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| 20501 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Panek, Logan Bryant (I371815)
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| 20502 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Ruth, Joanne Marie (I371816)
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| 20503 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Garvin, Kevin Patrick (I371817)
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| 20504 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Garvin, Kevin Patrick (I371818)
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| 20505 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Ruth, Kerry Michael (I371819)
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| 20506 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Schmeider, Carla Ann (I371820)
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| 20507 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Ruth, Ian Michael Schmeider (I371821)
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| 20508 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Ruth, Charlotte Elizabeth (I371822)
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| 20509 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Ruth, Paul William (I371823)
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| 20510 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Ruth, Sarah Therese (I371825)
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| 20511 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Ruth, David Patrick (I371826)
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| 20512 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Ruth, Theresa Marie (I371827)
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| 20513 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Ruth, Daniel Paul (I371828)
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| 20514 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Ruth, Elizabeth Mary (I371829)
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| 20515 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Knudsen, Timothy Douglas (I371830)
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| 20516 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Knudsen, Zachary Douglas (I371831)
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| 20517 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Knudsen, Margaret Mary (I371832)
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| 20518 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Knudsen, Jonathan Allen (I371833)
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| 20519 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Knudsen, Stephen Thomas (I371834)
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| 20520 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/u/t/Brigitta-R-Ruth-Acworth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0030.html | Knudsen, James Joseph (I371835)
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| 20521 | http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/c/h/Jim-Schafer/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0001.html Notes for Michael John Schafer: My Dad, "A Little Of My Life History: As told to Sister Charlene in an interview, with John also in attendance. I am one of twelve children in the family.I was born in the year 1896, 12th of February.My father, Johannes Schafer, was a blacksmith by trade.He blacksmithed from the time he was married until the year 1902.At that time he decided to go out into the country to farm instead.There was not too much in blacksmithing--there were about 12 other blacksmiths in the colony of Speier, which had a population of about 10,000.The colony of Speier had no railroad going through it and no boat service.Before my father had to enter into the service (military), the war had ended , so he didn't have to go.But they definately decided to leave for America to get away from militarism. (Editor's note: The Colony of Speier is located in the Province of Kherson, 106 versts from the Capital of Odessa and 4 versts from the border of the Landau district.The Beresan River divides the Colony.The first settlers were from the Rhine region of Germany.The main occupation of the settlers was agriculture and ranching.There are many familiar names in the roster of the first settlers of the Colony, however, this writer was not able to authenticate or trace any of these family names.The family names include Frohlich, Gerhardt, Buhlinger, Wetzstein, Wagner, Stockert, Schaf, Vogel, Keller, and Kunz, to name a few.One name in particular was that of Michael Schafer, age 60, son of Michael, from Bietigheim, Baden.Wife's name Margaretha nee Herdwick.One son listed as Michael age 26, wife Angela nee Weisgerber.Again this writer is not able to draw any authenticated ties to this Schafer family, but one would believe that there is relationship.Source of editor's information is "The German Colonies In South Russia 1804 to1904, Volume II"by Rev. Conrad Keller) They had three boys then, me, Michael, my brother Louis, and the baby Jerome.So in the fall of 1907 they sold out all of their belongings.After we had our sale, we moved into the Colony of Speier to straighten out all of our bills.We had a house there and some debts left over.So we sold the house also and got the tickets to Mandan, North Dakota.We bought the tickets from the officials there in Speier.Two of our uncles, Uncle Steve and Uncle Valentine took us to the City of Odessa.They took us with the team of horses, and two wagons filled with all our belongings.We had bedding, clothing and some provisions of food for on the way.It took us two days and a night to get to Odessa.Then we boarded a train and traveled another night and two days before we reached Antwerp, Belgium, where we would embark for the United States.We had to wait there for three days for the boat that was supposed to take us across the big pond. But on account of a storm on the ocean that boat never got there.Plans were changed therefore so that a smaller boat, a freighter, was prepared to take on the passengers.This freighter would take quite a bit longer to get across.In all we were 13 days on the "Big Pond".Two of these 13 days were so stormy that we just stood still, not moving in any direction until the storm had subsided. Then we had a shipwreck on the big pond.The crew of the boat had gone on the wrong side of an island and hit a rock, causing a leak in the freighter.It was damaged quite badly, we were up to our ankles in the water in our rooms on the boat.There were 600 families on this large boat: counting the children, I'd say there were about 2,000 persons besides the crew.This happened about 3 o'clock in the morning and it was quite a commotion.Everyone was afraid this was the last of us. (Editor's Note:Dad told me that the crew and capitan had been celebrating that night and left an inexperienced crew member in charge of navagation.When the ship ran aground, the capitan and crew sobered up in a hurry.)There were some fisherman on the island.With their help, the crew ran the boat up on the beach, shot some cables over onto the island.These were caught by the fishermen and tied around the trees to steady the boat until the men on board could bail out the water and mend the leak.A ferry was made--all the mothers and children and, and the men last, were taken by rowboat to the island.A few of the people were guided to leave the boat by way of a ladder made of rope down the side of the ship, to get them off more quickly.My brother Louie, and I were among this group.We were put on a small steamer and taken to another station.It took us about two or three hours to get to that station.There we boarded a train,about 200 of us, and were taken then to the destination that we had intended to make with the freighter: Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada.It took us about seven or eight hours to get there.Our mother and father, brother Jerome, and older sister Mary Eve and younger sister Perpetua(Sr. Magdelen), were on another boat which took them three days to get to Halifax, because they had gone by a round about way on water to get there. (Editor's Note: Dad told me that he and Louie were very afraid that they would not see their parents or family again.He said that Louie cried and cried, but he knew he had to be brave and take care of Louie. On the third day when they were reunited with their parents, he said, "When I saw my dad, then I cried!") In Halifax we boarded a train, the Great Northern, which routed us down to St. Paul, Mn, where we changed to the Northern Pacific and started on the last leg of our journey to our destination marked on our tickets: Mandan, North Dakota. When we got to Mandan, dad ran across a friend who had left Speier five years previously and made his way to Mandan.Dad asked him if he knew Adam Wetzstein, my dad's school friend.He said yes, I know Adam, he works at the hardware store of Hegarts.He took us to Adam Wetzstein's where there was a happy reunion, then immediately he ordered a drayman to get our belongings from the depot.We all got on too and went to his home.We lived in the Wetzsteins' basement for two weeks.In the meantime, father found many more acquaintances of his that had moved over from Speier, among then was Adam Schaff, from Odense, Paul Schaff's father.Adam Schaff had just built a new house that summer and had vacated his sod house.It was still liveable, so Adam Schaff came in with his team and wagon, loaded us up and took us out there to our first home in America, the sod house.We lived in that sod house until the 24th day of February.Then we moved to Fallon and lived with a cousin of Adam Schaffs'.That Fall, October of 1908, we moved into the stone house where I lived with my parents, brothers and sisters, until being called to the military service, because of World War I.I was stationed in Camp Custer, Battle Creek Michigan.I was in the service just a little over seven months, then the war was over, and I came home.*** By this time I was 23 years old.I decided to start in life myself.The family was used to me not being there to help with the farm work.I heard of a girl in Haliday, North Dakota, that she was available, from her Aunt, Emelia Pfaff.My mother went up there to see about it.When she had looked into the situation, she made the arrangements.Then on July 7, 1919, we were married in Richardton, at the Benedict Abbey.The parish priest at Haliday was then on vacation, and Richardton was the nearest parish. I had already bought a farm.We moved right into our own house in Grant County.The following year, March 30, 1920, our first son, Leo, was born.We lived on that same first place until 1924.Things were very poor, very rough, crops were bad, so we couldn't make our payments on the farm, so we lost the first place.So we rented a farm close by where we stayed until 1926.We had pretty fair crops during that time, and I was able to buy another place.I bought a half section of land and just raw prairie.Then I bought an old house and granary and another small building in the area.During the winter I moved it up there to my land.In the spring of 1927, I moved into that place then, the place which is now owned by my son, Adam.My son Pete was the first child born there in '27.In 1929, through a faulty chimney, our house caught fire in the spring of the year, just before springs work, and burned to the ground.I was just getting grain ready, cleaning it, with the help of my brother-in-law, Matt Vogel and my brother Valentine.We saved only a few scraps of bedding and furniture, but not very much, most everything was gone.So we lived in the granery, a pretty good sized, fairly new building.Then we built a new house, the one that is on the place now. In September of that year, 1929, our son John was born, in that new house, just before I had the furnace installed.I remember it was pretty cold already, in that September.The Sunday after he was born, I had the furnace already there, so I obtained a man, Gabe Hoffman, Bob Hoffman's brother, to help me install the furnace, so as to obtain heat and comfort into the house. In August 20, 1931, our son Richard was born.He was the last one to be born on the farm.After that the Doctors changed their habits, they did not go out into the country anymore.They had a maternity home in Flasher.Mary Lou, our second daughter, was the first to be born in the maternity home (of our children).The home was operated by Mrs. Tomlin at that time.The doctor was Dr. DeMolley.By the time our third daughter, Margie was born, Mrs. Emelia Pfaff was running the maternity home.Virginia and Jim were likewise born at Mrs. Pfaff's maternity home. School.We had trouble all the while with school.Our children had to go out of the district where we lived, we lived in Weeks Township, but they went to Otter Creek Township school. It was closer and a pretty fair road ran from our home to it.It was two and a half miles to Otter Creek school, five and a half miles to the Weeks school and no road at all.So I had to battle with the school district.Our township officials did not want to pay any tuition for our children--which is the government policy for public schools -- to the Otter Creek Township.And the Otter Creek officials needed that money to pay their taxes and their teachers' scholarships, and expenses of upkeep.But in the end, since they could not provide a road, they finally let our children go to the nearer school.We wanted all the children to have some time in Catholic school, taught by Sisters, so Leo and Otto went to St. Peter and Paul School in Fallon, for a year in preparation for their First Holy Communion.When Sister Charlene (Caroline) was eight years old she went to St. Nicholas school in Garrison, and stayed with Grandma Fix,Pete and Adam were prepared by the Sisters who taught Catechism in the summer months.BenedictineSisters.John went to the Benedictine Abbey School in Richardton during his high school years.Richard, Mary Lou, and Margie went to St. Anthony's boarding school.Flasher had its own parochial school, St. Lawrence Elementary school, by the time our two youngest, Virginia and Jim started to school.Otto and Caroline, (Sister Charlene), went to Flasher Public High School.Otto finished there, but Sister went to St. Mary's Central High School in Bismarck in her senior year, and graduated there.Leo, Pete and Adam did not have high school, but studied on their own.Otto and Leo enlisded in the government CCC Program and gained some experiences in Custer South Dakota.Leo was then drafted into the Army...On December 7, 1941.On his birthday, March 30, 1942, when he was just 21 years old, he left us for the service.Otto, Adam and Pete were also drafted.But because of having quite a bit of farming work at that time, I succeeded in getting them deferred, to help me on the farm.But Leo stayed in..... After Sister Charlene (Caroline) was graduated from high school, she stayed home one year, and then the following fall she went to the Convent.She saw an ad in the Sunday Visitor about the Missionary Sisters, Servants of the Holy Spirit, in Techny, Illinois.She wrote for information and arranged everything, then talked it over with her mother.Then they came to me.She had to have a physical examination and have her teeth and eyes taken care of, everything in tip-top shape, otherewise she would not be accepted.So we took care of that and she entered then in September, 1943. (Sr. Charlene: "I left on August 29 and stayed overnight at Stanley and Rose Pfaff's that night.Stanley took me to the Greyhound bus station on a rainy Tuesday morning.I arrived at Convent of the Holy Spirit, Septmeber 1, 1943 at 9:00 P.M., having walked two miles from the deserted shack of a railroad station that is Techny RR station.) She was there, as a postulant for a year,her health was not so good...she was taking treatments for her knees (which had been injured in a accident on the farm--the stairs all around the Convent proved too much of an aggravation of the still unhealed tissues). In the Spring of 1944 she had a chance to come home for a visit.She sacrificed her only chance to come home once again (as a prayer that God would let her keep her vocation.)The doctor had advised that she be dismissed.But the Sisters made a novena to the Founder of her Order to heal her knees so that she could be admitted.He did, and she was accepted after all. Leo had been in several army training camps here in the country - Texas and New Jersey. In the winter of early 1945 he was sent to England.(He stopped in Chicago, so he made his way out to Techny to see Sister Schafer (as Caroline was called as a postulant.)When they said Good-bye after a very short tour and the taxi came for him, little did she dream that it was the last time they would see each other in this life.June the 6th, Leo went with his fellow infantry men into France for the big battle of World War II.We learned later that volunteers were asked for to take a message across dangerous territory and Leo volunteered.They had all been given General Absolution before their departure into battle.Leo was shot and killed, while on his mission.He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, for his courage.He fell on the battlefield June 9th, 1945.It took quite a while until the official notification came to us.We were just ready to get into the car for a trip toTechny to rejoice with Sister Charlene on her acceptance into the Order as a novice when the telegram arrived.It was with heavy, heavy hearts that we drovethe 1000 miles to Techny, to our oldest daughter's investment, having just lost our oldest son, Leo in war.Joy, Sorrow, and another milestone also had to be marked on the day after our daughter became a nun.It was our ttwenty-fifth wedding anniversary July 7, 1945.A three-way celebration: our life together for 25 years, the death of our first-born son and our first born daughter's consecration of her life to God's Service in the Religious life as she received the white veil of a novice Missionary Sister Servant of the Holy Spirit.We renewed our vows of marriage.It was a hard day for us.But life must go on.We had to bear it all and continue. Sister Charlene: "When did you serve as a policeman"? Dad: I started out in 1949, just helping on holidays and weekends, when the chief was gone on sick leave or vacation.I was on duty 24 hours a day.Started the Watkins business in about 1955, and was with it about 4 years, then Mom got sick and I stayed around home or close by.In the year 1954, I hired out to the State Industrial School, the Reform School near Mandan.I was with this school for about 13 months, then Mom got a heart-attack, and I resigned from the school and stayed in town.For awhile I was a part-time rural mail carrier--a substitute for my son John, who was the regular carrier.This was for about 3 years.Bill Shearer was the postmaster. My son John followed in my footsteps in the law, becoming the magistrate judge of Flasher, until the town council changed the police system, and the judicial system was transferred to Mandan, the county seat. Sr. Charlene: " you mentioned to me once that you did some interperting once for some Russian people who came to the US to attain citizenship.Could you tell me about that"? Dad: I had entered the service on June 22, 1918.When the American officials were questioning the non-citizen members of the Army at Battle Creek, in a very officious kind of language and these German-Russians who had come over just as I did, as immigrants, but had never taken out citizenship papers, could not understand them.One of the officers asked them if they knew anybody who could talk English and also Russian.So they told him, "Yes, our foreman Mike Schafer can talk both languages."So he wrote out a note and sent one of them to take it to the commanding officer, who then put a man in my place in the blacksmith shop, and told me to go down to the office and be interperter for those men. So I went down, and told the men, in Russian, -- "This man is going to ask me a question, then I will ask you.Answer anything, say anything you want to, and I'll give hem the right answer, and We'll fix this out.Don't go to laughin' tho, and make a joke out of it, see?"So the official asked me, and I asked the men in Russian, then gave the answer in English to the Questioner.They were not required to know too much.They asked them, who the mayor of their town where they lived was, who the president was, what they expected from this country... So in just a short time, they were made citizens.Seven men.This was at Camp Custer, in 1918, August."Where did you learn Russian?, the questioner asked me.In Russia, I told him. " When did you come to this country?" I told him, "In 1907, when I was 11 years old." Next he asked, When I became a US Citizen? I told him I was not yet 18 years old when my father had his homestead approved.That was in 1912, November 19th.If you wish to verify my statement, you can call the Morton County Clerk of Court.His name is John Hendmann.He will tell you.I interpreted for my father at the time of his becoming a citizen, because he did not know the American language.So I became a citizen along with him because I was still a minor.The official did make the call to Mandan to Mr. Hendmann. He went to the records, took down the book and found the 1912 recordings.he then answered: "Yes, Michael J. Schafer became a US citizen on November 19, 1912."So the official said, "I guess you know what you're talking about. When the flu broke out in 1916, I had been in the blacksmith shop right from the beginning of my Army experiences.In October it got pretty bad.I had 104 men under my charge.I had 52 forges there and two men at each forge.This was in a long building, very drafty.One morning only about 15 of the 104 men came back to work, the rest were all sick with the flu, and we had a lot of work to get out .Prior to that I had been occupied with showing the men how to put the shoes on straight, on the foot of the animal, and when they had trouble with a horse or mule, I helped them.I'd out a cinch under them and kinda get the animal under control so he would mind, then they'd be able to shoe them.We had one stanchion for real bad ones.If we had trouble we'd put them into that stanchion with vices that could be clamped to their feet and screwed securely.So on this day when so many of the men did not report for work, but had to report to the infirmary and were put on sick list instead, and into the hospital, then I pitched in and helped those fifteen men that were left.I worked up a sweat and in that drafty building, caught a cold and came down with the flu myself.The next morning, I had to report to the infirmary with the papers of my record.the waiting list was long and while I was waiting I keeled over.So they pinned my papers to me, put me on a stretcher, into an ambulance and took me to the base hospital.There were so many coming into the base hospital that they did not have time to give them very good care.So, as soon as they saw I was unconscious and delirious, they figured there was no use bothering with him, so they put me in a storage room and left me to die.And there I was.But even with the high fever I had, I was determined to live, so I held on.I was there for two days without any attendance what-so-ever.Then when they saw, after two days that I was still alive, they took me inside and starting caring for me.Naturally I had developed double pneumonia.I couldn't write or do anything, but I had my identification with me, and from this they saw that I was a Catholic, so they called a priest.The Chaplain came and gave me the last rites and sat with me, but I did not know anything about this at the time.I was delirious.I did not know there was anybody around.I just know that I fought to live.Being young and never having been sick much before I survived and came out of it.As soon as I felt better, being young and ambitious I looked around and sized up the situation.there was only one elderly nurse taking care of rows and rows of sick soldiers.We had barracks that contained 32 men each.They were all filled with some sick, some not so sick and many dying just like flies.She was worn out, to say the least.As soon as I could stand up and walk again, I showed myself friendly and compassionate to her and she gave me a chart, and showed me how to take temperatures, blood pressure and how to mark it on each chart.It gave her quite a relief and she was very grateful.She had four barracks to take care of, about 128 men.So I took two and she had two.I was just 45 days in the hospital.On the day they discharged me, November 11, I walked down the street towards my company.During that time my suitcase and my barracks bag had been brought to me, so I was carring them and walking along when the Chaplain came riding out onto the road.I put my suitcase down and slipped my barracks bag off my back and saluted him."At ease, at ease," he said."You remember me?" he asked."No, I don't believe I've ever met you, Sir."He said, "I didn't think so."He told me that he spent two nights with me when I was in delirium, and was surprised to see me walk down the street alive and well.He said, "you tell your priest when you get home that you have already been anointed." I went on to my company to the remount area where the blacksmith shop was, and from there I was transferred to the 78th Infantary.Most of the men went home at that time, the war was over, but they put me into the supply company and I had to stick aroung until the last dog was hung.I received all of the supplies that the boys had to check in before they left for home.Then on February 2, when pretty well all the men had been discharged and their supplies in order, I was transferred to Camp Dodge, Iowa.It was the closest camp to North Dakota.When I arrived there they found that my vision was not up to the power that it should be, as a result of my bout with pneumonia, so steps were taken to clear that up.They put drops in my eyes, etc., and in the meantime, put me to work making roads, paths for walking from office to office in the camp.I was getting tired so I approached a leutenent who was quite friendly to me and told him I'd like to go home.He said he'd see what he could do.So he did work it out and got a discharge for me.I arrived home on February 24, 1919. I helped the folks put in the crop that Spring.There were three brothers that were big enough to help at home, Jerome, Louie, and Adam, and they were used to me not helping them since I was gone, so I went on my own.I went to Haliday with my mother and Mrs. Pfaff, Mom's aunt, Emelia Pfaff, sho told my mother that she knew a nice girl for me, her niece, Barbara Fix.I asked for her hand...and they turned me down!Mrs. Pfaff was Mom's Godmother and knew my parents well, and Mom's folks well.I took a liking to Mom right away, she was pleasant.Her folks were very strict.They didn't let her go around or out much.She went with her cousin, Tony Wilhelm to a dance or party sometimes, but otherwise she was very quiet, reserved.Finally after your Mom and I had talked for awhile, and the folks had talked in the other room for awhile, they came and talked with me...Grandma Fix was doing most of the talking and Grandpa was just listening.They still turned me down.Mom started crying, she liked me.Finally her father (Grandpa Fix) said, "go ahead, go ahead.Grandma Fix said nothing, but later she scolded him saying, "oh you always give in." So we talked to her Uncle Dan.He was quite a level headed man.We left and went over to Renners to stay overnight,that was on a Saturday.On Sunday we were there in the evening yet, Uncle Dan took Mom and brought her over to the Renners' house and said, "Yes, Barbara would like to marry you."So we set a time...two weeks from that day: July 7, 1919.We gave them time to make an investigation...they could come down and find out for themselves what kind of man I was.I don't recall if they did come down to Fallon or not, but I did give them some papers and evidence of what type of character I am, what I've done so far in life, and so we set the date and went ahead with the arrangements.And being it was vacation time their father from Haliday was gone on vacation, so we decided to get married at Richardton--that was the next closest other church, so we were married at the Assumption Abbey of the Benedictine Fathers at Richardton.There was another couple married on that same day, Schaff's from Taylor.After the wedding we went out to Haliday where the folks lived at that time and had a small reception and gathering there with all the trimmings, a meal and dancing.We were there until the following Monday.Mom gathered up her clothes and some things and we went down to Flasher. I had already bought a farm and had it furnished, so we moved right unto our own home...although it was not completely paid for yet...and started our life together there."That year happened to be a very dry year, and the crops were very meager that year.So I had to work out and scraped to gather enough feed for the cattle---we started out very poorly.My father's place was about 17 miles east from our place by Fallon, North Dakota, so we worked back and forth with them and did the best we could.We did not get back to Haliday very much because we didn't have a car and with a team it was too far, so Mom didn't get to see her folks much that first year.The following year, of course, I put in a crop again.My father-in-law, Grandpa Fix, had an accident at that time with an automobile and got severly hurt, so by August, he passed away, so he didn't live very long. (1922) Leo, our first-born son, was born March 30, 1920...Otto, our second son in July 1922.It was in '22 that Grandpa had his accident.He farmed a pretty good sized farm, and had a big crop that year.I helped to harvest their crop after I got my crop in.They had quite a bit of it already cut, but there was a great shortage of elevators to store grain, we had to pile the grain in the fields.So we picked it up from the fields with several of the neighbors outfits and hauled it to town and marketed it.Then we took stock of the farm, made an inventory of all their property, etc.When Grandpa had been so sick, he had appointed me and his brother, Dan, as administrators of his place, because he knew he would not live long.Uncle Dan was pretty busy with his shop, but he helped with the inventory.We took a third man as arbitrator and listed all the belongings, stock, horses, cattle, harnesses, machinery and everything and then in the fall had an auction sale, disposed of everything and straightened out the bills that he had.He was quite respected and trusted.He had a lot of credit, but the property he had was old and cheap, so it did not bring the full amount that it had debts against it.In time it would have worked itself out for him, but because of his untimely death, a lot of it didn't bring the price that it really should have.And naturally some of the second mortgage holders on it had to "hold the bag", so to say, theyjust did not get paid because the property didn't reach.He did have insurance and because he died in the accident it was a double indemnity and he was given $2,000.So I saw to it that that was taken care of so they could get a home.I instructed Grandma Fix not to sign anything without my knowledge so it would be safe to get a home.After the sale we took them down to our place in Flasher.They stayed with us the first winter.They went to school there.Rosie was just a year old at the time.Nick, Joe, Louie, and Margaret were with them.John was married.Then Grandma took her family over to Fallon and moved into the old Store building, close to the school, run by the Benedictine Sisters, where the children went, and close by the St. Peter and Paul Church. In the spring, Uncle Louie found a job with the Voight Brothers in Garrison, and Grandma went up there to look for a home.She found a small place, the place where they lived until she moved out to Oregon way after Margaret was married and living out there.Uncle John Fix died in Wyoming, away from his family who lived in Montana.Aunt Margaret died on the operating table of cancer.She had had a premonition and had all her affairs completely in order.(Editor's note. We are extremely grateful to Sister Charlene. More About Michael John Schafer: Burial: 26 Mar 1989, Flasher, North Dakota. More About Michael John Schafer and Barbara Marie Fix: Death of one spouse: 19 May 1973 Marriage: 07 Jul 1919, Richardton, North Dakota. Seal: Married for 53 years and 10 months at death. | Schafer, Johannes Michael Schäfer (I347816)
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| 20522 | http://www.genealogy.com/users/c/h/r/David-Alan-Christianson/FILE/0003text.txt MRS. CHRISTINA BENDER GROSS The following is the personal story of a courageous pioneer woman who came to Dakota Territory with her husband to find a home for themselves and their children. The story, appearing in the first person, was related by Mrs. Christina Bender Gross who was born in Kassel, Russia, in 1861. "My husband and I came to America from Russia in 1884. We came directly to Menno, South Dakota, arriving there on the 8th of October. There we remained for the winter. Deciding to go to the northern part of the state, we purchased live stock, chickens, and household supplies. On the 1st of April we took the train to Ipswich, shipping our two oxen, two cows, a few chickens, 500 pounds of flour, two hams, a small amount of sugar, and furniture, made by my husband. The articles of furniture possessed were one bed, one trunk, and perhaps the greatest necessity of all, a cradle. "At Ipswich, we hitched our oxen to a newly purchased wagon, and after loading our other property, started northward to McPherson County. We drove five miles the first day and spent the night with an American farmer who treated us very nicely. Our only difficulty remained in the fact that we did not speak the same language. They spoke no German, and we knew no English. They lived in a two-story house, and upon retiring, asked us to sleep in an upstairs room, but we were too frightened, having never even heard of sleeping upstairs, much less having the experience. Our kindly hosts, noting our consternation, allowed us to sleep in the downstairs bedroom. "The next morning we asked for the privilege of cooking our own breakfast, having some eggs from our chickens with us. However, the lady insisted upon our eating with them, and served us with pancakes and coffee. That was a real treat for we had never tasted pancakes before. The following summer we ate more pancakes than at any other time in our lives. "The second day we went as far as Long Lake. At nightfall we stopped at the home of Fred Bitner. Mr. Bitner was a German and Mrs. Bitner an English woman. They were disinclined to be bothered with us, but finally gave us a pile of hay to make a bed on the kitchen floor. We asked to make our own breakfasts in the morning, but they would not allow us to use their stove, so we were forced to go on our way with empty stomachs. "The third day we went only ten miles. This took us to the home of Jacob Meidinger. We stayed here until we found a homestead for ourselves which was located ten miles southeast of Eureka, on the Northwest Quarter of Section 24, Township 126, Range 72. "At that time we had only two children, John, who was three years of age, and Christina, who was eight months old. "After going to our homestead, our first task was to build a house. This house was 14 feet by 16 feet and was built in teepee style, requiring only half a day's work. It was built with a few boards, covered with sod. There we lived for six months. During those six months, we broke up about thirty acres of sod and seeded flax. We had a good crop, reaping 125 bushels of flax. This we hauled to Ipswich and received 70 cents per bushel. We thought ourselves very fortunate, and built a new sod house. It was 42 feet by 16 feet in dimensions, and had three rooms. This new house had windows in it, which were lacking in the old one. We lived in this home for nine years. At that time we built a house 26 feet by 28 feet in dimensions, having eight rooms. This house is still on the homestead today, and is owned by my son, August. "When we came to this country, we had $400 with which we had bought our farm and household equipment and paid our pre-emption claim. After taking up the homestead and timber quarter, we made good headway. We raised a large number of cattle, planted big crops and were successful. "We lived on our farm until 1914. My husband died in 1906, and I stayed on the farm with my children for the next eight years. Then, on May 2, 1914, I married Henry Gross, who lived seven miles southwest of Hillsview. There I lived four years, and in 1917 we moved to Eureka where we now reside. I am seventy-five years of age, and my husband is eighty-one. I have lived through many pleasant, and many unpleasant experiences. The times have changed greatly from pioneer days until the present, but I think these times are the most difficult. Yet, we can thank God that we have a home in which to live and enough to eat." The twelve children of Mrs. Gross's by her first marriage are: Emil, Eureka; August, Eureka; Mrs. Hertha Werre, Eureka; Albert, Eureka; John, Elgin, N. Dak.; Mrs. Kathrina Dittus, Elgin, N. Dak.; Mrs. Rosa Windmiller, Bentley, N. Dak.; Mrs. Lydia Mehlhaff, Hillsview, S. Dak.; Mrs. Emma Lapp, Eureka; Mrs. Magdalena Lapp, Eureka; Julius, Eureka; Mrs. Christina Preszler (deceased). | Martell, Christina (I104362)
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| 20523 | http://www.genealogy.com/users/c/h/r/David-Alan-Christianson/FILE/0004text.txt ALFRED AND LAVERNE NEUHARTH Alfred Neuharth family--Left to right: Ken, Rhonda, mother Laverne, father Alfred, Tamara, Brad and Ron. Alfred Neuharth was born May 13, 1932 to Edward and Adeline (Schnabel) Neuharth at Eureka. He has one sister living in Lodi, Amanda Orth, and one brother, Milbert, living in Eureka. His brothers, Alton and Floyd, are deceased. Alfred attended rural school in Rosenthal Township and, on August 23, 1959 he married Laverne Marion Ottenbacher, daughter of Herbert and Viola (Rau) Ottenbacher. Laverne was born March 27, 1939 in Eureka. Laverne has two brothers: Herman, Watertown, South Dakota; Arnold, Aberdeen, South Dakota; and one sister, Eunice, Raquette Lake, New York. Laverne attended rural school in Bauer Township and graduated from Eureka High School in 1957. After graduation she began working as a bookkeeper for the Eureka Equity Exchange, where she was employed until 1965. Alfred and Laverne have five children, Bradley, Tamara, Kenneth, Ronald and Rhonda. Bradley Alan, born March 1, 1961, graduated from Eureka High School in 1979 and from Lake Area Vocational Technical Institute at Watertown in 1981. He currently farms with his parents. Tamara Kay, born January 23, 1962, graduated from Eureka High School in 1980 and attended USD in Vermillion for three years, majoring in speech pathology. She currently attends SDSU in Brookings majoring in nursing. She will become the bride of Brian Kirkvold on August 1, 1986 and will be living in Hendricks, Minnesota. Kenneth Alfred, born March 16, 1965, graduated from Eureka High School in 1983 and currently attends SDSU majoring in computer science. Ronald Lee and Rhonda Dee were born October 4, 1966 and graduated from Eureka High School in 1984. They currently attend SDSU where Ron is majoring in economics and Rhonda majors in English. Alfred has farmed all his life in Rosenthal Township. Laverne is currently employed at the Eureka Community Hospital in the dietary and housekeeping departments. The Neuharth's are affiliated with the Eureka Reformed Church. | Neuharth, Alfred (I104068)
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| 20529 | http://www.genealogy.com/users/z/u/e/Mariana-L-Zuelsdorf/GENE64-0063.html SALENA JANE7 FRALEY, b. December 04, 1889, Washington Township, Belmont County, Ohio7794,7795,7796,7797,7798,7799; d. May 13, 1944, Washington Township, Belmont County, Ohio7800; m. GROVER ALBERT BURKHART, December 15, 1910, Belmont County, Ohio7801; b. February 17, 1886, York Township, Belmont County, Ohio7802,7803,7804,7805,7806; d. May 10, 1930, Washington Township, Belmont County, Ohio7807,7808. More About SALENA JANE FRALEY: Age at marriage (Fa: Age 20 years7809 Burial: May 16, 1944, Grandview Cemetery, Ohio (no county given)7810 Cause of Death (Facts Pg): 'Brain Tumor- _____ (illegible) (Malignant)'7810 Certificate of Death: Ohio Department of Health Certificate #295167810 More About GROVER ALBERT BURKHART: Age at marriage (Fa: Age 25 years7811 Home Rented/Owned: January 1920, Rented7812 Home Rented/Owned 2: April 1930, Owned7813 Occupation: January 1920, Blacksmith/Own Shop7814 Occupation 2: April 1930, Farmer/General Farm7815 Residence: January 1920, Armstrong Precinct, Washington Township, Belmont County, Ohio7816 Residence 2: April 1930, Washington Township, Belmont County, Ohio7817 | Fraley, Salena Jane (I243482)
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| 20530 | http://www.genealogy105.com/nicolaus.html#John Irvine, A History of the New California, pp.1096-7 JOHN HENRY NICOLAUS John Henry Nicolaus, who has found in farming a dairing the life pursuits which are his best sphere of action and source of greatest prosperity, has a half interest in a splendid ranch off Lower Stockton road about twelve miles south of Sacramento, in Sacramento County, the other partner being his brother George W. Nicolaus. Nicolaus Brothers have long been known for their success and enterprise in the industrial and agricultural life of the county, and their estate of five hundred and eighty acres is acknowledged to be one of the best in this section of the state. A vineyard and a dairy are very profitable departments of their enterprise, and the rest of their land is devoted to general farming purposes. Mr. Nicolaus is a native son of the state, having been born in Amador county, May 11, 1866, and was a son of old-time Californians, George and Mary (Kerth) Nicolaus. The parents were both born in Germany, and in 1856 came to California, by the isthmus route, making settlement in Amador county, where for a time the father mined gold and then went into the butcher business at Oleta. He moved to Sacramento county in 1880 and took up his residence on the ranch now owned by the Nicolaus Brothers. He subsequently moved to a ranch near Antelope in the same county, and later to Sacramento city, where his death occurred in 1892. His widow still survives, making her home at 2201 P street, in Sacramento, she being now in her sixty-seventh year. Three of their children are still living, the two brothers already mentioned, and Lillie, in Sacramento. The father was a Democrat, and affiliated with the I. O. O. F. John Henry Nicolaus was reared in Amador and Sacramento counties receiving his education in the schools of these counties. He early became identified with farming pursuits, and has followed that line of work up to the present time. He married, December 6, 1891, Miss Lena M. Harms. She was born in Sacramento county, a daughter of Charles and Lena M. (Dexheimer) Harms, who were both natives of Hanover, Germany. Her father came to California early in the fifties, as an early settler of Sacramento county, where he lived until his death in 1886, and his widow still resides in that county. Mr. & Mrs. Nicolaus have five children, Earl L., George W., Charles E., Helena and Lester B. Mr. Nicolaus is at this writing serving his second term as a member of the board of trustees of Prarie school district, being clerk of the board. Politically he is a Democrat, and is affiliated with Elk Grove Lodge of the Odd Fellows and with Oak Park Parlor N. 213, Native Sons of the Golden West." | Nicolaus, John Henry (I360196)
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| 20531 | http://www.genealogy105.com/nicolaus.html#Louis Louis J. Nicolaus, a native son of California, has for the past ten years been a foremost farmer, stock-raiser and dairyman of Sacramento county, residing a few miles southeast of Franklin, where he owns an estate of two thousand well improved acres, one of the model ranches of the county. He located on this place in 1895, and has since been thoroughly identified with his locality in matters of citizenship and industrial enterprise. Mr. Nicolaus was born at Montezuma Hills, near San Francisco, May 7, 1858. His parents, Louis and Susanna (Kerth) Nicolaus, were both natives of Bavaria, Germany. His father emigrated to America in 1846, and in 1850 drove ox teams across the plains to California, Where he spent some time at gold mining and then went to raising stock at Montezuma Hills. He followed the butcher business for several years in Oleta, Volcano and Pine Grove in Amador county, and then in 1868 located in Sacramento county. At Sacramento he became one of the pioneer brewers, and successfully followed that business until his retirement in 1894, after which he passed his years quietly at Sacramento until his death, on May 5, 1903. He was one of the well known men of the capital city, was a Democrat in politics, and affiliated with the Odd Fellows and various other fraternities. His wife passed away January 1, 1901, and four of their children survive: Louis J.; Emma L., wife of Dr. E. L. Southworth, a well known dentist of Sacramento; Julia E., wife of J. E. Govan, city collector of Sacramento, and Edward A., a capitalist of Sacramento. Mr. Nicolaus spent most of his youthful days in Sacramento, where the public schools and Atkinson’s Business College furnished him his education. For some twenty years he was associated with his father in the brewery industry, from which he retired in 1895 in order to devote his energies to country life and the various departments of ranching. He was married, April 30, 1894, to Miss Frances L. Gumbert, who was born in Amador county and was reared in Sacramento county. Her parents were August and Caroline (Gramp) Gumbert, her father a native of Germany and her mother of New York state, and they were both California pioneers, her father coming to the state in 1850 and her mother the year following. Her father died September 21, 1903, and her mother resides with Mr. and Mrs. Nicolaus, being now in her sixty-fifth year. August Gumbert was one of the early gold miners of the state, and then for years followed merchandising in Oleta. Mr. and Mrs. Nicolaus have three children, Edna, Gladys and Vera. Mr. Nicolaus’ political tendencies are entirely independent, but in many ways he manifests his public-spirited interests in the well-being of his community. | Nicolaus, Louis Jacob (I360103)
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| 20534 | http://www.genemaas.net/Just.htm Just Family History The Just family roots have been traced back to about 1772 when Michael Just was born in Markgroeningen or Mariendorf, Germany. Michael married Maria Zigenhagel who was born around 1782 in either Stuttgardt, Germany or Luska, Poland. Although both locations have been mentioned in St. Petersburg, Russia death records, it seems more likely that she was born in Stuttgardt. Michael Just and his wife had four children, Rosina (b. ca. 1806), Christoph (b. ca. 1817), Michael (b. ca. 1819), and Andreas (b. ca. 1824). Sometime, perhaps in the early 1830's, Michael and Maria immigrated to southern Russia and settled in the Glückstal district. It seems likely that they lived in the village of Glückstal, which is in Moldova. Michael died in there on December 18, 1835 at the age of 63. Maria also died in Glückstal on November 10, 1841 at 59 years. Two of their sons, Christoph and Michael, were married there in 1837 but records indicate that they moved to Kassel because most of their children were born there. Kassel, which lies across the border in the Ukraine, is about 15 miles to the southeast of Glückstal. The source of this information comes from the web site of the St. Petersburg Records Database for Glueckstal Colonies. Glückstal was founded in 1809 when the German colonists at Grigoriopol (about 106 families) traded homes with the inhabitants of the village of Glinoi. Glinoi, which was about 30 miles northwest of Tiraspol and 7 miles from the Dniester river was then renamed Glückstal or "Valley of Good Fortune". By 1848 it had grown to about 231 resident families living in 215 homes. Kassel was established in 1810 by Evangelical Lutherans from various areas of Germany, France and Poland. It was situated in the Kumurovka valley of the Dniester River, an agricultural area about 20 miles north of Tiraspol (approx. 75 miles from Odessa and the Black Sea). Besides crops of wheat, rye, barley, corn, potatoes, and melons, the area was known for its wine grapes. Village histories written in 1848 about Glückstal and Kassel describe their founding and provide some interesting information about their agriculture, enterprises, and living conditions at that time. Photos and additional information about the Glückstal colonies, as well as their inhabitants, can be found by linking to the various Germans from Russia resources. Christoph Just married Elisabetha Maier on November 23, 1837 in Glückstal. Twelve children were born to this couple. They included Christoph (b. May 19, 1838), Johann (b. March 30, 1840), Catharina (b. March 19, 1842), Friedrich (b. January 04, 1845), Magdalena (b. November 10, 1845), Rosina (b. January 26, 1848), Margaretha (b. April 07, 1850 ), Simon ( b. November 07, 1851), Elisabetha (b. December 27, 1853), Margaretha (b. December 04, 1855), Christina (b. April 20, 1857), and Carolina (b. May 30, 1861). Since there were two girls named Margaretha, it is assumed the first one died before 1855. Christoph, the oldest son, married Barbara Frey on November 11, 1858 in Kassel and they had nine children, all born in Kassel except for Andreas who was born in Chutor Annowka. It is possible, though not certain, that there was a 10th child named Christian. The children and their birth dates are: Johann (August 26, 1859), Christoph C. (September 16, 1860), George (February 23, 1863), Philipp (April 08, 1866), Andreas (October 22, 1868), Katharina (August 07, 1872), Christina (October 19, 1874), Friedrich (February 25, 1877), and Jacob (February 22, 1880). Johann and Christina died as infants in Kassel. Andreas also died in Russia but the date and place are unknown. Andreas appears in a family photo taken about 1890 so he obviously survived into his early twenties. Much of the information about the descendants of the surviving siblings was published in 1978 by Luella Bitz and Carol Halverson in their book titled, "Just Heritage 1838-1978". Christoph apparently was the only one of his siblings to immigrate to the United States. All the others remained in Russia. His brother, Johann, married Carolina Boerkirchert on November 17, 1863 in Kassel and they had six children, Johann, Jacob, Friederich, Christina, Eva and another Christina. His sister, Magdalena, married Conrad Lippert on November 28, 1867 in Glückstal. Little is known about his other siblings except that Friedrich, Elisabetha, Margaretha II and Christina, all died in Kassel as infants or under 2 years of age and Carolina died about a month before her 14th birthday. The first members of Christoph and Barbara's family to immigrate to the United States were their two oldest sons, Christoph C. and Georg. They left Russia in the fall of 1884 at the ages of 24 and 21. Georg arrived in New York on September 27 aboard the SS Elbe. Christoph C., his wife Elisabeth, and and their infant son, Karl, arrived in New York three weeks later on October 18 aboard the SS Werra. It is not known why they didn't travel together. Bitz and Halverson, in their book, relate an account from family lore that Georg paid a kind Jewish fellow to help them across the border. Since Georg was single and the legal age for military duty, he may well have been leaving the country to avoid conscription into the Russian army. About ten years later Philipp and his family joined his brothers in America. Philipp had married Karolina Martel in Kassel on February 21, 1889 and two of their children were born there before they emigrated, Eva (b. January 27, 1891) and Katharine (April 09, 1893). Immigration records at Ellis Island indicate that the family arrived in New York aboard the SS Spree on April 12, 1894. Accompanying them were Philipp's 21-year-old sister, Katharina, and 14-year-old brother, Jacob. It is curious that Jacob would have left his parents at age 14 to travel to America while his 17-year-old brother, Friedrich remained behind. One explanation, I suppose, may have been that Friedrich was needed at home to help his parents. In any case Christoph, Barbara and Friedrich left Russia and followed the rest of the family one year later. Passenger manifests at Ellis Island indicate that they sailed from Bremen aboard the SS Havel and arrived in New York on April 4, 1895. When Christoph and Barbara reached North Dakota, they lived in a sod house near their son, Christoph C. who was farming on a homestead he claimed on December 7, 1885. The quarter section of land was located about 12 miles north of the present town of Zeeland, ND. On the same day, Georg filed a homestead claim on 160 acres two miles from his brother. Both Christoph C. and Georg became naturalized citizens on May 31, 1892. All of the families initially settled in McIntosh County, North Dakota, but in 1902 Friedrich and Jacob filed homestead claims in McLean County. On April 29, 1903, their father, Christoph, at the age of 65, became a citizen of the United States. He died nine years later on April 12, 1912. Barbara, who was born August 23, 1837 in Kassel, died two years after her husband on July 13, 1914. They both are buried at St. Andrews Lutheran Church cemetery 13 miles northeast of Zeeland, ND. The St. Andrews Lutheran Church is located on the NW 1/4 of section 1, Township 130, Range 73 in McIntosh County. The original church was built in 1892 by fifteen pioneer families including Christoph constructed of sandstone taken from a site 12 miles to the northwest. The church was named to the National Register of Historic Places on July 12, 1990. More information about the church and its founding members can be found in the 100th anniversary book entitled, "St. Andrews Lutheran Church 1893-1993" [a text file of this book can be found in the German-Russian Genealogical Library of the Odessa3.org website]. Georg Just, my great grandfather, married Kristina Rudolf, the daughter of Ludwig and Katharina (Schnabel) Rudolf, on March 28, 1887. Kristina was born December 25, 1868 in Kassel and came to America with her parents in October 1884. Georg and Kristina had nine children. Lydia (b. January 14, 1888); Friedrich (b. January 07, 1890); Katherine (b. February 26, 1891), George (b. March 08, 1892), Christina (b. September 23, 1893); Jacob (b. January 06, 1895); August (b. April 20, 1896), Lydia (b. September 23, 1898), and Jacob (b. March 17, 1899). In November 1897, the Just family was devastated by the deaths of four of their children, Jacob, George, Lydia and Christina, within a two-week period presumably by an influenza epidemic. Then at the end of April and early May 1899, Georg not only lost another son, also named Jacob, but his wife too who was only 31 years old. With four young children to raise, Georg soon found and married his second wife, Mary (Schnabel) Reich, in October 1899. Mary (b. April 26, 1878) was a widow with one son, Jacob Reich, born October 26, 1898. This turned out to be a very prolific union with 14 children. Their first child, Theobald "Deabold" was born on August 31, 1900 and was followed by Mathilde (b. July 30, 1901), Emma (b. August 30, 1902), Elizabeth (b. February 26, 1904), Magdalene (b. February 20, 1905), Adam (b. May 17, 1906), Wilhelm (b. June 18, 1907), Beada (b. June 04, 1908), Theresa (b. August 20, 1909), Edwin (b. January 21, 1911), Esther (b. March 30, 1912), Heinrich (b. August 1, 1913), Rosina (b. private), and Rebecca (b. June 14, 1917). A family photo was taken sometime in the mid 1920's. Georg, or George as he was known in America, was nearly 74 years old when he died on January 19, 1937. His wife, Mary, lived until May 26, 1949. George and both wives are buried in the St. Andrews Lutheran Church cemetery, rural Zeeland, ND. Katherine, the oldest surviving daughter, married John Meidinger on January 21, 1913 in the St. Andrews Lutheran Church. More about this family, my maternal grandparents, can be found on the Meidinger family page. | Just, Georg (I113173)
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| 20537 | http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/3312/myswickline5.doc 5.5 Johann Martin and Barbara Covert Swick?s children: 6.51 John (Johannes) Swick, baptized abt. 15 April 1730 in Harlengen, Somerset Co., -------NJ (Harlengen Dutch Reformed Church), witnesses: Bergon and Jannetje Coevers. -------He died 1765 in Tewksbury Twsp., Hunterdon County, NJ. His wife was Chatrine, ------b. abt. 1734 in Harlengen, NJ. They married in 1750/55. He left a ?will?. They had: -----John, Mary, Teunis (from ?Descendants of Swick family," Jack Swick, Lowell -------------Thomas, and Margaret Wright Covert). JOHN SWIK WILL - HUNTERDON COUNTY 1765 -- 664J IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN - The sixth day of march in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty towe [sic] I John Swik of Tweks bury [sic] and County of Hunterdon and province of west new jersey farmer being very sick and weak In body but of perfect mind and memory Thanks be given to God for it and Calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it as appointed for all men once to Dye [sic]. Do make and ordain this my Last will and Testimony that is to Say principally [sic] and first of all I give and recommend my Soul unto God that give it and for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian like and Decent manner and the Discretion of my executors nothing Doubling but at the General Resaricktion [sic] Shall receive [sic] the same again by the mighty power or God and as touching such worldly estate where with it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give and Devise and Dispose of the Same in the following manner and form Imprimis - it is my Will and I do order that the first plase [sic] all my Just Debts and funeral Charges be paid and satisfied: --- and I appoint my wife Chartrine, an execarix [sic] in this my Last will and also my brother's Tuenis Swick and martin [sic] Swik my trustys [sic] and executors in this my Last will and testament too be aiders and assistense [sic] in this case. Item - I give and bequeath unto Chatrine my Dearly and beloved wife one third pard [sic] of my whole estate at what it my [sic] be valued hereafter when I am Departed this life the other towe [sic] thirds to my three children that is to say first of all I give and bequeath to my son John Swik . . Sterlen money of great britain then in porpotion equal with the other towe [sic] that is my Daughter Mary [sic] and my other Son Tuenis that is to say further my towe [sc] is to have their portion at the age of twenty one years and my daughter at the age of eighteen and if any of them Shall happen to Die before they Come to that age that then [sic] it shall and may be proper for my executors to Return it to the others that Shall Remain in equal portions and furthermore as my Children are at present but Small and not able to maintain them Selves and my wife perhaps may Die or otherwise be unCapable [sic] to maintain them that then it shall and may be Lawful for my executors at their Discretion to put them out in proper place to Larn [sic] sum profistion [sic] or trade as may be proper for them and further more I give and bequeath to my brother Peter Swik that brown hors [sic] brand with AW on the near shoulder which he now generally Rides - and I Do hereby utterly . .Revoke and Disavow all and ever other former testament, wills, Legacies and executors by me in any ways before this time named willed and bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my Last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the Day and year above written. Signed sealed published pronounced and Declared by the Said John Swik as his Last Will and testament in the presents [sic] of the Subscribers viz... his John Swik mark John Montaynnye, Samuel Thomson, John Read.(Sce. Pat Irvine) 6.52 Egie Swick , b. abt 28 May 1732 (the middle name of her mother) in Somerville, --------Somerset Co., NJ. She was christened 5/28/1732. 1st Reformed, Raritan, in Somerset -----Co., NJ. Witnesses: Tam Bort and wife in Harlegen. (Sce. Gene Bird). +6.53 Martin (Martgie) Swick, b. abt 1 Jan 1734 (1st Raritan Ref. Church), in -----------------Somerville, Montgomery Township, Somerset Co, New Jersey ; Witnesses: Luykes ------Koevert.; d. 1789 in Greenwich Township, Sussex County, New Jersey . Married ---------Elizabeth in Alexander Twsp., German Reformed Church ( another says, -b: 1738 in -----Greenwich Township, Sussex, NJ). The Mormons say it is Magdalena Covert who --------died 1789 in Greenwich Twp, Sussex, NJ and Margaret Wright Covert says it is -----------Elizabeth. David F. Swick says Magdalena .This Martin of 1733/34 died in -----------------Greenwhich Twsp., Sussex Co., NJ (according to Jack Swick). Tunis? Swick son ----------John Swick, is also married to a Magdalena Covert, b. 1765, m. 1790. Lowell --------------Thomas says Martin moved to Lancaster Co., PA ,where John through Peter were --------born and then on to Rockingham Co., VA where Mary Magdalena was born). 6.54 Tunis Swick. b. abt 1742/45 (Margaret Wright Covert says b. 1738) (from -----------------"Descendants of Swick family" - deals with Tunis line.) in Somerville, Somerset Co., -----NJ and married Rachel Rose abt. 1763. He died abt. 1839 in Harrison Co., WV. -----------(Louise McConachie: says b. 1732 in Raritan,NJ and died -----1843 in Virginia. He married Rachel abt. 1762 in Hunterdon, NJ). Her father was ---------Ezekial Rose. Rachel Rose was the widow of John Peatt. Rachel was born 1 --------------January, 1742/43 in Hunterdon County, NJ, and died 5 February, 1817 in Ovid, -----------Seneca County, NY. Notes about Rachel Rose Swick: ?In the name of God Amen. The 24th day of January in the year 18171, Rachel Swick, widow, of the Town of Ovid being sick and weak make my last will. I give my four daughters Mascey, Barbery, Hannah, and Rachel all my wearing apparel to be equally divided between them. All remainder of my personal estate to be divided equally between all my children namely John Martin, Benjamin Andrew, Mascey, Barbery, Hannah, and Rachel and my grandson David Swick. I appoint my trusty friends John Blauvelt and Henry Fulkerson to be my executors. Witnesses: Wm. Chandler, Julius K. Blackburn, John (his mark) Lever. Recorded 12 May 1817. Pg.161-63?. Margaret Wright Covert adds: ?Tunis is listed on the Barker Tract in Alexandria Twsp. in 1767 (Honeyman). And later Tunis was listed with Abraham Covert as tenants on lot #2 on the Barker Tract in Alexandria Twsp. in the late 1760/70?s?. 6.55 Peter, Sr. Swick, b. 8/18/1743 (1st Reformed Church of Raritan, Somerville, NJ. ---------Married Anna (Hannah Green?) according to Margaret Wright Covert. Lowell -------------Thomas and Linda Settlage says Peter married Margaret, ----------who died before 1800. Is Margaret another wife or is she Anna? They married -------------9/15/1766. He was born in Montgomery Twsp., Somerville, Somerset Co. , NJ. ------------Christened 8/18/1743 in First Reform Church Raritan, Somerville, Somerset, NJ, and ----died in 1821 in Shamokin Twsp., Northumberland Co., PA. In the 1820 Federal ------------Census it lists a Peter Swick with 2 people ages 26-45, and 2 people over 45 and 4 --------children living in Northumberland Co., PA.. Peter was 78 when he died. (Taken from ----1800 Census, Augusta Twsp., Northumberland Co., PA) (From Jack Swick: We have tax records from 1793-1823. We have census material 1800 Augusta Twp., 1810-40 Shamokin Twp., and deeds 1796, 1799 and 1811. So we know that there were Peter Swicks in Northumberland Co. after 1810, when Peter b. 1772 and Mary Ross went to Canada. From the 1811 deed we know that Peter Swick had a wife named Margaret. From the taxes we have four sons: Martin b. abt. 1776, John b. abt. 1780, Peter Jr. b. abt. 1788 and Jacob b. 11 Aug. 1796. From the census we know that there may have been another son, b. 1794-1804. We know that the Peter of Northumberland Co. came from New Jersey ( Peter Jr. says that he was born there). But who could be the father of Peter Sr. in Northumberland Co. until abt. 1821? As far as I know no one has been able to verify his parentage). 6.56 Jannetje Swick, b. 9/28/1748 in Somerville, Somerset, NJ. Christened 9/28/1748 ------in 1st Reformed Church of Raritan, Somerville, NJ. Somerset County Historical Quarterly by A. Van Doren Honeyman, Vol. III, 1914, Somerset Historical Publications, 1978. First Reformed Church Raritan (Somerville) Baptisms: 1748, Sept. 28, Johannis and Barber Swick, Jannetie. 1748, Sept. 28, Jan and Marytie Broecka, Sara. 1749, Aug. 6, Johannes and Ret Lafeber, Wiellan. 1749, April 2, Isaac and Maritie Broecka, Marigrity. 1749, Sept. 24, Anderit Griete Boerd, Griete. 1750, Sept. 2, Bergon and Fraenseynte Hoeff, Isack. 1745, April 13, Bergon and Annatie Coevert, Tunis. 1747, July 31, Joannis and Ruth Lafeber, Samuel. 1747, Oct. 2, Luycas and Harpeie Coevert, Jannetie. 1746, Jan. 12, Folkert and Marya Sebering, Tomes. 1746, April 13, Leffirt and Jannetie Sebering, Fitie. 1750, Nov. 8, Johannis and Gertie Sebering, Ariyaente. 6.57 Bergon Swick, b. after 1748. Margaret Wright Covert says he was born abt. 1740?s. ----In 1773 a taxpayer in Sussex Co. and in the Revolutionary War under Capt. Allen in ------1774. From Brent Reidenbach: ?Revolutionary War: Private Burgon (also spelled: --------Bergen and Bergun) Swick - Captain William Helm's (Also known as Captain James -----Maxwell's) Company, 2nd NJ Regiment. He enlisted on 23 May 1778 for a period of -----9 months. He was sick on 25 September 1778 at Moris___ (can't read the rest of the ----word)?. (Information taken from different sources; and Margaret Wright Covert, Covert Family, by Carl Fischer, ?House of Swick?, Northwestern NJ, by A. Van Doren Honeyman, 1st Reformed Dutch Church of Raritan Records, Vol. 2; History of Southern NY, Broucard Info., Jerseyman Vol. 3 #4, June 1897, Alex.Twsp. Ref. Ch., West Jersey Estate of Sir Robert Barker by Richard P. McCormick; NJ Colonial Documents; John Swick?s Will; Pat Irvine, Baptismal Records from 1st Reformed Church of Rariton, 1984 LDS library IGI, NJ, Somerset Co., NJ historical quarterly Vol. 2, Descendants of Some Early Settlers of the Trumansberg-Covert NY area, pg. 3, The Palatine Families of NY -1710, by Henry Z. Jones, Early Palatine Emigration, by Knittle, David F. Swick notes 11/1/1992). | Swick, John (I43859)
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| 20538 | http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/7572/hololst1.txt VICTIMS OF THE "FINAL SOLUTION". DEPORTED ON 24 SEPT. 1942 FROM WORMS TO THERESIENSTADT-AUSCHWITZ 24 SEPT. 1942 (POLAND). 1. Bar, (born)Samuel, Adolfine murdered in Auschwitz 16 Mar 1884 Vorderweidenthal | Samuel, Adolfine (I67050)
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| 20539 | http://www.geocities.com/shellywirll/2_Salyer.htm + 4 iv. ANDREW A SAYLER, b. May 16, 1876, Johannesthal,SRussia; d. April 04, 1955, Venturia ND; m. CHRISTINA STOEBNER, November 11, 1900. Name: Christina Sayler Age in 1910: 29 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881 Birthplace: Russia Relation to Head of House: Wife Father's Birth Place: Russia Mother's Birth Place: Russia Spouse's Name: Andrew Home in 1910: Township 129, McIntosh, North Dakota Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Female | Stöbener, Christina (I72653)
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| 20540 | http://www.geocities.com/vpchuck/Yockey.html MY FAMILY LINE I have been on a search for the ancestery of Jacob Yockey, my great grandfather. He was born in 1837 and came to America from Hirschthal, Pfalz, Germany, went to Ripley, Ohio, Brown County. There he married Elizabeth Reichmann in 1859, and they had 8 children. Catharine 'Kate', Louisa 'Lucy', Frederick 'Fritz', William 'Will', Emma (my grandmother), Charles, George & Eddie. They moved from Ripley to Cincinnati by 1880. Elizabeth's parents were Fredrick Reichmann & Maria Magdelena Koob from Ungstein, Pfalz, Germany. They settled in Ripley, Brown County, Ohio. Here are some of the known names that have married into the family. Baechle, Baeckle, Banks, Bost, Curtis, Donaldson, Donau, Fenter,Herrmann, Hoeft, Hummel, Lammer, Martin, Maurer, Mitchell, Murphy, Ochoa, Perry, Pfalzgraf, Reichmann, Schadele, Seybold, Voelker, Wilson, Worth Jacob YOCKEY, b.May 1837, Germany, d. Oct. 14, 1891, Cincinnati, Ohio m. Elizabeth REICHMANN, . b. Dec. 11, 1839, Ungstein, Germany, d. Feb. 27, 1912, Sonoita, Arizona Children of Jacob & Elizabeth: 1..Kate (Katherine) m.Philipp Jacob MAURER. . .. 2..Lucy (Louisa) m. Louis William BAECHLE / BAECKLE . 3..Fritz (Frederick) m Caroline 'Carrie' VOEKLER. 4..Will (Wilhelm) m. Theresa BECKER. .. . . . . .. 5..Emma m.Louis Gottlieb HUMMEL (My line) . 6..Charles m. Margaret HOEFT. .. .. . . . .. . . .. ... . . 7..George m. Kate SHADLE (Maiden name unknown) 8..Edward (Eddie) never married, b. 1876, d. 1899. Grandchildren of Jacob & Elizabeth Kate & Philipp Maurer's Children: 1.1..Emma Amelia m. George Connley DONALDSON 1.2..Lorena m. John MURPHY .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . .. . .. 1.3..Harry m. Frances BOST.. . .. . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . 1.4..Elmer Philipp, never married, b.1885, d. 1928. . Lucy & Louis Baechle / Baeckle's children: 2.1.William , b. 1887 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.Katie , b. 1891 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3.Louis, b. 1891 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4.Edward, b. 1893 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5.Florence, b. 1897 . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 2.6.Arthur, b. 1895 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7.Ruth, b. 1899 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.8.Katherine, b. 1904, m. WORTH . . . . . . . .. Children of Frederick 'Fritz' & Caroline Yockey 3.1..Albert 'Bert' m. Margaret PFALZGRAF. . . . . 3.2..Wilfred m. Emma BANKS. .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . 3.3..Irwin m. Aurelia MARTIN. . . ... . . . . .. . .. .. 3.4..Leroy John m. Agatha 'Betty' HERRMANN. . . Will & Theresa Yockey's children: 4.1..Edna, b. 1890 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2..Elmer Philip, m. Alvina LAMMER . . . . . . . . Emma & Louis Hummel's children:(My line) 5.1..Villette, m. Percy SEYBOLD & Alfred DONAU 5.2..Louis Christian m. Ina WILSON Baker . . . . . . 5.3..Florence 'Floss' m. Wert 'Wick' FENTER . . . . 5.4..Eugene 'Gene' m. Alvessa OCHOA . . . . . . . .. 5.5..Jerome, b. Dec. 11, 1897, d. Dec. 19, 1897 . . . . 5.6..Della m. Guy PERRY .. . . .. . . . .... . . . . . . . .. 5.7..Don m. Eugenia MITCHELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.8..Emma Lou, b. Oct. 1909, d. April 1910 . . . . . . . 5.9..Gail, m. Helen Curtis & Hedi Joly . . . . . Charles & Margaret Yockey's children: 6.1..Hilda b.May 1892, d. July 11, 1892. . . . . . . . . 6.2..Clifford, b. July 9, 1894, m. Pearl ?. . . . . . . .. 6.3..Elizabeth, b. Dec. 1895, d. Jan 15, 1896. . . . . . George & Kate Yockey's children: 7.1..George, b. 1901. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . | Yockey, Johannes Jakob Jacky (I82067)
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| 20541 | http://www.geocities.ws/lfkerch02/rel433d.html | Keil, Urban George (I207042)
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| 20542 | http://www.geocities.ws/lfkerch02/rel433d.html | Keil, Jerome Joseph (I207044)
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| 20543 | http://www.geocities.ws/lfkerch02/rel433d.html | Rexing, Mildred E. (I207047)
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| 20544 | http://www.geocities.ws/lfkerch02/rel433d.html | Keil, Donald L. (I207065)
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| 20545 | http://www.geocities.ws/lfkerch02/rel433d.html | Keil, Alana Sue (I207066)
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| 20546 | http://www.geocities.ws/lfkerch02/rel433d.html | Keil, Jacqueline E. (I207067)
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| 20547 | http://www.geocities.ws/lfkerch02/rel433d.html | Keil, Lynnette K. (I207068)
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| 20548 | http://www.geocities.ws/lfkerch02/rel433d.html | Keil, Diane Marie (I207069)
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| 20549 | http://www.geocities.ws/lfkerch02/rel433d.html | Keil, Urban George (I207070)
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| 20550 | http://www.geocities.ws/lfkerch02/rel433d.html | Wolf, Regina (I207072)
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