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JUHNKEV KIM DARLA, 1957-
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^1I,Y HISTORY.
ar Contributor to the Rock Valley College Family History Collectidn:
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hers study 111)', American families, we are asking you to fill out the forms
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Your name Kim Darla
Date of form April ?^, ^QJf, .
Your college: Rock Valley (College
Rockf CD rd, Illinois
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(llawai 1 ,A 1 aska) (III., Wise.,)
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FAM'I I.Y DATA
A . Grandfather (your f a the.r ' s si do)
Name ^^°^i ^^g^^t Ami Juhnke Current Residence deceased
Date of birth January 1, 1896 Place of birth Cnmrr-^y ^ Minnesota
Date of death August. 31 , 19.^0 Place of burial Janpsville, Wisconsin
Education (numbe r of years);
grade school 8 high school vocational tiol lege
()crupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st farmer Dates IstN^wUlm, M-inn, Dates 1026-1000
„ , plumbing „ „ ,
-nd Dates 2nd .7>,nP.«^v-i Up, u-jcpDates 1029-191^9
(Chevrolet)
3rd mannfar^t.iiT-ing Da t e si 929,1 9j^ft 3rd Dates
A th Dates 4 th Dates
„ , , . . Lutheran
R e 1 1 g 1 o n
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of Marriage to your grandmother Wisconsin) date Vp.h-r^f^ry 1g.'l?g6
NOTE: If your father was raised (to age 18) by a stepfather or anotner
relative give that data on the back of this page. (A-1)
Grandmother (your father's side)
Name Olga Janisch Current Residence Rockford, Illinois
Date of birth October 1$, 190$ Place of birth Springfield, Minnesota
Date of death Place of burial
Education (number of years):
grade school 8 high school 3 vocational
college
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Is t r'lP-rk Dates iQoi_iri2^ Is t New Dim, Minn. Dates 1926-1'
2 n d D a t e s 2 n d Janesville, Wisc.D a t e s 1 929-1 9li9
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
4 th Dates 4 th Dates
Religion Lutheran
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
I' lace of marriage to your grandfather Wisconsin date February 1^,1926
NOTE: If your father was raised 'io age 18) by a stepmother or
another relative give that data on the back of this p-i;', e
(A-2) .
A-2 S tepgrandf a ther (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
college
Occupation (s)
1st
2nd
3rd
4 th
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
Religion
1st
2nd_
3rd_
4 th
vocational
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
D a t e s
D a t e s
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_
college
vocational
Occupation (s)
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Da tes
Dates
Dates
Dates
_lst_
_2nd_
.3rd
4th
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
Re 1 i eion
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandfather_
Date
Graiiid f a ttier (your mother's side)
N a m e Charles Vernon Critser Current R e s i d c n c e _ unknown
Dnte of birth January 1$, 191$ Place of birth Lapel. Indiana
Date of death Place of burial
Education (number of years):
grade school 8 high school i vocational college
Ocfupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Store manager Dates 193], . 7 ^-s t 1 1^ Tjncoln Park Dates 193h - 1916
2nd Da tes 2nd Da t es
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
4th Dates 4th Dates
^^^U^.ion Lutheran
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandmother date
NOTE: If your mother was raised by a stepfather or anotiier relative (to
age 18) give that data on the back of this page (C-1)
Grandmother (your mother's side)
Name PhyiHg Lillian Worr Current Residence Rockford, Illinios
Date of birth A„r^,^+ o 1011 Place of birth pp+ay.hn-r,n-r,rr\^ t^v,„«t_„u'
— August 9> 191a rRLftrooroogfl-^ Li-ne&lnsm.re^
England '^
Date of deat h P lace of buria 1
Education (nu mb er of years)
grade school ° high school h vocational college
PLACE OF RI'SIDENCE
(after leaving home)
I) ales
R e 1 i g i o n
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc
Plat'c of marriage to your grandfather Date
NOTi:: If your mother was raised by a stepmother or another relative (to
''^' "^^ give th»t dA-ta on the back of this page (D-2)
C-2 S tepgrandf ather (your mother's side)
Name
Date of birth_
Date of death
Current Residence_
Place of birth
Place of burial
Education (number of years)
;rade s chool
high school_
voca t iona 1
college
Occupation(s)
lst_
2nd_
3rd_
4th
Dates_
Dates_
Dates
Dates
lst_
2nd_
_3rd_
4th
PLACE OF RESIDENCI
(after leaving home]
Da tes_
Dates
Dates
Dates
Religion
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc
Place of marriage to your grandmother_
D-2 Stepgrandmother (your mother's side)
Name
Date
Date of birth_
Date of death
Current Residence
Place of birth
Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade school^
high school
vocational
col 1 e
Occupation (s)
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Dates_
Da tes_
_Dates_
Dates
lst_
2nd
4th
PLACE OF RESIDKNC
(after leaving home
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
R e 1 i g i o n
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc
Place of marriage to your grandfather_
D a t e
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LDREN of A & B (or A-2 or B-2) - your father's n.-imt should appenr below
Name Duane Arthur Juhnke
Place of birth Janesville, Wisconsin date December 23, 1933
Number of years of school ing'" 1?^ Occupation plumber
Residence Rockf ord, Illino^ r i t a 1 Status Married
Number of children four Death
^■■1'"'-' Jnlia T.anra JnhnkR
Place of birth .Tanpsvillfi, Wisconsin date May 2^. 1931
Number of years of schooling nine Occupation housewife
Res i denrer;pc;c;vi-nPj Wisr.nnsin Mari ta 1 S tatus married
Number of children f i yp Death
N .1 me_ Y.ldorFi May .TnhnkR .
Place of birth jj^^^ tHttIj Minnpsnta date May 11 , 1927
Number of years of schooling +.wp1vf> plus Occupation secretary
Res i dence RppkfnrH Marl ta 1 S tatus married
Number of children faur__ Death
Name
Place of birth , date
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence M a r i t a 1 Statu s
Numberofchildren death
Name
Place of birth date
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Statu s
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 Mari tal S ta tus
Number of children death
Name __^___
Place of birth _date
Number of years of schooling Occupation_
Residence Mar i ta 1 S tatus
Number of children death
N a m e
IM a c c- of b i r t h d a t e
Number of years of schooling Occupa lion
Residence Marital Status
Number of children deatli
Name
Place of birth date
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number ol children . deatli
CHILDREN of C and D (or C-2, D-2)-your mother's name should appear below
1. Name Donna Joan Gritser
Place of birth Rockford. Illinois date January 13t 1936
Number of years of schooling 1_2 Occupa t ion Medical Secretary
Residence Rockford Marital Status married
Number of children four 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 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 Marital Status
Number of children death
Name
Place of birth date
Number of years of schooling Occupation^
Residence Marital Status
Numberofchildren..' 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
10 . Name
Place of birth date __^_
Number of years of schooling Occupation_
Residence M arital Statu s
Numb or of children death
Your Fa ther
Name Duane Arthur Juhnke , Current Residence
Date of birth December 23. 1933 Place of bitth Janesvinp, Wi ...r>r^nc^n
Date of Death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade school 8
high " school [^ vocational 8 months co 1 lege j_
Occupation(s)
aviation teat man
2nd real estate
3rd plvunber
4th
Lutheran
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
-Dates 19^6 - 1970 1st Seattle, Washingtnn Dates iqcCc: . c:a
-Dates 1970 - 197i| 2nd 3307 Liberty DHvp Dates ip^A _ fi
Rockford
-Dates 197li - present 3rd 1612 Hack-herry LanP Dates iqAi _ A3
Rockford
-Dates 4th -^:^n7 Liberty T)rivP Dates 10A3 . Ag
5511 Millry Drive 196^ - 1969
^375 Mariposa Drive I969 - I971
Religion
Political parties, cKvil or social clubs, f r a 1 1 j-§i j^eii^,^^!^^ Avenue 1 971 -present
Independant
Place of marriage to your mo ther Rockford. Illinois date October 1^^, 19^'^
NOTE: If you were raised by a stepfather or another relative give that data
on the back of this page. (E-2)
Your Mother
^^"•^ Donna Joan €ritoor
Date of birth January 13, 193g
Date of death
Current Residence 218 Highland, Rockford
Place of birth Rockford, Illinois
Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade school
highr s chool
vocational
college
Occupa t ion (s )
1st sales clerk
" piano teaohor
Dates
Dates
1953
1st
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
)ates 1955-56
1953 - 1957
3rd homemaker
2 n d 3307 Uberty Drive p ate s 1956-61
Rockford, Illinois
Dates 1955 - present 3rd 1612 Hackberry Lane Dates 1961-63
Rockford
4th secretary - medical Dates 1969 - 197^ 4th 3307 Liberty Drive Dates 1963-65
Religion
Episcopalian Lutheran
218 S, Highland Avenue 1971 - now
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc
Republican
Place of marriage to your father Rockford, Illinois date October l5« 1955
NOTE: If you were raised by a stepmother or another relative give that data
on the kack of this page (F-2).
E-2 Stepfather
Name
Date of birth
Date of death
Education (number of years)
grade school high school
Occupation (s)
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Dates
Da tes_
Dates
Dates
Rel igion
Place of birth
Place of burial
vocational
college
_lst_
_2nd_
3rd_
4th
PLACE OF RESIDENCI
(after leaving home]
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your mother_
F- 2 S tepmother
N Smo
Date of birth
Date of death
Education (number of years)
grade school high school_
Occupation (s)
1st
2nd_
3rd
4th
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
Date
Place of birth
Place of burial
vocational
CO 1 1 e ge_
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates
_2nd_
3rd
4th
Dates
Da tes_
Dates
Re 1 igion
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc
Place of marriage to your father_
date
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CHILDREN OF E AND F (or E-2,F-2) -YOUR NAME SHOULD APPEAR BELOW
Name Kim Darla Juhnke
Place of birth Rockford^ Illinois i)ate of birth April 2?^ 19^7
Number of years of schooling twelve plus Occupation sales clfirk-
Residence Rockford, Illinois Marital Status single Sears
Number of children death
Name Trina Davm Juhnke
Place of birth Rockford, Illinois Date of birth Seigtember Mi, ig'^g
Number of years of schooling . ten plus Occupation waitress
Residence Rockford, Illinois Marital Status single
Number of chttldren death
^^"'g Been KtQr JutelJ^n -_.
Place of birth iTepkf ord, Illmoi s P a t e of birth April 19, 1961
Number of years of schooling eight plus Occupation
Residence Rockford, 111. Marital Status single
Number of children death
Name Sharla Gay Juhnke
Place of birth Rockford, Illinois late of birth March ^6, 196"^
Number of years of schooling seven plus Occupation
ResidenceRockford, IllinoisMar i tal Status single
Number of children death
Nam e
Place of birth Date of birth
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Nam e
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
Illinois
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DUANE ARTHUR JUHMKE
Father
B. December 23, 1933
M October 15, 1955
DONNA JOAB GRITSER
Mother
B January 13, 1936
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Grandfather
January 1 , 1896
M February 15,1926
D August 31,1950
, OLQA JANISCH_
Grandmother
B October I6, 1905
CHARLES VERNON CRITSER
Grandfather
; B January 15, 1915
; M June 5, 193h
PHYLLIS LILLI AM WAfiR. .
Grandmother
B August 9, 1,91 U
ALVINA BERBERICH
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2 January 1, I8h3
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MARTHA AHNDT
B July 1, 1880
D September 1967
ROY C, CRITSER
B January 15, 1915
n June 5, 193li
B December 8, If
M April 1911
PRIMROSE WORTHINGTON
April 19, 189U
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Duane Juhnke (father)
Donna Juhnke (mother)
Mrs. James Redmond (fiaternal grandmother)
Mrs. Frank Scott (maternal grandmother)
Grace Jones (sister of maternal grandmother)
Alice Bontoft (great-grandfathers sister, maternal side)
Part I A Paternal Grandfather
ADOLF AUGUST AMIL JUHNKE
BORN: January 1, I896
DIED: August 31, 1950
1^ grandfather was born in 1896 in the city of Comfrey, Minnesota where he
was one of eleven brothers and sisters. He lived on a farm until he was about
twelve years oUd. He then moved to Butte, Montana xd-th his family and lived on
a very large farm. Drought hit the area of Butte so the family moved to Morgan,
Minnesota. He entered WWI and served two or three years. After he was out of
WWI he took up homestead in Montana for a few years. Then he moved again to
New Ulm, Minnesota where he went into the plumbing business. Not long after his
move to New Ulm he met his future wife at a dance.
Part I B Paternal Grandmother
OLGA JANISCH
BORN: October 16, 1905
Jfy grandmother was born in 190$ in Springfield, Minnesota. She attended
a Lutheran Parochial School from first through eighth grade. Then her family-
moved to New Ulm, Minnesota in 1919 and she attended New Ulm High for three
years and then quit school to go to work in a dry goods store. She worked there
for a year and then worked in the Wonder Store for about four years until her
marriage in 1926. She went steady with Adolf from July 192$ until their mar-
riage in February of 1926.
Paj.^ I C Paternal Grandparents Lives Together
MR. AND MRS, ADOLF JUHNKE
MARRIED: February 15, 1926
% grandparents were married in 1926 and lived in an apartment in New Ulm,
Minnesota. Their first child was born May 11, 1927. They named her Eldora May.
In February 1929 they moved to Janesville, Wisconsin to the Jackson Hubard
Addition home. They purchased the $2,000 four room home wiith $300 down. While
they owned the house they built a basement under it by themselves. In 1929
my grandfather went to work at Chevrolet until 19U8 when he started to become
ill. During the 1932 depression he was layed off from Chevrolet for a year
and a half. He went to work on a farm for a dollar a day while he was layed
off. He resumed his job at Chevrolet and continued to work there a total of
nineteen years. In 1931 their second child was born and they named her Julia
Laura. In 1936 their third child was born and they named him Duane Arthur
(my father). The family moved to town and rented from 1937 until 1939. Then
they moved to a forty acre farm outside of town and raised tobacco. My grand-
mother had her cMn dairy with about 200 customers. In 19li3 they moved back to
Janesville where they had a home at the address of 18 South Acadamy. In 19UIi
the Chevrolet factory made shells for the war and then both grandparents worked
there. Jfy grandmother worked there for the government and my grandfather worked
there for the factory. In 19U7 they owned a restaurant at the South -Acadamy
address while Monroe Point was there place of residence. In 19ii8 Julia was
married to Raymond Raisbeck. Also in 19ii8 xny grandfather was hospitalized
at the vets hospital in Tomah, Wisconsin with a brain tumor. He died on
August 31 , 1 950 from pneumonia. My grandmother and her son came to live in
Rockford in 19U9, They both took employement at National Lock,
Mr. and Mrs. Adolf Juhnke
marriage picture
February 15, 1926
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' Part I D FATHER
DUANE ARTHUR JUHNKE
BORN: December 23, 1933
% fiber was born at home on December 23, 1933 in Janesville, Wisconsin.
When he was three years old the family moved to Hackbarth's farm in Ruger Heights.
He went to Blackhawk Country School from first through third grade. He then
moved to another farm on RRI and went to Wooladale School for fourth grade.
He continued moving with his family to 18 South Acadamy and attended St. Pauls
Lutheran School from fifth through eighth grade. They also moved to Monroe Point
while he went to St. Pauls. His father died when he was fifteen and he and his
mother came to Rockford to live on the corner of Seventh Street and Broadway
in ^9h9^ He worked a few months at the Seventh Street Sweet Shop and then he
and his mother went to work at National Lock. His mother met his future wife's
mother working there and make arrangements for them to meet.
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Duane Juhnke (nry father)
August 19U3
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Part II A Maternal Grandfather
CHARLES VERLON RICHARD CRITSER
BORN: January 15, 1915
}fy maternal grandfather was born January 15, 1915 in Lapel, Indiana. He
had two sisters. His mother died when he was fifteen years old and his father
re-married. He graduated from high school and met his future wife through
Messiah Lutheran Church. He married Phyllis Lillian Warr on June 5, 193U.
Part n B Maternal Grandmother
PHYLLIS LILLIAN WARR
BORN: August 9, 19lU
ffy grandmother was born August 9, 191U in Peterborough, Lincolnshire in
England, In 1921 she moved to Witham on the Hill in Lincolnshire. She came
from England when she was nine years old in 1923. She then presently lived at
1228 Elm Street. She went to fifth grade while she lived on Euclid Avenue. She
attended Lincoln Park School for sixth and seventh grade while she lived on Car-
ver Avenue. She started school at Central High and dropped out in her sopho-
more year. She met her future husband through Messiah Lutheran Church in 1933
and was married in 193ii. Some of the changes she saw from moving to the U.S.A.
from England were that cars were more abundant and there were flush toilets in
the schools. The schools also had books and morning breaks with graham crackers
and milk.
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Part II C Maternal Grandparents Lives Together
MR. AND MRS. CHARLES CRITSER
MARRIED: June 5, 193h
My grandparents were married on June 5, 193U in Messiah Lutheran Church.
They lived at 115 Lincoln Park Blvd. while they were married and my grandfather
was a store department manager. After two years of marriage they were divorced
October 27, 1936 on the grounds of mental cruelty.
Part II D Mother
DONNA JOAN WARR
BORN: January 13, 1936
My mother was born at home, 115 Lincoln Park Blvd., on January 13, 1936,
When she was around four or five she lived at 2608 Broadway. She started first
grade at Lincoln Park School while living on Woodrow Ave, She continued first
grade and finished her second year also at Kishwaukee School, She lived at 1603
Fourth Avenue while she went from third through sixth grade at John Nelson,
Roosevelt was where she attended seventh through nineth grade. This is while
she was living at 1135 Bruce Street from 19ii7 through 195ii. She attended West
High and graduated in 1953. In 195U she lived at ii903 Illinois Street, She
met my father through an agrreement of the two mothers that they should meet
each other.
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Part III A Parents Lives Together
MR. AND MRS. DUANE JUHNKE
MARRIED: October 15, 1955
Wy parents were married October 15, 1955 in Rockford. They had their honey -
moon at the Wisconsin Dells. My father was then stationed in Seattle, Washington
while nry mother lived in Loves Park at ii903 Illinois Street. Then my mother
went to Seattle to live on the date of December 20, 1955. They lived at 1509
Dravus for a few months and then Seventh Avenue West for a few months. On June 29,
1956 my father was dismissed from the army and they came back to Rockford to live
at U802 North Second Street until October 1956. While my mother was pregnant
with me they moved to 1228 Elm Street where I was born. My father started
Sundstrand in 1956 and worked there many years. When they were married n^
mother was Episcopalian and n^ father was Lutheran. My mother was then re-
confirmed at Mount Olive Lutheran Church as a Lutheran,
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October 15, 1955
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Part III B My Life
KIM DARLA JUHNKE
BORN: April 23, 195?
I was born in Swedish American Hospital on April 23, 1957 and lived at 1228
Elm Street. After living there a few months we moved to 1335 Charles Street which
is now a parking lot at Swedish American Hospital. After almost a year there we
moved to 3307 Liberty Drive from May 1958 until March 1961. We prQceeded to move
again, this time to Hackberry Lane until August 1963. We then moved back to 3307
Liberty Drive because the Hackberry Lane house was to expensive at that time. I
attended Summerdale School for first and second grade. We then proceeded to 5511
Millry Drive. I went to Gunsolas School for third through half of sixth grade.
I finished out the sixth grade at Thompson School while living at 2375 Mariposa
Drive. I also attended Buckbee Junior High for seventh and eighth grade while
at this address. I lived at Mariposa Drive until October 2, 1971 at which time
our family moved to 218 South Highland where I presently live. I attended East
High School and am presently at Rock Valley College studing the Social Sciences.
I am presently employed by Sears and Robuck at CherryVale. I've worked there -
almost two years. Previously I was employed at Ponderosa Steak House on State
Street for one year. Religion didn't play to much of a part of ray life until
last fall when I started to attend Campus Crusade for Christ at Rock Valley. I
started Sunday School at Redeemer Lutheran Church while in fifth grade and am
currently attending there.
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Age: 8 months
Kim Darla Juhnke
Senior Picture 1975
Juhnke house (my present residence)
218 South Highland
Rockford, Illinois
1976
(my great grandparents)
Rose and Alfred Warr
50th wedding anniversery
April I96U
(my great-great grandparents, maternal)
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Worthington
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AI,E:UNDEF? JOHNSON SANDERS
Alexander Johnson -.vas born 3n l'.^''; in loi-a. ile later
movtid to Hockford, Illinois, wy.en he was about .'^0 yi-^s. old.
In Rookford h« lived Just a few blocks from IVn, ^t. no tn'
could be close to his work. Dovmstaira froiu whore he lived,
nnother Al 't'linder Johnson liv d and th«ir srall was constantly
getting nixed up. As a result of raall ; roblon Alexander
deoide<>; to change hla (U^e, Ife droi-ped the Jolinson and took
the 'ander' i^art f his fi'st n une and artded an 'a' to the
front and end of it and -ot the nar;e a1<p>x Sanders,
V/hilo in /iockford he met ^'nd inarrle^d Matilda, They hnd
two sons Henry and 1'«rt5n. About a year aft^.r 'I'-rtln -vas
bom latil ia di'^d of ty h id fever, in 3 ''•Bii, Alex's sister
came from Iowa and took 'art in ?/aCk to Iov»a v/ith her where
she rals«d him until Alex remar-rled. Ale;': reiwarried about
3 yeara later to Johannah, 'ihey vvr;nt out to lo ^^a and got
Martin, Johann<\h palsi.d Henry and Martin, Johannah was
born in 1%8 and died 5n ?t9.?Q, Alux Sanders dlttd in 19 Ij..
EMILY tJJ0HN3?RO &iJi.T« JOHNSON P.'tAHK i hT-'J^SOK
i-rnlly Bjoi'nber ; ■■•as born In iweden in l^'.}}* 'inlly caine
to Rockrord, IllJnols, *vh< n 3he was l6. A I w years later
the rest of h.^^r fsiinlly carae to the Jnlted states and settled
3n Si-rlng Lak s, Iowa.
iVhlle In Ucckfird she met and 1 ntor nuirrl d 3*en Johnson.
iJwon worked at a foundry In Hookford. is a r svilt of wor ing
it t^e foundry ><ien develo; ed lim.'^ trouble and a doctor told
them to move to th^ C'-«untry for h5s health, 'i'hey moved to
Cbe^r-^ Valley *n 1'^".'', Gwen dl-'d of resj-^rator^ troubles Id
I'^'^l.
; mlly had t}xr(-e children to .'uj-i,ort, so she at. -rt- d ciolnt,
b'iklng for other j. f;o. le, i.m31y hIso did la^indry lor other
};eoj/le, H ooUile of years after S\vcn»3 death i-rrdly ra* t and
marrf-.d i rink Peterson. >rank 'Pas :\l30 a widower with four
children. Pr mk was a cobbler*. Durln/.r the sujnmers at haying
time he hel^^ed out neighboring farmers for 3.7'"^ a day. jjstiriy
continued doing baking; for other leoile and als^ st-arted
srlllng the rai^ rugs and cariOt- she had made on h^-jr loom.
In 1Sq8 th»ty sold their home and moved b-ick to itookford.
Jos^i hlne atay-.d in Ch';rry Valley with sorae relatives so she
could oont'nuo jvorklng th<*r.'?. In Rockford the fan:lly boup-ht
a small house on "th. ^^t. ^nd 10th. av^-. They ^11 found joba
here 5n hocklord.
-nunlly died in l^p', and r rHr> Id a few ye .rs ly»tv.r.
ni'^'Tr joim 3 n!-BH3 -m, i."76 to 19 '^6
Henry Gnndoi's v*ris oorn In HockXor' 1 , n"5nois, 3n l'^'76«
hen Henry wns about 1 "' he start-^^d working' for Joe Hlllard,
who rnn a !?;roc- py fltor«, -he store ^vns only '\bout 2 blocks
from wh»='re "lanry 11 v.,,''. The ;'tor« was riore tJian just a
proC'^ry store It also ca^'rled cloth5nii, stationury, and other
thln-s» Henry started out hs a deHv-^ry boy and i^ventually
started runnlivw, the i-lnce, Joe Hlllard drank quit ^^blt and
was sick most of the time. Henry and Joe were ^^oo.: friends
most of thf' tlrnej out they did fyrht alot o v^^r how the store
should ne in.m, ienry thou-^ht about qiilttjng quite a i -v*
twines but n*^eded the noney so he stfiyea,
iienry roet Joseihino thru Joe's vJle Victoria, who was
Josephine's cousin. They mat In I'^oj and continued ii elm.';
each other '^<nd corvspoi^dla'-MIl they were nnrried In 100?.
iJeoause Jose hi ne :!1vfd In Uh*-.rry Valley when they first
n^-t and Henry ""Ivd In nocklord^they only a^wtt ach oth.-r
about once a wi-ek, usually on iundny. It took Henry about
one hour to '^et to v^he^rry Vall-y wh^n he took a horse and
bursty. He borrovi-ed Joo's bug; y when- ver he could to sav
the cost of ta'-ln", the tr^ln.
If .-ienry mall-id a letter so Joaeihln* by 8:0U'»M^ she
would have It that afternoon, hen ^ienry was In -hlcaoo
ono tirae JosMphlne sent a "otter to hlra and It took 1? days
to '-^t thPi'0, In iti'^ny of t>;e letters ii«nry wrote to Joseihin
he t-ilk'^d ab-M.it tlie news of whit w-s :-olng on Ir* Hoc-ford
snd In th- nflt^-^n.
In Auijuat of l^'^-y Henry Joined th« Illinois National
Guard and went to Si-rlnj-rf io" d, Illinois, for tralnning at
Craa\ Lincoln, In A; rll of ISO^ ho was s'^nt back dovm to
Si.rlnfifleld lor wore training • il^^ stayed In ^^ rln.jf leld
until he VIS.B sont to Guayavno, xuerto Hlco, and froro there
to Guba, On the following i.a.^.f.a are some Xerox copies -^f
some of iienry's lettf^ra oonoernlnc the Spanlsh-Am-rloan
>.ar and <«IoKlnley»8 as.«5P'at* ->n, Henr^ returned In November
of l'^9B# Henry eve^itually .ecaino '\ ll*^u'6n'>rt In the Ii:3n->3E
Cua rd •
Henry join d tho Svea 3oner :'oc5al association, "ihis
*9 a Swedish choir. Henjry sanj; at mjuuerous weddings and
banquets. xiO remained nctlve ^n 3vea Soner xxntll his death.
Menry was also active In the 4«thodlst s-hwch In -iocki -^rd.
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Joaaihlnw K, Johrson was born in liookfoi'd, Illlnola,
'4ai»ch 5, !''<%, JosRihlne's family mov- d to Cherry Valley
when she was 2 y ^ni's old. Th« laiiilly lived a little north
of Gbftrry Val?-'5y a'>out 10 miles irom xocicford. iler father
dlod when ahe wis ab »ut 3 years old.
When Jose hlne was 3 5 sho started dolni^ housework for
some of her neiahbors to nelj^ out at home financially.
..h®n Josephine was IB, her lamlly aoved bac' to liockfird,
Joseihlne stayed bel Ind 5n Chprr7 Valley st-^ylng with flome
of her relativ^^s* Vlthln a year she stvirted workln,-; at a
spK^ll stocVr^nfT factiry, ihe worV:<?>d there w ouple of y* ars
and t^en q'j;"t to co to 3; rlxif Lakt^a, Iowa, with her mother.
They st»iyed 5n Iowa lor l\. months vlstln,- relatives, '..hlle
there Josf'. hine '.vorkid doing housework. her, they camr b'lck
from lo'fla, Jos^*ihln© st!->.yed in Hookford, FJie r^ot a job tnThe
i^ookford /atch factory working in rho office, she liisi f^ctod
the cryatn.ls, Josephine had worked there nbout 2 yeara
■.'hen Jose]h^ne and the ? other peoi-le^who work^^d In the office
with her, were fired, Th'-y v;ere -;1v^'n no renson for th ir
belnf, fired, -Tosci hlne then i-ot s job at a shoe factory in
liockford where she 'orked until ;*^he j^-it married,
vlille Josei-hlng was in -h'i?^ry Valley ale attended a
Bavtlst ('hurch, hf-n she movf^d to "ockiord she stnrted
ji-olng to a .ifithodlst v^hurch. She was an active church -joor.
H}:NRY & JOSEJHINr.
Henry and Joseihlno v,ero married June 26, 1007 • Thr^y
were a-irrlod *n a Ba tiat Church In cherry Valley, Joae h±>!'8
8lster,Alico and her husband Gustuv, went with aa witnesses.
They lived in the upstairs ai artmont of a t/.o rnnilly house
on 9th, i5t, and lit]-!, Av. only a low blocks Trom wb'jre- Henry
wor'cod. Th^y lived there five yoars arid five months when
the T'\ndlord<8 daurhter s'ot ;iarr5ed and wanted to niovf Into
the Ui- stairs aiartment, 'i'hoy then inov-d to a a^ artmer'.t on
Charlea Street t»^ jt, mthony itos, It-il, 'i'hey lived th^re a
low years and then decided to bwy a Jionse, Vhey boU£;ht a
house at 1211 Ijth. Street for ^,200.00. They i-ut the
fl^O-T.OO they h^d sav-^d down on the house and borrowed the
remaining, |1000,0u T'^om >ustuv, Jose hlne'a brother-in-law,
?wo yfa.r*a later ,\llce nd Gustuv built a ht~>use icross t.he
street from Henrv and 'osei-hine.
Shortly aj^'ter Henry and Jos^.h^np were mnrrled Joe
Hill -ird started drinklnr, quit heavily 'igaln and becanc very
sick, Victors a decided to sell the ^.roce.ry store, no aertry
St irtud looking for nrsother job. He -;ot anoth^^r Jocj at
Norlanders ,.,rocei?y on Qth. street, ile rt>niained thfcre the
rest of his life,
Josei hlne and Henry attended a lothodlst ohurch in
KocVford. Aftor Henry's death Jose: hlne stsirtecJ attendln^^
Tabor Luthorn v^hurch Just four blocks from were she lived.
Jose, hlne and Henry had one son, iienry John Jandera, Jr.
born M^iy 27, 1<)19« Alice, Jos-ihlne's slater, also hnd a son
nboDt the same time, 1'he tvYo rlayed to,,»;ther when tht.y were
g:>',v.vlng ui.. There rore al-' xnEiny othor children abnut deiiry'a
afro In the n''l?,hborhood,
Henry Sanders, :.r. died of tubfiroulos.la in 19'^^. "i'he
funeral was hold in the }-ouse ->n l5th Strj>et»
Joaeshln^ received financial heli frotn \^y r^latlva
n.nd frlan-^s aft* r Henry's .loath. She also did some od-' jobs.
In the fall of lopy Jose; hlnn started moclfini^, at Lincoln
J\m1or Hlp;h Jchool In th<; cafeteria. 3he worked there until
1Q50. ;^he .1 oked a wile to work an; a mile home lor tic first
n5ne 7^=* >rs she worthed thrre b*ioausH she couldn't afford to
i-\y the :'W. Jor tho bus ride. JosehJnc also rented t>!e u^i-er
hnlf of the ho-re out to borde *s during the dei-r^aslon.
.'hen iienry was nacrled he and iils wife laov -d Into the
>>^n5='e on 15th 3t, vy^th Jnaaihlne, Josephine at ty.d in that
housf''. until 1^7? i7hen she -'iwit tnto a nursing home. After shti
uult work she hel|.ed take care of thr'.lr chlldre: and t) e hm-se.
«fter the death of her dau^htST*-- In-law and a f«=^w years later
the de'ith of her son^a housek-^^e er OH:f.- to at iy with Josoi^.lnr.
The housekeeper stayed with her ab nit a ^ear aft-r whlcl ale,
Jose hine, ^went to stay nt Illln->5 8 r.xtended Care Cont<,r In
Hockford,
CARL aoF CA.ai.;3^.H Sej.t. R,l''3l to 'lov. }.?, I9f>6
GHrl , lof C ■r"' son waa born In .''eoen o-. tfrnbe;-* ^, 18/^1,
on n sraall rnrra. His ; nr< -nts were In the5r -^nrly illtles
\v>:en hs^ vvHS born, H? s five brot];era, wliO were riuch olcier than
h5B5 had alre»ciy lelt home dv tlia tine Carl waa born. ..hen
C'>r»l was ^bout 1 "i ywnrs old h© started wort.ln^j, on a nearby
e3t'>t*5 as a hired hand, /ifter workln::, on the estate for a le/*
^tr^^ars he opte.r<i.;d the ^.w*»d5ah .--.rmy, ■•her! Carl t'-.ot out ol the
array/ o-eden was in a depression, C>arl oovld not find worJc any-
wVfre In :iwooenj ao ne lelt ^?joden and went to Flnlim"i, In
i'lnl'ind he foimd v;ori- on the ra11ro?i~8» -iter aj. proximately a
year Iri il.nland ];« 'Ult for .eruTKirk hopln;; to fin:?, a better Job,
•ie rot a job in the svt~-:r jnllls "out still wasn't ina>.lng as riuch
■f,8 he had wanted,
v'hen Carl was 'n his late twenties he leit Denznark to come
to the -Jriited .^t.ites. He hoped that In the J, .i, he could cet
a better ,-ayin'7 job, le came to RoeVSood, Illinois, because he
had heard there v/ere '-iU.lte a ftw other Swodlah ^ eo|iJ.e ^n ti.lB
area ana bf- cause of the lirge anovmt ol work here in furniture
and C'lbiriet I'actorles, Shortly after arrlvln;: In Hocklord he
got a job In a furniture iPactory,
Carl joined tmny of the S'vedlsh ci^jon In .xookford, Ke jnost
•ictlve In the L:"rans club and eventually b^cawM an officer of
th»- c''ub,
Soon aft'.r C vrl sctf^ed 'n Rookford aoaie of hie ooiislns
Cirne to .iockford also, Botiv st lyed in Hocklora but the iiiajorlt:,'
of them ir.oved further ■•o-rth.
AiJifA CH'ftl.STIIlE OUS^rAFGOH 1330 to 1930
\Tin9 Chrlatlj)© -rxist*4f8on was born 'n v;'t den, Anna c^me
to the TJnit^tiid '.tttos w-en sh« was 5n her early f.ventles with
hor aix brothwra and s^st-^rs, oho I'jft owed«n bacauae of the
dftj-resalon th^rf. 'lar i-ar^nta oould not su^ i rt all the
cbll rftn on wh^3t thi^y made but d!d not want to lf:av« 3»eden«
AnrJi and }iereoldi^at brother stayed In Boston, Miaa., while
the others spitf . ci out In the 'Iddlo- .est. In lioaton 8h<>
wor^-'ed at f\-r old nea.-'-Hn's hone which wa» r^m l»y tiie Salvati-n
Arrny. Anna v^.s of the .^3vatlon .^.m-iy f4*th and very active
in the church In boston* After working a f-w ye-ira In boston
"^nni raov^d to Aoc'-ford to Join her nlat^r, Anna ~.ot a joo
^n a rrctrnet f-^ctorv aa a s'^amstr^Jss. Anna and her sister
shared a a""^!! a} 'irtr^nt 1n d -wntown riockford.
CAI<L h A>mA
i^lille .\rmH ijustafson was vorkinj^r i\t tV.o ^araot laotory
she met iJctty Carlson, Car>l V, Curl son's O'^usln. Botty
eventually Intpoduoed Anna to Cirl. '■■^ few years 1 iter In
19lh- Anna h d Carl wore narrled. They inoved into a small
house on 3rd Avonue, Anna worked u^ to the time their llrst
ohlld, Harry Carlson w^is born in 1Q17* Their daughter, ii\,hel,
was born Oct. 1 , 1021 •
Anna took the childre:! to the Salvation Arjy church which
sh(i was very active In. C^irl was Protestant but not an active
church goer. G'irl contlnuwd going to .yran untlll he was no
longer thy si cally ^ble,
iVhen the children whnre youn^^ Anna's brother, ir-^o) Joston,
oarae to vlst for ^while. Also, after Anna's father died in
o%-edeny her mothej-* c vr.e to 3t:y v^th Anna and clarl. She only
stayed ibout 2 years and then .v«nt back to Swecien because she
did not 'Ike iiockford. -hlle ^h© was here she hel^.ed Anna
raise the child. ""e^f. ^^eoaus© Anna, Carl, and ^'■nna's mother all
talked I'wedlsh the children ha." trouble in school with their
rngllsh. rthel flimked kindergarten bfjcause she couldn't
3i.eaJc onoui^V to understand what was goln^, on.
After the birth of Harry^ Anna and Carl moved to a much
larger house on "th Ut. vlter Anna's mother l^jft to go ' ack
to Sweden, Anna and Carl rented the 2nd story of their housn
out to borders. They had 'j. borders at a time. Durinf, 16he
deprosslon when the nuir.ocr of lioiirs that Carl worked at
Soandla Lumber were cut down the money he receloed from the
borders helped out. Also during the detreealon Hari*y jot a
l-apor route and wor-'ed settJnji uj. i-lna .In bowling alley,
Aftor the deiresslon Carl qult^ his job at 'candla and go^ ^
better jay In'' lob at a ,'rTrmct factory, jla worked at thr
garmet factory until he retir-;d».i:..__
Anna started i^attlnf; severe headachoa In 19^'6« ^ah® *'a8
sick until h«r death In the spring; of 1930. In 10^:9 Carl took
her to ;4<iyo Brother a Clinic In Rochester, ilnnesota, where
she h*id aur-ery for a brain tionor. The surgery prevented h<-;r
from GOln^r; b^ Ind but ti.ey couldn't do <iny thing el.se, A few
months after Anna's death Carl tdred a lady, iva i-llnlc, to
come to the housie! during the day an<i striljhton u^ and take
carp of Etl-.el and Han»y. £va Tlvad Just a few houses away,
1 va stayed the^e until both Harry and hthel >?t>re married,
AS the children G'O't older she noatTy Just plcVed ui. <itter the
borders, va st^rt^ d the oh-'ldren Rolng to -Ion Luthem
Church Just a few blocks i|W!iy fron ^h.^re they lived.
In 19.'|.3 Cirl met >\&vj iiradstlen, who was from Ui^per
Minnesota, They Wf^re rnnrrled July 3, 19'sii-, Sl-iorfy alt .r
thrlr rn^prlage Carl retired but still kei,t on hla borders as
an e-'tra so-^.rce of Incon^e. 'ary died In 19^'0, Somotirae In
196'4. a housekoei.«r movod In to c .re of Carl and the house
becausi^ he hid suffered a stroke, 0=irl also atOi-i>a»d renulnt;
out the Ui-atalrs to borders at this time, Carl suffered a
fttw more strokes before h<; led Nov, 17, 196^.
HKNRT JOHN S/a?JD. ^?'i JR. f-lay ;/7,1919 to .l-y 19, 1072
Henry 3and>r8, Jr. waa born in iockiord, Illinois,
on l^ay ?7, lOTg, He si-ent Ma entire ''If e?, c^je- t lor vyh'?n
'"(^ w i3 In the Na'«'f"^, In ^ocVford.
Henry went to H-^llstrom Or^nie School which was only
two blocks from wherft he llvd. He then atte-'ided lincoln
Jxmlor ITlfh onr- mile frnm wVTe th«y lly«d» Honry went to
HocVford G-ntr:0. Hl^^h but droi^ped out to ;^et -^ full -time
job„ -iftf^r he: got m-x of the Navcy he went back to school
fivA -ot his dltloaH.
lenry had a .a^. ;r route when he youn;^ to h<plp hla
TTJother out financially, ;hen he qnlt school he (3ot a job
qt Hookford Tool fr. hfo (lator o«^l"ed riockford Lrop lorge)
ininn*nr a lithe. He rtn-ilned w.^rkln-. theiN^ unt^l he v/aa
drifted,
Henry attended snd was confiraif^d Iroin Vabor Iu:th.-;rn
*-ihurch. He was not as aotlv in church as hla i.arent5 had
b en,
Hf^nry • .3 drifted In the be,.;lrmlnr- of 19 --• --*» oorved
In the ^'Jav-^y in the Faclflc, rnl.le In the iiivjry ho studieu
electronics and ro^^lruc] radios ant! rada», :ie was diechar, .fed
In 19lj.6 af t- r s^ en 5.n , a ye tr in the hos.-ltable at Great
-«::^r, 'Taval Base. ^^^ had b. en injured ^fter falling iroin
the nnst of a shlj. durln'? ■■^- sUwi^iu, He had to have surr.ery
on his b\ick, «ftf-r returning home he beoame an active
raembrir of thh Navy Club in .Sock lord,
'Vhen Henry Tlvftd homf5, he ano his mother usually celebrated
holld^iya nlone or with Josephlmi ' s r^latSv* u.
liTHtL V. CAHLSON )ot. 1, 19^1 to Aug. 9, I969
i.th«;l V, Carlson was born In ^^ockforf', I^linoln, on Oct.
1, 193B1. 3he )ui.d one broth«r^four voai'a oldnr. timi* and her
broth'^r ivere raised by their mAi-.hi^r in thb .v>.lvfttlon .irniy fH*thi
LattTf aftf-r their mother's death, Eva PTIrJc st irted taking
•tliem to Zlon Luthern Ohurch, ^ f^e?. b--came very aotlv*? In the
Luther Leai^ue ^t the church and also sang In t>ie choir,
Lthel had polio when she was about ten ye- r;. old. She
had to wear brac' s for about a year after. Because of tlie
br-cea she did not . irticli-ate In inu'*.b at th-\t time.
.■.hen .thai w-'S jwln to Mijh school she went to all the
baskf-tball gaxn«^p< sh<=s oould. iithel also vvf-nt to a!l i rhf dances
^n 'own, ■thel was '»n ^v •>» ^ <• '-tndent in school.
htViel babysat frequently for Wr, A: wire. Hj»imnr^r, who v/ere
^j^hbora. She U8';d to -la'.e between 25/ and 7S^ defending upon
how Ion? aho stoyed with the ohlldrsn, usually 2 to 3 hours,
Shortly aftnr graduatin,;; from hl^l; school sh:; f.ot a i art-time
Job at a bakf.j?y one block from v;ere she lived,
Although -.th;5l s.ent alot of time at home, she was with
., :' frVnds a ;?re-it deal, 'i'hey us. d to liKf* to £0 to the .irug
store to <;;et socJas, .0 to carnavals, and to danct>«« xh' y also
wt nt to the nei.^hbor'ln.fi communities of rielvidc.re, ^ree^orfc,
>Byron, Che-^ry Valley, and ^^.-lolt, -th«l also Si-ont a ^.reat
deal of t5me listenln: to th^ r-' '3o. t.hel used to havt her
Irif^Us over for dinner md to ai end the ni^ht qultw olten.
iihe also 9; ent jrruch tlm« at frt;nl9' houHea.
At t^mes she ) ad ar'e:uinentfi ..jth her brotlier and father
and ti".:,u-ht about Ifavinc; l.omc , but reruiined there until shf
"WIS :r!arrlod.
•HENRY & iJUnvi.
i>thol G-irlson met Henry Sand'.-i's Jr. xz a danoe on .»i>rll
5» 1Q--J.0. They aj'<' oaoh oth«r Infrequently for the n> xt few
raonVi.h* Th y tYmn sturt'='d 8'i-?n5/ e-^ch other more often nnd
then started -Tolnfr, .^leady^on August PS$ 1^!4.0« '("hey were
enr,:';;'^^ on November ?Q, l^'iO. They were th«n marrl'-d on April
26, 19'i-l« They moved ?n vflth Jose, h.lne, lenry's mother, ot
" 11 13'th 3tro.et« Joseihlne spent most oi h'-r tlrne In the
V stnlra of the house i^hat she tod i-revlously r-»nted out to
.benders,
ibout a -".onth before they '*ere married Jienry had received
a qu( at5-on«i5rft fmn the <jr-^ft board, he was then dr?ifted 10
^nths aft-r thoy wf;re nnrrled. Af t«n he was drnfted, lithel
i^got a Job at FJsher^ Ptttntc Ghl] Comi&ny In rtockford. She
;j^ein?<lned at the home *m l5t"i Str, with her rnotn<:r-5n-law while
Henry was 5n the Havy, vVhilf h« was ?ri the Navy they coi%8i-onded
fr^'quently. >'hlle he ^"as in the hopiltal >it Great LbMo.s,
-Bthel vlated hlra •as often ns iOSs^bT-^,
TJ. on iienry's return to itocVford, he >':ot a Job aa a mallKnn,
While delivering. chII to an or, hana.c?e, ^enry b- came Att ichwd to
siyoung boy llv^n;-^ there, 31nc« Lthel ha-l had t* fnw n!l8CarT"3ati«»s
¥»nd d^d not think she could hav- children th^y decided to a^io^ t
the boy, • horp name Is *"'lch«»rd« i'.thel ^ult work a month before
,;they got hira. They broui^ht I dm horae the llrst ox' July in 19^4-7 »
when he was 17 months old»
In 19^0 Henry and ; thol added on to their l-.ourte. They
added on two more bedrooms nr\r] a ?.apger downstairs bat?iroom«
In 10^1 on "'-vo;nb";r 17, : thel gave b.l.rth to a daurhtt-r,
who v; i.-j named Hae<\nri .- llzaboth. 3'-^causo hthel hstd had so toa rh
trouble before shf '"r :■ forc-d to a: T'nd the la at six months of
this pref^v* -cy In bad.
Because of rin-»nc3»il > roblers Ithel start' d working ;^i^al!n
in 1955. She started out as n cie^rk at Harry's Hobbies and
oyland md was eventually made a jnana er of the store. She
'\d h«r boss ben^qnie v-ry rood irlond'> and .:he continued to work
th-^re ■'.Hit 11 Vis dooth, -ils deritV' aflected both xienry and j..thel
v-r'y much bec^Hse ^f th^^ closen ss that had developed b( cvveen
thara* H>»rry's wife sold the store ahorfy a^ter Harry's death.
After six months off }:_thel started working as a cl'rk at iiob'o
"Hardware, She work'-d therp about P^ years, i.ohel th^n started
working j-art-tlwe as a c"'.c.rk at Kockv^?* hnrmacy, which viae
only k. blocks from hone. She nvAde $1,60 an hour, ohe worked
there until she was no Ion. tr -^ble to.
Htrnry 4ult his job as a r^iallmin In 19*^7 and w^^nt back to
•vork as a lathe -^^ <^<rHtor at rfockford Drot i'orj^e, ue rena5n^.■d
thr(re until he was killed on :!ay 1^ , 197 2, in an Inoustrial
aocldent <it ^7ork, .thel hnd died ,r<*v3ouEly on Au,v> 9» 19^"^ »
-ft'-r a Ion;?; battle with dncf-r.
jhlle .thel was at -.vork Jose^-hlne did nuch of the housf^-
work unti"! '^he vv^a no Ion '--^r fihle. She also h^"' - d in *"ho
uj^brlni^lnn; of thf; ^v;o (Mldren.
Hollc^aya W'ire celftbrntfid vri'l. just the Iramocilate rurally
oxer, t on Chrlatrms v'; whon t}.cj usuilly h->d olos' l'rl«nda
ov r for a sraorijaahord.
Rlo'k was adoi t«d whu-n ho wis 17 month a old,
I.lko Heni^, ^Ick :^lso at-t-nJed Ilatlstron '\nd Lincoln Jr.
iiiph. He dro: ; «*(1 out of L-'iat -'Ir.h wh-^n he ivas l6, while 5n he
I'^th -'•r xde. He st ■!■«+•. nd -^rorklng as an olovator operator ^n
Hotol Fault In Hockf'ord, He then -'.ot a b^tt'^^^sr Job at Bob's
.;)Hardwar© whore h« worked imt5.1 h« w-s draft- d,
Vhile In the- TInltod 3t t..8 i^rrrj he served 5.n ~Jie K-9 latrol
In Vlot Nanu a« wp.a d. so]ar;r;e(: In 3©..t. of 19^7* ai^t' r<: turned
* o Hoekford, Since returnln; frora Vlot i<am he has had nucivro'us
Jobs such .i8} dof: tr^ln-r, ^as 15.v>;ht 5nata''l r, working;, lor a
oonatructjon coraiany, wood crafts and furniture niciklnr:, anr]
moat recently -». rlass blower, 'i'hene Jobs have takt-n h^m all
ov;r the country.
Hick has ranny lnt< .'eats an'-' 80i;.e of his Vobbl-s ar-^ campln ,
motor cyclln;/ , an^" trivnlln'.
RA:.ANS L SiVSIKRS JURGLNS Nov, 1?, 19iil
I, like my f'^.th'-^r and brother, ^ttonJ.-d Hal?-3trom and Llmooln,
I .^^ipiduntyd from \st hlpsh school # in June of I96Q. I then
ttfin'^ed a comiutci^i rogra/'milnj^ ichool 3n iiockl'rrd,
Vhiin I was your^^r I ha* many responsibilities around the
.houRB boc.'.u:,d my noth-rr Viforkod and my grandmothtrr was rcttlnr
to old to do an th<r work. After my mother got canc«r the doctor
let h^r stay home most of th« timf-, so I took c »re of her until
h*?r de'tth shortly nfter my -raduatlon from hij;h school. By this
time ray graridmother w^s HVilt old and it b<»oarr!e necessary for me
to take care of J^er and eventually running bh« entire hous*-hold,
I started worklnf at Hockvlev/ Pharmacy i-nrt-tirae ofefore my
senior year in hi;r,h school. .hlle workln?; there I met --^Ichard
Juri'ens. I contlnu'^d worklnji at -iockvl w Pharmacy nntlT 1
graduated from th»-^ com; utor i-rogrHmmln,-; school. I then got a
-job at Commonvvealt'^ ^dlson were I am i.res«ntly emtloy^^d,
rilck and I dat d on and off for awhile ancl then stnttod
.going tofethrr more steadily. A.ft'^r jcnowlnp; each other for l\.
years v^e wore m'vr»ried on a^gus' li-i-, 1^71 • "« movr^d 5nto an
apartment on ., otite ot., which w is the li.artm^mt th it rny
fhusband% parent b l!v(.d In whwn he >vas born* Hick j^raduated
from Northern 111, 'Jnlv, this seragst,'" with a 13-o. in :d.
His major was history,
Aft-M the devth. of my fath'^." it v^s ac^aln noc^ asary for
.me to t^.Ve o^'-r th'". res. ons^bllities of my grMndmother, Josephine
Sanfiera, between carlnv for my ^undmother and be5n the
'-'dia.lnistr itor ol' my dad*?; estate , the res^ on8lb.1?l 5*;5fia to ray
faiTilly have bocorie r^reat'^r than «v r,
• ly c^^andfath'^r Senders had started a stam] collection
wht-n he v^.8 "ouns, which my father contjnu'-d t,o julld. My
husband and I no.. o7/n ih.1s collection and hive •* come v> ry
Interested *r«il.Jfej!j collect J nj and plan to r,ontlnuft to build
tho coll -ictlnn. vVe have atarai-S datfn^^ back to iBoO,
3ome of our other intnrestn -re i-hotoc:raphy, music, readlnt.,
and horticulture, Ve became 5ntf5rested in ^ hotOi:5ra! hy shortly
afttr Retting m''r'r?ed, '\nd B^nc.^ th'-it t5rae we havt- built a
dnrl^room. - e ho^e soinfjd*?y to do fr'^elanc* vhotor3P"^i ^y as a
second occupation*
Holidays w«- usually oeleorate^wlth Hick's ^-Arents,
»F! wore married at labor Luthern Church of which v;e uiro
'■both members, e '.'o nnt .r'^sently ai.t'j.d church,
I vory seUom s.e my brother because he Is very seldom
^n -^ockftrd.
KECKLER, CHRIS SAMUEL 195^1-
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Ancestral glory is, as it wero, a limp to posterity.
Each individual should feel that he can make some worthwhile
contribution to the world and to the socirty in which he lives because
of the army of ancestors who have precedrd him. In -jvary family there
are many in this army who have pushed ahead to new frontiers and to
notable accomplishment in different areas of life, Knowinp^ this, each
individual should step out fearlessly in his chosen field feeling
confident that this inheritance will give him strength to achieve his
best, and that he is capable-within his area-of doing as well as anyone,
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A lineage is the outline of one's descent j as far as knovzn, without
the story of e^^ch generationa nd of each individual. It is the skeleton,
without the flesh but, but just as much can be learned from a study of a
skeleton, much of a family history becomes apparent frcsn the study of a
linkage,
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•^t may seem strange to find the data from soma more remote generationa
to be more complete than is that of earlier generations. This is often
the case when descent traces to English families. The pedigrees of many
English families entitled to bear heraldic arms can be traced back many
generations due to the Visitation records. The College of Hoaraldo for a
great many years made periodic visits to the different counties to chock
on the right to bear arms and the lines of descent in those families ar«
racord,sd for a great many generations in more or leas detail.
1. K.-ckl*r
2. Fratrrnal Grandfath'»r: Mwrrin Abrahajn Keckl^r
3. Pern: Oc'ober 1?, 1873 in Gcttyburg, Pennaylvania, M-irricd
Hattie Catharine Cupp bora in Franklin Grove, Illinois.
h. Died: April 29, 19^8 in Oregon, Illinois,
$, Oncupabion: Farmer.
6. Childr'^n: Ten
a. Irnns Elva Rager - born June 17, 1903 - died January 15, 196U
b. Charles Eugene - died in infancy
c. Ella GetJ-udo Walker - bem June 19, 190U
d. John ^Ivin - born December 13, 1907
e. Catherine Lucille Black - born September 13, 1909
f . George Robert - bom May 3, 1911
g. Helen May 3akflr - born Noven-.b^i- a, 19lU
h. Francies Le«ra Bcwls - Ijorn March l5, 1913
* i, Clarence Sa.iuel - born April 1, 1916 - died August 26, 1962
J. Edith Marie -died March 25, 1918
7. Hattic Catharine Cupp - Wife of Hervin Abraham Keckler
Born:- Febuary 2, 1883 in Franklin Orove, Illinois
Died? December 23, 1918 in Oregon, Illinois
Marriedr January 8, 1902 in Oregon, Illinois
Hattie Catharine Cupp parents are: John Cupp and Savilla Miliar
■!'<• means my father
1. K-ckl-f
2. fjrca ;, )r*at Grandfathrr: David Kftckl'-r
3. Horn: April 18, l8ll. Mirrird Jano Pr«dy '
U. Cliil''.--n: Nine
a, ASr;ihajn - born M-irch I^, 1037 dj rd April 9, 1911
b, Cliristian - bern I83?
c, R-iry Anna - born I8L0
d, Srnuel - born I8UI died in Civil V/ar
o, Nancy - bcrn I8UU
f , Magdal«na - bom l8Li7
g. Sarah Ellen - bom May 17, l8U9 died Juns 8, 1869
h. Susan Elizabeth - born l85l died l36l
i, David Alexandsr - bom May , 18^3
5. Jane Brady - Wife of David Keckler
Bern: July 2, I813
Died: Sept h, 1870
1. Ka^: ■ r
2. Grai: i ra*:,her; Hannibal. I^ance ''cs5'*r
3. Bor..: August 22, IGO3 in V/ayriesvilJ a. North Garelina «
Mirr^d Julia ■'^lizabeth Molvina Nol.'*.ncl in C^.ntorif North
Carr' i na
h„ Diff.i: Febuary 2?, 1965
5). Purl Ir Oak Wood Crmrtary, Monnt Morris, Illinoia Ma us el im
6, Rciuctioar Fourth Grads Education
7. Occu ^-jtionr Farmer, Capentor and Printing
C, Relif^ionr Methodist
9. Children: Eight
a. Nina - born December 25, 1905
b. Floyd - bornl ATic.Tist 1, 1907 - died ■December 18, 1970
c. Ava Messpr Karris - bom November 11, 1911
d. Claude Messer - bom Deaceinber 19, 1912
e. Georgia Messer Olsen - bom April 3, 191ii
f . Willie Glee Messer - born April h, 1916 died -^pril 26, 1916
g. Jessie Lee Messer - born ^pril U, 1916 died J\ina 15, 1916
h, ^dna Mae Messer Keckler - Born March 10, 1921
« means my mother
1, Nolanl
2, John Isnd
3c Born: 1520 - 1^2^. K^rrisd MslvinA .vc«)ci Moland
h. Chilf:.--:n: Two
a. Tod
b. r rah
5. Sen c : Petnr Noland - Brrn 1780
6. Mftlv: 11 V/o©d Neland - VJif e ©f John Ncland
Died: n.^comber 2, 1921
1. Nolsn:!
2. J-^r, '.'oland
3. Porn; Ppccmber 15, 1E!?7» Marri^'d Gliarity Cordelia "ocd Nwland
h. Di'^d: November 15, 1936
5. Pur? '1. : Panther Crc^k, North Carolina
6. Plac- of Residence: Fin^s Creek, Nrrth Carolina
7. Churc'; Affliation: Papitist
8. OcGu; ition: Farmer, Live "^tock ncaler, Trade Real E"tate
9. Children: Eight
a« Jr-hn - b9rn 1882 nsrried M-^ida - children H-lma, J.c, Vnnj
b, Julia E, Melvina - bcrn Ocbcbcr 16, 18GU niarried fl.nnihal
c, Grover Cleveland - married Ida G, Noland he died .lane 9, 1935
children ara - Cecil, Robe't Lee, Edriy. Clare. Ida G, Noland
died December 10, 19h5
d, Georgia - m.irried Lvho Greory she died July 11, 1935
children Lucy Kate Earnest DeVJitt
e, Dscia Lou - marrj<^d Ncsh Gre*rny she died Becembrr 15, 1931
child Lou, Gilb'-rt, Alline
f, Ouspie Aup;ust married Taylor J, H(}'3ford - she vns bcrn
::ay 21, 1866 - he uas born Septcmbor 11, 1075 riie.i July 11, 1959
Tarried in Waynesvllle, I'-rth Csrf.ilina - No childr?n
C, Vergia married Howard Burris - she was born 1099 - 1900
children - Hellen, Howard (a druE^lst)
h. Hoiner - bern 1900 - 1902 iV»rld War I DiBappeared
J;s3 Noland and Charity were Double First Cousins
1, />?srr
?. Grrah !'r;)nflfath«T: Lav.Ton Mrsr-T
3. "orn: F-^buary 2, 1937. Married Avalinn aiith in 1859-60,
U, Died: Jnn» h, 1930 in Clyde, N'crth Carolina Regment
^j. Puriji: "ihitie. 'O-'k Gfimstary, North Carolina
6, Rcliron: Methodist
7. Ghii:-cn: Ten
a. C , tliTino
b, K-nry
C. '^/illiajn
d, Crorre - children
e. Vance
f, Thomaa
g. Charlie
h, Hannibil
i. Abiligal
j . Ilizabeth
8, Ava]ine Smith - Wife of Lawson Mcr.sr.r
Born: January ?0, 1339
Died: Febuary 8, 1917 in H-iywocd County
9. Placr of Residence: CrabtrJea - Cove Creek
1. »sr»r
2. Qiarli 6 Kessf.r fHarrircn)
3. Hi? "'; ther - Law«en I'^-M^r
U. His ■■ thrr - Aralene Smith Mcsccr
5. Marri'd: S^ra (Salley) Catherine Lne
6, H«r Fther - John Lee
7, Hfir "■ ther - Jane Field
8. Chil.' -r-. - Twelve
a, J' lies Lawsen - Mellcy M^Elroy — J»mes Law8«n bom Kay 7, 1898
b, VJilliam Hannibal - N«ra Hrney
c, (llanch) Avaline Jioa - Jarris Morrow
d, H-r;ci« Ellen - Hob.art Gras+y
e, Annie May - Deceased
f, rsrrirae French - paul Flemons
g, I'ii nspn Dock - Lucille Pulinan
h, 7.ela - Deceased
i, Alice Roberta - Dciwld Pul.man
j. Wiisie Jeanette.- - Gorden Shipi:a;*jt'
k. (Jack) Charles Latt'jir
1, Lfr-fis Harden - Catherine Worley
1, Mcsser
2, Pill M«nBer (William)
3, Wife - Margaret Clark
U, Children - Eleven
a, Anna
b, Fannie
c , Bertha
d , OliTer
e, Walti^r
f, Ethel
g, FergU8«n
h. Roy
i, Lizzie
j , Spade
k, Zinna - married Lawernce Long
5. Bill Mosser - father Lawson Mosser
6. Bill Messer - mother Avaline Smith Messer
1, Mffssrr
2, Thomas Fatten Messer
3, Born: Febuary 18, l8ll,n Married Lura Sereptha Snolsen
on necember 20, I89I
h. Died: November 1, 1958
5. Place of Residence: White Oak - Hazelwocd
6. Children: Six
a. Joseph Mackinell - born July lU, 1892
b. Jess Hanibal - born October 1, I69U died Jajiuary 1918
c. Homer Henry - bcrn March U, I898 married September 17. 1921
d«. Eleanor Elizabeth - born March 3, 1901 married May 3, 1958
Ov La-Btson Browi - bom April 17, 1903
f . Ocig Avaline - born July 9, 1911 died July 11, 1930
7. Lura Sereptha Snrlsen - Wife of Thomas Patton Messer
Bom: December 23, 1869
Died: September lU, 1953
Burial: Hillcrest - Waynesville, North Carolina
Parents are father - Joseph Young Snelsen
mother - Elizabeth Frusber
1, Messer
2, Great Great Grandfather: J»hn Messer
3, Born: July 10, l8ll. Married Hester L*we
U. Di->U 1928
5. Plac* of Residence; Live White Oak Tovmship
Civil -/ar Vet,
6. ."".hil ^r-jn: Nine
■a.. luv/son
b. Hill
c» Fatten
d, fnllie
e, Elizabeth
f, Lucirida
g, J^mes
h, I>.chel
i, Noarne (Yarbourgh)
7o Hest'T Lowe Messer - V'ife of John Krsser
B»rn: I8O3
Died: 19.38
1. ViCSSr-T
2. nr<»at ir-at Great Oranfifiith'^.r: '^liri'tian Fr.'-,:^nt M«S£?fti
3. PcT'n: 1761 ApproXo Oranf;e County, Ilorth Carolina
Rjvcli.atary Soldier
)i. Dipd: 1850
5. Placr of Rssidcnce: Panther Gre«k, North Carolina
6. Chilr-rnnr Three
a. Fred (Fed)
c, J-^hn
7. Unknc:.-! name for wife of Chriati^n Pargent Kesser
Date Carried 1782 -83 Ofansre County
1. M^?5T
2. Unci'' i'Yff'i (Fed) Mosser
3. P.."n: 1791
)i. Bird: 1907
5. Marri -d Anna HuntT
C, Born: Aug-Jst 2, l8l^
7, Died: January 26, 139U
1. Merc—
2. Grfat 'Ir'-at Grrat Grrat Gran^Ifatl-.er: Gaptian Messer
3. Br.^n: In Crarif^e Cnnty - Ret:ulator Maverneat
h. Pie'!: June 19, 1771
5. More ra Captain Ke:^srr in the irticls "TLIE MESSER FAMILY**
1. ZniVi
2a Jehn lith
3. ■■•'iff I'Cnown
h, Chil'-.r«n: Ten
a. H.ten (Sen) Livinr in V^aynesvi^lp, Morth Carolina in 1970
prrihably about 75»
b, P owing
c • (' in V/yatt— F«:nale
d, M"jllne
e, P'-tty Smith - Bill 0, Mecser
f, Cling
g,. John
h. Bud
i» Henry - Henry Jehn and ©ther Brothers went to Ashville -
J, Susan Smith Branlett— — Mrs, John-— Jehn father vas a Presby.
Minister
Are raking Oeod -
There Sons now coTununity
leaders
1. M^Elroy
2. Henry M^'Elrwy
3. His father - J»hns«n M°Klr»y
U. His mother - Lydia Medford f'i^Elr^y
5. Catherine Messer - Wife •f Henry M^ii^lrgy
... Born: Febuary 28, 1888
7. Died Antrack, North Carolina April 1965
Places of Residence: Iren Duff, North Carolina
8, Children: Five
a, Lydia - Rf>bert Lee James
b, Ninnie - Colbert Crawford
c, Lawson - Dare Crawford
d, Mozelle - West Millner
e, De Voe - Glee Justice
"THE KESy?K PAKILY"
For r.n nccorato and complete story of the Me.-.rer Rencalogy, the
ann.ilist .ould have to start with tlie Pattlo of Aiainance, althou.-;h
truliticn minht point tho vny to fields f-'e hack of that date, ".■.'■^ll
authoritative history, how^vrr, staphs a^ dramatic incident aa om
of a yeri -5 of climaxes following the battle in which threi^ of th*
Me33crs v. ^re star actors (Captain, vilfe ;.nd sen.)
It K-3 tVe day following the encounter on Alainancc cr»»'^k t'-^t
the event as related by throve hist.orir.nr. occurred. Wheelrr's "':' '.cl os
of Kortl-. Carolina," Fitch's "F.oun Uc-lr.-tfd Hits of American Ki'l' r;'''
anc! Caru^hers' "Life of David Cr.ldwell" all jriva substantially th:)
pame acccint of the story. As tc tho abr.olute truths of the tr-.r-ic
in'.i.dent, there can bo no question.
In I'le Battle of Alavtance, which soni<<! writers claim to hav;
been thf first armed conflict of the Rf-.volutioniry War, althourli it
0''.curT>3d four years before the war actu-.lly began according to tho
historirrr of that period, the Requlatcrs were defeated and their
comnand dispersed. Captian Mes^fDr, one of tho l<»ad9rs of the R'^.riilators,
was taken prisoner and brought before Tryon, tho British Governor, and,
without a trial, condemned to death, which was to bo carried out thd
next day by hanging. Captain Mcssers' wife heard of the trya.nr'i-^al
action tr Tryon in a few hears and hastr-ned dui^ing the nicht with her
ycan^^ sen, ,1urt ten yeTr.-s eld, to the Crtnp of the Dritinh, i'r>-irh n.-^
thor^ enrly in the morning.
Tho ''^llowinf; account was taken fron Garuthers' "Life of Calciuflll,"
"Peln.-, an influential man in his neic^hborhood, and having t-V an
a very active part, he (Capitain Mosser) was to have been hanged the
next day after the battle; but owing to a very affecting incident
which occurred, he was reserved for the grand fete at Hillsboro, His
wife having hear in the course of the night of what was to take place
\Tcnt in tho morning to see the last of her husband, taking along with
her their oldest son, an uncommonly sirart and pretty child about ten
years old. She was lying on the ground, he face covered with her hands
an(i her boy weeping over her, while the prepai^tion was making for his
execution; but when the fatal moment had arrived, as he thought, the
child stepped up to Tryon and asked him to hanj him and let his father
live, Tryon wished to know who had instructed him to do so, "Nobody,'
was the reply, "What is your reson for making this offer?" "Because
if you hang my father, my mother will die, and the children will perish,"
S"j.d the boy. This request was made with sioch simplicity and earnestness
that it touched the governor's feelings; and he told him that his father
should not die that day."
But the promise to the boy was only a respite, for the sequel shows
that Captain Messer was executed along with a number of others on
June 19, 1771, only about a month after the incident told in the pre-
ceding paragraph. Direct tradi tonal information is that this Captain
Messer, his given name was not known, was the father of Christain Messer,
Paga 3
who camfl to the Dutch Cove section of Hay.-roorf County in 17p6 and ir.ado
hi5 homr, and that Chri?tin.n Mrsr^er himnelf wsn tho bey who pep.n-d for
the life of his father on the battlefield of Alamance on My 17, l'.'71o
V.T3» M9«^.'-r -^nd her other cliildren fade out of view and nothing i?
Irnrvj of • "i^t became of h-^r or of the otlier memberr^ of the f;ijnily.
The traf ly of her hur.band':? deatli and the h«roirra of her oldcj^t -on
st-;id oir, ar. the startin-^ points of a f-'mily's careerj
Recv rd 5 in tho office of the Korth Carolina Historicial Com ir.cicu
sho definitely that Christain I-l~syer was a Revolutionary soldier,
and it i''> nure that he proved to h" a f":<"od one, that he fcunht ii'ivly
on many '> ttlefields of tlie Revolution vjith always the thought In his
mind tl":.'' ' his every thrur.t at the enemy was a ctroke of revenge fcr tho
if;nomin:'. us death of his father,
ChristiJW Sargent Mer.ner wan tvc^ty-cne years old at the clr ■:« of
tho Revrlutionary War, He; had bocfno a sr;asoncd soldier d'i.rir;g the
three cr four years that ho had Phoulder«ifl ar.n5j in behfa.lf of A;ni x'ican
Indepondr'.nce, It is 'julte. suro that he retumf-d, after the var, to
th.? olc l^Oine place in CbVir-"; County, rnarried, and cettlr^d do>.Ti to
assist i'"i the developrr.'rnt of the country he had fought to free from the
cppresscr. Whom ho married is unlcnovjn.
Prior to hii? coming to Haywcod Couty, or vjhat is nc;) Hayv;cc.d County,
to live, Christain Kesser had moved from Orar.^c Ccunty tc Burk-, but the
exact ] cation has not been deti^rmin'.-d. Ho p'xrcha^ed fro;ii th^'i : -ite a
tract o-^ land, of which there is rc-c.^r.-;, but the location of tlr ' Id lest
in obsc trity. It is cert.-.in, hovjf-v-r, that he cama to w'nat is r.-w Hayxjood
County in 1796 and settled in the Dutch Cove section, whore he livd for
t"-!','."- )i
siCPi" yrnr.". It i? no!, ktir-,; i how mii"h fa^'Hy he; hud at th*? t.im'; hr r.-jirn*,
hi' I it !.-■■ ' ^c•.:n that one npn, •'rr^, cr "rVd" ;.rj ho is best known, v;.i3
uith y\xr, Ccr i'Yed, who di -rl in 1907, tula many people now liviri-- th?t
hr remrnb-r=! coming hare -r.hd passinp; thrr.iir^h ^shvillo and h'"ln[; bit'.'n
by 5, do,'', l.'.rrr,
Betvr-T Captain Messrr, vjho lof t hir. lif- in the Rr!>:ul.ri tor rovrrrir-nt
in 1771, •■ i the Mesners vho are living nn'.-j (1?3?^, the linl: is oui i.e
plrdn, T.." persons only hftd a part in bri.nrinr, first hand infoiTf;.. 'i en.
Christian .'arrent Mess-i-j:'^ vlio had a traric rrnnon for remsiriVerinr f'-.p.t
fatc^l ti;- ■ . nnd Fred or "Fed" who Jiv^d until 19^7.
It i- probable that Christian Mescer did not tarry Ion:; in T.utch
Cove:, f-r i.he home place of the first one of the faiTiily to come to this
part of th". State xsae near the mouth of Panther Creek in v;hat is now
Fi;v^'? Crr^'-jk township. There is built a home and reared a large fainily.
Several of his sons moved to Texas and Arkanstc, One went to Tennessee
to live. Three, Fred, John and David remained in Haywood County.
Christian Messer died in 13?0 in the ninetith year of his age,
'♦Fed'* yiesseVy the oldest child of Christian Messer, was five years
old when he came with his fatl-er to the Dutch Cove section of Haywood
County, Ha remera>^er©d the trip fron their former heme in Burke
County, and said that as they were passing through the town of Ashville
in 1796 he was bitten by a dog, an incident that would naturally raaka
an impression upon a boy of that age. Re remembered also their break-
ing up in Dutch Cove and jpcving to the mouth of Panther Greek. He grow
to manhood in the latter place, but later married and moved to White
Oak township where he spent th« remainder of his life. He di«»d in 190?
Pane 5
at ih*- ago of 117. The followinf^ Fketch of him was writt'?n by John P;<rri8,
Jr.: "onn of the mopt interesting stories I have evr heard was about
Uncle Fred, or "Fed", Masser of Haywood County, It is said that he llU
yrars of age when he passed away, 'i'he life of this man would fill a
bcok. Uncle Fed was one of those typical mountaineers that are fast
passing from our Carolina Mountains, He lived 22 miles from Wayn'^sville
near the Pir;eon river. His home was typical of the early settlers, a
tumble down log cabin with a roof of split boards, and the flo»rs heavy
and loose planks.
"UTien he passed his first v»te, it was for James Monroe, and he had
a fight at the polls with dome fellows because he was a free holder."
"Uncle Fed, it is said, nover used tobacco until he was grown, and
he used it then to stop the toothache. He was asked if he used intoxi-
cating liquors. He replied that he had been taking a little snip before
breakfast for ninety odd years,
"Vftien anyone went t» see Uncle Fed, he would be found with his shirt
open to his waist. There were only two times, so Uncle Fed said, in his
life that he buttoned his shirt. The first one was when he got married.
But just as scon as the ceremony was over he yanked his shirt open. The
©thor time was when he was about fifty years old on the oold Saturday,
Uncle Fed said that if you threw \xft a glass of water it would be ice bo-
fore it hit the ground, (Nina Messer Vetrono-my mother's sister) said
that she could remember Uncle Fed. She taHced about hciw he was cuppNsed
to have G-.i-m across Pigeon River on his 100th birthday, u
"Uncl'i Fed could neither read or write, yet his knowledge cf the
Bible vjan astenishing.
Faf' (>
Th« f-''-ip!e of V/ayncsvin* likn Uncl'T Fed, Tli-^y paw hiri on h.l'; tvine
£ y«--r vir'ts, Evrry six rncriths, he wallcrd to tov;n, takiuf: two '■'.ya for
the rouni' ^rip. In his lar.t years, it took him thrc^ days to ma'c: tha
trip, Opi"" while h«! wis in ' 'ayiir'Gvill*, h? was invited to this hrr.-* of
a prcTiinrrt physican for dinn-r. They h.- d ice cream for d>^..:Eert, It was
thf" first i'ncle Fed had evrr scon. Ho w.-n carried off with it, H" told
his hostf': ". the next time he came to viral, th-^m he wanted the co]'-i sa.-c r-
first,
"Thrri seems no doubt about the a^e of Uncle Fed, The clerk of the
court of ; -nywood Ceunty han .;»n authentic reccj'd of his an"* Wh.en Uncle
Fed passf i away, his mind wac sound and quick; but his eyeniftht was
f;<ilinr;,
"Se -.T^^^n the stery cf Uncle Fed Mcs'^-'^r, a typical mountaineer tf the
North Ci I' lina mountains, v;ho pancnd aviay at the af^e of llh.
Vflif' ;ier or not the above story does justice to Fe<i Me^-rer, it in
quite tiT. '. that he vjas a rnpn that was kno;7n and respected thrcu'-Ji'Ut the
county, '-13 n advanced ar'.e ^':ave him preoti,^/'!. He v;as much sour^ht ?iftor in
his last years for the information that h'? could five r.-:qrirdin,"; the tim.es
l-'-^C P' t. He lived through more than three generations and ■..•'■ir.t a diary
his woul ' be if he had kept one.
KEESY, FREDERICK WILLIAfl. 195^1-
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'V OFFICE USE CODE
1. Your name Erederick V/illiam Keesy
Date of form jjg^y g^ ;L974 * ^ "^ ^ ^
2. Your college: Rock Vail ev College ■■■ (ID // )
Rockford, Illinois -
3. Check the earliest date for which you have been able to say things about your family in
your paper.
^Before 1750 1750-1800 I8OO-I85O
1850-1900 1900 or later
Please check al I regions of the United States in which members of your family whom you
have discussed in your paper have lived.
New England (Mass., Conn., R.I.) Middle Atlantic (N.Y., Penna., N.J., Va.)
X South Atlantic (Ga. , Fla,, N.C., S.C.) East South Central (La, , Miss. , Ala. ,Tenn , Kv<
West South Central (Ark., N.M. , Tex., Ok.) x East North Central (Mich., Ohio, Ind.)
X Pad f i c (Cal., WashJ (Hawaii, Alaska)
5. Please check all occupat ional categories in which members of your family whom you have
discussed in this paper have found themselves.
X Farming Mining X Shopkeeping or small business
^Transportation ^Big Business ^Manufacturing
X Professions Industrial labor y Other
6. Please check a 1 1 religious groups to which members of your family whom you have discussed
in this paper have belonged.
X Roman Catholic ^Jewish x Presbyterian x Methodist
^Baptist Episcopal ian ^Congregational Lutheran
Quaker Mormon OTher Protestant Other
7. What ethnic and social groups are discussed in your paper?
^Blacks Indians Mexicans Puerto Ricans
^Jews X Central Europeans X Italians Slavs
X Irish X British x Native Americans over several generations
East Asian Other
8. What sources did you use in compiling your family history?
X Interviews with other x Fami ly Bibles Family Genealogies
f ami ly membe rs
X Vital Records Land Records The U.S. Census
Photographs Maps Other
AMILY DATA
Grandfather (your father's side)
Name Thomas Franklin Keesy Current Residence
If dead, date of death l!j.^^
Place of birth V/lllard, Ohio Date of Birth 1870
Education (number of years):
grade school 8 high school vocational college
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE 3890-
(after leaving home) 1 q-^r
1st Painter Dates 1890-1905 1st Bucyrua, Oiiio Dates ' "'-^
2nd Store owner Dates 1905-193? 2nd Dates
3rd Dates 3rd ^Dates
'jth Dates Ath Dates_
Rel igion United Brethren (Methodist j
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. rLepuoli^jan
-Lioyal Order ol liOoae
Place of Marriage to your grandmother uucyrus, Onio ^^^^xoo^
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 i^tta KobinsoB Current Residence
I f dead, date of death 19!?!?
Place of birth V/illard, Ohio Date of birth 1872
Education (number of years):
grade school 8 high school vocational college
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Housewife Dates 1st ^Dates_
2nd Dates 2nd Dates
Dates
1st
Dates
2nd
Dates
3rd
Dates
4th
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
4th Dates 4th Dates
Religion united livethr-P.,
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc. Republican
ffGTU
f*'3" of marriage to your grandfather Buc.vrus P^^^ IBRO
Note* ' '^ *■ ■ ■ -- -^
ih^HatHf'.»fhl^^8a£l'8?dtl'il? 3i|e^^A-^)f stepmother or anoth
er relative give
A- 1 Stepgrandfather (your father's side)
N,jme ^Current Residence
I f dead, date of death
Place of birth Date of Birth
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
Dates
1st
Dates
2nd
Dates
3rd
Dates
'4th
3rd Dates 3rd ^Dates
Ijth Dates '4th Dates
Re 1 i g i on
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandmother date
A-2 Stepgrandmother (your father's side)
Name Current Residence
I f dead, date of death
Place of birth Date of birth
Education (number of years):
grade school high school vocational college
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st ^Dates 1st ^Di
2nd ^Dates 2nd ^Dai
3rd ^Dates 3rd ^Da
Re I i g i on
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandfather Date
irandfather (your mother's side)
Ered Leuthold
lame Alta-^ett&g Current Residence
f dead, date of death iq67
'lace of birth Dubuque, lowe. Date of bi rth 1886
!ducation (number of years):
grade school 8 high school vocational college
lccupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
5t Telegrapher Datesl 901-1 903 1st _Dates_
;nd Estimator Datesl9Q3-l 9452nd ^Dates_
ird Chemist Datesl945-19673rd ^Dates_
ith ^Dates ^^th ^Dates_
teligion Presbyterian
•olitical parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. Republican
Masonic Order
'lace of marriage to your grandmother xiuiiuaue I owe date 3^g]_^
lote: If your mother was raised by a stepTattier' ur anoctiep relative (to age 1 8^ — —
give that data on the back of this page (C-1)
irandmother (your mother's side)
lame Alts. V'etter ^Current Residence
f dead, date of death i!jb^
Mace of birth Dubuque, Iowa ^Date of birth 1888
[ducat ion (number of years)
grade school 8 high school vocational col lege
)ccupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Housewife ^Dates 1st ^Dates_
Ind ^Dates 2nd Dates
}rd ^Dates ^3rd ^Dates_
Religion Iresbyterian
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc. Republican
„ Obnrrb 5^^°°^ Groups ^ ;
rlace of marriage to your grandfather DubuQue ' . Ar^
*Jote: If your mother was raised by a stepmother or another relative (to age 18)
give that data on the back of this page (D-2)
Stepgrandf ather (your mother's side)
Name Current Residence
I f dead , date of death
I'l.Kc .)! I.irlh D.ilc of l)irlh
I d I K.I I ion (miiiil)c r fif -/<■,, t ■. )
'ir.idf' '.cfiooi h i (jh school vocational collryo
Occupat ion (s)
1st
2nd
3rd
'4th
Dates
1st
PLACE
(after
OF
RESIDENCE
eaving home)
Dates
Dates
2nd
Dates
Dates
3rd
Dates
Dates
l^th
Dates
Re 1 i g ion
Political parties , civil or social ^clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandmother date
S tepgrandmother (your mother's side)
Name Current Residence
I f dead , date of death
Place of birth Date of birth
Education (number of years)
grade school high school
Occupat ion (si
1st
2nd
3rd
vocat
ional
1st
col lege
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Date
Dates
2nd
Date
Dates
3rd
Date
Re 1 i g i on
Political party , civil or soci al cl ubs , sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandfather Date
CHItDREN of A & B (or A- 1 or B-1) - your father's name should appear below
Name Hazel Francis
Place of birth Bucvrus date 1890
Number of years of schooling Colle.p-e n^^. ...=.«■. A.^n>.
Residence Bucyrus
Number of chi Idren none
__^^_________ Occupat 1 6h Teacher ,
Marital Status : arried
Name Boyd Ben,iamln
Place of birth iucyru;
Number of years of school ing_
Res i dence Ohio., Illinois"
Number of chi Idren b
^te 1906
12 Occupation Sales I'anager
Marital Status Married
Name
Place of bl rth
Number of years of school ing_
Res I dence
Number of chi ldr6n
Marital Status
date
Occupation
Name
Place of bi rth
Number of years of school ing_
Res i dence
Number of chi Idren
Marital Status
date
ITccupatibh
Name
Place of bi rth
Number of years of schooHng_
Res i dence
Number of chi Idren
Marital Status
date
Occupation
Name
Place of birth
Number of years of school ing_
Residence
Number of chi Idren
"Jate
Occupation
Marital Status
Name
Place of birth
Number of years of schooling
Residence
Number of ch i Idren
date
Occupat i Oh
Marital Status
Name
Place of bi rth "~
Number of years of school ing_
Res i dence
Number of chi Idren
Name
Place of bi rth
Number of years of school ing
Res i dence
Number of chi Idren
date
Occupation
Mari tal Status
date
Occupation
Marital Status
Name
Place of birth
Number of years of schooling
Residence
Number of Clll lUfUII
date
Occupation
Marital Status
CHILDREN of C and D (or C- 1 , D-1)-your mother's name should appear below
N.iinr Carl ^ ^
f I • I ' '<• of 1)1 1 ih Dubuoue da I o 1915
Niinih'T of yf.ir-. of scPiool i tu) 21 Occupation irsyciJOlOglst"
Resi dcticc V/Jsconsln Marital Status tiia-pT--! ^ri
Number of ch i 1 dren ?
Name Violet
Place of bi rth Duoao^ue date 1917
Number of years of schooling ifi (Occupation Teacher
Residence Illinois Marital Status V,'idowed
Number of children A
Name Mayian „ ^
Place of birth Dubaque date 1919
Number of years of schooling 1/ Occupation teacher
Res i dence Dubaqae , Iowa ~ Marital Status Liarried
Number of chi 1 dren 4
Name I.-arjorle
Place of birth JJUOUque J^te 1920
Number of years of schooling L'^ Occupation Secretarie
Res i dence California Marital Status Married
Number of ch i 1 dren
5. Name aUtb
Place of birth Dubuq^ae date 1921
Number of years of schooling ]_'^ Occupation Housewife
Res i dence lowa Marital Status Married
Number of ch i 1 dren 5"
Name John
Place of birth Dubuq.ue date 1924
Number of years of schooling iH Occupation Photographer
Res i dence Oregon Marital Status Larried
Number of ch i Tdren -z^
Name Rosemary
Place of birth DUbUClue date -| qyy
Number of years of schooling Ij Occupation Bankteller
Residence Illinois Marital Status ] arried
Number of cni 1 dren n
Name
P I ace of birth date
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Mari tal Status ~
Number of ch i 1 dren
Name
P lace of b i rth date
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status '_
Number of ch i 1 dren
10. Name
Place of b i rth date
Number of years of schooling Occupation"
Residence Mari tal Status
Number of chi Idren
ur Father
me Boyd Benjaman Keesy Current Residence
dead, date of death i q;:;-)
ace of birth PnoYpii^ CM.0 ^Date of birth 1Q06
ucation ( n umbe r of ye a r§ )
rade school 2 high school 4 vocational 1 college
cupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
t Sales l.gnager Datesl926-1946 1st Illinois Dates
d Restaurant Manager Patesl 946-1 qs/l 2nd D^tes
d Sales I'/.anager Datesl954-1961 3rd ^Dates
h ^D ate s k t h ^Da te s
ligion Uj^j^-fced Br etbren (. etbodist)
lltical parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. Republican
Loyal Order of i^'oose ■;,■■•,■•, ,■■•,•.■-■,■■■•
ace of marriage to your mother Atlanta. Creorgia ' ' ' ' ' date 1942
TE: If you were raised by a stepfather or another relative give that data on the back
of this page. (E-2)
jr Mother
ine Violet lorette Leutbold Current Residence Illii ols
dead, date of death
ace of birth Dubuque, 1 0g& Date of birth 1917
ucation (number of years)
rade school 8 high school 4 vocational ^college 4
cupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
t Teacher Datesl964- ? 1st Illinois ^Dates
d Dates 2nd ^Dates
d ^Dates 3rd Dates
I i g i on iv.et hodist
litical party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc. Independent
Gamma Fai Delta, BF^Hf National Education i^sso'ciatlon ,,.,^ "
ace of marriage to your fathfer (J^eoTgla date 1942
TE: If you were raised by a stepmother or another relative give that data on the back of
this page (F-2).
Stepf athe r
Name
If dead, date of death
Place of birth ^Date of birth
Education (number of years)
grade school high school vocational college
Occupation(5) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home]
1st Dates 1st Dates
2nd Dates 2nd Dates
Dates
1st
Dates
2nd
Dates
3rd
Dates
^tU
3rd Dates ^3rd Dates
Ath Dates i^th Dates
Rel ig ion
Pol i t i cai* part les , civii or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your mother Date
Stepmother
Name
If dead, date of death
Place of birth Date of birth_
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_
Re I i gion
Political party, civil or social c lubs , sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your father date
ILDREN of E and F (or E-2, F-2) - your name should appear below
Tie Frederlcjg Y/illlam
ace of bi rt]i Illinois DaTe of birth ].q54
Tiber of years of schooling Jn College Occupation Student
sidence Xlllnoip
nber of ch i Idren
Mari tal Status
ne Janice Exta
ace of birth Illinois Date of birth 1936
nber of years of schoolTng In College Occupation SXUCtent
iidence Illinois Marital Status
nber of ch J Idren
ne June Alta Garland
ace of birth Illinois^ ^Date of birth 1957
nber of years of ichooling In Fi.S. Occupation Student
5 i den ce Illinois Marital Status
nber of children^
ne Joyce Anne
ace of birth Illinois Date of birth 1959
nber of years of schooling In ii»S> Occupation gtudent
5 i den ce Mari tal Status
nber of chi Idren "^
ne
ace of bi rth Date of birth
nber of years of schooling Occupation
5 i dence Ma r i t a 1 Status
Tiber of chi 1 dren
Ode
ace of bi rth Date of birth
inber of years of schooling Occupation
sidence Marital Status
Tiber of ch i Idren
Tie
ace of bi rth Date' of birth
mber of years of schooling OccupatiOn_
sidence ' Marital Status
mber of chi 1 dren
me
ace of bi rth Date of birth
mber of years of schooling Occupation
s i dence Marital Status
mber of chi Idrert
lii. ASSIGNMENT OF LITERARY RIGHTS (If you and your family are willing)
I hereby donate this family historv, along with all literary and administrative
rights/ to the Rock Valley College Family History Collection, deposited in the
Rockford Public Library, Rockford, Illinois
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SOURCES
1, Keesy fstrlly Bible
2, rnr gg Vlewea frog ti^e Hanks, by "'. /•• Kcony
3, C. GcnG Kceoy
4, t'.arlsn Alba (on aunt)
5, Ruth :3lewett (an sunt)
I consider ny family on both sides of my perente
to be a typical Aoerioan fenily. On one dde, ny father^o,
the tree otretohes beck to pre-revolutloriGry tlces* /is for
ny motlrore side ber grandmother and grandfather oame fron
S^taerland. There have been soldiers t doctors, store-
lieepers, evsn rslr^ctnvo* Besllr t notting out of the crSlriiry,
evGr:;thln^ typically /morlcan.
On my father's side ther« is e very long tree, but
beoause h© and most of bio relatione bave passed svms, little
1b knoira about thee, There is, hoTTCver, a boot, written by
my great-grand uncle, v:# Allen ICcesy, that holds s brief
description of the Kee>y faally up to the time of the Civil
war» The book ooneemos bis activities in the war, ancl
iaakeo for- very excdtlu^ reading. The followiiV; is o ouote
from the boolrt
ilx) outhor of i^uis v/orl: la the so-ii of Jolm Eeesyt
(Gecsy) a pioneer of ^lohoond tovmehip, Huron county, Ohio*
lienr.v Koesy v?asa^resldent of Lancaster rnd leupbin counties
ir one of frhicti John was bom in ie04« Henry's father mne a
Revolutionary 7'ar soldier and it is said that Benry was
in the 8»r of 1812* John, (bom In 1804) the son. of Henry»
v;es tiuarriou to . iiaaoetb one, (bom ia 1306) in ia28« To
them TTere, born;
^^ter 3. P.. r-ay 17^^,^ ^g^^^ ^^^ iJevetnber l5tb IP92
Noeh "lley, February 5th, 1838
Catberlne, /u,7Uo-t 9fcb, 1840 •
Ulllam Allen, Julyy, 25th, 1843.
7'ary /nn, July lltn* 1846,
George rnsbln^toiij JUne 24tb, 1848
Scrsh Elizabeth, raroh 5th, 1852.
, The perents of these cblldron were ptr!ifl:f7llnf? with
the very few pioneer oottlore of Richmond tf^wishlp to brjsh
away tl e forests where they haci moved and sought to make
a home, when In 1843, onthe 25th of July, ^llllsra Allen
(the author) wps born*
The advantages of childhood and facilities for mental,
moral and social culture were ver.v limited In that connun-
Ityln those days. Hard work In the woods end the farm,
with little schooling, wae the oommon lot of the clilldren
then* On the 18th of January, 1859, when our subject was
but 15 years of a^e, HIq father died. Ut the ore of 18 he
enlisted In the ercy and after the weri In 1868, on the 7th
day of July, he vjas married to that nost estmable lady,
Kiss tiBfigle J» lone. Ihero were throe children bom to
them 5
r'lnerva, April 13th, 1869
I ery, ebruary 19tb, 1871
MtagAle ^., ^^pteinber 22nd, 1873«
This devoted wife and died reptember 24th, 1873, in
Shelby, Ohio*
i''r» Keesy was again married to :iss IJrtlle Au^r'JSta
Charles, (bom Sep. 14th, 1856) on rebruary 9th, 1875.
To thee Tsere bomj
^ore. I^ovember 17tb, 1876»»
Edith end Ethel-tw9ns, August 16th, 1883
Leon Castlo, Kovember 9tb, 1888»
Pern, l^brtiary 23ra, 1891
rolen. A'Uf'^.iiet 9th, 18 96
Robert Ivrn, June 83rc', 1898
Eliacbeth Kessy, the mo'cbor of our cubjeot, die<3 in
September, 1875 •
After the nmx t''r* ICeeoy entered the I'lnlsteryeand wbs
GdnltteQ into theSandueky Annual Church Conference of the
Church of the United :;retbren In Christ* He hes? successfully
end successively served the following char/2;cst Huron risolon.
Honey Creek, Shelby, fdchland,. He founded end built the
U» 3« church at Or±cnr,0t 0«^ Ccelo, fostoria, Clyde, Attica,
«»«»oi/Ui^ 4^X^us*y XJmx^s/w^la ctxAVH wUwjr-^^ww ^w x We? w^u ciuu ^AAX UWCXttK7U
the site for the U« a. church pt "Ibsonberg end be traveled
the dietrlot as ilresldlcg Elde* for tea years. He Is the
author of a little work entitled "Jesus Bald it /ll"g lyhlch
had a rapid sale end t^s the means or much 4^ood»
1.0 Is now the ctoplrln of his old re^inent, the 55tb,
and the boys hell bin with ^ood cheer at ell there reunions.
He lo very sensitive of the feet that cany of his cimrrdes
have far, very far, more brilliant e-to.j ir-ecords, but he knowns
else that he cannot rive o correct poccunt for others end
thercfcre deals exoluslvel.v , bjt truthfully, with his own.
Not desiring to rcb a stngle cor.rade of any of the well
earned honored belonrln/? to blin, bat to assist in tellinc
the otory of tbo vjct ec to Incoraln people know what t';e
soldier of the Civil 'Trr did for tl:»em« The Tcrcl ^jcI-buo
to appredatG vrhct it meant to save the UnionI rid its
salvation juottfy the awful coot? If so, rrive the I^ntrlotlo
oolclicr honor for his rmtt in the "ory drania.
To e raa.lor extent, this is all T huov of the Feesy
family in the 1700 's and IftaO's.
My grandfather on my father's side was Thomas Benjamin
Franklin Keesy», who v?as the son of Peter Benjprain Prpnklln
Kpesy ei^d Rebecca Anne Rlohard* He ^rcis born In a smell
town in norhtern Chio called V^lllard* At the a/?e of twenty
he moved to Bucyrus, e snail tomi 30 niles awsy« It wrs hero
he met Etta Robinson, the «irl who was to becooe his vdfe«
Thomas was a painter uutllabout 1905> when aqulred a snail
general store. It was the the eiiore which was his llvTlhood
until his death in 1935»
BenjeStAaRSbtliDonn, ray grandmother, was the daughter of.
Benjamin Robinson and luana Chapman, both of whom had direct
deondents from Bnglond. They also had a son, rilllan, after
W'.om I was given my middle nene. Etta was bom in flllrrd
and later moved to 'bucyrus where ehe met Thotnas. She became
▼ery active in the ^•G,T#U« (romans Chrlstipn Tempernnce Union)
£tt& Has president of the locsl chapter and it was lorgely
through the efforts of this nallonil orgtniaatlon that pro-
WLbitlon was achieved in the twenties ••
Etta and Ihomes met under uokBOim drcuraetences (to rae)
in Bucyrue Ohio end vere I arrled In 1889 • It wo while 'Ihoraao
vae enployed rs a pointer thife their first child v?Be born.
It wrs a glrlaead she was ohrlstloned Frzel A few yesrs Iptcr
ttd.no vmre bom to Etta, but they died when they viere only
a i'ew dayo old. Ettz) nan than tc7.d '2i' tr-r doctor thpt riv?
could no longer have obildren, so she fostered an orphan
child named Clinton Keefer. It was v;ben Clinton was nine
years old that Boyd, my fa:>her, was bomf much to the surprise
of Etta and Ihonias. The c lldren ell ;^rew up In luo yrus
and only Boyd left as an adult. Clinton married end moved
back to V'lllardf whei^e he Is still living In retirement.
Basel went tft college and became a school teober. She stayed
einglo end lived at home uaiii she uiarrieu Cloyu "'llhelm.
They lived In Ettas house and she moved to Ohlca?o to be
with i.,y fa tbor. After ny father's mprrlege to my tTiOtber
they moved tea eh to Rock glllnolo Island, Illinois, /bout
three years later he moved beck to 3ucjrru8 t?nC\ lived tbero
vTltV. Hrzel until her death in 1B55«
'j.he#» American tree on my mo her*s sit'e of the feciily
is considerably shorter th^noy fpther's. 3oth of my mother's
parents vjure bonri in ho U.n*, but my Ciotber's paternal
grandparents were bom in rwitaerlrnd. They both came over
from Switzerland when they ^-^ero sbou-t 16 and moved to Dubuciie,
lows
Iowa, event they had never met. ^shev finally did Veot horcvor
and rcro crrried about 1860. gb»y f'laally d^d aec.;,. bevrQ To
them two children were bom, Frederick John (my grandfather)
and Anna.
Frederick, who wps bom tn /prll 11, 1P86, nrer up in
6
Dubuque and ottho age of 14 beootne e telegre pher for tho
railroad* He worked at thlo for rpproxlrniGtely three yoers
and he becnrr.e an eetltaa-fcor 2)t a large mill work. It wee
f/hlle he was employed an en estimator that he met his future
Alta v^ae bom ou obr* ary ?", irfG, en^ ralsoa on rarm
near Dubuque. Fred net her through a friend and began to
epcnd elot of time on the fairj
My oother*s maternal graiidpcrente were both bom It. the
U.S. ^hier v/ere louls ludtdf'; Tetter and /nna r.argaret ^acl •
Lolo v;as a farcer rhc took care of 960 acres, v;hloh T;as
considered very large In those da^s. I'e was killed In 19*^9
on the farm by a falltm- tree. Louis an" /Mia had dx children
who vvere /uta, my gi-anuri. other, Halph, It>'elinda, Henry, Carl,
and I'diia. /ll of the Children were bom and raised on the
f ar« • '^he chlldrens greetp:rand pareuts were brm In '^err.any
encl cane to Anerice In the early 160C*s
Pred and Alta were married in 191*1 afld had seven cbllflren
of whom my mother was the second eldest. Tho were Carl,
Violet, my mother, I'erian, f'ar^orio, Puth, John, Rosemaryt
All of the children were brou/rht up during the deprooslon,
and so they were used to doiur »a<» witnout anc- made the ir-oei
of the llxxle things suchas golnf- on picnics, visltlneT rela-
tives, and ivLBt talking around the dinner table. Pred was
fortunate in that he was one of the few that were continually
employed during the entire depression. The far^lly enjoyed
goln ' on picnics end made e habit of oln/T on one ct lecot
once durln^^ every nonth of the year. Ky aother renembors
follov?lng r snowplow out of to^m In the car and then eating
off the running boards when they arrived. In 1923 thr family
f'ot jihler first rrdiOf but not fron the store. Fred, Having
a good knowledge of electronics, b lit a radio from scratcb,
oonstruotlnfi all the cociponents except for the tubes.
Carl, the eldest, was born in 1915. /^fter hi h school
he went to college end acq '1 red his nastoro In blolosy.
Upon greductlon from college, he enlisted In the ermy and
Ml was given an officers oommleslon. He wae shipped otrerseao
and served In Africa and Italy during the war. In 1947 he
left the amy end returned to the states, where he dontlnued
In sbbool End earned a masters In peycbology. He inarried and
is curreiitly living In Toniafc, Fleconsln.
Jiarlan, bom in 1919, went to collef^e also, end became
a teacher. Bhe soon t^o married, hovjover, and gave birth
to four children - three fi.rl8 and r. boy. She tjps married
in Dubuque and has never lived anynbere else. Cur trro ffenllles
arc very close, mainly because her four children parclell
myself and my three sleterc closley.
r<!iar,1or3.e, bom in 1920, married right out of high sbhool
and moved to Chicago Tdth her huobnnd. It mm 4»l»*a was while
they ^rere living in Chicago thst thler two children rero bom.
Wargle end her husband Dave decided thpt Dhloego was no place
to raise ohildrcnt eo they packed thler things and moved to
California. They now reside In Sacramento.
Rutb, bom In 1921, also raarrled right aftor graauGtln^
£ron Mgb school and still llveo In Dubuque, Her husband
and U&riau^a huoband both served In the Army during ^orld
V?or II, and bor eldest eon spent three years In the Air Force*
John, bom 1924 » f^roduated from college and also took
addltloaal training eo a Trntchmalccr and engrpver# During
this tine he enlisted in the Army and served as a ball-turret
gunner on a B-24 bomber and ims shot down ever the English
Channel three tiroes* Idter be returned to the States end
moved to California vhere he is an industrial photographer.
nooemery, bom in 1923, worked as a bank teller upon
completion of high school* She later married a fprmer, and
they live on a. fearm near Joliet, Illinois*
Violet, my mother, who was bom in 1917, vtg.q very
active in high school end never received less than an "A"
on her report card until the 9th grade when she got a '3"*
She played string bass in band and orchestra throughout
high school and college and also plpyed lo a city symphony
orchestra* She attended the University of Bubuque and then
moved to Chicago where she worked as a secretary* It was
while she was in Chicago that she mot my father*
Ky father, Boyd, was bom in 1905 in Bucyrus, chlo.
Be attended high school and then went to work for a sales
agency that had him working all around Chic* Aftor a few
years he was promoted to sales manager and transferrof? to
the main office in Chicago* It was at this time that he
met my mother*
My parents were mErrled ana lived In Chlcego for another
year or sountll my father was transferred to Moline Illinois.
ne sxayeo wiun xue t>a±es firm rCT a few more years until
one day my faxher learned that the apartment house thet they
sere living in had been sold to e company thrt was planning
on tearing it down and building a supermarket, so my father
bought a house and he bought g restaurant along with it.
He retired from the sales firm and worked in the restaurant
along with my mother for about 5 years. Then, in 1954, they
were blessed v^/ith a baby boy (rae) and my father decidedto
sell the restaurant so that my mother could spend more time
on me. He got his old job badk at the sales fiiTu and every-
stayed the same until 1960 when my father wes told by his
doctor that his health was getting bad and that he should
»ee¥ move to a climate that had warmer winters, so that summer
we soikd our house and moved to Florida. V/hile we were fin
Moline , though, things began to happen fast. In a few short
years my parents quiet life was shattered. After twelve
years of marriage they suddenly had four kids in six years I
I came along in 1954 » then cane Jan ('56), June ('57), Joyce
('59), and suddenly there was a house full of kidsl So v;e
moved to Florida and lived there for about a year. Then my
Father's health broke down completely and he had a heart
attack. He was hospitalized imediately and he died about
a week later. V/e moved to Dubuque and stayed with relatives
while finished first grade. Then v/e moved to Rockford and
my mother accepted a job as school teacher at Nashold school.
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involved riid ry rslsters rcrc thrt rr.y, too* "o ■•rre n very
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KELLEYV RAVmND JAI^ES. 1956-
LCASE TYI'I': I'l.KASI': PI.ACK THESE SHEETS AT THE FRONT OP THl'l SECOND COfY OK YOUR
yill.Y HISTORY.
ar (Contributor to the Rock Valley College Family History Collection:
1^ So that your family hi.story can be made more uselul to historians and
hers studying', American T ami lies, wc a j- e askinK you to fill out th<> forms
low. Tills will take you only a few minutes, and will be easily ma tie over
to an index which will permit archive users ready access to Just those
nds of family histories needed.
SURVEY
Your name RflYn\ot4r) "^^^ "^^^^V
Date of form ftt>gvi 'L(^^\<\lU
Your c o 1 1 e f; e : Rock Valley College
Rockford, Illinois
Check the earliest date for which you have been able to say things
about your family in your paper.
Before 1750
'1850-1900
1750-1800 V 1800-1850
1900 or later
Please check all regions of the United States in which members of
your family whom you have discussed in your paper have lived.
_New England(MasR. ,Conn. ,R.I.) Middle A t la n t i c (N . Y . , i'enna . , N . .1 .
Va . ) South Atlantic (Ga . ,Fla . ,N .C . ,S .C . ) East South Central
(Ea . ,Miss . ,A] a . ,Tenn,Ky . ) _J Wast South Cen tra 1 (Ark . , N . M . , Tex . , Ok . )
X K a 3 t North Ce n t r a 1 (Ml ch . , Oh i o , 1 nd . ) Pacif ic (Cal . ,Wash . )
' (Mnwaii ,A laska) % (111., Wise.,)
I'lease check a 1 1 occupational categories in which members of your
family whom you have discussed in this paper have found themselves.
Y Farming y M i n i n g S hopkeeping or small busines;
Transportation Big Business y Manufacturing
Professions \^ Industrial Labor Other ^^
Please check all religious groups to which members of your family whom
you have discussed in this paper have belonged.
Roman Catholic Jewish Presbyterian Methodist
Baptist Episcopalian ^ Congregational Lutheran
Quaker Mormon Other Protestant Other (name)
Fr encli
What ethnic and social groups arc discussed in your paper?
Swedish _Other Scandinavian y German
Blacks Indiana Mexicans Puerto Ricans
Jews
/ Irish
Iv astern V. u r o j
Italians
Slavs
^Central Europeans
V British Native Americans over several p.encrations
East Asian y^ Other(Name) S>o>^\SS
What sources did you use in compiling your family history?
V I n te rviews with other ^
family members
V V ital Records .
V Photographs V Maps Other
Family Bibles
Land Records
Family Genealogies
The U.S. Census
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FAM1 I.Y DATA
A . Grandfather (your father's side)
Name ^ , \-v tA^ f '^' ^' r - \ ^ . V ' ETi-U^.'y Current Residence
Date of birth 001-':Y M ^ \^'^<b Place of birth rT1f-.»0>bON^ ^ loo^^fi
Date of death T'R^^^ofi^'N £>^ ^'^■''O Place of burial (c:/-)r:.»cf.-s(?,ti ■, \i-u>t40i
Ednca tion (numbe r of years);
grade school ^ high school 3 vocational _^college
i)ccupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving honifKLc
1st C\-xy H.£LFlCrH i^);,p. Dates 1'^^.'^ ■ l'^3^ Is t i:)olsr-.(t.vjiU,e >,U).G Da tes fS^%#- \'^'%6'
2ndPo^,TfiL, Cu^l^t::! Da tes I'l ?'-;^- -\'((o'^ 2nd Roc^VaPLt ^ \uv-- Da tes i'=^'|6- Hi i^
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.__
R^fotbUiCi^ft '^^ rnFlsoN:>S
Place of Marriage to your grandmo ther |cr>-.tC:f<r>'S-D \lu date >V\ftis.oH '\>\'lt€
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)
Grandmother (your father's side)
Name ^^X^i\^^ ^ O e>P.C-<, Current Residence
Date of birth >:io\v^f-. -, "^ , \?A2. Place of b ir th_J^^O^jAfiV> J^\i=^^^_%*^!l^
Date of death f^c^LCfcNvfiC- C= T.Cb.V^-Kd&P lace of burial l?r,r.^ic.f rafe.bs -^ 1 l.l-jN^'SiC.
Education (number of years):
grade school '^ bigh school ^ vocational
college "Z- 4 ?
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving homo)
1st Sc^coJT^-V'Xr-.Hg'TS. Dates t^m - At^ 1st Rc»r_<,9^r>,rs . \ u- Dates vl.V'3:^J^O.
2nd
3rd
4th
Dates
2nd
Dates
Dates
3rd
Dates
Dates
4 th
Dates
R e 1 i g i o n_
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc
I'lace of marriage to your urand f a the r poptr-.^oe-fc. , III . ^ a t e f\/\^e_^c j^^ ^ •) I'^tg
NOTE: If your father was raised ' i o age 18) by a stepmother or
another relative give that data on the back of tliis pa;',e
(A-2) .
A-2 Stepgrandfather (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
c o 1 1 e g e
Occupation (s)
1st
2nd
3rd
4 th
Dates
Da tes_
Da tes_
Dates
Religion_
1st
2nd_
3rd_
4th
vocational
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc
Place of marriage to your grandmother
1-2 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_
c o 1 1 e g e
vocational
Occupation (s)
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
_lst_
_2nd_
.3rd
4th
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
Religion
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc
Place of marriage to your grandfather_
Date
Grandfather (your mother's side) 4
Name E-(grN\oST ?^ QCH C><S:g. Current Residtnce ^Z
Dnte of birth (T\fi7 30 ^ l^^S" Place of birth 0 E:.T L.vG€-f4 ^ ^>o^'TZ^e.Lfi>^t>
Date of death M^ v/^N^&fe^. . \^(o4 Place of burial t^^u:^e.fc.^5.g:y . lT(iOrito;^ts\
Education (number of years):
grade school _^ h igh school vocational college
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st OHe^l-S^^tAfiic:^^^ Dates |^.^3-t^?.Slst rno>v.\fec^g ■, IX^ .:;, Dates ^'^^^-(^zS
2nd ^R^f^,^<^ Dates\ciz$-l'^3g2nd rr|tLu:)RO<fc£, U)>S Da t es \--'t>$- \'H"2.'3
3rd Dates 3rd €>\fe.c>H C^€£:V^^ni»cMDa tes i'^^^ -• V'^Sg
4 th Dates 4th ^rft^Mt^ Dates
Religion P l'^ Tg^ ST P^ K^ T
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. _
Place of marriage to your grandmother fAoiO^cf ^ u!)t.^ da te j^i^px-M J 0^1^2=3 '
NOTE: If your mother was raised by a stepfather or another relative (to i
age 18) give that data on the back of this page (C-l) '
Grandnio ther (your mo ther ' s s ide) .
Name U^Hfi Ho €r Current Residence t>R£.t-\M<oTo>0^t>^>Soo»>^S»0 |
Date of birth b6.c.€:.rJ\g)fc^ 3^ >, \ '^'^8 Place of birth B^P-gJA fe Pv <^Tfets^ ^SvjOfTZ. . '
(I
Date of death " Place of burial ,"
Education (number of years)
grade school [ high school vocational college
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1 s t t-\g>Or^v.O><rfe Dates Is tJf\oKi£Ej^^ JlAi5._ ^^ 1 1' h l'\2"??- I'^.'^^S^-
2nd ^_Da tes_ 2nd N\tLuM^o<l£(g . \)^t^ ^ Da l es ^^-2.^'-. ^ ^g_
3 r d D ate s 3 r d j^ , fa.otV Cfe^ t^ )^^o4■^ J) a L e s 1^-2.^ - f^S^^
4th Dates 4 th hftfe^iN^gToK^^ \K^i^^ Dates \'R'5^* ?<S^.
Re 1 i gion
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandfather (V^ok^Kq/^ -.^ Ixji ?^ . '''i •-•-* JT^fiftc^H. LQ -,\\55
NOTi:: If your mother was raised by a stepmother or another relative (to
•K' . -Hi gfive thart d»ta on th'e back of this page (\)~2)
C-2 S tepgrandf ather (your mother's side) 5
Name HRK\.r-. H ^''.f'. £■ Current Residence
Date of birth \^'i '^\ Place of birth Sl■O^T2^fe■L-F^ Mtl ^
Date of death ^0^7 3> . HCol Place of burial r^hioi-\h^fe-Tv^t4 , U^,";
Education (number of years)
grade s chool i high school vocational college
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Ston^^ ^r\RS'^K\ Dates 1st Lr^-M f^QrTo >^ ,U\r-> Dates
2nd ^ Pi ^5-^A.g:.^ Dates n'T'?- Hfol 2nd Dates
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
4 th Dates 4 th Dates
Religion pRloTP_£-,-T RtO^T
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandmother riF-',g:-L.\S^ GTps^ ^ oJ i ■£. Dateff]f)(£cH 'l9)
D-2 S tepgrandmo ther (your mother's side)
Name Current Residence
Date of birth Place of birth
#1
Date of death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade school high school vocational cf)lloge
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates 1st Dates
2nd Dates 2nd
3 r d D ate s 3 r d
4th Dates 4th
Dates
Dates
Dates
R e 1 i g i o n
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc
Place of marriage to your grandfather Date
-m
h
l-DKEN of A & B (or A-2 or B-2) - your father's name should appear below
Name 1>^ , uL.\ C^ r'\ fARpg^s^ V-eU-£,V _
Place of birth Cro-'-^r-.r^^^^^t-. '--• date Mo^t-rAfeei^. bs'^^'^
Number of years of schooling'' \> Occupa t ion tdol^ Di-^ N>.Rtc:^^
Residence ^x-^r: f n 9^i:. \ix. Marital Status ^^(^^ t^.C-.
Number of children y Death - —
^ '^ "> "^ 3^. r^.'^S, C?\R^i-OC l'le'-L^^^^
I'lace of birth V^oc^>^t^Vg^t3 ^ I ux. . date Tql'/ ' n '^ ?-^
Numbt'r of years of schoojing ITS- Occupation ^_.:^ ■ I^t-L'T^L^V'H&K^ )Ki?^TftUj£^
Residence \<fyc,<ic:-':aTc--t:a , ItL- Marital Status ^/\F(fete.\<LIi>
Number of children i-j Death -.
N .] m e LoiS T;::fiK^ \Cei.-LeY
Place of birth T?;jr30r-:-'^r,teJ:: > \ -u date Qri^T .^ F^<^ fe, "2.'b>\'^^'^
Number of years of schooling \'3, Occupation 'rV''or,«\iN.'? 6-
Residence ppc .C.^-orefe >, .')j^ . Marital S ta t us^rAfVRj^ijJl^i
Number of children 3 Death —
Name
Place of birth d.ite
Number of years of schooling Occiapatlon
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
Name •
Place of birth date
Number of years of school in g_ Occupation
Residence ^____^_^ Marital Status
Number of children Death
Nam e
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___
Nu 111 berof children death
Name
Place of birth date
Number of years of schooling Occupation_
Residence Marital Status
Number of children death
N a me
Place of birth date
Number of years of selioollng Occupation
Residence Marital Status
?<'umbt'r of children deatli
Name
Place of b i r t h d a t e__ __
Number of years of schooling ()<■ c upa t ion
Resilience Marital Status _
Number ol children di'atli
7
CHILDREN of C and D (or C-2, D-2)-your mother's name should appear below
1. Name RoT H RurA.^ 9ug,H 5^ R^
Place of birth (VNoro^fex-^f - ^^.?,. da te X)r.v ( - .Tl ^M
Number of years of schooling ^ Occupation VAooCfc<jovC^
Residence Pi5_iL.<^^,j:>-rT ;, pK-^'^-Marl tal Status ^^.FlC-fe:,v<t ^ %
Number of children 3 death
2 . Name H F|-TT I <= t^g:Y^T<^fi ^OGHSetS-
Place of birth ^''/\<-,r->yr-f-< . f>::i, s date T^>iO^ l ?, . ' 1 7M
Number of years of schooling 2 Occupation Hr>.x-^»:>if^-
Residence pHrs^iOtV ^?1r.>^- Marital Status ^A t>,fe.\>_ ,<•: t^
Number of children K^r..s>^ death —
3. Name \r^R £.R.^^9\ f Oc.t-\S<£:tc-
Place of birth ^^^v^ ■.Ci^K><ut.^- date Z.t^~-fir^\^^<r.^_ \Q. ^ \'^Z(b
Number of years of schooling ~ Occupation t^ucfei/avF^
Residence Rqq^.^ &r.'-^j . * -i- ■ Marital Status <va ft )< f^, y;^^ ^ .
Number of children j-j death ;~
4 . 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 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 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 M arital Statu s
Number of children death
Your Father
Name >^RtsN.€^ C- Kfe-LLje^ , Current Residence RpCJ-^yo^g-ti \lUK^C>\$.
Date of birth J Ql-'Y ^^ \<X'2-\ Place of birth \^oC-tl.fOt&.t) ^ Iu.imo\S
Date of Death Place of burial
Education (number of years)
grade s c h o o 1 '-\ h Igh school__0 voca t lonal co liege
Occupatlon(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
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Marrian Kelley April 11 & 18, 1976
Lena Haas April 15, 1976
Walter Hug April 15, 1976
Baymond Budack April 18, 1976
Lois Kelley (Smith) April 18, 1976
James and Ida Kelley
Due to records kept by my father's aunt, uncle, and
sister I was able to follow my paternal ancestors further
back than those on my maternal side. My mother's living
relatives are aiged and remember little of their ancestry.
Through written correspondences I possibly could have un-
covered more information about both sides. However, I
have succeeded in following all relatives back to a for-
eign country. This was my initial goal.
James C. KELLEY
B May 17, I850 Laxey, Isle of Van
D Unknown
James C. Kelley was born In Laxey, Isle of Man; a
small Island off the coast of England. He oame to America
in 1855 with his father. The boat trip took ten weaks.
He moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio and then to
Dodgeville, Wisconsin. In I89O James went on to Manson,
Iowa and bought a dairy farm. He married Annie Jane Mundy
and here in 1893 they had a son, E. Raymond Kelley. Short-
ly hereafter James C. left his family to prospect for gold
in California and was never heard from again.
Annie Jane MUNDY
B April 30, I858 'lonrj-noryf Wisconsin
d 1934 0ODC>€.v\LV.t
Jules C. BUDACK
B December 13, 1862 Germany
D Hay 4, 1913 Woodman, Wisconsin
Jules C. Budack was born and raised in Germany. At age
19 he traveled to the U.S. and settled in Woodman, Wisconsin.
Here he worked for the "Narrow Gage" Railroad and eventually
became foreman. Jules also met and married a Woodman native,
Elizabeth Kartin. Together they had nine children; among
them Emma Budack.
Elizabeth MARTIN
B Sept. 7, I869 Woodmaui, Wisconsin
D (date unknown) Woodman Wis>
E. Raymond KELLEY
B July 4, 1893 Manson, Iowa
D Jan. 5, 1973 Hockford, 111.
E, Raymond Kelley, son of Jeunes C. and Annie J. Kelley
was bora on a farm near Manson, Iowa and moved with his par-
ents In 1905 to Dodgevllle, Wisconsin. Here he completed his
high school education. After graduation he worked for Mineral
Point Public Service Compeuiy. He was a foremem In charge of
electrical Installations In homes and stores In the smaller
towns where electricity was not previously available. In I916
Raymond moved to Rockford, Illinois. In early fall 1917 he
enlisted In the U.S. Army, was sent oversea, served six months
In Prance, suid was discharged In 1919. Upon his return, E.
Raymond was employed for a time with several electrical firms,
with the Recht Proellch Chevrolet Co. , and two years with the
U.S. Department of Agriculture. In 1927 he entered upon a
ten year stay with the Department of Public Health of the Ci-
ty of Rockford; the last five ye€u:*s as food Inspector to the
city. He resigned this position In order to join the Federal
Government as a postal clerk In the Rockford Post Office.
With 25 years of postal service to his credit, he retired
July 31, 1963. On January 5, 1973 at the age of 79 he died
of cancer.
In addition, E. Raymond was an active member of the
Masons and was elected Most Illustrious Grand Master Of Illi-
nois in 19^3; the highest masonic position in Illinois.
i
Emma BUDACK
B June 9, 1892 Woodman, Wis.
D Dec. 26, i960 Rockford, 111.
Emma Budack was born and raised in Woodman, Wisconsin.
She graduated from high school and attended enough college
to be qualified to teach school. Emma taught in the Wood*
man area for only a short while. She met E. Raymond Kelley
while he was working for the Mineral Point Public Service
Company and in I9I8 they were married in Rockford, Illinois.
They had three children including James Carlos Kelley.
Emma lived the remainder of her life as a housewife, dieing
in Rockford on December 26, I960.
James Carlos KELLEY
B July 1, 1921 Rockford, Illinois
James Kelley was born and has lived his entire life
in Rockford, Illinois. He attended Walker Grade School and
graduated from Central High School in 1939. His first job
was with the Winnebago County Highway Department and lasted
only one summer. He then worked for Roper Corporation, a
local manufacturer of stoves and pumps, as a receiving
clerk until his enlistment into the army in 19^2. He never
left the U.S. and the majority of his term was spent in Cal-
ifornia where he drove a wrecker truck. Following his dis»HRn&e
in 19^, he took a Job with the Illinois Bell TelephAne
Company and remains under their employment. Like his father
E. Raymond, James is a member of the Second Congregational Cuur-ch
of Rockford and politically is a conservative republican. .
Predrlch HUa
B 1868 Buchslen, Switzerland
a 1957 Switzerland
Predrlch Hug was born, lived, and died in Switzerland.
He worked primarily as a cheese maker until his death in
1957.
Lena UKLMAN
B 1869 Trub, Swltz.
D 1911 Swltz.
Lena Uhlman,also a native of Switzerland, married
Predrlch Hug. Lena had 16 children; one being Lena Hug.
Ernust PUCHSER
B Kay 30, 1895 Uetligen, Swltz.
D Nov., 196^ Newberry, Michigam
Ernust Fuchser was born in Switzerland and was the son
of a farmer. Ernust lived there until 1923 when he decided
to move to America to find work and marry Lena Hug. Resid-
ing in Monroe, Wisconsin he was a cheesemaker for two years.
In 1925 he moved to Milwaukee and in 1928 to Birch Creek,
Michigan; farming while at both places. Following divorce
to Lena in 1938, Ernust continued farming in northern Mich-
igan until his death in 1964.
Lena HUG
B Dec. 31 » I898 Bremgarten, Swltz.
Lena Hug was also born and grew up in Swltzerlcmd. She
moved to the United States In 1923 to be married. Together
Lena and Ernust Puchser had three daughters; among them
Ida Puchser. However, in 1938 they were divorced and Lena
and the three girls moved to Darlington, Wisconsin. Here,
in 19^1* she married Hans Haas, a Swiss born stone mason
and farmer. Together they owned a small farm until Hans'
death in 196?. Lena Haas still resides in Darlington.
Ida Erna PUCHSER
B Sept. 16, 1926 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
ing
Ida Puchser was born into a farm*»^ family at Milwaukee
in 1926. Two years later she moved, with her fcunily, to
Birch Creek, Michigan emd lived there ten years. Follow-
ing her parents divorce in 1938» Ida moved with her mother
and sisters to DGU?lington. Here she worked on her uncle's
dairy farm. Due to the farm work she was required to per-
form, Ida only finished eight years of schooling. In 19^2
She moved to Rockford emd worked as a waitress for 13 years.
James Carlos emd Ida Erna Kelley
James fl. Kelley and Ida Puchser met in Rockford, Illi-
nois in 19^6. They were married on August 9» 19^7. For
six months they rented a house in Rockford where the down-
town Sears store is presently located. In 19^8 they
bought a house on the west side of Rockford and still reside
there. They have four children; Susan Kay, born 1955t
Raymond James, 1956, John Edward, 1958, Katharine Lynn,
1965.
RaO'^niond James KELLEY
B Sept. 15, 1956 Rockford, Illinois
Ray Kelley was born and lives in Rockford, He attend-
ed Church Grade School, Wilson Junior High, graduated from
Auburn High in 197^f went to Bradley University one year,
and is presently majoring in secondary education at Rock
Valley College. He has achieved success both academicallj
and athletically. Ray graduated number eight in his class
at Auburn and was on the fteans list two semesters at Bradley
and one at Rock Valley. In high school he was named to the
All Big Nine Tennis Team and also lettered three years in
swimming. Hay presently plays for the Rock Valley tennis
team.
In 1971 Ray applied for and was accepted into the
youth recruit program at Woodward Governor Company, Rock-
ford. He has worked in this industrial work-study program
for five summers.
Bay will be voting In his first election in November,
1976 and although he considers himself republican, he is
still uncommitted.
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A. Grandfather (your father's side)
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Current Residence
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te of Birth Mo^c.l) J2 7 i ? O 3.
Education (number of years):
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Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
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Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
T5T
of Mai
rriage to your grandmother y^^/^^^^^^^ ^^
date
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}. Grandmother (your father's side)
Name^^^ f^ ,,J^ /^Orn A <^
If dead, date of death /^^x^£^^ /'9^sr~
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Place of b i rth /t^// CO/^^Ui^ e^ Lj / <. y
Current Residence
Education (number of years):
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Date of b i rth Y//^ / /?^/
vocational
col lege
Occupat ion(s)
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2"d //^c^Sei^<^i-/^-€- Dates
3rd Dates
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PLACE OF RESIDENCE
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tha^^^ata SP,*fhe^Ba£^'§?^tl(l? plli^^;^^^)^ stepmother or another relati</e give
A- 1 Stepgrandfather (your father's side)
N.inie Current Residence
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Place of birth Date of Birth
Education (number of years)
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(after leaving home)
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Dates
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Dates
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Dates
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Dates
4th
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Re I i g i on
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandmother date
A-2 Stepgrandmother (your father's side)
Name Current Residence
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Place of birth Date of birth
Education (number of years):
grade school high school vocational college
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
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Re I i g i on
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Place of marriage to your grandfather Date
3.
andfather (your mother's side)
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dead, date of death f\l{^t/ tQ /? 7.2^
ace of birth Qe A^ ^A 77//. Date of h\rX.\^ DeC. 1. ~m . / P^ 9 'J
lucation (number of years r: '
irade schoo) c ^ ;i^ high school vocational college
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give that data on the back of this page (C-1)
andmother (your mother's side)
ime -7 ' / , '^/ : ' ^^ /■) g /7 . T 7^ Q Cur ren t Residence itCO"^ C/^oSlp^-i
■ dead, date of death ^ZT
lace of b i r t hSc^/ //.-/'/ ng i, / ^^ i'i^/ S ■ ^Date of h\ rthcJc/ /o e 3 /'^ 0 ~X^
lucation (number of years)
jrade school ^c-^ high school <_ ^ vocational ., 5* college
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(after leaving home)
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id ^^^/Yu r-^e Rh\ Dates A-^lJ^ 2"d P^gh,^^ T^ /^ /Vl . ki ^ . Dates -h^^^
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lace of marriage to your grandfather^ fr^oc HA^> ^d r- f f . dateja,>i i 1 9 3 c?
ote: If your mother was raised by a stepmother or another refative (to age 18)
give that data on the back of this page (D-2)
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Name Current Residence
I f dead , date of death
I'l.itr ol l.irlh D.Uo of hiith
I diK .il ion (niiriil)c r fif yci r ■. )
'ir.idf? '.(tiocil hiyli school vocalioniil collcye
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eaving home)
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Dates
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3rd
Dates
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Re 1 i g i on
Political parties, civil or social ^clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandmother date
D-2 S tepgrandmother (your mother's side)
Name Current Residence
I f dead . date (jf death
Place of birth Date of birth
Education (number of years)
grade school li i gh school
Occupat ion (s)
1st
2nd
3rd
vocat ional
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Dates
1st
Dates
Dates
2nd
Dates
Dates
3rd
Dates
Re 1 i g i on
Political party , civil or soci al cl ubs , sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandfather Date
CHIbDREN of A & B (or A- 1 or B-1) - your father's name should appear below
Dohf, /J J. /T^////(gc/c-/
of D I r th7>77/T3^rZ77F7Tr , yy ' c' date ^\^ [j^ :l>, ^ / ? 3_g-
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MY GHANDjrATHJ5K--K0TH£K'o JliJE
uarl iitrenouist was born ©n a femi in UeXalb,
illlnois on December 22, 1899. He was the son of
uharlie and Lucille ijtromcuiat. He had two sieter«,
Alaa and Jister. V hen he was a young boy, hia parenta
were separated and his mother moved the family to
Hockford. vith the money she received from the sale
of the farm, Lucille bought a home and a small grocery
store. ^ 1th the income from the store, she was able
to raise her family. IThey lived in a large three
bedroom, wooden framed, two story house on seventeenth
Avenuo. Usually one ©f the rooms would be rented
out to a boarder.
uarl quit school after the eighth grade and went
to work at the irerra Dairy, In 1918, he was drafted
into the army, but when he got to the train station,
word came that the war was over. wis job at the
jrerm Dairy was to deliver milk to the people in a
horse pulled vehicle, tie was a milkman until 1924,
when he went to work for Lyndon and bons as a laborer,
in 1929, May jrerm, of the jrerm Dairy where uarl msed
to work, introduced him to her friend, huth vebenstad.
(1)
MY GRAaDMOtHER— MOTHER 'b SIiiE
Kuth \eben8tad »as b»rn •n a farm in Scandanavia,
visconsin on June 3$ 1902. bhe came from a large
middle class family of nine children, seven girls
and t«e boye. v hen she *a8 fifteen, her father,
tJ»hn vebenstad, died of an appendicitis attack and
when she was seventeen, her mother, aarah, died of
pneumonia. After her mother died »he moved to nockford
with two of her sisters, ulara and magdalene. rhey
all lived in the nurse's auarters at Swedish American
Hospital and took nurse's training for the next three
years. yhe graduated from nurse's school in 1922,
becoming a registered nurse at awedish American nos-
pital, ahe earned »? a day then, while a registered
^urse today makes about 035. in 1928, she travelled
to nochestor, minnesota and worked at ^ielonial hospital
in Kochester. The next year, she decided to come
back to jKockford and once again became a nurse at
bwodish American Hospital, in 1929, a friend of hers,
way jrerm, introduced her to uarl btroraouist.
This is a picture of Kuth as a registered nurse
at Swedish American wospital in 1924:
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■Y GR/>ND PARENTS TUGEThER— KOTHER'a SIDE
They dated far •ne year afthr they »et, getting
around in ny grandfather's trand new C«upe jrerd.
They \Pkerc aarried en January 1, 1929 at Trinity
Lutheran uhurch. At firat, they lived in an apart-
fflent at 1700 Paraele street, neney started getting
scarce hev^ever, and in 1932, they moved in with
'Jarl'a mother on seventeenth avenue, tmth wao the
main supporter of the family throughout the iiepresEioa,
uarl wao forced to sell his car in order to bu^ food
and >Aa8 about to join the breadlines, when Lyndon
and sons gave him seme part time work. j.n ouly of
1934, uarljs mother died, possibly from the shock
of losing all her money when the bank collapsed.
There ^ere difficult times for the family, •specially
since uarl tended to spend the little money he made
in the taverns,
• Things got better though and in 1936, uarl
started working for John Jiennis iTucking company,
lie did tron work construction and heavy machinery
moving. The pay ¥.es net real good then, but my
grandfather and some of his friends organized the
first iron workers union in the jtockford area local 498.
(4)
ne •nee said that back when they were just starting,
the ©nly viay they could get peeple te hire the unien
werkere was te ble» up, at night, anything nan-unien
people built, it vas a pretty violent way to start
a union, but it worked, and uarl btromquist vas fres-
ident of tkkt union for many years. Today, iron
workers union locsl 498, is the strongest union in
Kockford, vith the iron workers drawing top wages
over the other trades, in 1946, uarl becaiie a
foreman and in 1955, he became manager of the John
tiennis Trucking uonpeny. ne was soon known as one 4kle
the areas better authorities on heavy machine moving,
in 1960, he bought the company and changed the mame
to ±jlue Line Transfer. He owned the company for five
years before he sold it and retired. The company
didn't do well and he lost most of his money because
of it. His biggest problem was the fact that he was
an iron worker himself once and it hu»t him to have
to send men home when there was no work, v hile my
grandfather was doing this, my grandmother continued
to be a registered nurse at bwedish American Hospital
until 1964. I'hen she owitched to the P. y\. Peterson
(5)
jNur»ing Mae where she «tlll werks today at the age
• f 72.
I'en years after they were married, they beught
their first house. It v.as a yellov brick, tve-story
house 0ti Eighteenth Gtgeet. it vas bought by my
grandracther frem the Prudential Insurance ueapany
yiho had taken over many homes during the Depressien
and then seld then at low prices. They paid 56,200
for the house, with ijl.OOO down rith four per cent
interest. My grandmother, who usually handled such
■atters as the buying and selling of homes, liked to
move, 80 usually every four to five years, they nould
buy a new house. 'fhe only time they had boarders
living with *hem was during '^orld '-■ ar II y.hen my
grandmother's sister, Magdalene, and her two boys
lived vith them while her husband was in the service.
Their only investments consisted of two apartment
buildings- the one «y grandmother lives in no\\ in
which she rents out the upstairs apartment, and
another small two family apartment building.
'Iliey reised five children, two boys and three
girls. They were brought up in the Lutheran religion
(6)
aad all the childrer went te i;unday bcheel. ivy
grandnether was the •ne wha pushed religien and
discipline upan the children.
Uhristnas was always a special tiae when the
whele family wauld gather at their hevse far a turkey
and haa dinner an Chris tuias five night. Thanksgiving
was 3pent at Carl's sister's hause, Alaa Brawaan.
They were the anly really well aff peaple af the
family, Alaa's husband, bwan liravrnan, ^fks 9r\e af the
founders af Aaerack Oarparatian in Hackfard, lllineis.
My grandfather laved sparts, cards, and fiwhing.
He W83 a very well liked and easy gaing man. His
favarite spart was fast pi*ch safthall -hich he laved
ta watch and wauld aften take ae with hia aut te
Uherry Valley ta sea saae af the games. In 1947,
he became a charter member af the hLL ulub and spent
much af his tiae after he retired playing cards with
his friends there. The hLh stands far Live and iiet
Live and yau wauld have ta had knawn him ta raaliee
haw well that fit hia. He was the mast wara, friendly,
•asy-gaing persan that ycu wauld ever want ta meet.
He died an Navcmber 28, 197?,
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MY MOTHER
Joyce Kennedy was born en .September ?7, 1932.
bhe v^^as educated at Hall8tr*m Grade 5Ch**l» ijlnceln
Junior Hi^h, and fisst High School, tJhe was raised
in the iiutheran Religion and attended Trinity Lutheran
Church.
> hen she vas a junior in high school, she vorked
at the old Hex Theater and slao at a root beer staad,
bhe earned fifty cents an hour at those places plus
the tips she »eceived at the root beer stand.
xn high school, she vas interested in girls
athletics and played on all the liAA teams at Jiaat
High. she specialized in basketball, where she was
known as an exceilent defensive player with a deadly
long range shot, ahe went to all the ifiast wigh games
on Friday nights and on Saturdays, 8he would go see
her steady boyfriend, uon Kennedy, play basketball
for bt. Thomas High ochool.
After she graduated from j!;ast, she want to work
at uity j^jatlonal J:iank vhere shf made a dollar an hour.
The following September, she beaaiBc officially engaged
to Don Kennedy and they were married on wovoaber 10, 1951.
(8)
Vy father's great-great-grandf&ther came t» this
country in the early 1800 's because ©f £■• petatc
famine in Ireland. They vere tee peer te "buy a
farm, se his great-preat-grandfather's jeb was help-
ing te dig the j:;rle Canal.
The Kennedy's wanted te he faraers and a etreke
of luck enabled them te buy their first farm. Une
day in 1832, ay father's great-great-grandmether
fsund a hundred dellar bill en the beach at CJeney
Island, with this raeney, they jBoved to j«yren , lllineis
with their young son jaraes, and started a farm on
land that they bought fr»ir. the gevernaent. The Jblack-
havk wa»s had just ended s© the Indians that were
in the area were not hostile and gave them no trouble.
James Kennedy was born in Syracuse, mcv lerk
on duly 12, 1832, and came vith his father to Byron,
Illinois while he vas still acchild. The father
engaged in farming at ±iyron, and it was there that
the early life of wir. Kennedy was spent. He grew
to like farming and eventually took over the fane
after his father died.
(9)
(Janes Kennedy vas married te Hannah u'oennell
•n jrebruary 22, 1859. she was "bem in Ireland and
came te /^nericalwit^ her faaily when she v-as nine
years eld*
They rained their fa«lly ef eight beye in the
uathelic religien. They attended .St, Mary's Cathelic
uhurch in Heckferd, which was a fcur mile buckhoard
ride en Prairie Read every Sunday,
J awes Aennedy was a very hard werking.henest
and industrieuR nan. In his nany yaars ef faming
he kad built a beautiful heme and had acquired a
large tract ef land. He was well liked hy everyone
and was the nest well knewn nana in the ceunty. His
wife Hannah, was a very geed and genereus persen.
Vhen she died en February 6, 1909, just two weeks
befere her gelden wedding anniversary, the whele
cemnunity was shecked and saddened. After the death
ef Hannah, his wife ef fifty years, James' health
started failing. He seen passed away, leaving his
large fam ts his sens.
Jehn Kennedy was the eldest sen ef oanes and
Hannah Kennedy, He was bem in Keckferd en July 12, 1860.
(10)
He spent n«Bt mt his years faming. He worked first
en his father's farm and then on his 9nn farm in
Byren, The farm berdered en Reute 2 and Kennedy
Hill Koad which vtas naned after his father, o antes
Kennedy, Kennedy hill Kiad was important to the
people of that day, for it vas need to test new
cars. Before people bought an autcaobile, they
would check to see if there Model a's would nake
it up the hill in third feear. If they didn't have
to shift, it was considered a well raade car.
On April 9, 1B96 he aiarried Kathryn Kiley of
loaf Kiver. lihe was the daughter of the late Patrick
abd Hannah Riley, pioneer settlers in Ogle County.
Her nicknaae v^as the Little Bottle btopper because
she was so snail and her parents came from Cork
County in Ireland.
They raised eight children, six girls and two
boys. They were devout Catholicx and attended mass
regularly. They were aTerage farraers and were not
as well off or known as james Kennedy, because the
faria was split up. in 1916, he sold the farm and
Btved t« K«ckf»rd. iliey lived ot 40? jv!«rth central
Avenue and attended .st. Patrick's uathelic uhurch in
Keckferd.
in his retirement years in iteckford, John Kennedy
*©rked part time as an elevator opera tcr in the
KGckferd Trust Building, tie died ef diabetes en
Ccteber 12, 1927. in his obituary, they srid he »as
a ifJiandof upright character and sterling v.©rth, v.ho »-ae
faithful to every obligation of his home, business,
and civic life, and entirely merited the regord in
*hich he was widely held, j^athryn lived for thirteed
■ore yeare before she died of a stroke on Mpy 17, 1940.
James jf. Kennedy, my grandfather, v.as born on
March 27, 1903 at his father's farm in Byron, Illinois,
he dropped out of school after the eighth grade to
work on the faria. "hen they moved to Kockford, he
lived vith his parents and worked ae a furniture
finisher at the Haddoff i'iano oompaby,
in the spring of 1927, he met ue**rude Murphy
of Milwfctikee, visconsin and they were married a
year later in Milwaukee en March 28, 1928,
liettrude Murphy vas born in Milwaukee on April
16, 1901, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
iii»iias Murphy, wh» vas a palicewan in yilwaiakee,
I'heir first hawe was an apartment in Kackfard
at 806 Alliance Avenue. in 1930,, they mtved ta Mil-
waukee v'here Gertrude's father helped ta fet Jawes
a ^•^ •" "the police ferce.
They had a very unhappy warria^^ and it ended
in divorce in 1940. un ^uly 25, 1933 they had their
only child, a hoy named jjanald Kennedy, my father.
Mis mother rsised him as a catholic and ilnciplined
him, but his father, who «8s an alcoholic, was not
around too much. After their divorce, jjon lived
vith his mother in ^Jiilraukee and she worked as a
sv/itchhoard operator at the Milwaukee Medical center.
I'hey were very poor, so his mother sent hire to Kock-
ford when he vas fourteen to live vith his Aunt
Loretta, a pirter of his father, james Kennedy
worked at several odd johe, but because of his drinking
problem, he Hever was able to hold a steady ;)©b.
lie died on October ?8, 1968, nis ex-vife Gertrude,
later remarried s man named Hank rasset, dhe died
In Maich of 1965.
My father attended St. Thomas High School in
Rockford, He played on the basketball team at St,
Thtuae and during the sumasr* he *erked at Keckf«rd
Cement Preducts, he ^as intreduced to J»yce iitr»f!-
quist when he waa a junior in high 8ch»ol and she
were hip class rinp during his eeni»r year, vvhen
he graduated frsm tt, Themas he went te v©rk f»r
the illineis ties and f!;lectric Company ae a tree
triiBRier earning; ?J1.05 an heur,
Un I^oveniber 10, 1951, L»©n Kennedy and o»yce
btremruiet vere married on a beautiful, hot,
sunshiny day. On April 15, 195?, ny di-d vent t©
werk f«r National Glass Company as an apprentice
glazier. He hecaae foreman ©f the company in 1963
and in 19^8, he became e salesman fer the National
ulass company.
My father was the first member ©f his family
who did not marry an Irish cirl, and my mother was
the first member ef her family to marry a Catholic.
Her raether did not approve of the wedding at all
because she vas marrying s Catholic, in 1955, doyce
war cenverted into the catholic church and nov. we all
attend Lit. Bernadetteecatholic church in Rockford,
Then they vers first married, money was scarce
and they lived in a c»uple ©f smsll fe pertinents. In
1957 1 ray father "built his •wn h»use at 19?0 J^nothan
Avenue, it vas; in this email ere 8t»ry yellow "brick
house %here 1 spent my 6hildh»»d years, in 19^9, ve
B«ved into a nice t*« et©ry, tri-level heuse at 3508
Av«ndale Drive.
M/ FAMILY
The fclii in the "black drcffe telo^ Irs my aiBter,
Aathy, ^he v/^r? "born on Jatinary 16, 1953, the eldest
©f the family. This oictnre vvos taken on Lihristraae
ifive at my grandparents house, dhe is helping my late
grandfather pass ©ut presents t» the children. I'he
graduated from E*ylan itigh school and xtick valley
College and is nev' studying t© "be an eleBentsry
ehheel teacher at v.estern lillincis Tniversity,
The picture "hel^w right, ie my little sirter,
Mary. the was "bern ©k Cctoher 4, 1963. iihe attends
i^t, uernadette Grade nch©®l and now is in her seventh
year ©f dancing lessens, ohe als© takes tumbling,
mini-tramp and trampeline lessens at R©ckf©rd Trarapeliae
1-©t«;b,
The felltw WM the left is ray "brother Juavid,
H« was "bera o« April ?, 1965 and he attends 3t,
wernadette Grade ych»el. he's ©»ly eight years tld,
"but he'R slraidy a natural athlete, jjave played ©n
•rganized ^estball, basketball, and baseball teams
last year*
The little fellew on the right is Wiich&el Kennedy,
Ke v^as b«rK ©n /.ugust 25, 1971. kichael hasn't dene
aBytbiMg yet, but he sure is a cute little kid!
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KJELLQUIST. EVERETT JOHN. 1956-
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A. Grandfather (your father's side)
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that data on the back of this page. (A-1)
B. Grandmother (your father's side)
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Name
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Current Residence^
Date of birth
Education (number of years):
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vocational
col lege
Occupat ion(s)
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
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Dates
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Dates
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Place of marriage to your grandfather
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3.
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If dead, date of death -^
P'«" of birth AloiWck^-^U ^frirv^c^Nf Date of birth T^Sh^^ (n \M^
Education (numoeraf years)
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date
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Dates
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3rd
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Place of birth
of* dea
th__
Date of birth
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ber
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TTf
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John KJellquist
My Mother's name Is Frances Preda Pettersen KJellquist. Her
Mother's name Is Lena Ida Pettersen Schwlnger. Her Mother's name is
Anna Maria Schwinger Stein, and her Mother's name is Ida Neubert
Stein. That is, of course, my Great Grear Grandmother and it is
as far back as I can go. She was born in the l830's in Olouchou
Germany. Glouchou is a small town in South Eastern Germany near the
Checkoslovakian border. She married a weaver. He worked a large
loom and made material for dresses etc. (Wilhelm Stein) My Great
Grandmother Anna Maria Stein was born May 3, i860 in Glauchou and
raised there. She was confirmed there on May 26, 1874.
Ida Pettersen, who is my Grandmother, and who's father was Emil
Ernest Schwinger, and his Mother was Rosalia Natalia Mehues. She
was born in Brandt by Prieburg. She married a miner named Priedrich
Schwinger, and on Sept. 17, J86l in Brandt my Great Grandfather was
born, Ernest Erail Schwinger entered the armyartd attained the rank
of sargent. After his release he stayed in the reserve. Long after
this he became a shoemaker and then a mailman and somehow ended up
in Glouchou where he met and married Anna Maria Stein, and on June
6, 1886 my Grandmother, Lena Ida Schwinger was born. My Grandmothers
time was a time of horses and carts, kerosene lamps, coal stoves and
cobblestone streets. It was also a time without most of the
luxuries of today. My Grand mother had two dresses and a pair shoes.
One of her weekly chores was to clean the chimmies on the lamps and
refill them with kerosene. When she was confirmed she got a
new dress and her father mad her shoes for her. She went to school
for eighr years and graduated at 15, only rich people went on to
semenaries. One incident that stands out in her memory is the
day the Kaiser was in town to review the troops. Each year the
Army Reserve gathered in Glouchou, and each family was required to
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house one soldier.
Not much Is known about Grandfather's (my Mother's father)
early life. He was born on Feb. 13 I887 inChristianla (now known
as Oslo) Norway. His parents names were Hand and Johana Pettersen.
He came from a large family seven children. Four boys and three
girls. Grandfathers name was Frank Oscar Pettersen.
My Grandfather worked In a textile factory making elastic bands.
For some reason. Just after the turn of the century, he went to
Glouchau. He had the same type of Job there and It was there that
he met my Grandmother, and on January 8, 1909 they were married.
In 1907 my Grandmother's Father died. It was the seventh of
Oct. and he was only 46 years old. In I908 her mother died,
Dec. 30, 1908. She was 48 years, 6 mos. and 3 weeks 6 days old,
according to the old documents. All of the families money was
left to my Grandmother and her being the oldest child.
After she was married my Grandfather took this money and started
his own business. He went bankrupt around 1913. During this
time my Uncle Hand was born (Aug. 4, 1909), and my Uncle Ralph
was born Feb. 10, 1913. After his business failure my Grandfather
decided to start again in America. He was in vaudville in Germany
with his brother Victor and had heard great things from another
brother William in American. In 1913 my Grandfather, Grandmother
the two boys and my Grandmother's slsther and her boyfriend left for
the United States and Rockford, 111.
From 1913 to 1917 they had several houses they lived in. They
lived with Uncle William on sixth street most of the time. In 19 17
my Grandfather bought a brand new house, one block north of his
brother's house. That house stands right next to ours, and 57 years
later my Grandmother is still living thre. In 1920 my Grandfather
got a good Job .with the Barber Colman Co. and stayed there until
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his retirement In 1952. His brother William left for Milwaukee
in 1920 and soon went back to Norway not to return to the United
iitates until 1970 for a visit. In 1920 my Mother was born.
Little is known of my Dads fathers side of the family. His
father, John B. KJellquist (Kallkvist) was born in 1879 in Tbro
Sweden. His mother Hilda Larson was born in I88I in Marlestad
Sweden. Her father was a farmer, his father worked on a railroad.
She worked in a creamery. He learned a cabinet Makers trade. They
met In Sweden. They were married here in 1908. In 1913 my father
Everett John KJellquist was born. In 1917 his mother Hilda Larson
died of an apoplexy. She was 36. My Dad remembers being llftj^d up
to see his mother in the casket, and the horse drawn hearse.
My father's brother, Eddie, was only five months old at the time
and my Grandfather didn't feel he could take care of the baby, so
his sister and brother-in-law Esther and John Sandeen adopted Bddie.
My fathers older brother Elnar, and his father went from
house to house, from one Aunt and Uncle to another renting a room
until the one got tired of them and moved on to another. My father
went to several grade schools and after graduating from Rockford
Center High School. In I929 the family lived seperate from the
relatives. Two things that Dad remembers about his claildhood are
always being the smallest boy in the class, and always fighting
usualy ending the ones his brother started. He graduated in 1929
and in 1930 started on apprenticeship program at Barber Colman.
It didn't last long however. He was laid off and spent much of
the depression at a gas station. He alos worked a while at J.L.
Clark Co. before being called back to Colmans.
My Mother went to P. A. Peterson grade school asdid my sister and
myself. She remembers that they lived quite well during the 20 's,
but without much of our modern conveniences. To take a bath, for
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example, you filled the tub full of cold water, then you went
down the basement lit the coal stove put on two buckets of water
and when the water was hot carried them upstairs and put them in
the tub with the cold water. She remembers horse drawn Ice
wagons, the wood stove In the kitchen, an excellent place to dry
clothes in the winter, was to hang them In the kitchen. Mother was
in third grade when the tornado hit Rockford. She remembers how
all the children went down stairs, but their class. The teacher said
there was no need for It so they stayed on the third floor, and after
the noise, mother said, there wasn't a window left in the room. Mom's
time was also the time of the street cars. People would drive down
the tracks with their cars lining their wheels up with tracks, and
Uncle said "you could go like" well pretty fast. All of 35 anyhow.
Mom went to Lincoln Junior High School and Central High School during
the depression. Grandfather worked two and three days a week. Mom
walked to school, wore shoes forever and a day, and wore her aunts
remade dresses. It was also a time of prohibition when Grandmother
made beer in the kitchen.
My parents were married In 19^0 they moved into our house In
19^2 and In 1944 my sister was born. By this time my Dad had
learned his trade (tool and die Maker), and my parents were the
happy average middle class family. For the past 32 years my parents
have been planning to move, I doubt the ever will. In I956 my Dad
finally got his son, and as soon as he found out Mom had a baby boy
he proudly named him Everett John KJellquist Junior. 'In 196O my
sister entered East High School and I P. A. Peterson School. In 1963
my sister Karen went off to college. She was married in 1965 and
now lives in Call, Colombia, So. America
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In 1968 I left grade school for Jefferson Junior High School. In
1970 I entered Jefferson Junior High school and in 1971 it became a
Senior High School, I think anyway, I spent six years there. May
Dad who has worked now at Barber Colman for 44 years got me in as an
apprenticeship program there, after I graduated from High School.
I soon found out the shop wasn't quite the place for me. So here
I am at Rock Valley College.
KLEW, MARK ALFRED, 1954-
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FAMILY DATA
A Grandfather (your father's side)
Name Alfred Arthur Kleam Current Residence
If deaH, 0 jte of death January 16. 1971
Place of birth Chicago Date of Birth May 27. 1888
Education (number of years):
grade school 8 high school vocational col lege
Occupatlon(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Coke mill worker Dates 1912-1917 1st GhicaKo ^Dates_
2nd Arc welder Dates 1917-1952 2nd ^Dates_
3rd Dates 3rd _Dates_
^tth^ Dates Ath ^Dates_
Religion Lutheran, later Christian Heform
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of Marriage to your grandmother ghlnago. Illinois ^^^\Sept. 7. 19
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 Louise Aprusta (Poster) Klemm Current Residence ____,._________^..^..__
If dead, date of death July 7. 1967
Place of birth Chicago. Illinois Date of birth July 1 1 . 1895
Education (number of years):
grade school 8 high school vocational col lege
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home).
1st Saleslady Dates 1910-16 1st Chicago Dates 1916
on
2nd Housewife Dates 1 9 1 6- 1 9672nd Dates
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
^th Dates kth Dates
Re 1 1 g I on Lutheran
* Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandfather GMr;ago.. Illinois DATE Seut. 7. 1916
°*^= {^a^''aSt^S(!*fhl8(^8a£8'8f<*t<l§ gaSi^A-^)f stepmother or another relative give
A- 1 Stepgrandfather (your father's side)
N.iriic
I f iirnd, (J.ilc of death
Current Residence
Place of bl rth
Education (number of years)
grade school high school
Occupat ion(s)
1st
2nd
3rd
Re I i gi on
Dates
Dates_
Dates
Dates
1st
2nd
3rd_
kth
Date of Bi rth_
vocational
col lege
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Dates
_Dates
Dates
Place of marriage to your grandmother
"Tilt
A-2 Stepgrandmother (your father's side)
Name
I f dead, date of death
Place of bi rth
Education (number of years):
grade school high school
Occupat ion (s)
1st
2nd
3rd
J)a tes_
Dates
Dates
Re I i g i on
Current Residence
Date of birth
vocational
lst_
2rtd_
3rd
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
col lege
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Dates
Dates
Place of marriage to your grandfather
Date
3.
randfather (your mother's side)
ameWllIlam Christopher Schirmercurrent Residence St. Francis, ^anaas
f dead, date o^ death
lace of birth Q-^tensen, Germ.^^ny Date of birth December 11, 1889
duc:ption {nunStr of years) :
jra^e school 8 ^ig^ school vocational college
:cupatloT(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after Isaving home)
s t Farmer Dates1910-1 963 1st St. Francis, Kansas Dates1914-
"" pre seat
id Dates 2nd Dates
rd Dates 3 rd Dates
th Dates ^tth Dates
si I g ion Lutheran
slitical parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. Lutheran Layaans .League
lace of marriage to your grandmother 3^1^^ Francis, i^ansas "^^^e Feb. 18,1915
3te: If your mother was raised by a Step'factier or anoilTer neiattVH ( CO age 18)
give that data on the back of this page (C-1)
randmother (your mother's side)
Current Residence
ame Marie E. (V/llkenlng) Schlrme]
f dead, date of death June 5, 1965"
lace of birth Relpen. Germany Date of birth March 2, 1890
Jucation (number of years)
jrade school 8 high school vocational college
:cupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
it Housewife Dates 191 5- 1 96E5t St. Francis, ilansas Datesigi 4-1965
id Dates 2nd Dates
rd ^Dates 3rd Dates
b1 Igion Lutheran
alitical party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc. Ladies Aid, Sewing Club
iace of marriage to your grandfather St. Francis, i'vansas date Feb. 16 1915
ote: If your mother was raised by a stepmother or another relative (to age 18)
give that data on the back of this page (D-2)
C- I St epgrandf ather (your mother's side)
Name Current Residence
I f flfad, da IP of death
I'l.n'- >.l Mr Hi D.ileol liiith
I 'liK .il iuii (iiiiiiilx- r of yc.it'.)
'It.idi" .(hool h i (jh school vocationiil
Octupat ion(s)
Is I
2nd
3rd
^ith
Dates
1st
PLACE
(after
OF
RESIDENCE
eaving home)
Dates
Dates
2nd
Dates
Dates
3rd
Dates
Dates
iith
Dates
Re 1 i g i on
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandmother date
0-2 S tepgrandmother (your mother's side)
Nome Current Residence
I f dead , date (jf death
Place of birth Date of birth
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
Re I i g i on
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandfather Date
CHILDREN of A & B (or A- 1 or B-1) - your father's name should appear below
f^3h>»r-t. Dan 1^1 Kiema
: of birth r^^r^^n. 111^ r^n^s date May. 21. I92I
Name
Place of birth qy^^nn^rn. Illinois ""'•'= ^^^Y, ^'t 'y^' --
Number of years of schooling 16 " Occupatibh j:iectrical --.n^ineer
Res i dence Rnnkford. Illinois Marital Status Married
Number of children 4
Name Loulae Ap-usta (Klemm) Schmidt
P 1 ace of birth Chicago. IlUnolB date Feb. 26. 1918
Number of years of schooling 12 Occupation xHouseWlfe
Residence Mlnot. North Dakota Mari tal Status Married
Number of chi Idren 6
Name Wllliaia Arthur Klemm
Place of birth Chicago, Illinois date Deceiaber 11. 1919
Number of years of schooling Occupation Professor
Residence Fort ■.avne. Indiana Marl tal Status Slnpile
Number of chi )dr6n Q
Name Martin Gerhard t klemm
Place of birth Chicago, Illinois date March 11. 1923
Number of years of schooling 12 Occupation TriJCi^ Driver
Res i dence T.,>^ rising. Illinois Marital Status Married
Number of en 1 Idren 4
Name M^.ri e Slanor (Pllemm) V/atson _
Place of birth r.h^nfltro, Illinois date December 6. 1924
Number of years of schooHng 12 Occupation Housewife
Res i dence ^arising. Illinois Marital Status Married
Number of chi Idrfen 4
Name Ruth Elizabeth (Klemm) Taliaferro
P 1 ace of birth Ghlcapo, IHlnola date January o, 1928
Number of years of schooling 12 Occupation HoUSevJlfe
Residence Hannibgl. Missouri Marital Status Married
Number of chi Idren 4
Name FredericK Raymond Klemm
Place of birth Chicap-Q. Illinois date August 29, 1929
Number of years of schooling 12 Occupation Tnnl ± Die Maimer
Res i dence Calumet City. 111. Marital Status Married
Number of chi Idren 3
Name Arnold Alfged klemm
P 1 ace of birth Ghlcapo. Illinois date July 16. 1931
Number of years of school ing 16 _ Occupation Chemical Technician
Residence Chlcapo. Illinois Marital Status Married
Number of chi Idren 2
3. Name Ssther Elizabeth (Klemm) Heldeprlem
Place of birth Chicapro. Illinois date J-Iay 4 , 1935
Number of years of schooling 16 Occupation nOUSewlTe
Res i dence Raleigh. North Garol4teai tal "sTatus Marriea
Number of chi Idren 3 ^"«-
10. Name Paula x^oralne (ivlemm) Brown
Place of birth Chicago. Illinois date April 4, 1939
Number of years of schooling 14 Occupation Housewife
Residence Kegrny, HebroslTa"^ ' Marital Status Married
' cnnaraW
Number of CllimrHll'
CHILDREN of C and 0 (or C.-l, D-l)-your mother's name should appear below
N.iiiir Anna Margaret (Schirmer) Klemm
r-I.M.' of hi r ih St. FranclSf Kansas
Niinih'T ol yc.ir'l of schoo 1 i tu) ] 2
Res i dcncc Rc^cKford. Illinois
Number of ch i 1 dren 21
^l-uo December 2. 1920
Occupation Housewife
"Marital ^Status Married
N a me Martha Louise tSchlrmer) Zwevgardt
Place of birth St. Francois. r>.a.naR8
Number of years of schooling 8
Res i dence St. Francis. Kansas
Number of children 2
date March 2. 1916
ITccupat I on Housewife
Mari tal Status Married
3. Name Henry Fredrick SchArixer
Place of birth St. Francis. Kansas
Number of years of schooling 8
Res i dence St. Francis
Number of chi I dren
Kansas
1
date March 15. 1918
Occupation Farmer
Marital Status Harried
'«. Name VanJeda Rose (Schirmer) Sichstadt
Place of birth St. Francis. Kansas
Number of years of schooling 8
date May 8. 1923
Occupa t i on Housewife
Res i dence Woolsey. South Dakota
Number of ch i I dren 2
Marital Status Married
6.
7.
9.
me Ern.g Sophie (Schirmer) Blume
ace of birth St. Francis. Kansas
Number of years of schooling 8
Res i dence Goodland, Kansas
Number of ch i Idren 2
Name
P lace of bi rth
Number of years of schooling
Res i dence
Number of ch i Tdren
Name
Place of bi rth
Number of years of schooling
Res i dence
Number of ch i 1 dren
Name
Place of bi rth
Number of years of schooling
Res i dence
Number of ch i I dren
Name
Place of bi rth
Number of years of schooling
Res i dence
Number of chi 1 dren
_ date April 1 1. 1926
Occupat I On Housewife
Marital Status Married
date
Occupation
Marital Status
date
Occupat iOn
Marital Status
date
Occupation
Mari tal Status
date
Occupation
Marital Status
10. Name
P I ace of bi
TF"
Number of years of school ing
Res i dence
Number of chi Idren
date
Occupat ion
Mar I tal Status
Your Father
Current Residence Rocliford, Illinois
Name Robert Daniel r.iemm
I f deao, date of death
Place of birth Ghicapo. Iliinoia ^Date of birth May 21, 1921
Education (number of years)
grade school 8 high school A vocational ^college ^
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Army medic Dates 1 941 - 1945 1st In the army Dates 1941-194
2nd Electrician Dates 1946-1951 2nd Whiting, Indiana Ddtes 1946-195
3 rd Electrical 5nfine§gtes 1 951-presen3rd Gedarville, IllinoisDates 1951-195
4th ^Dates kth Freeport. Illinois Dates 19'53-196
Religion Lutheran 5th Rockford, Illinois 1963-19
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. Rei^ublican. i-iUtheran
x.n.v[Ear^a ^eague. Evangelist. NRA . ^ ' '^' 4 \. , ;
Place of marriage to your mother DehYer, Colbrndd' date t'eo. 2, 1945
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 Anna i4argaret (Schirmer) Klemm Current Residence Rockford, Illinois
If dead, date of death
Place of birth St. Francis, Kansas Date of birth December 2, 1920
Education (number of years)
grade school 8 high school 4 vocational ^college
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Candy maker Dates 1938 1st Denver. Colorado Dates 19^9-1946
2nd Maid Dates 1939- 19462nd Whitinp:. Indiana Dates 1946-1949
3rd Housewife Dates 1946- now 3c<t Anp.ola. Indiana Dates 1949- 195]
Re 1 i g 1 on Lutheran
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc. Lutheran Womens Mission
J-;fff?£Uf?.. Rspvbiig^t?:^ ' . . ^ —
Place of marriage to your fathfer Denver. Coloradb' ' ' ' ' ' date Feb. 2.' 1946
NOTE: If you were raised by a stepmother or another relative give that data on the bacl< of
this page (F-2).
E-1 Stepfather
Name
If dead, date of death
Place of birth Date of birth
Education (number of years) ~~" ^— _— _
grade school high school vocational college
0ccupation(5) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates 1st Dates
2nd Dates 2nd Dates
3rd Dates ^3rd Dates
^th Dates ^^th Dates
Rel igion
Pol i t i cai* part les , civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your mother Date
F-2 Stepmother
Name
If dead, date of death
Place of birth Date of birth
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
Re 1 I g I on
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your father ~~~ Bate
ILDREN of E and F (or E-2, F-2) - your name should appear below
me Mark Alfred :^lemm
'■ Marii AJ
ace of birth Free port. Illinois
mber of years of scnoolJng 14
s i den ce Rock ford. Illinois
mber of ch i Idren Q
me Daniel Robert Klemm
ace of birth Anp-Q la. Indiana
mber of years of schooling ]^
s i dence Chicago, Illinois
mber of ch? Idren 1
ime Margaret Anne ulemm
ace of birth St. Francis, Kansas
imber of years of schooling 17
!s i dence Urbana. Illinois
imber of children Q_
ime Paul William klemm
ace of birth Freeport, Illinois
iraber of years of schooling 12
iS i dence Rnckford. Illinois
imber of children p
Date of birth August 27, 1954
Occupation Student
Marital Status Single
Dat'e of birth June 15. 19^9
Occupation Store nanager
Marital Status Mar r lea
Date of birth August 30 » 1951
Occupation Student
Marital Status Single
Date of birth June 23, 1956
Marital Status bingle
Occupation Student
ame/
lace of bi rth
jmber of years of school ing_
;s i dence
jmber of chi Idren ~~~~~~~
Date of bi rth
Occupation
Marital Status
ame
lace of bi rth
umber of years of school ing_
es i dence
umber of chi Idren ~~___
PaTte of bi rth_
"" Occupation
Marital Status
ame
lace of bi rth
umber of years of school ing_
es i dence
umber of chi Idren
Date of birth
Occupat I On
Marital Status
ame
lace of bi rth
umber of years of school ing_
les i dence
lumber of ch i Idren
Marital Status
Date of bi rth_
Occupat ion
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I''.' 1-la II. Wlin-snJni- wn h boi-n on Mnrch ?, ir90, in i.o'on,
Goi'iaanv . i^h-; w.is raif^d by hT nothor, 'Vi lh*lmJn<», fni h'^r
st-ipf.'i 1- ii^r Gnrl Lichlutlor. li'^r r'^^i falhar, Fr'slrici ii.Tnlni^,
i*rt f :r Ainericr bofor" r.he vn b born b'^cRuse her inot!.-^-: 'e
pnrentr wouldn't pIIt.; them to F-et married. 1 w- nn'' "bis
to fin-^ out the reflson why. Sh" h'^d three half e'lHtm, L^o^hle,
Minna °'id .lenny, pnd two half brothers, ?ritz nnd Au'u:;t.
After n basic education of about bIx years, she went t ■> work
and 11 v^ on '\ bi^ far'n as a maidservant. The f^roi iiupt have
eTipioy^J m«ny people, for tliat's wVie^-e she met iiy cran if- 1 her.
■.^iLllam ChrlEtoi-her SchlrTtier was born on Doceinbor 11, 1889,
In Oti'Nisen, Germany. He nor^^r said much about his youth
except that his fsther, Carl Schir.ner, was a woodcutter in the
blacii forest who died when Vi/illiam was 11. He had on-? brother
pnd two sisters, nono of whose names I could find out. I'e also
had a .i-a^e elementary education after which he worked as a
hired h'lnd on the fai-m where he aet my grandmother. Karis had
kept ill touch with her fatlier ov-^r in Amorlca, who sant tne'ii
money lO come over and get msri't' ;l , whic-h they did. They married
on ?eti"uary 18, 1915 in Zion L.utlieran Church at a GeriXiSii- ixusslan
settle .'jnt called Jacqua, which was later renamed St. Prancis,
v/hlch J 3 located in the extreme nort:hwest corner of .ianc-.a^.
They h/in't planned on staying in America, but the wnr broke
out in 1914 r.ip-ht after they came over and they never v;ent
back to Germany or saw any of their relatives who livod over
there --a in.
They eottled on a farm In a email h luso where they had a
girl, Kartha and a boy, Henr.y . After a few ye^re they moved
to a bl(-'per house where my mother and her two younger sistera,
Vsnledn nnd Erna were born. In 1926 they naoved to what la the
present day farm where their son Henry and his wife and dflughter
live today. The other houses hpve b'^'^fn torn dov;n and the only
Ttlier h )UEe that still standa is the small two rooTi house that
Miy KrF'niiiifl's dnd lived in until he died on March 7, 1939, after
living t\\'i life of s farmer ?>nd never rnnrrylng. All of the
hiua'^r- w«re located p^rotly clo^e tO{;^o1,her, not beln*: iu )re than
r'! few ..illes away from '^ach other. Ily rrrndpa w? ^ np.inly w
wheat fr-mer who also p;rew hny ^nd feed for his catMe cmd
hops. 'Ay prandma v;-^ s a farrawife v.ho raised four dau 'hters
Mnd orio son and kept chlcl<ens, she even worked in the fi^'lds
when li-^r help was ne-^ded. The depression hit thoin pr^-tty
hard, but they nevor d'^ctroyed any crops or klJlod nny of
thoir cuttle becsuoo that wr.s w,"P,titip; i-recious food, r.wd to
p'aopi'-' who had worked nnd s^ved everything they c ^l Id alL their
life, Guch wasting w^ s considered an unthinicable sin. Ky
p'rpnd.'= -ild put land In the l-md bank, though. But tlo duat
bowl ' rfe?ted them in a more dirrjct vr^y. wy mom roir.o.abGrs
how dus't storms would make thln,'-8 so d-^rk out th'; t E'no could
look directly at the nun 3t midday, and the dust would get all
over tlie recently clenned house, oftentimes mRK^ng her mother
cry, liut in all, things went pretty -nuch the samo on the farm
untii '':*5 fortlf^B, wh«n cnch ^ it*!"/ toik the pl^ce of hoi'i'-o
sni aul-'s. Both iny ;j r.'.ndi."; r^^r, ti; v/ori:^d extrorn'^lv h'Ti to
scr'-lc'i out a llvlnt; in thr? jr-r'"-^ until th'sy r*--- li re'l to a
GJ.'ii use in 5t. Fi'-:ic5s in 1';)6^. My f-'mndirr. died of b
ftro/.e on June 5, 19^5 and io buried at.out one u,iie c mth
of v/her'-^ Che flrbt liv«d wh'^n ah^ cane to rano-R. Lih^rtly
sft.or fc-ie died, my ft' ndps moved to .". nurslnp ho:ne in ^t.
Fr?"ncln where he i s i reaently living,, the only pran .!> ar eiit
1 h^ve •■.lio is Btill nlWe.
Alfred Arthur Aiouitc wr 3 born on May 27, IPRR in Ciii ego's
£ juth !~"de. He wris the oldest of eip-'-t children born to tv.'o
G-^rann ] ni nigra; ts, Fred Kleiii'n, who w" a p achooi teacher, rnd
AguatP ;>le;Dm, a houscv.lf e. He had four brothers; Frrriu, John,
Bill, .'Mid Ben, and three slstera, Tjllle, ■'M-XiP. , ynd '.ertie.
Ihere v.- s a boy, Charles, who w^s >;orn before ay grand pe,
but h*^ died in infancy. My grpndj^a had a simple gra lu'r
school education before roinv out and working at odd jobc.
He used to tell me of all the good times he had with his brothers
and fi'iends roaming around the "wide open spaces" of south
Chicago. He was a very good swimmer, being taught by his father
who would throw him in the water and pull him out if he started
to sink. My grandpa said that he learned very quickly with
this method. He also collected guns and books, he was an avid
reader, a trait which he carried with him for the rest of hie life,
In his twenties he worked In the coke ralils until he ir.arried
!Dy Krnridinother after which ho became sn arc welder for
Standard Oil.
Louise Agusta Doater was born on July 11, 1895. She
was the second child of four, having one older slBter, Amrlla,
a younger sister Elanor, and a younger brother William who was
killed in a motorcycle accident when he was 18. Her father,
John Doster, was a butcher who also came from Germany, and her
mother, Louise was from Buffalo, New York, She too was born
and raised on the south side of Chicago with a basic education,
after which she worked in a clothins store until she married
my grandpa on September 7 191 6, They were married in St.
Stevens Lutheran Churgh, nfter which they lived the rest of
their life in south Chicago, raising 10 children. I can't
really say that they settled, .because my grandpa always rented,
and he never stayed at one place for very long. My dad remembers
moving about ten times, sometimes just down the street or a
few bljcks away. I guess my grand ;-a would alv/aya find so:uething
wron--' .''bout the place that they were living, or he didn't like
the way the landlord looked at him, there was always some small
reason. They never owned their own house until 1 9''t-3 v.hen a
lot of children were already on tholr own, the yountrost being
six. 1 remember both of thern pretty well. Grandpa wns a stei'n
wllle:! person who wns never afraid to voice hip opin* ^n on
«nyth';'ig. My grandiaa nev^r said much, she .just wori'lcd nbout
V. r ll'i.-r thnt t'rn 11 ; ) ">th'»rs UHu^illy won y ntout., wl- r-t 'i-^r
• v^ry ^' ■ V.' s In f? )od health or h^d »nou^j;h to ct, th't'S ~ llie
tli^t, It" n^v-r to li. the 1 ^^ '- > i ' (v- roif?, th'-t w<" k tli** ii' n'o lob.
LpI* Ju.-t. t'Tciv-d u;- th.? icl'.lE and moved on v;hen pr?ndpi '.-/intod to,
ihey v.'-te both i^uthemns, lunt. Ilk* my oiora'a fol.<8, yt-ii the
l''ter y^nrs wh«n my (.'r-'tndp':' chnnped to Chr'iHtinn h^fni'ii. i^^ven
thiufh 1 hoy wer? poor, th'^y nlvz-'ys found a vrey to :E?i-:r? onds
meet, ii.y prandj-i was too i.rou'l to <»ver accipt rriy ki"d of charity
'i'hoy both possesed tlie s^me ic 3 nd of h'^rd vorUlnf, iurit?;n 'ithlc
beliefs that my iLother's poi'^ntn had, ths only difference being
thPt tii-^y lived In a different type of env Ironrr'^nt.
My nth"r, Ann'' i\ fri'^d^ ;>.r(."'. rrst Ki-^nui, wn ;i bor;! on
D-icex.b' r 2, 1 ')20 on a omii T" rm 1 ocn f^d E-;uthwnct oT ..t.
Fr-Tricl^, M city in noiLhweo t;;rn ..'Hijna. ._>h» Vr-n 'n o Ld ^r
sis'ter .-.ir'tha, who J a mirriei to 'Uje; iiwoi "^'b I'dt at.d h^is twj
chlidr^M, r\uth and GiTin and four k.irf'ndnhlidr'*n, our.-^ti find
J )hn, huth's children, and Chnrlse 9nd K»na, Glenn's children.
.^TthJ3 lives on n farm Just northw'^fst of bt. Francis. bhe alao
hp E an older brothei-, Henry, whoS'S.wlfs'g name is Delores, and
th»lr dnuphter, Relda. They lire on the farm where my mother
grew up on. She has a younger aieter Vanleda, whose husband's
name Is i'aul Eichatadt, with two boys, Jim and i^ent. They live
in v^oolsey. South Dakota on a cattle ranch. Her youngest sister,
irna, is naarrled to a man named Dean Blume, with a daughter
i-.lnda and a son Roger. She also has two grandchildren, Richard
and Jeffrey, Linda's children. They live In Goodland, Kansas,
about 25 iiiilea south of St. Francis, My mom was raised on a
farm by two German Immlgranta. She knew how to speak German
before she knew English, which she learned when she went to
school. Her family was never very rich, but they never went
hungry either. There were plenty responsibilities with living
on a farm. She had to take care of the garden, milk ■cows, feed
chickens, gather eggs, keep the house clean, and all the other
chores that's generally regarded as women's work. The most
was expected from her brother, Henry, who had to help his
father out in the fields most of the time, what with him being
the only boy and them not being able to afford hired help.
But life wasn't Just hard work. The pace of life In the western
plains w':4s slow and unhurried, and having three sisters meant
there was always someone to play baseball, tag, hide-aad-seek
and other games with. Kolidays IIk© Christmas and Saster were
good times to get together friends and relatives, my mom's
grandfather Wilkening and her distant cousins who were alao
WllkeningB. Sunday dinners were alao good times to feast, eating
some of their chickens or beef that they raised. Occaslonaly
they would have a pig butchered and have a pig roast. Their
grandpa Wilkening would c ^me over for dinner regularly except
when it was too cold or wheHala«iwas 111. Then my mom or one
of her sisters v;ould bring it to him. A lot of my mother's
social life centered around the church, Zion Lutheran Church
in such ways as church mission festivals, pot luck suppers,
church choir, and such things as baptisims and confirmations.
She was confirmed in German at the age of fourteen. In the
20' 8, before the depression, the crops were pretty good, but
the depression combined with the numerous dust storms made the
land l^ok pretty wasted for awhile. My mora went to a one room
school house for her eight years of elementary school. There
was a high school in town, but her father felt that any more
school was merely a waste of time, especially for a girl. She
stayed and worked on th^.- f arm for a few years before she went
to work in St. Francis in a candy store and as a housekeeper,
living with the people she kept house for and coming home for
the weekends. At the age of 19 she moved to Denver Colorado
t)ecT;s''; th'^r'S w" s r^-i 1 1 v iiotlil'i/r for h«r on tho fnrm, Tutur* wlea.
3L"=» t d "• t.h'» Job of '^. a-' Id n r. l\:^- hiua™ of 'i vl c*- ; r'^r ' -"Innt of
p ms h «loctrlc co;j:''ny, Ilvinp t^-^re nnd beln? '^ aorl of
rov^rn^'s t.T his ch"Iir»?n. oh* t •)ok p--rt In Y'.vCA 3ct!v'jti'?s
and shn tool: a f'?w trlfs to th'? I-.ocky 'nountilnn th t wre ro
no-^r. -lie alao roxuin'^d nntlv? in the church, Grnce ^uthvmn,
wh'^re sii-^ met my dnd one nl^-ht wl en she wis helpln^-r to nerve
n me-^i f^r servicemen who wer-e at^'tloned in Denvor.
K /. ort Danl'^1 \ie-;i:n, ray f-ii', r, wxc born on ijny 21, 1921
In Chlc--ro. He has -in older alst-^r Louieo, w'"0 iz mi-ri'lel to
Fred oonnidt aid has five 8 ma, /redrlcli, Carl, nlchr.rd, iiolc.nd,
nnd Joh.ri, ^'nd on" d^UMhter, i.ou'ioe. They live In Kln:)t, orth
Da cotn, on a farm. i'e has an older broth'^r, V/illlam, who 'sn't
mnrrled and lives In Fort '.vayne, Indiana and Is -^ prof-^aaor of
che'ii5stiy at Indiana Institute of Technology. ue has :\ y vanger
brother M.-^rtln who lives In Lansing, Illinois with his wife
Judy aiv.i his four children, Iton'ile, Ghrlstene, Maxine, an-1 Javld.
r.e drlv ^s a bread truck for Tip Top bakories. He has -another
sister i^^rie, who Ic lairrieil to Torj V.'ataon with four d.-!U'fhters,
Taiamy, Jail, Debbie, aad Diane. Diane is mar- led with a daughter
naned VlcKy. y\nother sister is huth, who is married to a man
namad ; ^b Taliaferro and lives in H.? mlbal, Kiss-)\]rl w'.t'u four
children. Mary, Elizabeth, v;ho is married with a dau>;-htor, Jean,
D'-nny, ^'nd Carrie. Another brother is Fredrick w'lo I'ives in
Calunot City, lllinoio with his wife Marlene and his tliree
d'iU'hl-:'3 ijusrin, JU'ly 'ind liliii. ii'S woTiia TS a toDi '■: r. I Ho ri'^iior.
/liotn'^'i' br )ther Amoi-.l, ilv^n in rulcif^D with '.Itj v/if'? ^ v^.n
KrA th'^ '. r two sons, ^r-ioLci -^tid rnrl. ^rn:)!''! wti'iio ac a c:ii^;.iical
te?hnl;!nn. iilother 1;: anol h»r rlEt^r who who llvea 'n '^ .-^ I '^ ] <Th ,
iorth ('-^roiln? with '^vr huGbnni, j -'ul Holi^t-ricin nr.d L'-ilr throe
childr-"^-;, i'f.ul, i^lciil'^ ntid ::rlc. My d-^d's youn(-''^3t 'Ir-t >r's
n'?:Ti5 Is Fnula who livon w5 th l^-^r husb-'^nd, Georp'o i''rr>-.M In ..earuy,
Nebras 'i with hT six cihliir'^n, j»3or({e, David, i-ron, 'uli'?,
Linda a id iirbra. All those children k-^r^t ay dnd'a u.o -i busy
t.:!Klnp care of kids and my dad ' a dad buiiy wor^lnr st L/'.andnrd
Oil feilinp 10 chlldran Inciudlricr hlr. wife and h::n;',';lf. Iney
didn't 'i3ve :nuch mMtf^rlai wo'iLth, but th'oy nnver rnlnr'ji tae
thlnp-s that they didti't Imve. I'y dod v;as aiwayn lnt:i ii-jslc,
he iiia'j'? a violin which wor^'.ed iretty v/ell for a while 'ind he
i-layed the tuba in the hlt-^h school band. liis Taniiy vr 3 , r-atty
church oriented, going to Bethlehem church and Bethl'MvTTi elementary
school. There were always a lot of cousins and rel.'^tl'^o" to
get tot.'' >t her with whenever there were baptisms, confirinations
and If ter on weddln^JS. My dnd'a gr8nd[:.a Klemm and his Aunt
H^rama would come over every Thuradny nit-^ht to visit with tho
fa;nlly . Vacations connisted of iity .erandpo. takin.^r nil tho older
children downtown to thie rauooum ■, nd i-.nke yilchlpnn, t'- clnf the
subv/ays because my prandpa never owned a car. After m;/ did.
£r?duat')d from Bowen High School, he went to wor-c at norae
rneiilal job at iitandord Oil where his fr.thor wori:ed, Goln'^ to
col Leg'"; was out of the question, becouse the money lust wasn't
tV.sro. oo while ray .i?td wae still living at home, he p-5ve hla
•jijLher half of his ijaychecR. When he was 20, the draft Pot hi, a
and he ..eiit into the army, woruing na a xedlc and a cook. He
was stationed at Little Rock, Ark'>nsas, MaComb, IllinolB, i^odesto,
California, and Denver, Colorado, where he met my m:)ther. They
Kopt in touch with each other after he was shipped overseas
to Snp-land and France, and they decided to get married after'
the war. They got married at Grsce Lutheran Church on February
2, 1946, afterward living In Whiting Indiana with my dad's Uncle
Franlw, My dad went back to work at Standard Oil first as an
electricians helper, then as an electrician and later as a
lineman. After working there a couple years, my dsd decided
to go back to echool. H© started college at Trl State College
in Angola, Indiana under the G. I. bill and managed to cram 4
years into 2|. During that time my older brother was born on
June 15, 1949. While my dad was finishing up school In the
summer of 1951. my mom went out to Kansas and had my sister,
Margaret on August 30, 1951. After she came back, they rented
a house in Cedarville, Illinois and my dad went to work at
Fairbanks M^rse in Freeport which was five miles away. During
this time my dad bought some land in Freeport and decided to
build a house there, which he helped to design and build.
They moved into the house in the fall of 1953. and next August,
the 27th, 1 was born. Two years later on June 23, 1956, my
younger brother Paul was born. We lived in Freeport for about
10 years, so us kids did a lot of growing up there. We attended
Redeemer Lutheran Church and went to Emmanuel Lutheran School.
Th'^re >■ ^r*^ a lot of A\<ia in tlii* n ^ 1 crhborliood, |l'"it.v I) -i'iy
bMfv*bpli, cDLs and rj'bi^va, "ud nii tho other /-;ood tirlt.^.-e fmt
,:laR £11 often i-iny. ^j jno of )ur rol'.! ':-i vo3 lived In i-Y- i; Tt,
no 3 v: It from them utia n pi'-stty bij.^ afff^lr. t*'-; wjuLl rJ out
to the ,irka and h^ve i-lcnics, or we v/ouid fro flshln/f jr n-.;ini clng;.
Those J>y8 seox so cnrofree, days were mide up of pl^-y'nr and
hnvlrir .^ood tiiii'=;B» evon school wasn't t'"^t bad of a ;.i'ico to
bG, h'~''r!'"^wor;<. wian't n^irly as bad -is; It can got to bo iOv/;iiaya.
F"lrbi! B ilorce :noved to iJoloit In 1963 uo rny d'.'d t^ot ■: .)ob at
Bsrbor Coleman and wo moved to Foc^sford. ':^n rented u bl£ house
on K^yi.olds atroet for ci ■)se to a year b'^fore m-; pa.r'.Mitr. boup-ht
the hjuae that we presently occu-y. '..'e v/ent to Jt. ."ul i^uthexan
Church 'ind School for the re.uainii::^'- years of grfitnm&r Hchool, and
nf terv.'-rds to West Hip;h bcho tl where all of ua ..ids t;r-.du'i ted
from oxuept I'aul who v/111 this year. After a few yenrs, Jarber
Coleuir'n started to lay off a lot of people, my dad being one
of the.n, so he 50 1 a lob at varner Brake and Clutch C:).7iLany,
designing brakes. My brother Dan had two years of school at
Rock Valley College and one year at Valparaiso University In
Valparaiso Indiana. Ho is now working at a health food store
in Berwln Illinois and he is getting married to a girl naaied
iieslie In a few weeks. My sister Margaret la in her fifth year
at University of Illinois majoring In the h=irp. I am in my second
year at Rock Valley majoring In Geo logy. My mother is getting
her high school diploma at Hall school at tho present time.
A few years ago my dad bought some land out at Lake Summerset
and he plans to build a house out there in the future, maybe
not until after he retires. In the more recent years it seems
that we don't see a whole lot of our relatives, all the cousins
are busy growing up and moving away ani getting married and
making their own families, but the rememberances of each other
when we were younger will remain.
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KOBISCHKA, BRIAN L 195i»-
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AMILY DATA
Grandfather (your father's side)
Name Fr»d Kcbischka (Kopischka) Current Residence Deceaaed
If dead, date of death June 29. 1962
Place of birth Oaaada Date of Birth JtiIy 12. 1896
Education (number of years):
grade school NA high school vocational college
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Road gaiag worker Dates 1919 1st Walworth, Wl«> Dates 1920
Factory work rTTamra-rrl w^ ■ "i
2nd Htuathelm &. Perria*^ ^5ates "^■•'1925 2nd Harvard, 111. Dates 1920
152T-29 "T55T:
3rd J.I. Case (factory) Dates 1933-36 3rd SLkhora, Wis. Dates 1923
i 1 -T^TT-
AthSbaloya (factory) Dates 1941- ? i<th Harvard, 111, Dates 1927
Re I i g i on M»th»di«t 5tht Rockford. Ill Datea 1962
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. U.A.W. member
Rtpublicaa ^
Place of Marriage to your grandmother woodatock. Ill ^^^^May 1. 192(7
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)
Grandmother (your father's side)
(Carey)
Name Myrtle Kobiachka (j;ftBl'Oo) Current Residence Deceaaed
If dead, date of death JNOVemoer dl , 1^73
Place of birth .gha^n Wiao»»ot^ Date of birth Sept. 25, 1903
Education (number of years):
grade school 7 high school 0 vocational 0 col lege 0
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Hoiiaewlfe Dates1920-1962 ut aame aa above. Dates
2nd Dates 2nd Dates
3rd Dates 3rd Dates_
'4th Dates '♦th Dates
Re 11 g i on Methodiat
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc. Republican,
BlJHd Center member
Place of marriage to your grandfather Wpodatock. 111. D^Y^ M.j U 19^0
'^°*^- i^anatHP.»Chl^^§a£l'8?'^tl^^§ ^^gi^^A-^)^ stepmother or another relative give
3.
andfather (your mother's side)
me Raymoad McCabe Current Residence Rockferd
dead, date of death
see of birth Harvajrd. Ill Date of birth May 8. 1904
ucation (number of years):
rade s choo I 8 high school " vocational college 0
:upatlon(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
1926- (after leaving home) 1924-
t at»«mfitt»r Dates ig^p 1st Harvard, Illo Dates 1926
1931- "T^^2E="
i truck driver Dates i93i6 2nd Chicago, 111. Dates 1936
— *^t6M* fflgcmianj jjjj^ — °-^ i^'ib-
i ba» t»B^g Dates 1955 3rd Mareago, 111. Dates 1944
sheet mot^ i§55- .1944-
1 cahiaet asay. man Dates 1969 ^th Chicago, 111. Dates 1972
n.ion c.th.lic 5th Roclcford, m, °»*"^J^
litical parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. Democrat
Staamfittara ualaa ~ Teaaatera local 705
see of marriage to your grandmother Chicago aate j||^y 3 1930
te: If your mother was raised by a siKpfacfier or another relative (to age 18)
give that data on the back of this page (C-1)
andmother (your mother's side)
ne Lilliaa McCabe (Streit) ^Current Residence Deceaaed
dead, date of death May 27, 1^^
ace of birth LaPex, 111. ^Date of birth Dec. 21, 1908
jca t i on ( n umber of years)
rade school 8 high school Q vocational 0 college 0
cupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
1928- (after leaving home) 1928-
t Houaemaid Dates 1930 Jst Rockford, 111. Dates 1930
toS= — -T52e=-
d Houaewife Dates I949 2nd Chicatgo, 111. Dates 193^
d Dates 3rd Marengo, 111. Dates 1944
=s2-£ -T92PF-
11 g i oncatholio 4th Chicago. 111. Datea1g49
1 itlcal party, clvt 1 or social clubs, sororities, etc. Democrat
ace of marriage to your grandfather GhjcagOt HI. date May 8, "Df^J'
te: If your mother was raised by a stepmotner or another relative (to age 18)
give that data on the back of this page (D-2)
:HlkDREN of A 6 B (or A- 1 or B-1) - your father's name should appear below
k.
lame Clifford Kobischka
»lace of birth ELkhora. Win."
lumber of years of schooling
5es I dence ROCkford
lumber of chi Idren
date March 10, 1921
Occupatibhaaaitatloa aiatrict employee
"2"
Marital Status marriecT
lame gr<d Koblachka
'lace of birth Harvard, l-LL
lumber of years of schooling
;es i dence Doceaged
lumber of chi Idren i
date March 24. 1923
Occupatibn.
Marital Status married whea killed"
ame Bdwla Koblachka
lace of birth iiarvard, iTT
umber of years of school Ing
es I dence Eockf ord
umber of chi Idren
ZZZZZZ date July , 1925
Occupation lagpoctor, photographer
Marital Status marriea •
1
ame Arletto Moore
lace of birth iiarvard. 111.
umber of years of school ing_
es i dence Rockford
umber of chi Idren
date Sept. 3. 1927
5'ccupatl 6h machimlat
Marital Status marTTSTI
ame Deaald Koblachka (father)
lace of birth Rockford, 111
umber of years of schooling
esi dence Rockford
umber of chi Idren
ame Mary liou Klelndl
lace of birth Rockford
umber of years of school ing
es i dence North Park, III"
umber of chi Idren ^
date Dec. 25. 1929
Occupatlbnmacniafcat
Marital Status marriecf
~Jate July 1, 1931
"Cc c u pation maohlae attead^at
Marital Status married
ame G-erald Koblachka
lace of bi rth Rockford
date June 7, 1933
Occupat i ort InapeQ tor
umber of years of schooling
esidence Chlllcothe, 111. Marital Status marrfe^'
umber of chi Idren ?
ame
lace of bi rth
lumber of years of school ing
Residence
lumber of chi Idren
lace of bi rth
umber of years of school ing
esidence
lumber of chi Idren
date
"15"ccupatl6h
Marital Status
date
Marital Status
Occupat I oh
lame
iace of bi rth
lumber of years of schooling
^es i dence
lumber of UlUUren
date
Occupation
"arltal Status
LDREN of C and D (or f.- 1 , D-l)-your mother's rijnm should appear below
cago, JLUL.
I)fr of y.ir s of schoo I i ruj J^
Ijcr of ch I 1 dren 4
-• Lllllfca Kobiachka (mothar)
cc of birth Chicago, 111
aer of years of schooling Y\
dence H»Ckf«rd, 111
Der of ch i Idren
- Raymoad McCabe Jr. r^ii^.^y^
;e o fb I r t h Mareago . Ill " "
)er of years of school inq 7/
years ot schoo ling //
' dence Byroa. 111.
)er of ch i 1 dren 1
'■ Joki^ McGaba
:e of birth Mareag». Ill,
)er of years of schooling
dence
IL
)er of ch I 1 dren
il.iti"
Jxute 2, lQ-^1
_ Occupation machlalgt
_^ date AVLf^, 12, iqi"^
Occupation maohlae atteaciaiit
MaFTtTT Status m^r-T-imd
date j^j 12, iq'?8
.^_^__^^0ccupation_ij43jj^,Hj^jyj_
Marital Status dlvroad
dat(
Occupation
Jam. 2, 1943
Marl tal Status maiTled
;e of birth
•er of years of school ing
dence
er of ch i 1 dren
e of bi rth
er of years of schooling
dence
er of chi Tdren
e of bi rth
er of years of school ing
dence
er of chi Idren
e of bi rth ~
er of years of school ing
dence
er of chi Idren
e of bi rth
er of years ol' school ing
dence
er of chi Idren
date
"Occupation
Marital Status
date
Occupation
Marital Status
date
Occupat I On
Marital Status
date
Occupation
Mari tal Status
date
Occupation
Marital Status
e of bi rth
er of years of school ing
dence
'^f of chi Idren
date
Occupation"
Marital Status
r Father
; palled Kobiachka Current Residence Roekfny>^
jead, date of death '
:e °^ ^''/^^^ T?nOJff«rfl, ^O^te of birth D»c. 2S. 1Q?Q
;atIon (number of years)
ide school 9 high school Q vocational Q ^college q_
ipation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
paparboy Dates 19^0-1942 1st Sharoa. Wl«. DatesioA-^-iQ^^
plmafttter Dates 1942-1943 2nd RookfTd. 111. DAtesiQ44_p^^,^
factory helper Dates t945-t946 3rd ^Dates
aachialet Dates 1946-prea. ^th ^Dates
'9'°" Miithadlat
itical parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. Demecra'fc hut vi^-hixy f*-r
maa aot party—- Boy'g (Hub — — -.- - ■■■■.■"*■ "~"^
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'.'. If you were raised by a stepfather dr another relative give that data on thcf' back
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■ Mother
_______^_________ Current Res I dence Rockf ord
'■ TimifcTi Kah-jantilca
lead, date of death
:« °f '^i'-'^\glii(;agfl, in. 03t« °f ^^'^^ Ang, 1?, 19?? —
;atlon (number of years)
>de school ^\^ high school g vocational p college q
ipation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
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PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER
Ifyrtle Eobischka (Carey) 9-25-1903 — 11-21-73
Myrtle Kobischka was bom on a dairy farm just eutslde
of Sharon, Wisconsin. Her parents were Bert Carey and Ida
Foot. The farm that she lived on had been homesteaded by her
grandparents and then passed down the family. Myrtle was the
oldest of four girls in the family. Her sisters are Birdena
Streit, Jennie Nelson and Alta Messenger.
As a child my grandmother went to a small country school
in Shoron, Wis. While she was still yoving (9) her father pass-
ed away. After this happened her family stayed on the farm
for only one more year. All of the fanning was done by manual
labor 80 without a man and slmce the girls were so yoxong it
was hard to keep the farm up. In 1913 the family moved to a
tenant house in Sharon while waiting for their own ho\ise to
be built in Walworth V/ia. It was less than a year before the
family was able to move into their new house.
While living in Walworth my grandmother continued her
schooling. Since school was not mandatory and my grandmother
hated school, she dropped out after the seventh grade. Myrtle
helped around the house but never had to get a job. In 1918
Myrtle's mother remarried to Pearl LaBrec, making life a little
iLLcer with a man around.
The family dviring Myrtle's years at home could probably
be considered low-middle class. Their income was sufficient
to supply most of the essentials but rarely were 'extras' aeon.
Being raised on a dairy farm Myrtle and her sisters had acquired
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a taste for butter and it was readily available. However when
thej moved off of the farm and into town it became too expen-
sive to use butter so they had to switch to 'Oleo* despite
their dislike for it.
As far as religion goes, the family was raised as Meth-
odists and occasionally attended a Methodist chvirch in Delevan
Wis. However it was hard to get to church becatose of the dis-
tance and the lack of transportatien. ChTirch attendance was
Bade easier when the family pvirchased their first car, a- 1919
Overland.
My grandmother's family was strongly Republican because
they were a farming family. Their Republican support was also
bolstered becaxise Myrtle's grandfather had been a Republican
county official,
PATERNAL GRAliDgATHBR
Pred Kobischka (Kopischka) 7-12-1896 — 6-29-1962
Very little information was available on my grandfather
before he was married. Fred was born in Toronto, Onterio Can-
ada, and sometime while in his youth his family moved to a
farm in Lake City, Michigan. His last name was actually Kop-
ischka however sometime before he got married he changed it
to Kobischka. Apparently this was never done legally because
I feund a document indicating the sale of land that he owned
in Mich, signed Kopischka dated 1938. Maybe he decided to
change it when he left Mich, and had te resort back to it for
official doc\iments in Michigan, The land he owned was 60 acres
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of timbered land with no buildings on it. Somehow about 1919
Fred became employed as a road constructionist with a road
gang near Walworth, Wisconsin. This is when and where my grand—
perents met.
MY PATERNAL GRAMI>PARENTS LIFE TOGETHER
After a ahort coixrtship my graadparents were married
in Woodstock, 111. on May 1, 1920, For a short time they lived
with my grandmother's parents. Before long though, they had
their owa appartment in Harvard, 111. The burden of paying
rent bocame too much. My grandmothers parents had since moved
to a farm in Elkhorn, Wis. My grandparents then moved to this
farm to reduce their expenses. It was on the farm in 1921 that
they had their first child, Clifford.
While living on this farm prohibition was in effect.
Consequently a still was set up in the back room to satisfy
their thirsts. Tko final product was called 'rasian maah' and
a pot of raisaas were often let to ferment behind their old
pot bellied stove. The women of the household were always skep-
tical of visitors for they were afraid of being caught. This
'raisan mash' was used for only household consvimption and was
never sold.
My grandparents decided to try and make it on their own
so they left the farm and moved to Lake City, Mich, This didn't
last long and money had to be sent just to get them back to
the farm. Again after a short time theVwent on their own. This
time they didn't go so far away as they rented a small house
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in Harvard, 111. Here my grandfather was able to get a job as
a molder ia a farm equipment manufacturer, Hunthelm and Ferris,
While living in Harvard the family vias enlarged with the add-
ition of three children — Fred Jr., Edwin and Arlene,
In late 1927 my grandparents and family moved to Rock-
ford, 111. for work. My grandfather found a Job at J. I, Case,
another fa^m equipment manufacturing company. In late 1929
many people were laid off from Case Go. and my grandfather was
one of them. Here ia where big pjroblems start for the family.
Tkre9 mor* children were bom, Donald (Father), Mary Lou suad
Gerald all within the drought of the depression and with n^ne
working. However in late 1933 my grandfAther was rehired by
J.I. Case Co,
The family sitviation grew worse in 1936 when my grand-
mother went blind. She spent nine months in the hospital, three
inChicago and lilz!.in Reckford, While my grandmother was in the
hospital, her children often stayed with my grandmothers sis-
ter and her husband - Chuck and Birdena Strelt. It Just so
happens that Chuck Strei* is my mother's mother's brother (my
maternal grandmother's brother). Strangely enough my mother
lived with the Chuck Streit family the same time that my father
did but they were both too yoting to remember.
Here I must explain a fact about my grandfather. During
his life he had become an alcoholic. As in most cases it is the
family that suffers most. Most times the family wasn't tog-
ether and the family, especially the children experienced
great hardships.
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Another tragedy struck the family on May 23» 1944. My
grandparent ' s secoad oldest son, Fred Jr. was killed in action
on Anzio Beach, Italy during WW II, After his death his pic-
ture was placed all ever the factory of his civilian employ-
ment (Bbaleya) with the caption saying »He gave his life,
What have you done for your country?* Fred Sr. had also been
working at Bbaloys of Rockford which produced airplane parts
for the war effort. A copy of a letter will appear later in
which Pred Jr. while in the service writes to Fred Sr. and
refers to Ebaloys.
Despite all •f the hardships, things look much brighter
if we advance in time a few years. After 16 years of seperatien
my grandparents began living together again and did so until
my grandfather passed away in 1962.
As far as the children go (my aunts auid uncles) mot
enoTigh good can be said. Every one of them has broken out of
the low living standards that wore so prevalent in their youth.
All of them have become productive people and all have great
families.
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MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER
Lillian McCabe (^WH" 12-21-1908 — 5-27-1949
Ify grandmother was born on a farm in La Foz, 111., one
of ten children in the family. Her parents were John Streit
and AjEuift Hilger, la La Pox she completed the fifth grade at
the nearest coxintry school. When she was about twelve her
family moved to Harvard, 111. Here she continued her educa-
tion through the eighth grade • It was in school that she met
her future husband, however it wasn't until she was 21 that
she got married.
In 1928 my grandmother left home and came to Rockford
as a live-in housemaid. After working as a housemaid for the
Judge W.D, Knight family for two years she went te Chicago and
married my grandfather.
MATERNAL GRANDFATHER
Raymond McCabe 5-8-1904 —
My maternal grandfather was born on a farm in Harvard,
HI* His parents were John McCabe and Margaret Brickley* As
a youngster my grandfather enjoyed hunting and fishing on his
parent's farm. Raymond's education consisted of grades one to
five in a country school and six to eight in a Harvard parochial
school.
A disaster hit his family when the farm house was des-
troyed by fire and also killing his oldest brother and his
a\int. The house was rebuilt and the family remained on the
farm until 1924. At this time the family pulled up stakes and
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headed for Chicago. iViy grandfather however decided te artay
with his uncle en a nearby farm. In 1926 he finally moved to
Chicago to experience 'city* life. He fovmd a job as a steam-
fitting apprentice. After a short apprenticeship he became a
qioalified steamfitter. Then on May 8, 1930 my grandparents were
married in Chicago.
m MATERIAL GRAMDPARBNTS LIFE TOGETHER
A short time after my grandparent's marriage my grand-
father lost his job as a steamfitter. During the next few
years (until 1937) my grandfather held a few odd jobs includ-
ing truck driving and bartending. My grandparents had their
first two children while living in Chicago, Mary and Lillian-
(my mother).
Both of my grandparents became strong while living in
Chicago and they both supported F.D.R. Occasionally a large
picttire of the President could be seen hanging in their house.
In 1937 the family moved to Marengo, 111. in search of
work. My grandfather got a job as an auto mechanic and stayed
in the profession for eighteen years. In Marengo the family
added two more members, Rajrmond Jr, and John.
Back to Chicago the family went in late 1944. As with
my paternal grandfather, my maternal grandfather was an al-
coholic. The story is the same with the family being the vic-
tim. Alcoholism among other things caused my grandparents to
s operate*
■ In 1947 my grandmother started having trouble with her
health. Finally in Hay of 1949 she died of cancer leaving the
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children without a home. For a while my mother lived with
my grandfather but before long she was with her brothers and
sister living in Rockford With their aunt and uncle. Chuck
and Birdena Streit, These people should be given much credit
for their family loyalty and their large hearts. There was
never an end to the love given to all the people that lived
in their house.
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MOIHBR
Lillian Kobischka (McCabe) 8-12-1933 —
My mother was born in Chicago diiring the Chicago World's
Pair of 1933» Before the age of fottr my mother went with her
family to Maxengo, 111. While in Marengo my mother went thr-
ough the fovirth grade.
In 1944 her family was off again, moving back to Chicago,
Here my mother graduated from the eighth grade at Our Lady Of
Tke AngeJjB parochial school. She went on to Austin Public Hig^
School and finished her jiinior year.
Ify mother recalled to me her vivitd rememberance of the
headliaes declaring the end of WWII. Duriag the war my mother
did the grocery shopping for her family and occasionally for
neighboring families. Becatise of this she remembeDrs rationing
stamps very well. Each item rationed had a different color
and a variable denomination coupon in tho stamp book.
My mother was raised as a Catholic and went to church
every Sunday with her school class from Our Lady Of The Angela
School.
The holidays while my mother lived in Marengo usually
meant a gathering at her Grandma Streit's farm in Harvard.
However when my mother moved back to Chicago the holidays
passed v/ithout much celebration and without her father.
At the age of seven, my mother started working as a baby-
sitter. As she got older she got other odd jobs including
scrubbing the floors in a candy store. Finally she was old
enough to work in a grocery store and was given many respon-
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sibilities. Ske often ran the store alone, closed it at aight
and delivered the days earnings to the store owner. In 1949
she quit school so she covG.d work full time as a waitress to
help pay the families bills. All of the money my mother ever
earned was supposed to be t\irned over to her parents to help
pay the bills. However, she usually kept up to S2 for her own
personal use on the sly.
My mother can never remember having any new clothes.
They were always hand me downs from any soixrce available. She
also recalls scavaging in the alleys of Chicago for shoes. The
appartment ipy mother's family rented had two bedrooms. One was
for her mother and father, the other for my mother, her sister
and her yo\ingest brother. The other brother had to sleep on the
couch in the small front room.
Shortly after my grandmother died in 1949 my mother came
to Rockford to stand up in her sisters wedding. After coming
for the wedding she never returned to Chicago. She had 'nothing
of value to go back toi*
My mother got a job as a ld\borer on an assembly line in
a local factory for the huge 8\im of 320 per hour. In the next
few years she had several jobs from factory work to a drug
store clerk.
On her birthday in 1950 she became engaged to my father.
They had met thr««gh my mother's sister. It took only three
months before they were married. It must have been a happy
experience because my mother said *I never lived until I got
married ... I had nothing to leave.'
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FATHER
Donald Kobisclika 12- 25-29 —
My father was born .'n Chris t;aas day in 1929, much to
the dismoy of my grandmother;^. She always said that he Iwtd^waited
a few hours so as not to spoil her Chris tiaas dinner.
As a youngster, he made many moves. In good times he
could live with his parents. Vivien things weren't so good he
lived with anyone that had room.
He went through the sixth grade in Rockford schools.
During the seventh grade he lived on a farm in Sharon, Wisconsin
amd went to school there. Back to Rockford he came for eighth
and ninth grade. Because of his many moves he attended many
different schools in Rockford.
My father began peddling papers (The Green Flash) on
the corner of Court Street and State Street when he was eleven
years old. At thirteeji he found a better job setting up pins
in the now nonexistant Meyers bowling alley. Finally at fiftten
he started as a factory laborer parttime while st^ll in school.
Then in 1946, my father qtxt school and started at Greenlee
Bros. Go» He has been a machinist there ever siace, except
for leave of absence for the service.
My father was raised as a Methodist and as a youth attended
Grace Methodist Church every Sunday. Other activities included
attending the Boy's Club, swiimaing at city pools and going to
the movies. Admission to the movies was eleven cents and the
movies were in serial form with one episode each week.
In 1950 my father married my mother and five months later
he was drafted. During my fathers term of service he spent
eightteen months in Korea during the war. While in Korea his
outfit had two assignments. The first was to guard the Han river
bridgejust outside of Seoixl, The other assignment was to guard
an air strip just North East of Seoul. In March of 1953 my
father was seperated from the army and in October of 1956 he
was discharged from tlie reserves.
It wasn't long after my father's seperation that my parents
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started working on a family. It didn't talce long, because
by 1957" there were three of us- my sister Brenda, my brother
Bruce and myself.
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Sgt. Kobischka
Rites Saturday
Was, War Casualty on
Anzio Beachhead
R«buEial services lor Sgt. Fred
T. Kobischka, 21, killed In action
May 23, 1944, at Anzio, Italy, will be
h^d at 2 p. ' m, Saturday in ttie
Sharon oemeterjf, at Sharon, Wis.
The American IiCgion vrtll conduct
mU'itary rites. ^
Sergeant Kobischka, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred K. Kobischka, was.
bom March 24, 1923, in Harvard,
• but had spent most of his life in
Bodtford where he had been em-
ployed at Bbaloy Foundries. Hla
ihbtbier resides at 212 South Inde-
peiidencfr aVenne.
Entering service on Aug. 9, 1943,
he received 17 weeks basic training
at Fort McClellah, Ala., prior to go-
tog overseas in January, 1944. An
Infantryman, . Sergeant Kobischka
bad been stationed on the Anzio
beachhead. His outfit took^ part In
'^e drive on dstema and the cap-
ture of that city after which he was
rep(»i«d missing in action and later
. reported Mlled.
Besides the pare'nts, surviving are
ills widow, the former Janet Peters;
' a daughter, Patricia Ann, both of
. Kansas City, Mo.; two sisters, Mrs.
Robert Moore and Mary Lou Kob-
ischka, both of 416 North 1st street,
and four brothers, Clifford, Donald,
<^^ld and Edwin, all of Rockford.
Arrangements were completed by
the "W. S. Salisbury funeral home at
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ash in hand paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, and o^f^he covenants and agreements hereinafter contained
n part of lessee to be paid, kept and performed, has granted, demised, leased and let and by these presents does grant, de-
lise, lease and let unto the said lessee for the sole and only purpose of mining and operating for oil and gas and of laying of
ipe lines, and of building tanks, powers, stations and structures thereoj> to produce, save and take .care of ^id, products,
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years from this date, and as long
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t is'agreed that this lease shall remain in force for a term of ^
liereafter as oil or gas or either of them is produced from said Umd by lessee.
In consideration of the premises the said lessee covenants and ag^rees:
lat. To deliver to the credit of lessor, free of cost, In the pipe line to which lessee may connect wells on said land, the eoual
Dt-elKhth Dart of all oil produced and saved from the leased premises.
2nd. To pay lessor one-eighth (%) of the gross proceeds each year, payable Quarterly, for the g-as from each well where sas
nly Is found, while the same Is belne used off the premises, and \l used In the manufacture of gasoline a royalty of one-eighth
H), payable monthly at the prevailing market rate for gas; and lessor to have eras free of cost from any such well for all stoves
nd all Inside lights In the principal dwelling on said land during the same time, by making lessor's own connections with the well '
' lessor's own risk and expense.
trd. Tq pay lessor for gas produced from any oil well and used oft the premises or In the manafaoture of gasoline or any other
roduAt a royalty of one-eighth (H) of the proceeds, at the mouth of thejr^l. payable monthlv'lit tly^prevalllng market rate.
If no well be commenced on said land on or before the .... ^ts /. . . .Tr.. day of . ,f,\\Tr^z2^'. Xff^.i
Ills lease shall terminate as^o both sorties, unless the lessee shall on op^etore th^ date jftv or Jt«nder to the lessor of to' tli*
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KRAMER, KENNETH DEE, 1954-
SE USE INK; PLEASE PLACE THESE SHEETS AT THE FRONT OF THE SECOND COPY OF YOUR
FAMILY HISTORY
Contributor to the Hock Valley College Family History Collection:
So that your family history can be made more useful to historians and others studying
i can families, we are asking you to fill out the forms below. This will take you only a
mintues, and will be easily made over into an Index which will permit archive users ready
ss to just those kinds of family histories needed.
SURVEY **A5'c;V>V5VAAAAAA;'.-AAycAAAAy:;VAJrA;V
^' OFFICE USE CODE
1. Your name Kenneth Pi Kr-^mf^r- .Tr., *
Date of form ., , * {\D H )
May 2. 1Q74 ...
2. Your college: Rock Valley (.0 11 ecje ■■• (ID // )
Rockford, ininoi's -■
3. Check the earliest date for which you have been able to say things about your family in
your paper.
^Before 1750 1750-1800 I8OO-I85O
X 1850-1900 1900 or later
k. Please check al 1 regions of the United States in which members of your family whom you
have discussed in your paper have lived.
^Mew England (Mass., Conn., R.I.) Middle Atlantic (N.Y. , Penna., N.J., Ma.)
^South Atlantic (Ga. , Fla., N.C., S.C.) _x_East South Central(La. , Miss. , Ala. ,Tenn , K>fc
West South Central (Ark., N.M. , Tex., Ok.) x East North Central (Mich., Ohio, Ind.)
^Pacific (Cal., WashJ (Hawaii, Alaska)
5. Please check all occupat ional categories in which members of your family whom you have
discussed in this paper have found themselves.
X Farming x Mining ^ Shopkeeping or small business
^Transportation ^B i g Business ^Manufacturing
X Professions x Industrial labor Other
6. Please check a 1 1 religious groups to which members of your family whom you have discussed
in this paper have belonged.
^Roman Catholic ^Jewish ^Presbyterian ^Methodist
X Baptist Epi scopal ian Congregat i onal Lutheran
^^uaker ^Mormon x Other Protestant ~ Other
The United Church Of~ShTist
7. What ethnic and social groups are discussed in your paper?
^Blacks Indians Mexicans Puerto Ricans
^Jews y Central Europeans Italians Slavs
Irish ^British x Native Americans over several generations
East Asian Other
8. What sources did you use in compiling your family history?
y Interviews with other Family Bibles x Family Genealogies
f ami ly members
Vital Records Land Records The U.S. Census
Photographs ^Maps Other
FAMILY DATA
\. Grandfather (your father's side)
Name Raymond William Kramer Current Residence 317 South iValnut
If dead, date of death Still Living Gentralia, 111.
Place of birth Washington Co. 111. Date of Birth July 23. 1902
Education (number of years):
grade school 3 high school vocational college
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Deupty Sherriff Dates 1916 1st All in Gentralia, 111 Dates
2nd Cowboy And Miner Datesi9-i8--]920's 2nd except for a few ^Dates
3rd WPA Dates 19^0's 3rd years cowboying in Dates
^th Gentralia Street and Dates Late 1940's ktU Montana and Texas Dates
Alley Dept Until. his -.petiri-
„ , . . -^ ^ raent m I9a5
Re 1 I g I on United Church Of Christ
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. Democrate, and Loyal Order
Of The Moose
To Irene Pieffer, In her home ; To ^arah Blair, Hot Known
Place of Marriage to your grandmother ^ ,_ ., , , I Zi . date o ^oZio
y ' ^ Tn PipffPT-, Nnf. known Tp. Blai re March «,19^0
arouna lyciy
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)
3. Grandmother (your father's side)
Name Irene Pieffer Current Residence Deceased ^^^____
If dead, date of death March 193^
Place of birth Not known Date of birth Not Known
Education (number of years):
grade school 8 high school k vocational college ]_
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Teacher (Grade school) Dates 1928-30 1st Gentralia, 111. Datesi928-3^
2nd Dates 2nd Dates
Dates
2nd
Dates
3rd
Dates
i.th
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
4th Dates ^ith Dates
Re 1 i g i on Batist
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandfather InHer horpe, . , Dkft ^^^^
'^°'^= il^anatHfl'Eh^^BatrSt^tl'll? pigi^^A-^)! s^^P-^other or another relative give
A- 1 Stepgrandfather (your father's side)
N.inic
I f dead, dale of death
Current Residence
Place of bi rth
Date of Bi rth
Education (number of years)
grade school high school
vocational
col lege
Occupat ion(s)
1st
2nd
3rd
'♦th
Dates
Dates
Dates_
Dates
lst_
2nd
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
3rd_
i»th
Dates
Dates
Dates
Re 1 i g i on
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandmother
^SSU
A-2 Stepgrandmother (your father's side)
Name Sssel Noma (Sahra) Blair
I f dead, date of death
Place of birth T.nnn.c.vn 1 1,.. 111.
r * D -J -« 317 South Walnut
Current Residence_
Centralia, II.
_Date of bi rth August 28, 1911
vocational
col lege
Education (number of years):
grade school 8 high school
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Worked in Shoe Factory Dates Dates 1st Centralia, 111. ^Date;
2nd before marring Grandpa Dates are not 2nd Ever since -ahe left ^Dates_
3rd After that just a housewifePates Knovm 3rd home to Marry Grandpa Dates
Religion The United Churnh Of Christ
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc. Dem. Party. Loyal Oreier of
Mo(
Place of marriage to your grandfather Louisville, 111.
Date March 8, ig'^O
i
andfather (your mother's side)
ime Thn^p.. fer1 Lewis ^Current Residence (D^c^^^^d)
ne Thnrnp.c. ferl Lewis
dead, date of death April 17, 1960
ace of bi rth v>,,ia.c;kT , jn - Date of birth September 1, l897
lucation (number of years):
irade school 8 high school vocational college
cupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
t Woked in country story Dates ^^y 1900'S|g^. ^Dates
,d Pnudental Insurance Dates ^930's-'f1 2nd ^entralia, 111. Dates ^^30-^1
•d Mc tiuay Norris Munitions Dates i9it1-'+3 3rd St. Louis, Mo. Dates 19^+1-^3
— PTSOT -^ — ^ — :
h War Plant. Oakridge Tenn. Dates 19^3-^3 ^th Oak Ridge, Tenn. Dates ^9^3-^5
Sth Shoe Salesman 19^5-60 Centralia, 111. •Tm=^
: r i g i on United Church Of Christ
ilitical parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
ace of marriage to your grandmother Looeootee 111 ^^^^ Nov. 31. 1922
• te: If your mother was raised by a SCepTTOIBr ^P anuinsP r«latlve (ro age 18)
give that data on the back of this page (C-1)
andmother (your mother's side)
'me znip Map Harm- 1 ton Lewis ^Current Residence (deceased)
dead, date of death ano-. ?1 ^onc\
ace of birth K-irmminHv, m. ^Date of birth March h, 1901
lucation (number of years)
irade school B high school i+ vocational college 1
;cupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
■t School Teacher Datesi921-22 1st Centralia, 111. Dates 192^-^1
>d Housewife U ^Dates 2nd ^t. Louis, Mo. Dates ''9^1-^3
■d ^Dates 3rd OakRidge . Tenn. Dates iQi^^-itS
iligion United Church Of Christ '^th Centralia and Addieville,Ill. until her
)litical party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc. ^^
lace of marriage to your grandfather uoogootee, m. date ^"^QV' ^'i ''^^^
)te: If your mother was raised by a stepmother or another relative (to age 18)
give that data on the back of this page (D-2)
S tepgrandf ather (your mother's side)
Name John H. Jasper
I f dead, date of death December 27, 1962
Current Residence (Deceased)
I'l.K,'- <)l lj i rl li Not Known
I dm. it ion (tiDinlx' r of y<'i r ■, )
cjr.nlc '.(fiooi liicjh schocil
Occupat ion (s)
1st Ran a grocery store last Dates
years or nis me.
2nd This is all that is Knosn Dates
3rd
4th
Ions.
D.iU- of hi I Ih
vocot ional
col loye
1st
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Dates
2nd
Centralia,
111.
Dates
Dates
3rd
Dates
Dates
l^th
Dates
Re 1 i g i on
Pol i t i ca) parties , civil or social ^clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandmother Edwards vi lie ill
dateWov. d^ '1961
Father
D-2 5tepgrandS&**i6>f- (your mother's side)
Name Albert Dolliet
If dead, date of death ^"fe* 21, 1970
Current Residence (deceased)
Place of birt h Hot known
Education (number of years)
grade school high school
Killed -vith my ^-randmoth r in car accident
Date of bi rth
vocat ional
col lege
1st
Occupat ion (s)
1st For the short time we knew hir®ates
2nd he was mostly retired but he Dates
was highway coramisioner
3 rd Dates
01 aiinton i^ounty in 111.
f^e 1 i g i on Presbyterian ^__
Political party , civil or soci al cl ubs , sororities, etc.
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
2nd Centralia, 111.
3rd
Place of marriage to your granrfPSt^'e^""^"^!' ^«c. 5, 19&0
Dates
Dates
Dates
m Addievlllfc!, Ill;
Date
CHILDREN of A & B (or A- 1 or B-1) - your father's name should appear below
Name Doris Lynn Kramer
Pl;,ce of birth Centraiia, 111. date Nov. 12, 1930
Number of years of schooling m Occupati6h^ TITV^
R^.ldence Centraiia, 111. Marital Status Haroir-SSTm^Tg-
Number of chi Idren :^
Name Kenneth ^. Kramer _^_____ ,, ^ ^^ ^nn-^
r-m r — r'pnfr-^ life — TTTZ 37tP March 10, 1932
Place of birth ^'^uoxaxia, xii. ^date i',, ^. . ^
Number of years of schooling ^^ Occupation ^''^q^nister
Residence Belvidere, 111. Marital Status Janet Sue Lewis
Number of chi Idren 3
Name Darrell Lee Kramer
Place of birth Centraiia, ill. date ^^P^- ^^^ ^^^^ .
Place or Dirtn ^ — ^^ ^ nrr.matlrtn ^^^ ^'^^*^ ^^^^^
Number of years of schooling '^ Occupation
Res I dence Centraiia, 111. Mari tal^tatus ^^"^"^ Lulll.L-
Number of chi Idren '^
Name
Place of birth A*^^^^ l
Number of years of schooJing OccupatlOrt
Res i dence Marital Status
Number of chi Idren
Name
Place of birth date
Number of years of schooMng .... 7^ Occupati6n_
Res i dence Marital Status
Number of chi Idren
Name
P I ace of birth date ^
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of chi Idren
Name
Place of birth date
Number of years of
Res i dence
Number of chi Idren
Number of years of schooling Occupatioh_
Residence Marital Status
. birth date ^
Number of years of schooling Occupatioh_
Residence Marital Status
Number of chi Idren
Name
Place of birth date
Number of years of schooling Occupation
Res i dence Marital Status
Number of chi Idren
Name
Place of birth date
Number of years of schooling .. . . j Occupation
Residence Warital Status
Number of CMMllrBII
CHILDREN
of C and D (or C- 1 , D-l)-yoijr mother's name should appear below
Gwendoyln Faughn Lewis
Centralia, 111,
N.IIIK
r'l.i-i- of hi r Ih
Miirii
y.it ■, f)f. srtujo I irui
IT
(IrllO
Res i dence J^^^^^^°^"' Montana .
Number of children 2 (Adip^^'^^
Occupat ion
Sept. 9, 1924
H6Ug swift;
Marital Status John F. Price
Watana Romayne Lewis
Centralia, 111.
Name
P lace of b! rth ^^.,„^
Number of years of school ing
J"'^^"^^ Central i;,. TTT
Number of ch i Idren
TT
date
"P^ccupat ion
0ct. 8, 1925
Housewife
Marital Status^ Riechmann
J.
jannett Sue Lewis
Centralia, 111.
Name
Place of birth v-^-- — -----
Number of years of school ing
Res i denceBelvidere. ti -|
Number of chi 1 dren V
"IT
Name
Place of birth
Number of years of' school ing
Residence
Number of chi Idren
Name
P lace of bi rth
Number of years of school ing
Residence
Number of chi Idren
Name
Place of bi rth
Number of years of schooling
Residence
Number of chi Tdren
Name
Place of bi rth
Number of years of school
Res i dence
Number of chi Idren
ing
Name
Place of birth
Number of years of school ing
Residence
Number of ch i I dren
Name
P lace of b i rth """ "
Number of years ot' school ing
Residence
Number of chi Idren
Name
Place of bi rth ""
Number of years of school ing
Residence
Number of chi Idren
^ date Feb. 28. 1934
OccupatToI^ Hiiusewlfy —
Marital Status KeniifciLli p^ Rramei*
date
Occupation
Marital Status
date
____^___^ Occupat ion
Marital Status
date_
Occupation
Marital Status
date
Occupation
Ma r i t a 1 S tatus
date
Occupation
Mari tal Status
date
Occupation
Marital Status
date_
)ccupat ion
Marital Status
t
our Father
411 N. Main
ame Kenneth D. Kramer 5r. Current Residence Belvidere, 111.
f dead, date of death
lace of birth Centralia, 111 . ^Date of birth March 10, 1932
ducat I on (number of years) -—_—_——————
grade school 8 high school 12 vocational ^college ^
Seminary 4
ccupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
„(after leaving home)
st U.S. AIR FORCE p3^.g^ 1952-56 1st Bilc^' Mississippi pates same
nd Minister Dates leSS-preseni^^d Fanner City, 111. ; q^^^^ 1956-58
— jart\e^tOVyn, ill. 1950-59
rd of these churches Dates 3rd Edwardsville, 111 . Dates ]'^^^~^^
Wellington, MO. 1963-64
th In thes towns Dates ^th Addieville. 111. Dates 1964-74
*''9'°" The United Churoh of Christ Belvidere, 111. 1974-
olltical parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. Lions Club
lace of marriage to your mother Biioxi, jviiss. date" g-u fie 13, 1953
OTE: If you were raised by a stepfather or another relative give that data on the back
of this page. (E-2)
our Mother
ame Janet Sue Lewis Kramer Current Residence Belvidere, III.
f dead, date of death
lace of birth Centralia, 111. Date of birth Feb. 28, 1934
ducation (number of years)
grade school 8 high school 12 vocational col lege
lccupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
St House Wife Dates 1st ^Dates
nd And Church SecretaQa;tem 2nd Same as above Dates
Ird Dates 3rd ^Dates
leligion The United Church of Christ
'olitical party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
'lace of marriage to your f'athfer Ke^Siay A.JJ. BaUU BlluAJ, Mij^te ^""''^ ^^' ^'^^^
lOTE: If you were raised by a stepmother or another relative give that data on the back of
this page (F-2).
Name
If dead, date of death
Place of birth ^Date of birth J
Education (number of years) "^
grade school high school vocational college
Occupation(3) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates 1st Dates
2nd Dates 2nd Dates
3rd Dates 3rd Dates
^th Dates '♦th Dates_
Rel ig ion
Pol i ti ca"f part ies , civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your mother Date
F-2 Stepmother
Name
If dead, date of death
Place of birth Date of birth_
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_
3 rd_^ ^Dates }> rd Dates_
Re 1 i gion
Political party , civil or social cTubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your father date
ILDREN of E and F (or E-2, F-2) - your name should appear below
Kenneth Dee Kramer Jr.
ace of birth tiiioxi, miss,
mber of years of schooling
s i den ce Beleidere, 111.
mber of ch i Idren
TT
Date of birth June 7,1954
___^_^^___ Occupation Student
Marital Status Single
, ■ pPlfl Mao Kramor
of birth Centralia, 111.
(nber of years of schooling
sidence Belevidere, TTT.
nber of chi 1 dren
Kerri Ann Kramer
ace of birth pi-|^vin^. tII
(nber of years of schooling 1
s i den ce^
mber of chi Idren
Belvidere, 111.
me
ace of bi rth
mber of years of school ing
s idence
mber of chi Idren
me
ace of bi rth
mber of years of school ing
s i dence
mber of chi Idren
me
ace of bi rth
mber of years of schooling
s idence
mber of chi Idren
me
ace of bi rth
mber of years of school ing
s i dence
mber of chi 1 dren
Marital Status
Date of bi rth April, 16, 1
Occupation aLudeni:
Single
959
Date of birth Oct. 16, 1967
Occupation Student
Marital Status
Single
Date of bi rth
Occupation
Marital Status
Date of bi rth
Occupat lOrt
Marital Status
"BaTte of bi rth_
Occupation
Marital Status
Date of birth
Occupation
Marital Status
me
ace of bi rth
mber of years of schooling
s i dence
mber of chi Idrert
Marital Status
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I have found doing this family hiritory mort en.joyable in loirninp;
of my past heritage. I have been able to trace back to my great grand-
parents on both sides. There is some talk of the Hamilton family, my
mother's maternal side of the family, once beinr; royalty in their
homeland of Scotland, but this cannot be proven ns fact. This is be-
cause of the breakdovm in connections somewhere along the line. It is
also thought, and has more validity than the story above, that my
great, great uncle O'Dell, again on my mother's side was the mayor of
New York at one time. This too, cannot be proven, so it will not be
included in my paper as fact.
I will start with my mother's side of the family, then my father's
side and finally the recent family history of my parents and myself.
I received all my information from my parents in interviews as it was
the only way to get my information for there are not any other available
living sources.
Thomas Earl Lewis, my maternal grandfather, was born on iieptember
1st, IS97, the son of a local grocer in Pulaski, Illinois. His father
and mother were Albert and Sophia Lewis. We do not know what her maiden
name was. Thomas Karl Lewis was one of eight children. His older brother,
Albert, may still be alive in California, but no one knows for sure.
The other children as well as Thomas Earl are all deceased. Thomas Earl
passed this life on April 17^, I960, on an li^astor Sunday. My mother,
Janet Sue Kramer, said she did not know very much about her father's
family as both of her grandparents were dead when she was born,
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and r;he can only remember one ninter of hf>r father's, nnmed FJffie, who
they URPd to ro visit in Mound City, Illinois, i^he died in l'J'»0. Also,
not much is knov«fn about Grandpa Lewis' early life. It is known that he
did finish eight grades of schooling and that he never attended high
school. Like most boys, he worked with his father in the store, and
later on took over a part of the store by selling scales and continued
this job until after he had been married about five years. He always
told the story that he bought his first pair of long pants for himself.
My mother tells me the story of how her father was the most handsome
bachelor in the county. Many girls dreamed of marrying T.K. Lewis, but
only one was able to grab hold of him. ohe was the prettiest girl in
Loogootee, Illinois and also the most popular as she had been engaged
three times. They were married on November 31, 1922. The girl he
married was Zola Mae Hamilton, daughter of Charles and Mary Emma (nee
O'Doll) Hamilton. She was born on ^1arch '4U', 190I in Kimmundy, Illinois.
Her father, a carpenter, and his wife had nine children of which eight
lived to adulthood. She grew up in a little town called Loogootee, 111.
in a little bungalow type house which her father built. Here she went
through grade school and high school. She also went to one year of
college at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, where
she graduated with a teaching degree in 1920. She taught only one year
before she married my grandfather. She used to tell the story of how
she would get up early in the morning, ride to the one room school
house which included grades 1-8, and start the fire in the stove to
warm up the building. Grandma was not the only one in her family to
get a college degree. Her brother, Ray Hamilton, and the only one of
the brothers and sisters living at this time in Haines City, Florida,
retired, also got a college education and became a college teacher for
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n fow yonrn until he took n job with tho we-ithnr buro.-iu at tho nirport
in Nnnhville, Tenn. for n number of ycnrn nnd then wan trnn.-.f erred to
the ,iirport at Springfield, Illinois until hir, retirement.
My maternal grandmother, ^ola Mae Hamilton Lewis used to tell the
story of how she met my grandfather, T.E. Lewis, ohe used to go to the
silent movies and grandfather used to play in the orchestra. They would
talk during intermission. It was said that Thomas Earl Lewis was a very
talented muscian and what he learned he taught himself. They would say
that he could play any instrument needed at the theatre and do an
excellent job. He could also sing very well. I feel this is where my
sister, Zola I'lae Kramer, named after her rtiaternal grandmother, got her
musical talent as she can play the piano very well and can also play
by ear.
My maternal grandmother, Zola Mae Hamilton Lewis also liked to
tell the story of how she became a Christian and was saved. I do not
remember the details, but I know it took place in a barn. She was a
Methodist.
Zola Mae Hamilton and Thomas Earl Lewis decided to get married
and neither one of their parents objected. Both were of the same social
class and economic class which about that time was considered middle
class. After their marriage, Thomas Earl Lewis worked selling scales
as I mentioned before. Then in the late 19^0's or early 1930's they
moved to Centralia, Illinois. There he sold Prudential Insurance until
Vi/orld War II started in 19'*1. During this time 3 daughters were born,
Gwendolyn Faughn Lewis on September 9» 192^+ and then Watana Komayne
Lewis was born on October 8^, 1925 and finally, my mother, Janet Sue
Lewis on February 25U>, 193'+.
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In 19'«1, the Lowin fnmily moved to ot. Louin, MinROuri, where
grandfather Lewis pot a .iob at the Mc Quay Norri- Munitions Plant
makinf: bullets. He only worked there until in'f3 when he was hired
by the government to work at Oak Hidpie, TennesRee at a war plr.nt there.
He did not know at the time he was hired just what they were making
at the plant. He only knew his .iob and what he was supposed to be
doing. He received several awards for his suggestions in the plant
and became foreman of his department. He was very proud of the job he
was doing, but later found out like everybody eLse what the plant
had produced when the bomb was droppe i on Hiroshima. His reaction
was one of horror and shock. He could not believe anything so destruct-
ive and terrible as to cause so much suffering and death. He was very
upset that he had a part in it in a wny, but yet it ended the war and
his son in law got to come home from the war and, I guess this was
his rationalization for living with this thing that he had a part in.
Shortly after the bomb was dropped he quit his job at Oak Ridge and the
family moved back to Centralia, 111. where he sold shoes in Montgomery
Ward Store for a while and then sold nuts and bolts on the road for a
couple of years and then finally went back to selling shoes at John
Green Store in Centralia. He was a good salesman, one of the best and
was always getting awards for his good work, but he could never advance
like some of the other employees in the store because of his age. He
always felt like he was manager material and he was, but his age was
against him at this point. My grandfather worked at John Green Store
until his retirement in 1959. He never lived long enough to even get
his first Social Security check. He died of euremic poisoning brought
on by high blood pressure and a stroke. No one ever
really felt that he fulfilled hin ronl potenti-nl in life. Ho died n
poor mnn not even owning his own home nnd lenvinp; no security for his
widow.
oome information about the oldest two dauf^htors of Thomas Ivirl
Lewis and ^^ola I-lae Hamilton Lewis are, Gwendolyn Faup;hn was the first
of the daughters to pet a job in The Hollywood Candy Company in
Centralia, Illinois where she worked as a secretary in the office,
ohe was married to John F. Price, who worked as a printer at the local
newspaper. They were only married a few months when he was drafted
into the army and was overseas in New Guinea for 5 years during World
War II. After the war they settled in Centralia where he continued to
work at the paper and they adopted 2 sons, James Franklin Price and
Edward Eugene Price. They were 3 and '+ years old when they adopted them.
The boys are college educated and on their own now with their own
families and John and Gwendolyn are living and working in Lewistown,
Montana.
Watana Homayne Lewis- Riechmann completed high school also and
got her firstjob at the telephone conpamy as a long distant telephone
operator. She worked there for many years and became a supervisor,
ohe married Irvin C. Riechmann in 19^31. He was also a World War II
veteran. They were not married until after the war, but corresponded
and knew each other 7 yrs. before they were married. They have one
daughter, Gaylia Louise Riechmann, who is married now also and on
her own.
The last daughter, my mother, Janet Sue Lewis Kramer also
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comploted high Bchool and p;ot a .iob -it the telophone company in
Centralia, 111. iihe only worked about 9 monthn when r.he mnrrie-i
on June 13^, 1953 at the nge of 19 yrs. to Kenneth D. Kramer, ;'!.
oince this is my mother, I will go into more detail on her life
later in the paper.
Mj Grandmother and Grandfather Lewis were married for 37 yrs.
before my grandfather's death in I'X^O. After his death, my grand-
mother had to go to work to support herself, ohe got a job in a
small grocery store on one side and a woman's apparell shop on
the other in Centralia, owned by John J. Jasper, who had lost his
first wife from cancer, and knew my grandmother from Loogootee
where they had both grown up. My grandmother and John's first
wife were school girl friends. She worked at John's store for
almost a year and they were married. However, the marriage was
short lived for in 1962, a year and a half later, John Jasper
died on December 27'*'. of cancer. John did not have much money as
most of it went for the years of treatment and hospitalization
of his first wife. She received a small settlement and the store
and apartment over the store that they lived in during their
marriage went to John's son. My grandmother, Zola Mae Hamilton
Lewis Jasper then went to live in a small apartment there in
Centralia and lived off of John's Social Security and the small
settlement from his death. She lived there until 1966 when she
moved to Addieville, 111. to live with us, her daughter, Janet
Sue Lewis Kramer and son in law, Kenneth D. Kramer Sr. She lived
with us until January 5, 1970 when she married Albert Dodillet of
Centralia, Illinois. This marriage too was short lived. For on
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August ?1, 1971, when Zola Mno Dodillot and nlbort Uodillet nnd Lnurn J.
Hamilton, a f5ifiter in law of Zola Mae l-'odillots, wore killed in a head
on collision just north of Greenville, 111. while on there way to Spring-
field, 111. to visit Zola Mae Dodillet's brother. Hay Hamilton and to
po to the State Fair.
An interesting footnote to the Dodillet marriage is that Albert
Dodillet's neice, Barbara Dodillet married l>irrell Kramer, my dad's
brother making my mother and father a cousin by marriage to Barbara as
well as being a sister-in-law.
I would like to make a comment about my grandfather, Thomas Earl
Lewis. I remember him as a man who was always the perfect gentleman.
He was always fully dressed, suit, tie, shoes, etc. He always made sure
his car was in perfect running condition. He always insisted in taking
over the job of decorating the Christmas tree each year as each piece
of tinsel and ornament had to be put on just right. He used to sit
with me in the evening and we would peel apples and eat them together.
He was not much of a church goer until 19'^7 when he became a faithful
member of St. Peter's United Church of Christ in Centralia, 111. The
rest of the family were already members and had been for some years.
He became active in the church choir and served on the consistory.
They were all great people, my Grandfather Lewis and Grandmother Lewis
and Grandfather Jasper and Grandfather Dodillet and I miss them very
much. They were family people in that they always cared deeply for
their children and did what they could to help in times of need and
were always interested and loved their grandchildren very much.
The Kramer family also goes back many years into Germany,
however; this is all we know about it except that my great grandfather
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cnme to Amorica nt the npe of !?• "i-'^ n'imr> wrir, Kro'l C. Krnmer ^Ir. , born
in Hanover, Uermnny on Dec. 1?"', i860. He crime to America nr, an orphan
in I87B to escape the draft of the Hinmark'n new army. In I89O he
married Louise Grieman, an American girl with a German heritage, ohe
was born in Uoyleton, Illinois on February 13'^i 197P'. Together they had
nine boys and two girls. One child was stillborn, one died shortly after
birth and one twin died at the age of 5 months with brain fever. Only
eight grew to adulthood, 6 boys and the ? girls. One of these boys was
Raymond W. Kramer, my grandfather. But, getting back to the great
grandparents, great grandma Kramer died on December 9^*, 1935 with
pneumonia and great grandpa Kramer died on April ?5-i 19'+1 of hardening
of the arteries. V/hen great grandpa Kramer came to this country he was
a common laborer. He worked in the coal mines until he broke his back
around the age of 50. The reason he broke his back was because a timber
fell on it in the mines. Grandpa was a big man of about 6* *+" tall and
really too big for the mines. While he was out of work and recovering
from his injury he studied law, and after he was well, he ran for
sheriff of Marion County in Southern Illinois and won. He made three
of his sons deputies and he was in business. However, this sheriff job
didn't last long for next time around he ran for the judgeship of
Marion County and again he won. He held that position until his death
at the age of 8I years old. An ironic story my grandfather, Raymond Wm.
Kramer told me once was when he was about I8 years of age he was hauled
into the judges chambers for disturbing the peace. He was with about k
other young men and he told me he stood there absolutely scared to death
when his old dad walked in. Great grandpa Kramer sent him home and said
he would take care of him later and put the other k in jail for the
night. When old Judge Kramer got home he did not punish his son, but
left him with the ntronn wnrninp that if it ever hnppenned nj^nin he
would nlRO spend the night in jail. And ntill todny around the Ccntrali-i
and Marion County area if you talk to Rome of the older people they too
remember old Judge Kramer and usually have a story to tell you about him.
My grandfather, Raymond W. Kramer was born on July ?3i 190^. He is
the only one of my original grandparents still living, however; he is
very ill and has been in very poor health for the past three years. He
for all purposes now is a shut-in and does not get around at all any-
more. I don't know a whole lot about his early life except he worked
hard and became a deputy of Clarion County . He also worked in the coal
mines at an early age. There is an interesting story of his coal mining
work. It seemed one afternoon he and his brother were working in an old
mine shaft in Centralia, Illinois when his brother, Paul, who later died
of coal miner's lung diseasem became ill and grandpa was asked to take
hira out of the mine. Grandpa said that they were really lucky because
they hadn't been out of the mine but about 10 seconds when it began to
rumble and collapse. Just think, 10 seconds made the difference and
this paper would never have been written. V^ell, after the collapse of
the mine. Grandpa Kramer never went back to work in the mines. Instead,
he left home to join the wild prairie as a cowboy. He cowboyed around
the country in such places as Montana and Texas, ihen he came back to
Centralia, Illinois he drove a truck for awhile and then went to work
with his brothers at the Illinois Central Railroad Shops. It was during
this time that he married Irene Pfeiffer, daughter of Joe Pieffer and Mary
Rath Pieffer.
There is an interesting story also behind the Joe Peiffer - Mary
Rath marriage. It seemed that Mary Roth was from a well to do family in
Centrnlia, Illinois nnd wore people cf h\rM culture. So when M-iry
nnnounced that she war, Roing to mary Joe I'eiffor 'luito a ruc':ur, wan
made. It seemed that great grandpa Joe I'icffer wir> just a poor conmon
man, but knovm all over iSouthern Illinois for bin cigar making and
his drinking habits. It was said Joe Pciffer made the best cigars in
ijouthern Illinois and his name was famous for it along with one of
his relatives being the mayor of Centralia atthe time. But, poor
great grandpa Peifer was also known as a drunkard and this is what
the Roth family objected to. But, against their wishes, Mary Hoth and
Joe Peiffer were married. They had only one daughter, Irene Peiffer,
before great grandpa Peiffer died. After his death. Grandma Peiffer
married a man by the name of Heller and from that marriage came two
boys, Delbert and Ray Heller, giving Irene two stepbrothers and a
higher class of living. Irene Peiffer like my Grandma Lewis, also
went through High School and college at i^outhern Illinois University
at Carbondale. She taught 3rd grade at Schiller ochool in Centralis.
She taught up until the time when she was pregnant with her first
child. There is an interesting story connected with the Peiffer -
Kramer marriage. It seemed that since Grandma Peiffer was now higher
class by marrying into the Heller family she objected to her daughter
marrying Raymond Wm. Kramer, just a common laborer, when she had done
the same thing against her parents will. Well, as I said before, she
taught school until she became pregnant and the first child was born
on November 12a, I930, a daughter, named Doris Lynn Kramer and I8
months later a boy, Kenneth D. Kramer was born on March lOti, 1932, and
18 months later, another boy, born on September ll^?, 1933 and named
Darrell Lee Kramer. And, she was pregnant again when tragedy struck
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at the nf;e of ?7 yearn old ,^ncl fihe died of poritonitio in March of
195'>. Today this sickness would hnve been cured with one shot of
penicilin.
Going back a little bit, right after their marriage Grandpa Kramer
lost his job and was unemployed for awhile. Then after he found a labor-
ing .iob, the Stock Market crashed and the depression was on. Grandpa
lost his job again and as far as I know was unemployed until Roosevelt
became President of the United States and he began to work for the
W.P.A. He started out as a foreman and soon worked his way up into an
administrative job. It was while he was holding down this job that his
wife died. After hie death he went to the Baptist Church to ask the
minister to bury her. The minister wanted 1120.00 to do it. So he didn't
have -120.00 and he went to St. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Church
in Centralia and the pastor there did it for nothing. It seemed after
Grandma Kramer's death, Grandpa Kramer became bitter with the fhurch
and the world and still shows his bitterness today even though his
son, Kenneth D. Kramer has been in the ministry for over 17 years now.
So after his wife's death. Grandpa Kramer took the three children
and moved in with his father and mother and three brothers still at
home. The three children were a little too much for great grandma
Kramer and so in the fall of 193^+1 Grandpa Kramer put his three
children in The Hoyleton, Illinois Evangelical and Reformed Children's
Home. He wanted all three of them to stay together and not be separated
and he could not find anyone to take care of them for him who would
take all three during that time. So he placed them in the home and
kept them together and visited them frequently. He left them in the
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children's home for 8 yearn. In I'j'tO ^rnndp-. Kr-impr remnrried to Esnel
Nora Blair (called Sarah) of Louir.ville, IllinoiG. She wan rair.cd on a
farm her father and mother owned. I don't know too much of her childhood
except that when my dad met her and married her che was working at Brown's
Shoe Factory in Flora, Illinois. Grandpa Krnmer did not take the children
out of the children's home for a year after they were married. Then in
19'+^ he took the children out of the home. It war, at this time that mont
of the meat on the table was from hunting and fishing. Grandpa Kramer now
worked for the Street and Alley Department of the City of Centralia, 111.
and making .2P« an hour. He was also tending bar and running a pool hall
on weekends to bring in a few extra dollars.
The children upon return home were kept very religious because
the only way the Children's Home would release the children was if
Grandpa Kramer promised to send the children to Sunday School and
confirmation. They also had certain chores around the house that they
were to do and these chores were strictly enforce-d. Punishment usually
resulted in a loud bawling out or a whipping, my father, Kenneth D.
Kramer would say if they did not obey. So all three children pretty
much stayed in line and Kenneth Kramer said he only got one spanking.
He said there was no use to break the rules as there was nothing to
gain from it. ^
When the children were taken from the home they lived in a
small 2 room apartment and the two boys, Kenneth and Darell had cots
out in the hall. Very shortly after they moved out of the home the
Kramer family moved into a three room apartment in the same building.
But still, because of crowded conditions, a little later they moved
to a small rented house where they lived for yk yrs. It was during this
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time in the yenr 19'+5 that Grandpa Kramer pot hin first refrif^erator and
got rid of the old ice box. From the rented home, Grandpa Kramer bought
his first home in 19'+6 where he still lives today. It is a small 5 room
house on the west side of Centralia and all of his neighbors with him
were from the same German heritage.
Grandpa Kramer worked for the Centralia Street Department until
1965 when he retired at the age of 63 because of poor health.
A little more about the children. Doris Lynn Kramer never finished
high school and went to work for the Hollywood Candy Company before she
married Harold Sanders of Centralia. They have three children and still
live in Centralia as Harold works for the Illinois Central Railroad Car
Shop.
Kenneth Dee Kramer, who I will expound more on later since he is
my father. He did complete high school, hjfenrs in the United States Air
Force, h years of college and h years of Seminary, =ind is now an ordained
minister in The United Church of Christ. He married Janet Sue Lewis in
1953 and they had three children, and are now living in Belvidere, 111.
where Rev. Kenneth D. Kramer is serving St. John's United Church of Christ.
Darrell Lee Kramer also quit high school a month before he was to
graduate and joined the marines, '^ile in the Marines he got his General
Educational Developement. Upon returning from Korea he married Barbara
Dodillet and they have two children. He too works for the Illinois
Central Railroad Car Shops and lives in Centralia.
They all have a good marriage and are happy.
The story of Kenneth Dee Kramer in some ways is a story of a boy
who grew into a young man of great faith. For when times were rough and
money was scarce during those college and seminary days he and his wife,
Janet Sue Kramer did not give up. It was this faith that carried them
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through along with a lot of hard work. He w.nr; horn on M.Tirch 10*^,
193'*, the son of Hnymond Willinrn nrici Irene t^eiffer Kramer. He lived
with his mother and father until hin mnth^.r died in 193'* when he
wan put in the Hoyleton Children 'r Home for a period of 8 yrs. He
lived there with his brother and sinter and approximately 130 other
children until he was 10 years old. The times were poor and hard.
Each child in the home had only 2 pairs of jeans which were changed
once a week on Saturday when you got your weekly bath in preparation
for Sunday. There are many, many stories that can be told about the
children in the Children's Home, but they are too numerous to men-
tion. He did go to the Hoyleton Public Grade School for grades 1 -
5. When they moved back to Centra lia when his father, Raymond Wm.
Kramer re-married, he continued his education at Central and Shiller
Grade Schools. He attended Centralia Hif^h School all four years and
this is also when he started working' outside the home. At age 13 he
worked for k years at the bowling alley setting pins and also worked
at the local country club for k summers as a golf caddy. Once he
caddied in a foursome with Sam Sneed. At age l6 he began to work
part time at Mother's Bakery in Centralia and at age 17 went to work
full time for the bakery and joined the union there. He made $1.60
an hour while working there. He worked there for 3 years while he
finished high schodl and also 2 years of Centralia Junior College.
It was during this time that he got to know Janet Sue Lewis a little
better than just seeing her in the halls at school. After graduation
from the Junior College, he had received his teacher certificate,
however; no one would hire him because the Korean conflict was heavy
and Kenneth's draft status was lA. To avoid going into the Army,
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Kenneth enlifited in The United iitnten Air Korcc in 193''''. After b-inic
training at Lnckland Air f'orce Bane, he war; transferred to Kee.nler
Air Force Base in Biloxi, Missippi for electronics training in repair-
ing radar sets When it came time for graduation from the school, everyone
in Kenneth's class was sent to Korea except him, and he was retained at
Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi as an electronic instructor,
teaching men what he had .iust learned. In the summer of 1953 Janet Su?
Lewis went to Biloxi, Mississippi and Janet and Kenneth were married on
June 13«^ at the Base Chapel. In 195'+ » on June 7"S I was born at the Ease
Hospital. He did not re-enlist and was honorably discharged in 1956 as
a staff sargeant. In the fall of 1956, Kenneth Kramer enrolled at the
University of Illinois and the family moved to Champaign, Illinois. It
was at this time that my dad decided to enter the Christian ministry.
About 6 months later he was asked to move to Farmer City, Illinois
to pastor a small Congregational Church there. He did so and in 1958
after graduation from the University of Illinois, we moved to Jamestown,
Illinois while dad pastored a small church there and started school at
Eden Theological Seminary in Webster Groves, Missouri. He pastored the
bhurch at Jamestown for l8 months and during this time, my sister,
2iola Mae Kramer was born on April 16'*', 1959. When Zola was a year old
we moved again to a new position, pastoring a little larger church at
Edwardsville, Illinois. Kenneth pastored this church for 'yh yrs. During
that time he graduated from Eden Theological Seminary and was ordained
as a pastor in The United Church of Christ. In the summer of I963,
Kenneth took a church at Wellington, Missouri, but only stayed 1*+
months when he took a church in Addieville, Illinois in the fall of
196*+. Here at Addieville, my father and mother adopted my youngest
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nintor, Korri Ann Krnmer, born UctoV)rr irji^", l')67. -Vo f^ot hor whon nhe
was eleven dayn old. After n nucce.-.;- ful minir.try at Aci'lievi]le for a
period of 9 years. Dad decided to take another challonp;e anc) on June
1st, 1973» Hev. Kenneth D. Kramer took the pastorate of St. John's
United Church of Christ in Belvidere, Illinois and is presently serving
this congregation.
Rev. Kenneth Kramer is a very good minister and though my opinion
may be biased, I feel he shows competence in different aspects of the
field. He can work well with young people one minute and the next
talk to old people and make them feel wanted and important. Every
church has been sorry to see him go everytime he decides to seek a
new challenge. It seems he has a real talent for healing run down or
broken congregations and many funeral directors say he is one of the
best ministers they ever saw when it comes to ministering to the
bereaved. He has a special talent for preparing funeral sermons to
fit each individual.
Janet Sue Lewis Kramer, third child of Thomas Earl and Zola Mae
Lewis was born on February 25^, 193'^ and lived most of her life
growing up in Centralia, Illinois except for the few years spent
in St. Louis, Missouri and Oak Ridge, Tennessee during the Second
World War. She grew up iii a lower middle income family who never
starved, but never were able to put any money away either. It was
during the early years of her. childhood in Centralia, Illinois that
the oil boom sprang up in Centralia and today there are just a few
operating. Most all of them have gone dry. Janet's education began
at Central Grade School in Centralia for her first two years. After
moving to St. Louis she attended third grade at Meramec Grade School
and when she moved to Oak Ridge, Tenn. she attended the h^ and 5«i
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grades nt Pine Valley Grade School. After the war wlien her family
returned to Centralis, .she attended the C>*^ (^rade at Irving Grade .jchool
and ironically finished the 7^'' and 8'*' grades back where she started at
Central Grade School. After grade school she attended Centralis High
School where she was an honor student. Janet reports that she never
got to attend the basketball or baseball games or any outside activities
at school because her parents would not let her out after dark to be on
the streets. She was allowed to go to the Youth Fellowship Meetings at
the church and the choir practices at St. Peter's United Church of
Christ in Centralia. The only other outing she would have would be a
Saturday or Sunday matinee at the movie house in Centralia until she
started dating Kenneth FCramer. Janet commented that she was given a
small allowance by her older sister. She said she did not always have
as many nice clothes as she wanted, but there was always plenty of
food on the table. Often through the years the family would have a
nice big vegetable garden and her mother would can.
Janet also remembered during the war of all the rationing of food
and gas. She talked about having to stand in line with her mother and
sisters for nylons and soap powder. She also remembers the family
saving their rationing stamps so the could take a trip to Pennslyvania
to see her mother's sister. She remembei^s they had to drive 35 miles an
hour all the way there and back from Oak Hidge, Tenn. as the rubber tires
were scarce during the World War II. She remembers that hamburger was not
to be had during the war and when it first came back on the market again,
a rich neighbor got some and they all ran to the window as to smell it
was a special treat. Janet said she always lived in a large enough house
and after her sister was married she had her own room. She said living
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conditions wore nlwnyr; fnirly F;ootl. oho hnd a dronm of Roinp; to collcp;e
and becoming n teacher, but she could not do so as the family was too
poor to even consider such an idea. So .after hiph school she pot a job
at the telephone company as a long distant telephone operator until
almost nine months later she went to Biloxi, Mississippi to Keesler
Air Force Base to marry Kenneth D. Kramer, ^he said she dated Kenneth
during thexsummer, 5 monthis before he went into the air force. He came
home for a Cftpistmas leave of two weeks, but outside of that that was the
only time they had together until she went down in June of the next year
to marry Kenneth after corresponding faithfully during the time they
were apart. ■She said Kenneth was too poor to have a car and they had to
walk everywhere they went, but who cares when you are in love. After
marriage to Kenneth she became a housewife and when Kenneth started
school again she was his main typist. For the past 17 years Janet has
been housewife, mother to three children and secretary to all the
churches that Kenneth has served. However, St. John's U.C.C. Bolvidere,
is the first church to pay for her services as church secretary. For
the almost 20 years I have lived with my mother, Janet Kramer, I have
found her to be a good wife and an excellent mother. And although she
doesn't think she makes a very good pastor's wife, she really does and
she looks very good and doesn't look as old as she really is. All in all
it is nice to have her around. She didn't know may father was going to
go into the ministry when she married him. He didn't decide on that until
they had been married for two years. She said if she had known she
probably wouldn't have married him and it would have been too bad, but
she said she didn't feel as if she fit the image of a good pastor's wife.
I, Kenneth D. Kramer Jr. was born in an Air Force Base Hospital
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in Biloxi, Minsissippi on June '/"'» 1')'''*. AT thouf;ti I nm very hir. now,
standing nt six foot six nnd weif^hinp; PP'i poundn, I wan the r.mil ler.t
of the 3 babies born in our fnmily. Jokinf^ly, I nr.kod my grnndfi ther,
liiymond Wm. Kramer, if I war, the tallent Kramer on record and his
reply was, "Dammit boy, you are also the bipp;est." I was born with
one small handicap which I have now almost entirely overcome. I was
born with a harelip and cleft palate, but after seven operations
many people now tell me its not even noticeable. The biggest problem
I have now is with my teeth which will be fixed this year. I also
have a small speech problem which I am practicing to solve now. Many
doctors have told me I have come a long way for the predicament I
was in, and one doctor told my mother when I was little that I would
never be able to talk plainly, but she took me to speech clinics all
the while I was growing up and I have almost entirely overcome my
problem. I also hope my new false teeth will help to correct the
matter. My education began in Edwardsville, 111 in one of the last
of the one room school houses in America, I think. However, they
bused me to a larger school in Glen Carbon, 111. for my second and
third grades. I went to hva grade at IVashington Grade School in
Wellington, Missouri before returning back to Illinois in 196^. I
completed my grade school education in Addieville Grade School, 5-- -
8«!. My graduating class from this small town in Addieville had 13
people in it and we were the largest class to graduate from Addieville
in almost 100 years. This number was soon broken however, for only 5
years later, my sister graduated from Addieville Grade School with a
grand total of l6 in her class, I completed my High School Education
at Okawville, 111. at Okawville Community High School about 5 miles
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from Addieville. The mo.nt memorable evfntn of my Hip;h ochool H-iyn
was the year the Okawvillc Rockets (basketball tram) p;ot to p;o to
otate and also my graduation nip;ht.
In 1970 the small school of Okawville played basketball like
it has never played before. We had a seven foot senior alonp; with
two 6' 6" f ©rewards and two of the quickest (guards in the state. If
you can imagine the excitement when a small school went to the state
finals for the first time in its history and this was before the class
division titles separating the small schools from the larger ones. It
was, in fact, Okawville, who helped make the decision to separate into
two divisions, because such a small school of 250 students could just
not beat all the Chicago Schools with thousands of students from which
to pick their star players. Then their was a big celebration when
the team returned home. It was really excitingi There was a special
Rocket Day in which our seven foot center received a 10 minute stand-
ing ovation. These times I will always remember.
The other time I remember was the night I graduated from Okawville
High School. It seemed that my favorite teacher, Mr. Miller, with whom
I had History Glasses for k years gave me the History Award for being
the best History Student in my class for the '+ years. There were only
62 in my graduating class and although it was small and the small
school did not offer us the best education, I believe it was good. We
were a small class who was very close knit and we had another joyous
time together when our whole class went to Washington D.C. together as
a class trip during the Easter Vacation time in our Senior year. All
my life I have always had good living conditions, although most of my
life I lived in church parsonages. I have never known hunger or poverty.
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I enpecinlly remember the time I le.-irnerl how to drive and my
parents boupht me an old car to drive to .school and around. I am
still driving that car to this day which n.-iyn I have taken Rood
care of it.
I really feel life has picked up for me the last two years.
I have really enjoyed my two years of college. I f^uess my bifij-iest
hurt or disappointment in life was when my maternal grandmother, iiola
Mae Dodillet was killed in a head on collision. I found this very hard
to accept. I am thankful that I had such a good grandmother who was
mostly responsible for my having the confidence I have in myself today.
My plans for the future are: I will finish my last two years of
college in DeKalb, Illinois at Northern Illinois University and then on
to Eden Theological Seminary in V^ebster Groves, Missouri. I guess the
environment I have lived in has had a great influence on me, because I
want to be a minister like my father, Kenneth Dee Kramer Sr.
This takes my family history up to date. It is nice to know where
one originates from and this paper has added greatly to my knowledge,
not only of my past family, but a better understanding of History too.
A lot of things have happenned since the time when Grandma rode to
school in horseback until today when I drive to school in my car.
A lot of great History full of assasinations of great leaders and
great advances made in science, space and military technology. A
great period full of history, memories and time.
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KRAWCZYK, JO ANN LYNN, 1956-
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Grandfather (your father's side)
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Education (number of years):
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Occupatlon(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
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Grandmother (your father's sida)
Name
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ame /)nna gcx£^ K^LOO'^uk:. Current Residence Q3^9 Plook^Ae: ftjQOf
f dead, date of death )iQ<LK^^ rcX ^JZ H ,
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Education (numbe^of years):
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Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
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2nd Mnnf^.i.^.fe Dates /9Q^-/9(G 2nd ^no Lf^.rcJ _. TJ/ Dates /?-/^-/y/.
3rd fe6iua£}/lf (CjSQ/: Dates /9/C^/9;^V 3rd ^Dates
^th ^w^Lhf^L Dates/^^^y^^/^itth ^Dates
Religion ^r.man C.QJholi^'.
Pol
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A- I Stepyrandfather (your father's side;
N.IIIK'
1 1 <\rn<\, <l.iic of death
Current Residence
PInce of birth
Date of Birth
Edur.-it ion (number of years)
grade school high school vocational college
Occupat lon(s)
1st
2nd
3rd
'«th
Dates
Oates_
Dates
Dates
Ist_
2nd_
3rd_
ijth
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
Dates
Dates
Dates
Dates
Re I i g i on
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandmothar
liti
A-2 Stepgrandmother (your fathar's side)
Name
Currant Residence
If dead, date of* dea
Place of bi rth
th
Date of birth
Education (number
grade school
Of
years!
1:
high school
Dates
vocational college
Occupation(s)
1st
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving home)
1st Dates
2nd
Dates
2nd Dates
3rd
Re 1 i g i on
Dates
3rd Dates
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandfather
Date
•nndfathe-r (your mother's side)
Residence
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lucation (numDerjiT years; :
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give that data on the back of this page (C-1)
Current Residence
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andcacuwter (your mother's side)
dead, date of <Jeath/lhij r(? J^
^« °f birth li:.^,n \T..\n.nrl SiOe-d<!:>^ Date of birth fk)r< I ^V, /^^Q
ucatlon (number -of years;
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ace of marriage to your grandfather' ' KcCllQ'tf^rr'i'cV ' '.T) i" ' ^ ' date .,^ci/9 /c/.7VmY
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C- I Stepgrandf ather (your mother's side)
N.jine ^___^___^__^______^____«^_«^__ Current Residence
I f f)(.-,id. (laif of death
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Isl
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l^tU ^Dates iJth ^Dates_
Re 1 i g i on
Political parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your grandmother dat6
D-? Stepcjr.indmother (your mother's side)
Name Current Residence
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CKicf, of bi rlh
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birth
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OF RESIDI
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3rd Dates
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Place of marriage to your grandfather
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Number of rji i Idren ;:~i
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Nuiiibei of yeors of scnooling Occupation f/n/z'^is'U.'/r^-
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Number of en i Idren f^
Marital Status
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PI;ico of hi rth " date__^
Number of yeors of schooling Occupation
Kes i Hence Marital Status
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6. N»iriir
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Number r)f years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital Status
Number of ch i Tdren
7. Name
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Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital StatuT
Number of chi 1 dren "^
8. Name
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Number of years of schooling Occupation
Residence Marital' Status [
Number of ch i 1 dren
9. Name ___^
P lace of bi rth date
Number of years of schooling Occupation
"^^'^g"^g Marital Status "
Number of chi Idren """""
10. Name_^
Place of bi rth ———___ ^^^^
Number of years o^ schooling Occ'upat iOn"
^"'^«"" MaTlTal Status '
Number of chi Idren
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ad. date of death -^ ^ K^^TT-O/^'/jT/-
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cation (number ofyears) ^ ' '
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Ljpatlon(s) PUCE OF RESIDENCE
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t<irm&r Dates /^o^v^:^;? 1st eoolf-orcl.l/r. Date,/9y5^-.^y
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'^ndu^Mal /j)or/:c Dates ^^th^ Dates
Itical parties, civil or social clubs, fraternities, etc. ^jOet7j^O (^/^/e
ce of marriage to your nwther ^/g^y/f A^/^, ■^////;>^^.<r / ' datey^/7 ^.^fT"
E: If you were raised by a stepfather or another reTative give tnat data on the back
of this page. (E-2)
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dea
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« o' blrth^ D.t« Of birth ^^/^y/^ 30 /9 /V
cation (number ofy ear si / ^
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E: If you were raised by a stepmother or andther relative give that data on tlSe back of
this page (F-2).
E-l Stepfather
Name
I f dead, date of death
Place of birth Date of birth
Education (number of years}
grade s choo I h i gh school vocational college
Occupatlonis) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
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Ath Dates 'tth Dates
Re I Iglon
PolitlcaT par^tTei", d'lVI I 6P Sfl^lSI clubs, fraternities, etc.
Place of marriage to your mother Dat«
F-2 Stepmother
Name
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Place of birth Date of birth
Education (number of years)
grade school high school vocational college
Occupation(s) PLACE OF RESIDENCE
(after leaving honne)
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2nd Dates 2nd Dates
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Re 1 i g I on
Political party, civil or social clubs, sororities, etc.
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mjhls/to the Rock Valley College Family History Collection, deposited in the
Rocicford Public Library, Rockford, Illinois
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Great grandfather
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Father
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Grandfather
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Great grandmother
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Grandmother
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Mother
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SOURCES
1. Margaret Krav/czyk
2. Joseph Krav/czyk
3. Anna Krawczyk
^. Julie Howard
5« Lillian Bergvall
6. Edith [viiller
7. Bernard Krav/czyk
Each of these people contributed infonnaticn , either
through conversation or photographs.
PREFACE
' This paper presents r.y family history. It includes the
lives of n^y maternal grandparents, my paternal grandparents,
my rrother, ^nd m.y father. At the writing of this paper, only
my grandmother Krawczyk is alivo.- Everythin-:-- in this paper
is based on stories my relatives have told me. '/ithout'
them, this paper would be impossible. I would like ^ to thank
miy mother IViar-^e Krawczyk, m.y father Joseph Kravczyk, my grand-
mother Anna Krawczyk, my aunt Julie ^oward, who interpreted the
conversations between my grandmother and I; and my aunt Lillian
Bers^vall, who furnished the Nygren family pictures. V/ith their
co-operation, I have found out as much as I possible can.
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t!ip v' ' ' ■■/'-■■■•,■;.:•. i''"^^rn , jiir5t'>f -c"! ' i ' ~xtrn proiuoe, -re
""M^n'^'" <:■•■' '" ' i ,■ - • - 1 .-.,pri f^ood?; thn ' w^r.-- neede"^.
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ti;:i I ■■-'-■ -ii-^, I •- - . ' *,:. ;,i " , T'To ch'^rot^ rr\?o1'.inr'^ wnr^ a
c-o^' ; 1 .-, • . -r, T ■ n i-T. ] i -T ni;r, ■■, tiiPrir ■ . Friends and
np-i rj;'' boTF' t-v^ did n'"' ■■ ■" c^-^r- , o^'ner d'lriri.": the ■'■f^'^K, '.'ou].:1
"iqif. tot^ol hf^'r . The ohi.l'''"Pn "Tnlr* nlro "d; 1o"eth^r and 7I3"
n-'''tor f'^e '--^rTon. P'lr.+ i--', •'f'.'-'r ;, corf J rmr. tion'^ , ''»";"'' T'^'ernls
n 1 .-■ o hrcn 'IH- pr--> " ' ' 1-, 'if'tnT the rroi k ••ere h-' r''?3te" , t e
fTrrnerF hcid r'-ore '' ''^e [.r- vn].. -^ ,p5 thi)j.r sooi. r;l . noti v i t i'^s incre-'ired. ,
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* n "' o f ^ ''"'■" . ' ' ' ' '" ^ ri , J?nn i e <-r t o >- 1 -,
qjrp Of;, . "fitt-iirt' that t.iine w:-ik nonpu.l.'^ory for over'
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T'.'inu^? ins I', rue Lie r^' ,rder, Thi"^; in-
1- '^f^^■r for r ■^ri f irniq t..i. on • Ever."^' .^'T "H^' J-^^nr ^e
'I- I 0 c'Vi'iroV v/^th her pareritr-: ' ~r
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'" ' ' ' ' . .''le 'n-.irRnt.E 3.*"^ ehi ^ Hr-py
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f'">r heri-'eif, \'li\.h her Cnti-.er's peir'. ' '-'p- i on , r-he v.'r:nt to wcr'<' t'cr
Ivirvrer i^^'ariM nwr-'^r' ■ ' ■ ' •ri'""' ird'r''' •t^'^t. .~v='''er'-il ne^ ■i-'bo'^p
h^d .''^■' '■ ' ' ■lo Ih'iite^ otaten. 'I'hey Irept, wriijn"" to h^^r, t-";] ] ir-:"
her h'V' > - :" . ','•'■ ' ' ''■■ , //hen "he wgp n'nteer, , "^he
]r.ri, hof::e ' ■' ' ' •■■ ' ' -" • ■ . Ther"^ , ■^'p'^' •,vnr''0'' for --.nother
■•.'o-T 1 ' ' ■ , f .' ^ --,-.- , c,-,-j jr.; ri.q ir^; ; '.'.-i i -■] a , ilhe 'vorked
theT ': \' ' " " ^ ' "■ ' - '' ■ , ' ' ' " ■ - ' y^ ■ ■ - '■■•.•V ?d , R '- e
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T'^Ti'l fither !''r-'r.k .P.T.'J.son w?;- b'^rn to
K',."- . Hjp 1-1^-;'- n'^r.'ii? v!3.^. l-";i.ilPon ber--:iiir:e
T,-v^, ,— -^ rtni h "■ •^. vjj.fr; ■•■-re t ] -^ ~ .-, ~_
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"!;:■*■' I':- - -1 rYiil clror ,
• ' • 'T , the housre they lived in w ':■- unv^ ■■■ . ' ••'.'■
■ '■■ ^ •■'lod vit'- - '-— , I'l ;; .1'^' - ■ ■ ■ ' - .
'■ ' ' ' 1",f3r, hfj v.'as a tr''ppnr \'rii hur. Lcr, li'- '//".t' ■ict'-"' ' "■ ' ■
njf 1 >)■>- 'in himi'inr ap^ tr^npir.r around .'y-',io. TViin tr^^it
A,T,o p'^ccjed down Ic ':is ^-ons, His sons helf'^'i hitr. vvor"' hi:"-* Innr:
,-i.r-ir -^ ' ''^ -• ■ .■ > ov- ---i hrt] ned hi'" tv p mid hunt d."i".in''' the v/inter.
']';--> r'n:';'_ '■■ ■ ' ' w'nn "- t" t n'"T-, to r'|"'^'>' n'l t hn i 0 I n f !■-.-■ , ■^ni-''
jpip^ +0 rhut" ' " '" ": wee'-'ly e^■ent. I'-iu] Johanf^on too'T
'-■'■ ' • ' ' T;.rt]-'-nn "hnrch "I'lstaf ("nrlsonwcnt tc .
Therp porn , ' ' ^ '>^f;i«i rysc^'. othf^r. Thf^y ol'ter. went
"to Mto '■■ 0 '"oc'"'" ■ ' "■'■■■. TViP'.r '^h^ldren d. ttonded the sarne
^c'^rol. Prrm^-': Vn^-, • ' ' •? froi'i <;chonl , ^o 'viipq ever t'jey attennei
the F.riTwe "■" ' ' '• , 'e v/om "■ d r^r"'"'.r' to '■■er,
M'.R ed'ion ti ^n w " ' ' I'lr ' " -r", ilcwever, An''-" e'ld of
lon^-nir - ■ -e^d] f--'.vor'r' , he learnei] "i lit'Le ^boul'. c^.rper-
Uo pp •'•-,•■;- --fi Tiore o.f a hunter nnd trT.rper
-^ r '^^ 1 i •"■ i r: u r-' trn;n"n,": v;?f-" I', he r-.-^nie r^- Jem i :
■ !-■ , . -s ■ ' i-]ip ^■atne t j f 10 .
, frnn' went h i r; •.■/■ly while Jennie '.vert
r ^ • t- •- ,-■ '"q,- -t ; -,-hr cr ■ -^ '■ fir';. orp. in
■ ■ ^ ■ •" ■ ■ ■ t'd States ur,/ed hh' ' - '-■ '" c .
' ■? T,'":ney Vie hnd .-'fn'od, r :'"'
- -p.-;tnj-: 'n Chicn'To, Ho. nt-^-yed *--^-^r ■ " ' ■ ■. _-
;■ :• ,Ti-;ni ov'- --'- -^ , For iiive ye^:-'-!,! 'f^e wor'-'c " ■■
mcer nt • T,.,,pr.^ ""rc-i'ced in downton C'li.c ■ .. ^ -r:-
terin~" ^nd ■^■^r
tban a'lV"*'' 'r~ pIfo,
A rt^'r rnn "^i r
her'"". - ■-" ^ ' ,
n.ro u- ■ . ^ ' ., . •
He le i" I
'r.if5 brothers li'=
^■':nci thnt thP'r
+, ••; p Pri ■
■eel Uioir' n'?niR'-;, Ho wr^nted everyone to
"■ - ^ I ! R(l , HO llR f'l I . ' ' ' ' ■ . A I;
irr., he left Ch.icap:o and c ' Roc!;forn. no
ro,ip-c] --inployrfient with Hess anri Hopkinc Leather Coi/'pany. Tney
'in^le hfjrna:"p;e"? and f?;?dri2PG. In 1'^06, Frank bee ■ ■ ■' " ' '":d
citizen. ('"ee m^e P.) 'nrin" th?^t tj-'e, he f'.Hinci Om L Lf.a'
Jnnnip 'vnp in Rrr-vrord, 'Ac. dntnd hp^'-. On January 1.?, 1'108 t-.hoy
CPU NX V Ob" WINNKRAOO.
/n the Matter of the ISaturall/otlon of '^ .^77^ty/^)y ( i^fyi^^-v\
Be It Remembered, '\'\m\ millir '-^ '^ '''^ t\i\\ i\\ ^/^'a/<^ In tlir. yi>ar oI diir Lord
Nliicleoii lijiiKirfii i/ii^^'A^ y- lit'iNiiiiiiUy inipi>ai'i(llK'lore tlie llmiorable
l/lyliJ^'Ufu' Aj^liOt/ IPit'hldliiK .liidKiMif IlioCdiintyOourt nf tlio County of
Winnt'liiinoiiiid Slate al'inr.said (lli.'s;uiii hi'iiiKa ( '<iiiit of Ili'Cdtd, nf the Staiudl Illinois, havlnjfund I'Xt'rilsint'cipniinon
law Jill Isdld Ion, a Soal and iLiJ«'ik,aiic| sillliu,' judicially Icii llii^ dhjialcli (if liuslni'ssal llie Court lloiisi' In Dockford, In
the County iil'ori'said,; ^ ^/it-^i t^/yrf<V»t. an alien liorn, f roe male pprson, above t lie age
of iwenty-one years, and Hied Ids I'eiiliitn to t lit said ('oiirt, vnrllleil by Ills ailldavit praylnh! tu be cidinltted to beronie a
iialiirall/.e(| clll/.i'ii of the Ciilted Stales of Aiiieriea, lUirsiianl to the several Aetsof Conjfiess heretofore passed on that
i>iil)Je(t,iiiidf,siHclallvasset foiili inTitle:U), of the Uevlsed Statiitesoftlio United States, approved .liine:.'2d, 1874, and In
an Act entitled 'An Ai-t to regulate ilie iininit,'ratloii of aliens Into the United States,'" approved Mareli 3, A. U. l«t»3.
And the said alien appi leant iiaviiiM: produred to tlieC^oiirt record test iinonyKliowing that he lias heretofore reported
himself and llU'd his Jleclaration of Inlention to become a citizen of the United States accordinR to the provisions of
the several acts of Ciaitiress In that behalf, and It belnn made 3o ij^pear Ui^Uc siitlstaetlon of tiie Court, as well from
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In l''0'j, Prnn'^ ''nunrl thot. Jon iiip" vinp. liv'.n • in Rock '.'or d ,
He -a'^if; h-n ' p ■■ th? I", h"' I'nvmrl someone fror.i his ho);ioto"n in Sv.'fHien. Hf
Tpciot^-rt tViat It- r^»i^ I'ler. H' fre n,ip-.t, ]_'.' v] '"■ i 1p>'' h"r 'v'r-n ?:b''^
■■.--••^ r,--,'.'- ■ nt^ -1'^ " fi-' "■ -! , -l-^nnie ••■ns ril'::o iv'-r-r'' to doto sorri'-^on-- s'r.-
'■"^ ' ■ . \Ttp-r n "---ir t—! ' hnll', thf^y kne ■ they went-^'d to cret
H!'- !'■'•■ ■' i. '''n •Tgnupir ■ '?, VOP t!i!?v v/f^re lanrr.ied.
One? thev 'vore rriorri-"d, Jenni? quit h'^r ,io . They i ' "
mcv'"'^ into n r?nt"d hous-^ in th^ 1.100 bloc' ~ ' Avenue?.
(S-^o p-' 'T'h'--. he one story with five rooms, Franic
CO" '-, i'T'ed to ,■.':'■' *" ' •' ■ ■vl Hopkins. ."rpniiio f. !"■'.• e-d ' '■
'-'- i>-!i-- in th'-' h- ■■-'. 'l ^0'-), Their fjrst d-;i -hto'- , ^.illi^-.
.■-'^' ; Of'- . i ;- A'l ■. ' ■ ' , "I'oir '■'^cond dau 'htnr, Cl^if ^ '"-orr ,
iV'th '-■iP r- ■' • '•- ' ''": ■ '■'"'■ I >":i- '' 'ni 'J :'nni-^ fell" th^t they
noeded rrio'^''-' ''""or,!. "In "!.';'! ■';, Ihr-'.^ p- rn!-:nred n l:wo ^tory hou.so v;ith
■-'■ r'O'/" -^ f 1 ■■■1 o f;jj,^^py ;\venwe. ( ."^~-'" '■';'■'? ^'-') Phqt r--rio venr
I. '=r "■ ! r'-!;, ■• .- '■ -v- ^ '"v-p yeqrf l^it-T , ^di*;': wnc ""o^ >. rranlc Tnd
"■'o-.r-'^ ■ ■■■v'" ' ~ '-■•-•r 11 e to.'':etrie'" r';5i".in.~: t.h?.ir children.
( I-' ■:'.-r. ' ) J -", : , t'-":-,niG ^'c md om1. that r;he )iq:! tu erciilc'cic
Sh" v;ent to ^. ]•'-'■ e r i !'• ' r^- i 'JTnit'i '"'■, vr.ore sho reiiig.ined ,."or one
\'P'^i-. ' , ■ ■ , '■ . ■ • ■-_ f-, the "76 o'' x'0'irt-^-''ine ,
[''r-'.n ■ ■ ■ ^ .' ' contin';'?d tc live in thei^r" \ C^.rnc"
."'■V '"'"■■. '' '_ , ■" ' eh i !• '^■^'^■n left hOTne, Frr*. ' j ■
- : -: ■ ~ ' t ' '. ■ " ■ ' ' '■ :r 1 etor. de li.ved th-'
■= ' -■ - - ■ ■ - - . T,-, iQ/j.'^, ho r^r/.rri -;^ . ' -nd
■■■ ■ ^ ^O'^ond ' ' ' :' ' ^ ','' th AV'-^^' ■ ' ''.he p-Mne
nre-i. (See >->p-e30) Hi- wife di'-d in 1.0''l7. •
10,
:r several ronthn. He rol-.irpd frcrn Ho: ■
■ ' , ■ -iter i'iar'.''''rnt . Hr ^
lon^inB , and v/en '.
• 1 th her i;rr!: ' 1
THE NYGR'N F LilTY
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i.^'.^ph P.iech?! nncl hi? wif"- Ronelee, (So- - >,
; • ^Tiors in Poland. They 1
of tha vill-"" Jpl'^^.T^n. (3oe y.-'o 1 5)
- '' ■''n-u" p^ i "I i r-;*- . T/n'" hn,i! tv/o '">roth'^ -.'; , Jonr
^ho
Th~- ho'i'- -b-" ]■v-^,-! i ^1 v'^is 9ir:H^ir +0 thoi.-e of otriC" i-o"! lr;h
■ ' ". . r " "1 Ittp:'-' Io^'' i^'^^jPt E:r'n oornor ri ' tr. p cai in
■■■"•'■ '."-r ■■->- ' ■ -. In mn co'/n^r, tm chil/iror i':i.?-:rit sleep,
in nnoth^r corv^or 1.1 o parents Tai-?ht sleep, one corner v/'3n used
for co'.kjii;': , "'■'' t'c :'' - '■ ;■■ " ■ ■ v. J U-; :'J 1:" i/cT .;.
TiO l:'ior •■,'i Ih l",h':'
' - :: .•■ ' w : l"-lp froro his .vo.ij. ;io ouCH.'^lon-
•, ■\r\'\ ':lairy C0'"c. The :?;i^lri h'.3lped their
1! chores, V-ut they ^Iso helped " round wp
^ :ieritl',' viste.i t'':e rvarVot. Kvery .'.'ed-
., ' loy ".'ould brin;'; y;h'^t TO-:ir\'.i they h"d to
;- ^ 1 "! '• ■ ' ■" ' . "■ '■ ■ , 'ley they received '.vent for ""ood':; ■'"he;/
ouro'" v^d . The "^ood:^ 'vere oTton l-i-'^ou.'"'Vtt in "Tro::' Zy,'' '",
■Jo, - ■ :^ >'^i"p strict Cf^tholies. Rel ' .Tiicn .va? a
'•'-■'"'■ ' ■ '- "^' * ' 1- '■•,nily life. The children were
' ■ - .:-....- .,, . -, ^ of^en -vithin ■ ■: ' ■ ' ' .;• ■ .
S-in r ' ■ - -^ r : , - 1 ... : • . . '
n^o, ' ■ .er and cel-^hr-'" ^ ■'•"■'''' ' .
Boc3,UL"e reli.".ion
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Anna fitgrtoi Rcho"! wli-^f, -i,-:. .va -; ..'i ■ ■ ' ' ' '.'. i;.;; . r;.''"
•.,■,.- r.,-1 ■ rx:"- vovM- , :;i,.- ,1 • r^-^ ' t liFive too fa:" ' ' ■h-o''. 1^-:
fnc!, :■ i ■ ' ' r : .Tod so gVie c ' : •'' .-^
from thei.- ii-llt.'^.p cab-]n. .^choTl visr. held five d?,vG '^. ••.•-'•
out t-.';io ;'r.-:r. !"^very Gchool d'w, the children ■,"■.■: . n • ' '',..-
of -^ ;-, .-^ r-Q h ', " 1 ' -. -T 1 ■ ; e . .1 'lie r, p • e f:; t w o u 1 d 1> J. e r. r- t h '.^ ■' i t '^ f t o t h ^^ ;-.'
f-'-t to cl-ir-f^, Th'^ cirr '.cvilnn w-"-" rnninly r" '' ', ' ' . ,
-^r' ''■"' ■"•?'■.' 0 , A.nnM ]e-irnod to coo'' ■" ' ■': ;r ■ -^ . ' -
hro I do»"v q^:i oi"oohol" vcv ■« |t,= i^ f'';vorLte for.'.iF! of -r^odl"^ ■' t^ ' . A"''
■3?;e r.ev ■ , .' ■ >- --■■ "Vr^^i' coru/jnion, T'ro;~ vqn o festive
O'-^^Tnion, :■ ' ' ' '"-artsen, -''." ■" ■- ' > .r" r:
'^oh 00 1 . ' ' ''■"-''■ n ,
Once "'
ch ■ Id t^-'^i fr '
home t^ ner^ iior
to her f-t-; - .
rltn ".'ork in Gernany '.vlth
'. L'Afer.v ■.'■'■''' el' end I she \'-':^i,il'' "^o
d ',0 t'urn ^he monov oh"' earr;od ovei"
>'-j=' of her friends h^id r 'o the t.'nited "-^tatep
T'mo" .■ - • • ^ •>-, G ~'Jrn "ed her to .ic.ln thei-i. She
h'-'ji no r., - •- ■ - ! - T 1 h ^r 0".'n , ?o hor ^i'?)<:^- ■■ '••> r.er the
":""■"'"-■■ i""i -'m; -■ , A'*":r.:i IVT^e^ ho l-'--v'' home, 3he vv :- very c^"'f=ie
*-,- w.T)- p'-'-.-.- n ■-.;? . Al t'ri'">i.i -~h ■t'hey :"!?.d heen ^t.r.ic'"., the d.i ?^,c l rh. 'nary
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STM'iLrlY JOHN KRAlC:{,Yi'. ( FATlifiNM. :;,i/^Ni)l''A'riII%lO
i"o'"i IT'S, i.RR'-i- Triy ""rq>'>r1 f'-> t'ler " ' ' ;:■ •
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!'.■• '"v Ann .
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■-■.rr' ' ' ' ', P'^:. ) n i n'"" •■'^ro ■ Ipo l.i.'<:e her.-. T'ti^ holi'i ■ •-
c^lebr ■ ■ ■ ■.•----. -,,.-„,,, p.p ^,^Q f-'rfij.ly. The
'^iTicif, ' '' . , -. -■',-_- ^ Jo'^n npver hesitated to
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'■el''. !.- ni"'-'von .in Chi.c~:"o i.' the
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fii'^i^t lif.o, ':hoy lived In an np". rt;;,pn t huild-
• i ,,,1 ^,,. I ,, •^^..,^,.^.^ Charles liveri with the;:'.
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■"^'"'' ■■'■'" ■ '- I ' ■ ^^•■.■'nlev 'A'^.s l3id ol'f. Ir : ' ,,: .;?ir,ily mov-^i
to r'oc ■'''';■''■ i . T'-e fnr-My lived in n b3rn for ^-^vonl ::', c ! 1 1: h r- jnr''
"l tpri] oy ;ro'ir"d r'tl'D"' ' " t F,!T.Gr;~;On EnTiT' ' I ^ '
" ' ■. .-'.:■ 'tori-ed hi'-; .ioh, ■-- -i. -im - ; -^
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'oorn a partnon t on Co:l-r ':.; i r'^..^t. . (.■Inrj -p^p- ; .- : '-
I hpro in l'")!':. Joanph w;^s born t?iore in ■1913« *''i.t,i-!
■',"'. ' ■ ' 'o r'';n I r>. t,v;o Btory h'u:'o
■ n CI' I -nue. (^ep^ ra ■ e ) In 1,015
' ' ' ^2i. 'inr.a j.lQ.n't_l:o '.'/or'c r^n LL_C'-.i1Ll._'-
I ■" ^ ' ■■; liorri. A vcar later Julif! \va;"i born. /They liver.) cyo.
■'. ' ■ "ntil. !'-''''L. r'ron l.'nere, fney inovefl to ■.? houfce
An mi qui t her.._,io_b.
t'l^it. S t.-inl '-\' "'•"'lilt o" Lincoln Avennp . / (ooe p;\rp -".'M In l^?-,
l-';"v li!''"!''^ - itoii?53 on iV!onte-'Uf^ Ro':id . 'Phe.v sold their h^me on
Li -no -\ '-n^io, qncl '-j't^nley "•"o tired fror! iMnerson brand in^-ha.vi, h^
'/ii;CHl.J.^,-.':V.-L-l born there .
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tho 1 >" h. o'!
cnttlo hi.)
- ■ ; Ir,.::-:. Lr, l.^''-^, thoy rented o'lt
", '1 f-irnii on Anbi- rr F]tre?t, They continued
>'}0 t,hey I'T?'/'"^ no t/r- ' r o'" AuhMr-'^ Streot,
(•'■ee pT 5:e ':^0) T'-^oy rr?tnrnod to ' ■ '.."■'■ to ^-^'le ho..!e:::tead , Stanley
continu'^d to hM" ■ • ' i oittle until 19'':'. Anna vvorired ■'.lor.*'
with ' ' . 1 ■■ " ■ ' the cn'ldren r^revv i.'p<, eot I'l-rri-d,
3r,d mo^'od ■-■ •'■iy -fro''! ^lone, !-;■! ^pl =■■' r'^tip'"! \p I"?'',.', ne died
Or-'rn^r^--'' \ : v',k ^ -i- i--.- - , - ,- .■ - .^
D';rin" t'"'"'"i" li^'e ■ l:o''f=t'^cr , t'''">v ho^'n ^tten^Iod oT-int St '. ■
C'ltholic Churoh. " -.^po devoted iiionitar-'. (See belov;)
ST. STANISLAUS CHURCH
1329 MAGNOLIA STREET
ROCKFORD, ILL.'
July 22, 1957
To Whom It May Concerns
This is to certify that Anna Krawciyk has been a member
of this parish from Its veiy beginning, that Is from the year
1912, as Is shown on the official Parish Records.
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OFFICIAL COPY Id'
SAINT ANN'S CHURCH
1814 South Letvitt Street Chicago 8, Illinois |R|
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^ /IccoMiUtf to t/te li.ite o^ the R.o*Ha*t GcMtoUc CkuncU }$^
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' and in conjurmilii with Int lauii of ijM
' ik. Stau ol^ML^vy-^:^^ I
j at apptari from ln» rHarriaat Keaiittr of thii L^nurcn. J*}
!.;AH:;M'^IsT riYGKEN (l^iOTHRR )
to l''rpnV NyTPn --t- ' ' ' f 3 Jen
Carney Ave-nue is loc-jted in t'l
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■'■ iiwest section of. Rockfori.
•-■ ■ '-^ of four H -n h-t, -?■"•■-: n-n-n
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• ' ' ' ■ -story '-■-:■ . . ' :-
••.: , " :linins; r-^c " , • '■ ' 1 ch'^ri , -irn
1 thr'"e l"ied rooms. It ^ ';}•.=; Joc"tod
,- ,-, ■ o 1 too"' ^ooi care of
, ■ ' t hoc children
' ' ! I'-rr-on, and ivanter! her
,.,:; ohiir;::i'i. Sh-' -ilno w'mt^ri thor:
, 1, ^ ] ,-1 ^^^, -rny.,.-, very c.los'? to thei'^
ly , h':t '"^ T---:i-,^.>- --.how'e:' "' t n" 'v.-i.-h - ^
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- ■ , ' "-l Jennif? riiin't '.»"■• n1; • ' ' .
.-.v-o ?•-,•;•;•-,.> nr-p t-jonr, Rein I; i ve."^ woul'i corns to th.eir hour'?.
Thev/ v/o'il^l ri-?nce , " ' ■■ ~ ' "^^2:3 , pnd r-jTl n;ood food. ■--.'- y--: ■
opr-'^^Ao^-^ ...Mr. ...•li^-.-, ' . ■ ' 1 Y -0+ t'Vioir ■'■i !->•■• I- n-r ■ ^ ■ ■
• -|t' •■r^honl ■.■,'h'~r ■ 1 ■. - ' . yi'e a i".ten ■ '-o
■ -• • ' ' ■ : . oh'=' "f''^'«;-n .'''pnt to l-ioo'-ovol t Jun.'ior
" i "• • .1 ri ' '."■ , ^h^ ••■Til to ^^pnt'""^] ■rH.-'^h Sch'^ol . Owrin.": th-^t
' ' " , "'T r?oi'^^ " '■'■'^■'^ •-i'^^'': 'A/i |-,h 1:irmro il ''^r ^ r; ^r^^c] '] ' ^: ' , ; .--r her
iriofTp.^ ■' , ^ • ' ' ■- -' '1 iren helr^ed tnkp c-to of the yoi\n'';er
c'"ii1.d!"-> . .' . " . . ,-.^t ^rT'''i.q tf^d fr-- - '_ : school, -^he
(--,r>v, ■(--.■'.--.i , - ■ .,,,,-) toolr c'-re of li.er -.ister
C "' '"^n , "/'no ■' ■ ■ . 'ifter her r--isi",-T Oi :':>?] ''T' better, .•;?. rf-'^r^t
'■/en' ',.•■•■-•,• • : - .-■ - ' < . "■:•"•. S;tp worked ■ -• ' -'.id
for t'','o yonr-"'. •' " "1 ^'•'■'^ ' '^t i^'jlrli /Anderson. ^ :.'^y
'\'~i •"Pi'l '"■id 'VOTO r' ■"• tpv ' '^.'l ,
In 1 "'', i"h<=y ronted 3 hou''!o on ''.lovonth A'/enne. i*'ar:Tr'.r'?t
"»;ont to '-or • " -i-'-i- t -^?'- " '^ y in the In^- recti on department.
In 1 ^'^1, :"':^° ';'it )"i''r .'|o'' theC'-^, n-'d ■vent to wor^^ at Aonerp,
•^'':'^ -"^v- • ■ • ' " ,,,.•- ,,.^^^ ^ +._ 1^, 1736, ?hi^^ "nit. ■■5r
li'iM-piop ,;; -1 . - . - ■•-^1-1. I >i l:;)'::, AH 1 \ 't \v:-^,3 dr-afl.^^d into
t- V' O ri »-< \ • ^ • ^ - • ■ ' - -^ ,~ ■ ' .^ - •:; 1 :■■-■..■":■-■■-,.-" t - -. ' - " ■ • -"
'J "■ 0 , ■..""'^ .■"■'^ ' ■ ,. 1-..-; ., - '-. r* ^ ■-' 'V^ '.•'•■^ip""^^ j- ". .- p i^ 17.- . ' ^ '1
' ■■^ ^ ' ''''. • ■ " ' ' " '.:"•-:-• '-md •'.'^r- ^'-jpn ciii'-: to'*- • .^ .
, Free
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ARGARST MY(
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JOoRPH K^AvVCZYlv (FATHI'K )
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t'v"> iTind 0 '' ■ '"!,'' S^t^'iloy ht"^^ .-.ntn rvn . They +.,qii'"'nt i:hei.'"
rr i -,' '^ - ■ • ■
w ^ ^ h t, 'o r> \ T ro rru 1 1 ^
' '. Ir otl-ier wct'Is , the ch.il rir^n
, ' ' : '■ ■ ■ -> r- nover hesitated to
v-'o. Ann.'T ''kif, strjct ^ '"" , ' '' ^ she
:. both of ' '"- ' '-'".v?. Gtri'^t Cnthr^lios,
"" ~no.i rolirious eiucation elori'
en. -i-'h^y z-^v.' to .'.t tlv-it the chllrlr^'^.
: ■" ^ ■ "• ■ r firt^t nornrr.uni n os , or'' .vere
o on "^ , rn' -^ '' . ', - '' •-" »^- . _' 5 )
Josei-^h started ■•chool in l')l). .le wont to O.i''. Bp^rber .3ohool
, ho 'vor''p'' thpre 'or obo'.i
olvo v"?'-i' ■ • iJ" I.- '
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• ■ "re mrripd. Jor-'eph i o-/n ^ n the houso iwar^3ret w-?^'
':"<?;ht, StrRret . At r • ' ,p, he ovvnc'-l ■ \ '-■■-: r.
bus i.neBS in Buron . Shortly ^fter thRir nifjrrrgge, t'no' ■ -
■''^•'' '- '-"■-■'■ ■■ ■■ ^ • .. it includ'-H F;i;.: : ■ i--- o^ t- .
t. in .1 '5''j| 'Toi-pph pt ■;•!.■_ ted to "-oiil'j a hon.se in
'' I to i^cv-;, bec'-i.u.se ber d:iU";bter
^ ' ' ' '^spr; t-'-q i ni n." , and her fnthcr ■vap '■ ' -. ■
"" ■ ';"<nect li-"^. On iVi^rch ?", 19 5^^ T. (Jc Ann
''" , i'Hp iipa of rnovinp- lo /iryO'i ■/■??•. ■fT'iven ur^,
— ' "' ' ' '• " "f^nted out,, Jn 1'''^8 Josepii
•'■'■, ;:o he ooiild stay homr- more
! '' , ■ •■, lit to vvor^' for Ir. '3?":-sol 1 I'lillJnp-
ii i.vor'-n f-pif'O, :.,•- r '"'1 r :' i Ir^ st i 1 1 -^
They b-f. l"l o
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I -.oil 'i-pr '~
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^re mnrried. Jor-:eph i',0''-; ^ o ' ■'- ■ ".so. hiar.Tgret v/sr,
■ • ' S + rf^fft. At' M i^ ■ r'r;, ho o'wnci \ ••■-rn
bus i.nf5BS in li\rron . Shortly lifter hl'i^lr m?jrr').ic',e , t'no' ■ -
+ h" hill Mi- ' i- 'i:- ; .■- ■■ ,- '• .. it inrl i' ' r^ i ;• ; -. ptr.on ts ,
Tb°y «i:iTI own "t. In 1 '^o, Joripph pt:jrted to hn i 1 .-1 p he -c i-
fiyvr.i, -, ■ ' ; ■ -; ■ ..' +r ".":■, bec'-^iii-se ber dvi; '^ ' ';r
ri-,pi..~ ,, ''!''- '^sp;-; t-'oin.inr, r:^.r;d hor f'^t'ior ■' '■ '■■
' ' *' " ■ . ;■ - " - 'v<r.ec+, i.i"';'. On Win re h 2 ". , 19 5t' T. (Jc Ann
Tine hoii-" ■ ■ ■ ' . ^ 1 -T . J . . -. -.,,ri ,,r| 1^111,. in ' .-,,-, jo^epii
"^^Id h' ' ' ■ ■ ■■■ 1- , CO he ronld ctav horn-" more
"'■ 1'^ '^■" :' ■ ' ;. . : ':"'>''•, ' ■■, -^-it to 'vor'- V-r^ iv,.^.'.oon lullljnp-
'■irh'n'-' C ^ ■■■-.■■ pv' , :\ '■■ n ' i i 1 wof't: t-'^i.-'n. . - r' ^ r I i.r^ ot'l] q
■TO ■.r:i\
■ '" ' ' , i ' ' ■ " Kockforii , J llino: ■■ , ■
' ' ' '■ Wosxyif.^l, . iVjy parents are I'lr. =ind Wr? . Josep'"
'r--i .'C'-y' . ' ' Jn,";orsoT 1 !.'!ill.1n-j '"achlnn Oomprny.
'v mof'.er if? n honE:!ewii'e , 'Vg live in coini'nrt.Th] e t'-^-o f a'.n ly
'■"ou':'=) '^ t TU9- Bth i>tree1 . / 1 ' \"^ l i v-^-: tWere nrnce the dsy
Tfiy p'-ir-p"' I ' : ' >- - - or:' f'ro,"; tie 'noE^pi t'.;.l. 1 hnve one s"-:-"tGr",
C'-':' rlpr '" , : ■' ^-'v cV-ir,r» to iior ■"ind r.iV pTCfrnt;?" . I. h-av^ ii'i.i
on nctiv'"." -"ni ' • ■- ' IdVi'^o'! .
V/hcn T '■ , ■ v^H '•. Inir:'!"— '1 r1;en at Ti-.rn«r GClicol. i
.••"n t '•■(-• ' r: M-|^ f-'i-Ti -^i-.-.';,^ , Diirin5T tl^.ot tine, I tcok (iancing
1 ^'"f: ')•■"■• , ■•v • ■ - -, 1--. ,,-. , ^ 'horseback ridinip; Icsf^-ons, ?nd . els
-v f!,---i- ^- • ,,_ ; ; ..---•-OK pp_2')^
'.''.''-'." " ■ s +■•."=> T ',- '-^ , , ■■-•-,!- !c Lincoln Junior "i^'', ^ ',v-s
only fnoT'^ for i"' '-r-.r.-, yin-int^ t'rrit ti-;iO, my o-re^^ts bcuJilrt
no l:''.'0 honrip'- , ^ ' - , , oontinuod ly horr;o^"':ck-r'i d 1 ^'■■'■. (See :
T'-. 1 ■■•■'' , - +^ p.-.,;,t '-f'rVi p-h:o]. 1 f^raiu'^ t-Pd fro... t.her«
Jn r^'i. .1 ■> ^ .- ■ ' ■ -■■.- ■-■:■'■ V'lloy CoUo;"?. 1 nlan on
tnon'^f'^-^r i^r to >■ ' i - ■ ,- • .- nnivorr.'ly "c'nool of Nursinp; in
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