. Grandma
still remembers how cold I was when I finally found them.
Albert also helped at the farm alot and still went out in
the field when he was over eighty. They both came out almost every
day in the summer to work and garden (and since my mother dislikes
gardening she was glad to see them). Grandpa was also handy making
things and we often asked him to mane storage places, desks, etc.
In the 1970' s, Ethel and Albert started getting great grand-
children ar.d again babysat occassionally . They have always been
active memuers of the church and I remember them at churcL every
Sunday, Grandpa in the choir in which he was a sixty-year member
when he died. Albert had quite a sense of humor and often wrote
poems for different occassions at church which were always inter-
esting. He also got the job of mashin^ the potatoes at the church's
annual Tirkey Suoper and always helped dry dishes. They took on
the t'ob of janitors for the church and Grandma still is employed
as such. They both belonged to' the '-'artha Chapter of the Eastern
Star which ahey attended regularly (Grandma still does) and Albert
was a member of the Kavanaush Lod<?e ^36 AP &AM. Albert was very
active even after he had some physical problems with dizzy spells
and with his l^gs. They were always ready to help and often
painted, wall-papered, you-name-it for their friends and relatives.
On March 21, 1973 Albert died suddenly and he is deeply missed.^-
Ethel is still a very active -person who seems ne er to get tired.
My grandparents have had a great influence on my life and my son
is now benefitting from all four of his grandparents plus a rrreat-
graridfather and his Grandma Ethel.
■'•"Elizabeth Weekly News" a marriage write-up of Ethel and
Albert's wedding, March, 1950.
p
Interview with Ethel McKillips, November 17, 197L(..
^Marria^e write-up of Lois and Gilbert Coppernoll's weoding,
"Elizaoeth Weekly "ews", June, 1950.
Uob ituary of Albert McKillips, "Elizabeth Weeklv News", March
1973.
5S
REOLA AND WAYNE BREED, THEIR LIFE TOGETHER I
(my parents )
Reola Marion ^'cKillips and Wayne E. Breed were married at
four o'clock on June 18, 19L|.2 at her parents home in Elizabeth
Township, Jo ^aviess bounty, Illinois. Wayne's brother, uurnice
and his wife, Beth, attended the couple. At this time they both
were employed by Kraft Cheese ^ompanv. Stockton, Illinois. After
a short wedoing trip to "ockford they lived in an apartment on
Benton Street in Stockton.
Reola cooked their first meal as newlyweds on June 22, 19U2
and the sales ticket from the Stockton department Store where
she got the groceries read: 3 chops-28^, craci<*;rs-12>zf, peas-10<2f,
cake-29^, salt-9^, lard-20^, and pork and beans-lpcz' for a total of
$1.33 plus 3^ tax. They lived in their first apartment from June, .
until October of that year when Wayne enlisted in the 'army. He
was away for almost the next three years. My mother moved to an
apartment with a girl friend (who's husband enlisted with Tad) also
on Benton Street. Mom and her friend visited their husbands at
Del Rio, Texas when the' men were stationed at Eagle ^ass there.
This was in December so at least Reola and Wayne spent "heir first
Christmas together, but not the next two. Except for a three-day
pass Wayne received in April, 19U3. they did not see each other again
intil he was discharged in the sumner of 19q.5>.
While he was away Reola joined a group called the Soldierettes ,
the wives and girlfriends of the men at war, in whicn they usually
played cards although once they did roll bandages. In 19UU Wayne? s
younger sister Verla who was working at the Army Depot in Savanna,
I 1 1 inois , came to live with Reola and stayed for about one year.
When Wayne returned the couple remained in Stockton for a few
months and in the early part of 19L».6 moved to her parents furm
where V/ayne began working with Reola's dad, Albert. In 191+6
Albert bought milking machines which made that job much easier,
so they could milk about twenty cows plus they had pigs, chickens,
and beef cattle. In 1914.6 Reola's mother became quite ill and
Reola and her sister^who was living there, cared for her until her
death in 19U.8. It was also. in I9I4.8 that Wayne started on shares
with his father-in-law. In 19I+9 the couple greeted their first
daughter, 1-iary Jean, who~was named after Reola's mother, Jean
Mary. She was born on January 5> 191+9 and since her grandpa and
aunt were living there besides her parents she had alot of atten-
tion.
In 1950 both Albert and Lois married and left the farm, al-
though Albert still worked alot in the summer. On Hay 23, 1952
Reola anc Wayne had their second daughter, Sally Reola, who, like
her sister, was born in the Deaconess Hospital', Freeport, Illinois.
The family also bought their first televicion that year which has
become a part of their everyday lives. They built on to one of the
barns that year also with the help of a nei'ghoor and relatives.
For entertainment Wayne bowled once a week at the bowling
alley for about ten years, from 1952-1962, or so. Reola was in
a woman's card club, and they both learned to square dance. When
the girls started school , there was much eroiny on in the household.
They each were in I4.H and Brownies, at different times, Reola even
being a leader in I4.H. The girls also started piano lessons when
they were each around seven and continued with them throueh high
school. These activities meant having to stay after school and
Reola Clicking them up, a chajffering job she felt she was employed
in by the time the girls were in high school. The school acti-
vities keeo the whcle family busy attending plays, concerts (all
of their daughters have been (and Darcy is) in the band, and the
many other events the school sponsors. i^/ayne is a great sport
fan of baseball and foofcball and attends most of the high school
basketball games. He has served on the School Board for the past
eleven years.
Darcy Waynette (named after her father) was born on April 25,
1961, nine years after their second child and who was supposed to
be a boy like the first two "should have been." When she started
kindergarten, Sally was a freshman and "ary Jean a senior, so they
all went to school at the same time $0r only one year. Darcy is
eurrently in eight srade at Elizabeth, is a cheerleader and an honor
student.
Reola joined the Home Bureau which is presently called the
Jo Daviess nomemakers Extension in which she has held many offices.
She is also a member of the Between the Bookends Book Club and
the United Methodist Women. The First ''ethodist Church. is an impor-
tant part of Reola' s life and she attends regularly and is involved
in many of its programs. Both Mary Jean and Sally were in the
church' s c^oir while they were in high school and they all parti-
cipateiin its activities. Wayne is ' in t::e Kavanaugh Lodge -36 AF&AM.
Way re made improvements on the farm: installing a bulk tank,,
in 1961. a-pipe line was added in 1963t and he has had built two
Harvesters in the 1970' s. Wayne and Reola now owr. the fa^n which
they started .buying in the early sixties. Wayne has been a member
of various farm organizations including the Farm 3ureau, and a
committeeman for Woodbine Township of the American Soil Conservation
Service. Even though the work on the farm is much easier than when
Col
Reola and Wayne were children, there is still much to ue done.
Reola has always helped with the miking, morning and hight, and
they currently milk over fifty cows. She also has helped with
field work although not so much now that they do not bail hay a1-'
they used to. They always have help in. the summer including
a "couple of .Vayne ' s nephews who lived with them in the fifties and
for the past several years they have boys from Elizabeth in high
school or college work.
Mary Jean graduated from hierh school in 1967f valedictorian
of her class and then went to Illinois State University, Normal,
Illinois where she graduated with a degree In special education
in January. 1971. On February 13, 1971 she married Michael F.
Miller from Warren, Illinoi s (born on November 19i|.9) at the
First Methodist Church in Elizabeth. She taught at Galena, Illinois
for two years and then they moved to Monroe, Wisconsin, their
present residence. Mike graduated from Wisconsin Sta^.e University,
Platteville, Wisconsin, in May, 1971 and since then has worked fur
Production "relit Association in Darlington and Monroe, Wisconsin.
When they moved to Monroe, Mary Jean -began teaching second grade
at Orangeville. Illinois' s school. On August 3, 19714- the couple
welcomed their first child, Nathan Michael, and she is currently not
working .
On June 18, 1972 Wayne and Reola celebrated their thirtyfif tfa.
wed jing anniversary . wi th a "sure-rise" dinner and since that time
have h-id two more. They enjoy their role as grandparents and are
greatly appreciated as parents and grandparents.
^Interview with Reola and Wayne Breed and from my memories
%2
SALLY BREED FISCHER
Sally Reola Breed was born to Reola and /i/ayne iireed on
^ay 23, 1902; I grew up on a farm outside of Elizabeth, Illinois.
My childhood was pretty typical as far as cljbs and school goes.
My parents and I took a trip to ^'est Point, New York when I was
five, a trip I vividly remember plus we went to the Mid»-Atianti c
States and MinnesotavMichilgan area on two separate trips with my
older sister also.
I graduated from high school in 1970 and started at Northern
■■-llinois University, DeKalb, Illinois that September. Some of my
summer jobs during college and high school included waitress, factory
worker, and corn detasseler (a popular job with young teenagers
since it only takes a few weeks out of the summer and the employ-
ers will hire anyone over thirteen). I have also taken a class
each at Highland Community College. Freer>ort. Illinois, and
Kishwaukee Junior College, 1-'alta, Illinois, I am a music major
with an emphasis in vocal music.
In January, 1969 1 met John Bruce Fischer who was a senior
at Stockton High School at that time. We dated and were married
on August 7, 1971. John was born on June 6, 19^1 to Stanley and
Virginia Fischer at Freeport, Illinois, He graduated in 1969
and also attended Northern. We lived in two apartments In DeKalb
after we were married, a one-bedroom from September, 1971- June-1972
and then we got a two-bedroom in which we lived until January, 1973.
We rented the larger apartment because on February 12, 1972,
3rian Michael Fischer, our first child, entered our lives.
John graduated from Northern in January, 1973 a"d we moved to
Rockford where he was employed by Pollard, Wheeler, Harms, & Elliot,
SALLY BREED FISCHER
Sally Reola Breed was born to Reola and wTayne -irec-d on
May 23, 19^2. I grew up on a far:'. outsJ
My childhood was pretty typical as far as cl.Jbs and school goes.
My parents and I took a trip to l^est Point, New York when I was
five, a trip I vividly remember plus we 'went to the Mid »-AtIanti c
States and Minnesota-Michigan area on two separate trips with my
older sister also.
I graduated from high school in 1970 and started at Northern
-"■llinois University, DeKalb, Illinois that September. Some of my
summer jobs during college and high school included waitress, factor
worker, and corn detasseler (a popular Job with young teenagers
since it only takes a few weeks out of the summer and the employ-
ers will hire anyone over thirteen). I have also taken a class
each at Highland Community Colleee. Freenort. Illinois, and
Kishwaukee Junior College, '''alta, Illinois, I am a music major
with an emphasis in vocal music,
In January, 1969 1 met John Bruce Fischer who was a senior
at Stockton High School at that time. We dated and were married
on August 7, 1971. John was born on June 6, 195>1 to Stanley and
Virginia Fischer at Freeport, Illinois, He graduated in 1969
and also attended Northern, We lived in two apartments In DeKalb
after we were married, a one-bedroom from September, 1971- June-1972
and then we got a two-bedroom in which we lived until January. 1973.
We rented the larger apartment because on February 12, 1972,
3rian Michael Fischer, our first child, entered our lives.
John graduated from Northern in January, 1973 and we moved to
Rockford where he was employed by Pollard, Wheeler, Harms, & Elliot,
a CPA firm, In December 197 3 he oe^an his present joo as an
accountant at Eclipse, Inc. Our son is nov; two and one-half
and makes qjite an addition to our family.
I am currently a parttime student at Rock Valley College
hoping to continue at Northern soon and complete my decree in
music eduaation.
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SOURCES i
I. Cemetaries
A. Elizabeth, Elizabeth, 111.
B. Woodbine, Woodbine. 111.
C. Ladies union, Stockton, 111.
II. Personal Interviews
A.
Wayne and Reola Breed
( Sent.
, 197U)
parents
B.
Earlene Hunt
( Sept.
, 197U)
father ' s sister
c .
Carson and 3ean Breed
( Sept .
and Nov
. , 197U) father's brot^or
D.
Emil uant
( Oct. ,
197U)
Fathe r 1 s ur c I e
E.
Verna Hutchison
mother's cousin
F.
Lois Coppernoll
(Oct. ,
1971+)
mother ' s sister
G.
Ethel McKillips
(Nov. ,
1971+)
step-erandmother
Letters
A.
Kerla St urtesrant
( Oct. ,
197U)
father's sister
IV. Books
A. Hi s tory of Jo Daviess County , Illinois (Chicago: H. F.
Ketl 3c Co.. Tirr.es Building, l8?B')T~p".~"7U5 , 792, 71+6, 773.
3. S o u v e n i e r of El i zabeh t -■Hanover made in 1 9 ILj. or so, p. 37.
C. For i~ rai t and Bi o zravh \ cal Al burn of £0 Davies s County, Illinois,
( Chicaeo : Chapman Brothers, 1589 ) , p. Z+IU , U15 , £92, 3c63 ?.
D. Atlas of Jo ^aviess County and the state of Illinois (Chbago:
Warner- ^iy;rins and 3eers, ii'72), d. 0.
E. Elizabeth Centennial Book, ?as_t To Present, 1968.
F. Farm Plat Book- Jo DavieBs CountyTRockf ord : Record Hap Pub.,) p.?.
V. Le&ral Documents
A. Marriage Certificates 3c Licenses.
1. Hannah 3c Adam Brown
2. Frank & Bertha Breed
3. Elezer 3c Cecelia Breed
B. Marriages Recorded at Jo Daviess County Court House, Galena. II.
1. Samuel 3c Catharina Horsch
P. John 3c Mary Eadie
VI. Newspaper Articles
A. Obituaries
1. Samuel Horsch, . "Stockton ^erald "ews", 3-29-1T05.
2. Jean 3c Albert "cKillics. "Elizabeth Weekly "ews",
2-19U8^3c"3^'197 3
3. Frank 3c Bertha Breed various area newspapers including
'Preeport Journal Standard','"Elizabeth Weekly "ews ", "Stock-
ton Herald news." 10-1961.
I4.. Cecelia 3reed, "Stockton ^erald news", I9I4.I4..
5. Hannah 6c Adam Brown, "Elizabeth Weekly news" and others
12-1920 3c 3-1938.
6. William 3c Louisa ^cKillips "Elizaneth Weekly »ews"
8-19U0 *3-1933.
7. -Tohn 4c Mary Eadie area newspapers, 1899 3c 191U.
8. Otis ^anley, "Stockton Herald News"
9. Anna CHarlotte Jrown, "Elizabeth Weekly News", 3-1972.
10. Ray 3c- Helen Brown, "Galena Gazette" 1-1971 3clO-197U.
11. Robert Brown, "Galena Gazette" 9-197U.
12. Edna Brown. "Elizabeth Weekly «ews'' 12-l§3ii.
13. Deloras Brown. "Galena Gazette" 2-1963.
(a S
Newspaper Articles (con't.)
B. Marriage Write-ups
1. Hannah & Adam Brown, "Elizabeth Weekly uews", 3-1882.
2. Lois k Gilbert Coppernoll, "Elizabeth Weekly "ews. "
6-1950.
3. Albert & Jean "cKillips, "Elizabeth Weekly News" 6-1915.
Ij.. Albert & Ethei McKillips, "Elizabeth Weekly ^ews " 3- 1950 .
5. Wayne & Reola Breed, "Elizabeth Weekly News',' 6, 1914.2.
6. Verla &,TacK Sturtevant, "Stockton "erald "ews" 1914-5.
7. Raymond fc Helen Brown "Galena Gazette", 1Q1±6.
8. Robert & Edna Brown, "Elizabeth Weekly Wens", 1925.
9. Harry & Lottie Brwon, "Elizabeth Weekly "ews", 1919.
10. Rob-^4- fc Delocas Brown. "Galena Gazette", 19U6.
C. Miscellaneous
1. Article on John & Mary Eadie's %0th u/eddine Anniversary,
Nov., 1895.
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Information in my family history was
obtained through written quest ioneres as well as verbal
communication. I wish to thank everyone who took the time
to answer my many questions and fill me in on how my
relatives live, in the present and past*. This paper will
be stored in the Hockford Public Library in Hockford, Illinois,
where it will be available to help any of my relatives, who
might some day need to compose their family history. I
will also be sending copies to my relatives, so they can
read it and save it for future redernces*. This project was
very interesting to do and proved to be very informative.
The Fischer Ancestors
Josephus Fischer was the first traceable descendant
on which family history information was available. Josephus
was born In Halbturn, Burgenland, Austria, which is near
the Hungarian border. This is where he also died. Unf ortuneatly ,
no dates could be found stating when he was born or when he
died. My great great grandfather was a carpenter and taught
the trade in Halbturn. Josephus married Maria Himmel and, as
far as I know, one child was born to them, Charles A. Fischer.
Charles Fischer was born November 4, 1861 In Halbturn.
He, like his father, was also a carpenter?. Charles married Catherine
Long, daughter of George Long and Madelina Haas'. Catherine's
parents were also born in Halbturn and no dates could be found
for then*.
Charles1 wife, Catherine Long was born September 28,
1868, in Halbturn. Catherine and her new husband, who was already
an experienced carpenter, came to America in 1886, looking
for a better place to earn a living. She was only 19 years of age.
This marriage was blessed with seven children; four boys and
three girls*.
Charles A. Fischer Jr. was born in St. Paul, Minnesota,
September 30, 1886*. He did not follow the occupation of his
father and grandfather.) For Liany years Charles worked as a
commission wan for the Armour-Swift Company*.
Mary Fischer was bom March 29 » 1888. She was the
first to marry, marrying into the Brayman family. After she
married she became a housewife.
Catherine Fischer was born March 2*f, 1890. She married
Louis LaFavor on April 15, 1920. Catherine, besides doing her
own housework, continued to do dressmaking and needle work for
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others after she was married?.
The third daughter was born May 25, 1892 In St?. Paul'.
Julia Fischer also married and for a while after she was married,
she worked at a Job outside of her home.
Paul L. Fischer was born July 8, 1892*. He died of
pneumonia before he was one year old>. January 12, 1897 is when
Emil Fischer was born*. He followed the family occupation, set
by his father and grandfather, and became a carpenter.
Just like his brother, father and grandfather, Joseph
F. Fischer also became a carpenter*. He was born in St. Paul,
April 12, 190?.
The seventh child, and fourth boy, born to Charles
and Catherine Fischer, was George Lawrence'. He was born December
15» 1907'« My grandfather also followed in the footsteps of the
Fischer men and became a carpenter, contractor and builder?.
In the years to come George Fischer grew up in St.
Paul and In June of 1930, he took as his bride, Dorothy Malay.
This marriage brought them four children: George, Margaret,
Jean and Tom.
In the following pages the childhood and married
life of George L. Fischer, my grandfather, was researched.
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The Childhood of George L, Fischer Sr.
My grandfather* George L'. Fischer, was horn December
15, 1907 In St. Paul* Minnesota. His parents and their eight
children lived in a house* located In St, Paul.
After the sons and daughters married* they left home.
My grandfather* s father lived with his daughter Julia* after
his wife died. Then he went to live with his other daughter,
Catherine* until he died.
As a child* my grandfather never had a lot of toys
or even a b$feycle. He wished most of all for a pony* which he
never got, but was happy anyway.
Things were quite ordinary in their family. They had
a horse and buggy, but their father would take it for a week
sometimes* when he went to another town to construct a house
or barn. Then the only other transportation was the streetcar*.
When he was 13, my grandfather started working, selling
fruits and vegetables, for $?.00 a week, with 60 hours in the
week. Then he worked in a hattery when he was 16, for $40.00
a month, or 50 hours. He was allowed to keep the money, but
paid for his own clothes and health care. At that time, the
money he earned was able to buy a lot of merchandise!.
During this time my grandparent » s parents got a car.
The roads were in poor conditions and a trip of 35 miles was
to much for one day*. Cars of that period had side curtains,
so if there was a sudden change in the weather, like rain, the
driver would have to stop and put these on. The Sundays were
usually spent on a family picnic. A lunch would be packed and
a fire made at the site to do the cooking. Other celebrations
were done in the confines of the house and with members of
Most of the sons in ay grandfathers family followed
in the occupational footsteps of the men before them. The only
one who did not become a carpenter was my grandfather's brother
Charley* Everyone else became a carpenter.
Usually regular seats were taken at the dinner tablet. If
seating space was not available then the children waited until
the adults were finished.
Most of the children left home to marry or pursue
a Job after the eigth grade. My grandfather left school after
his sophomore year.
In June of 1930 he married Dorothy Malay.
The Malay Ancestors
Thoroaf-' Flannery, born in 180?:, was carried to :1ary
Millet. They both were bom In Ireland'. Mary died there In 18k7 ,
Her husband also died there in 1903» at the age of 101. TheJr one
child, Mary Flannery was born in IQk?, in Mayo County, Ireland.
Thomas and his wife, along x**ith their daughter , migrated to
the United States. Thomas and his wife didn't like it and
returned to their home in Ireland.
Mary married a stone cutter, William Whiting, who
was born in Tarringtcn, Sussex County, England in 1833* This
marriage was blessed with one child, a girl, named j-iargaret
Wlii ting.
William Whiting was nine years old when his mother
died and fifteen years old when he carjf? on a ship to Kovia
Scotia. This was around 19^&. By the time the Cival War started,
he was in New York and had enlisted in the New York infantry.
His infantry was captured and sent to serve time in Libby prison,
where all but eleven of the men died of dysentery. William
Whiting was one of the eleven and was dismissed after being
forced to s? c r« a paper statins that he would never again
take up arms against the Confederacy. However, he came to
Minnesota and reenlisted in the Minnesota infantry. There he
fought in many battles, such as "Lock Out Mountain", in
Tennessee. Abe Lincoln was his idol and he became a staunch
Republican.
William and Mary Whiting's one child, fiargaret, vaas
born September 15, I865 in St. Paul, Minnesota*. As a child,
Margaret was baptized and confirmed by the Archbishop of
St. Paul. Archbishop Ireland is well known for his many speeches
and Visits to neonle in Fn-rrvopan Cinnrtt.-r1 en. TTPlanrl snpr.1f1f.a11v.
He talked about America, the promised land, and how everyone
could have a new enriched life there.
Mary Plannery Whiting died in 1905 in Caledonia,
Minnesota. Her husband died there also, inl907'.
Margaret Whiting married Robert Malay, who was born
in Portage, Wisconsin on June 5, I867. Robert's father, Thomas
Malay, was born in 1833 in Waterford County, Ireland. His wife,
Mary Wrlgley, was born in Wexford County, Ireland. They
migrated to Minnesota, from Ireland, in the mid 1830's. They
had seven children. James was bora in 1859 and died in 1861'.
Mary was born in 1861 and died in 19^. William was born in
186^ and died in 1925* ae %s a carpenter. My great great
grandfather, Robert Malay, was born in I867 and died in 1060'.
Another son, Ben, was born in I876 and died in 19^5» The seventh
child, John, was bom in I878 and died in 1928. He was a
railroad worker.
Their father, Thomas Malay, was a veteran of the
CIval War. He was also a carpenter and followed the settlers
west, always able to find work at the building trade. Thomas
died in 1892. His wife, Mary, died fifteen years later in 1907.
Their son, Robert Malay, and his bride, l«iargaret
Whiting Malay, established their 1 ife together on a farm in
Caledonia, Minnesota. Robert was not only a farmer. He had
also worked for the railroad and been a carpenter. This marriage
was blessed with ten children.
William was born in 1889» He was a farmer until he
died in 19^8* He never married. Mary was born in 1890 and
she also never married. For many, many years Mary taught school
in Caledonia. She lives with her younger brot-.her, on the farm
her parents built in Caledonia. Margaret was born in 1892.
She left home after she finished school and went to work in
an office in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She later returned to the
family farm and remained there until she died in 1969»
Esther Malay was bom in 189^. She married into the
O'Neil family and had two children. After her husband »s death,
Esther returned to the family farm in Caledonia and lived
there until her death in 1968.
Agnes was born in I896. She also got married and had
three children. Agnes Malay Colleran died in 1970.
Another girl, Susan, was bom in 1898. She married
Fred Buttel and had one child*. Susan died in 1928.
The third boy, Robert, was bora in 190O. He never
married and remained on the farm for his entire life. Farming
was and still is his occupation?. Robert still lives on the
farm, and with some help, is still maintaining it'.
Cecelia was born in 1902f. She married a man named
Spenser and had no children. She and her husband currently live
in Wisconsin'.
Anna Malay was bora in 1905. She married Fred Buttel,
who had previously been married to her sister Susan, until her
death. They had six children. Anna currently resides in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she has taught school for many
years*.
The tenth ohild and seventh girl was bora June
29, I907;. Around 1920, the family farmhouse burnt to the ground. The
children, who were young adults now, along with some other help,
built another farmhouse on the same land. That farm is still
in existence and is being occupied by my grandmother » s sister
and brother, Mary and Robert Malyy. Dorothy, my grandmother,
married George L. Fischer in June of 1930. They have four
children, all of them are married. Dorothy and George Fischer
currently reside In West St. Paul, Minnesota.
More will be said about my grandmother, Dorothy Malay,
in the upcoming chapter on her childhood as well as in the chapter
on her married lifef.
Memories of the times spent with my great aunt and uncle,
Mary and Robert Malay, on the Malay farm in Caledonia, Minnesota,
will be shared in the chapter on my childhood!.
The Childhood of Dorothy Fischer
Most of my grandmother's childhood was spent on
the family farm in Caledonia, Minnesota. This is were she
was born in June of 1907*
The parents continued to live in their own home
after their children left. One daughter, Esther, lived with
her parents in their home, along with her two small children,
after being widowed in 1931»
My grandmother's parents slept in the first floor
bedroom, while the second floor bedrooms were chosen by
mutual agreement. With five bedrooms the household was not
crowded. There were never any servants or boarders living
with the family.
Anyone, not attending school, was busy with outside
farmwork or inside housework. Holidays were spent enjoying
family dinners. Every Fourth of July the family went to the
nearest celebration, which usually occurred at a town some
seven or eight miles away.
Sundays were usually spent attending the Catholic
Masses and then big dinners of fried chicken, mashed potatoes,
dumplings and lemmon pie, was enjoyed. Her mother always
managed to have friends or neighbors over, besides her own
family.
Schooling was decided upon be my grandmother's
mother. Occupational choice was left up to the individual.
Marriage approval was sanctioned by both parents. Decisions
concerning the farm were made by her father, while household
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My grandmother's mother was the disciplinarian in
the family. Her father was an easy going man, who loved to read,
and turned out all noise when he sat down to enjoy his literature.
If table space permitted, children always ate with
their parents. When quests came to dinner, they ate in shifts,
as their table seated only 14*. It was comman to have two or
three tables set and occupledat Thanksgiving, Christmas and
Easter.
My grandmother's older sister, along with her parents,
helped my grandmother through college. Mature sons and daughters
helped their parents with buying things like a cook stove,
or any other needed replacements in the home'. The children
who never married, and remained home on the farm, cared
for their parents in their later years of life.
The family was average in income, but there were
no well to do members. Their wealth was in their health and
happiness. The family farm was Inherited fey my grandmother's
mother, from her mother and father. Robert, my grandmother's
youngest brother, Inherited that farm and the upper farm,
which their father bought for their oldest brother in 1909*.
The children were taught to have great respect for
the elderly. Her mother cared for her own parents, her husbands
father and two elderly women, in their last Illnesses. This
took a great deal of stamina and charity, because she also
had a large family to care for.
Jobs were not pushed onto any meraber of the family.
The men never left the farm to find employment. Three women
became elementary school teaohers, three went to Minneapolis
to find employment and the others married.
As a child, the only transportation ay grandmother's family
had, was a buggy and the horses, or a sleigh, in the winter
time. About 1923 the family got their first oar, a Ford.
After high school and college, my grandmother
taught school for four years, at a rural school. The first
year she received 80 dollars a month, then $90 a month and in
the last two years, $100.
She met her future husband, George L. Fischer, May
29, 1928, when he came with a former neighbor boy to visit'.
They were married in June of 1930 &nd my grandmother left her
family's farm to move to the big city, 5t. Paul, with her nev
husband.
The married Life of Dorothy and George Fischer
My grandparents met an my grandmother's farm, In
Caledonia, Minnesota. My grandfather was a quest of one of her
brothers and during the upcoming years, spent much of his time
their. They were married In Caledonia, in a Catholic ceremony
In June of 1930f. Their first home was a little bungalow in
St. Paul and It was built by my grandfather.
Their first child, George Jr. was born October 12,
1932*. They lived in this house until 1935* They then moved to
another house In St-. Paul, on Ohio Street. By now they had
added another child, Margaret, who was bom In December of 193^'.
Another daughter, Jean, arrived two years later, In December
of 19 36.
They later moved Into a house, still In St. Paul, and
built by my grandfather. This house was on Baker Street, and
is the first of their houses that 1 am able to remember.
A second son joined the family in August of 19^9« He was named
Tom.
My grandparents remained in Minnesota until their
youngest son graduated from high school. He chose to attend
a college in Mlssula, Montana, were my grandparents next
made their home*. They remained here for a year and then returned
back to St*. Paul, which is where they currently live*. All of
their children have since married and started their own families'.
My grandparents now have 16 grandchildren to keep track off.
They frequently visit with their children and grandchildren
who are spread agross the mid-west.
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The Letoumeau Ancestors
Cageat Letoumeau Sr. was born In Canada In 1846.
He migrated to the United States when he was a child,
approximately around the age of seven. He married Xarle Paul,
who was born June 6, 1853» They had one child, Cageat Letoumeau
jr. My great great grandfather, Cageat Letoumeau Sr., died at
the age of 76, on March 10, 1922. His wife died April 14,
1936, at the age of 82.
My great grandfather, Cageat Letoumeau Jr., was
bom August 18, 1870. He married Ida Paul, who was a second
cousin to Cageat1 s mother, Marie Paul Letoumeau.
Ida»s father was Nelson Paul, who was bom in 1850.
He died on January 2, 1922, at the age of 72* Her mother, Liza
Lassar Paul, was born in 1852 and died on January 13, 1910, at
the age of 53.
When Ida Paul and Cageat Letoumeau Jr. were married,
the union was blessed with 12 children. The first, Elizabeth,
was bom in 1593* She carried her cousin, and they had two
children. Elizabeth is currently living in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The second child, Charley, was born in 1895. He
worked for many years as a construct* on worker and also as a
steel worker. He also married and had 3 children. Charley
died in Kay of 1963 .
Leo was bom in 1397* He died somewhere before 1Q08.
Aurora Letoumeau was bom in 1899. She also died before 1908.
(The exact dates for these deaths and the following ones, was
not readily available.) Julius was born in 1801 and alt;o died
before 1908. Alia and Alise were twins. They were bom in
1903 and also died sometime before ly08.
Marie, the eighth child bora to Cageat and Ida
Letourneau, came in 19C5. She married into the Thlbeault family
and has six children. She currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota^
Sophie was bom in 1908. She married and had 1 childu
St. Paul, Minnesota is currently where she and her husband make
their hcnie.
Anthony, my grandfather, was born May 19, 1910. He
is currently a steel worker and married. . Re has ten children,
and is nor living in White Bear lake, Minnesota.
Lucille Letcumeau wis born in 1912* She Is currently
living in St. Paul, is married and has six children.
The tweljfth child, Louise, was born in 1915* She
died June 2, 1966.
Anthony R. Letourneau married Gertrude Thercux
May 25, 1930. Four children blessed this marriage: Leo, Joyce,
my mother, Yvonne and Donna. In the upcoming chapters, the
childhood and tnarried life of my grandfather will be further
researched.
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The Childhood of my Grandfather
Anthony R. Letourneau
My grandfather, Anthony R. Letourneau, was born May
19 t 1910 in Hugo, Minnesota, on a farm. He was a normal boy
who had lots of fun amusing himself. He would always tease his
sisters. "But that was Just a part of growing up," relates his
sister Sophie.
Grandpa loved music. His hobby was playing his violin.
He never took a lesson, but rather taught himself how to play.
He was also interested in horses. He liked to work
with them around his farm. He also enjoyed working around the
farm, helping his father. He continued to do this until he
left home and got married.
My grandfather went up to and completed the fourth
grade. It was a country school with just one room. Everyday
he, and his brothers and sisters, walked the 2| miles to school
and then another 2\ miles back home. There were no school buses..
Only his parents and their children lived In the big
farmhouse. The parents had their own room, while the girls slept
together in one room and the boys together in another. At no
time during my grandfathers childhood, were there servants or
boarders living with the family.
The day usually began for everyone ajf 6 a.m. The
children would work until it was time to leave for school and
then again when they came home, until 6 or 7 in the evening.
After everyone quit school, usually between the fourth and eighth
grade, they would start the farm work at 6 in the morning and
work through until early evening. Everyone except the older
ones who had a paying job would do this.
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After dinner the kids would play ball or some other
kind of a game. On holidays they would visit their grandparents
or an aunt or an uncle. Then sometimes they would also entertain
company at their farm.
Visiting was a lot of fun for the Letourneau children.
In wintertime there was always plenty of snow covering everything.
The roads were never plowed. Their father owned a bobsled and
two horses would pull the sleigh around with the kids In It.
New Year»s Day was always a big celebration for the
Letourneau family. Year after year on this day, all of the
relatives would gather to feast and visit all day at my grand-
fathers parents house. After the Letourneau family got to big
for that house, the celebration was moved to a rented hall.
More about this festive day will be told in the chapter on my
mother. Weddings were also big celebrations, while baptisms
were celebrated with a big family dinner. Funerals were Just
a sad day were no one did anything.
All key decisions in my grandfathers family were made
by the parents. The children were disciplined by their parents
and a good old fashion spanking on the rear always sufficed
for punishment. When my grandfather's parents said no, that
was the final word. No other adults were invloved In the
raising of my grandfather or any of his brothers and sisters,
only the parents had the say as to how the children were to
be raised. Every child was the same to his parents and the rest
of the family. No one was treated special or as a "Black Sheep."
During meal time the father sat at the head of the
table and the youngest one always sat between the mother and
father. The rest of the children filled in around the table,
with everyone having their own special place. When there was
alot of company visiting, the children had to wait and eat later
or sit around another table. The family was Catholic and mass
was attended every Sunday. Grace was also given before each
meal.
The kids in the family were expected to help out
at about the age of 5 or 6. They were expected to carry in
water and wood for the stove, as well as gathering eggs from
the hen house. My grandfather »s sister, Sophie, started milking
a cow twice a day at 7 years of age.
If any member of the household became ill, then every-
one would take a turn to care for that person.
Property was owned and managed by my grandfather's
father. Women received no doweries when they were to be married
and there was very little for anyone to Inherit. A son In the
family might Inherit the farm or some land to build a house
on.
When a baby was born In the family it was treated
Just like another member of the family. A child was considered
a child, instead of a baby, as soon as he started school. The
kids were expected to take on adult responsibilities at about
16 or whenever called upon.
Since the Letourneau children didn't go on to higher
education, most of them had outside Jobs'. My grandfather was
a farmer before and. after he was married. His sister Sophie
went to work for a priest and a professor at St. Thomas College
when she was 15. Another one of their sisters went to work in
a bakery.
Most of the kids married young and left their home
and parents to start their own life. The girls all did their
own housework after marriage. The parents remained in their
own home after all of their children left, ky grandfather's
parents moved from their farm in Hugo, Minnesota, to a house
in White Bear Lake, after all of their children had left home.
The parents would help the children out financially,
only the children would have to find some kind of a job, in
order to earn the money to pay them back>.
Most of the sons followed their fathers occupation
of farming. Once they got married they would start a farm of
their own or a truck garden, where they raised potatoes and
vegatables like com, to sell.
There were no special attitudes towards aging. No one
would care, so long as their heart and legs were good, so they
could manage to complete all of the work that always needed
to be done.
Most of the children in my grandfathers house, got a
Job at about the age of 16. These Jobs were usually worKing
on the roads or in one of the big factories in a city like St.
Paul or ilinneapolis, Minnesota. The money they earned would
then be spent on things they needed.
In May of 1930, my grandfather left home to start
a life of his own, with his new wife, Gertrude Theroux Letoumeau.
The Theroux Ancestors
Peter Theroux married La3eth LaMctte. No dates could
be found recording their birth. However, LaBeth was born approximately
around 18^6. Peter Theroux died in 1915. His wife remarried two
more times. She outlived all three of her husbands. She died
in 19^ at the age of 93.
Peter and LaBeth had seven children: Petsr; my great
grandfather Adolphus; Adlore; Fredj Joe and Leonora.
Adolphus, or more commanly known as ^dolph, was born July
11, 1682. He married /nine Bemler in September of 1904*. Her
parents were Anne Fosliay and John Bernier. Two children were
bom ot this union, «nne and John. When these two children
were very small, their father, John Bernier, died. John had
his brother promise him that he would, marry his wife and care
for his children when he died.
Anne Bernier than married Joseph Bemier and four
children were born of this marriage: Mary, Lydia, Stephanie
and Joseph.
Both Anne Bernier and Adolphus Theroux were raised
on farms. Adolphus used to work in Little Canada, where he
worked for a priest*.
Through my grandmother's sister, Yvonne Patrick, she
told me that their mother and father always made little Anne
and John work very hard. Her step-father, Joseph Bernier, always
had little Anne doing the work of a man. Anne didn't have to
much schooling because it was very far away and they would have
to walk for miles, through fields and woods. Anne and Joseph
Bernier lived to celebrate their 50th wedding aniversary. They
had a big celebration with another wedding in the church.
Anne Bernler, who was bora July 11, 1882, then married
Adolphus Theroux. Adolphus >ras 22 when he married and his wife
was 18. They were never without a chaperone when they were
dating. After they were married, they built their own home In
Minneapolis, Minnesota „
Nine children were born of this union. The first.
Hazel, was born in April of 1905. She is married and currently
living in Simi, California^
Ida May >?as born in July of 1906. She died in January
of 1972« She was married and had five children.
The third, Rita, was born in 190?. She is married
and has two children. Her parents, Anne and Adolphus Theroux,
raised her son, Richard Streeter. The other son, Bill, was being
raised by his other grandparents.
Archie was born in September of 1911. He is married
ard currently living In Minneapolis, Minnesota.
My grandmother, Gertrude Theroux, was born in October
of 1913. She married Anthony Letourneau, and had four children.
On November 18, 1938, she died of pneumonia.
Robert ftas bora in August of 1915*» He is married and
living in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He has eight children.
Yvonne was born in January of 1924. She is married
to Fred Patrick and has four children. She currently resides
In Yorktown Heights, New York.
Donna Theroux was born in January of 1925. She Is
currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota and has two children.
Theresa, the ninth child, was born in 1930. She died
right after she was born.
It is not really known for sure, but it is possible
that the Theroux1 s and Foshay»s came from Montreal Canada.
Before that the ancestors cane fron England.
The childhood and marriage of Gertrude Theroux will
be discussed in the upcoming chapters.. Since jay grandmother
died when my mother was very young, I asked my mother's, mother's
sister, Yvonne Patrick, to describe the type of environment she
and my grandmother grew up in.
The Childhood of My Grandmother
Gertrude Theroux Letoumeau
My grandmother, Gertmde Theroux was born In October
of 1913 » in Hugo, Minnesota. Her parents and their nine children
all lived together on a farm in Hugo.
After marriage, sons and daughters lived in their
own homes. The parents did not live with their children, but
Instead, in their own home. By the time my grandmother's sister,
Yvonne was born, there wasn't any problem with living space,
because most of her brothers and sisters had left home to
get married. Yvonne shared a room with her sister Donna, and
her brother shared a room with their nephew, Richard Streeter,
who was living with them. For a time before and maybe after
Yvonne was bom, the household must have been somewhat crowded,
what with ttoelr parents and the nine children, all living
under the same roof.
There were no servants or boarders living with
the family, as stated before, my grandmother's sister's son,
Richard Streeter was living with and being raised by his
grandparents.
Most of my grandmother's childhood was spent on
the farm. So it was early to bed and early to rise for all
of the children. There were always a lot of chores for the
children to do.
The family had horses, cows, pigs and chickens and
they also raised all of their food. The vegetables they raised
were preserved for the coming winter. They also sold the milk
for butter and cheese and received the rest of the value of the
milk In money. Sometimes the money was very little. They
raised all of the food to feed to the animals, and sometimes
there v.as enough to sell. The family always had food to eat.
My grandmother's mother made most of the childrens clothing
when they were little.
Her parents spent their spare time playing cards,
with friends, or visiting other friends and relatives.
Holidays were always spent with the family.
Parents visited their married children and the
children also visited their ps-rents after they had left home.
When the children were little, it was great fun for then to
go visiting, they always looked forward to it, and the good times.
The family meant everything to everyone. When the children
visited their grandparents 'chey always looked forward to the
candy they would get. When they visited the elderly relatives,
where there were no children, the kids would just have to sit
and wait. When they visited their aunts and uncles, there were
always a lot of children for them to play with. There was also
a lot of good food every time they went visiting. When
anyone went visiting, they were always expected to stay for
meals and if it wasn't meal time, a big spread would still
be put out on the table.
Big family celebrations were always held, with the
Fourth of July being a huge one. A big picnic was always held
with everyone bringing food. There would also be fireworks
and games with literally hundreds of relatives and friends in
attendence. These big celebrations were held in different
relatives homes every year, and sometimes it would be on or
near a lakefront-. Family reunions were held all of the time.
New Years Day was another big occasion, with visits that day
to both grandparents homes. The whole week before the big
New Years Day, was spent cooking. The daughters would spend
the entire week before, at their mother's house, cooking. They
then would freeze the food by placing It in the big screened
in porch, saving it for the big day.
The key decisions in the family were made by my
grandmother's parents. They were not strict in this area
and the children could usually persuade their parents to see
it their way.
My grandmother's mother made a lot of the decisions
concerning the family buniness. Money -wan scarce and important
matters were taker, care of first. Usually there was not enough
money to go around.
Her mother also did all of the disciplining. The children
were spanked anytime they were out of line. They were also
scolded a lot, but never by their father, always their mother.
No one except the mother had a hand in the disciplining and
rearing of the child.rer.. Also, no one was treated as a
"Black Sheep." Everyone was treated fairly and equally.
The children were always allowed to eat with their
parents, but if there were to many guests, then they would
have to est last. The children, however, were never chased
away when guests came. They would always be allowed to sit
and listen to the conversation.
The parents expected, their children to help out at
the earliest age possible, which was as scon as they were
able to handle doing some kind of a chore. The children
were always sent on little errands.
Both the children and parents helped, each other
financially, whenever they could'. In my grandmother's
family everyone had a hard time supporting themselves.
The mother usually always cared for the sick.
Whenever a baby was to be born, the mother usually went to help.
Everyone was helpful about caring for anyone sick.
My grandmother's family later moved off the farm
and into a house in L'.nneapolis, Minnesota. Her parents owned
the house they built. Her father worked In the flour mills
until he became ill and had to return to the country again.
The family moved back into this house in the city, at a later
time.
The women of the family received no doweriea and a
will was usually made, with the property being divided among
all of the children.
The children left home right after high school, if
they went that far in school. Instead of embarking on a
career, they would look for and take any Job available,
because jobs were scarce at that time. My grandmother's sister,
Yvonne, worked in a defense factory during this time, because
that was were help was needed the most.
The men in the family did not follow in their fathers
line of work. As stated before, they took whatever job was
avaiable to them. Until they were old enough to leave home
and get a job, the women worked around the house.
Neither the parents or grandparents had any influence
on the occupational choices of their children. Whatever Job
they could find was good enough.
My Aunt Yvonne told me that one of her very first
jobs was picking strawberries* She got bwo cents a quart and
probably q&ade a dollar, which made her feel rich* She had to
walk two miles to get there and another two to get back home.
Children were not really expected to get a Job.
However, if a Job came up and if they could be spared from the
duties at home, then they took it. Most of the children
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also contributed flnanciallyto the family. They all bought
their own clothes as well as giving a good share of their earnings
to their parents, to help pay off the mortgage on the house
and also to buy furniture'.
A young person was expected to take on adult responsibilities,
such as working, very young. It was usually around the age of
12 or 13 and the work done was around the house or farm. Adult
responsibilities such as marriage was usually taken around
age 17 or 18*.
The older people In the family were always cared for
and respected. When the elderly could no longer care for
themselves, they usually went to one of their daughters houses,
where they remained until they passed away.
My grandmother^ family lived through both of the
world wars. To the family, It seemed that there was always a
depression. During the Great Depression my grandmother's father
had all of his money and savings in a bank and lost it all.
A period of prosperity came to the family after the
second world war. Their mortgage was paid off and everyone
had jobs.
In May of 1930 my grandmother left home to start
her own married life, with her new husband Anthony R. Letourneau.
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The Married Life of My Grandparents- —
Anthony and Gertrude Letoumeau
Anthony Letoumeau married Gertrude Theroux my 25,
1930 In a Catholic ceremony in Hugo, Minnesota1. From 1930-
1936 he was a farmer in Hugo. Later, he was a laborer and the
family lived in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Their first child, Leo, was horn in St. Paul, Minnesota,
November 25, 1932f<> Joyce, their second, was also born in St.
Paul, on April 11, 193^. They lived on the farm with their
parents until 1936 » when they moved to ft house in St. faul.
As a family they shared many happy times together. These will
be related later in the chapter on my mother*.
Their third child. Donna, bom December 10, 1936
in St. Paul. Yvonne was born March 8, 1937 1 also in St. Paul>.
In 193S the ftually moved to White Bear Beach, Minnesota,
were my grandfather went to work as a Btefeland construction
worker, which is current Job today*
My grandmother died that year, November 18, 1938*
of pneumonia. After her death my grandfather and two of his
children, Joyce and Leo, went to live with his parents, Cageat
and Ida Letoumeau, who were living in White Bear lake, Minnesota.
Young Donna went to live with her Aunt Elizabeth, while little
Yvonne went to live with their other aunt, Sophie1. The five
of them were separated from each other until my grandfather
married again, in 19^0»
Anthony R,. Letoumeau and Marie Cardinal were married
In a Catholic ceremony in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, on
February 3, 194-0>. My grandfather and his new bride, lived in
a big house, along with his four children. In White Bear Lake.
This new marriage was blessed with six children;.
The first child, Annette, was bom in St. Paul en November 1,
194-0'. Anthony Jr. Joined the family in June of 19^4. He, like
his sister and step-brother and sisters, was also born in
St'. Paul, Minnesota.
During the second world tear, my grandfather worked
in the nearby defense factory. Eoth the depression and second
world war were hard on the family, but their determination and
strong family loyalty pulled them through. Soiae of the hardships
they endured during this time will be related further in the
chapter on my mother!*
After the second world war, my grandfather went to
work in an arris plant'. He had to work 10 hours a» day and seven
days a week. He made £150 a week and no kind cf incoue tax was
taken out of his payroll.
The third child bom to Anthony and tSarie, bom
In St. Paul on "arch 31 • 19^6 • She was christened Margaret,
but is better known to everyone as Peggy*.
Tragedy struck this family once again, this time in
the summer of 19^&. At the age of eleven, young Yvonne Letourneau
was stricken with strep throat and died, on June 8, 19^8* She
would have entered the 7th grade in the fall.
The second boy bore tc this couple was liichealv Ee
was also bom in St. Paul, on August 11, 1948.
Four years later another girl, Anita, was ^orn in 8t.
Paul. This was October 21, 19$#«
The tenth child born to my grandfather was Kichele,
who, like all of the other nine children, was borr: In St. Paul.
She was bom August 23, 1955*
My grandparents still live in the same house they
purchased In 19^0, right after they ;rere married. All but two
of tne children finished hi.*h school, and all except one have
married and started their own fanillest; My grandparents now
have 31 grandchildren to keep track off. Even though my family
is separated from them by one state, contact is maintained
regularly through letters.
The Childhood of George I/. Fischer Jr.
October 12, 1932 Columbus Day, is when my father,
George L. Fischer Jr. was born*. As a child he had many
hobbles, amoung theme model airplanes, skiing and playing
the piano.
There were no other relatives living in the same
house as my dad, his two sisters and brothers, and his
parents, resided in the house. After the sons and daughters
were married, they did not continue to live with their
parents'. Everyone lived in their own house. Parents
did not go and live with their children.
In my father's house there were three bedroom's.
One was occupied by my father" s parents, the other
by my father's two sisters and the third by my father.
My father was away at school when his brother Tim was born1.
No servants or boarders lived with the family.
The daily schedule usually found the children
going to school and their father leaving for work early.
He usually came home about six in the inning*. My dad
spent his spare time doing some of his favorite things
like skiing. Holiday's were usually spent at the Malay
farm, were my dad's mother grew up. The family would
also go on picnics and other types of outings. The
family would go visiting and also receive visitors in
their home. When my father was young, he spent alot of
time at the Malay farm in Caledonia. Sometimes he would spend
an entire summer, and during the school year he would
go down for several weekend trips. Holidays like
Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter were usually spent
together In their home or on the farm in Calednia1.
My father's fagher made all the key decisions
concerning moving. Both, of his parents made the decisions
concerning his schooling until he was in high school.
Then my father made his own decisions. Occupational
and marriage decisions were left solely up to my father.
Only my father's parents had a say in the family
way the children were to be disciplined*. A popular
method was to place a naughty child, fully clothes,
under a cold shower, or simply to send them to their room.
Since my dad was the oldest and the only boy
in the family for a long time, he said he could just about
do anything*. Perhaps the family sufficient tittle for him
describing his statues at that time can be best summed
up in to the words, "Top Banana."
During meal time everyone had a special place,
with the father sitting st the head oh the table. When
there w«s enough room, the children could also eat with
their parents and guests'. Otherwise when guests were
present and there wasn't enough room, they would have to
eat at another table or wait and eat In a second shift.
The children were expected to help out around the
house whenever asked tot. They never had to contribute
any money. They all received an allowance. My yather
started working with his father. In the contracting
business, around the age of 12.
HI 8 parents did not help any of the children In
college or business'. During breaks from school my father
worked as a cook and dishwasher on a train, for 16 hours a
day. The train ran from St. Paul, Minnesota to Chicago,
Illinois, then to Seattle, Washington and finally back
to St?. Paul. This Journey lasted for five days.
My father did not follow the occupations of his
father. In fact, my grandfather wanted his son to go
to school and finish his education. Instead of being
a carpenter*.
During my father's childhood would war 2 occurred.
The family still had some relatives living in Austria
when Hitler invaded'. When my father was in high school
he wrote letters to his cousins Martha, Maria and Herburt
Lentsh, who were living Austria*. This proved to be
great practice for his German.
During the Great Depression my grandfather's work
was affected, as was everyone's. He got a Job at the
South St. Paul stockyards as a carpenter, maintaining
the wooden fences, until it was profitable to resume
self -empl oymen t '.
When my father was 18, he bought his very first car.
It was a Dodge convertible. The family bought a television
set In the early 19*K)'s>. They were one of the first
families in the neil^Borhood to own one. He and his
sisters enjoyed watching the Kukla Fran an Ollie Show.
After high school the Fischer children left home to
begin their special interests. My father's sister,
Margaret became a nurse, while his other sister, Jean, became
an airline stewardess.
In December of 1953 my father married Joyce Letourneau.
For two years after that he was stationed at Ftf, Leonardwood
Army Base In Missouri.
The Childhood of Joyce A*. LeHIHIheau
My mother , Joyce A. Letourneau, was bom April
11 • 1934** For a few years she and her brother, Les,
and their parents lived on a farm In Hugo, Minnesota*
They then moved Into a house In St. Paul, Minnesota
where my grandfather went to work as a laborer*
Their house was large, with the parents having
their own room and the girls sharing another. Les,
the only boy, got a room to himself.
After ray grandmother died In 1938 my grandfather
and his son and my mother, who was only k, went to live
with his parents Cageat and Ida Letourneau, who were
living In a house in white Bear Lake, Minnesota*. One
of my mom's sisters, $vonne, wentto live with her Aunt
Sophie, while her other sister Donna, went to live with
her Aunt Lizzie* The famllyremained seperated until
their father remarried Marie Cardinal in 1940* The
entire family then moved into a large house near the
grandparents, on 4th Avenue In White Bear Lake1* My
Grandparents still live in that house. Over the
years ray mother gained six new step brothers and
sisters1* The house was large enough so that usually
two children shared a room. No servents or boarders
lived with the family at any time*.
The daily schedule of my mom's family usually
began with the children going to school, their father to work
and their mother remaining at hometo do the housework*
The kids had chores to do around the house like wai.;r
the dishes, or watching the younger kids*. My mom and
her sisters and brother spent their spare times roller
skating, ice skating, visiting relations or entertaining
company)* At the age of 12 my mother spent her spare time
delivering newspapers on her paper route*.
My mother and her family would go visiting to their
grandparents house, or any of the many aunts and uncles.
They always went to see the relatives on birthdays or sp-
ecial occasions.
Once a year, on New Years' day, a traditional
family gathering would be held*. It was an old French
custom for everyone in the Letourneau family to gather
en this day** It had been practiced as far back as my
momsgreat granparents*.
Everyone would gather at my mother's grandmother's
house for breakfast*. There was usually a contest between
the men, to see who could be the first one to arrive*.
People would start arriving around 6 a.m. Who ever won the
contest , being the first to arrive, was treated special all
day. The families would stay the entire day, feasting and enjoying
each other1 s company*. The women would spend the weeks before,
preparing all of the food. The food would then be placed In
the screened In porch, where It was kept until the special
day.
On the festive day, the wen were fed first, then the
children and lastly the women. This tradition continued to be
held at ay grandmother's house, until the family got to big*.
Then it was necessary for the family celebration to move Into
a rented hall.
My mother's father was the primary one to make all
decisions in the family. If he was not home or available
then his wife would. The decisions on family business were made
Jointly by my mother's parent s>»
The children were disciplined by both parents*. The
father had the final decision or say on a matters A way of
disciplining the family was by use of the razor strapr.
There were no other adults involved In the raising or
disciplining of the children^
Everyone In the family was treated equally and no
rank was assigned to anyone.
During meal time, my mother's father sat at the
head of the table, with her mother sitting at the other endf.
The children all had assigned places and usually always ate
with their parents. When quests came, the children sat
at another table or ate In a second shift.
As soon as the children had a job and were earning
regular pay, they were expected to help out. My mother had a
paper route at age 11 and housecleaned for a lady when she
was about 12. When she was Ih , she had a part time Job as a
candy stripper at St*. Joseph's Hospital, in St». Paul. After
she graduated from high school she took a full time job as a
film editor in a St. Paul television station, KSTF.
The parents did not help their children out in
school or business!. My mother attended high school at a
Catholic girls academy and had to pay for her tuition, books,
uniforms, and busfare. When she was 16, she had to pay $10 a
week to her parents during the summer, as well as buy her own
clothes and other necessities.
Sick members of the family were cared for by every-
one In the family. Babies were well taken care of and treated
like another member of the family.
The children were expected to take care of their own
personal needs and contribute to the house budget when called
upon, which for my mother, meant contributing #10 a week for
room and board-.
My grandfather was exempt from World War II, because
of his many children1. However, he did go to work in a defense
factory* The family did undergo rationing during this time*.
Such things like sugar, butter and nylons were scarce. The
family would also save the lard to sell to the war department,
which used it for ammunition.
The family had a radio and the kids enjoyed listening
to shows like Captain Midnight, Jack Armstrong, the Green Hornet, etc.
These were all fifteen minute serials and the children would
listen to them everyday. When the family got a t.v., the
children enjoyed watching shows like Milton Berle, game shows and
westerns*.
My grandfather did own a car, but the children used
bus transportation to take them where they wanted to got*
My mother and her brothers and sisters were taught
to always respect the elderly, and to help them when they were
In need. The children had a very good relationship with the
elders.
After high school everyone usually left home to
begin their own life. No one went onr to higher education*.
In December of 1953 » ny mother left home to start her own
life with her new husband*.
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The Married Life of George and Joyce Fischer
White Bear Lake, Minnesota was the setting December
26, 1953* for th weddign between George L. Fischer Jr.
and Joyce A. Letourneap. They met In the winter of 1952
when my father was a door to door pots and pans salesman.
He walked up to her door and pitched his campaign. My mom
refused to buy anything and sent the pesty salesman away.
However, the pesty salesman did not give up. He decided
that If she wouldnjt buy anything from him than maybe she
would accept a date with him, and so the relationship
began.
The summer after they were married my dad again went
to work as a chef on a train. He took this Job because It
was the only one available, since he still had his military
service to fulfil.
In September of 195^ their first child was bornt
Stephanie in St. Paul, Minnesota. That same year the
three of them moved to Ft*. Leonardwood, Missouri, where my
father began his two year military service*. It was here
that their second daughter was born, Dorothy. This was
July 13 t of 195&> At this time the family was living in
a trailer.
The family moved to Woodbridge, Virginia in 1957
where my father became a sixth and seventh grade teacher
at a school nearby Fairfax, Virginia. He had applied for a
jobwith the C.I, A. and took this teaching job, while
waiting for his clearance from the agency. The family
was still making their home in a trailer.
In my father became a C.I. A. analyst. At this time
the family moved out of the trailer park and into a house
in the same city, Woodbridge. Their third daughter,
Famala, was bom at the time, in Georgetown, Virginia on
Agust 13 1 1958*.
The family then moved to Medfield, Massuchusetts
where my father became a public relations man. Their fourth
daughter, Julie, was born in Needham, Massuchusetts
November 2, i960.
In i960 the family once again moved*. This time to
Annandale, Virginia, where my father took a public re-
lations job with Farrington.
Staaf ord, Connecticut was the next move for the family
where my father took a job with a public relations firm in New
York City, with all of her children in scholl my mother
took a job as a librarian for Stamford Library. The family
remained in Stanford for four years, until, in 19^7 they
uprooted once again and moved to Centervllle, Ohio. My
father was now a public relations man with NCB. Their fifth
daughter, Georgia, was born in Kettering * Ohio, on
Christmas Day, 196?.
In 1968 the family came to Rockf ord where they bought a
house on Spring Creek Road. George Fischer was employed
by Sunstrand. as a public relations man. Their sixth child
and sixth daughter * Gail, was bom in nearby St. Anthony
hospital on June 30, 1969.
The family bought some land just past Guilford and
Mulford Road intersect! on | where they built their next
hornet* Thfts was in 1972 and my father was wotklng with the
Cherry Vale Development Company;. He left the firm last year
and created his own advertising business* Creative Marketing'.
The family still resides in the home they built in 19?2 .
It Is situated back in some woods, where it is beautiful
and very pleasant.
The Childhood of Stephanie Fischer
I was bom in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 21,
195^» We lived for a while in a house in the city before moving
to Missouri, where my father was stationed in the army*.
There are six children in my family and everyone
is currently living at home, with my parents*. When I was young,
and when there were only four children, I shared a room with
my sister, Dorothy. My parents occupied another bedroom, while
the two youngest shared another. Since we moved to Rockford,
I have had a room of my own, and so has my sister, Dorothy.
My two little sisters share a room, as do my two other sisters.
We never had any boarders or servants living with us>.
Everyone of the kids had their own little chore to
do* be it emptying the trash or washing the dishes. AH of the
children were responsible for their own room. This practice
along with some others is still being practiced today. However,
once the children were old enough, like after 16, they usually
got a job and were relieved of some of the household chores.
Everyone who had a job, kept the money earned for themself •
They did not have to and still don't have to contribute any
money to the household bud Jet . They were expected and still
are, to buy their own clothes and necessities. However my parents
are always willing to help their children out financially
I am the first of the children to attend college.
My father is paying my way and will do so for his other
five daughters when the time comes.
Since most of my childhood was spent moving to
and from various eastern states, we were separated for many
from all ofi the relatives'. Since moving to Rockf ord we get
together with our relatives whenever possible. We usually
gather with my paternal grandparents on Christmas, Thanksgiving
or Easter. When I was very young all holidays and special
occasions were spent together as a family or with some close
friends.
Up until we came to Rockf ord, the family usually
spent their free time camping. We would go to some national
park and spend a week or just a weekends This practice was
discontinued after the family became to large*.
My parents made all family decisions, jointly?.
My dad and mom would discuss a move to another city or state,
together. They also made the decisions on what schools their
children would attend}. For three years my sisters and I were
enrolled In a parochial school in Stamford, Connecticut?.
Decisions about which college or what occupation the child
will enter into has been and always will be left up to the
child!.
Children in my family were disciplined by both
parents. A scolding or spanking usually was dealt out to
any child who misbehaved. Only my parents had a say in who
was to be disciplined?. No other adults were Involved?. When I
was small, and when my father commuted to a new job in a
different state, he would be gone all week and then return for
the weekend. A chart with various chores and all four of the
chlldrens nameswas made up and hung in the kitchen. Whoever
did not execute one of the duties on the list was given a
black mark in the appropriate bo*. When my father returned at
the end of the week, the chart was produced and surveyed by
my father?. Oh how I dreaded the time he would ask my mom for
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the duties chart.
Everyone In my family has there own special seat
at the dinner table* but this is merely oat of force of
habit?. My mother likes to sit olose to the kitchen and
my little sisters* while my father sits near the telephone.
When there was just s&X- in the family, everyone could sit
around the dinner table. Now that two more children are
in the family* it is necessary for the two youngest to
sit at a smaller table* near the big one*. When guests
were being entertained* the children were never turned
away. Usually if there was enough room, everyone could eat
together*. If there wasn't* then the children would eat
at another table or at an earlier time*. Now a days when
guests oome* children under 16 are seated at another table*
while those older are allowed to eat with the adults. This
is especially practiced when all of the relatives gather
for a holiday.
My father owned and still does own all of his
property!. Since I am the oldest and the closet one to
ohoosing a career* I think it is safe to say that I will
be following in the footsteps of my father. I plan to become
a Journalist* hopefully writing sports stories. I currently
am studying at Bock Valley* where, in May, I will graduate.
Next fall, I will enroll at Northern Illinois University to
pursue my studies. Presently I am also employed by Charles
Thomas and his wife, as a governess, where I care for their
seven young children when they need me. My family still resides
in the house my father built two years ago, here in Rockfordfc
I attended Lincoln Middle School and Guilford High School,
before coming to RVO. I enjoy travelling and meeting people*.
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he Anthony R. Letourneu family.
My mother is the first from the lef
Ky father and his two
sisters, standing in
front of their car.
paternal "grandparents house
M i s sula , Montana .
My father's family one
Christmas season.-.
My paternal grandparents house^
The house George L. j-'is
built. It is currently
my father's parents re:
FLUEGEL, CYNTHIA JAN, 1956-
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FAM1 LY DATA
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A . Grandfather (your father's side)
Name George William ELUEGEL Current Residence Rockford, Illinois
Date of birth Feb. 20, 1897 Place of birth Rock Island, Illinois
Date of dea th
K duca t ion (numb e r of years);
grade school_g high school
0 c upation(s)
Place of burial
vo c a t i ona 1
college
I s t Farming
Dates
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
.1 s t W-i srons-in Dates 1Q
-1933^
:'nd Industrial worker Dates 1953-1962 2nd Illinois
3rd Dates 3rd
4th
4 th
Dates
Dates ._L9i3.--p-r.esen
Dates
Dates
Re 1 i g i o n Methodist
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of Marriage to your grandmother Wise . Rapids, Wi<>.e June 15, 1921
NOTE: If your father was raised (to age 18) by a stepfather or another
relative give that data on the back of this page. (A-l)
Grandmother (your father's side)
N a me Helena JAGOBSON C urrent Reside n c e Rockf ord , Illinois
Date of birth Oct. 15, 1900 Place of b i r th Clark County, Wise. _
Date of death Place of burial
Education (number of years):
grade school g high school
college
vocational
Occupation (s)
1st School teacher Dates
2nd Dates
3 r d D ates
4th Dates
PLACE 0 F RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
.1 s t Wisconsin Dates
2nd II linois.
3rd
4th
Dates 19J>3 .-present
Dates
Dates
Religion Methodist
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc
Place of marriage to your n r a nd f a t h e r Wise . Rapids, W i<£« t e . J une_ 2 1 _ 1 9.2 1
NOTE: If your father was raised fio age 18) by a stepmother or
another relative give that data on the back of this page
(A-2) .
A -2 Step^randfather (your father's side)
N. ■-<.- Current Residence
Date of birth Placeofbirth
Date of death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
ie school high school vocational
Cw 1 lege
Occupation(s)
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates 1st Dates
2nd Da tes __2nd Da tes
Dates 3rd Dates
th Da tes 4 th Da tes
Rel i 2 ion
'olitical parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
of marriage to your grandmother date
3-2 S tepgrand mother (your father's side)
Current Residence
of birth Placeofbirth
!ntc of death Placeofburial
Education (number of years):
grade school high school vo ca t i ona 1
coll e ge
PL AC E OK RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates 1st Dates
nd Dates 2nd Dates
Dates 3rd_ Dates
Da tes 4 th Dates
1 t i ( i 1 party, civil or h o > 1 a 1 < 1 ub h , sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandfather
Grandfather (your mother's side)
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Name Ari-hnr Wasrihiirn MEAD Current Residence RnnkforH, Illinois
Date of birth Nov. 27, 1911 Place of b i r t hJ^g^rL B_y , Wise
Date of death Place of burial
Education (number of years):
grade school 8 _high school
vocational
college
Occupation(s)
Is t Fireman
2nd
3rd
4 th
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Date s!934-19731s t Rockford. 111. D a t e s 1934-prP spni-
Dates
Dates
Dates
2nd
3rd
4th
Dates
Dates
Dates
i- ■ Republican ,
Re 1 ig i on Pres hy r.p.r i an
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities
the Shrine , - ... .
Place of marriage to your gr and mo t h e r^ocjc fm_L>_IlJJ_l-Qi^ a t e. . Dec 3D_,_ 1934.-
NOTE: If your mother was raised by a stepfather or another relative (to
age 18) give that data on the back of this page (C-l)
Grandmother (your mother's side)
Name Gladys Doris ALBERS Current Residence .Rnrkfnrd, .Illinois -
Date of birth Aug. 20. 1910 Place of birth_cn1> a go__Hl inoi _
Date of death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade school
high school
vocational
coll e g e
Occnpation(s)
1st Bookkeeper
2nd
3rd
4th
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after Leaving home)
Datesl937-1962 iHt_RoQkj£Qrjd^_IllJ l)Jt ^1934-presen
D a t e s
Dates
Dates
2nd
3rd
4 th
Dal c s
Da t v. s
Dates
Religion Prpshyrpri an —
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, c t c . Repu b 1 ican , ...
___E__y__-n_St_t_-, a Mnthpr S t ndy - Gr__ip —
Place of marriage to your grandfather . Date
NOTE: If your mother was raised by a stepmother or another relative (to
H) g*ve tha_ data on the back of this page (D-2)
C- 2 Stepgrandfather (your mother's side)
Naac Current Residence
Date of birth P 1 a c e o f b i r t h
Date oi death Placeofburial
Education (number of years)
crade school high school vocational college
Dccupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Ls t Dates 1st Dates
2nd Da t e s 2 nd Da t e s
3 r ci Da t e s 3rd Da t e s
4 th Dates 4 th Dates
Re 1 igion
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
of marriage to your grandmother D ate
D- 2 S tepgrandrao the r (your mother's side)
Current Residence
D.itf of birth Place of birth
Xitc n[ death Placeofburial
Education (number of years)
high school vocational_ college
upation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates 1st Dates
Da tee 2nd Da tes
D ate s 3 r d D ates
Dates 4th Dates
R e 1 1 g i o n
1 1 1 a ] party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
• Mar r lag< to your grandfather Date
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CHI LP REN of A & B (or A-2 or B-2) - your father's name should appear below
Name Marjorie FLUEGEL
Place of birth Neillsville . Wise. dateDec. 1, 1928
Number of years of school inj
Residence
Occupation
Marital Status
Number of children
.Death 1930
Nai"e ,_J____n FLUEGEL
Place of birth Neillsville, Wise. . d a t eNov . 4. 1926
Number of years of schooling 12 Occupation Beautician
Res i d e n c eAnaheim, Calif. M arital Status Marr ied
Number of children 2 D e a t h
N a m e .ten Hp 11 FT.1TF.GF.T.
Place of birth Nei 1 Isvi 1 1e , Wise .
Number of years of schooling 12
date April 3, 1934
Occupation
Residence Phoenix, Ariz. Marital Status Married
Number of children_ 4 Death
N ;l m e Priscilla FLUEGEL
Place of birth Neillsville, Wise
Number of years of school in g 12
Res idence Rockf ord , Illinois
Number of children 3
date Aug. 11, ±9A4. _
0 C c u p a t Ion Hous ew Lf e
Marital Statu s Married
deal h
Name
Place of birth
date
Number of years of schooling
Residence
N u mb e r o I children
0 c c u pat i o n
Marital Status
Death
Name
Place of birth
date
Number of years of schooling.
Residence
Occupatio n
Number of children
Marital Status
death
N a me
Place of birth
Number of years of school in;
Residence
Number of children
date
Marital Status
death
Occupation
Name
Place of birth
date
Number of years of schooling.
Res i dence
Number ol children
0 c c u d a t ion
Marital Status
dea th
Name .
Place of birlh
Number o I years of schooling
date
()c <: upa t ion
Residence
lumber of children
Ma r i t a 1 Status
dea t li
N a me
Place of b i r t h
d a t e
Number of years of schooling
Residence _ Marital Status
N umb it of children death
(Ice ii p a t i o n
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C and D (or C-2, D-2)-your mother's name should appear below
1 . Same Janice Rae MEAD
Place of birth Rork-for.l Til date R»pr 2^ 1936
years of schooling 12 Occupation Housewife
tee Rorkforci Til . Marital Status M,qrripd
Number of children __3 death
2 . N .1 ■ e
Place of birth date
: years of schooling_ Occupation
ce Marital Status
Number of children death
Name
■.. of birth date
Nuaber of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Name
Place of birth date
ber of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Name
Place of birth date
■ r of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Sane
Place of birth date
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
N a m e
Place of birth date
if years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
■r of children death
Place of birth date
aber of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status_
'iuab'T o f children death
Place of birth date
years of schooling Occupation
'■'<•. idence _ Marital Status
'• . - < r o f ch 1 1 d r en » death
10. Name
Place of birth date
Number o f ye;irn of schooling Occupation
Ri'Hldtnre Marital StatU8__
Niinber of children death
Your Father
Name Wendell George FLUEGEL , Current Residence Phoenix, Ariz.
Date of birth April 3, 1934 Place of bitth Neillsville, Wise.
Date of Death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
vo c a t i o na 1 c o 1 1 e ge
Occupation(s)
1st Banker
Da tes
1952-
1964
1st
2nd Car dealer
Dates
1964-
1968
2nd
3rd Tavern owner
Dates
1968-
1971
3rd
4th Retired
Dates
1971-
present
4 th
Religion Mprhndisr
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
nnis Dates1955-I9fi
2nd Wisconsin
Political parties, c£vil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. Republican
Place of marriage to your mother Rockford, 111. date Oct. 15, 1955
NOTE: If you were raised by a stepfather or another relative give that data
on the back of this page. (E-2)
Your Mother
Name Janice Rae MEAD Current Residence png^r.P I,M-innfg
Date of birth Sept. 26, 1936 _Place of birth Rockford, Illinois
Date of death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade s ch oo 1 8 h ighrschoo 1 4 vo c a t i o na 1 c o liege
Occupation (s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Secretary Dates igs4-1971 1st Illinois Dates^^.^
2 n d Housewife D ate s 1971- 2 n d S. Dakota D ate s 197 1-^
3rd Dates 3rd Minnesota Da.tes197J3_-j^
4th Dates 4th Illinois Datesl974-
Re 1 igi on
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc. Republicans
T.edgp.q T.adips' Hnl f Assnriarinn
Place of marriage to your father Rnrkfnrr^ Illinois date Oct. .-15., L95_5
NOTE: If you were raised by a stepmother or another relative give that data
on the hack of this page (F-2).
E -2 Stepfather
Name 'Jayng Allpn KOm.F.R
Date of birth .Tn 1 y TO, L&32 Place of b i r thMad is on . Wise .
r> .i t e of death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
cradc school high school 4 vocational college
Occupation (s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st. Engineer Dates 1950- present 1st Illinois Dates 1950
Dates 2ndS. Dakota Dates 197 1
3 r d D ate s 3 r dMinnesota D ate s 19 73
4th Dates 4th Illinois Dates 1974-
Religion MPthoclist
• Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. Democra t ,
thp Shrinp, Marhinp Tool Association
e of marriage to your mother Yankfnn, S. Dakota flate£Ppr. 14, HT'
F- 2 Stepmother
Name
Date of birth Place of birth
Date of death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
le school high school vocational college
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1 s t Da tes Is t Da tes
2nd Dates 2nd Dates
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
Dates 4th Dates
f •• 1 I i o n
'I'-il party, > i v i 1 or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your father
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CHILDREN OF E AND F (or E-2.F-2) -YOUR NAME SHOULD APPEAR BELOW
Name Cynthia Tan FT.TTF.nFT.
Place of birth RnrkfnrdJ Til. Date of birth Qc t . 12. 1956
Number of years of schooling 14 Occupation Student
ResidenceRnsmp, Til. Marital Status Single
Number of children death
Name Lea Ann FLUEGEL,
Place of birth Rockford . 111. Date of birthjuly 21, 1960
Number of years of schooling 1 Q Occupation
Resi denceRoscoe . 111. Marital Status Single
Number of children death
Name Troy Arthur FLUEGEL
Place of birth Rnr-lc ford , Til. Date of birth Aug . 9 , 1961
Number of years of schooling 9 Occupation Student
Re s i denceRoscee . , II 1 . Marital Status Single
Number of children death
Name
Place of birth Date of birth
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Name
Place of birth Date of birth
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Name
Place of birth Date of birth
Number of years of schooling Occupation^
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Name
Place of birth Date of birth '
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Name
Place of birth Date of birth
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
ASSIGNMENT OF LITERARY RIGHTS (If you and your family are willing)
I hereby donate this family history, along with all literary and
administrative rights, to the Rock Valley College Family History
Collection, deposited in the Rockf ord Public Library, Rockf ord
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When I was firs I ass ojeci Lr acini
family history, it een c ti in ■•- - i.h e B t a> tu-
ally I have to admi! i r< . i L kin en jo red ; Ic's
unbelievable all the place where in forma t ioi is availab
and everyone seems so
Naturally, a project of this size is going t Lake a
lot of time and hard work am m:>ne\ in some ai eas In
the limited time I have had, I have tried to put the
pieces of my family's his l t r{ • > gical
•rder , so that anyone interested nay make use of it and
hopefully add on to it as the i
I feel everyone at some time >r another should spend
some time on this, maybe even p.ai a >bb> it. Af _e
all, it is your his tor
In preparing my family history, the following sources
were used:
1. Interviews
2. Correspondence ; ) t a
3. A family tree that 1 is be i passed liown to the
present generation
4. The Church of Sweden in Arvika, Sweden
5. The court houses in Winnebago County, Illinois
and in Clark Count Wisconsin
6. Documents and pictures kept by family members
I would also like to thank U e following peonle who
were kind enough to answer a • correspondence and tal*
with me about our family's ast:
My mother, Janice K c
My father, WenJel t- ' ie^el
My grandparents, Mr. L Mrs Arthur Mead and Mr. &
Mrs . George Fl.i ge 1
A distant cousin, Mrs P -thur W< sl
CYNThlA JAN FL1 EG EL
At 9:08 a.m., October 12, L956, Janice Rae MEAD gave
birth to me, Cynthia Jan FLUEGEL, at Swedish American
Hospital in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois. While 1 was
being born, my Grandfather Mead was fighting a very large
furniture store fire. The called him on the truck radio
to tell him it was a girl. Four -ears later when my sister,
Lea Ann, was born, my grandfather was at another large
furniture store fire (a different store). It was a good
thing my mother had a boy tl e next time or the three
largest furniture stores in Rockford cocld have burned
down in a five year period.
February 17, 195 7, I was christened by Reverend J. Rod-
man Williams at the First Presbyterian Church in Rockford,
Illinois. At that particular chu cl . it is customary for
the entire congregation to act as sponsors, so 1 do not
have a godfather or godmother.
My first home was at 1015 Will James Road, New Milford,
Illinois. It was only a two bedroom home, but large enough
for the three of us
My father worked at City National Bank of Rockford and
after I was born, my mother went back to work at Bartelt
Engineering. At that time m mother '"a friend across the
street, Delores Shives , took care oi me. She was very nice
sold idn 1 1 mind a '. all.
July 21, 1960, :ny si- te 6 i \\n was born. The- bouse
seemed t > get a little sma Le then; since I '• ad to share
my room with her. It even ot sma] Ler a year Later when
my brother, Troy Arthur, -.a.' born (August 9, 1961). My
parents also thought it was getting to smal] arid had started
building a new one at 580'' Balboa Or ive , New Milford, Illi-
nois. We moved into our new house December of 1962. I
still had to share a bedroom with my sister, but the house
was still so much bigger that we did not mind.
I started New Milford virade School in 196 i . I really
enjoyed going there, making. new friends and just the new
experiences of going to school Jan Cottingham, who only
lived about three blocks from my new house, and I became best
friends all through grade school. But after sixth grade
(196S) , my parents were divorcee' anci we moved to an apart-
ment at 130 Flintridge Drive, Rbckford, Illinois. And
after seventh grade Jan's family n >ved to Ft. Smith, Ark-
ansas. There is quite a distance >e ~ween us, but we will
always remain good friends
Far seventh and eightl gi le , » went to Line o lr Junior
High School. Lincoln was ei nev* to me and so t.l bigger,
I really did not like it. 8 t L met Sue Cunnin.t am, wi tl •. n
became my best frien !, and i far ed t • the surra -dings.
After Lincoln Junior » i v . I w. ni on to East hi ph S hooi.
That was even Li^.ei at le'.ist 1 ha m
friend, Sue. Sue mo • . . ■ r t e i • • - . epe-te:
Unfortunately , rfa •• t ecrer job t e- in
St. Cloud , Benton, Miones las quarter of uy
junior year, 1 went to Techui < I i Schoc ! in St. Cloud,
Minnesota. The following .. m\ >arents bougt t a very
nice, large home in t'u country . That mean t changing schoo
again. My senior year I went tc a • el] Higl School in
Sartell, Stearns, Minnesc
ly the time I hat graduate i, .Va.ne had been offered an-
other job back in the Rockford, Illinois area. My parents
really wanted to be back in a familiar are a, so again we
moved .
Presently, we at e livii ; a t L 16 >8 Love Road, Roscoe ,
Winnebago, Illinois. riayne is z I E preside' t of Safeway
Safety Products Corp., where i an Lsc en >loyed part time
as a bookkeeper. I a;n also at ei ding Rock Valley College
and will graduate fron there Ma 20, 19 '6. This summer
I hope to work full time. Ir September, it will be back to
school at the University of 5i jth F rrida in Tampa, F i ot . da
where I hope to get my ba lie Lor'* degree in accounting.
(the Jfirsi ^rrsbittcrintt Churrh
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P< E V . J. RODMAN WILL IAN' 5, Ph, D.
1226 HARLEM BOULEVARD
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7ebniTy IP, 195?
Mr. and Mrs. Wendell ?lue^el
1015 Will Janes Hoe^1
Roekford, Illinois
Deer Mr. end Mr?. Fluegel:
It was a real orivilege for to pdminister the
sacrament of baptism to your child, Cynthia Jan,
on Sunday, February 17. I trust this ipy will always
remain memorable for you rnd that, in "!e->endence on
the grece of God, yon will bring uo your daughter in
the nurture and admonit^n o^ the Lord. The respon-
sibility is great; the rewPrd immeasurable.
May God "bless you end your little cne.
Sincerely yours,
J. lodm^n Williams
JBW:dg
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WENDELL GEORGE FLUEGEL
My father was born April 3, 1934 in Nei llsvi lie , Clark,
Wisconsin .
He grew up in ruraL Wisconsin on a small farm with his
two sisters and mother and father. While living on the farm,
he attended the Neillsville public grade school. In 1948 he
graduated from eighth grade. Following bis graduation,
Wandell and his family moved lo another farm in Wisconsin
Rapids, Wood, Wisconsin In .Wisconsin Rapids, my father
attended Lincoln high School and graduated in 195- . During
his high school years, he played baseball and spent much
•f his free time playing many different musical instruments.
Ha seemed to have a natural talent in music.
In 1952, after Dad's graduati »n , the Fiuegel's decided
it was time to move to a mere i idus tr ialized area and etiose
Rockf ord , Winnebago, Illinois. Trie/ moved to 1914 Burton
Street, which happened to be jus: across from the Mead fam-
ily, who had a daughter, Janice. Two years later, October 15
1955, Wendell George FLUEGEL and Janice Rae MEAD were marrieu
One story that was often told was that my father used to
wash his car every day just so he would be sure to see Mom
if she went outside. I bet be f ad cl e cleanest car in the
neighborhood. At this ; Lm< e *>as \. irking ai City Natic ial
Bank of Rockf ord . In L95' »a< ei t in the Army. But i
turned out to be a si ort ' n< • ause it ey found that
had Hotchkin's disease • eiv< in hon ra Le
d ischarge .
After returning home he went back to work at City Nation-
al Bank of Rockford. After m\ parents were married they
lived in a very small aparime.' t until they bought a small
two bedroom home at 1015 *fill James Road, New Milford,
Winnebago, Illinois. While living on Will James Road, they
had three children, Cynthia Jan, Lea Ann, and Troy Arthur.
After the third child was born, they decided to build a
new heme (1962) at 5105 Balboa Drive, New Milford, Illinois.
It was a very nice, large three bedroom home.
In 1964, my father went into the used car business and
also went to auctioneer school and did that on the side.
In 1961, my Dad moved to Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
where he owned and operated a cocktail lounge. That same
year ny parents were divorced. Not long after the divorce,
■y father married Eileen Hess] ink. They had one child,
Kimberly. In 1971, they moved to Phoenix, Maricopa, Ari-
zona, which is where they presently live.
GEORGE WIL1 U M l-U EG EL
My grandfather, George ,i , iaii! Fi b'E EL, a- born
February 20, 1897, in Rock Island, Rock Island, Illinois.
He later moved to Wisconsin Rapids, Wood, Wisconsin.
I am n»t sure of the dale his neve.
June 15, 1921 at Wisconsin Rapids, Wood, Wisconsin,
he married Helena JACOB: ON. They continued living in that
area on a farm. They had fc Lidren, Jean, Marjorie
(who died as a child), Wei and Prisciila.
Around 1953, my grandfat e; moved his family to 1914
Burton Street , Rockfur , , - lis. Then
began working at Elco To he contin :e«i working there
until he retired in 1962.
Since then he's kepi h ii e f 3 wi zh i t'.e »d 1 o s
around the house and they've nt ;om< :aveii s Tl
spend much of the year ii < / Lzc a a ea - to n.y
father's health and to vis: e i re Jea nd ,k i e
HELENA JACOBSON
My grandmother, Helena s
children born in Clark Cc; nty, Wisconsin. She was bor
on October 15, 1900, but her Lrthda; s cc lei. rated on
October 16. There was some confusion, since the birth
certificate is not obtai"ed until some Lime after the
birth of the child in the rural c mmuniti.es.
Due to the fact that I was not able to talk to my
grandparents (they live in Arizona), */hat constitutes
the part of her life that I do know is the same as her
husbands except that she was raised Ln Wisconsin anu
later became a school Lea. '.or. After her marriage to
George William FLUEGEL. her teaching career was over.
STATE OF WISCONSIN
Cfrttfirat? of |8irt(]
IMS IS 10 ( ERTin from the r 1 . i 1 Office of the Register of De^ds
Neillsville, Wis. that Helena Jacobson
is a Female born m Oct. 15 1900 at Township of Sherwood
v V. ..■ (Village or City)
Clark
[his rei ord ■ is filed October 9th, 1901
•ffr"'"1'1 irrf^r _ Register of Deeds
WISCONSIN M> u:
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3. Birthplau ot ma-Miet /
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CLE ARTY PE
COUNTY OUTLINE
WISCONSIN
Scale of Miles
map NO. 21:
JOHN HENRY FLUEGEL and \W DA STEGEMAN
To this date I do n;>t lave fortnati n on my
father ' s family .
John FLUEGEL, my great grandfather was born in Rock
Island, Rock Island, Illinois In "875.
His wife was Amanda STEGEMAN, who was al»o born in Rock
Island, Rock Island, Illinois, September 4, U?77.
loth are deceased, but as >f et, I have no dates as
to when they died.
HENRY FLU :GEL
Henry FLUEGEL was my greai great iira if c He was
barn in Germany. I do not ha e an da! s relati /. to
Henry FLUEGEL and I was u. a'-.-ie
wife .
JACOB JAC >BSGN a d ANN I rE JENSEN
Jacob and Annette were the pare ts of my grandmother.
Jacob JACOBSON was born Ma ch Li., L8b0. He was born
Jacob Lund, but as was cusL >mar\ in that dav, he took,
his father's first name and a lue son n it, making his
surname, Jacobson. he did this updp his arrival to the
United States.
Annette JENSEN was born October 27, I860. She married
Jacab JACOISON in 1889 in Spaulding, Wisconsin. But I i is
unable to find Spaulding anywhere on a map.
TANS anti KAREN JENSEN
loth were born in Norway In 1831. No oi er Lnfoj
mation is ava ilable at this t i e .
JANICE RAE MEAD
My mother, Janice Rae MEAD, i\ _r; d Mr. 6c Mrs.
Arthur Washburn Mead, September 26, 1936. She was born
In St. Anthony Hospital in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois.
My mother was an only child and an only grandchild. This
net only made her spoiled, but double spoiled. She went
to Welch School for kindergarten through sixth grade.
She then moved on to Roosevelt Junior High School and then
Waet Rockford High School, where she graduated in 1954.
Men had done very well all through school and had thought
about pharmacy school. But since she was engaged to be
married, she bypassed college and went straight to the work-
ing world using her secretarial skills. Her first job was
at Rockford Clutch, where she continued to work after she was
married until she gave birth to her first child, Cynthia
Jan, In 1956.
After two years of rest she went back to work as a secre-
tary at Bartelt Engineering until her second chili, Lea Ann,
was born July 21, 1960. She worked part time at Bartelt
after Lea Ann was born, but her third child, Troy Arthur,
was soon on the way and born August 9, 196 1.
It was a year after Troy's birth thai we moved into our
new home at 5805 Balboa Drive, New Mi 1 ford , Illinois. My
mother was then working part time for the Plumbers and
Pipefitters Union as a secretary.
In May of 1968, she a--c: mj father were divorced. She
was again working full, time, moving (nto an apartment lo-
cated at 130 Flintridge Drive, Rockford, Illinois, raising
three children alone and coping with a somewhat new social
life.
In 1971, Mom met Wayne Allen Kohier. On September 14,
1971, they embarked on a new life together. Since that
tine, Wayne has been rather prosperous and they have never
really lacked for anything and always had a nice spacious
heme. Ther was only one problem, to improve himself, he's
had to move around a Lot. So i i the Last four and a half
years, we have lived in Vermillion, Yankton, South Dakota;
Madison, Lake, South Dakota; Sartell, SLearns, Minnesota;
Roscoe, Winnebago, Illinois. They presently live at 1 1608
Love Road, Roscoe, Winnebago, Illinois and hope to be here
for a long time.
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ARTHUR ./A KBJRK M.Aj
My grandfather was torn in Gr$ n 3a , Brown, Wisconsin,
on November 2 7 , L9 1
When he was very • n a • , is fami] / mo ed to Rn ki rd,
Winnebago, Illinois. he weni to Kishwaukee Grade Schjol
and then graduated from Ro kf< rd Central High School.
He was a very good basketball player there .
He married Gladys A LBERS , December 30, 1934 in Rockford,
Winnebago, Illinois. Just prior to that, he began working
for the Rockford Fire Department. He worked there thirty-
nine years. he retired Ln February of 1973, as Captain
of the Rescue Squad.
Since his retirement, my grandparents have just been
enjoying life, traveling a Little bit, seeing the things
they've always wanted t
CITY OF ROCK FORD. ILLINOIS
204 SOUTH FIRST STREET. ROCKFORO. ILLINOIS 61104
FIRE DEPARTMENT
WAYNE E. SWANSON, ChUf
Bos. Phone 815/964-3327
January 16, 1973
RELEASE
Captain Arthur V». Mead All Roland Avenue (wife; Gladys)
Capt. Mead retired from the fire service, effective Feb. 17, 1973.'
He has- served or. the Rockford Fire Department since .May. 11, 1934. •■
He was appointed Captain in Nov., 1951 and served on Engine Co. #3»
he was transferred to Hook & Ladder Co. #1 in Dec, 1951 and was
transferred to the Squad ;1 in November, 195*5*, when the Squad was
first put into service. He had served on the Squad since that
time .
Capt. Mead worked his last day on January 15, 1973. He will be
on vacation until Feb. 17, 1973 and from then on he will be en-
joying a life of retirement.
Acting Chief Russell C. Fagerburg can be quoted as saying:
"Capt. Mead has been a gentleman, an effective officer and we
will reallv miss him on the .iob".
Gladys Doris ALBERS
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CLEAR TYPE
COUNTY OUTLINE
WISCONSIN
10 JJ 12 I 13 I 14
GLADYS >0R I S r LBERS
My grandmother was born L( igo C >k . I . i oLs ,
August 20, 19 tO. She was n ris G id s aLBl' . but
because of someone else ha l t< s m was
changed to Gladys Doris ALBE S
When she was very young, her family moved to Rockford,
Winnebago, Illinois. She went c Land Grace School
and then Rockford Centra 1 High ool.
She net my grandfather at a girlfriend's birthday party.
They were married December 30, 19 k.
In 1936, they had their only daughter, Janice Rae .
While Janice was going to sc iool , my grandmother worked
as a bookkeeper at the Nihan and Martin Drugstore. She
worked as a bookkeeper on and ->f': until she officially
retired when she was 58 in 1962. Since then, she's
just been taking care of her home an J tier husband, which
keeps her very busy.
If
PEE RtCEIPT NO.
STATE OF ILLINOIS-DEPARTMENT Oc PUBLIC HEALTH
CERTIFIED COPY OF A DELAYED RECORD OF BIRTH
STATE OF ILLINOIS nn AVm P«7?»r~-> r*7 — -.-
PARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(RECISTEI'LD .wvv.v. •• vtrinro
ORIGINAL
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L PLACE OF
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Chi caqo , Illinois
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M^Sti^ Gladys Doris Albers
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I If yacr nam hu Wan shaita*) (swept by marriage) enter the name you are now known by In th
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6. SEX: Ferpaje
•.PATMOTt
FTJLLNAMC;
RudolDh C. Albers
I 8. FATHER'S
1 BIRTHPLACE:
City or County
3rerren
State or Country
Germany
■.MOTHEJTS
. WAIPEN NAME:
Carol ine Wahlqren
10. MOTHER'S
BIRTHPLACE:
C:ty nr Coun:y
Varm 1 and
1 Stito or Country
Sweden
fStfpHNUtfTs I hereby deoUre npoo oatfc that the above statements are true to the Wat
(SEAL)
ft.) Subscribed and sworn to before me this
is i.^.-/ > daf of i ~ . I.
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Rotary Public!
APPLICANT! DO NOT WRITE BJLOW THIS LINE
KINO OF DOCUMENT AND DATE MADE
Application for Social Security
. .. ... August 20, 1910
. Ann nr hirth "IM": ° '
Acct. #353-18-4114
D . , Chicago, Illinois
Dated December 2, 1941
P>Hirt„ Rudolph Albers
mmmk ^Lena Wahlgrcn
Affidavit of Sister
Elsie Albers Wellnitz
Ane or birth aw AUgUSt 20. 1910
Chicago. Illinois
5192 Welsh Road
Rockford, Illinois
Dated April 27, 1967
Frither:.
Mother:
Rudo IphJH. Albers
J±3r9J: ina (Lena) Wahlgren
Aqe or birth date:
Cirthplace:
Agn nr birth date:.
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ARThl'tf CLARK MLAD an< iLV ^BETH M. MILTZ
Art r Clark MEA an< Lz ii stli M. MILTZ were my great
gsra .d par en . s .
Arthur MEAD w« ~ born R.o< kford on January 24, L876.
After his mother dieo . he was adopted by a family in Rock
Island and then moved Co Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he
met and married Elizabei M. MILTZ on October 14, 1903,
who was born January L, ! 88 1 .
Soon after their only son, Arthur Washburn, was born,
they moved to Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois. I'm not
why, possibly bejajse of his work, which was road construc-
t ion .
Around 1942, his wife Elizabeth died and my great grand-
father moved in with his son, my grandfather and Lived
there until his death in Hav of 1952.
Arthur Clark MEAD
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JULIUS F ANt LIN MEAD
Julius Franklin MEAD w< great great: grandfather
He was born Co Adelia Ag sta SI UFELT and .v'ashi irn MEAD o
August 28, 1852, in Fulton, New York.
On October L3, 1872, Julius married Elma Cera WELLS
in Hannibal, New York. Thev had i pui sons, Elbert S . ,
Thorret R. , Arthur C. and Earl
On August 5, 1913 in Oakland, California be died and
is now buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Roc^ford, .Vinnebago
Illinois .
ELMA CORA 'WELLS
Elma Cora WELLS was Julius MEAD'S wife. She was born
June 23, 1854, in New York, but the town is unknown. Sh
died April 13, 1883 and is also buried in Greenwood Cerae
Rockf ord , Winnebago, II li L«
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WASHBURN MEAD
Washburn MEAD was born October 2, 1820 in White Plains,
New York. May 28, L845 in Cain, New York, Washburn
married Adelia Agusta SHUFELT. They had four chiLdren,
Emma Agusta, Sheldon Buttolph, Julius Franklin, and
Daniel Washburn.
Washburn died August 20, 1897 in Rockford, Winnebago,
Illinois. His obituary read:
"A long illness resulted last evening in the death
of Washburn Mead at the home uf his son, 1304 South Main
Street. He has been living with his son, D. W. Mead, the
well known engineer, for tr.any years and had been sick for
several months. The end was a release from suffer' ng that
had become a burden .
Mr. Mead was born at Whine Plains, Duchess County, New
York, October 2, 1820 and spent - is boyhood days there. He
was united in marriage to the wife who survives him, at
Cairo, New York, May 28, L8-4r> . He was engaged in the
cabinet business for many years at Fulton, New Yor^.
Mr. Mead was a most ex. e I L< nan., of careful habits
and scrupulously conscientious 1 t had made <r. . friends
here during his long resic ■ re and wi 1! be with leep
regret that thev lea,-: »th. rhe c! ilc en who
survive are Mrs. I". A. R s-e Sioux City, S. 3. Mead of
Fulton, New York, and . ). Mead ! this c it \
The funeral will b« hi- • ' mwcr tn*', a. I 10: JO
from the late : i s .<. •
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Washburn MEAD
ADELIA A. US TA :■ > I 'ELT
Adelia Agusta SHUFELT was born Hire'. 29, i32S
Durham , Green County, New York. She married *fas burn
MEAD May 28 , 1845 in Cairo, New York.
Adelia Agusta ShUFFLT was the daughter of Mary (Polly)
SEARS (daughter of Isaac SEARS) and John SHUFELT.
Mary SEARS was born in Chatham, New York in 1788 and
married John ShUFELT about 1813. John ShUFELT was born
in 1792 in Rensselaer County, New Yo-k an died about 1830.
On July 25, 1904 in Ajstin, Illinois also at the home
•f D. W. Mead, Adelia Agusta SHU1 ELT died
WALTER MEAD and P'i] .EMELIA Bl fTOLPl
17tl is the year of Walter MEADS birth. He married
Philemelia IUTT0LP11 in IS J after his first wife, Eliza-
beth WINANS, died in 131b. Whether Philemelia BUTTOLPH
died is uncertain, but Walter was again married to Betsy
REYNOLDS .
Walter's first wife Elizabi th WINANS gave him seven
children, Tammy, Harriet, David, Mary A., Betsy L. , Smith
W. and Rheuma. With his second wife, Philemelia BITTOLPH ,
he had four children, Wa Iter , da hburn, William and desle;
There is no record of any children with his third wife,
letsy REYNOLDS.
Walter MEAD died in 1856.
NATHANIEL M LA u m J MAR'fiiA BROWN
Nathaniel MEAD was born in I 74b, jusr three years
before his wife, Martha B'O/N Their raarri ig< t i -
In 1765. Together they had fourteen children, Nehemiah,
Martha, Nathaniel, Peter, William, Prudence, Anna, Tv!er,
Walter, Abigail, Hannah, Elizabeth, Epenetus , an J Harvey.
Nathaniel must have been lonely as an only child and
did not want any of his children to be lonely.
Martha BROWN died in :*18, but the death of husband
ia not known.
NATHAN l£L MEAD and PK DENCE WOOD
Not much is known abo t Da Ld MLAD ' S son Nathan el
Nathaniel was born Ln 1 ." : • » cir I narried Prudence .VOOD
1745. They had one child, Nathani< L. But their home
or date of death is not available.
DAVID MEAD and \B1GAIL LEANE
John MEAD'S son David M'AD was bom in lb65. he m.id
his home in the town of Bedford, New York, where he was
one of the resident proprietors in lb92.
In 1707 David married Abigail LLV.NE. They had seven
children, David, Charity, Rachel, Nathaniel, William,
letsy and Anna .
1727 was the year David MEAiJ died. It is not known
what year Abigail LEANE dieu.
JOHN MEAL) ind HANNAH P'TTKK
John MEAD was bora in L6 14, in England. John came to
the United States with his father, John, in !63b. When
he was old enough, he settled in Horseneck Greenwich),
Connecticut . In 1657, Hannah POTTER became his wife.
They continued to live in Horseneck (Greenwich), Connecticu
where they raised their eleven children, John, Joseph, Hann
Ebenezer, Jonathan, Davie, Ber.jamin, Nathaniel, Samuel,
Abigail and Mary.
John MEAD died in 1699. The vear of his wife's death
is unknown.
WI'.LJAM MEAD
On my mother's side I '.a >e traced iny family back to
William MEAD, who is my great great great great great great
great great great grandfather. William was born in 1600 in
England. He married in ib23, but his wife is unknown. They
had -fefe^y- children , Joseph, Martha and John.
In April of 1636, William and his brother Gabriel, with
their families, sailed from Lydd , County Kent, England to
the Massachusetts Colony on the ship Elizabeth headed by
Captain Stagg. William settled at We thersf ie Id , Connecticut,
but in 1641 he moved to Stamford, Connecticut, where he was
assigned a home lot and five acres of land.
RUDOLPH CAR i HENRY r. ■ i AROLI.N KHLGREN
Rudolph ALBERS , my . . K ^ran :ather, w - born in
Bremen, Germany. His a o th< I lited States
when he was a hoy. hi- . died an I I is fal
decided to go back to Germany, so the children were then
adopted by different families. I was jnabie to find the
name of the family that <j .r .
Rudolph was a grocery and delivered to a wea 1 ' h\
Chicago family. WhiLe delivering there he met Carolina
WAHLGREN, who was one of the naids. The date was no';
available, but later the_\ a ried.
Carolina WAHLGREN was born September 2., i 8 ~$ in Arvika,
Sweden. Her father was a cabinet aker there. They later
came to the United States .
Rudolph and Carolina had dren , E sie, i id;
Clarence, Earl an< Cai
Henry AL1ERS was the Cat! e dJ Rsj k '.ax Hem
AL1ERS. He was born in Germany. .r .1!. the Ln
mat ion available at. this me.
Kenry ALBERS
Anna was born and lived \ . ca ... her hus-
band, who's name I d< not ecu .. . p ; a cabi i< L naker . Some
time after their children w'i re , tht *< e le : t al i
in Sweden on the old A'ar ■ i<
FOOR, NANCY JANE, 1956-
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I have trie^ to present my Family History as factually, accurately, and
as interestingly as possible. Sorrve areas are weaker than others, as my
parents can remember very little in some cases. My mother's family his-
tory has been tracec. back to before the Revolutionary bar, but lost as
relatives moved best. The Carvey Family History, found at the back of this
History, a great-aunt ana I have been working on for almost five years.
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I hope you will enjoy reading the story of Lhe heritage that, has been [,
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ORVLLL CLAIR FOOR
Born; June 8, 1899
Place of birth; Miami, county, Indiana
Education; l6 years
Occupations; farmer, teacher, principal of high school
Diea; August 24, 1969
Religion; Protestant
Clubs; Masonic Lodge, President of Lion's Club
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NINA KSTURAH CARVEY FOOR
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Born; November 18,1900
Place of birch; Miami County, Indiana
Education; 14 years
Occupations; teacher, housewife, nurse's aide
Diea; November 1, 1970
Religion; Protestant
Clubs; Eastern Star
BILLLE CLAIR FOOR
Born; March HI, 1924
Place of birth; Macy, Indiana
iuucation; 16 years
Occupations; Engineer
Reli0ion; Presbyterian
Clubs; Jayce;s, Chamber of Commerce, Masonic Lo-Oe, ASESA
LIFE OF ORVILLE CLAIR FOOR
TO MARRIAGE
My 0randfather, Orville Clair Foor, was born on June S, 1S99 in Macy,
Indiana. His first six years of school were spent at Rabbit's Glory, a one
room schoolhouse, a mile and a half from his home. He would either wall or
ride a horse to school. For his next six years of schooling, he attended
Macy High School. Along with going to school, my grandpa spent a lot of
time helping to run his father's farm.
My grandpa loved to rea- anything he could get his hands on, and a frieni
of his once told my parents be hnew where every single item was in the Sears
catalogue. He was very interested in cars, as they were just appearing on the
scene when my grandpa v/as in high school.
After graduation, and one summer of college training, my gran-father
startea teaching at Five Corners, another one room schoolhouse. In audition
to instructing students he cleaned the school and had to arrive early each
morning to light the fire. Since he lived eight miles from the school, and
winter snow v/as frequently several feet ^eep, he often ha., to leave home in
the middle of the night zo make it to school in Lime to have a roaring fire
in the stove when the students arrived. During this time he was making five
dollars a week and had to supply his own coal oil. He continued to take colleg
training courses during the summer, and eventually moved to Woodrow High School
where he taught seventh and eigth gra-.es and was principle. This pattern of
teaching in •.•inter, farming in summer continued for seventeen more years.
Family get-togethers ^urlr.^ my grandfather's day were usually a little
wild. My great-grandfather spoke gsrman and insisted that his children d.
on these occasions just for the sake of irratatir.g relatives, or to be gener-
ally ornery.
LIFE OF NINA K3TURAH CARVEY
TO MARRIAGE
My grandmother, Nina Keturah Carvey, was bom on November IS, 1900 in
Macy, Indiana , and was the youngest of fiva children. She was very close to
her sister Pauline as she was closest in age, bing three years older. They
were playmates and walked to school together. They also shared chores, as my
great-grandfather owned and opperated a creamery. Being the youngest my
grandma got spoiled more than the other children, but grew ur> to be a happy,
sweet, talented girl.
My grandmother attended Macy School for twelve years, and after gradu-
ation went to Indianapolis to Madame Blake's Finishing School for Girls.
She then went on to take some teaching training courses at North Manchester
College. In this day, most women graduated from high school an- immediatly go
married. My gran-ma and Aunt Pauline were really breaking with tradition to
go on with their schooling. After a summer of preparatory training, my
grandmother taught for one year at Akron, Indiana. At this time, her family
was still a close one, an- still centered mainly in Macy, an.i would get to-
ether frequently. Her parents were against smoking, drinking, an- playing
cards, and were kin-, but strict with their children. All the kids were mem-
bers of the Macy Christian Church at a very early age, and steady attendance v;
demanded of them by their folks.
All through her schooling, my grandma was fun-loving and enthusiastic, an
had many friends. Being a very beautiful woman there was also a multitude of
beaus. She ha- the pick of almost any of the young men in town, an- early in
high school she decided that the man she wanted to marry was Orville Fcor.
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MARRIED LIFE
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NINA AND ORVILLE FOOR
My grandparents, Orville and Nina started going together in high school.
Since Macy was such a snail community, they had known each other since they
were small children, ana over the years, the romance blossamed. My grandma
haa been teaching school for one year and my granapa for three when they de-
cided to get married, so my grandmother quit work to become my grandfathers
wife. They married in Leiter's Ford, Indiana , went on a brief honeymoon, ani
returnee to Macy, where they moved into the house they occupied until their
aeath. They were very much in love and had a very satisfying relationship
all through their lives, doth were eager to beconfe parents and were heart-
broken when their first child, a little girl, died at birth. Two years la-
ter however, my father was born and they soon had their hands full. At this
time my grandfather was still teaching in the fall and winter, ana farming 2 SO
acres in the summer. Four years after my father was born, another boy Kobert
was born to them. My grandfather was a strict disciplinarian, but still loved
to have fun with his boys, and my grandmother was a loving, generous mother.
Their life was fairly pat t erne- for the next several years until 1951 when
my grandmother went to a hospital to work as a nurse's aide. This was to be
her job for the next twenty years. In 1-952, my grandpa was hit by a car while
-riving a tractor, an- broke both shin bones. His leg was never completely
back to normal, so he became semi-retired an- farmed only forty acres, for the
rest of his life.
My brother Steve and I would spend several weeks of ever,}' summer with my
gran-parents, having fun on the fan.: and being spoiled rotten.
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My granoma would cook all of our favorite fools and let us stay up as late
as we wanted and my grandpa would tell us 'stories and riddles and sing in
his big bass voice. My granipa loved oranges, apples, poanutbutter , and ice
cream more than anyone I know, and through our time spent on the farm, Steve
and I developed early cravings, too. We had the time of our young lives
helping to slop the hogs, chase the wild cats and shooting the bebe guns.
Despite the mischief we got into our grandparents never tired of having us
come to visit, am we could never get weary of going.
My grandpa died on August 24, 1?69, and ~y grandma was left without th?
partner sh? loved ro much. Sh n: sred him so leeply she was never again
happy until her death on November 1, 1970.
LIFE OF BILL FOOR
TO MARRIAGE
My father, Billia Clair Foor, was born on March 21', 19%, in Mac;;, Indi-
ana. Ha was an ornery chili, but not a bad one, ana was continuously into
mischief . He would have made an excellent pioneer or explorer as he was
fearless, an- always trying new things just to see what the outcome would
be.
My aai went to Vtoodrow school until fourth grade ani then to Macy school
where he played basketball in his junior ana senior years ani played the trum-
et in the school ban-. He was a real practical joker an- together with friends
kept the town in stitches. Their favorite trick was the time they tie- up a
goat to a drinking fountain at school. After a three -ay weekend the stench
was so bad that school was shut, down for several -ays.
My aac was raise- curing the depression, but living on a far:., his family
always haa plenty to eat. There was still a shortage of money, though and my
dad was a sophmore in high school before his family ha- electricity. My dad
haa a hand in running the far:, an- at the age of ten he was already -riving hor-
ses on the spring tooth harrow. He would help in the fields in the summer-
time ani feed livestock an- repair machinery year-round.
When ray father was fifteen he decided he was Ooing to make his fortune
growing pickles an- spent four months planting weeding an- picking them. For
this tedious, backbreaking work, my father made twenty one dollars. He still
can't stand the sight of pickles even today.
Immediatly after graduation, my -ai moved to Baltimore Maryland '..here he
worked at Martin Aircraft Corporation. It was 1942, an- the war ha- begun.
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The next, year my iai got drafted, ana spent the next year in training at
Biloxi, Ilississippi , University of Florida, Larado Texas, and Riversi-e,
California. In September of 1944 he v:as sent to Inula with the Amy Air
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Corps. After two months in India ana flying the "Hump" route, he was
transferrer to Burma as a Lailgunner after half of his air crew i.'as killed.
Ke v/as reassigned to the Office of Strategic Service, ani flew missions over
China and Burma. The war ended and my sad left Burma in February of 1946
ana traveler back to San Francisco by boat. V<hen he arrived there he phon-
es ahea- to Lois Rose, at Purdue University, asking her to spend the weekend
with he an- his parents at their farm. She agreed an- less than a month later,
they were engaged.
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JOHN CONRAD ROSE
Born; August 16, 1860
Place of birth; Ohio
Eduation; 6 years
Occupation; Glass craftsman
Die~; October 26, 1947
Religion; Lutheran . *
Clubs; AFL union for Craftsmen, Masonic Loige
ADA LELORA PANCAKE ROSE
Born; October 22, 1686
Place of birth; Ohio
Education; 6 years
Occupations; Store assistant, housewife, Telephone operator
Died; December 26, 1963
Religion; Protestant
Clubs; Travel-Bee, Eastern star, Business and Professinal V.'omen
LOIS JANE ?-0SE POOR
Born; October 14, 1925
Place of Birth; Marion, Indiana
Education; 14 years
Occupations; Copywriter, Writer for Advertising sectin of Newspaper, Housewif
Religion; Presbyterian
Clubs; College Sorority, Jay-she es.
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LIFd OF JOHK COKRAD ROSS
TO MARRIAGE
My 0ranafather, John Conrad Rosa, was born on August 18, 1SSO, some-
where in the state of Ohio. He was the third of four children Lorn to John
and Sarah Rosa. At the a0e of six, John moved his family to Marion, Indiana
where he ana his eldest son, Henry workea in the Canton ^lass factory. When
ha was eleven years of a^e, My grandfather's parents force- him to quit school
and join his father and brother in the 0lass trade. There was no machinery and
all glassware was blown an- carved strictly by hand. My grandfather ha- to
give all of the money he earne- to his parents who supposedly useJ soma to
cover foo- costs of the family anc save^ the rest in trust funds for when the
children were married. John Rose was mean, an^ very Canaan in his thinking.
He believe- the man of the house shoul- controll the pursa strings.
When my grandfather was fourteen, his mother died and John remarried, a
women, Kary, much younger than he. She loved to spend money, and none of the
Rose children ever saw the money that was to have been save- for them. None
like^ her, and at the age of seventeen, my grandfather left horn? to live in his
own apartment .
My grandfather ha- a bit of the old germ an in him, too. He was a very
stubborn man, who believe- in bearing ^ru-^es. For one period in his life, he
iion't speak to his brother for sixteen years, an.* six iays a week, they work-
ed side by side in the 0lass factory. He worked at the factory from age ele-
ven to a^e sixty-three, ruittin0 only when he was too ill to continue work.
Ihere was a twelve year period, though when he work e : in a truck fa:tory.
During his first years away from home, with his steady job at Canton, my grand-
father was a happy, carefree, fun-loving man, living the last healthy years of
his life. But it was -urir;0 this happy, healthy, time of his life that he met
an- fell in love with I.ora Pancake.
LIFE OF AJA LSNORA PAKCAKS
TO MARRIAGE
My granomother, A-a Lenora '(Nora) Pancake, was born on October 22, LSS6,
somewhere in the state of Ohio. She was "the seconi of five children born to
Nancy Jane ana Harvey Milton Pancake, '..hen my granomother was very youn0, the
family movea to Warren, Inaiana, where ray great-grandfather was stuiying to
become a Methodist minister. Soon after this time, the family mads another
move, this time to Marengo, Inaiana, where harvey did his preaching. When
my grandmother was twelve her father died of a sudden heart attack at the a^ 3 of
thirty five. The family remained in Marengo for a year, and my grandmother
quit school to work in a 0eneral store and help support the family. Her older
brother George haa left home to make his fortune in California, so Nancy Jane
ana my grandmother were on their own to feea ana clothe a family of si;:.
When my grandmother was thirteen, Nancy Jane movea her family to Marion,
Inaiana where my granoma "worked as a telephone operator for the Inaiana dell
System. Four years later, Nancy Jane married a widower, Addison Ellsworth
Morton, who ha a three children of his own. Together they had two more, an;
all the children got alon0 as if they were true brothers ana sisters.
Even though my granomother ha- workeo hard -uring her teenage years, she
was a happy, optimistic young lady. Her parents were very rsli^ious people
ana my grandmother haa a very -eep faith in Go-. She live! aL home with her
mother an^ new father ana many brothers ana sistsrs, very happy ani very content,
until the -ay she left home ana quit her job to marry John ConraJ Rose.
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JCK. AI'D KORA ROSE.
My gran-parents , John and Nor; Ross wrrs • - rr- - ' cn October CS, 1906.
They ware very happy together, worked hari ani s;v3i their ncney. They bought
only what they eoul- affor- to pay for, and their house was the only thing
they ever bought on loan. Even their Model T For., was paid for completely in
cash .
Four years after his marriage, v.hen he was twenty nine years old, my
grandfather -ev elope- a severe case of asthma which stayed with him for the
rest of his life. He really sufferer working over the huge fumic 5 in the
glass factory.
They were married for nineteen years before their first ani only child, my
mother, was born. My gran-fath;r was forty five years ol-, and my gran -mother
was thirty nine when they became parents, both were overjoyed ani love- my
mother deeply. It must have been hard, though, for the two of them to ur.-isr-
stand her, and my mom ha- to be quiet far more often than most children, so
her father coul- get his much needed rest..
Throughout my mother's childhood, my grandmother had a wonderful sense of
humor, an- './as always cheerful.. She was generous to a fault, and wouli Jo any-
thing for anybody. She ha- a deep faith in Go- an- was continuously optimistic,
bven during the -ark -ays of the -epression she believe- things were going to
get better, ana -i- her best to make life happy and comfortable for her husbanu
and chila. My grandfather '-/as a quiet, shy .nan, with a iry sense of humor, an.
stron0 feelings for his family ana home. He was ill much of the time during my
mother's childhood, an- preferred to just stay at home. He was often grouchy and
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tory, and was in too much pain to sleep at night, so this is understandable.
Both of my grandparents were good, honest people, with a very deep love for each
other.
On October 26, 1947, my grandfather Rose .lied of cancer. Four years later
ray grandmother married a widower, Glenn Stevens, who along with his wife had
been close friends of my grandparents. They live- a very happy, fulfilling eight
years together, until Glenn aied of a stroke in 195S. The next year my grandmother
came to Rockford to.' live with us for four years. She died of cancer on Decem-
ber ."6, 1963.
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THE LIFE OF LOIS JAKE ROSE
UP TO HER MARRIAGE
My mother, Lois Jane Rosa, was born October 14, 19.?5 in Marion, Indi-
ana. She was an only ehil- ana live,, in a worla compose- mainly of grown-
ups. Ker mother, father, two aunts, ana a cousin, all colle0e-age or ola-
er ha- a hand in raising her ana keeping her out of mischief.
My mom's ehilahooa v;as a happy one, but cue to the Depression, the fam-
ily counta- on each other to supply the gooa times, for material pleasures
were har- to come by. The family hac a piano and sang a lot, an. playea caris
often, but they enjoyea each other's company so much, that there was always a
Oooa time to be haa. My mother ooula fill books with the funny, outragous
stories of her chil-hoo-, an- even toaay, my brothers ana sisters an- I nev-
er tire of listening to her.
Luckily, my granamother coula take in sewing ana earn some money, for my
granafather was out. of work for two years during the -apression. They kept
a garaen, ana cannaa vegetables ana fruits, ana my grandma was a marvelous
cook, an- thrifty one, an- the family never went hungry. My grandpa ha- a
fiarca, stubborn, German pri-a ana didn't believe in Welfare, so the Roses'
were on their own. There were a lot of things the family went without, though,
as my mom was in sixth ^ra-e before a furnace was purchase-. They got the
first car when she was a sophmore in high school, which consecuencly, was also
the year they installe- their first telsphone.
dvan -uriaig the Depression, my granaparents were lucky to be better off than
most. My grandfather relieve- in paying cash, ana therefore owe a no -ebts.
My mother attan-e- Franklin 0ra^c school, Martin 3oots Jr. High, an-
I-.arion Hi^h. She maintained acove average graces in everything cut math.
A favorite playmate of my mom's, all through school, was Betty, a little
girl from down the street who was also an only child. They often took summer
vacations together, or spent holidays with each other's relatives.
My mother got an early exposure to travel with a trip to the World's Fair
in Chicago, in 1933 » A trip to Niagra Falls in 1935, and an excursion to Ken-
tucky the next year.
My mom got her first job at the age of fifteen in a dimestore. She made
fifteen cents an hour ana worked there for a year. She then moved to another
.iimestore where she earned a quarter an hour.
During my mother's hi0h school years it was the practice to go places in
groups rather than in pairs, so my mom hac a multitude of friends of both
sexes. World 'Jar II broke out while my mom was still in school, an J every
boy thai, could fight went into the service. Th? majority of my mom's male
graduating class was injured or kille in *Yz ::ar. IA '■.■as z sad graduation :ay,
knowing many would never see each other again.
To earn money to go to college my mother spent the summer after graduation
working in a defense factory from three to eleven every day. She brought
homw between twentyfive ana thirty ..ollars a 'week.
Finuing a place to live when she filially got to Ball State, in Muncie, Indi-
ana, presentea another problem for many a girl. The dorms, all of the:,:, were
filled to capacity with soldiers in training. In fact, there were only three
civilian men on the campus, an- according to my mom, two were so baa physically,
even the army wouldn't take them. Zach student was responsible for finding his
own room an- board, this was so expensive, that after one year of college my
mother went back to work, for a year, in another defense plant. She worked from
seven-thirty to five-thirty every -ay, ana made thirty five iollars a week.
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In the fall of 19A5i she was ready to start at Purdue. The war had just end-
ed ana more ana more men were coming home ana crowding into the colleges and
universities. Since Pursue was .still on the wartime schedule, my mom had to
wait untill October to start her classes. In February Dill Foor came home from
Burma, ana it was just a matter of weeks before my mother iecidsd to giv 3 up
her name for my father's.
MARRIED LIFE
OF
LOIS AKD oILL FOOR
The romance between my mother anc father developed when both '..here very
young. Both my father's grandparents and my mother's grandparents helped to
build Macy Christian Church, and the friendship between the two families was
haruaa down generation to generation.
My uad was born ana raised in Macy, Indiana, ana my mom spent part of
each summer an- all holidays at her grandparents farm, only three miles from
his home. They would often play or go to movies together, an., all of my
mother's cousins were jealous because my iad brought her caniy bars, as well
as a1! o" the atter.t-.cn My father once lost his tenderfoot 3cy Scout baige
while playing in the hayloft of the bam with my mom, and her grandfather said
he would sue the Foors if a cow found it and choke...
Durin0 hi0h school my parents had other boyfriends an- girlfriends an-
saw little of each other, but just before my dad left for overseas -urin0
WWII, ha stoppea at my mom's home to say good-bye. They decided to write to
each other, and by war's end, my mom was getting a letter 3 very or ever;.- other
day, ana writing just as frequently to my dad.
In Febuary of 1%£> my -a- arrive^ back in the United States in San Fran-
cisco, an- immediately called my .:10m at Pur-ue telling her hs would pick her
up at school two -ays later, on rhursday, an- to skip classes for two iays.
Over twenty of my mom's friends also cut classes to meet my dad an- see them
off to Macy where they spent the weekend. On their next meeting two week-
ends later, my man an- -a- ieciaed to get marriei. They originally planned to
wait for four years, until my -a- coul- get a college education, cut plans chan
e-, and they marriei on July 20, 19A-6, five mohthes later.
As houses were hard to come by just after the war, my parents first took
a long honeymoon ana then Uvea alternately with both sets of their parents.
A cousin finally renter them his farmhouse for care of the animals an- lan-,
and my parents lived there until my daa was aceeptea into college. Due to the
vast nuiiber of soldiers wanting an education, along with the normal stu-enl load,
Purdue was overloaaea, ana my aaa went to 3all State in Muncie, Inaiana.
My folks had an apartment in Karion, ana my aai commute a 70 miles every ^ay.
My parents finally found a small house in Lafayette, Indiana, invite-
some frienas to live with them, ana spent the next three years going to school,
working, ana havin^ the time of their lives. They went out as often as they
could affor- with friends, ana were experts on fin-in0 ways to have fun with
little or no money. From stories that are tola when they get together with
loa frienas, the aays in Lafayette sour- wild ana woolly. My parents were young,
in love, an- very, very, happy.
After Ora^uation, Sun^strana off ere- my dad a job, and my parents moved
to Roekfor- in Febraary of 1951. They live,, on Douglas Street for their
first three years in Roekfor a. It was while they were here that they a -opt 3a
my olier brother, Steve. He was born in October, ana my parents brought him
home in February. Shortly after this, my parents move- to Cospor Avenue, and
in 1956 a-opte- me. I was born in July ana came home in October. 3y parents
now ha a the little boy ana little girl that ha- wanted so badly, ana we probably
got i.iore love an- attention than any two ki-s in town. The four of us went every
where to0ether, to movies, on trips, or just shopping.
In 1959 we moved to our present address on Highland Avenue, and after eleven
years at Sun-stran- ...y aad workea at Selvi^ere ?ro-ucts for several y_.-ars. Dur-
ing this perioi that my little brother, Dave was bom . .very one was overjoyed
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1964, my little sister Susie was born.
For four years, between 19 £3 ana 1967, ray aai designed water polution co
trol equipment, ana since then has been in business for himself leasing it
through Smith Zoological Systems. Stove is a junior at Ball State this year,
ana I am a freshman at Rock Valley Junior College. Dave is in the seventh
graae at Lincoln Junior High, and Susie is in fifth graae at, Highland school
where all four of us have attended.
My parents hope to someday retire in Mexico, ana ar- still the happiest
couple I've seen after twenty eight years of marriage.
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LIFE OF KAKCY JAKE FOOR
TO PRESENT
I was born on July 20, 195£ in Chicago, Illinios, aloptei by my par-
ents, an j. came hone for the first time in October. We lived in the house
on Cosper Avenue until I was three years old. Since there were no little
girls in that neighborhood, my brother Steve was my favorite playmate.
Just after my third birth-ay we moved to our present home on Highland Ave-
nue. Since the house is fairly large, we often had company for Thanksgiv-
ing, Christmas, ana the Fourth of July, an- our guests usually stayed for
several days. Even mora frequently, though, we ^o back to Kacy, Indiana, for
most of our relatives still live within a fifty mile radius of my daa's
hometown. Family get to^ethers were always fun with a lot of laughter and
joking. Since my parents are from small families, most of the relatives are
my great aunts an- uncles, an- cousins, so we kids are always spoiled by at-
tention whenever we get together.
I joine-i my brother at Highland school when I was five. It was while I
was in kindergarten that my brother Dave was 'born. I can still remember how
excited I was when my _Lad woke me up at two in the morning to tell me. It was
like a game to Steve ana I to feed an- watch Dave, an- we always ha- fun teas-
ing an- playing with him. When" I was in thir- grade, my sister Susie was born
ani by this time I was old enough to change diapers, an- really help to take
care of her. She and Dave are very close, as they have always been and she can
play football and baseball better than most boys.
It was while I was in Junior High SChool, at Lincoln, when we took our fir
real vacation. My -a- took the family to I. ew Orleans, and the trip was -oubly
exciting, as we got to miss six -ays of school .for the excursion.
The summer before I entered seventh grade at Lincoln Jr. high school, we
took another trip out west ana up into western Canaia. We hai such fun together
on these first excursions that t'rips together became annual happenings. The
next summer we went through Lew England to eastern Canada. Our longest, ana
favorite trip came while I was a freshman at East High School. V.'e spent three
weeks at Christmas time in Mexico. V.'e all loved the warm, sunny weather ana
friendly people, ana each others company. It was a vacation mixed with laughter
ana fun, as all trips were, but we were much closer as we had no one to talk
to but ourselves, because of the language barrier.
While I was at East I participate- in plays an^ musicals, ana attended
most athletic activities. I really enjoyed my four years there, ana was sorry
to see it all ena with graduation.
At the present time I am attenaing Rock Valley Jr. College, majoring
in Secondary e-ucation, ana history, ana working at Highland Branch Library.
I-IACY, INDIANA
The small town of Macy, Indiana played an important part in the story
of my heritage. My father, and his relatives back to the early nineteenth
century maae their homes here, and my mother spent simmers ana vacations
in Macy with her grandparents. The church was constructed by my great-grana-
parents both on my mother's and father's si_;e of the family, ane uncles of
my father constructed all the roa-s in the area. It was here generations of
ancestors were born, met fell in love, married, arid iied, leaving their chil-
dren to carry on the cycle.
The town v;as originally called Lincoln but was changed to Macy as another
larger town in Indiana was also called Lincoln. At its 'height, there was a
town bank, hot3l, general store, tavern, hardware and -rug store, creamery,
livery stable, and about 600 to 7C0 inhabitants. This was at the turn of the
century. Many factors contributed to the downfall of Macy. Kith the invention
of cars, Maey's bustling railroad business diminished, and farmers had easy
transportation to other larg:r cities. Macy was two miles off the main high-
way, an- thus off the main trade route. Findlly, during the depression, the
bank- went under, an- more and more farmers took other business, along xdth bard
ing into the surrounding cities.
Today, Macy is little more than a ghost town. Buildings are boarding up,
an- rotting, and more and more of Maey's citizens are leaving to find town's
with more life, and a promise for the future, '..'e still own a farm in Mac..-, thi
house my grandparents and parents grew up in, but now even it stands empty.
In several years Macy, once a thriving farming community, with youn_, grow-
ing families, will be nothing but an empty shell, full of yesterdays, void of
tomorrows.
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S0UHC2S OF INFORMATION
Much of the information 'I gathered, cams from talking with my parents,
greataunts and great-uncles. These interviews, in person, by letter, and
long distance telephone calls, helped me gather dates, and facts as well as
the way of life my ancestors made for themselves and their families.
I-iaps, and compiled family geneoligies were also a great help, but this his-
tory coula not have been written without the hours of time various rslacives
shared with me, helping to relay the information from memory to paper.
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Grandfather (your father's side)
Nameq|e*flYvW Qs\»rK fWVv/Pcjt Current Residence Tw e'Avn
Date of birth^ftjl |J, | %7Cj Place of birth^ap^ft^ T/>^w
Date of death fret, s' , 7 Place of burialt)p4r,K ' T.r> u a
E duca t ion (numb e r of years);
grade school % high school Q vocational Q college Q
Occupation (s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Eagm&g Dates V'\[D' HHlst u'ftj I*. Dates \W, - {-\ [<\
2nd^£jj±le, FAftW/? Dates Hiq- jfUj 2nd ^Wh^fi Da t e * ~ I °l U ~[
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
4th Dates _4th _ Dates
R e 1 i g i o n L ulhgBSH
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc .Re pu.bl ic,ft>\ |
Place of Marriage to your grandmotherly Tou:ft dateSf^Sf." \0 l1\£>
NOTE: If your father was raised (to a g e J 1 8 ) iTy a step father or another 'J
relative give that data on tlie back of this page. ( A - 1 )
Grandmother (your father's side)
Name SftftA tTu 1.1 A~Y> A 3u.v/g Current Residence ^ e c Qftj^l ^Xo.uZfL _
Date of birth.TulM ,31. Place of b ir th^cWulAu , IftuW
Date of death Place of burial 0
Education (number of years):
grade school § high school vocational
college X
Occupation (s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Te - h t3 £ Dates 1st Dates
2nd Dates 2nd Dates
3rd Dates_ 3rd Da tea
4th Dates 4th Dates
Religion LutlneaftYN
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc .'Republics
ifiL d a t e Sept. \C>) l^tt)
NOTE: Lf your father was raised [in age L8) by a stepmother or
another relative give that data on the back ol this page
(A-2) .
S tepsrand f a ther
Name
(your father's side)
Current Residence
3
Place of birth_
Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade school high school
Cw 1 lege
Occupation(s)
1 s t Da tes Is t
2nd Dates 2nd Da tes
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
4 th Dates 4 th Da tes
Re 1 i g ion
'olitical parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Date of birth
Date of death
vocational
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
e of marriage to your grandmother date
5 tepgrandmo ther (your father's side)
Current Residence
Date of birth Place of birth_
into of death Place of burial
Education (number of years):
school high school vocational
coll e ge
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1 8 t_ Dates 1st Dates
Dates 2nd Dates
Dates 3rd Dates
D a t e 8 4 t h D a tes
Re 1 1 g 1 o n
Ideal party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc
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Place of aarrlage to your grandfather Date
Grandfather (your mother's side) ',
Nam e(Ro(a^r\ Q1tb SftLA Current Residence T> ^ r ^ N ec|
Date of birth K\AiQ ■ it?, DO Place of b i r t \7&{OL^ Vu'nc^Tcv V .hSL ..
Date of death AiAg . \°{ {<! £<j Place of b ur i a 1<EW X X^AW^Tll.
Education (number of years):
grade school *g high school vocational <~J . )c o 1 1 e g e
Occupation (s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st ^LWt<3K Dates hj>| ■ ■ ^ 1 s t R C< K T\fo < k! III. Dates fl^ - yq;-?, <g
2ndflff,;-,^ ± \^yr^:U^LTrates ^ ^ - l^ndfe,^ t ,, | A F)* Dates (1^
3rd f>rtoK Datesi^lV rl5H 3rd<R0c,KTs UviH , TZ J /- Datesl^H - ftM
4 th Da tes _4 th _Da t e s_
Rel ig ionCAtUol'iC.
Political parties, civil or social c 1 ub s , fraternities, uti: . Re j^uk} IxCf-LVX ^
Place of marriage to your g r andmo t h e r 'RpC f\ Z^l A^d ) X i I ■ daTe 3ulit 'Sl^'X-^
NOTE: Tf your mother was raised by a stepfather or another relative (to
age 18) give that data on the back of this page (C-l)
Grandmother (your mother's side)
NameVjaftfradel" f AtWm^ &MlE&^D (.Current Residence^rr K T-slm.d t f 1 1
Date of birth. »UmcL L , > £3-5 _Place of blrth^r K XsittW^ T ).
Date of death ' ~~ Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade school high school __vocational college <~l
Occupation (s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
( a Iter leaving home)
1st Teftckpg Datesiq^ -1^X3 IstKocXTAinApt. Datestffl -JJUS
2nd Dates 2nd Dales
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
4th Dates 4th Dates
Religion
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, e t c . ^ p i ic A >A
-J^^O-S QfrnhUfo > QA& , fefti t&LjkuQ)t>R.&-
PlaW" St marria'ge to your grandfather HcC- K~1>Ja^c\ ) III. ''at W« Sl.aTO
NOTli: If your mother was raised by a stepmother or another relative (to
'K gflve th»t d*Ca on the back of this page (D-2)
S t ep gr and f a th e r (your mother's side)
Current Residence
Date of birth Placeofbirth
death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
crude school high school vocational college
lccupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates 1st Dates
2nd Da t es 2nd Da t e s
Dates 3rd Da t es
4 th Da tes 4 th Da tes
R e 1 i g i o n
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
of marriage to your grandmother Date
S t e p g r andrao t h e r (your mother's side)
Current Residence
r^t.' of birth Place of birth
late of death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
high school v o c a I t o na ] < • i > I Leg e
ipation(a) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
I ' Dates 1st Dates I
Dates 2nd Dates
Dates 3rd Dates
Dates 4 th Dates
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CHILDREN of A & B (or A-2 or B-2 ) - your father's name should appear below
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Number of years o f s choJ) I i n g (Q^ Occupa t ionffift&|pme VAferVtflYur
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Number of children death __.
Name
Place of birth date
Number ot years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children Death
Nam e
Place of birth
Number of years of schooling_
Residence_ Marital Status
Number of children death
Name_
Place of birth elate .
Number of years of schooling Occupation_
R e s i d e n c e . Ma r i t a 1 Statu s
Number of children death
Name
Place of bir t h d a t e , .
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children_ death i _
N a me
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Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence _ Marital Status
Number of children death
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lace of birth date
Number of years of schooling Occupation
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Number of years of schooling Occupation
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Date of Death ■
Place of burial
Education (number of years)
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Place of marriage to your mo ther/^nv^dc'/^ F/ft. date /-"eh-- Q~j
NOTE: If you were raised by a stepfather or another relative give that data
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Name/W>9/?/? EhiAbdk SfiLrl
Date of birth/Uui .3 C\. 7 9,3 V
Date of death — '
Current Residence t\£c.K T<,/^\^1 , I 1/
Place of birth Moll n 9 % T//
Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade school g high r school <y
vocational
col lege i_
Occupation(s)
1st ffouse LCt re
2nd He use, tu i f e
3rd
4th
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Religion / tjtj\££fln
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Place of marriage tt> your father P^n Sr9i c/ *9 ,/r/-9.
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Date of death P lace of burial
Education (number of years)
school high school vocational college
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Dates 1st Dates
Dates 2nd Dates
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
4 th Dates 4 th Dates
R e 1 i g i o n
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PL.iv e of marriage to your mother Date
F - 2 Stepmother
Name
of birth Place of birth
Date of death Place of burial
it ion (number of years)
_high school vocational college
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1 s t Da tes Is t Da t e s I
Dates 2nd Dates
r Dates _ '3rd Dates
Dates 4th Dates
Religion
: > ' party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your father
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Number of years of schooling / y Occupation //oc, y^'/ /V-
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SOURCE
In researching this paper I think I used every available
source. I started by digging through my parent's attic
which is loaded with old diaries of various relatives. This
is where I found the many photographs and news clippings also
I am lucky in-so-far as I apparently had relatives who did
not believe in throwing anything away!
I also used the old family Bible that my Mother has to
locate dates of births, marriages and deaths. However, I
still could not locate some dates.
I interviewed my maternal Grandmother, and that is where
I got the information about her life, and my Grandfather and
Grandmother's life together. I interviewed my Mother for my
Grandfather's life before marriage, and my Father for my
paternal Grandmother and Grandfather's life histories. They
never were very talkative about their lives.
There is also a book about Conrad Weiser that I was able
to use for information on him. ("Conrad Weiser--Friend of
Colonist and Mohawk"). Most of the other relative's lives
I learned about from diaries and news clippings.
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FAMILY GENEALOGY
Jacob Weiser = Anna
1625-1694
(1) Anna Magdalina = John Conrad Weiser = Anna Margaret TI]
1660-1746
John Frederick, Jacob, Rebecca
Catrina, Anna Margaret, Anna Magdalina, Maria Sabina,
John Coarad = Ann Eve. Geo* Fredrick, Christopher, John Fredrick, Barbara
1696-1760
Philip, Peter, Christopher, Jacob, Elisabeth, Margaret, Benj.(l),
Samuel, Jabez, Aanna, Ben j . (2), Anna Maria = Rev. H.M. Muhlenberg,
Fredrick = Amelia Zeller 174*5
John Conrad Weiser
Elizabeth Klinger
1753-1804
John Philip Weiser
Catharine Malick
1787-1863
Catharine Weiser
= Henrv Fasold
1821-1885
Catharine Louisa Fasold = Edward F. Bartholomew
1848-193**
1846-1946
Netta C. Bartholomew = Knut T. Anderson
1873-1960
1869-1959
Margaret C. Anderson ; Roland 0. Sala
1898-
1900-1952*
Barbara E. Sala = Kermit 0» Hotvedt
1924-
1918-
nne S. = Gene L. Schrom Katherine = Wm. Friz
44 i I 1946 [ 1952
Andrew. Rebecca
1970 1972
Susan M. * Michael Francis
Jeffrey. Gregory
968 1970
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FORWARD
This paper deals with my family ancestry. I
could not trace my roots back as far on my Father's
side as I would have liked, as they emigrated from
Norway sometime during the 1800* s, and they also
changed their name several times.
However, on my Mother's side I was able to go all
the way back to the l600's.
I discovered that I had quite a few relatives
who were instrumental in the forming of our country t
A great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather
who was Pennsylvania's Indian Ambassador j a great-great-
great-great-great-grand Uncle who was the Patriarch of
the Lutheran Church of America; a great-great-great-
great-grand Uncle who was a General in the Revolutionary
War and fought at Yorktown; a great-great-great-great-
great-grand Uncle who was a delegate to the Continental
Congress and the first speaker of the United States
House of Representatives, to mention only a few.
I became very interested in my family genealogy
while researching this paper and I hope the reader
will also find it of some interest.
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THE WEISER NAME
Attempts to ascertain the meaning of the name
Weiser lead to indefinate conclusions. One meaning
is "the white one" (der Weisse) . Another is "the
wise one" (der Weise)j or "one who does white washing,
painting" (der Weisser); and "one who shows or points
the wayj the supervisor" (der Weiser). Spelling
is not uniform in early records. '"There are Weiser/
Weisser families in several sections of Germany, of
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish origin.' 1
(1) E. Schopf, "Hans Conrad Weiser, Father and Son,"
Blatter des altertumoverin fur den murrgou
Nr. 49, Beilage zum Murrtal
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JACOB WEISER
1625-169^
The first Weiser in the lineage of whom there is
a definite record is Jacob Weiser, who bore the office
of Schultheiss, or magistrate, at Gross Aspach,
Wurttemburg, Germany.
The origins of the Weiser family are difficult
to discern. The area of Gross Aspach was generally
ravaged by the French in the seventeenth century, the
town itself destroyed in l693t which fact accounts
in part for the difficulty in obtaining records of
the early generations of the Weisers. The parochial
register begun in 1598 was burned on that occasion and
the new one begun in 1693-169^, included information
compiled by the pastor, toag. Erhard Hagelein, from
the memories of the townspeople. Data on the early
Weiser family is scarce. From the available evidence,
a German scholar has concluded! "The Weiser family was
a relatively well off and respected one, related to the
best families in town, out of which the "tribunal" and
the "senate" got it's members, often allied by marriage
with the Sturmfeder Schultheissen and appreciated to
have not only the town pastor but also the high patron
Freiher von Sturmfeder as a godfather. It was a family
which was not in want of forwards-striving, energetic,
and strong personalities, who were entitled to a leading
role."(2)
(2) E0 Schoph, "Hans Conrad Weiser, Father and Son",
Blatter Des Altertumoverin fur murrgou
Nr. 49, Beilage zum Murrtal
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JOHN CONRAD WEISER
1660-17^6
John Conrad Weiser, the emigrant was born about
1660 , in Gross Aspach. He married first, Anna Magdalena
Ubelen, daughter of Hans Ubelen. They were the parents
of fifteen children.
John Conrad was a corporal in the Wurttemberg
Blue Dragoons, which office he held until about 1700,
when he became a baker, the position he occupied until
he emigrated to America in 1709*
On May 1, 1709, Anna Magdalena died suddenly due
to an attack of Gout while pregnant for the sixteenth
time. John Conrad left the community soon thereafter,
June 2kt selling his property there to his eldest
daughter, already married, and taking with him his other
eight surviving children. They went to London, from
which they embarked several months later for America.
Their vessel, the "Lyon", landed at New York on June
13, 1710.
Almost as soon as John Conrad was in company of his
fellow Germans, he showed qualities of leadership.
In New York, the several thousand Palatine immigrants
were bound to produce tar from the pitch of pine trees at
camps near the Hudson River, about 100 miles north of
New York Oity. The settlers were divided into five
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villages, at first, and John Conrad was the headman
of one. As such, he voiced complaints of his
fellowmen before the Governor, Robert Hunter, who
was caught in an impossible situationi the trees
could produce no tar, the overseer of the Palatines
(Robert Livingstone) was a scoundreli the Germans
expected better conditions — food aplenty and land
of their own.
A military campaign in 1711 provided the occasion
for the climax of the difficulty. One of the captains
of the Palatine contingent was John Conrad Weiser, and
when the soldiers returned from a futile march into
northern New York, only to discover their families
nearly starved, Weiser led the Palatines in a complaint
before the Governor. The incident ended when Hunter
lost his temper, and ordered the Palatines disarmed, but
in the year following he released them to go where they
pleased .
John Conrad Weiser was one of a number of men
deputized by the Germans to seek land at Schoharie,
about fifty miles west of Albany, after sometime, the
Germans were settled there in a collection of little
"dorfs" or villages, of which one bore the name Weiserdorf
(and today is Middleburgh) . Conditions were poor, but
hard work began to make a home of this wilderness. Since
the Palatines were squatters before the law (even if
they made a purchase deal with the Indians) it was
inevitable that there would be trouble. When the Governor
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sent an agent to make deeds for the Palatines, they
so mistreated him out of suspicion that the government
eventually granted the land to others.
Nearly crushed, the Palatines resolved to send
Weiser and two others to London to appeal to King
George I, a fellow German. This venture proved to be
the most bizarre on which John Conrad embarked.
Attacked and stripped by pirates enroute, the
three men contracted so many debts in London they were
thrown into prison. One of them died there, another
returned to New York and John Conrad stayed behind,
seeking in vain to establish the Palatines rights.
After five years he returned to America, only to find
his colony scattered.
The remaining years of life found him in several
places, never settled down, always following some scheme.
He tried to purchase lands on the Delaware, but ran
afoul the Proprietors of Pennsylvania. Late in life,
after many years of silence toward his family, (I could
not find why they had feuded j probably because he'd
left them to fend for themselves whild he went on that
five year romp in London!) John Conrad was discovered
in upstate New York, not too far from old Livingstone
Manor, his first home there. Conrad, his son, visited
him, and later when conditions became dangerous he sent
two of his sons to bring him to Pennsylvania, in May, 1?46.
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JOHN CONRAD WKESER
John Conrad Weiser, the eldest son of John Conrad
and Anna Magdalena Weiser, was given his father's name
at birth, November 2, 1696 which took place at Affstatt.
He became generally known as Conrad Weiser.
Conrad emigrated to America in 1710, with his
father, and shortly thereafter was placed in the
hands of the Mohawks. From them he acquired the
knowledge of Indian words and ways which launched
him on the career that made his name known in the
annuals of Pennsylvania and national history of the
colonial era.
On November 22, 1720, Conrad married Anna Eve Feck.
Conrad is noteworthy for several reasons. He
was Pennsylvania's Indian Ambassador, and a Jack-
of-all-tradesi He was a farmer, and the owner of a
tannery, one of the founders of Reading, Pennsylvania,
a Colonel on active service during the French and
Indian War, and the first President Judge of Berks
County. That is Conrad Weiser in a nutshell.
It is also written in family diaries that he
bought books from Benjamin Franklin, and taught him
all he knew about the Six Nations Indians.
His first grandchild grew up to become the famous
General John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg of Washington's
staff in the Revolutionary War.
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the black fall of 1755 » he was for a time Pennsylvanias
main defense, receiving a blanket commission from
the Governor to do whatever was necessary for the
safety of the province. With a volunteer army he
plugged the gap in the Blue Mountains and broke the
force of the Indian Attack.
There is much more about Conrad Weiser that is
interesting, but this paper would increase to book
size, and there are already several books written
about the man - my great-great-great-great-great-great-
grea t-grandf a th er .
The one book I was able to locate and get some
informqtion from is "Conrad Weiser - Friend of Colonist
and Mohawk" by Paul Wallace.
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HENRY MELCHIOR MUHLENBERG
Henry Muhlenberg was born September 6, 1711 »
at Einbeck, Hanover. He became a Lutheran Reverend,
and organized the Lutheran Church of America.
In 1743 Reverend Henry Muhlenberg met Conrad
Weiser, and also his sixteen year old daughter,
Anna Maria, with whom he fell in love. On April 22,
1745 the Reverend Muhlenberg married Anna, and it was
out of this marriage that came the three noteworthy
leadersi General John Peter Muhlenberg, of George
Washington's staff, who fought at the battles of
Yorktown, during the Revolutionary Wan Reverend,
Doctor Henry Ernest Muhlenberg, botanist and educator,
first president of Franklin College (the Franklin and
Marshall of today )i and Fredrick Augustus Conrad
Muhlenberg, a delegate to the Continental Congress
and the first speaker of the United States House of
Representatives.
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FREDERICK WEISER
Frederick Weiser, second son of Conrad and Anna
Eve, was born December 24, 1728 at Schoharie, New York.
On December 3, 1751 Frederick married Amelia Zoeller.
Frederick farmed the Weiser Homestead. He was
also a County Commissioner of Berks between 1763 and
1766.
Frederick died November 15. 1773- I could find
no date of death for Amelia.
JOHN CONRAD WEISER
John Conrad Weiser, eldest son of Frederick and
Anna Amelia (Zeller) Weiser, was born April 16, 1753,
on the Weiser estate at Womelsdorf. On November 12,
1775, he was married to Elizabeth Klinger by his
uncle Benjamin Weiser. She was born on March 10, 1756
in Reading Pennsylvania.
He served in the Revolutionary War in Captain
Michael Wolf's Company, 1776-1780. He died September
10, 1804, and Elizabeth died March 12, 1820.
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JOHN PHILIP WEISER
John Philip Weiser (May 13, 1?87 - Woraelsdorf,
Pennsylvania) married Catharine Malick October 27,
1811. She was born August 24, 1?88 in Augusta Town-
ship.
Philip, as he was known, was a farmer and
extensive landholder in Northumberland County,
Pennsylvania, deeding a farm to each of his children
in his will. He served as a Northumberland County
Commissioner, 1841-1844, and donated a tract of land for
the Eden Lutheran Church in 1844, where he and his family
are buried.
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CATHARINE WEISER
Catharine Weiser (July 28, 1821 - Augusta Township,
Pennsylvania, died May 12, 1885)* Catharine married
Henry Fasold (September 11, 1819-1885) June 2, 18^2.
I don't know very much about my great-great-great-
grandfather except that he was a farmer.
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CATHARINE LOUISE FASOLD
Catharine Louise Fasold (April 20, 1848 - Plum
Creek, Pennsylvania) married Edward Fry Bartholomew
(March 24, 1846 - Plum Creek, Pennsylvania) July 11,
1872.
My great-great-grandfather spent his life-time
in education. He was a Principal at Kahok, Missouri
High School I8?l-l874j a professor of Natural and
Physical Science at Carthage College 1874-1883 i a
professor of English Literature at Mount Morris College
1883-I884j Professor Emeritus, 1929-1946; President
of Carthage College 1874-1888» Vice President of
Augustana College, 19H-1920. He studied at Berlin
University 1894-1895; got his Ph.D. 1895 Augustana
College; D.D. in 1888, L.H.D., 1912, L.L.D. 1930.
He also was the author of several booksi "Outlines
of English Literature"; "Relations of Psychology to
Music" ; "Biblical Pedogogy".
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EDWARD FRY BARTHOLOMEW
From a recent photograph taken in his study
Augustana's
"Grand Old Man
Years Old
Dr. E. F. Bartholomew,
Beloved College Professor,
Becomes a Centenarian
By E. E. Ryden
Editor of the Lutheran Companion
T THE AGE of 100 years, he believes that he still
has a mission to perform in the world, and hS
is disconsolate over the fact that he has been
retired as an active college professor!
Born in Sunbury, Pa., March 24, 1846, Dr. Edward
Fry Bartholomew, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy,
and English Literature at Augustana College, Rock
Island, 111., will receive the congratulations of his
friends next Sunday, March 24, in the spacious reading
room of Denkmann Memorial Library at that institu-
tion. And he may even give a little talk — at least, so
he plans — just to celebrate his hundredth birthday!
Two years ago, at 98, he conducted chapel exercises
before the hushed assembly of Augustana students, and
he has requested of President Bergendoff that he be
given the same privilege on Maundy Thursday this
year. At 97 he delivered a sermon at the Good Friday
three-hour service in St. John's Lutheran Church,
Rock Island, and a year earlier he gave the Easter
message in Trinity Lutheran Church, Moline, 111.
Work and Temperate Living
Every centenarian has his own formula for achieving
longevity, and Dr. Bartholomew also has his. It is
work and temperate living.
"I have avoided all extremes," he says simply.
But healthful work is also an important factor, he
believes, and even at a 100 years he is found at his
desk every day, writing an occasional article in the
same clear handwriting his students knew so well some
thirty or forty years ago, or answering the numerous
letters that come to him from distant friends and for-
mer students.
Four years ago he promised to write an article for
the Lutheran Companion when he reached the age of
100 years. And he kept his promise. "What Are We
Here For?" he chose as its title, and he packed it full
not only with sound Christian theology — for he is a
Lutheran pastor as well as a college professor — but
also with his homely Pennsylvania Dutch philosophy
of life. Evidently remembering that the editor of the
Companion is a member of the Augustana College
board, the vigorous centenarian who abhors idleness
wrote this:
"The custom which prevails among school boards
and operators of retiring teachers when they have
reached a certain age is all wrong. The longer a teacher
has pursued his calling, the better is he qualified for
that office. If he is physically strong and mentally
sound, he should not be retired just because he is old.
The determining consideration should be, not age, but
mental condition and physical ability. There are here
in Augustana College some teachers who have been
retired because they have reached the age limit, but
the fact is that they are better qualified to teach than
ever before. Ability to serve and not age should deter-
mine their continuance in office."
NETTA CORDELIA BARTHOLOMEW
Netta Cordelia Bartholomew (April 13. 1873) was
born in Clark City, Missouri and married Knut Theodore
Anderson (September 10, I869) on June 16, 1897.
My great-grandfather Knut, or K.T., as he was
known was born in Fjellskafte Floda Socken Sodermanland ,
Sweden. His family emigrated to the United States in
the 1800' s. He was the cashier and Vice-President
of the First National Bank, Rock Island; Treasurer,
of Augustana Lutheran Church.
My Great-grandmother, Netta, had her B.A. and
M.A. and was a member of the Board of Directors, at
Augustana College.
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ALEXANDER ASLACK HOTVEDT
My Grandfather died some years ago, so the little
I do know about his life before his marriage is based
strictly on stories he used to tell my father.
My Father's father, Alex, was raised in a large
(10 children) Iowa farm family. Both his mother and
father were born in Norway. I could locate no exact
record as to when they emigrated to this country.
Alex was third youngest in his family. They lived
in a large farm house 7 miles out of Calmar, Iowa.
The family farmed their land, and I believe they were
neither poor nor wealthy, but probably average. My
grandfather did not talk about his childhood very much,
so whatever I could say about this would be merely
assumptions.
I do know, however, that he was something of a
rogue, and he quit school after grade school. He was
off to "find his fortune."
During this time he proceeded to North Dakota
where he "home steaded" 160 acres. (He later gave this
land to my father and mother. They did not want the
land so my grandfather sold it, whereupon oil was
discovered there shortly thereafter!)
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He and a friend lived in a sod house on his land
in North Dakota until he got tired of that adventure,
and moved on to the next.
He traveled to Canada where he was a "Cowboy"
on a ranch. He did this for a year or so, and then
decided to return to Iowa. I know no dates for those
escapades, but my father thought he was probably in his
late teens and early 20 's.
SARAH JULIANA JUVE
My father's mother, was also from a large (11
children) Iowa farm family. They were a rather well-
to-do family as her father owned quite alot of land.
They were a deeply religious, Norwegian Lutheran
family. Sundays were spent (after church) visiting
relatives for large Norwegian dinners. There also
was quite a bit of Bible reading.
Family life was traditional. By that I mean that
the girls ( all 8 of theml ) did the cooking, cleaning,
dishes, while the boys helped with the farming. The
father was the disciplinarian, and made major decisions.
Community life was important. Since they lived
in the country going to "the city" was a fun event.
There were County Fairs to attend and, of course, church
functions. The town was a small one; perhaps 150
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ALEX + SARAH'S LIFE TOGETHER
My Grandmother and Grandfather met when my
Grandfather was a rural mailcarrier.
He was 31 when they courted and married in
September, 1910. My Grandmother was 22. Their eldest
child jTony^ was born 2 years later. They lived with
my Grandmother's parents for awhile and later bought
a farm of their own where my father, Kermit, was born
in December, 1911*, and their youngest, Alice, in 1919 •
Their family life after carriage followed pretty
closely to the way their family life had been before
marriage .
Religion played an important part of life.
Church activities were looked forward to as social
events. Sundays the family visited my Grandmother's
mother some miles away.
The family was well-off. Money was spent on
necessities. My Father remembers always having a car
and radio. The radio was the style that needed earphones
in order to be heard.
Family reuions were frequent, and they proceeded
to be quite a huge gathering as the family expanded.
In the meantime, my father's family moved to
Decorah, Iowa. My Grandfather was, by then, into the
cattle business only. The boys, Tony and Kermit helped,
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and they butchered their own cattle. It was a
profitable business.
The main sport at school was Baseball, and this
was played in the cow pastures. The principle subjects
at school were Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, also
Music and Art.
My Uncle Tony seemed to follow in my grandfather's
footsteps by being a rogue. He quit school after 8th
grade and was always into trouble. He finally ended
up going back to Mechanics School and became an Airplane
Mechanic .
My father, however, was more conscientious. He
finished school, went to Luther College in Decorah,
and then taught school in Blue Earth, Minnesota until
World War II. He joined the Navy and became a pilot
and Flight Instructor in Pensacola, Florida where he
met my mother.
My Aunt Alice was also more conscientious than her
eldest brother, and she, too, graduated from Luther
College in Decorah.
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ROLAND OTTO SALA
My Mother's father, Roland Otto Sala was born
in the small town of Bloomington, Wisconsin, to
Orlando and Ella Sala. His father (Orlando) was a
Doctor with a good practice, and they were well-to-do.
Roland was the only child of Ella's, but he had four
half brothers of previous marriages whose mothers had
died. Those brothers were much older and had left
home by the time Roland was born. They, too, were
Doctors.
Roland and his parents lived in a large house
in the town. Life went smoothly until Roland was 10,
and at that time his father died. Their source of
income gone, it was now up to Roland to support his
mother. They got their food by his hunting, and things
were not as luxurious as they had been.
Spare time for Roland was spent working, although
he still continued with school.
His mother took whatever odd jobs she could to
help her son.
I don't think there was much time for sports or
recreation for my Grandfather.
After college (his half brothers helped put him
through) he began Medical School to carry on the family
tradition as his father and his grandfathers before
him had done. (My great-grandfather was a surgeon
during the Civil War.)
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When my Grandfather w-.s 22 he moved to Rock Island
to take some courses at Augustana College, and this is
where he met my Grandmother in 1922.
IViARGARET CATHARINE ANDERSON
My Mother's mother, Margaret Catharine Anderson,
was born March 6, 1898 to Netta Catharine and Knut
Anderson. Her father was the Vice President of the
First National Bank of Rock Island, and they were
considered well-to-do.
She was the elder of two children, the younger
being a brother, Paul.
They lived in a large house in the town of Rock
Island, Illinois.
Margaret's father was a stubborn and silent Swede.
The child-raising was left to ray Great-Grandmother,
who was an intelligent and interesting woman. She was
always busy with various interests. She served on the
Board of Trustees at Augustana up until the time of her
death in i960.
Family life for Margaret was rather easy. They had
all the luxuries such as radios, cars, and they were
usually the first to get those new "contraptions."
After school she and her girlfriends would usually
go to the movies, or go over to one of the girl's houses
for tea and crackers where they discussed the latest
fashions or gossip.
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Margaret did chores such as dishes and cleaning,
whereas, she remembers Paul doing little or nothing.
Paul was busy playing on the Basketball team in high
school, and football in college.
Family decisions about schooling or discipline
were usually taken care of by my Grandmother's mother.
My great-grandfather wanted little to do with the
family raising.
The neighborhood was a nice one - large stylish
houses. They attended church regularly, and the social
events were usually church-centered, and there were
County Fairs. My Grandmother also remembers attending
the street dances that used to take place downtown
on Saturday nights.
I don't think there were any major conflicts other
than the usual spats that go on in a family.
MY GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDFATHER ' S LIFE TOGETHER
One rainy day my Grandmother, Margaret, was walking
home from her^ classes at Augustana College, and was
getting quite wet doing so.
That was where my Grandfather entered the scene i
luckily, with an unbrella. He offered very gallantly
to walk her home under his umbrella. Thus began their
courtship.
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Roland and Margaret dated for a year and a half.
They married in July of 1923 • My Mother was born a
year later, just as my Grandfather was finishing
University of Iowa Medical School.
They built an apartment building (The R.O. Sala
Apartments) with an office on the ground floor for my
Grandfather's medical practice, which was very successful.
Of course my Grandmother didn't see as much of my
Grandfather as she would have liked.
During the Depression my Grandfather got paid
in fruit, or food, or sometimes not at all. They did
fine money-wise though, as my Grandfather was the
examiner for the Veteran's Commission, and also for
several insurance companies.
During World War II Roland joined the Navy and
the family moved to Pensacola, Florida. He was on
active duty for five years and four months and ended
the war as a Rear Admiral.
He was Head Surgeon of the aircraft-carrier
Princeton when it was hard hit during a sea battle with
the Japanese. Even though he was injured by five
shrapnel wounds, my Grandfather stayed on board to
care for the wounded until the ship was blown in two.
He used a sheaf Knife to amputate the leg of the Captain
who was slated to take over command.
He won the Silver Star for bravery because of
these heroic acts.
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During this time my Mother, Barbara, had happened
to meet my Father, Kerrait Hotvedt, who was a Lieutenent
Commander in the Navy. He was a pilot and Flight
Instructor at the Pensacola base.
They married after dating two months, and a year
after that my Father was ordered to the Pacific for
a secret flying mission. His squadron, under his
command, discovered the Japanese fleet near Midway
Island, which led to the major battle between our
forces and the Japanese.
In December of 19^ my sister, Lynne, was born.
After the war my parents moved to my Mother's
hometown, Rock Island, Illinois.
My Father went back to the profession of Education
as a Principal in a Junior High School there, but later
decided to go back to teaching, which he did.
My other sister, Katherine, was born in May of
19^6.
My parents bought a large, old house on a hill with
nearby woods and parks to make it an excellent stomping
ground for children.
I was born in July of 1952, in Rock Island where I
lived (except for two years at Carthage College, Kenosha,
Wisoonsin) until October 7, 1972 when I married Michael
L. Francis. We then moved to Rockford where my husband,
too„is a teacher.
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the Philippine sea. The cruiser took Princeton personnel aboard and otherwise aided in relieving the stricken vessel. Two Rock Island
men, Dr. R. O. Sala and Gunner's Mate Robert Trevor, were among ihose saved off the Princeton. (AP wirephoto from U. S. navy)."
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Dr. Sala Telephones From
Overseas; Gunner's Mate .A
Taken on Board Destroyer
"No matter what anyone else tells you, I'm all right
now" — such was the relieving news received this, morn-
ing by Mrs. Roland O. Sala in a transoceanic telephone
message and a letter from her husband, Commander Sala,
former Rock Island physician, who was head surgeon on
board the aircraft, carrier U. S. S. Princeton, sunk Oct.
25 after a clash with the Jap fleet near the Philippines.
Island
Another Rock Island man
serving aboard the Princeton,
Robert Trevor, gunner's mate, is
safe on a destroyer with "a pair
of pants, a pair of shorts and
myself," according to a letter re-
ceived this morning by his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Trevor,
2222 Thirty-eighth street, this
city.
Action 'Rugged.'
Commander Sala's letler, writ
to last boat, just like taking an
ordinary trip to the beach," wrote
the commander. "The Princeton
stayed afloat after we left and
was sunk by our 'own fire. It
could not have been salvaged."
At the time of writing the let-
ter. Commander Sala was. on
board a destroyer with a group
ot other officers. He related that
their rescuers had been wonder-
ten the day after the sinking, de- | ful to them, giving their beds, :
scribed the action as "quite
rugged." but added that nothing
had happened to injure him per-
manently. He managed to save
his pocketbook, but with the ex-
ception of the clothes he was
wearing, lost a!.' his equipment.
"I did i,/t get into the water,
but left the carrier in the next
wardrobes and toilet articles to
the survivors. "And those who
got off the Princeton had nothing
but what was on their backs," he
added.
The Rock Island officer, whose
residence is at 1907 Fifth avenue,
this city, has been on active duty
since July, 1940.
'(I HIBSii©3sa|UB
TOf IPi'imceton
Three Illlnoisans who were
aboard the aircraft carrier Prince-
ton when she was sunk In the bat-
tle of the Philippine Sea are
among 400 iurvivora who have
arrived In San Diego. Cal.
They are Howard M. Boll, 29,
Hampshire. II!., who also was
Aboard the famed V. S. S. Hornet
when she was sunk; Harold P.
Thrashwer, 19, Jacksonville, 111.,
and the ship's medical officer
Cradr. Roland 0. Sala, 1907 Fifth
av., Rock Island.
Crr.dr. Silo, rounded, used r.
sheiaf kaife to amputate the leg
gj$££
pommander Roland O. Sala, of Rock Island, among the 24 StS
,>rs last leaving the aircraft carrier Princeton following its qc
iction Oct.. 24 off the' Philippine coast, admires his new gr;,i1
^hter, 2-week-old Lynne, whom he saw for the first time this
."■•.s daughter, Barbara, was' rejoined last night by her hifc;-
:. I .. ;utcnant Kermit Hotvedt, veteran of aerial action in ne
ya.na islands. (Argus photo).
Sala, Wounded
~$y Shrapnel, Fights Carrier
iFire; Among Last to Leav
BY MARGARET KIRBY
weakened by five shrapnel wounds, his life constantly
ingered by exploding ammunition, Commander Rolr
pala, former Rock Island physician, fought an jdl*
^battle against fire and injuries on board the fire-,
vcd, bomb-shattered aircraft carrier Princeton befi a
illy evacuating with the last group of survivors C
;is the ship sank off the Philippine coast.
~iunander Sala, second Prince- I
htinued from First Page.)
:ifi4 theater, where he com-
32 missions in eight months
jve duty as pilot of a navy
j Mariner patrol - bomber.
:i 'returning home, Dr. Sala
S that he was the grand-
of a 2-week old girl, Lynne.
| 'fast-moving carrier force
:aded north for a diversion-
. ;. tack on Luzon to safeguard
) te invasion when 150 Japa-
ilanes moved in to attack
k group, related Command-
: a. The lone Jap bomber,
sneaked in through bver-
fcies behind the Princeton's
uig fighter ships, dropped a
bomb on the. carrier, turned
ip into a massive seaborne
H ,\..iary bomb.
Own Bombs Explode.
~:ook only one Jap bomb —
mished the rest of them,"
;d the physician. At the
.f the strike he was in the
oom. He felt the initial ex-
i, then a second one 10
cnut4s later.
,alf hour after the first blast
: a whangdoodler that
xi our teeth out," said Com-
r Sala. "It blew chairs and
around the ward room and
ji.- J. {he place with smoke. We
iqvtd' the wounded out to the
M-'et.sstle, then got them off the
.is O'tto a destroyer. The crew
ras evacuated by 10 o'clock in the
iormng."
" z those with minor injuries
ed to be treated on the ship.
> ■ injuries were caused by
' runmunition which popped
musly "like popcorn." Com-
? Sala himself was hit in the
■ ; :h by a fragment of bomb,
cwy. .' A-Jieavy '-piece of sluv.p- 1
•!•• «t r- • •- ;•• •
Icnc^k'jdvUicfi Otv'Vii fb.fi
...j J.bn uie ca-iif? ton
fire-fighting party and w
unceasingly pulling hoses ov<
ship's side. The blaze was
under control when the last i
sion, caused by the firing <
Princeton's own bombs, spl
craft and blew off the stem.
Two captains were on boa.
carrier at the time of the 1
ing. The relief captain,
Hoskins, who was waiting
the vessel docked to assume
mand, lost his right foot i
action, while the ship's
mander, Captain William Bu
er, was wounded slightly,
all survivors had been pickc
U. S. shells sank the fl<
wreckage.
Commander Sala was tak
destroyer to one of the i
forwai'd bases, then flown bj
pital plane to Eniwetok and
to Hawaii. His wounds hos
ized him for two weeks.
Travels 70,000 Miles.
The navy surgeon estimate
he has traveled som,e 70,000;
in his six months of activ
duty. During his last mori
the Princeton the ship was:,
attack almost every day, h
clared. He holds campaign
for participation in operatic
the Palau, Mariana, Phil,
and Nanseishopo islands a;
Formosa, and during the s
battle of the Philippines.
Commanaer Sala, attach'
the naval re-serve for 17
was called to active duty in
His orders regarding duty
termination c£ his leave ai
definite, but he believes th
may be assigned to Philade
Pa., as district flight surge<
the staff of the Fourth nava
trict.
His son-in-law, Lieutenant
vedt, who arrived only two
after the commander, was a
time within six miles of the
geon in the Palau sector, aUl
the two could not contact
other. Lieutenant Hotvedt o
corah, Iowa, was engaged i>
trol, work durrffg the Ma
campaign and' also : accoiup'
ailli--iuliro«u;uie' bombini.'
.Qrvivor to return to Rock Is
smamed on. board the car
whale boits before transfer,"
irith a party of 80 moH^made I t0ThftriwlS' ^,i„,. u
f officer* and the salvaep The Rock Island doctor, h( . ...
unt" " he e" plosion to end surecon on the Proton. i? <
tensions" blovv the sruV£l inS a 8°-da>' leave with hls '
OSS5^«SSS'^'S& «X «t 1907 Fifth avenue. His f
-.4^ »h«iin-,aw- "eutcnant Kermit I
SUSAN MARGARET HOTVEDT
I was born July 18, 1952 in Rock Island, Illinois.
When I was two my family moved to Florida for a very
short time (10 months). My parents missed the snow in the
winter, and the changing seasons, and weren't happy. Luckily,
the house in Rock Island hadn't been sold yet, so we moved
back to Illinois.
I attended the pablic elementary school that my Father
taught at, and I had him as a Science and Gym teacher in both
Fourth and Fifth grade.
I transfered to Villa de Chantal, a private girl's
academy, after elementary school.
One of the most important events of my life happened in
i960 when my parents bought some property on a private lake
in northern Wisconsin. When I was nine my parents and I went
up to the lake so they could start building the cottage. My
sisters were at the age where they would rather not leave
civilization (and boys) to "rough it" in the back woods for
three months. They stayed in Rock Island for the summer under
the supervision of my Grandmother.
I loved it up there from the first glimpse I caught of
the sparRling blue water through the trees. The lake was a
beautiful place for a child to learn about, and appreciate,
Nature. Wildlife abound Deer would come clown to the building
site at night when their curiosity got the better of them;
Ducks and Loons would swim by the beach fromtj occasionally
a Bear would amble by to see what was in the garbage, and at
1
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night the wolves could be heard howling. There were only two
other cottages on the lake, so neighbors were scarce. The
nearest town is seven miles away.
So, my summers were spent at the cottage, and when I was
eleven my parents rented me a horse for the three months. It
was a perfect place for harseback riding with many sand roads
to explore. Each simmer we rented a horse, and I loved my
summers of riding horses, swimming and enjoying Nature.
I lived for the summers, but I enjoyed attending the
Villa. The school was a Catholic one, under the supervision
of an order of "Visitation" nuns. The nuns were not only our
teachers, but also our friends. I benefited not only
intellectually, but also emotionally by attending the school.
My home life was happy too. I had become an only child,
so-to-speak, when I was ten since my sisters had gone away to
college. I missed them after they left, but I grew closer to
my parents. My sister, Lynne, moved to Chicago after college
to get a job, and in 196? both my sisters got married, when I
was 14. I became an Aunt at age fifteen.
I had alot of pets as a child, which I'm sure exasperated
my mother. I can still remember her expression when I'd bring
home another snake, lizard or mouse, but she was very patient.
In 1968 my parents Dough t rr.e a beautiful Arabian nare,
ana I finally hao trtax noise of my own I'd always dreamed about.
In 19^9 I rode her in the "Rodeo QueenT contest in Hayward,
Wis., which I won.
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In June of 1970 I graduated from Villa de Chantal, and
was accepted at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
I met r.iy husband (Michael r'rancis) there, and we dated
for two years. He graduated in May of 1972, and I withdrew
from Carthage to marry him on October 7, 1972.
We moved to Rockford, where i-.ike has a job as a teacher.
My winters are spent going back to college part-time,
and my summers are still spent enjoying the north woods of
Wisconsin, where my husband and I now have property of our
own. We camp on it in a tent during our summers, and my
husband and Father built a screenhouse out of the trees we
had cleared. We use this as our "dining and cooking area".
(See pictures) We cook on a grill, carry our wateriin, and
use a large size iee chest as our "refrigerator". Event-
ually we intend to build our summer cottage there.
That is my life in a nutshell. I found it hard to know
just what to write, so I chose the events that are most
special and important to me.
FRENZ, DONETTE CAROL, 1956-
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M epgr andf ather (your father's side)
« __________ Curront Residence
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I'l.lCI ..I I, Mil,
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date
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—
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3. Name
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I. oris Jean Seibel
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Your Father
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Father
B 23, October 1 9-9
Mlh, November 1953
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Mother
B ■
November 1 93"
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D2jad.Q2?icIc. John- FREW
Great grandfather
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Grandfather
B 1 6, January 1901
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Grandmother
B1 9, December 1 9 7
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Grandfather
B 25, Way 19' 1
M 1 9 j 1 ber 1
D "7 . Novembe r 1
Great grandmother
B 25, January 1 87I4.
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a 15, July 1883
Ml)', February 1C 7
D 28, 4pril 1 95p
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B .91 , October 1 886
D 1 963
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B 1 Lf., June 1859
M 30, March 1892
D?6, March 1907
Lillian. .KENYAN
B 25, May 1 r ; :
D 5 , \pril 1917
Grandmother
B15, September 19 5"
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B , ' " "' " "
Mir, February 19
D ~n . "arch 1917
JiQfiiifi...Harie.t STUART.
B5, March 1882
D19, March 1965
1 NTR0DTTCT7W
The following Information T h^va obtained by -.'riflng
letters to my grandparents and giving interviews. T ran
into some difficulty as my grandparents did not remember
a lot of the details.
I have heard 3 lot about my family history, but I
don't knoi«i if its true. Therefore I will not mention it
in the bulk of this paper. However, I would like to
mention one of the stories in this paper, because it
sounds interesting to me.
My Grandmother Prenz ' s maiden name is Hazel "rover.
Her mother0-' maiden name was Helen Chapman. Helens' great
great-grandfathers' brother was Johnny Chapman, alias
Johnny ippleseed. \lbether or not this is true, It. has
been passed down through the generations.
also, my grandmother Prenz told me that her mother,
Helen Chapman "rover did in fact trace our family history
back to a man named Hopkins who signed the Declaration
of Independence. 3ut, after sh^ died no one could find
the family bible that contained all the information.
FRFDFR'TCK FAR I I'/IT.H'RT-FJI PRSNZ
Frederick John Fren?., my great-grandfather -;«*s born
In 186]| in Hols tine , rmany. His wife, \ugusta Marie
Bonschneider, was born in 1 p?.'r in Porno ri us, Oerraany.
They ^ct1, ,.* ame --iv-'r to \merics on (-be mro ship. After
landing in \meric?, they were married.
Ti; starting their new life together, they bought a
farr; in the county of Champaign in Broadland, Illinois.
There, ir 19^1, my grandfather, Frederick Karl tiTilhelem
Franz, wis born. Out of the nine kids, 5 boys and L|.
girls, my grandfather was the fifth eldest.
Fredoripk and Augusta had a fairly large farm in
Illinois. Their house was big(Tt 'jar once a church, but
someone had built it into a house), so the living quarters
were never crowded . They were considered well -of .f in
thai time as they always aid at least sixteen head of hors
and about £00 acr»es of land.
y-j grandfather went to little country school, °nd
the only *port they played was a gar« similar to baseball
(When you hit the ball, you had to run to one b< -.<: and
then bacl; 4 o home again or you «ere out.) He rail school
when he was in the eigth grade, and stayed ho- r. to help on
the farro-
Jhen my grandfather was thirteen years old, his par en
sold their farm in T ' linois and moved noar Mason City, Iowa
where the land was a 3 good, but cheaper*. There they also
had a Large farm. Their new firm was one and a half miles
from the county church. They were a vnry religious family
and drove a wagon and team o.f horses to church every single
Sunday. They also sent all the kids to Sunday school.
Rach kid had special chores that he had to do. For
instance, each hoy ha^l to take care of a four horse team
plus feed and groom their own horse. Every moaning my
grandfathers' Tat her would call all the boys down to
work. He only called once however, if the hoys didn't
come within five minutes they would hear their fathers
footstep? coming up the stairs, and all go scrambling
out the window.
Swearing was as unforgivable sin in my grandfathers
house. If any of the kids got caught swearing, they would
not only get their mouth washed out. with soapj h>ut get it
with the belt as well .
Holidays were always looked forward to. On holidays
either relatives would go to my grandfathers house, or
my grandfathers family would go to one of the relatives.
On the Fourth or Tuly, they would travel sixteen ^iles
by horse and wagon to go to the Fourth of July celebration
My grandfather continued to stay a4-, his parents home
and helo his iad vrifct the chores. In his f **e e I '-'«■', he
would go on into town to visit v. is aunt and ancle. During
that time, neighborhoods were quite small so everyone knew
1
the people who were in their neighborhood . Onr day while
my grimdfahher wan over be bin uncle*, hi, wcl^ neighUr-
hovl hari o g„t together. It. waa nt this ^« together that
my grandfather met ry grnmbiothor, "Ta :e] nnr.de fit-over.
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This picture hras taken ten years ago, in r-'ason City,
lowo. It s_3 a picture of my grandfather and his brothers
and sisters. Thf1 third mar frori the 3eft in my <*r another
•t the time this was taken, they were all in Iowa for a
Cx n< ral .
Char] rT'ovfi" vis born on ruly V3, 1PP-3 in Oven town-
ship, >r^o H-nrdc County, Town • Hif wife, Helen Orletta
Chapman - - born in Chic on October ?1 , 1886. They vrera
married on Febrmry 1.', , 1907 and nj grandmother , Hazel
Maude (Trover, was born on December 1?, 1 9'' 7 . She has
two younger sisters and one younger brother.
V'j grandmother grew up in Rockford, Iowa. She went
tc a rural school .ritb a total of fifteen or twenty kids
in all. Her school had both a bays and girls basketball
team. Ly grandmother wan in the chorus.
Her family moved to Rockford, Iowa because her dad
got polio and hac to be in town. While be was paralyzed,
her mother took up practical nursing so that she could
take care of bin. When be got over the paral i nation ,
they moved out into a farm just outside of town.
While r.y grandmother was a child, her father worked in
a meat packing pi art for twenty years . 'fte'" that ho went
into iry cleaning. Y -■ didn't make much, hut enough to live
on .
Every once in a while they could afford to go to the
movies. Co- of the first silent movies that •*■-• f.randriother
went to <?f>e -r? rq.il<=>cl "The Shiek" starring Rudolph
Valen tino .
The children were puni ahed by both parents. My
grandmothers father would usu the switch on the kid* ,
while U«r mother would make hhem nit: on o chair "i til the
two kids who i^ere fighting kis3ed each other .
Holidays uerfl special, but; they usually didn't go any
:v. a^<» or have anyone over. Her noth^r would usually cook
something speci il for the meals, but otherwise it was
prel ty mxicb t.he same as always with Christ mas as an
evception. On Christmas t.h** kids would get alot of present'
They did not b^ve t.o do any chores. On Christmas Day they
would rtide into town to church.
My grandmother graduated from the eigth grade and
continued through the tenth grade. She had been sick in
her sophmore year so in order to .graduate from tenth grade
she had to go to Mason City t.o take an examination.
Vbile she was there, she met my grandfather at a neighbor-
hood get together.
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THFIR 7 TP!'1 TOOTCTTT'FR
After my ^rnnd parents were married, they lived qt my
grandf iVni'T'' dads r mi . They ran his farm for a couple
years qrJ then derided t.o move into F-'ason f!ity. My
grandfather ^ot a job at n sugar mill making fifty cents
an hour .
Tn 1r?5» my Aunt Marian was been, "oon fo] lowing in
1927 my Aunt Helen was born. My d?;i, Charier John, was
born in and five years later his youngest sister,
Ruthie, war', born.
In 1 c- ?9 my grandfather quit his job at the sugar mill
and went to work at a junkyard for twelve dollars a week.
When Ruthie was born in 1 93U he get a raise to twenty-five
dollars a week. He would get paid partly in cash and the
other part in "beck.
Ml of their children were born in "iron Oity, low0
and my fire at-grandmoth-er wec the midwife. '"he pregnant
womar d id not have any maternity clothes and usually had
to wear co] bl e^ aprons.
Phey got .their first, radio when fle isn was about fcwo
years old It had seoerate speaker > and looked like a
big tin bov. My grandfather bought it in a jewwlry shop.
(Trie radio «i *> electric) Whan they were married in 1929
my grandfather already had a car.
One year my grandfathers urifel ' .from 'tfiscbnain, cane bo
visii him. He wanted to a ell his farm Land for* o cheap
pries to :'.y grandfather. A-r the time my grandfathers
nlcar had been bothering him,. so ho decided to buy it.
They moved to New \uburn, Vis cons in in 1 when my dad was
el even ye irs r«3 d .
Tn "Wisconsin my grandparents farmed, For a side job
my grandfather again went to work at a junk yard. In
195^ my grandmother '.ocw a housekeeper for some people
who live in Chicago. They had a cottage up near New Auburn
and would live up there every summer. During the summer,
my grandmother would cook the meals, elean the house, and
wash the cloth*";.
Today, my grandparents are both stil1 very much alive.
My grandmother knits «*- crochets constantly. My grandfather
no longer farms, but has a anal 1 garden for himself. He
still sn^n li a couple hours a day working at the junkyard
just for something to do.
Just this last summer, we had a party ♦'or my grandpare
because it. was their fi ftieth anniversary. Relatives from
Iowa came that I didn't even know I hah
It.
This is a picture of my frrand parents taken about
twelve years ago. It was taken out in their yard.
They havtj lived in New Auburn, Wisconsin for the past
thlrty-threo y«ars .
II
TRA GOULD PRANK
pet Joseph Frank was born on June 11;, 1859 in
Buffalo, "V ; York. He was married on March It, 189? to
Lillian Kenyan. Lillian was born on May ?$, 1 863 ir.
Dekalb, Illinois. On Kay 1Q'!? my grandfather was born.
'■Jhen if? was born his parents lived in Chippewa
Falls, Wis '.onsin. :Ti f father, Peter, was a painter and
paper hangar. Ira had two sisters and a brother: Caroline
and tfillie were older thin Ira, and Lillian was younger.
I ill Lin liked the country, so Peter agreed to move
out to the country. But it was hard living out in the
country because they had no running water and lived in
a small log cabin. So for a couple of years they moved
back and forth from the city to the country, depending on
the time of year.
Five years after Ira was born, in March of 1907, his
father died. He was killed in a explosion in a log camp.
Therefore, Lillian disiplined the ch il j^v! , usually by
means of o switch. The family was poor, especially with
Peter gone. I i 1 1 * an ^ot ~ insurance becavse of the
mine blowing up, but it didn't last ver»y long. she- be-
gan workin; by doing odd jobs around fcown, like housecleaning
sewing, v' ~ ': 'y"i '.ting, etc . .
Irr* familv was uot verv religious, but politics were
ve ry Important, rater Prank was r strong Reptibl loan;
Mid coma election, he' always voted.
In v n l: ho n public c chool In f.own. Tie ouj t school,
though, before ha ;v> h through wJ I'.h the « i gth grade, and got
i job at i farm near by. <Jh 1 lo going to school, enter-
tainment consisted of school plays, football games, and
school picnics. \t home everyone would .~it, around the
:>rgan while Lillian played. Or special occasions, Lillian
would take the kids to a silent movie, but this was very
rare indeed. One of the major events '.jar. the Chippewa
State County Fair, which is still a yearly event. Everyone
in the family would try to enter something of their" ■into
the exhibits.
Though he emit school after the seventh grade, he
read a lot . Like his father, Ira knew alot about politics
and kept up to date on them. As he became older, Ira war.
considered a very smart man.
On Vpril. £, 1917, just before Tra turned fifteen, his
mother died. Thar he moved in with his sister, Caroline,
who lived in T\*ei<; /Vuburn, '/isconsin. He got a job in a
nearby town called Bloomer at a pea factory. \fhile
working ir. Ploomer he met David Netoalf. ITiey became good
friends. On weekends they would go hunting and fishing
up near David's hone. T'y grandmother, Trens Matoa^f, was
David's sister, so when David brought Tra to his borne he
mel my r'arjHmoJ'hevi .
This is a picture of Poter Frank, tujn firea^-Grandf ath
p othar person in ' h<> pi r turn i ' Charley Prank, my
andfnfchers stepbrother. Th.> picture wns t niton about
phty year-? npo.
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My Oreat-£,reat -great-granrtf ather , Dexter Hr- tea] f ,
born' Ln 1 '*^5 ant^ hi wife Rlisa Clark came from Brandon,
^Ingl and and with a couple other families came ac cross
the 'ountry in r covered wagon. They settled in
Wisconsin and named the town Brandon after their hom<=>
town in England. Dexter was a very talented man; he
taught school, was in artist, and also a musician. Defter
died in 1°3ir i>ci tuberculosis.
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Oh <\u;;h;U )( , 1 0 6 9 E 3 ward Mo€o-?lf was bom. He was my
grandmothers father . (Between Dexter Metcalf and Edward
Mehcalf there ia s lost generation. T coul ln'fc find 'heir
n9M'"!s or any dates).
Both William Stuart and Elizabeth f'rofin were born in
Ripor. Wisconsin near Brandon. William wan born on June 1|,
1856 On March 5, 188? Elizabeth £ave birth to -a girl,
^hoeb* Hariet Stuart, my Great-grandmother. Phoebe was the
olde3t daughter and went to work in Brandon for the Metcalfe.
That is whf rr she met my Great-grandfather, Edward Metcalf.
They were married on February [(., 1900.
My grandmother, Irene Laverne Metcalf, wan born on
September 15, 1 9' '5 in Brandon, Wisconsin. Edward Metcalf
had TP quite young and the doctor recommended them to move
farther north for his health. To they happened to move
to New Auburn, Wise onsin. Edward was a painter and plumber
when they lived in Brandon. A.fter they moved up north,
with the "hoep" of neighbors they built a lor cabin and
thats where my grandmother spent, most of her childhood,.
Edward passed away on March ?8, 1 91 7 when h« was only
forty-eirht years o"1 d .
Here is a picture
of the log cabin
that they fins'',
bui 1 t when they
came from Brandon.
Thort» wish 1 t a school up in that country when hhey
piovfH up there from Rrandon so they went '. .» sohoo] for* i
short, time in a n« ! ghhors hom»> . (Just until the school
was built.) There were only fiv< or sin pupils in the whole
school for quite :x fen years, wit}; my grandmother being the
only gir] • TherH was no nhurch. The mininster used to
come to fclie school house and have services. Later every-
one got together and built the Hi gh Banks Church.
My grandmother had four brothers and two sisters .
Cne of her brothers iied when he was ten months old and one
of her sisters died when she was eight months old. They
both died of Tn. Her two oldest brothers both had TR of
the bone and have undergone various operations to remove
some bones .
They used to have a Tot of dances at the homes, when .
she was a kid, other than school picnics once a year. On
holidays relatives usually cmae to their houses. .Sometimes
her- brothers would bring some of their freinds home with
them. It was through he" brother, David, that my grand-
mother met my grandfather, Ira Prank.
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This is i picture -»f Edward Me tea If, ,-ny i^^t
grandfather. The woman standing with hi > j. 5 h ( v
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This pi'ctu're was
taken in abouirt
1963. Thia is a
picture of my
Ore at -grandmother
Met calf.
MRS. PHOEBE METCALF
Bom March 5, 1882
Ripon, Wisconsin
Died March 19, 1965
Town of Sampson
"Services at the Island Lake
Church of Christ
Island Lake, Wisconsin
Tuesday, March 23, 1965
2 o'clock
Rev. Gene Taplin, Officiating
Singers :
Rev. and Mrs. Gene Taplin
Pianist: Mrs. Gene Taplin
Hymns: "Good Night and Good
Morning" and "Sometime We'll
Understand"
Pallbearers — Grandsons
Eldon Metcalf
Edwin Metcalf
Keith Gunn
Wayne Frank
Robert Metcalf
Dennis Metcalf
Buried in Island Lake Cemetery
Island Lake, Wisconsin
Funeral Director — N. E. Rock
THEIR LIFE rOGETHER
On December 19, 1 9T; Tra Gould Prank and Irene Laverne
Ketcalf verr married. They lived with my gre at -grandmother,
Phoebe Metr si f , until thro' r first two children Mere born,
•"hon, they bought a piece of land of their own and put up
a lop cabin.- T-To *" everyone up in that country lived in
log houses. My grandfather and grandmother cut the logs
themselves and put up moat of the house themselves, all
but the roof, which my grandmother was afraid to climb as
she was expecting another baby. They lived there for about
seventeen years or- more before they moved to a ] arger
farm. 3y the time they moved to the larger farm, my
grandmother had had eleven kids, (as of today they are all
still living) . .
Grandpa Frank worked out as a machinist, he also served
on town boards, school boards, and farmed. They were an
average family, for- the community in which they lived, and
the money was used to buy their home and pay living e»> nses
The family decisions were decided on by both grandparents.
Gramon disciplined the kids more than my grandma did as
she was more easy going
The nearest town was New Auburn, which was about
fourteen miles away. They had a little neighborhood store
where they got most of their groceries. There was no
£0
doctor in I^ew Auburn f the nearest; one wjim j n Rloornor acme
t tax&y tni Los away .
My grand P« thor Prank died of -\ heart; -it. back pn
November 1 95^ on Thanksgiving Day.
He maketh me to lie down in
green pastures: He leadeth me
beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul. He leadeth
me in the paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I
will fear no evil: for thou art
with me: thy rod and thy ataff
they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me
in the presence of mine enemies
thou anointest my head with oil:
my cup runneth over:
Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life
and I will dwell in the house of
the Lord for ever.
Passed Away in Town of Sampson
November 27, 1958
Services at Church of Christ
Island Lake, Wisconsin
November 29, 1958
2 o'clock
Pastor Gene Taplin, Officiating
Hymns: "Softy and Tenderly" and
"Beyond the Sunset"
Pianist: Mrs. Gene Taplin
Soloist: Mrs. Max St. John
Pallbearers
Edmund Skaw
Glen Mattson
Rodney North
Charles Muench
Stanley Richardson
Herman Brandstatter
Final Resting Place
Island Lake Cemetery
Island Lake, Wisconsin
Funeral Director — N. E. Rock
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This is a picture of my grandfather
on the day that they were married.
Th-= picture was taken in front of
my grandmothers childhood home.
This is a n'ictxire of th<?
log i-abin that my grand-
parenta built. This was
t~hoir fir>3t home.
Paring the winter my
^r and Pa bher sold f i re -
wood to earn some e^tra
money.
OHWITiBS JOHN FHPNZ
My rind, Charles John Fron?., '.-is born on October ?3,
1 ??9 in I-: us on f\> ! y, Iowa. At the time lie was born my
grandparents lived In Mason City. rrior to that time they
had been running; i farm outside of town. When he was four
or five they moved to Centra1 Heights, about two miles
outside of Mason City. Ele began school there at the
Central Heights Grade School. While living in Central
Heights both sets of grandparents lived within three blocks
and three uncles had farms within three miles away.
'/hen he was eleven years old, his family moved to New
auburn, Wisconsin. \t that time he was in the sisth grade.
He went to school at Long Lake Consolidated School. Ifter
they moved to Hew 'nburr., they farmed my dad's great Uncles
land because "ill they had was one hundred and sixty acres
of timber. One summer my did made maple syrup and cut
fsnc° posts for a job.
Ho went to high school at New Auburn High School for
two years ind then was sent to "hetek High School for
two years. He played on the fort I all team for both schools
After he graduated from high school, he went to '-'ork for a
guy at a farm for about one and a half years. Phen in 1
he joined the service. He got out in 1 05° and right after
he got his discharge, h° met ny mother, ftrdis Prank.
CHARLES JOHN FHF.NZ
My d id, Charles John Frtin?., was horn on October ?3,
19?9 in Ivuson City, Tom,-:. At the time he was born :ay
grandparents lived in Kqgnn City. Prior to that time, they
hid been running i farm outside of town, './hen he was four
or five they moved to Centra1 Heights, about two miles
outside of Mason city. He began school there at the
Central Heights Grade School. While living in Central
Heights both sets of grandparents lived within three blocks
and three uncles had farms within three miles away.
'/hen he was eleven years old, his family moved to New
Auburn, Wisconsin. \t that time he was in the sisth grade.
He went to school it Long bike Consolidated School. After
they moved to Hew Unburn, they farmed my dad's great Uncles
land bee luse all they hid was one hundred and sixty acres
of timber. One summer my dad made maple syrup and cut
fenc° posts for a job.
Ho went to h.igh --chool at Hew luburn High School for
two years *nd then was sent to Chetek High School1 fen
two years. He played on the .football team for both schools
After he graduated from high school, he went to ;,ci-H for a
guy at a farm for about one and a half years. Phen in 191}.?
he joined the service. He get out in 1 05° an J right after
he got £is discharge, he met ny mother, krdis Prank.
This is fi picture-! of my dad
when he was eleven years old.
This wis tnken in front of
their house when they first
moved to New Auburn, 'Wisconsin
This is a picture of one of the
houses my dad lived in.
5? "
3H
Or, November IP, 1 93'" in the Town of Sampson, New Auburn,
Wisconsin, Ardis Leone Prank was born. She was born in a
lop carl'1 with four rooms downstuirs end two rooms up in
the attic.
She started* school at six years old and went to a small
one room country school. It was two and a half miles to
school from her- house and all the kids had to walk to school.
When she was in the first grade, my mother stayed with her
Grandmother Metcalf because it was closer to school. She
would cone home everyweekend and stay with hpr grandma all
week. There were only four other ;.eople that graduated with
her from the eigth grade.
She went to New Auburn High School . '"he high school
consisted of three class rooms, one assembly room and a
separated building for Shop and Home Economics. The students
weren't given the opportunity to choose any of their elases
an"1 girls ere not allowed to have gymnastics, There .'ere
games and dances at school, but my mother M dr. ' t gc very
often because it was fourteen rnile^ to school and the only
'jay .she eoi^d get home ^as by x e school bus. VJben she
graduated from high school there '.'ere only nineteen in her
scr adi i a t ■? n class.
Pho older kids had »..- help frith the r.hores in the b«irn
My mother usually worked in t-b«> houso. t'.ho worked 1n the
garder In the summer, Hi the diahen, ar.d cashed and troned
clothes* Hp- mother made all or bhe kids' eT others. Her
father so] 1 milk, trapped i.n the winter, mad panned minnows
ir. the summer bo earn •-• >■ ♦ r<-. money. But, even with this so
called 'otra money' the family was poor. My mother didn't
get her first boughten coat until =\he was a freshman in
high sch •>ol then her sister bought 5 t for her for a
Christmas >ro sent .
Right after graduation my mother got a job in Ho] combe
Wisconsin as n li^e in housekeeper. She was a housekeeper
for about eight months, them she got a job as a book keeper'
in a cheese factory. While she worked there she stayed
with her older sister. The rheesef actory went out of
business after 9 year, so ray mom went to work at the
He 1 combe Post Office. She was working there ••.•hen she met
my dad at a dance.
'while the mother of the groom |
wore a navy blue suit dress with <
navy accessories. The bride's '
grandmother wore a navy dress .
with matching accessories. Car- •
nattion corsages complimented '
their costumes. '
Immediately following the cere- >
mony, a receptin was served in
f church basement for "5
t ; *i guests. A three tiered wedding
\VhDDl>JUa I jcake. topped with miniature bride
■ ■ "Ar 1 and groom, which was baked by
FRANK — FRENZ j the groom's sister. Mrs. Bryce
St. John's Lutheran Church at Hokins, centered the bridal table.
Cornell was the setting for a Mrs. Duane Frank served the
very pretty ceremony when Miss wedding cake and tool: care or
i Ardis Frank, daughter of Mr. the guest book,
and Mrs. Ira Frank of New Aub-! A pre-nuptial shower was giv-
urn and Charles Frenz, son of,en by Janice Metcalf and Mrs.
Mr.' and Mrs. Fred Frenz of New Erroi Huhn at Reynolds Resort
Auburn pronounced their marri- for their many friends and rela-
| age vows at 2 p. m. in a double tives.
! ring- ceremony performer by Rev.( -
'. t, °, ~ \^ v Prpn7., A wedding dance was held in
E. E. Frenzlow. Mrs. L. i^. rrenz-, => -d^,,;!
, „. t or,j n,,,._ the evening at Salisbury Pavil-
low was the organist and uvven °
Prenzlow was the soloist. | l0n'
The bride was beautiful as she After a brief honeymoon, the
walked up the aisle on the arm couple will ur.ake their home in
of her uncle. Harojd Metcalf. Holcombe, where they are em-
who -ave her in marriage. Her ployed. The bride has worker at
floor Tengtth gown was styled of tthe Holcombe postoffice for the
chantilly" lace and nylon tulle, past three years.
It featured a basque bodice of
lace, buttoned to below the waist
with satin buttons, long sleeves
which ended in points over the
hands and a high neckline. The
hack featured tiers of ruffles.
She completed her costume with
a fingertip veil edged n'A'n la^e;
held in place with a tiara of seed
pearls. She wore a three strand
pearl necklace, and matching
earrings. As a gift of the groom
she carried a lavender orchid on
a white Bible, from which hung
streamers with love knots and
chrysanthemums.
• The bride chose as her only
attendant, her cousin, Janice
Metcalf. who wore a turquoise |
floor length strapless gown of|
taffeta and lace with a bouffai.tj
net overskirt. She wore a match-
ing lace bolero and gauntlets.
Her headpiece consisted of a'
shoulder length veil which hung
from a lace tiara. The brides gift
to her attendant was d threj
strand pearl necklace, bracelet
and earrings. She carried a nose-
gay bouquet of white chrysanthe-i
mums and pink carnations. t
Little Kay Hopkins. thel
groom's niece, acted as flowerl
girl. She wore a white satin I
floor length gown with bouffant I
I net overskirt and short puffed
sleeves. She carried a small nose-,'
I gay bouquet, similar to that of'
the maid of honor. Her gift from!
the bride was a pearl necklace]
and bracelet.
, The groom chose as h.'s at-j
tendant. the bride's brother
I Duane Frank. The men were at-;
tired in conventional business
suits. Errol Huhn and Brvce Hop-
kins, brother-in-law of the cou-
ple, served as ushers. All wore!
carnation bountonnieres. The
groom gave personal gifts to his!
attendants. J
'The bride's mother witnessed
the ceremony in a turquoise crepe '
dress with black accessories.
The World of Tomorrow is in tin. Hinds of the Children of Today
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WISCONSIN
STATE EOARD
OF HEALTH
MADISON
Certificate nf lirth J&mstrattmt
SItta tii In Certify that a registered certificate of the birth
of your child his been filed and is now carefully preserved
in the Official Records of the State of Wisconsin in the
State Board of Health office at Madison.
Name . . J-^r?va, _ _ ^J^^Jii-
Maiden Name o
Birth Place nf Child -P^r4!*jL^
Date of Birth -„rttL^t)-/-0-
C. A. HARPER,
Preserve THIS RECORD State Registrar of Vital Statistics
PHETR 1 TP]'! TOGETHER
V/hon my parents met, at a local dance, my dad had
just got his discharge from the navy. They went together
for i year then on November 1953* in Cornell, Wiscon
sin my parents. Charles John Frenz and Ardis T.«one Frank;
were married. They didn't, an on a honeymoon because
they couldn't if ford it.
married, my dad was working on the road, but he was layed
off because of the time of the year. So when they were
first married, he wan drawing unemployment.
In August of 195^1 he came to Rockford, Illinois :to
find a job. He vras hired at Menasha Woodenware . Two
months later he sent for my mom to join him.
The r. in March of 1955 iry mother gave birth to a
baby girl. They nanie'd hr-r Olenda Irene Prenz . When
G 1 end a was born they moved to i house in Loves Park.
Tn November op 1 r5*S on their anniversary, my mother had
another baby, me. She n^med her Donette Parol 1?v,r.r:/
V/ith two kids, bhey decided to move again, and moved to
a larger home in Cherry Vally. My parents had both
been brought up in the county, so city life was not very
pleasant, .b in 1957 they moved cut in the country.
GANSENV DANIEL EDWARD/ 1951-
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Grandfather (your father's sid e )
Name Willis m G-ansen
Current Residence
Date of birth Feb, 19 lo99 Place of birth Brnkston
Date of death Feb, 16 1973 Place of burial friew luellary
Educa tion (numbe r of years);
grade school X high school
X vocational
col lege
Occupation(s)
1st
2nd
3rd
4 th
Dates
Dates
Da tes
Dates
2nd
3rd
4 th
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Dates
U a t e s
Dates
Re 1 i g i o n Catholj_c
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. J^qjk
Place of Marriage to your grandmother St. Anthony, S date Oct, 4 1Q?1
NOTE: If your father was raised (to age 18) by a stepfather or another
relative give that data on the back of this page. (A-l)
Grandmother (your father's side)
Name Marie Margaret Current Residence ._
Date of birth April 9 1900 Place of birth Bankston
Date of death Oct, 25 1970 Place of burial New Mfilla-py
Kducation (number f years):
grade school
college
high school 3t;'rt but National
Occupation (s)
1st
2nd
3rd
4 th
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
1 s t
2nd
3 r d
4 th
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Date s
D a t e s
D a t c s
Religion Catholic
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc. ^one
I' 1 a c e
NOT E
A- 2 Step^randfather (your father's side)
Name Current Residence
D a t e of birth Place of birth
D ate of death P lace of burial
Education (number of years)
ie school high school vocational
Cw 1 lege
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
Dation(s) (after leaving home)
Dates 1st Dates
2nd Dates 2nd Da tes
?id Dates 3rd Dates
4 th Dates 4th Dates
Religion
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
• of marriage to your grandmother date
B-2 S t e pgr andrao th e r (your father's side)
Name Current Residence
Date of birth Place of birth
Dateofdeath Placeofburial
Education (number of years):
grade school high school vocational
col lege
ipation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Da tes 1st Dates
2nd_ Dates 2nd Dates
3rd D a t e a 3 r d D a t e s
'«th _ Dates 4th Dates
Re 11 g ion
! 1 t 1 f -i 1 party, < i v I 1 or social clubs, sororities, etc .
Place of marriage to your grandfather
Grandfather (your mother's side)
4
N a m e Thnmas Df>1 army Current Residence
Date of birth_Maxcj] x4> jJ&q . Place of b i r t h _ Lamot^ Iowa
Date of death REpt , ?tt , 1966 Pla« of buri^ Key-V,^-!^
Education (number of years):
grade school high school vocational college
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates 1st Dates
2nd Dates 2nd Dates
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
4 th Da tes 4 th_ Da t
R e 1 i g i on___QathQlic
e s
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc:
P'ace of marriage to your grandmother St. Anthoney ' s date Fefo 8 , 1916
NOTE: If your mother was raised by a stepfather or another relative (tu
age 18) give that data on the back of this page (C-l)
Grandmother (your mother's side)
Name fll^oh" Tfringle Current Residence
Date of birth 26 1895 Place of birth Tjlizabgtfa— . —
Date of death July 27 1963 Place of burial Key West, Iowa
Education (nu mb er of years)
grade school ^ high school ^ vocational college
Occupation (s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
( a Iter Le a v i n g h orae ;
1". xfctgmnb, HaLm^te* lst- - ,)alL>s
7nd Housewife, Mother Dates _ _2nd Dales
3rd _Dates 3rd Dates
4th Dates 4th Dates
Rel igion Catholic
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandfather St. Anthoney 'a Date gg-^ ^ 1916
NOTE: If your mother was raised by a stepmother or another relative (to
H I
gftve that d-ata on the back of this page (D-2)
S t ep gr andf a th e r (your mother's side)
Current Residence
Date of birth Place of birth
death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade school high school vocational college
lccupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates 1st Dates
2nd Da t e s 2nd Da t e s
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
4 th Dates 4 th Da t es
Re 1 i g io n
olitical parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandmother Date-
Step g r a n dmo t h e r (your mother's side)
Current Residence
of birth Place of birth
of death Placeofburial
Education (number of years)
sclioo 1 _h lgh school vocational _ <• <> I 1 e ge
pat J n(s) PLACE OF RES I DENC E
(after leaving home)
Dates 1st Dates
Dates 2nd Da tes
Dates 3rd Dates
• ' r Dates 4 th Dntes_
party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc
■ ar rl age to your grandfather Date
- your father's name should appear below
Name -rp. rn- r,i Arisen
Place of birt h pep, tr
Iowa.
d a t e
Number of years of schooling"
Residenc e Zwingle M arital Status
Number of children 7 _ Death
it. 1W22
0 c c u p a t io n_jpp rmer
of birth PeQ.it:, . Towa
N a me
I' 1 a c
Number of years of schooling
Res i de n c e n^snsdp, Tnwn Ma r i t a 1 Status
N uinb e r of children
date May 25 T 3.924
12 Occupation Farmers [±£e
X
Death aftpt. k2t 1M73
Cyril
Gap Ren
Peo.stR , Iowa
Nai
l1 lace o"f birth
Number of years of schooling
Res i d e n c e pP0Q + g ^ jown Ma r i t a 1 S t a t us_
Number of children Death
02.
date ,1l]1y n. 1£2£>
Occupa tion
-X-
Fnnner
G-aji&ea—
N a 111 e
P 1 a c ' oT bl r t h "j^osta> lQya
Number ot years ol schooling
Residence
Number of children
d ;1 1 (!_ Jan-r -2-^-, -19 28-
— 0c r 11 P ;l 1 1 0 11 Factory- -W-orker
Marital Status
dea th
Name _Frrncis Gpnsen
'lace of birth peosta, Ipwa
Number ot years
R e side n c c X'ubuoue , Iowa
Number of children
c u a 0 :■ ? — iuna
of school in g_
Ma r i t a 1 Status
date
1930 —
occupa 1 ionjacto^ Worker
Y
.6
Name
Place of birt h p p n g t c
Number of years of school in;
-low
X-
Dea th
date
Residence Dubun ue , Iowa
Number of children
M arital Status
c d eat h
Occupa tion_flettM^
X
Name William Gansen
P 1 a ce of birth PeosTs , Iowa d ate
Number of years of schooling
Residence Peosta, Iowa Marital
Number of children 5~ death
0 ccupatio nFactory W orker
S t a t u s X
Name M1 ry Lou lUcFncMin
Place of birth Pfeosta, Iowa date
Number of years of school ing_ 12
'Vest Dubuque
Residence
Number o 1 children
M arital Status
3 death
Occupat L o n_beauti ciaii
" X
Name Shirle y Eppler
Place of birth Peostn , Iowa
Number ol years of schooling
Residence Dubuque , Iowa
N umb e r of children
d a t e
12
Marital S t a t u s
5 death
Occupat ion
X
Housewife end Mother
Nam e
P 1 a c e of b ir th _d
Number of years ol schooling
Residence^ Ma r i I a
N u 111b e r o I c h i 1 d r v 11
Occupat ion
S t a t 11 h
dea I h
7
CHILDREN of C and D (or C-2, D-2)-your mother's name should appear below
N a ■ e
Place of birth Lamott
Number of years of schooling
Res idence To.'.- Citv Mar i t a 1
Number of children
^date March 17. 1916
b 0 ccupation
Status
death
Name 5d-.v-.-ri j. ?elar.ey
P I .! ce of b i r t h Lamott
Number of years of schoollng_
Residence Pnvhn Neti. Marital Status
Number of children death
date Feb. 24. l^lM
IS 0 ccupation_
Name
Place of birth
T.f-r- T . ")Pl 'nipy
TiBtnnt.t.
d ate
Number of years of schooling ]_r]
Residence Hp-jsr '-v r- p i ri s Marital Status
Number of childre n 4
Tuly ,-7, 19X0
death
Occupation pnr-k Suparin t end en
X
Name ^nr--: ; . M ■ >- .-y
Place of birth T.-^ott.
.dat e Aug;. 1^1
Number of years of schooling
;..Rp. j P | j nwa M arital Status
Number of children
death
Occupatio n ynrniRr
X
Name r'hfi-.:.s ■!, TiPlpnpy
Place of birth ], •■ dt.t,
Number of years of schooling_
Residence ■■,T.y,,->rth , Toiv"
Number of children A
date M.,y j0t icj??
_12_
Marital Status
death
Occupation^
-X
ioxi- i£.oreni
Place of birth -;..-it.r,
Number of years of schooling
Residence rain;uf-: , Joy-fa Marital Status
Number of children q death_
__d a t e ont.. 30, 19?4
12 Occupation carpenter
JL
Name K>rrf-t,ri ^i^hnrfi
Place of birth ^. .. *^
date April 19, 1S)^'6 Twin Pines
Number of years of schooling ^aJ Occupation
Idence ->n,-,r ,-t; r..i.r-, Iowa Marital Status . , j ru 1 e
Nu-iber of children
death
'JLX: — J: nf G;. nr-.F.r.
N a m e
Place of birth
Number of years of schooling
Residence frppBU,-, I^ws,
Nunbi-r of children a
date Magch 26, 1^29
■^q 0 ccupation
Marital Status_ y
(I e a t h
4-£e~w4- Wlothe
of birth
N a n e
Place
Number of years of schooling _
Residence , , , , na 1{l ,,»a . „iM.Marital
N u mb e r
date
AO-
Jur.fr JU, 1-^44
Oc c up a L 1 o
of children
Status
44-
*nd Moth
"'ine- UwbOjt — ..l^.w.fa
Place of birth L-u.vjlt
Number of years of schooling
rj a I f
0c C up a t Ion
Residence Bank 8 ton, [owe Marital Status
Number of chlldren_ 7 dea th
HoubtJwife and
Your Father
Name Cyril J. G' risen ? Current Residence PeoF.tn, Tnw
Date of birth Jllly ^, ig2£ Pia« °f birth pPAota a± Home
Date of Death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade s ch oo 1 ^ h igh schoo 1 a vo c a t i o na 1 c o 1 1 e ge
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st PsrmPT- Lahnrnr Dates -\ q/| c, tn 1 u /\ M 1st D a t e s
Caradco
2nd n-rnf tQin' n nt Dates lu/ix + n 1 qko 2nd Dates
Mo on light ea at stationxy |OXO iy>J —
3rd Farmer (Shares) Dates to 1^b,] 3rd Dates
fgarm1?^161" Dates tQ preg^h Uates_
Religion flPthnlin
Political parties, c_vil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
VntRR Ap.onrrlingly
Place of marriage to your mother st, .Tnhf 1 g date Aug, 11- 194b
NOTE: If you were raised by a stepfather or another relative give that data
on the back of this page. (E-2)
Your Mother
Name Hit- J- ne (^ela.ney ) Current Residence peostr, _ Iown
Date of birth Maxcjb 26 , 19?9 Place of birth Tymott, Iowa- •
Date of death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade s choo 1 ° high:- schoo 1 £ voc a t ionalArfrsfr Gffaf cfctlege
Occupation (s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(Woolvvorths ) (after leaving home)
lst-S-took Cleric Dates 194^ to 194<Mt Dates_
2nd Nei.sners Dates 19/|6 tQ ^jgd
3rd Scmnatrcao (Glover^ Dates, tn l9^rd
4th Housewife frlvlother Dates 1949 on 4th Dates
Religion_ C1 tholic
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Independent
Da tes
Dates
Place of marriage to your father at. doHn ' S FeostP date Aug,. 11-r._lQ4h.
NOTE: If you were raised by a stepmother or another relative give that data
on the back of this page (F-2).
Stepfather
Name
Date of birth Place of birth
Date of death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade school high school vocational college
Occupat ion (s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates 1st Dates
2 n d D ate s 2 n d D a t e s
3 r d Da t es 3rd Da t e s
4th Dates 4th Dates
R e 1 i g i o n
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your mother Date
F - 2 Step mot her
Name
Date of birth Place of birth
Date of death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade school high school vocational college i
Occupa t ion (s ) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1 s t Dates Is t Da t e s
2nd Dates 2nd Dates
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
4th Dates 4th Dates |
Religion
Political party, < i v i 1 or social clubs, sororities, etc
Place of
1 0
CHILDREN OF E AND F (or E-2.F-2) -YOUR NAME SHOULD APPEAR BELOW
Name ,1lll)y Arm Cia.n ah^n
Place birth Tjuhnnue. Town
Number of years of schooling
Residence Dubuque, Iowa Marital Status
Number of children £ death
Date of birth Aug, 2b , 1M4<-)
__12 Occupation f!ousewife &Glerk
A
Name Daniel Edward Gansen
Place of b ir th Dubuque , Iowa
Number of years of schooling^
Date of birth June 12t 1951
1_3 0 ccupation
Residence zip ckford , Illinoi^ar i tal Status X
Number of children 1 death
NameThomrs J. tonsen
Place of birth Dubuque, Tnwa Date of birth 1ft,
Number of years of schooling ]_2 Occupation y. ,-. t o ry .■ q -rk p r-
Residence Epwor-th , TovMarital Status y
Number of children ] death
Name J'-mrj nhfiel (^nSRii
Place of b ir thymhiipiie Tn..:: Date of birth T1 e ^ . ? n , I'^S r ■
Number of years of schooling ]_2 Occupation ptnrv laborer
Residence penptp , Tnw;- Marital Status X j p ] p
Number of children rmnp. death
Name Dale CyrilGansen
Place of birth uubuque , lowa Date of birth ^eC- 22 > 1^5o
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ol. Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Gansen
2. Mrs. Vvalt McPadden
3. Mr. Harold Delaney
4. Mr. Elmer Gansen
5. Mr. William. Gansen Jr.
6. Mrs. Donald Callahan
7. St. John's Church
8. Holy Family Church
9 . The Courthous e
10. The Cascade Pioneer
11. Mr. Virgil Freyman
12. Mr. Joe Thiesen
Peosta, Iowa
Dubuque, Iowa
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Peosta, IQwa
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Cascade, Iowa
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PART I Paternal Great Grandfather, Pete Gansen
Pete Gansen, my father's grandfather was born on a farm
soiuewhere in the eastern part of Iowa in the winter of
1869, believed to be February.
A farmer most of his life, he purchased a farm from
Michael McCarthy and his wife on March 31, 1909 for 7200.00.
The following described premises situated in Dubuque county
describe that parcel of land.
The Soitilih West £ of the South Westi of Section 27 and the
South East % of the South East \ of Section 28, all in Town-
ship 88, North of Range 1, East of the 5th P.M. containing
80 acres more or less.
Then on March 11, 1911, Pete Gansen purehased the following
additional tract of land from Anastasia Hart; for S6200.
In Dubuque county, the North West \ of the South West \ of
Section 27 and that portion of the North East \ of the South
East \ of Section 28, bounded on the east by North West \ of
South West \ of said Section 27 and on the northwest by the
North Cascade Road known as lot 1 of North East \ of South
East \ of said Section 28 as said lot is platted in Plat
book -2 on page 225 of records of Dubuque county, Iowa.
All of said land being in Township 88 North, and in Range
1 East of the 5th P.M. and in all, containing 62.99 acres,
more or less. In all, these transactions represented
approximately 500 acres, more or less.
Pete Gansen was a farmer all of his life, and spent most
of his savings purchasing additional land and raising his
family.
Margaret Elizabeth Roselip, born April 2^th 1871, to
another rural eastern Iowa family became Peter1 s wife. The
wedding is believed to have taken place in the fall of 1890.
Together on the farm previously described, they raised their
family of four boys and one daughter. They were Gregory,
Joseph, Katherine, Elmer, and William.
The history of the Roselip f family has been unattainable ,
however the the Gansen family has been traced to the German
descent. The name Gansen, originally comes from the German
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word "Ganse" which stands for goose. It has not been determin
ed when the "n" was added to the original name, however it
is possible that it was added at the Isle of Tear, or the
place where all immigrants were screened before they were
granted entry into the United States, A fact which adds to
this belief is that the name Gansen, was not found in any of
the phone books, I checked while stationed in Germany. The
name "Ganse" was observed on several occasions.
Getting back to Pete Gansen, his farm was located four
miles from the small rural town of Peosta. Peosta's popu-
lation was under 100, and it still remainsunder 300. At
tat time, in the early 1900* s Peosta was a water stop for the
steam engines. There was a stockyard and a feed mill where
the farmers ,vould haul their grain with horses and wagons
to be ground and mixed. There was also a general store and
a Post Office under the same roof. The town even had it's
own bank, the Bank of Peosta, which unfortunately was closed
during the depression and never able to reopen. Eight years
ago the bank was tore down. Before that time, it was being
used as an apartment house.
Pete would make his way into town approximatly once a week
to pick up his mail and take care of any other business.
On MarchjO, 19J9» Peter's farm became his wifes farm with
love and affection. This was the wording of his will, and
last testament. Peter Gansen died on March 26, 1939.
Shortly afterwards, his wife Margaret divided up the land
among their descendants.
William Gansen, My grandfather received the '.Vest £- of
South wast Section 27, and the South East i of the South
east and Lot 1 of North east ^ of South east £ section
26, all in Township Bti North, Range 1 east of 5th P.M. in
Dubuque county, Iowa. This descibes 385 acres, more or
less .
Margaret Elizabeth Gansen (Hoselip), spent the remaining
ten years of her life on the farm which was being operated
by her sons. She died October lj, 1049.
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<illiam Gansen was born on Pexe Gansen' s farm near the
town of Bankston on Fetouary 19, 1399. Bankston is approx-
imately 16 miles west of Dubuque, Iowa. This area and the
location four miles south of Peosta represents the rural
setting in which William Gansen grew up and spent most of
his life. His childhood was spent concentrated mostly a-
round the farmwork and going to school. He graduated from
high school in 1919, already determined to be what his fath^B
was, a farmer.
Out of high school, illi^m continued to work on farms
for wages. This period during the twesnties, found many
farmers earning good money. It also represents the intro-
duction of the automobiles, which made it possible for
William to drive to the big city of Dubuque, Iov/a, some
16 miles away. Automation was also replacing the horses
with tractors during tnis time, however the replacement of
the horse for farm duties wos much slower than transportat-
ion.
William Gansen was a Catholic, same as his father. They
attended Catholic high schools and William graduated from
St. Johns in Peosta.
Marie Theisen, a neignbor to the Gansen family in Bankston,
"became William Gansen' s wife on October 4th 1921. They took
their marriage vows at St Anthonies church in Dubuque.
Marie also had been raised in the rural setting on a farm.
Her education consisted of eight ye; rs grade school and just
two ye- rs high school.
Her parents wrce Mr and Mrs John Theisen, farmers from
Bankstom. John Theisen was bomA April 9th, ld71, in Bankston
also, presumably on his fathers farm. The only occup- tion
John is thought to have encountered has been farming in
Bankston. His wife, formerly a Miss <>anderscheid, v/as
originally from Hew Hampton, however it is not known how the
two of these people met. It is assumed, she died at an much
earlier age than her husb;<nd John, who died November 27, 1933
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So in the ye r 1921, Willi; m G- nsen and M? rie Margaret
Theisen began their lives together. Marie was twenty one
and ":illiam was twenty two.
In 1939, Pete's home place was divided up among the sons
and daughters. Viilliam (Bill) from that year until his death
was involved in farming. This was the loction, some
five miles south of Peosta, where Bill raised their f mily
of five boys and four girls.
They are listed from the oldest to the youngest
Bernard Gansen, October 1922 Now living at Bernard or
Zwingle, Iowa
Mrs Florence Delamey, May 25th to September ^2, 1973
Cyril J Gansen July 5, 1926 (my father) currently : t
Peosta low.'
Edward Gansen January 25, 1928 now living in Dubu
Que, Iowa
Francis Gansen Dubuque, low
Mrs Ma let a Thumser Dubuque, Iowa
William Gansen Jr. BHKSaKK, Iowa (Peosta)
Mrs Mary Lou McFaddin Dubunue, Iowa
Mrs Shirley Eppler Dubuque, Iowa
Politically, the Gansen family has been predominately
Democratic voters. The voting privelege has not always been
exercised, however. If it was convenient, they voted. This
facit hasn't changed much to the present day.
In the earli nineteen fifties William, his wife, and the
two remaining daughters left at home moved to College Street
in Dubuque. It was at this time that he (Bill) deviled the
farm between Robert Delaney, (his son in law), who was renting
about two hundred and thirty ; cres; and Cyril Gansen (my
father), who was working the remainder of the farm under
shares. Bill worked at the Theisen Tire outlet in Dubunue
during the fifties and into the sixties while also perform-
ing the requirements demanded of a landlord.
His wife (my grandmother) diedxKsfoKuxig!: October 25, 1970.
The place of buri' 1 was the Nevv Mell? ry Cemet- ry, about
three miles from the farm he raised his family on.
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Approximately three years "before Marie's death, Their
son in law, Robert Delaney moved off the farm to • farm he
"bought near Cascade ..Iowa, and the youngest son of the William
Gansen family, (William Gansen Jr) moved on the farm as a
rentor. He also was employed at the Deere plant in Dubuque.
My grandfather, William was no-.' working in the town of
Dubuque, plus spending many hours on the farm helping William
Jr get started farming. He eventually retired from his job
at the tire destributor and spent most of his time keeping
up the condition of the farm and his home in Dubuque.
On February 16, 1973» William Gansen (my grandfather)
died from an unstable heartbeat. This was just three days
before his 74th birthday. He was laid to rest next to his
wife p.t New Mellary Cemetary.
His hame in Dubuque became the home in the country on the
f i -rm, became the home of William Gansen Jr. and his home in
Dubuque on College street was sold and devided up in the will
An interesting fact concerning his will and last testament
was the way in was worded. He had it wrote up so that the
daughters would receive one share but that the sons would
be gr nted two shares.
He left property and monies to his descendents totaling
well over 150,000 dollars.
(The Gansen family and their history will be resumed with
William Gansen' s secon oldest son, my father Cyril Gansen
after my mother's family and history has been brought up
the this time.)
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Part III Great Grandfather on my Mother's Side
At this time it must begin with Thomas Delaney Sr. and his
wife Bidget (Kirk) Delaney. A picture of the two of them
feas "been dug up ansd sent to me for the purpose of this
paper, nnd will be entered in the closing prges. Thomas's
birthdate has been unattainable, however Bridget lfc>51 was
born in the eastern state of Delaware. Unknown, is the date
when her or her family moved to eastern Iowa. The possibil-
ity even exists that Thomas moved from Delaware with Bridget,
they did not exchange marriage vows until they were in
Dubuque county, however, because they were married at St,
Theresa's Church on February 28, 107b. The only occupation
known, encountered by Thomas was farming. They made their
living on a farm in the town of LamoAte, Iowa.
THBy had three daughters and three sons. Their family pic-
ture will be entered in the final pages.
The exact size of the Delaney farm in Lamotte is not known*
however there was a spring and some timber on it because
Thomas produced some very good moonshine. His summertime
hobby consisted of operating his own personnal still.
Reported by an Aunt was the fact th- t Thorn s even ran for
sheriff, one of the summers in the e- rly twenties. Hp died
shortly -fter th t, sometime in the e- rly twenties.
His wife, Bridget lived a few more years on the farm
until her de th March 1st, 1926.
An interesting tale about Thomas and a snake deserves
a few senences in his history. It seems Thomas was loading
hay on a wagon with a pitchfork, when a rattlesnake came
out of the hay and slid down the handle ojg the fork. Thomas,
keeping his cool allowed the snake to crawl all the way down
his arm to the ground and luckily escaped getting bit. If
this little incident hadn't happened, perhaps 15homas would
have lived as long as his wife.
The history now moves to Thomas Delaney Jr. (My Grandfather)
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Part IV Thomas Delaney Jr (My Grandfather on My Mother's)
(Side)
Thomas Delaney Jr. was "born on his father's farm on Feb-
ruary 24, Ib90. He grew up on the farm and went to school
in Lamotte.
The Delaney family stems from Irish descent. The first
Delaney probably came over before the potatoe famine however.
Thomas Delaney quit school before the eighth grade. His life
from that time until his wedding las been forgotten oy every-
one contacted, So his life will be continued after his wife's
ancestors are brought up tothis date, February b1, 1916
Pprt V. Henry Kringle
Henry Kringle of German descent was bom in the eighteen
seventies. He married Amelia Tregonning on February 16, 1692
at Hazel Green, Wisconsin. They then came to Dubuque and mcde
their home at 704 University Avenue. They were the parents
of two children, Mrs Thomas Delaney and Mrs August Felder-
man, Two daughters.
Together, they celebrated their golden Wedding Aniversary
On February 16, 1942.
Henry died two ye rs after that in the fall.
Amelia continued to live in Dubuque on ninth street. Some
time in the early fifties, some of the neighborhood kids set
fire to her garage and burnt it to the ground. Her sister
Sil moved in with Amelia then, until her (Ameliaos), death
March 19, I960.
Her maiden name Tregonning stems from England.
Their daughter, Blanche Kringle ■ ttended twelve years
of school ana two additional years at a vocational school
to gualify for her teaching job at the town of Lamotte.
She taught eight grades , grade school at a little one room
school near the fairgrounds in Lamotxe. She quit her teach-
ing career hofiwee ever in the spring of 1916 ■ fter her
marriage to Thomas Delaney, earlier that year. Her career-
as a teacher ended after just a couple of years to allow
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Part VI Mr and Mrs. Thomas Delaney Jr.
Thomas ..as horn and raise! in Lamotfce and his v.ife, the
former Blanche Kringle taught school in that town, which
explains how they might have met each other.
After their wedding at St Anthonies Church in Dubuoue on
February 8, 1916, thet moved to a farm three miles east of
Peosta. It was here that they raised their family of six
hoys and four i,irls.
The Children from oldest to the youngest are Dorothy Delaney
Edward Delaney , Elmer Delaney, Robert G-. Delaney, Thomas J.
Delaney, Harrold J. Delaney, Kenneth R. Delaney, Jane Rita
Gansen (my mother) Elizabeth Schmitt, and Nancy Potter.
They attended a one room elementary school about one mile
from their farm. It v/as part of the Dubuoue school system.
When they reached high school, they attended the Catholic
school of St John's in the town of Peosta,
Thomas and Blanche spent most of their time farming
and raising the family. Around 1950, after most of the fam-
ily had moved aw y, Thomas retired from farming and moved
into Dubuque, on eighth street. He bought a duplex and
rented out half of the house to his daughter and her husband
Mr and Mrs. Vernon Schmitt.
Blanche Delaney (Kringle) experienced four heart failures,
but her death was not caused bu a heart ailment. On July 27,
1963, Blanche died from a. blood disorder. Blanche's death
prompted Thomas to sell his home in Dubuoue and rotate rmong
his children's homes, spending two weeks at everyones home
before he would leave. He entered the SIH Nursing Pome for
the Aged, in Dubuoue in the ye- r 1964 and died ■ pproxinr te-
ly two ye- rs It ter on September 20, 1966.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Delaney were 1; id to rest i t the Key
West Ceiaetary, about two miles ,rest of Dubuque.
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Part VII Cyril J Gansen ( My Father )
Cyril J gansen was born on his fathers farm nenr peosta
Iowa, on July 8, 1926. He attended Dubuque County Brick
Number 8 for the first eight years of his schooling. This
was another one room, school teaching eight grades "by one
teacher. For High School, he attended St John's Catholic
High Schbol in Peosta. He received his high ;.chool Liploma
here, in the year 1944.
After high school Cyril or (Cy) continued to work on his
neighbors farm and his brothers farm for wages. The work
mainly consisted of field . ork • ind milking cows. He rude
this his occuprticn until 1948, three years 1' -..'hen he
went to work as a craftsman at Caradco in Dubuque. This work
consisted of building ioor amd window frmes.
The same year he started work at Caradco, he married Jane
Rita Delaney. Jane was the daughter of Thomas Delaney born
on his farm near Peosta, March 26, 1929. Jane ; lso attended
the same high school as Cy, a few years lehind him.
J.- ne was employed as a stock clerk at Neisners in Dubuque.
She quit that $ob to ..ork as a seamstress at Glovers, also in
Dubuoue, Iowa. She was working here when she married Cy
Gansen.
They exchanged wedding vows at St John's parish in Peosta.
The date was August 11, 1948. Cy's brther, Edward Gansen
was the best man and Jane's sister, Betty Delaney was the
maid of honor.
After their marriage, Jane ouit her job at Glovers.
Cy continued working at Caradco only two more years. AT
this time, approxim; tely 1950, cy moved to Peosta on half
of his fathers farm to work it in shares or as a sharecropper
The farm he worked was approximately 180 acres, and he
remained there until the present. However in the year 1964
he started buying the land.
<hen they were married, Oy was paying for an old 39 chevy.
The car died on the way back from their honeymoon, and they
rode half the way from Dodgeville Wisconsin to Dubuque behind
a tow truck. The chevy continued to plague Cy with trouble
"but he could not afford to buy a different one until 1955,
when he bought a new Ford Fairlane. The 55 lasted ut bj i
63 when they bought another ford wagon. From then, there
has been four fords, a plymouth and two Chryslers.
In 1949, on August 26th, Jane gave birth to Judy Ann Gan-
sen. Judy, now living on Von Euren Street in Dubuque married
Donnald Callahan July 15, 1967, and they have two children;
Allen and Lisa. Her husband Donald works as a foreman for
the roofing contra cters Giese's in Dubuque, Iowa.
In 1951 on June 12th, Jane gave birfch to her second child.
Daniel, (myself ) . My story comes later;
December 16, 1952, Thomas J Gansen was born. Thomas now
lives in Epworth, Iowa and works at the Coletex Plant in
Dubuque. Thomas married Mavonne Reiff from Farley, Iowa
august 17, 1973, and now they have one little girl, Nickol,
born December 29, 1974.
Then came Larry Michael Gansen, born December 28, 1956. Larry
is currently living at home and working at Energy Plant in
Montecello, Iowa. He is single.
Next came Dale Qyril Gansen, born December 22, 195b, who
is currently in his last yer r of high school. He said with
a little luck, he may graduate this year.
The last member of the Gansen (Cyril) family is Michael
Patrick Gansen, who was bora May 6th, 1961. He is currently
in 8th grade at Western Dubuque school.
Cy and. Jane ere Catholics, the same as there parents Pnd
attended the Holy Family Parish, next to the monastery in
Dubuque county. This parish provided the religious background
for all the children in Religion classes there every Sat-
urday.
They are currently building a new house on their farm
near Peosta.(Box 250) Cy and his father built the previous
farm house in the year 1950,
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Part VIII. The final part, mine, Daniek E Gansen.
I was born june 12, 19fj>l, at Finley hospital in Dubunue,
Iowa. The second child Dorn to Mr and Mrs Cyril Gansen of
Peosta, Iowa. I was raised on the form and ttended the 3ame
one room gade school that my father attended, Brick JNo. 8.
Un fortunately, the Brick No 8 was closed down in 1963 and
the students were all transferred to Epworth Elementary
school in Epworth, about seven miles' away but by route of
the school bus, about twenty miles away. I finished 6th
grade here, then attended .estern Dubuque Scool for the
e remainder of junior high ( 7th # 8th) and also four
years of high school, graduating in June of 1969.
Aftee graduation, a cousin, Chuck Delaney and I came down
to Belvidere to apply for jobs at the Chrysler plant. e
were told we could start work that night until someone notic-
ed wexs were still seventeen and not old enough, A close Est
call. We both went back home and worked on ou father's
farms until August when we came back' to Chrysler and started
work. I worked at Chrysler and lived at a Mrs Hawkee's
boarding house, a couple of miles south of the plant, until
January of 1971.
This was when I had to report to the Army. I was drafted
into the Army at Des Moines, Iowa on the tenth day of Feb-
ruary. From there I was transferred to Fort Leonard cod,
Missouri for my basic training. The next stop became Fort
Knox, Kentucky where I received advanced training in Se-
connassaince or a scout. Upon completion of training here
I was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas after ? two week leave.
One week before ehristmas of 1971, I receiced orders to
report to the 3rd of the 63rd cav, 1st Inf Div, which was
stationed in Augsburg, Germany. So Augsburg became my home
for the next 13 months until I received the honorable lis
charge the last week of January 1973. hile I was in Ger-
many, the Olympics were taking place about ten miles away,
which gave me an opportunity to observe some of the compet-
ition. It also forced me and omr whole division to go on-
alert when the Arabs killed a number of competitors.
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After I Got out of the service , I reported back to Chry-
sler within a month for my old job back. I have been employ
ed there evere since.
Before I went abroard to be stationed in Germany, I start
ed dating my wife, Barb Koerperick who was living with her
parents on a farm East ofl Dubuque about seven miles in
Illinois. We became engaged February 14, 1973 and set our
wedding date for January 19, 1974. My wife attended St
Clara's Academy and vVahlett High School. Born November 4,
1952, she graduated from Wahlert in 1970.
The bridesmaids for our wedding were Judy Koerperick,
Dorothy Schmitt, Judy Callahan, and Gail Shraeder.
The Groomsmen were Tom Gansen, Chuck Delaney, Mike Koerp-
erick, and Gary Schmitt.
The vows were exchanged at St Columbkilles Church in
Dubuque, Iowa . Father Banning performed the ceremonies.
Two weeks before our wedding, I purchased the smr 11 two
bedroom brick house located at the corner of North Sunset
Ave, and School Street in Rockford. This is our present
address.
On October 10th, 1975 , we became the proud parents of
a baby boy, Terry Michael Gansen, born at St Anthonies
hospital in Rockford. Terry is now six months old nnd grow
ing like a weed.
That brings the paper up to date to the best of my obt- in
able knowledge at this date.
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Grandfather (your father's side)
Name Pay Garlick
Current Residence
Date of birth Jim? 3, lob6
Date of death .-August 9, 1966
E due a t i on ( numb e r of years);
grr.de school high school
Occupation(s)
Place of birth Hi lner , M or th Da k ota
Place of burial Springfield, Kissmri
vocational
college
Is t in shoe factory
2nd Painter
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
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Mountain Home,
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4th Springfield. Mo, Dates 196L.-1966
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1913
Place of Marriage to your grandmother p??s Moines. Iowa date Hay 15 ,
NOTE: If your father was raised (to age 13) by a stepfather or another
relative give that data on the back of this page. (A-l)
Grandmother (your father's side)
Name ?dna Ma 3 Dean
Date of birth May 5> 1^95
Date of death May 23, 1970
Current Residence
Place of b i r t h Fort Dodgej Xowa.
Place o i burial jprinnfjp ldj Missouri
Kducation (number of years):
grade school high school
college ^
vocational
Occupation (s)
1st Secretary
2nd Housewife
3rd
4 t h
Dates
Dates
Dates
Da tes
PL AC E OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1 s t see ajb-OVg t e s__
2nd
3rd
4 th
Date s
D a t e s
Dates
Re ligion Protestant
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc
1' lace of marriage to your g r a nd f a t h c rJDeS Koines, XOWa dutu Hay Is-, } 1913
NOTE: If your lather was raised fit) age 18) by a stepmother or
another relative give that data on the back ol this page
(A-2) .
A - 2 Stepgrandf ather (your father's side)
Name
Current Residence
Date of birth
Date of death
Place of birth
Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade school high school
Cw 1 lege
Occupation(s)
1st
2nd
3rd
4 th
Religion
Dates
Da tes_
Dates
Dates
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
vocational
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Da t e s
D a t e s
Dates
'olitical parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandmother_
3-2 St epgrand mother (your father's side)
date
Name
Date of birth
Date of death
Current Residence
Place of birth
Place of burial
Education (number of years):
grade school high school
coll e ge
Occupation(s)
1st
2nd
3rd
4 th
Re 1 i gion
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
vocational
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandfather
Grandfather (your mother's side) ',
Name James rtarriSon Lincoln ingot ^Current Residence
Hate of birth February 12, loo7 Place of birth near Keytesville, Missouri
Date of death January Ij, 19 62 Place of burial Herdnn, Charitnn, I'issm.ri
Ed uc.it ion (number of years):
grade school high school vocational college
Occupation (s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Is t Deputy Sheriff Dates 1st Zhtc.ntan. Ok la. Dates 1901 _
2nd Carpenter Dates 2nd Old Herxlon, Mo. Dates 1901 - 1923
3rd Dates_ 3rd Compton, Calif. Dates 1928- 1929
4 th Da tes 4 th Mendon, Mo, Da t es 1929 - 196? __
R e 1 i g i o n Protestant
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc,
Democratic party
Place of marriage to your grandmother Carrollton, MiSSouridat^ March 16, 1910
NOTE: If your mother was raised by a stepfather or another relative (to
age 18) give that data on the back of this page (C-l)
Grandmother (your mother's side)
Name ^ffje McPherSon Current Residence
Date of birth December 21, lao9 _Plac e of birth Old Mend on. Mi sj3_ur i
Date of deat h P lace of burial _____
Education (number of years)
grade school 3 high school )■ vocational college j
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESTDKNCK
(after Leaving home)
1 s t ^ank teller . Dates 1908 - 1910 1st see above begin- Dates
ning w/ Old Her. don
2nd Housewife Dates 1910 - _^n<J Dales
3rd Dates __3rd .Da 1 <■' s
4th Dates 4th Dates
Religion Protestant
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandfather Carrollton, Missouri Halt- March 16, .1910
NOTE: If your mother was raised by a stepmother or another relai ive ( l o
H' gflve tb at data on the back of this page (\i-2)
S t ep gr andf a the r (your mother's side)
Current Residence
of birth Place of birth
Date of death Placeofburial
Education (number of years)
grade school high school vocational college
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates 1st Dates
2nd Dates 2nd Dates
. — - 1
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
4 th Dates 4 th Dates_
R e 1 i g i o n
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc
Place of marriage to your grandmother Date
Step grand mother (your mother's side)
Name Current Residence
Dateofbirth Place of birth
Dateofdeath Placeofburial
Education (number of years)
grade school high school
voca t tonal co I 1 <.•)>,<
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates 1st Dates
2nd Dates 2nd Da tes
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
U t h Dates 4 th Da t es
Re 1 1 g i o n
'ol it leal party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandfather Date
HILDREN of A & B (or A-2 or B-2 ) - your father's name should appear below
Name Ray Thomas Garlich
Place of birth Qgg r.oin?Sj Iowa date Jun^ 13, 1917
Number of years of schooling; Occupation Plumber
Residence DgS Moines, la. M a r i t a 1 Statu s Harried
Number of children 1 ( nne) Death
Nam e Boyd Harley Garli ck
Place of birth D^s Hoines, Iowa d a t e October 9, 1920
Number of years of schooling Occupa t ion :'np1^r Tns.pect.nr
Res i dence liana, California Marl tal S tatua QluaEcad
Number of children 1 ( on? ) Death _- - -
Name Dean Franklin Gar lick
Place of birth Pea Iloines, Iowa date Ja'.uarv 2. 1927
Number of years of schooling Occupa tionBlectronicS Tech-
Residence ^nckfnrn, T11innis Marital Status Married nician
Number of ch i 1 dren 2 ( two) Death
N a m e
Place of b i r th da ' l!_
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Nam e
Place of birth date
Number of years of schooling Occupation
R e s i d e n c e M a r i t a 1 Stat us
Number of children Death
Name
Place of birth date .
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Name
Place of birth _date
Number of years of schooling . _Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children . death
Name
Place of birth_ _date
Number of years of schooling Occupation,
Residence, _Marita 1 Status
Number of children death_ :
N a m e
PI ace of birth ' di,tc
Number ot years of schooling Oc <: upn t ion _
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death_ .
Nam*
Place of birth _.<l;lt(-' — -
Numb*..- of years of schooling . Occupation
Res i dence Mar i t a 1 SI at us
Numb it ol children „dl'nl h
CHILDREN of C and D (or C-2, D-2)-your mother's name should appear below
Nasi
mic (iacot) ^an-wal
Place of birt h_^
Number of years of schooling
Res idence ..?wt?r.. Kansas Marl tal
Number of children J | Egg]
date July 22, 1912
( tw?lv?) 0 ccupation
housgwirg
Status
death
warns
date ,-jril 17, 1915
Name Doris Jean (Shoot) ",.'?scott
Place of birth "?n-dpnt .iisscuri
Number of vears of schooling 12 (twelve) Occupation hnnsr>wi f g
s d n e . -1- .ill, Ga. Ma rital Stat us Carried
Number of children 2 (Two) death
Name Jar.-? ;2rri3tZ£(5hcot) Garlick
Place of b ir th !l?ndont Missouri
Number of years of schooling
Residence . Illinois Marital Status Married
_d a t e unygmhpr Pi. 1927
Uj (lourt^en) Occupation housewife
Number of children
( two)
death
Name
Place of birth
Number of years of schooling^
Res idence
Number of children
date
Marital Status
death
Occupation_
Name
Place of birth
date
Number of years of schooling_
Residence
Number of children
Marital Status
death
Occupatlon_
Name
Place of birth
d a t e
Number of years of schooling
Residence Marital Status
N umber of children
death
Occupation
Name
Place of birth
Number of years of schooling_
Residence
Number of children
date
Marital Status
death
Occupation
Place of birth
Number of years of schooling
Res 1 dence
Number of children
date
Occupation
Marital Status
d e a t h
Name
Place of birth
date
Number of years of schooling
Residence _Marital Status
Number of children*.
Occupa t ion
death
Place of birth
iber of yearH of schooling
Residence
Number of children
'J a t c
Occupation
Marital St a t us
death
Your Father
Name Dean Franklin Garlick __Current Residence Rnckinrri. TITS -pis
Date of birth January 2, 1927 Place of bitth Pes Moines, I rn-ja
Date of Death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade school . high school vocational college
Occupation(s)
Is t Service (Army) Da tes 19-U5 - I9h
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
. 1 s t )r>r, ; m- ^. Tot-jp D a t e s J? 1,6 - 5?
2nd Paint & Varnish Dates 19^2 , 1966 2nd Kansas City, lio. Dates 19^2 -
oup^rvisor
3rd ^lectroriiss Techrii- Dates 1966 - 3rd Rpckford. 111. Dates 1959 -
4th
Dates
4 th
Dates
R e 1 i g i o n Protestant
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your mother pes Moines, Iowa date Hay ?£, 1950
NOTE: If you were raised by a stepfather or another relative give that data
on the back of this page. (E-2)
Your Mother
Name Jane Harriet (Shoot) Garlick
Current Residence TVnr.kf nrH, Tllino^
Plac
of birth Head on, Chariton, Missonri Bd^ggg of birth Moy^nber lk. 1927
Date of death
Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade school 8 high;- school
vocational
college
Occupation(s)
Is t Secretary
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
am
2nd Student
3rd Secretary
4th
Religion Protestant
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc. Republican party
DARj Garden Club, Rachel Circle (church)
Place of marriage to your father 3^3 Moines, T nr;a
d a t e May 26. .1250
NOTE: If you were raised by a stepmother or another relative give that data
on the hack of this page (F-2) .
E-2 Stepfather
Name
... of birth Place of birth
lite of death Placeofburial
Education (number of years)
school high school vocational college
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates 1st Dates
2nd Dates 2nd ^Dates
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
4th Dates 4th Dates
Re 1 i g ion
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc
Place of marriage to your mother Date
F - 2 Stepmother
Date of birth Place of birth_
Dnte of death Placeofburial
lu at ion (number of years)
grade school high school vocational college
:upation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates 1st Dates
2nd Dates 2nd Dates
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
Dates 4lh Dates
Re 1 1 >;ion
iral party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc
Place of marriage to your father date
10
CHILDREN OF E AND F (or E-2.F-2) -YOUR NAME SHOULD APPEAR BELOW
Name Reqina Jarre Garlic!
Place of birth pes Moines, Intra Date of birth December 19,
Number of years of schooling 17 (s^yr-it^n) Occupation Teacher
Residence Japan Marital Status Single
Number of children death
Name Sara Dean Gar lick
Place of birth Kansas City. Ho. Date of birth 'ov?nj?r o. 19t6
Number of years of schooling 13 (thirt?? ) Occupation Stu:/0 t
Residence Rockfora, Illinois Marital Status Single*
Number of children death
N ame
Place of birth Date of birth
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Name
Place of birth Date of birth
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Name _______
Place of birth Date of birth
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Name
Place of birth Date of birth
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Name
Place of birth _Date of birth
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence _Marital Status
Number of children death
Name
Place of birth Date of birth
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence_ Marital Status
Number of children death
ASSIGNMENT OF LITERARY RIGHTS (If you and your family are willing)
I hereby donate this family history, along with all literary and
administrative rights, to the Rock Valley College Family History
Collection, deposited in the Rockford Public Library, Rockford
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List of Sources
Several members of my family have been interested in the
family lines and have in many cases kept relatively good records,
though often net in any orderly fashion. Much more genealogical
research has been done on my mother's side of the family because
of ancestors from the Revolutionary War, giving my mother and her
sisters membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution,
Much of this research was done hy my mother's sister, Mrs. Doris
Wescott. Many of the documents and a great deal of the family
Xf«m cn the Sho*v sice of the family are available te mt as a re-
sult of much hard work on her part. Genealogical research on my
father's side cf tt» family las been res^rched mostly by ray grest-
aunt, Ida A If or ,and by a cousin, Inez Burniiam.
Other sources are some of my own personal memories and know-
ledge, some stories from my one surviving grandparent, Mrs. Sffie
Shoot, and innumerable talks and interviews with ay very patient
parents, who I have discovered contain a greater store of knowledge
than I ever realized previously. I have also included Some records
of the immolate family and various photographs I have found both
pertinent and interesting.
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Author's Personal Note
tfhen I began this project, I iad no idea now much material
Wji available to uz or how much 1 could still search out if I ever
have at rjy disposal the time and the raoney to persue my lineage
farther. As I continuec working, iiowever, I really becane inter-
ested In it. I really got hung up on wnut I was learning about the
people I came iron, }fy sister, aome now for a visit, am 1 were
talking recently and we agseed that it was ratner sau to see and
hear the evidence of the people that had come and gone?, the people
c'.'Ct liif. ri.dstc- .*& long ago. To me, and to extend this one step
farther, I feci a great sense ox lost that I never knew these rela-
tives of nine, vhc sound so interesting and many that sound so nice
that I know 1 vrould have loved them.
To turn things around, 1 know that also I will never know l>.
perhaps infinite number of my posterity. But it is interesting to
think that maybe some day, one of my distant, future relatives will
look ne up, 3ni perhaps this very record oi progress so far. I
would very .uuch like to know uiac tney will be able to dig up about
m---, and I very much hope also that 1 will leave behind something
Worthwhile to dig up.
Thonas GAR LICK and Sarah Ann <PAM
Thomas GftRLICK and Sarah Ann ORAM wer^ my great grandparents on
ray father*s side of the family* Vsry little is known of ">ither of
thera. The only available inf orraaliua reveals that Thomas GARLIC' -.-as
born in England and thet S^rah Ann GRAM was born in Canada. They were
married in Canada yrui lived at one tine in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada.
They bowk! from there to liilner, Worth Dakota. Here, their two child-
ren were born, Willie, in 1873, and my grandfather, Ray In 1866. The
first child, Willie, died at the age of ten, before my grandfather was
born. Sarah Ami CRAM died in 1891, when Ray uas only five years old.
Thomas Garlick died in either 190? or 1908 in Keokuk, Iowa.
i.
Harley its: on DKAN and Cora Belle HuTBLLING
ifcrley Judson DEAN, my paternal grandmother^ father, ins hern
in low on November 28, 186?. He was married ore? before marrying
Cora Belle Hotelling, though his for at wife's name is not. available.
They had one son, William DEAN, who was raised by a family named
Davis after Harley*s first, vrife died. He later took t,neir name, to
be William DAVIS. While living in St. Louis, Missouri .( he was 3 Street
car conductor. On February 18, l89it, Barley married Cora Belle KO-
*niLII.*0 in Sokts, Iaua« They had uro children. First was my grand-
mother, ^vdna Mae DEAN, born in Ft. Dodge, Iowa in l8?5. The second
•was Frank DEAN, born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1897. >ferley was
killed in an automobile accident in Dps Moines, Iowa sn S< pteraber 12,
1920.
Cora Belle HOTSLUNQ was a very small Woman, under five feet
tall, but always very assertive and businesslike. *!y father says she
used to sit back on a streetcar seat and. cculi swing her legs with-
out touching the floor. But as ar. eremple of her character, h?r fa-
ther, William Jason H0IQI1XN0, (married to Hwriet Tcrrey) use-' to
take Cora along to help him collect the accounts of people who awed
him money. It yas unusual in this day arri ege for 0 woman to be in-
volved |n boslness at all, Cora aaS a very intelligent Woraa/ij and
had bet teaching orti.fi -far a "normal45 or vaclier* ^ college. When
cate
her husband died,, she went back to work to pay off the few debts he
left. She worked as a cream tester for the state of Iowa, plus rent-
ing out sw33 of her property in Des Moines, Shs too died in an auto
accident, as had her husband Harlsy. A nephew of hers was driving as
they came back from Springfield, Missouri on September l£, 1937.
The Methodist Church in Hebron, Wisconsin. William Jason iiOTBL-
LENG and Harriet TCPJTiY were married here on June 1, 1373.
OCT «
TKi Lc-.il.
(1« to r.) Bdia D»n Gas-lick grandmother)* Hwley Judson Dean,
Ffcsr* Dsan, Ccvn Be 11^ Hobelling IV?ar:, and ,<ay Gar lick, (ny grandi'stiier) •
Jam ShuOlS and J-fery (Polly) KtLSCK
John SHOOTS vsaa born in i?55 in Barr.p3hir~ County, Virginia. In
tne A&erican Revolution, he Jwsrved u*ith ths Virginia troops 33 a pri-
vate. In 1780, ha married !&ry (PolJy) V'lLSJl, bom ir 1762. They
had aix children, Kitty, Frederick, Susan, lialinos, William, and John.
John (sr.) •lied in 1316 in Fayette County, Kentucky'.
H5V. FR3DSRICK SHOOT and RB35GCA TAYLCP.
Frederick Shoot *jas bora in 17? 4 in Lexington, Kentucky. On
December 9, ioi5» he married Rebecca TAYLOR, born in Maryland in 1795.
They had seven cluidren, the eldest ci vriion was my gr "rat-jreat-gra-.x.!-
iather. He was Charles G. SHOOT, born lloverber 2?, 1818, The other
children included Milton if., Jam* }■.., La. «ctte, ~~cline, Adeline,
aiid Henry T. Frederick was a uiaiatar, probably a circuit rider , in
the Restoration Hoveaent that began around 13 12. This taoveraent was
to bring the cnurch back to sinpiicic.,/, back to ths New Testanent. The
Diaciplaa oi Christ cane free this fcc\r£ceht. 1> wss evidently very
higdly regarded in hi3 day, as is evident frcn an excerpt froa a book
iO' T. P. Haley f Historical and "Ic^:.^ .;.,;d-^l S'.tetcbts th? 5arly
v;nurchesr a.vi Jlone-sr mc^-. ^ of the Christia; i C . . : :*c] I "'/^ luri, ■
pao<i3 H5-116. (Toi* excerpt included in original copy only.) He died
in 1355 in Shelbyvill?., Missouri.
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DR, CH&RL3S u. SHOOT and SLftEftSBtH TIPTON
fiy great-great grandfather # Dr. Charles G» SHOOT, wan born
on i'Jovetiiber 2>, iSlC in Fayette County, Ke lucky, He ' -v. s - a lector*
anu Harriet. Siiaabeth TIPTOE jn Jul,) r ; in --Cgett County, Illinois^
Elizabeth waa bora in Kentucky on February 13j 1320. Ha was one of tlie
iouikisra the town of Sciim* ^-JLa^ouri, a small fcown In the northeast
cor* Kir 3i the a^te* C
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According to the 1972 edition of the Rand-McIJally Road Atlas, the town
has a population of 1,571*.
Charles ant": Elizabeth produced a fairly large family of nine child-
ren. They included the following:
2!eli;:-.- Jatni
Harrison
Cinder ilia
Henry clay
James Lafayette
fr id ?rick, Jr.
Hedora
Scaaa
born February 27, 1839
born liov^iber 10, b-l+O
bcrr March, 1", 161+2
born Nay 3, 1810*
born October 21*, lSit6
born Hay 29, 131*5
born November 29, 1852
born April 1, 1&55
born September 1, 135?
June lh, 1916
April 11, 131£
IJovember 8, 1872
October j, 1851
September 1*, 1868
July Hi, .1865
Their second child, Harrison, was my great grandfather.
Charier, died on October 29> l87ii in Burdland, Knox Co., Missouri,
Elizabeth died on March 1, 1907 in Brashear, Adair Co., Missouri.
£HgL_ — -£Z_— ~ZZ T^^-ls
(Errttftrate of ifarriap
STATE OF ILLINOIS,
County of Edgar
I CARL C. PATRICK, County Clerk in and for said County and State hereby Certify
that Mr. Tharles G. Shoot
Age next birthday, Place of birth,
Fathers Name, Mother's Maiden Name,
And Elizabe+h Tipton
Age next birthday, Place of Birth
Father's Name, Mother's Maiden Name,
were duly married on the 5 th jay Qf July? I838
bv Isaac Elledge, as appear8 0f record in my office.
Given under my hand and official seal this 5th
day of November 19 55
Marriage Rec *rd A 'age ■ . ,\ _ ' *-TT ■ :
COUNTY CLERK
__j'i'i|!a , t.l,,.,;,,; „„ ^ iLfrto. "■ ■ : ^ |y
1000 10-54 HOWLETT'S, PARIS, ILL.
T> Grsat-Graat Grancbtetlwr Dr. Charles G, Shoot* s
Tferrisc;? Liccnun
Harrison SHOOT ana narriet BASH
Harrison SHOOT, ay eternal great grandfather 4 was born on Novem-
ber 11, 18U0 in La Belie, Lewis Co., Missouri. As a young mn$ he was
j farmer, farming the family land belonging to ids father, Dr. Charles
G. Shoot. On October 22, 1871 in Old Chariton, Missouri, he married
Harriet B&SB. Harriet was born on October 2, Io>j in Connersville, In-
diana. When Dr. Charles Shoot die J 187U, Harrison received nothing
in the will, for the reason that he had had the use t the land for
thes a years. However, the lard, too, was sold, and Harrison was left
with virtually nothing. They moved and lived after that in Chillicothe
Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri* and for & while i: Checotah, ~kla no-
ma, iiarrison and Harriet produced a very large family, consisting of
twelve children. They were, in order of age, ^tnie, Charles M., Olive !
Dora B.j Nellie L., Gracie 3., iriallace H», 51»ie F., James H. L«»
Clara J., Bessie V., and Leslie H. Tiie total was nine wiria ana three
boys. It was said of Harriet that she treated l*er hoys line cana-
ries, or like "birds in a gilded cage". Only three bays out ox twelve
children were probably hound to evoke that result in those tires, es-
specially in a i'arner,3 family.
Iiarrison himself, though through had tiaes for part of his life,
just loved to tease and joke. He aiSo iow'eu angel food cake, and
called it "moonahin- ' because it was ^3 insubstantial. He died in
Kansas City, Jackson Co., i'.issouri on June Ik, 1916, Harriet died in
Hawthorne, L.A. Co., California.
Ja?ies HcPHSRSOM and liancy 30Yl)
James Mr.Ph«rson was born in Scotland on V&tGit 2£, lhlO. In
America, he accumulated a fcaaisocta amount of land, on which ne farmed
and raised animals. Or. iiarcn 1$, 1C>>, he Harried Ilancy Boyd, they
bad nios children all togeusar, ihsy weae James j Henry '-.lay, Cath-
erine, 'Uisa Jane, Wary Ann, ilancy ^llen, William (my great-great
grandfather) , George, and John. These last theee boys were ail lost
in the Civil War, in 1563. James provived for his survivors quite
substantially as he owned nropert?/ i* both Madison Co., Illinois*
(directly north of ?-ast St. Louis) and Logan Co., Kentucky (southern
edge of Kentucky in the middle-western portion). In addition, he
owned property in Butler Co., Kentucky, (north of Logan Co.,) and
in his Will ha stated that none of this land should be sold until the
sun ef 13.0,00 per acre could be attained, which was probably quite
high for land prices In that day, though it Seems like a mere pittance
today* The family finally actually lived in Iladison Co., Illinois.
James diet there on October 20, iu79. Nancy died there also, only
nine months before her husband.
Hiliiaia KcPifBSON &nd Elisabeth ROGERS
tfillian HcPHSflSOK was bom August 25, 1-336 while the family s;ill
lived in Legnr Oc, Kentucky. lis was s big Scotsman, stprdirg 6n» tall
sltx. gray eyes and dark Mir. tfe sarried *lisa>«?th Rogers, born Ir
18kl,ifiTennessee. They had one Utile boy, James Hi 11? an, my great
grandfather • In August of 1662. uhen the Civil liar was really getting
going, William and oao of his brothers y;ant tc join up in their own
town of Hero, Jiadison Co., Illinois* Tliey were all KUStered ir> on
SepteWr 19, 1062, and all served in ths 117 Infantry— Cotapany "O".
Carsp Butler, IU.
The brother.? were probably lake sn aany others that joined up on both
Sides expecting to whip ths eneisy in three months and cor.? home. For
theae boyy, in three aonthi*, January through Harch of 1363, all were
deed frcss the :m. The first vas George, a private, aged 20, who
died on January k, 1863. The second -.ras Job::, also a private, a gad
22, Who filed on February 3, 1663. Or. *%rch 12, 1863, William was sent
hone on a disabled discharge for he was very ill. m? had had whet the
niiitary doctor tensed "chronic diarhaa" for Seven or sight weeks, then
pneutso i?.. They kept him until he was truly in deplorable shape, and
on the raadicai section of the certificate for disability discharge, it
ma Stated that he would yrobebiy die anyway, ife toe dysentery and
paeu&imiaj and -jas finally paralysed be:: or- ha got hose. He died at
home Seven days biter, on rfareti 1?, 18-53. After his death, his young
aa: lived . it., the Jaiaes IWxsxa&'i fa:dly, Willian'S father* Eliza-
beth died twelve years later at the age of 3h on June 22, 1875.
Jawes William f-feFH5n3CE and ifatmah Anne LAWRSWCB
James William KcPHFSSOK was the little boy whs went to live with
his grandparents, Mr« &nu <-irs. James Mcpherson, he was nuch younger
tfcati the other boys in the xanily, but was treated as the son oi this
wealthy landowner, end vas very spoiled* lie had everything uone for
him when he was young, and was given what woulc uve been his £ather*s
?hare of the inheritance* , vhich included quit" a parcel ',-1 lend and
noney. Therefore, si race he himself, Janes William, rras e landowner, he
thfx'eht he .should also be a farmer. Here on that later.
In the aeantiae, he fell in love with s very distant cousin, who
was a hived girl for Janes McPherSen, Her nane was Hannah Anne tAW-
KSNGB, Janes exposed this narriace, and so gave Janes W'illiaff. a new
wardrobe and 100 yuid pieces so that he could go away and forget her.
So he went away and "wore the clothes auad traveled and spent the 100
gold pieces, but ne didn't forget Hannah, and caue no&e anu Berried her.
Hannah haa come fraa a nice enough iariiiy, but was working as a hired
girl because she was an orphan* Her parents had ciea when she was a
young girl and this was the only way ^ supporting herself, do, Jar.es
William narried Hannah Anne Lawrence, wi*o was barn near iloroj .-jadison
Co., Illinois on April 25, 1863, on January 1?, l8o2«
Jacies William and Hannah i*»d 3 larjj-s family of eleven children*
They included Arthur, who died in infancy, Luis Ann, Us if. flay, Bessie
"lien, Bffie (ay grandmother), Claude, Irene, Charles Frederick, James
Lincoln, Ted Herbert, and liazel Sster. when Claude was 2 or 3, and
Irene was only about 20 ~ 2- days eld, i^a 0ider>t girl, Lula Ann,
happened to brint the measles houc during an epidemic and the whole fan-
iXy got them* Hannah had to :'.ur*c. r. whole fanily including 2 very young
beby With not even aspirin tr. keep the fever ,down» Claude and Irene
both fror. the r-easles.
Hannah had very fins ar.d beautiful ski n and she used to say it came
trm fete steaK fror. banding ovrr tb? washtuba all the tir»«. Also, a
story vn? told to ny mother abottt a tine when the family '.45s going to
?*X33 in ,i wagon with a fan and mad? eanp about dusk, r^nnsh mada
corn cakes for dinner with water from a nearby stream. There were snme
left over ^:>r breakfast* When they broke the ccmcakes open ir. the
morning, they -mt? very surprised to find that the strean water had had
tadpoles in it and that setae vere baked inside the corncakes!
Janes miliar. was a very handSeiae nan, with black hair and a red
mustache* lie had deer very will educated while living with his grand-
parents tut, as earlier stated, ha felt that he should be a farmer. tie
had seae bad experiences and moved from one place to another, but could
not auccee. will in the faming world. They Bent bo 'frxas, back to Ill-
inois, to 'dissouri, and fi sally to Arkansas* But be dearly loved to
hunt and fish; which ray help to explain why he didn't succeed -jell in
fatwing* He -^5 hard of terming, a trait that has unfortunately been
handed ism through the. generations, Including; to r.y -1 other* Jonea
#1 lilac died in Hen-ion, KiSSsiri, is? grajarln other's and Mother's none
testa, an Hoverfbir £a 1932. -fenneh died in Mender: a.'sc, on d ova: dber 30,
1?44.
Ray GftRLECK and Sdna Hae DEAN
My paternal grandfather was born in Milnor, Sargent Co., -lorth
Dakota on June 3, 1386. He via 5 a "bull headed" Englishman, with
•wavy dark hair xfhen young (and almost entirely bald as he got older),
and a very stocky 5,8" frame. He was very strong, especially his arns
and hands and had an excellent physique. I can remember when I was a
little girl and my grandpa and I would sit on the couch. He would fold
his hands with his thumbs together, and try as I miynt, I could not
pull them apart. I also got a real charge out of hin pepping his false
teeth out at me just after he got them. He was quite a tease.
He made his living as a painter and wall paper hanger, and ran a
truck farm on the side, with the aid of the rest of the family. He was
strong and good at his job, and also very mechanical, as my father is.
fly grandfather, Ray, built the tractor th^y used on the farm.
Taougn he had an excellent physique in general, lie had a limp as a
result of a taunting accidmt when he was just a bojt. He was out hunt-
ing with a step-brother (no one seems to knrw who it was) and the other
gun went off accidentally, snooting my grandpa in the right heel. Almost
the entire heel Done was destroyed, leavi-g him with quite a lirrp^ and
finally with one leg Slightly shorter tnan the other. He wor^ Kangaroo
leather shoes all his life because of this. They were evidently the
most comfortable typ<* hie could find.
Ray had be"n married once and divorced, but I cannot find out who
his first wife vras. It evidently did not last long, and there were no
children. As a young man, he W8S painting Harley .'jean's house, and
met Harley' s daughter, Edna Mae, in the course of his work. They were
married in Des Moines, Iowa on May 15, 1913.
My grandmother, Edna Mae DEAN was born in Ft. Dodge, Iowa on lay
1895. As a young girl, about 16 or 17, she attended a business college
in Des Moines, Iowa and learned to type and to take shorthand. I remem-
ber she always typed her letters, so she must have really like to type.
She worked for a time before she married Ray. After that, she kept house
and helped with the truck farm. She also had a greenhouse out back that
Grandpa had built for her. She kept herself quite busy at the church,
also, at that time, the Indianola Heights Christian Church. She w?s the
superintendent of the Sunday School there for several years. A very
skillful hobby Grandma had was crocheting. She did excellent work, and
she crocheted a beautiful tablecloth, one each ior my sister and me.
They had three sons: Ray Thomas, born June 13, 1917* Boyd Harley,
born October 9, 1920, and my father Dean Franklin, born January 2, 1927.
Ray Thomas Garlick married Madeline M?rkle, and they had one son, Ray
Thomas, Jr., who is also Married now with two children. Boyd married
Connie (I don"t know her maiden name) and they had one Son, who married
and also had one son. Boyd and Connie are now divorced. Dean, my
father, married Jane harriett* Shoot and hac. two children. But mare on
us later.
A f ter retiring and a few rore y^ars in Des MoineS, my grandparents
moved to Maintain Hot-*, Arkansas, where they lived for 2 or 3 years.
After that, they moved to Springfield, Missouri, i;h?re my grandfather
die' of a heart attack on August 9, 1966. He enjoyed excellent health
up till the nay he died. My grandmother beceme ill a couple years la-
ter with cancer and was finally moved to a nursing home in Indianola,
Iowa (near Des Moines, Iowa where my uncle Ray lives). She died there on
May 23, 1970.
James Harrison Lincoln SHOOT and Sffie McPtfiRSCN
My grandfather, Janes Harrison Linciln SHOOT was born in a small
settlement called Guthridge's Mill, which is no longer in existence,
but was located near Keyetsville, Missouri* He was born on a farm there,
and he always seemed to consider this part of the country hone. He was
born on February 12, 1887. When he was lh, his family moved to Checotah,
Oklahoma. James H. L. absolutely despised Oklahoma, and within a few
months he went back to live with his uncle Marion Bash in Hendon, Ho.
He became a carpenter, and a very good one, at that.
On March 16, 19 10 he married Sffie McPHSRSON in Carrollton, Mo.
They had three daughters. They were, Mary Bernice, born July 22, 1912,
Doris Jean, born April 17, 1915* and my mother Jane Harriett^, bom
November la, 1927, a gap of nearly 13 years between my mother and hrr
next sister. Mary 3ernice married Uillard Glenn Manewal and had two
daughters, Jan and Judy. Doris Jean married Charles Monroe Wescott,
with whom she had two children., Marilyn, who was killed in an 3uto ac-
cident just before her sixteenth birthday, and James William, born Oct-
ober 3, 19246, ' , J
an. now narnec. himselfxor che second tine. Kjy mother
narried Dean Franklin Gaxliok. They hau two daughters, Regira Jan-., and
iara Dean (me).
My grandfather was an excellent athlete and an especially cood has
ball player. He taught my cousin, Vernon Kennedy, how to pitch, and
Vernon went on to be a pitcher in the major leagues playinc fee- Chi-
cago, Detroit, St. Louis, etc. One of his greatest joys in life was
hunting and fishing, and he went every chance he got. He also enjoyed
trap and ske?t shooting. My grandfather was very nusically inclined, wth
a very nice tenor voice and he played the mandolin. In Mendon, he and
.some other men had a small band called the "Yellow Cre^k Ramblers". (Yel-
low Creek is located just outside of Mendon, Ho.)
My grandmother, Sffie McPHSRSON| was born December 21, 1889, in
Old Hendon, Missouri (located just a few miles from Mend on) . She was a
pretty girl, only about 5*2" tall, and very intelligent. She liked
school and was a member of the graduating class of 1909, the very first
graduating class from the Hendon High School. From there, she went on
to college in Rus.3e.Llvi lie, Kentucky for B year, then came home and worked
as 3 baric teller. Unfortunately, she was teased for being so interested
in schcol since most girls were not. She was especially interested in
languages and took Latin and German in nigh school besides having an ex-
tremely £ood kn owlidge of English. She ias a tremendous vocabulary,
and to this day loves to work cross -word puzzles. (Grandmother is now
86 years old.) After she was married, she kept house, was an excel-
lent seamstress, and xitas a fanatic gardener. She raised both vege-
table an-} flower gardens, and Gjtlnned many of her own fruits and vege-
tables. See is also an excellent cook, arid seems to enjoy it.
My grandfather and grandmother met in a rather strange way. when
thej. were young, James H. L.'s brother used to court Sffie'S oider sis-
ter, Lala, and Little James would used to come alonn and hide under the
rosebush in the KfiPheraon yard. Whetner tney met then or later is un-
knjrwn.
My grandmother now loves to travel and goes all over the country
by jet whenever she can. She has just recently been living with us for
several months, and is now with my aunt Doris. Grandmother is one of
the kindest, gentlest people I have ever known and I can honestly say
titju 1 have never in my life seen her gpt angry or lose her . emper for
any reason. She also is hard of hearing and is difficult fcc communi-
cate with at times unless in quiet surroundings. Even x/ith the ag-
gravation of her hearing loss, however, she is always calm , sweet, and
helpful in any possible.
riy graiiafathar developed a respiratory ailment later in life, pos-
sibly emphysema. He had smoked since he was nine years old, which no
doubt contributed t,o his difficulties. He died of congenital heart
xailure on January k, 1962. 1-ty mother and 1 went down there from Rcck-
frod when he was so ill. A neighbor and very good friend of the fa-
mily, Luciie Larson, care to the train to pick us up (my grardraother
never drove a car) and took us all tip to the hospital in Marceline. In
the time it had taken to pick us up, Grandfather had died, ~ven though
1 was only five 2'ears old, I can still remember the doctor sitting my
grandmother clown and telling her out in the lobby. I bad gene in there
with a picture of John F. Kennedy from the cover of Time magazine for
my grandfather (he was a strong Democrat a d my motl>er was a strong
Republican;, iieedless to say, I came back out of there with the same
picture clutcned tightly in my hand.
FUNERAL NOTICE
JAMES H. SHOOT
Passed away Thursday, January 4, 1962, at
the age of 74 years, 10 m o n t h s, and 22
days.
Funeral from the Christian Church, Men-
don, Mo., S u n d ay, January 7, at 2 p.m.,
Rev. Stanley Ray, officiating.
The body will be at the Leipard Chapel
until the funeral hour.
My ffldt'srnal .crarvi-Oath^s funeral notice.
Interment in Mendon Cemetery.
Dean Franklin GARLICK and Jane Harritte SKOOT
It la so difficult to write the histories of someone known in-
tiriat'ly. It H3S difficult with ny grandparents, who I knew, but I
know that I can never really do justice to reporting what I know of
ray parents* for there are so many, nany small, everyday things that
raean so much to me that I could never relate and would very likely not
mean much to anyone else. Please bear with my feeble efforts*
Ky father wr?3 the third son of Ray and Rdaa Dean GarHck, born on
January 2, 1927 in Des Moines, Iowa. A3 a child and s young Tian., he
vcrked helping his father with the truck .'arm they ran. My father in-
herited ray grandpa's mechanical abilities, (to has told me that he
fixed that old tractor So a»ny tines.... Nov, if he has the proper
tools, he can fix altrost *nyth;.r.q mechanical, and even if he can't fix
it, he kaQtf exactly her*' it works. It's amazinc. My father also is
in excellent condition physically and a very good athlete. He enjoys
skiing, skating, sxaissalng, ^o*.f , Softball, and nunerous other activi-
ties including being an airplane pilot, which he dearly loves. He also
enjoys hunting, though he hasn* t been on a hunting trip in several
years. In the arr.r/, he l^ecane an er-gjert rarhsman with a rifle, with
his hunting experience as a young nan standing hip. in jooi stead, no
doubt. He used to hunt d^er with a bow and arrow, and was a good ar-
cher. (He still is, I'm sure if he would just get going on it again!
hint-hint.)
In I9h?) he was drafted into the Army and at that time was in
Japan, serving in the Army of Occupation. As previously stated, he
■
My father, Dean F. Garlick, in high school
3ack from hunting.
ms an e:cpert marksman. When discharged, he returned to Des Moines,
Iowa, and there held a series of odd jobs, as nost veterans did after
the war. There also, he net my mother.
One night when Jane was on the way to choir practice withe her
friend, Opal, Dean and a friend Stepped on the way to est their dates,
for they knew Opal» My mother didn't say muchj she didn't know tiicm.
But the next weekend, when ny mother was out riding her horse, tney
net again, talked, started going out , and 2v years later, were siar-
ried.
They were Harried on May 26, 19$C in the Park Avenue Pr 'S..y;?:ian
Church in Des Moines, Ie»H8« They had two daughter Reglna Jane, on
Deosfflber 1?, ip^i, and tie, Sara Dean, on November 2, lt'3'o.
Hi' mother was bom or. Novenbsr 1U> 1927 j in Kendon, Missouri.
She was like ire; sick often a:"? a Child and rather frail at that time.
She 2lsc, i.: a very intellegxit vc*mn 2nd ^i-jcc,'-' scho-ai, still caking
classes once in a -..-nils sinply for enjoyment and knowledge. She went
to Drake university in DeS ;-bines, dcr»a for her first year and a half.
Sne moved to Des HolneS after graduati on frost rteneior. High Scnoci to
live with her Slater Joris and work to gzv ncney fcr school. She has
alvrays 'had an excellent nind, ©specially for business. She runs the
business aspect of ouz household, and !. *cps ir .peccable xecoras (She
never throws anything away; the IRS can never prove us wring!) Her
only weak points are chat she, too, is hard of hearing, and she is
chronically late. My family and I have yet to understand it.
Just after they were married, (less than a year), they bought a
house in Des Moines. Uhen signing for the loan, the bank saic that my
father dion' 'c ma.-ce enough to make payments. My mother told them that
TO WED DEAN GARUCK
Mr. and 11k
Ja i es H irrison
Shoot of
Mendon, Mo.,
announce the
engagement
and
approaching
marriage of
their daughter,
Jane Harriett e,
„ to Dean
Franklin
Gaiiiek, son
of Mr. and
Mrs. Ray
t.arliik of
llrs Mollies.
MiSH Sliool
attended Drake
university and
Mr. <iarli.k
attended
Industrial
Training
Institute in
Chicago.
Jfy Bother, Jane H» Shoot's engagement Pictur
she, too, DBS working, which she was. What She neglected to tell
then xras that she -was pregnant and would be working only a few more
months. They got the loan, and the house. Just before my mother
quit working, ttey decided to rent out the upstairs of the house. This
turned out quite well, for the rent from this apartment made their
house payments for them, with $2.i?0 a month left over!
In 1952, my father, Dean, landed a job in Kansas City, Missouri
as a paint department supervisor with the Seidlitz i'aint Company. So
they moved to Kansas City and Lived 'Jaere until ir£?> when they came
to Rockf ord, for Dean had a job with R ock ote-Va Xspar Paints. I san
remember ry father ioing upholstery us a small sideline in his frea
time, plus same painting and wall papering* which he. had learned from
his father. Everyone says he should open his own repair service or
the like since he is so mechanically inclined, and naybe Someday he
will. From 1966 to the pr»s<»nt, h». has worked at Clinton Electronics*
21y mother worked as a secretary with the Des Koines Static, • z >
Company before she was married. Since then, she went bac'.s to work
for a while after I was in school to help paj for a house for ay
grandmother Shoot to live in after my grandfather died. She is new
working again and as before, taking a class now and then*
This past summer, to celebrate their 2$th wedding anniversary,
my parents took a Caribbean cruise, which I think they enjoy- im-
mensely'. ?tr whole family loves to travel, and this was the best
gift they oould have given themselves.
I have so Much more that I can say, but will close in saying that
I have none of the standard teenage hassles with my parents. Vie have
hac our rounh raonents of course, as aferyone does, but ior the moat
part, they have done an exceptional job as parents and as people, and
have wan both the love and respect of rany people, Including and es-
pecially ny sister, Oina, and myself.
and gumzi cHatxiion Skoc
(Hi , i: p..-
of the,:-. .
Jan* : •>
i ■ i
-
i
Parents Vfcdding Invitatior
Regina Jane GAT? LICK
My sister, Pegina Jan*?, usually called Gina, was born In Mercy
Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa on Decetfiber 19, 1951, in the midst of a
virtual biizzsrd . So? Iws school now (she didn't especially like
itbef or* college) and has her bachelor's degree in English Literature
and her raster's d"gree in Asian Studies* She graduated from 'Guil-
ford High School in I969. Since August of 15*75' » She nas been in
Japan teaching English and learning more of the Japanese language*
She is teased every once in a while abnut being a "professional stu-
dent" .
One of her greatest rwssi ens 5s travelling. She has been 3 great
many places around the United States, plus Hawaii, Mexico, Puerto Rico
and Japan. She is an excellent writer and has a great deal of ar-
tistic talent* She enjoys dancing and the theatre and was in several
plays and musics Is in high school and college. She has a sharp mind
and at tines a sharp t ounce, a fierce sense of family loyalty, for
she protected me many tines as a child. I'm sure she has a great fu-
ture ahead.
Sat a Dean G&RUCK
Last but not least., is m>, Sara Dean Garlick, barn in St. Joseph
Hospital in Kansas City, Kiss our i on November 3, iy'3'6. 1 was a sickly
little chile and caused my parents many prchldms and medicai bills* I
graduated from Guilford High School in the top 20 oui of about 65d
students* I am in the r?cruit program at the Woodward Governor do.
hare in town, with a guaranteed summer joe for sight years, thank
heavens (with the employment situation the way it is now.) X enjoy
business, money, people, and especially music* I sing, play five in-
struments (sine) and an in = musical group iron my church, Bethssda
Covenant, The New Revelations, Which for the past two springs nas
done a concert tour of the Sast Coast. Vary enjoyable. Slat is why
I an lii this ciai's, because I ca.ue to P.oci; Valley so that I could go
on tour again, this year, and RVC'S spring break came at just the
right time* I will be back down at fSU again this fall, and I am
looking forward eagerly to my future.
Ify sister, Ksgina, (left) ana as ;3aia> as children.
GODARE, MARC I A LEE WERNET, 1949-
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B. Grandmother (your father's side)
Name fMiUred El^keK. O'^rc^ U/frae-/ Current Residence
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Grandfather (your mother's side)
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Grandmother (your mother's side)
Name /V\flH Locfcu-'QQC Current Residence
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Education (number of years) ' / n
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Note: If your mother was raised by a stepmother or another relative (to age 1 8)
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C-l 5 tepg randf athe r (your mother's side)
Name
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D-2 Stepgrandmother (your mother's side)
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Number of years ot schooling / £) \j Occupation 3*1?
Res i dence H- UJa yuc . ThJ,l /t . Ha
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of this page. (E-2) O k^cuw. a. 'Cok±. . . /Ch/^^s erf ^o/c^t^,^^^ \/e-/-<f r^n.s til
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Name Current Residence Vmce-nne t) . J~ncL io-h.**-
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Education (number of years) '
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Place of marriage to your father /Hun'cie .X'ldii'a.n^ date />/^ ,.c /L 73
NOTE: If you were raised by a stepmother or another relative give that data on the back of
this page (F-2).
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place of narriage to your mother
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Martha Letzler Wernet
Marcelline O'Meara Mahoney
John Henry Wernet
William B. Wernet
Assorted letters and documents
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Norman Louis Wernet (paternal grandfather)
Bom: October 10, 1883 in Canton, Ohio
Died: August 1946
Buried: Muncie, Indiana
Education: Graduated Choate School, an eastern boys school;
Graduated Ohio State University
Occupations: Sales-service manager with Warner-Gear (now Borg
Warner) in Muncie, Indiana; Took over the O'Meara
sheet metal factory in Muncie, Indiana; Later
returned to Warner-Gear in late 1920s
Organizations: B.P.O.E. (Elks) ; Chi Phi Fraternity
Religion: Catholic
Politics: Republican (not active)
Leisure: Euchre, golf, fishing, baseball
Married.: Mildred Elizabeth O'Meara June 1913 in Muncie, Indiana
Children: Four (sons)
Mildred Elizabeth (O'Meara) Wernet (paternal grandmother)
Born: October 5, 1890 in Muncie, Indiana
Died: May 16, 1939
Buried: Muncie , Indiana
Education: St. Lawrence parochial thru sixth grade, Muncie,
Indiana; seventh thru twelfth grades, St. Mary of
the Woods private school, Terre Haute, Indiana;
two years of Kindergarten Training School,
Indianapolis, Indiana
Occupations: Kindergarten teacher around 1911-1912; housewife
27 years 1913-1939; executive secretary 1930s
Religion: Catholic
Politics: Democrat
Leisure :, Music , entertaining, cards, reading
Travel: Throughout the U.S.A.
Married: Norman Louis Wernet June 1913, Muncie, Indiana
Children: Four (sons)
(1) John H. Wernet, born 1914, gaduate of Indiana
University; married Marjorie Shewmaker, also I.U.
graduated; sales manager of a paint company in Ft.
Wayne, Indiana; father of two children (1 boy,1 girl)
both graduates of. I.U. son now in law school in
Chicago , Illinois ; daughter married and living in Ft.
Wayne; served as captain in the Army during World
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War II
(2) Norman Louis Wernet .Jr. (father) see page
(3) Robert F. Wernet, born 1921, graduate of Purdue
University; married Nancy Quinn,who attended Queens
College, Long Island, New York; father of 5 girls (1
a graduate of University of Louisiana, 1 a senior at
University of Arkansas, 1 married and living in
Australia, 1 in high school, 1 in kindergarten); vice-
president and chemical engineer with Freeport Sulphur
in Australia; served in World War II as a sargeant,
1st class, in the Air Force, flew 25 missions in
Africa and Italy.
(4) William B. Wernet, born 1924, joined army at 18 to
serve in World War II in the Army Medical Corps;
married Cessia Pielock, a graduate of nursing school;
father of 3 children (1 boy, 2 girls, son a graduate
of Manhattan College and going to graduate school,
1 daughter a graduate of University of Maryland School
of nursing, married with 1 son, 1 daughter in high
school); cardiology technician at Veterans Hospital
in Boston, Mass.
(5) Howard Wernet, born in 1926, died in infancy.
Walter Arthur Letzler (maternal grandfather)
Born: June 11, 1889 in Louisville, Kentucky
Died: April 6, 1965
Buried: Muncie, Indiana
Education: Graduated Wiley High School, Terre Haute, Indiana;
Recieved B.A. degree from DePauw University 1913
Occupations: Worked way thru college selling cookware door
to door; Terre Haute Post food advertising
salesman; transferred to Terre Haute Star; went
back to Terre Haute Post as business manager with
stock options; general manager and part owner of
Muncie Evening Press1924; left 1931-1936, while
ill with T.B.; came to Muncie Press as advertising
manager until Muncie Press and Morning Star
merged at which time he became manager of both.
Religion: Raised Lutheran became Methodist
Politics: Republican
Organizations: Muncie Mens Club, 33rd degree Mason, Rotary,
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Deleware Country Club, Phi Delta, Theta Theta,
Hoosier Press, Newspaper Editors and Publishers
Association, Chicago Sons of Indiana
Travel: Extensive throughout U.S.A.; Mexico; Europe; Canada
Achievements: Many civic and newspaper awards
Married: Mary Locltwood in Greencastle, Indiana, October 26, 1915
Children: Two (1 son and 1 daughter)
Mary Lockwood Letzler (maternal grandmother)
Born: April 15, 1890 in Peru, Indiana
Died: August 1965
Buried: Muncie, Indiana
Education: Graduated high school Peru, Indiana; recieved B.A.
degree from DePauw University 1913; some courses
at the University of Arizona
Occupations: English teacher Peru, Indiana junior high school;
teacher in Glen Ellyn, Illinois 19H-1915;
housewife 1915- 1965
Religion: Methodist
Politics: Republican
Organizations: Kappa Kappa Gamma, Psi Iota Xi,. American
Association of University Women charter member,
Conversation Club, Delphinian, Great Books,
Deleware Country Club
Leisure: Golf, reading, music, fishing, knitting, needlepoint,
decorative gift items, flower arranging, gardening,
board member of several charity groups, cards
especially bridge.
Achievements: Golf awards and bridge prizes
Married: Walter Arthur Letzler in Greencastle, Indiana,
October 26, 1915
Children: Two (1 son and 1 daughter)
(1) Walter Arthur Letzler, Jr. born October 16, 1916;
died April 1, 1970; recieved B.A. degree from DePauw
in 1939; married Dorthea Roberts; father of two
children ( 1 son graduate of Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, married, 1 son , is an executive for
I.B.M. in Detroit, Michigan; 1 daughter graduate of
Miami University, works in marketing research for
Procter and Gamble in Cincinati, Ohio); was among
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1st drafted into Army during World War II; While in
the service he was stricken with Multiple Sclerosis,
a disease that attacks the central nervous system. I
remember this disease slowly took its toll on him.
He progressed from cane to crutches and was eventually
confined to a wheel chair. He was a courageous man
who never felt sorry . for himself and always exerted
his fullest energy toward enjoying life.
(2) Martha Linn (Letzler) Wernet (mother) see page 7
Norman Louis Wernet, Jr. (father)
Born: October 26, 1919 in Muncie, Indiana
Died: October 6, 1968
Buried: Vincennes, Indiana
Education: 2 years of nursery school, parochial grade school,
graduated Muncie Central High School 1937, attended
Indiana University 1 semester, attended Ball State
Teachers College 1 semester, attened University of
Texas 1 year
Service: Joined Navy in June 1942, served as chief petty
officer, stationed in Brazil, recieved Purple Heart,
honorably discharged in 1945
Occupations: Sold weekly magazines door to door as a boy,
worked in the classified advertising department
of the Muncie Evening Press and Muncie Morning
Star 1939-1942 and 1945-1947, advertising
manager of the Vincennes Sun-Commercial 1947-
1968 starting salary $50 a week eventually made
over $10,000 a year.
Religion: Raised Roman Catholic converted to Episcopalian 1953
Politics: Republican but didn't always vote straight ticket
Travel: Throughout U.S.A. and South America
Leisure: Reading, fishing, cards, golf, wrestleing
Organizations: Sigma Alpha Epsilon, B.P.O.E. (Elks), T.B.C.
in high school, Y.M.C.A., Hi Y, Boy Scouts,
Knights of Columbus, American Legion, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, Harmony Society, Jaycees,
Chamber of Commerce, Church Vestry for 10 years,
Multiple Sclerosis Association, cheerleader 3
years in high school
Achievements: Head cheerleader senior year of high school,
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President of T.B.C., Senior Warden of church, advertising
award for special edition 1955, Vincennes University-
byline award for outstanding editorial 1968, Honorary
Demolay due to advertising, Red Cross award for outstanding
service, board member of Harmony and Elks, Declined
Jaycees outstanding service award twice because he felt
others were worthier
Married: Martha Linn Letzler March 13, 1945 in Muncie, Indiana
Children: Four (2 boys and 2 girls)
Martha Linn (Letzler) Wernet (mother)
Born: October 12, 1918 in Terre Haute, Indiana
Moved: Muncie, Indiana 1922
Resident: Vincennes , Indiana since 1947
Education: 1year of nursery school, graduated Muncie Central
High School 1936, attended DePauw University 1936-
1939, recieved B.A. degree from Ball State Teachers
College 1941, recieved M.A. from the University of
Illinois 1942
Occupations: Librarian junior and senior high school in
Whiting, Indiana 1942-1944, librarian and English
teacher Blaine Junior High in Muncie, Indiana
1944-1945, English teacher Lincoln High School
Vincennes, Indiana 1964-1972
Religion: Methodist changed to Episcopalian 1953
Politics: Republican
Travel: Throughout U.S.A. and northern Mexico
Leisure: Reading, cooking, crafts, cards, music, knitting,
swimming, flower arranging
Organizations: American Association of University Women, Psi
Iota Xi, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Episcopal Church
Women, Vincennes Fortnightly Club, Kappa Alumni
Association, Campfire Girls, Rainbow Girls,
Queen Esther, Y.W.C.A., Methodist Youth Club,
Tri Hi Y in high school and college, Pi Zeta
at Ball State, Sewing Club, Episcopal Sunday
school teacher and superintendent, Multiple
Sclerosis Association
Married: Norman Louis Wernet March 13, 1945 in Muncie , Indiana
Children: Four (2 boys and 2 girls)
(1) N.orman Louis Wernet III was born April 2, 1946 in
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Muncie, Indiana. He moved to Vincennes, Indiana in
1947, where he grew up and graduated 6th in his
class from Lincoln High School in 1964. He recieved
his B.A. degree from Indiana, University in 1968.
After graduating from college he married Tammara
Fraley,and they moved to Cleveland , Heights , Ohio,
where Norman is a social worker for Cahyahoga county.
He is active in the Episcopal Church and in his
spare time sings with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra.
He was extremely active in school, church, and Demolay
during high school while holding a part time job at
the newspaper. His politics are Liberal Independent
as veiwed in his lobby work in the Ohio state legis-
lature for the welfare department. He has travelled
throughout the eastern and southern U.S. In 1973 he
and Tammy were divorced after a childless marriage.
(2) Marcia Lee (Wernet) Godare, see page 9
(3) Nary Linn Wernet was born September 7, 1954 in Vincennes,
Indiana where she still resides with our mother. She
graduated from Vincennes University, a junior college,
in May. She will start Ball State University in
Muncie, Indiana this fall. She is a member of the
Episcopal Church, is a Sunday school teacher and has
been in the choir. She enjoys reading, swimming and
music. Throughout high school she was active in band,
chorus, Girl Scouts and the drama. She belongs to
Psi Iota Xi, and by attaining the Dean's List for two
semesters she is in an honor faternity.
(4) David Lockwood Wernet, affectionately called Lockie,
was born October 28,1958 in Vincennes, Indiana where
he still lives with our mother. He is an honor roll
student in the ninth grade at Lincoln High School
with aspirations to attend Annapolis for college. He
is a member of the Episcopal Church, an officer in
Demolay, a "asonic organization for young men, and
until recently was deeply involved with Boy Scouts.
He is a member of the Y.M.C.A., the high school track,
basketball, and football teams, as well as the
Vincennes swimming team. He has travelled throughout
eastern, southern and southwestern United States as
well as Mexico. He is an extremely busy young man,
but one of his faviorite activities is singing which
he does in many high school and community productions
Marcia Lee Wernet Godare (self)
Born: March 31,1949 in Vincennes, Indiana
Resident: Rockford, Illinois since 1968
Education: 2 years nursery school, graduate of Vincennes
Lincoln High School 1967, presently a freshman
attending Rock Valley College
Occupations: Tourist guide in Vincennes, Indiana 1966-1967,
housewife since 1967
Religion: Episcopalian
Politics: Liberal Independent
Organizations: Girl Scouts, Tri Hi Y, Job's Daughters, Y.W.C.A
Junior Fortnightly Club, Drama Club, band,
church choir, Sunday school teacher, 4-H
Leisure: Sewing, reading, music, walking, dancing, golf,
cooking, swimming, poetry, camping
Travel: Through out the U.S.A.
Achievements: Delegate to Girl Scout Roundup 1965, several
awards for arts and crafts, 4-H awards for
cooking, Y.W.C.A. swimming ribbons, student aid
certificate, awards for clarinet accomplishment
Married: William Lee Godare in Vincennes, Indiana June 2, 1967
Children: one daughter
(1) Michelle Rene' Godare was born December 9, 1970 in
Streetor, Illinois. We adopted her January 22, 1971.
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Norman Louis Wernet
Paternal Grandfather
Norman Louis Wernet was born October 10, 1883, the second
child of Louis John and Laura (Biechle) Wernet. Their first child,
Howard, was born after their marriage in 1881 and died at the age
of eight months. Norman's mother died in 1884 at the age of 29 in
Canton, Ohio.
Norman's father really had little to do with him. It is
believed that Louis blamed Norman for the death of his wife Laura.
Another bone of contention was that Norman wasn't too fond of his
step-mother, Sophia (Baley). Louis was a prominent businessman in
Canton, Ohio and was in the wholesale liquor business with his
brothe-in-law Louis Miday. He was also the neighbor of President
William F . McKinley and one of his campaign backers.
Wernet is French and the family were winemakers in Alsace.
There are buildings in Alsace today with the name on them. It was
spelled Vernet until the Germans took over and changed it. Louis'
father came to this country sometime in the mid 1800' s and settled
in Ohio.
Norman was raised by two aunts but I have been unable to
gather the details. He was educated at eastern boarding schools and
recieved his high school diploma from Choate School. He then went
to Ohio State University, where he studied engineering and was a
member of the Chi Phi Fraternity, one of the first college frater-
nities in this country. After graduating from colleg he went to
Muncie, Indiana to wrk for Warner Gear Corporation. Through a
mutual friend he met Mildred Elizabeth O'Meara, a kindergarten
teacher.
Mildred Elizabeth (O'Meara) Wernet
Paternal Grandmother
Mildred Elizabeth (O'meara) Wernet was born in Muncie, Indiana
on October 5, 1890. She was the oldest of the four children of
Mary Esther (Tuhey) and Henry Francis O'Meara. She was two years
old when the second child, Mark, was born. He only lived eight
months, which caused great sorrow in the family. She was seven when
the third child Miriam was and ten when Marcelline was bom. Being
so much older than her sisters, she became very protective of
them and practically adopted them as her "living dolls" which
developed into a relationship of deep love and understanding.
Mildred's parents were both first generation U.S. citizens.
Both of their parents had immigrated to this country during the
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"Great Hunger" of the 1840' s as the potato famine in Ireland was
called. They were both the^youngest of five children, and while the
O'Mearas settled in Buffalo, New York; the Tuheys established
themselves in Muncie, Indiana. Tuhey is still a prominent family in
Muncie both socially and politically having given the city two
mayors. Both of Mary's parents were well educated, another point of
distinction. Mary's family also helped establish the first Catholic
church in Muncie, by holding mass for all parishoners at irregular
intervals, when the priest came to town on horseback and stayed in
the Tuhey home.
Although Mildred's was only a family of three children it
seemed much larger, because when her mother's older sister , Blanche
(Tuhey) Griesheimer, died the O'Mearas took over the supervision
of the four Griesheimer children until their father remarried. When
they were older the went to boarding school, but their summers were
spent with Mildred's family.
Mildred's father was the owner, manager of the Muncie Boiler
and Sheet Iron Works. He manufactured smoke stacks, boilers, and
such, and he had a side interest in a plumbing company. The plant
was not large, but they did most of the work of this nature in the
area. At one point in his business career he had signed notes for
two of his friends who went into bankruptsy. Although it took him
sometime to do it, he paid off the notes to the last cent. When
that was finally accomplished, the businessmen to whom he had been
indebted gave a dinner for him at which they presented him with a
brown cameo ring with gold flecks in it. This ring was proudly
called "Father's Honesty Ring" by everyone in the family.
Both of Mildred's parents were active in the Democratic party,
although her mother was unable to vote until 1920. Mildred's uncle,
Edward Tuhey, was elected mayor of Muncie twice on,the Democratic
ticket. Mildred's father was also active in politics, serving as a
councilman and on the board of public safety.
Henry O'Meara's two older sisters, Mary and Anne, lived with
the family. Anne died in the early 1900' s, but Mary was an
autocratic, imperious, fun-loving, generous and kind woman with an
obsession for cleanliness and neatness. There was also one member
of the household with the status of hired help. There were several
different ladies who worked for the family, and all were treated
as helpers, not as servants. If she was white, she usually had her
own room at the back of the upstairs. If colored, she generally
lived in what was called "shantytown" across the tracks, and if she
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had children, she brought them with her to play with the O'Mearas.
The moral forces, or religion, aside from an occasional spank
on the "behind", was the method of discipline in Mildred's family.
The children were taught that it was a Sin to be disobedient, tell
a lie, steal a marble, talk unkindly about others or use bad
language. They were not only sins but also things for they would
have to answer to God, as well as having to tell the preist in
confession .
Mildred's mother, by leading the children in the practice of
the Catholic religion, was the binding force in the family. That is
not to say that her father wasn't religious, he just didn't attend
church much. Mildred's mother though, was a strong yet loving and
gentle woman with her children. Most of her leisure time was spent
driving a phaeton (a horse and buggy with fringe on the top) full
of children to the park or to visit relatives or friends.
By the time Mildred was of school age there v/as not only a
Catholic Church (St. Lawrence), but also a parochial school. The
school only went through the sixth grade, so she was sent to St.
Mary of the Woods in Terre Haute, Indiana for the remaining two
years of grade school and her high school years. Following that
she studied two years at. a kindergarten training school in
Indianapolis, Indiana. She had instruction on the violin at St.
Mary's and continued that during her stay in Indianapolis. She
had only taught kindergarten for a year in Muncie, when she met my
grandfather, Norman Louis V/ernet.
Norman and Mildred Wernet
Paternal Grandparents
Mildred O'Meara and Norman Louis Wernet, who was nicknamed
Sara, were married in June 1913 in Muncie, Indiana. Norman's
father and step-mother came to the wedding in a chauffeur driven
automobile which was practically unheard of locally at that time.
Mildred and Sam had a very gay and happy social life during
the early years of their marriage, and Mildred v/as especially
prominent in the civic affairs of the community. They were the
parents of five sons: John, Norman Jr., Robert, William, and
Howard. Except for Howard, v/ho died in infancy, the boys were all
sent to St. Lawrence Parochial School during grade school and then
to Muncie Central High School. They all were educated beyond high
school, but this was interupted and later resumed after World War
II.
Their home was one of hospitality. In addition to all the
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parties for their many many friends, Mildred and Sam were both
very sweet, kind and generous to all the relatives. It was at
their home that all the special holidays were celebrated by all
the family, with friends dropping in and out and the children and
their friends romping about.
The great tragedy in their family was the death of their baby,
Howard. He was a beautiful, healthy-looking child, about eighteen
months old, when he was suddenly stricken with an extremely high
fever and convulsions. The local doctors were baffled about how
to treat him and recommended calling a specialist from Indianapolis.
Sam hesitated because of the very high expence involved, but
Mildred persuaded him to do it. The specialist brought with him an
English nurse who had taken care of similar cases. She stayed at
the house and she, Mildred and Sam were in constant attendance with
the baby. Part of the treatment involved the use of both hot and
cold applications. Sam took over the constant wringingiout of
very hot bath towels, which had to be changed so frequently that
it was an almost constant process. Little Howard only lived about
a week after he was first stricken.
About the same time as the baby's death Mildred's mother was
forced to sell the family business. Sam had earlier left his job
in the purchasing department at Warner Gear to take over the
management of the Muncie Boiler Works. It was a business that was
totally foreign to him, so he was very dependent upon the foreman
of the factory to help him draw up specifications, to know how
much and what materials to order, and even how to talk to customers
about their particular needs. The foreman, after some years,
decided that he could take over the business. He made Mildred's
mother an offer and said if she didn't accept it he was prepared
to go into competition with her, since he had secured finacial
bacting. There was nothing to do but sell, so Sam had to return
to Warner Gear with hat in hand.
His grief over the baby's death combined with his discour-
agement with business affairs at the beginning of the depression
was the cause of Sam's starting to drink more than he should have.
This, in turn, caused some estrangement between Mildred and Sam.
Their social life deteriorated and Mildred became even more involved
in community affairs. She was a very dynamic person who seemed to
achieve success in whatever she undertook. Sam was an intelligent
man but not agressive. He was considered a gentle gentleman with
a quiet sence of humor and deep emotional feelings.
When Sam's father died his estate was left in trust with the
income from it going to his second wife during her lifetime. A
lawyer cousin was the administrator of the estate and did some
personal speculating with the money resulting in losses. 5am
recieved little from his father, and this also must have been a
frustration for him. His sons inherited what was left after Sophia
Wernet died.
Around 1930 Mildred went to work full time for one of the five
Ball brothers of Muncie, Arthur. (The Ball's manufactured canning
jars and made a fortune.) Her first project was the management of
a dairy farm until she got it on a going basis. The second was the
renovation and refurnishing of an old hotel he had bought (the
health resort in French Lick, Indiana). After that she became sort
of an executive secretary for him working on special projects in
which he was interested.
When Mildred went to work full time her mother, who the boys
affectionately called Mammaw, moved in to supervise the household.
They always had a maid, but Mildred wanted an older member of the
family at home when the boys came home from school. Mildred's
mother was very fond of Sam and she did stay with him and Bill for
awhile after Mildred died, although eventually she went to live with
her youngest daughter, Marcelline, in New York.
Mildred was sick for a couple of years before she died of
Hodgkins Disease on May 16, 1939. At the time of her death John
was at Indiana University, Norman was at the University of Texas,
Bob was in high school, and Bill was in junior high.
After her death Bob joined the Air Force, and Norman came back
to live and work in Muncie. Norman, Sam and Bill lived together
until 1942 when Sadie, the hired girl, left and Norman joined the
Navy. Bill also left home in 1942 to live with his Aunt Marcelline
in New York during his senior year of high school.
After the boys were gone Sam moved into a hotel. This was
easier for him since he had been in failing health due to a heart
attack since Mildred's death. When Norman and Martha Letzler were
married and Norman had been discharged, they returned to Muncie to
be near Sam. He died in August of 1946 but had lived long enough to
see his first grandchild, my brother and his namesake, Norman Louis
Wernet III who was born in April of the same year.
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Walter Arthur Letzler
Maternal Grandfather
Walter Arthur Letzler was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1889
after his parents, Jacob and Louis (Mauer) Letzler, moved there
from Cincinnati, Ohio. He was their fourth child but the second of
the three that survived early childhood. In July of 1885 his first
sister, Lulu age 3, and brother, Jacob age 2, died within a few days
of each other during a diptherea epidemic in Cincinnati. His older
brother, Albert , was born in November of the same year, and two
sisters Mary and Susan were born in Louisville in 1892 and 1894
respectively. Mary died, shortly after Susan's birth> in 1894 in
Cincinnati, where she had evidently been taken to prevent infecting
the other children.
Sometime during the 1890' s the family moved to Terre Haute,
Indiana, where Walter's father opened his own business as a cabinet
maker. The family's economic situation was not such that they could
afford to pay for a college education for their children, but the
children were encouraged to expand themselves to the fullest
capacity.
After graduating from high school Walter worked a year selling
pots and pans door-to-door to save enough money to start college.
He continued in this occupation while attending DePauw University,
where he met Mary Lockwood. When they graduated in 1915 they parted
with what was then known as an "understanding" of their intentions
to marry. To suppliment his income in college he served as the house
manager of his fraternity as well as the business manager of the
school yearbook. After his graduation from DePauw Walter sold food
advertisements for the Terre Haute Post. Later he transferred to the
Terre Haute Star, where he worked in the advertising department.
Mary (Lockwood) Letzler
Maternal Grandmother
At this point I am injecting a few historical factors in the
background of Mary Lockwood. Her grandmother, Margret (Woods) Waite,
had a great- great-grandfather, Joseph Woods. He had been brought
to this country in 1728 at the age of 4 by his parents from Tyrone
county, Ireland. Although his father and eight other brothers and
sisters died enroute, he and his mother settled with an older
brother, Samuel, in Phil idelphia. Around 1750 they all moved to
South Carolina. There Joseph became quite wealthy and being an
active Whig was appointed as a delegate to the First South Carolina
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Congress from the New Acquisition. He died in 1776 and on a silver
plate on his casket are the words "Liberty or Death". His son,
Andrew Woods, served under General Francis Marion during the
Revolutionary War and later migrated to Ohio.
Mary's great-great-grandfather on her father's side was also
a Revolutionary War soldier, Andrew Jackson (not the president).
Through this line they were also related to Charles Carroll, one
of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Mary's father was William Wirt Lockwood, who as a young man
had discontinued his education at Wabash College to enlist in the
Civil a ar . h fter his tour of duty he worked in an Indianapolis,
Indiana post office. While visiting reletives in Miami county, Ind-
iana, he mentioned he wished to be married. Someone suggested he
visit Mary Eliza Waite who was a school teacher twelve years his
junior. He then remembered having seen her as a baby in her cradle.
After they were married around 1869, William became superintendent
of schools in Odell, Illinois. He decided to come back to Peru and
bought into the Peru Republican, eventually becoming the sole owner
and editor.
Mary (Lockwood) Letzler was born in 1890 in Peru, Indiana and
was the ninth of ten children of William and Mary (Waite) Lockwood.
Her brothers and sisters and years of birth were Charles 1870,
George 1872, Helen 1875, William 1876, Elizabeth 1880, Arthur 1882,
Albert 1884, Edward 1887, and Dorthy 1893. The family lived in a
large brick house on an acre of ground in a section north of Peru
called Riverview. Although the older boys, Charles and George, were
in college when Mary was born, the house always seemed full of
people. All of the children were free to bring home anyone they
wished. Their1 s v/as a home of harmony, security, and plenty.
While no one in the family expected luxuries, there was never
any mention of not being able to afford things. The family kept
two horses, a carriage and a buggy. Due to the system of magazine
and paper exchanges the family took practically every periodical
then published. Also at that time book publishers sent editors
copies of all new books, therefore; their house became the best
library in town. Among their collection was an autographed book by
James Whitcomb Riley as well as an original "Bird Book" by James
Audubon. Some other courtesies affored the editor's family were
trip passes on the railroad and free tickets to all concert and
shows. The family had little cash but could charge anything they
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needed, because the merchants ran advertising to balance the
accounts. The one luxury the family did manage was a hired girl
who was made to feel like a part of the family.
The basement was used as a storehouse. There were bins of
apples, potatoes, sweet potatoes, pears, turnips and cabbage. There
were shelves of jars filled with honey, jelly, canned fruits and
pickles as well as barrels of cider which turned to vinegar, jugs
of molasses, maple syrup, jars of lard, and barrels of sugar, flour,
and crackers. The family raised chickens but most of their meat
came from farmers who used this, produce and loads of wood to pay
for subscriptions. Mary's mother baked frequently as evidenced by
the pies, cookies and cakes always around.
On Saturday nights the galvanized tub v/as brought into the
kitchen. The wash boiler was kept filled with v/ater to heat, and
everyone had a hot bath with a change of long underwear in the winter.
On Sunday morning everyone was at Sunday school by 9:30 and
after that, church. Mary's father led the Methodist choir for over
30 years. Charles, George, Helen, Bess, and Arthur sang in it. Ker
mother usually killed and dressed four chickens on Saturday night,
which were fried or baked for Sunday dinner. Anyone could bring a
guest for dinner but frequently would have to sit at the second
table. Sunday night there v/as always baked beans, cold meat, pie or
cake, and in the summer a great big freezer of ice cream.
The amusenents were simple. In summer Mary played games with
the other children and in the winter they all went sledding. Since
their house was always full everyone read frequently. Sometimes
Mary's parents would take a buggy ride and two of the children
would go along.
Mary's closest friend was Desdemona Bearss. Des had a team of
black shetlands, a small carriage with fringe, and they spent many
hours driving the ponies together. Mr Bearss also bought a brown
Shetland, which no one but Mary rode. Another close friend growing
up was Cole Porter.
Mary's father was the undisputed head of the family and a
respected community leader. Although Peru is now considered a small
town, it was then an important railroad center as well as the winter
headquarters for the Hagenbach and Wallace Circuses. The Lockwoods
encouraged their children to have high morals and goals, and
education was equally important. Two of Mary's brothers, William
and Edward, helped establish the Young Men's Christian Association
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in China. Another brother, George, followed in his father's foot-
steps by establishing newspapers in Muncie and Marion, Indiana as
well as the National Republican Magazine in Washington, D.C. He
was also the author of "New Harmony Movement" about the Rappite
settlement in southern Indiana, and also a ghost writer for
President Herbert Hoover who invited him to the White House
frequently.
Mary's father died around 1906 from injuries recieved in a
traffic accident. It seems that G-abe Godfrey, one of the chiefs of
the Miami Indians, was a cab driver. One night when Gabe was drunk
he ran into William's carriage and his injuries led to gangreene
which caused his death. Since all of her other children had left
home Mary Eliza moved to Greencastle, Indiana with her two remaining
daughters, Mary and Dorothy.
. While living at home Mary attended DePauw University, where
she met Walter Arthur Letzler whom she dated off and on throughout
her college days. They graduated in the same class of 1913 and
went their separate ways. Mary taught grade school for a year in
Peru and one year of junior high in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
Walter and Mary Letzler
Maternal Grandparents
In October 1915 Walter Letzler married Mary Lockwood, his
college sweetheart, in Greencastle, Indiana. They went to live in
Terre Haute, Indiana where Walter Jr. was born in October 1916 and
Martha Linn, my mother, was born in October 1918. Around. 1918 they
bought a duplex house so that Mary's mother, Mary Eliza Lockwood,
could live next door. Later when the family moved to Muncie, Mary
Eliza did also. In Muncie she lived in the same household due to
an accident which caused her to use a cane, she wasn't able to get
around as well. She viited her other children around the world but
Walter and Mary's was her home until her death in 1927 at the age
of 79.
Sometime between 1915 and 1919 the Terre Haute Post asked
Walter to come back, but this time as the business manager with
stock options. In 1921 Mary's brother, George, was having financial
difficulties with his paper The Muncie Evening Press. Since Walter
had proven himself, George asked him to become general manager, as
well as editor and part owner. Walter squarely accepted the
challenge and moved to Muncie, Indiana ahead of his family in 1921.
They followed in 1922, and moved into a large old farm house which
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they renovated in order to be near school, shopping, and work.
In 1931 Walter became ill with tuberculosis and was given
only six months to live. The worries of the newspaper business
coupled with the countries financial situation at the time are
presumed to have brought about his condition. Kis only hope of
recovery was to have complete bed rest in a warm dry climate. To
this end the family moved to Tucson, Arizona for five years coming
back to Muncie for periodic visits. Frequently on these trips
to and from Arizona they would take the long way in order to
sight see. They probably lived on a smaller income during this
period, but between stock dividends and a health insurance program
that Walter belonged to (At the time Walter bought life insurance
it was also possible to buy health compensation insurance of an
equal amount.) the family had around a 310,000 annual income. While
in Arizona their Muncie home was rented, because it would have
been dangerous to leave it vacant with so many people starving and
homeless .
When Walter came back from Arizona, he served as advertising
director of the Muncie Evening Press until it merged with the
Muncie Morning Star. At that time he once again took on the reigns
of both papers, a position he maintained until his retirement in
1963.
Walter and Mary lived a very active political and social life.
They were both strong Republicans, supported several charities and
were active members of the Methodist Church. If their children
ever needed a financial hand, Walter made it clear that he was
available; not because he thought his children needed it, but
because he wanted to see them enjoy some of his own prosperity
while he was still alive.
As the years progressed they travelled more and more. While
in Arizona they took advantage of the opportunity to visit northern
Mexico. Regularly for many years they spent January and February
fishing and relaxing with a regular group of friends in Florida.
After they returned from Florida, during March, they would attend
a newspaper publishers and editors convention in New York City,
where they would nightclub and view the latest shows on Broadway.
Around 1960 they took an extensive European tour, and at the time
Mary became ill in 1963 they had arrangements for a world tour.
Theirs was a prosperous life. They were always able to afford
hired help. One girl, Annie, who had worked for them at the time
they were planning to move to Muncie, asked to go along. Her
father was a coal miner in southern Indiana, and she felt trapped
in her situation. She moved along with the family but soon went
her own way after obtaining employment as a telephone operator.
There were a number of girls who came and left, and if she didn't
live in her hours were 7:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. Two girls on
separate occasions worked and lived in while attending Ball State
Teachers College. After Walter Jr. and Martha had left home Mary
only needed part-time help, a couple days a week and on special
occassions. For over 30 years they also had a regular handy man,
who was known as Ernest. These people were treated as part of the
family, paid well and aided financially if they needed help. Some
were black and some were white but all were equal.
Mary suffered from sciatica in 1949 and 1950 and was bedridden
for nearly nine months. During this illness she became addicted
to the morphine used to relieve her pain, and immediately upon
realizing what had happened she went to the hospital to overcome
her problem, which she did. Mary had a kidney removed in 1957, and
Walter had a successful cancer operation in196l. Even though they
had a few serious illnesses, they both enjoyed reletively good
health; until 1963 when Mary had a nine hour gall bladder and
cancer exploratory operation. The doctors found cancer of the
pancreas and had to remove 2/3 of her stomach to achieve success.
Her health quickly slipped to a low ebb. At that point, around
Christmas 1963, Walter retired, something he vowed he'd never do,
to take care of her. Towards the end of the year in 1964 it was
discovered that Walter had lung cancer, and the doctors would be
unable to operate due to his history of T.B. Although he underwent
cobalt treatments to check the cancer, he died in April of 1965.
For over a year their daughter, Martha, made regular weekend trips
to be with her parents, who were able to remain at home with a
housekeeper and nurses. Shortly before Walter died Martha came to
stay v/ith her parents and to take care of them until Mary's death
in August 1965.
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Norman Louis Wernet Jr.
Father
Norman Louis Wernet Jr., the second child "of Norman and
Mildred (O'Meara) Wernet, was born in Muncie, Indiana on October
26, 1919. He was a relatively healthy child until the age of eight,
when he had measles, mumps, and chicken pox during an overlapping
period of time. This poor state of health led to rheumatic fever
and a heart murmur. He was sent to a health clinic in Battle Creek,
Michigan because of his heart and a shadow on his lung. Fortunately
he didn't have T.B. assuspected and the heart murmur eventually
cleared up. During this time he was forced to miss the third and
fourth grades. To correct this situation he was tutored by a
childless friend of the family, Mrs. Fred (Agnes) Jones. A friend-
ship developed between them that lasted throughout her life. She
was a warm woman who was very good with and very fond of children.
She made it a point to visit all the sick children of her friends.
Therefore, at the time she was tutoring Norman, she was also
spending a great deal of time with Martha Letzler, his future bride.
Norman was quite close to his three brothers, Jack, Bob, and
Bill, considering the age differences. His youngest brother Howard
died in infancy. His was a large Catholic family with a deep sence
of religion and family unity. The rules of the Church were intri-
cately woven into their daily lives.
He went to nursery school for two years before attending St.
Lawrence Parochial Grade School and then going on to Muncie Central
High School. In high school he was very active in many groups and
served as the president of T.B.C., a high school fraternity. He was
also a cheerleader for all three years and served as the captain
of the squad during his senior year. At that time he was known as
"Wernie" Wernet and was game for anything. Most summers as a teen
were spent at Camp Crosly, a Y.M.C.A. camp. Sometimes his parents
rented a cabin in the Muncie colony on Tri Lakes in northeastern
Indiana.
Norman started college at Indiana University but had to drop
out when he had an emergency appendectomy. He attended Ball State
Teachers College while he was recuperating from the operation. He
had always been bothered by allergies and hay fever. Therefore,
sometime during the summer of 1938, while his mother was undergoing
cobalt treatments at the Mayo Clinic, he accompanied her and under-
went a sinus operation. The doctors reccommended he go to a
southern climateto help his condition. He then attended University
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of Texas until his mother died in May 1939.
His mother's death was very hard on him as it also was for his
whole family. She was an extremely dynamic woman and to lose some-
one like that can be shattering to say the least. Norman was similar
to her in many respects. He was also a dynamic personality, always
the leader, sensitive, yet firm. He had a great philosophy, which
was to live life to the fullest enjoying every moment. He also
believed in having people laugh with you and not at you. This was
evidenced by his robust, infectious smile and laugh that everyone
found irresistible.
Upon his return to Muncie, he started working for Walter
letzler in the advertising department of the Muncie newspapers.
Norman had always loved the newspaper business and especially the
selling angle. As a young boy he sold magazine subscriptions door-
to-door and had one of the largest routes in Muncie. He started
dating Martha Letzler more frequently at this time for she was
then attending Ball State and living at home. He lived with his
father and youngest brother, Bill, until 1942 when he joined the
Navy in June. He came home shortly in 1942 to attend his Grand-
mother O'Meara's funeral for she had played an important role in
his growing up. He became a chief petty officer and more specifically
was the executive secretary of Captain Ivy, stationed in Brazil.
He also flew on a few missions over North Africa. On one such
occassion his plane was shot down over the Atlantic, and he
recieved a purple heart for injuries he sustained. He came back
to Muncie on leave in 1945 and married his life long friend and
sweetheart Martha Letzler.
Martha Linn (Letzler) Wernet
Mother
Martha Linn (Letzler) Wernet, my mother, was born in Terre
Haute, Indiana on October 12, 1918. She was the. second child of
Walter and Mary (Lockwood) Letzler. She had one brother, Walter Jr.
who they all called Art. Theirs was a family of close relationships
based on love and understanding. This was a family that hugged,
kissed and cuddled unashamed.
When she was four Martha's father moved his family to Muncie,
Indiana. One of Martha's recollections of this time was the
purchase of the family's first automobile. After the move Martha
was so lonesome, not knowing any small children, that she created
two imaginary playmates, Dese and Dice, who were her best buddies
for years to follow. Martha's early childhood was plagued with
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almost constant illness due to ear infections. This resulted in
her being a very nervous and undernourished child until the age of
nine, when after losing her hearing she underwent a double mastoid
operation and regained almost perfect hearing and health. During
this period of illness in her life she grew very close to her
grandmother, Mary Eliza Lockwood, who lived with Martha's family
until her death in 1927.
After overcoming her illnesses Martha became an active, healthy,
happy child. She was active in the Methodist Church and various
school groups. She proved to be a bright student and her parents
were looking forward to the day when she and Art would be going to
DePauw University.
Martha was virtually unaffected directly by the depression,
but in 1931 her father was stricken with tuberculosis. She moved
with her family to Tuscon, Arizona. Although her contact with her
father was limited, because he was still at the contagious stage,
he would communicate with the children through humorous letters
which they in turn would answer. Martha's mother also tried to
shield the children from the dire possibilities by creating an air
of normalcy around the house and taking them on various outings of
an exciting nature.
Her brother, Art, graduated from high school in Tuscon in 1935
and was to start college at DePauw on a Rectors Scholarship in the
fall. Since her father's condition was on the upswing, her parents
permitted her to live with their closest friends and neighbors, the
Robert Burts, in Muncie; therefore, Martha could graduate with all
her friends from Muncie Central High School. She had known Norman
Wernet since nursery school, but they became better friends and
dated some during her senior year of high school.
After graduating from high school Martha started college at
DePauw. She led a busy social life and was active in Kappa Kappa
Gamma Sorority. When Martha was a sophomore and Art a junior, he
went to Germany as an exchange student at the university in
Freiburg. This was during the school term of 1937-1938 enabling
him to witness some of Hitler's tyrany while living with a
prosperous industrialist of the Third Reich.
Martha graduated from Ball State Teachers College in 1941 and
recieved her masters degree in library science from the University
of Illinois in 1942. While attending Ball State and on weekend visit:-,
home from the U. of I. Martha started dating Norman Wernet steadily.
They had decided to marry but were waiting to see about Norman's
draft possibilities when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Martha was the librarian for the junior and senior high schools
in Whiting, Indiana from 1942 to 1944. She quit at the end of the
school year in 1944 because she expected Norman to be home on
leave soon. While living in Muncie with her parents she was offered
a teaching and librarian position in a junior high. She accepted
this on the condition that no matter when Norman came home she
could take a leave of absence and marry him.
Norman and Martha Wernet
Parents
Norman Louis Wernet and Martha Letzler were married after a
long courtship on March 13, 1945. They were wed by Norman's second
cousin, Father Edward Sweigart, in the St. Lawrence rectory in
Muncie, Indiana. Norman only had a thirty day leave before he
would be sent to the west coast. They spent a short honeymoon in
Chicago, Illinois and the remaining time visiting family and friends
that Norman hadn't seen for three years.
Martha stayed in Muncie because they assumed Norman would be
stationed in the Pacific. But events enabled her to join him at his
new post in San Francisco. They fell in love with the city and
Norman lined up a job with an advertising firm. Upon his discharge
in October of 1945 they went back to Muncie for a short visit. He
realized at that time how seriously ill his father was, and he and
Martha decided to give up their dream so they could be with him. In
April 1946 Norman Louis III was born and in August Norman's father
died .
Norman worked for the newspapers when he came back to Muncie.
The papers had been recently merged into a larger chain owned
primarily by Eugene Pulliam. In 1947 a job as advertising manager
opened on one of the other papers, The Vincennes Sun-Commercial in
Vincennes, Indiana. They felt this was a good opportunity to move
since there is definitely a stigma being married' to the boss'
daughter.
They established themselves solidly in Vincennes. Three of
their children, Marcia, Mary Linn and Lockwood, were born there
and Martha still resides there. Norman was active in several civic
and social organizations as well as being a silent political leader.
He couldn't afford to be too bold about his political inclinations
because it would hurt his advertising 3ales. He was a dedicated news-
paperman and advertising keeps the presses rolling.
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Martha was also deeply involved with activities, social and
civic, in Vincennes. She was able to do this even with a family of
four children by hiring part-time help and by teaching her children
the value of responcibility . She also taught her children how
important it is to be involved and consequently they all were.
Around 1953 they decided to join the Episcopal Church. Norman
had been raised in strong Catholic family but became somewhat
disenchanted with the Church while he was in Brazil. Although
Martha was Methodist, she promised to raise their children in the
Catholic faith. Sundays were busy because she would take Norman Jr.
and Marcia to the Methodist Sunday school before Norman would take
them all to the Catholic mass. On Christmas Eve 1953 he discussed
his intentions with his brothers and his Aunt Marcelline in New
York. They all understood his feelings and told him to do what was
right for him. Martha and Norman became extremely active in the
Episcopal Church and their children are also Episcopalians.
The one charity that Norman and Martha put their whole heart
into was the Multiple Scleosis Association. Martha's brother, Art,
had been stricken by this disease while in^the service during World
War II. They knew how important finding a cure was and threw their
greatest effort into fund raising. It even became a family affair
to work on the yearly campaigns.
They were a highly emotional couple, and at anytime you
could walk into anything in their home from hilarity, to tears, to
anger. But flair-ups never lasted longand for the most part things
ran on a pretty even keel.
Martha started teaching in 1964 when Norman Jr. was a college
freshman and Lockwood was in kindergarten. In April 1965 her father
died and this was the begining of the most shattering five years
of her life. Her mother died in August, after Martha had spent five
months with her. Things started to return to normal. Marcia was
married in 1967 and Norman was married in June of 1968. October 2,
1968, Norman fell down the long flight of stairs in their two story
house. He broke several ribs which led to the development of
pneumonia and his death within five days. Martha's world fell apart,
leading to a deep withdrawl from all that was familiar to her. Then
as if this wasn't enough, her only brother, Art, died from a stroke
in 1970.
In 1972 Martha became seriously ill and when she recovered
she realized all she had to live for. She has once again become
active in her social circle and takes great pride in her children
and granddaughter, Michelle.
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Marcia Lee (Wernet) Godare
Myself
I was born March 31, 1949 in Vincennes, Indiana, the second
child of Martha and Norman Wernet, and within two weeks I was
christened Marcia Lee. My older brother, Norman III, was born on
April 2, 1946 and for many years we shared great celebrations on
our birthdays. We were very close as young children, taught to
share and play together in harmony, but we did have some sibling
rivalry.
One of my earliest recollectons is the purchase of our first
television sometime in 1952, therefore; we had a fairly large
screened set. One of the first things we watched was the national
political conventions, since my parents were accutely interested
in the Republican campaign.
I attended nursery school when I was three and four years old
and started kindergarten when I was five, at which time my sister,
Mary Linn, was born. With children of such wide age difference, my
older brother and I were taught to carry our share of household
responcibilities . It was pointed out that if everyone pitched in
and worked together, we would have more free time to do the things
we enjoyed most. This enabled my mother to take us swimming almost
every afternoon throughout our summer vacations.
My father was a very busy man, but he was the undisputed
head of the family. Although he was gone alot and worked late, Sat-
urday evening was devoted to my mother and Sunday was reserved for
the family. We always went to church together, and after a huge
dinner we would relax, go for a ride in the car, or possibly com-
plete a project around the house. The maintinence of the family
unit was stressed. We were encouraged to be busy but expected to
be present for all three meals, where discussions on almost any
subject might be heard. Despite Mother's involvement in community
affairs and her teaching, she was always there when we needed her.
She loved to cook and some of her greatest achievements were in the
kitchen. We experienced a wide variety of well balanced meals, but
baking was her forte'. It seems like homemade cookies, cakes, and
pies were always in the oven.
Our parents took pride in anything we did. We could choose
our own goals but were expected to put forth only our best effort.
We were appreciated as individuals, and our achievements were
never compared.
We were always told our house and our yard were for us to
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play in, and- our friends were welcome anytime day or night. Pets
were also welcome, therefore; we had the usual assortment of dogs,
cats, turtles, fish besides an occassional odd fellow. Living in a
large two story house enabled us to play upstairs, while Mother
and Daddy entertained friends.
We never lacked toys or facilities. As small children we
usually shared a bedroom, but when we reached eleven we generally
got a room of our own. Our privacy was respected, but doors were
never locked and rarely closed. We were always welcome to hop in
bed with our parents for an early morning chat, and it's not easy
to get six people in one bed.
As children we were closest to my mother's family, although
we kept in touch with my father's family. Mother had only one
brother, Uncle Art, about two hours drive away in Greencastle, Ind.
His children, Art and Susan, were the same ages respectively as
Norman and I, giving us a great deal in common. Granny and Grand-
daddy Letzler lived about a two hour drive on the other side of
Greencastle, therefore we would meet frequently for a delightful
Sunday visit. Since Uncle Art had Multiple Sclerosis he had
difficulty travelling.
My father rarely took time off for a vacation, but we usually
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spent a week or*with Mother at my grandparents home in Muncie. The
greatest joy of those visits was to climb in bed with our grand-
parents early in the morning. We took turns sleeping with each of
them. Granny would ask us about our current activities and future
dreams, while Granddaddy would spin fantastic yarns that were still
delightful to hear at the age of fourteen.
For two weeks every summer from the age of nine through four-
teen Art and Norman, and Susan and I would attend Y.M.C.A. and
Y.W.C.A. camp together. Any long trips were taken to visit Daddy's
brothers and their families, and they in turn visited us. In 1957
we went to New Orleans to visit my Uncle Bob Wernet and his family,
taking advantage of the opportunity to sight see through the South.
In 1964 during the World's Fair in New York, all of Daddy's brothers
got together with their families at Uncle Bob's, who was then living
in Connecticut. That was the last time all four brothers got
together and also the last time our family took a trip together.
We saw many of the sights around New York and on our way home
stopped by Niagra Falls. As we all stood looking at the Falls my
father reminded Mother that it had only taken twenty years or so
to get to their choice honeymoon spotj and she told him it was worth
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the wait because things usually improve with age. With parents like
that we couldn't help but all be incurably romantic.
In 1965 sometime in March my mother went to stay with her
parents who were both critically ill with cancer. Mary Linn and
Lockie joined Mother in Muncie when school was let out for the
summer. Daddy, Norman and I stayed in Vincennes, but made regular
weekend trips to Muncie. During those few months I became what
might be considered the assistant manager of the household in
Vincennes. Any major problems were handled by my parents, but the
general day to day situations were left to me. I was sixteen at the
time.
That same year I attended the International Girl Scout Roundup
in Farragut, Idaho. I was one of seven delegates selected on merit
from Knox county, Indiana. I spent ten days in a tent city of ten
thousand girls from all over the world and learned a true appeciaticn
of ,Girl Scouting ideals. On the way home our group took a side
trip to tour Yellowstone National Park.
In 1964 I met and started dating William Lee Godare, a Vincennes
boy who at the time was a sophomore at the University of Florida.
For awhile we had a long distance romance, but his mother became
seriously ill in 1965 and he returned to school in Vincennes to be
near her. We became engaged on Christmas in 1966 after his mother's
death in October of that year. I graduated from high school in
May 1967 and we were married on June 2, 1967.
My parents gave us their blessing but were concerned because
we were both so young. We had a short honeymoon in St. Louis,
Missouri on our way to Ft. Worth, Texas, where we had plans to set
up our first home. Home was a small trailer not far from General
Dynamics Corporation, where Bill worked as a technical analyst on
military contracts. In April 1968 Bill accepted a position with
Sundstrand Corporation in their research and development group.
One of our objectives in moving back to the Midwest was to be near
Bill's brother, Robert, who was 13 and living with relatives in
Vincennes. Unexpectedly, we were fortunate to be close enough to get
home in a hurry when my father died in October 1968.
In 1969 we sold our trailer and bought a house southwest of
Rockford, and in 1970 Robert came to live with us. That same year
Bill was promoted to the position of associate engineer. In January
of 1971 we adopted a beautiful seven week old baby girl, who we
named Michelle Rene*. She is now a happy healthy three year old
Bob is engaged and attends Northern Illinois University as a
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commuter student.
Bill is basically the head of the household, but we always
discuss any major decisions. Bill loves golf and we all spend alot
of time on the course together. Michelle and I are members of the
Episcopal Church. Ours is a quiet life. Although, we do go back to
Vincennes frequently and try to maintain the strong sence of family
unity that we were both raised in.
Addendum
Heirlooms : Henry and Mary O'Meara, my great-grandparents
had a christening dress made for their first child, Mildred. It
is still in beautiful condition, and all of their grandchildren and
great-grandchildren have been baptised in it. Walter Letzler's
family has a beautiful cradle the age of which is unknown it is at
least 100 years. It too is in grand condition and was used for my
mother, her brother, and all the children in my family.
Celebrations : At least for the last 100 years on both sides
of my family birthdays and holidays have been celebrated in grand
style. On one's birthday they have nearly unlimited privileges.
Church services play a large part in most holiday celebrations with
a boisterous family get-together afterward.
Tradition : All of these families discussed in this paper had
a sence of strong family ties that still continues today. All
have stressed education and especially for the women. They have
had liberated women for over a century. Most important of all is
that each of these families has had an accute consciousness of
historical and political events present and past.
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