Miscellaneous Photos

The slideshow here contains various photos, and may be updated when we get new photos in.

These some photos Fern and Jon sent in.

You are welcome to submit photos as well.

Roy & Adelle to Texas

On the weekend of October 26th Michael and Jean drove to McIntosh, MN to help Roy and Adelle get ready for their trip to Texas for the winter. The following Friday Roy's brother Lloyd drove them to Grand Rapids, where we met them and brought them to Coon Rapids for the weekend, until their flight Monday midday. On Saturday Jennifer and the kids came from Green Bay, and Sunday Joe and Heather and new baby Isabelle came from Lutsen. We had a late lunch at our house on Saturday, and dinner at Jeff's on Sunday evening. Monday we took Roy and Adelle to the airport for their flight. Below are a few pictures I took Sunday evening at Jeff's.

Adelle's 85th Birthday

Adelle's two daughters hosted a party for their mother's 85th birthday in MacIntosh, MN, on September, 17th, 2007. 22 of Roy and Adelle's lifelong friends were invited to a luncheon.

July, 2007 Family Reunion

The much planned and anticipated event took place, and was a big success. The one dark shadow was the passing of Lloyd's wife, Gladys, on the Thursday before the reunion. But the timing could not have been better, because her entire family was with her, and were able to attend her funeral on the Monday following the reunion.

With few exceptions, families of Lloyd, Roy, and Gordon were all in attendance for all or part of the festivities.

Below are slides of different sections of the reunion.

On the Farm

At the Community Center

Family Group Photos

Reunion - July 27th - July 29th

Hi. The weather is cool and windy....wish we could promise that for the end of July. But it won't matter - the community center has air.

The people who indicated they will be at the reunion are listed below. If you are not on the list and plan to come or you are on the list and you don't plan to come, please reply to this email. We will be finalizing the food within the next few weeks and would like to have a count that reflects a best guess.

Come prepared to sign up for the activity of your choice - turning the crank on the ice cream maker, flipping lefsa, making pancakes, shinning the silver, playing catch in the park.... And bring your musical instrument or voice. You never know when there will be a musical moment. And if there is someone who would like to take pictures and put them on a CD, we wouldn't have to pose for tenteen flashes.


EXPECT TO SEE
These Family Members


Roy & Adelle

Ray & Pat

• Lora, Spencer & Skyler

Jean & Michael

• Joe & Heather
• Jeffery
• Jennifer, Adalee & Brett
• Jana

Fern & Jon

• Teresa, Craig & Zoe
• Katie

Lloyd & GladysCarole & Don

• Bob, Wendy & Clay

Paulette

• Eric & Emily

Angela & Kal

• Kyle & Paul

Gordon & Laverne
Joel & Diane

• Kelli, Kristi, Laurie

Heidi & Marc

SEE YOU SOON!
Arthur Schleicher Family
Jean S. McCabe 763-354-4659

Details on the second Arthur and Elsie Schleicher Family reunion - July 27th thru 29th

Having the reunion in McIntosh gives us an opportunity to connect to our roots – to be together where Arthur and Elsie first lived – where our family started.

This connection to our roots also helped us determine some of the activities for the weekend.

• Have you made lefsa, or cranked the handle for home made ice cream?
• Do you know the most popular yard game that was played after holiday dinners?

There’ll be yard games and fun in the city park. We’ll also visit the family farm and see the first house Arthur and Elsie lived in. And, we have a surprise for you when it’s time to stretch!

Let the fun begin!

• Friday – anytime after 3 p.m.
  Come to the community center on Main Street (grey building on the corner with a clock….that will probably not show the right time). There’ll be "hotdish" for supper, and plans for the weekend will be discussed.


• Saturday – come for breakfast, stay all day
  Start the day with a warm breakfast (pancakes, sausages, fruit, etc.) and save room for a run to the bakery for a twist. Later, you can help make specialties such as homemade ice cream and lefsa. Saturday evening we’ll provide the salads and the grill – you bring your own meat. The local meat market has an excellent selection of meats, or bring yours with you from home. You must make your selection early in the day (they close at 2 p.m.) and your family grill hero can cook it to your taste on the grill in the evening.


• Sunday – meet at 9 a.m. for church
  Breakfast on your own, attend service at the church where Art and Elsie were members – where Lloyd and Gladys and Roy and Adelle are currently members. We will double the regular attendance, maybe sing a song or two and enjoy visiting at coffee after the service. Our noon meal will be catered and served at the Community Center.
  

The response from people who will be attending the reunion is exciting!

It’s great to have many coming now who couldn’t come three years ago.

We look forward to seeing you in Mac July 27–29.

Narrative Report - Johann Schleicher Descendants

This is a report printed from Legacy Family Tree program, from data supplied by Ray Schleicher. Please review it for accuracy of your own family data, and submit any changes to me. Be sure to include your evidence or source material for any changes or additions you wish to make. Changes requested will be reviewed before publication. You can submit requests as a comment at the end of a post, or email to mike@caber.com.

1-Johann Schleicher [29] .
Johann married Sidonia Hilander [30] [MRIN: 1]. They had one son: Conrad.
2-Conrad Schleicher [24] was born on 29 Dec 1818 in Stadt, Langsfeld In Sachse, Weimar, Germany, died on 27 Jul 1908 in Kohlsville, WI at age 89, and was buried in Kohlsville, WI.
General Notes:Came to US in 1842. Moved to Milwaukee in 1847, then Kohlsville in 1848. Become a charter member of Zion Luthern in Kohsville in Jan 1861.
Noted events in his life were:
• Occupation. Farmer
Conrad married Katharina Margaretha Metzger [25] [MRIN: 12], daughter of Johannes Michael Metzger [31] and Maria Margaretha Kraus [32], in 1845 in Boston, MA. Katharina was born on 26 Mar 1821 in Ober-Sauleim Gross Herzogthum, Hessen, Germany, died on 13 Dec 1901 in Kohlsville, WI at age 80, and was buried in Kohlsville, WI. They had six children: Louise, John George, Jacob, Maria Margretha, Elizabeth, and Katharina.
3-Louise Schleicher [33] was born on 26 Apr 1846 in Roxbury, Mass., died on 21 Mar 1922 in Milwaukee, WI at age 75, and was buried in Wayne Township, Washington, WI.
Noted events in her life were:
• Alt. Death. Death Cert. Copy # 1228
• Alt. Death. Wayne-Salem Cemetary
Louise married Johann Christian Wilhelm Kibbel [185] [MRIN: 63], son of Johaann Joacheim Kibbel [187] and Sophia Marie Elizabeth Brocker [188], on 18 Dec 1866 in Wayne WI, St. Paul's Luthern. Johann was born on 29 Oct 1844 in Rankendorf Mecklenburg Schwirin, Germany, died on 19 May 1921 in Milwaukee, WI at age 76, and was buried on 23 May 1921 in Salem Cem. Wayne, WI. They had 13 children: George Ernst Jacob, Welhelmina Susanna, Johann Dietrich, William Konrad, Heinrich Peter, Elizabeth Carolina Maria, Carolina Maria, Philip John Henry, Carl Phillip, Andrea Fredrich, Otto Ludwig Peter, Anne Ida Maria, and Oscar Wilhelm.
4-George Ernst Jacob Kibbel [189] was born on 12 Sep 1867 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI, died on 6 Feb 1949 in Wayne, WI at age 81, and was buried in Salem Cem. Wayne, WI.
Noted events in his life were:
• Occupation. Farmer
George married Ottilia Maria Elizabeth Doms [186] [MRIN: 65] on 18 Dec 1891 in St. Paul's Luthern, Wayne, WI. Ottilia was born on 22 Sep 1866 and died on 29 Apr 1931 in Wayne Township, Salem Cemetary, Washington, WI at age 64. They had five children: Olivia Louisa, Olinda Wilhelmina, George Carl, Lila Sophia, and Ottilie Katherine Caroline.
5-Olivia Louisa Kibbel [426] was born in 1892 and died in 1923 at age 31.
5-Olinda Wilhelmina Kibbel [427] was born in 1894 and died in 1979 at age 85.
5-George Carl Kibbel [428] was born in 1896 and died in 1949 at age 53.
5-Lila Sophia Kibbel [429] was born in 1896 and died in 1988 at age 92.
5-Ottilie Katherine Caroline Kibbel [430] was born in 1901 and died in 1997 at age 96.
4-Welhelmina Susanna Kibbel [190] was born on 12 Mar 1869 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI, died on 25 May 1871 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI at age 2, and was buried in Highway 28 Cemetary, Wayne, WI.
4-Johann Dietrich Kibbel [191] was born on 14 Apr 1870 in Wayne Township, Salem Cemetary, Washington, WI, died on 16 Feb 1871 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI, and was buried in Highway 28 Cemetary, Wayne, WI.
Noted events in his life were:
• Alt. Death. Of heart failure (church records)
4-William Konrad Kibbel [192] was born on 3 Dec 1871 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI, died on 30 Dec 1939 in Allenton, WI at age 68, and was buried in Jan 1940 in Allenton, WI.
William married Clara Katherina Benedum [202] [MRIN: 66], daughter of Adam Benedum [422] and Emilie Schmidt [423], on 3 Apr 1902. Clara was born on 10 Jul 1879 in Wayne Township, Salem Cemetary, Washington, WI and died on 25 Aug 1925 in Allenton, WI at age 46.
4-Heinrich Peter Kibbel [193] was born on 24 Feb 1873 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI, died on 30 Nov 1881 in Wayne Township, Salem Cemetary, Washington, WI at age 8, and was buried in Highway 28 Cemetary, Wayne, WI.
4-Elizabeth Carolina Maria Kibbel [194] was born on 15 Sep 1876 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI and died on 29 Nov 1881 in Wayne Township, Salem Cemetary, Washington, WI at age 5.
Noted events in her life were:
• Alt. Birth. May be 1877
4-Carolina Maria Kibbel [195] was born on 30 Apr 1878 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI and died on 19 Aug 1878 in Wayne Township, Salem Cemetary, Washington, WI.
4-Philip John Henry Kibbel [196] was born on 29 Oct 1879 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI and died on 24 Feb 1951 in Washington County, WI. at age 71.
General Notes:Went to ND but didn't stay - left around 1911.
Noted events in his life were:
• Alt. Death. Death # 17997, Washington Cty, Wi.
4-Carl Phillip Kibbel [197] was born on 13 Jun 1881 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI and died on 28 Nov 1881 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI.
Noted events in his life were:
• Alt. Death. Diptheria
4-Andrea Fredrich Kibbel [198] was born on 14 Mar 1882 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI and died on 26 Mar 1882 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI.
4-Otto Ludwig Peter Kibbel [199] was born on 23 Jun 1884 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI, died on 13 Nov 1966 in Lemmon, SD at age 82, and was buried in Mott, ND.
General Notes:Homesteaded a farm 5 miles south of Burt, ND. in 1958, the farm consisted of 1929 acres.
Otto married Lillie Nora Terlinden [203] [MRIN: 67], daughter of Peter Terlinden [211] and Bertha Erdmann [212], on 10 Jul 1906 in Kibbel Farm, Wayne Township, WI. Lillie was born on 21 Mar 1887 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI, died on 3 Apr 1944 in Bismark, ND at age 57, and was buried in Mott, ND. They had five children: Mrytle, Otto John Howard, Bryce Burt, Kenneth Ernest, and Robert.
Noted events in her life were:
• Alt. Death. Suffered a stroke on 29 Feb 1944
5-Mrytle Kibbel [206] was born on 17 Jun 1907 in Bentley Town, Hettinger Cty, ND, died on 1 Mar 2001 in Saginaw, MI at age 93, and was buried in Bentley, ND.
Mrytle married Adolph Treichel [213] [MRIN: 71] on 22 Jan 1930 in Elgin, ND. Adolph was born on 3 Dec 1897 in Storh Co. ND, died on 10 Jan 1991 in Saginaw, MI at age 93, and was buried in Bentley Town, Hettinger Cty, ND. They had three children: Loraine Lillian, Allen Robert, and Wilmer Leroy.
6-Loraine Lillian Treichel [220] was born on 13 Jul 1931 in Mott, ND.
Loraine married Douglas Stindt [223] [MRIN: 77] on 17 Jul 1954 in Elgin, ND. Douglas was born on 14 Apr 1931 in Bay City, MI. They had two children: Lynette Sue and Kim Michelle.
7-Lynette Sue Stindt [234] was born on 15 Oct 1957 in Manitowoc, WI.
Lynette married Mark Theurer [236] [MRIN: 81] on 27 Dec 1979.
Lynette next married Craig Ross [237] [MRIN: 82] on 17 Aug 1987 in Ann Arbor, MI. Craig was born on 8 Mar 1948.
7-Kim Michelle Stindt [235] was born on 3 Dec 1959 in Saginaw, MI.
Kim married Mark Heilala [238] [MRIN: 83] on 14 Apr 1992 in Everett, WA. Mark was born on 26 May 1960 in Anchorage, AK.
6-Allen Robert Treichel [221] was born on 28 Jul 1932 in Mott, ND.
Allen married Marion Runke [224] [MRIN: 78] on 10 Jul 1955 in Hutchinson, MN. Marion was born on 24 May 1936 in Hutchinson, MN. They had eight children: Keith Allen, Beth Joanne, Lou Ann, David Allen, Brian Allen, Becky, James Allen, and Debra.
7-Keith Allen Treichel [226] was born on 10 Apr 1956.
7-Beth Joanne Treichel [227] was born on 21 Apr 1957.
7-Lou Ann Treichel [228] was born on 28 Jan 1959.
7-David Allen Treichel [229] was born on 28 Jul 1960.
7-Brian Allen Treichel [230] was born on 15 Jun 1965.
7-Becky Treichel [231] was born on 11 Jul 1967.
7-James Allen Treichel [232] was born on 4 Apr 1969.
7-Debra Treichel [233] was born on 12 Jun 1971.
6-Wilmer Leroy Treichel [222] was born on 6 Jan 1936.
Wilmer married Aileen Kelsch Hyde [225] [MRIN: 79] on 6 Nov 1964 in Burt, ND. Aileen was born on 25 Mar 1933 in Mott, ND. They had one daughter: Lori Hyde.
7-Lori Hyde Treichel [239] was born on 19 May 1956.
5-Otto John Howard Kibbel [207] was born on 21 Jul 1909 in Bentley Town, Hettinger Cty, ND, died on 11 Nov 1992 in Mott, ND at age 83, and was buried in Mott, ND. Another name for Otto was Known As Howard Kibble.
Noted events in his life were:
• Alt. Death. Heart attack, testicle Cancer
Otto married Bertha Haas [214] [MRIN: 72] on 7 Mar 1934 in Elgin, ND. Bertha was born on 6 May 1915 in Bentley Town, Hettinger Cty, ND. They had nine children: Milliscent Mae, Dale, Marilyn Louise, Alvin Howard, Darlene Bertha, Edwin, Miles, Baby Girl, and Priscilla.
6-Milliscent Mae Kibbel [240] was born on 17 Sep 1934 in Mott, ND.
Milliscent married Evan Harris [241] [MRIN: 85] on 14 Nov 1954 in Mott, ND. Evan was born on 4 Jun 1928 in Sanarc, SD. They had four children: Kathleen, Kevin Dale, Barbara, and Bruce.
7-Kathleen Harris [250] was born on 13 Aug 1956 in Rapid City, SD.
7-Kevin Dale Harris [251] was born on 11 Apr 1958 in Rapid City, SD.
7-Barbara Harris [252] was born on 20 Jan 1960 in Rapid City, SD.
Barbara married David Crawford [279] [MRIN: 94] on 15 Nov 1980 in Aberdeen, SD. They had three children: Amy, Kyle, and Kayla.
8-Amy Crawford [280] .
8-Kyle Crawford [281] .
8-Kayla Crawford [282] .
7-Bruce Harris [253] was born on 9 Jul 1963 in Rapid City, SD.
Bruce married and had 2 children, Andrew and Sam.
8-Andrew Harris [283] .
8-Sam Harris [284] .
6-Dale Kibbel [245] was born on 8 Jan 1936 in Mott, ND and died on 6 Jul 1936 in Bentley ND.
6-Marilyn Louise Kibbel [244] was born on 19 May 1937 in Mott, ND and died on 24 Jun 1977 in Tucson, AZ at age 40.
Marilyn married Gregory Safian [256] [MRIN: 80]. They had one daughter: (No Given Name).
7-Safian [257] .
Marilyn next married Roger Iverson [254] [MRIN: 86] on 23 Apr 1957 in Mott, ND. They had three children: Carrie Jo, Tarrie Lynn, and Michael Dean.
7-Carrie Jo Iverson [255] was born on 15 Apr 1958.
7-Tarrie Lynn Iverson [258] was born on 22 Mar 1966.
7-Michael Dean Iverson [259] was born on 3 Jul 1968.
6-Alvin Howard Kibbel [243] was born on 4 Jun 1938 in Mott, ND.
Alvin married Karen Burwick [260] [MRIN: 87] on 5 Jun 1965. They had two children: Eric and Bryce.
7-Eric Kibbel [261] was born on 1 Apr 1966 in Elgin, ND.
Eric married Kim Eissinger [263] [MRIN: 76] on 20 Aug 1994 in Bismark, ND. They had one daughter: Leah Ann.
8-Leah Ann Kibbel [264] .
7-Bryce Kibbel [262] was born on 23 Apr 1975.
6-Darlene Bertha Kibbel [242] was born on 24 Jan 1941 in Mott, ND.
6-Edwin Kibbel [246] was born on 1 Apr 1943 in Mott, ND and died on 1 Apr 1943 in Mott, ND.
6-Miles Kibbel [247] was born on 9 Feb 1945 in Mott, ND, died on 6 Jan 1946 in Minneapolis, MN, and was buried in Mott, ND.
6-Baby Girl Kibbel [248] was born on 20 May 1947, died on 23 May 1947 in Elgin ND, and was buried in Mott, ND.
6-Priscilla Kibbel [249] was born on 19 Aug 1957 in Bismark, ND.
Priscilla married Neal Sprecher [265] [MRIN: 88] on 19 Aug 1974 in Mott, ND. They had one son: Jermy.
7-Jermy Sprecher [266] was born on 1 Jul 1974.
Priscilla next married Timothy Linghor [267] [MRIN: 89] on 4 Aug 1979 in Willsiton, ND. They had three children: Baby, Milissa, and James.
7-Baby Linghor [268] was born in 1980.
7-Milissa Linghor [269] was born on 8 Dec 1981.
7-James Linghor [270] was born on 23 Feb 1983.
5-Bryce Burt Kibbel [209] was born on 4 Mar 1923 in New Leipzig Town, Grant Co., ND and died on 12 Jul 1966 in Hettinger Co. ND at age 43.
General Notes:Bryce drowned together with his wife and two teenage children.
Bryce married Beulah Anna Buechner [215] [MRIN: 73] on 30 Sep 1945 in Lemmon, SD. Beulah was born on 13 Mar 1926 in Lemmon, SD, died on 12 Jul 1966 in Hettinger Co. ND at age 40, and was buried in Mott, ND. They had two children: Debra Ann and Daniel.
6-Debra Ann Kibbel [218] was born on 9 Jul 1951 in Elgin, Grant Co. ND, died on 12 Jul 1966 in Hettinger Co. ND at age 15, and was buried in Mott, ND.
6-Daniel Kibbel [219] was born on 11 Aug 1953 in Elgin ND, died on 12 Jul 1966 in Hettinger Co. ND at age 12, and was buried in Mott, ND.
5-Kenneth Ernest Kibbel [210] was born on 1 Feb 1925 in Bentley, ND.
Kenneth married Valeria Pekas [216] [MRIN: 74] on 11 Jun 1950 in Elgin, ND. Valeria was born on 31 Mar 1933 in Mott, ND, died on 21 Nov 1993 in Hawley, MN at age 60, and was buried in Mott, ND. They had two children: Brenda and Bradley.
6-Brenda Kibbel [271] was born on 11 Sep 1951 in Elgin ND.
Brenda married Mark Frisk [273] [MRIN: 90] on 1 Oct 1977 in Mott, ND. Mark was born in Mott, ND. They had three children: Mari, Sarah, and Paul.
7-Mari Frisk [274] was born on 22 Mar 1979.
7-Sarah Frisk [275] was born in Mar 1981.
7-Paul Frisk [276] was born on 28 Mar 1985.
6-Bradley Kibbel [272] was born in Oct 1953 in Elgin ND and died on 18 Dec 1996 in Harriman, NY at age 43.
Noted events in his life were:
• Alt. Death. Cremated and ashes buried on Kibbel homestead in ND
• Alt. Death. Of Lung Cancer
Bradley married Kiyoko Ikeda [277] [MRIN: 91] on 28 Oct 1978. They had one daughter: Mayo Kiyoko.
7-Mayo Kiyoko Kibbel [278] was born on 3 Apr 1995.
Kenneth next married Dorothy Springer [217] [MRIN: 75] on 9 Oct 1995 in Elgin, ND.
5-Robert Kibbel [208] was born on 27 Feb 1927 and died on 27 Feb 1927 in Mott, ND.
4-Anne Ida Maria Kibbel [200] was born on 27 Jun 1886 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI, died on 9 Aug 1939 in Fond Du Lac, WI at age 53, and was buried in Wayne Township, Salem Cemetary, Washington, WI.
Anne married Jack Kerns [204] [MRIN: 69] in 1912 in Wisconsin. The marriage ended in divorce. They had one son: Raymond.
5-Raymond Kerns [420] was born in 1913 and died in 1923 at age 10.
Anne next married John Foerster [205] [MRIN: 70] in 1918. John was born in 1878 and died in 1945 at age 67. They had one son: John.
5-John Foerster [421] .
4-Oscar Wilhelm Kibbel [201] was born on 29 Jul 1891 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI and died on 4 Dec 1891 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI.
3-John George Schleicher [110] was born on 22 Oct 1847 in Milwaukee, WI and died on 18 May 1926 in Kohlsville, WI at age 78. Another name for John was George.
John married Caroline Meier [111] [MRIN: 39], daughter of David Meier [285] and Rosina Eberle [286], on 23 Jan 1872 in Zion Church, Allenton, WI. Caroline was born on 7 Apr 1850 in Wayne WI and died on 12 Oct 1921 in Allenton, WI at age 71. They had five children: Mary, Norma Louise, John, Friedrich August, and Caroline.
4-Mary Schleicher [112] was born on 24 Dec 1872 in Kohlsville, WI, died on 20 Jul 1951 in Elgin ND at age 78, and was buried in Mott, ND.
Mary married Charles Ebert [115] [MRIN: 40] on 13 Sep 1892 in Elmore, WI. Charles was born in 1867 in Campbellsport, WI, died on 25 Dec 1948 at age 81, and was buried in Mott, ND. They had eight children: Flossie, Walter, Hazel, Ethel, Clarence, Harold, Vernon, and Myron.
5-Flossie Ebert [116] was born in 1893 in Wisconsin.
Flossie married Joe Berry [303] [MRIN: 102].
5-Walter Ebert [117] was born in 1895 in Wisconsin and died in 1908 at age 13.
5-Hazel Ebert [288] was born in 1897 in Wisconsin and died in 1918 at age 21.
Hazel married Olin Heimes [304] [MRIN: 98]. They had one daughter: Heimes.
6-Heimes Ebert [289] .
5-Ethel Ebert [292] was born in 1902 in Wisconsin.
Ethel married Guy Thomas [305] [MRIN: 92].
Ethel next married Al North [306] [MRIN: 93].
5-Clarence Ebert [291] was born on 13 Jan 1904 in Wisconsin and died on 30 Jun 1998 in Fargo, ND at age 94.
Clarence married Delores Fankhanel [307] [MRIN: 96].
5-Harold Ebert [290] was born on 22 Aug 1906 in Mott, ND and died on 31 Aug 1967 in Moscow, ID at age 61.
Harold married Stella Opland [308] [MRIN: 103] on 10 Nov 1929. They had four children: Jack, Jeannine, Jeanette, and Joanne.
6-Jack Ebert [332] .
6-Jeannine Ebert [333] .
Jeannine married Harold Springer [312] [MRIN: 104].
6-Jeanette Ebert [334] .
Jeanette married Howard Beloit [311] [MRIN: 105].
6-Joanne Ebert [313] .
Joanne married Don L. Vail [310] [MRIN: 106].
5-Vernon Ebert [294] was born on 16 Aug 1910 in Mott, ND, died on 21 Jan 1984 in Hettinger Co. ND at age 73, and was buried on 25 Jan 1984 in Mott, ND.
Vernon married Esther Soli [295] [MRIN: 99] on 15 Jun 1935 in Bison, SD. They had two children: Charles and Mary Jo.
6-Charles Ebert [317] was born on 20 Mar 1936 in Mott, ND and died on 15 May 1996 in Mott, ND at age 60. The cause of his death was Throat cancer.
Charles married Gen Schorsch [318] [MRIN: 109] on 9 Dec 1955. They had three children: Kyle, Kent, and Kim.
7-Kyle Ebert [319] .
7-Kent Ebert [320] .
7-Kim Ebert [321] .
Kim married John Evanson [322] [MRIN: 110]. They had two children: Blake and Ian.
8-Blake Evanson [323] .
8-Ian Evanson [324] .
6-Mary Jo Ebert [325] .
Mary married Trevor Landis [326] [MRIN: 111]. They had three children: Tracy, Trevis, and Tara.
7-Tracy Landis [327] .
Tracy married John Parkerson [330] [MRIN: 112] on 12 Dec 1991 in Laplata, MD.
7-Trevis Landes [328] .
7-Tara Landes [329] .
Mary next married Phil Rebel [331] [MRIN: 113]. They had three children: Tracy, Trevis, and Tara.
7-Tracy Landis [327] .
Tracy married John Parkerson [330] [MRIN: 112] on 12 Dec 1991 in Laplata, MD.
7-Trevis Landes [328] .
7-Tara Landes [329] .
5-Myron Ebert [293] was born on 16 Feb 1913 in Mott, ND, died on 6 Apr 1983 at age 70, and was buried in Sunnyslope Cemetery, Mott, ND.
Myron married Lorene Pekas [309] [MRIN: 108] on 15 Feb 1953 in Mott, ND. They had two children: Leland and Ardella.
6-Leland Ebert [335] was born on 1 Dec 1960.
Leland married Cathy McKinney [337] [MRIN: 107]. They had one daughter: Samantha.
7-Samantha Ebert [338] .
6-Ardella Ebert [336] .
4-Norma Louise Schleicher [113] was born on 6 Oct 1874 in Kohlsville, WI, died on 30 Sep 1928 in Milwaukee, WI at age 53, and was buried in Allenton, WI. Another name for Norma was Louise.
Norma married John J. Hess [118] [MRIN: 41] on 20 Sep 1899 in Zion Church, Kohlsville, WI. They had four children: Esther, Pearl, Ruth, and Harold P..
5-Esther Hess [119] .
Esther married Oscar Klein [122] [MRIN: 42].
5-Pearl Hess [120] .
Pearl married Gerhard Eichman [123] [MRIN: 43].
5-Ruth Hess [121] .
5-Harold P. Hess [296] .
4-John Schleicher [114] was born on 22 Sep 1877 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI, died in Feb 1937 in Burt, Hettinger Co. ND at age 59, and was buried in Burt, ND.
John married and had 1 child, Curtis
5-Curtis Schleicher [128] .
Curtis married Unk2 [132] [MRIN: 46]. They had three children: John, Celasta, and Willard.
6-John Schleicher [129] .
6-Celasta Schleicher [130] .
6-Willard Schleicher [131] .
John next married Katherine Martin [124] [MRIN: 44], daughter of Andreas Martin [418] and Katharina Kuhn [419], on 30 Jun 1904 in Zion Luthern Church, Allenton, WI. Katherine was born in 1877 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI and died on 27 Jul 1914 in Burt, ND at age 37. They had two children: Almira and Irene.
5-Almira Schleicher [125] was born on 19 Mar 1906 and died on 30 Sep 1984 at age 78.
Almira married George Hughes [297] [MRIN: 100].
Almira next married Evans [298] [MRIN: 101].
5-Irene Schleicher [299] was born in 1910 and died in 1914 at age 4.
John next married Clara Peterson [287] [MRIN: 97] on 16 Oct 1915. They had three children: Curtis, Celesta, and Willard.
5-Curtis Schleicher [300] was born in 1917 in ND.
Curtis married and had 4 children, John, Jane, Donald, and Carol.
6-Rev. John Schleicher [339] .
General Notes:He is associate pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church, 869 7th Ave SE, Rochester, MN 55904. He graduated from Springfield Seminary in 1975 with Master of Divinity degree.
Noted events in his life were:
• Occupation. Minister
6-Jane Schleicher [340] .
6-Donald Schleicher [341] .
6-Carol Schleicher [342] .
5-Celesta Schleicher [301] was born in 1919 in ND.
Celesta married Rev. Harvey A. Krueger [343] [MRIN: 116]. They had four children: Kurt, Mark, Paul, and Ann.
6-Kurt Krueger [344] .
6-Mark Krueger [345] .
6-Paul Krueger [346] .
6-Ann Krueger [347] .
5-Willard Schleicher [302] was born in 1921 in ND.
Willard married Yolande [348] [MRIN: 117]. They had three children: Marilyn, Barbara, and Jeff.
6-Marilyn Schleicher [349] .
6-Barbara Schleicher [350] .
6-Jeff Schleicher [351] .
4-Friedrich August Schleicher [126] was born on 26 Feb 1882 in Kohlsville, WI and died in St. Louis, MO.
Friedrich married Mary [127] [MRIN: 47]. They had three children: George, Fred, and Caroline.
5-George Schleicher [133] .
5-Fred Schleicher [134] .
5-Caroline Schleicher [135] .
4-Caroline Schleicher [136] was born on 13 Sep 1884 in Kohlsville, WI. Another name for Caroline was Lena.
Caroline married Charles Doms [137] [MRIN: 48].
3-Jacob Schleicher [21] was born on 24 Jan 1850 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI and died on 9 Sep 1931 in Norwood, MN at age 81.
Jacob married Fredericka Schrupp [23] [MRIN: 11], daughter of William Schrupp [352] and Caroline Schneer [353], on 8 Dec 1881 in Young America, MN. Fredericka was born on 25 Nov 1865 in Theresa Town., Dodge City, WI and died on 12 Sep 1963 in Young America, MN at age 97. Another name for Fredericka was Ricka. They had eight children: Jacob William, John Phillip, James Emil, George W., Anna, Arthur George, Agnes K. Helena, and Elenor Agusta.
4-Jacob William Schleicher [354] was born on 1 Jul 1883 in Carver City, MN and died on 7 Sep 1964 in Douglas City, MN at age 81.
Jacob married Anna Gutzman [355] [MRIN: 118] in 1919. They had one daughter: Dorthy.
5-Dorthy Schleicher [385] .
Dorthy married Earl Feda [386] [MRIN: 129]. They had two children: Marlyn and Billy.
6-Marlyn Feda [387] .
6-Billy Feda [388] .
4-John Phillip Schleicher [356] was born on 12 Sep 1883 in Carver Co. MN and died on 24 Nov 1886 in Carver Co. MN at age 3.
4-James Emil Schleicher [357] was born on 25 Aug 1885 in Bongards, MN and died in Oakland, CA. Another name for James was Emil.
James married Sue Madden [358] [MRIN: 119]. They had two children: Evelyn and Irene.
5-Evelyn Schleicher [389] .
5-Irene Schleicher [390] .
Irene married Johnson [391] [MRIN: 130]. They had two children: Susan and Tom.
6-Susan Johnson [392] .
6-Tom Johnson [393] .
4-George W. Schleicher [359] was born on 29 Jul 1886 in Carver Co. MN and died on 12 Nov 1957 in Young America, MN at age 71.
4-Anna Schleicher [360] was born on 21 Jan 1889 in Norwood, MN and died on 10 Jul 1980 in Young America, MN at age 91.
Anna married John H. Fruetel [361] [MRIN: 120] on 28 Jan 1913. John was born on 24 Dec 1889. They had one daughter: Lorna.
5-Lorna Fruetel [394] .
Lorna married Bachman [395] [MRIN: 131]. They had three children: Joann, Larry, and Ronald.
6-Joann Bachman [396] .
Joann married Lowell Walter [399] [MRIN: 132]. They had one daughter: Kurt.
7-Kurt Walter [400] .
6-Larry Bachman [397] .
Larry married Janet Krock [401] [MRIN: 133].
6-Ronald Bachman [398] .
Ronald married Cheryl Lano [402] [MRIN: 134]. They had two children: Michelle and Amy.
7-Michelle Bachman [403] .
7-Amy Bachman [404] .
4-Arthur George Schleicher [4] was born on 5 Aug 1890 in Norwood, MN, died on 22 Jun 1934 in Crookston, MN at age 43, and was buried in McIntosh, MN.
Arthur married Elsie Anne Roth [3] [MRIN: 3] on 30 Jan 1917. Elsie was born on 21 Oct 1890 in Norwood, MN and died on 3 Nov 1977 in McIntosh, MN at age 87. They had three children: Roy Jacob, Lloyd B., and Gordon.
5-Roy Jacob Schleicher [2] was born on 1 Sep 1918 in McIntosh, MN.
Roy married Adelle Ruth Oppegaard [5] [MRIN: 2], daughter of Unknown and Bertha Sannes [6]. Adelle was born on 17 Sep 1922 in Erskine, MN. They had three children: Ray Arthur, Jean Shirley, and Fern Louise.
6-Ray Arthur Schleicher [1] was born on 16 Nov 1942 in Fosston, MN.
Ray married Patricia Ann Simonson [7] [MRIN: 6], daughter of Unknown and Unknown. Patricia was born on 11 Mar 1942 in Fosston, MN. They had two children: Dana and Lora.
7-Dana Schleicher [15] was born on 31 Dec 1966 in Alexandria, VA.
7-Lora Schleicher [16] was born on 17 Oct 1970 in Alexandria, VA.
Lora married Shapour John Eskandary [17] [MRIN: 10] on 8 Jun 1996 in Middleburg, VA. Shapour was born on 18 Dec 1969. They had one son: Spencer.
8-Spencer Eskandary [18] was born on 27 Jun 2001.
6-Jean Shirley Schleicher [8] was born on 20 Jun 1945 in Crookston, MN.
Noted events in her life were:
• Alt. Birth: 20 Jun 1945.
Jean married Larry Harold Kirkeby [9] [MRIN: 8] in 1966 in McIntosh, MN. The marriage ended in divorce. Larry was born on 25 Sep 1942 in Ulen, MN. They had four children: Joe Hans, Jeffery Lars, Jennifer Ann, and Jana Kristine.
7-Joe Hans Kirkeby [10] was born on 6 Mar 1967 in Minneapolis, MN.
7-Jeffery Lars Kirkeby [11] was born on 25 Nov 1969 in Minneapolis, MN.
7-Jennifer Ann Kirkeby [12] was born on 2 Aug 1972 in Grand Rapids, MN.
Noted events in her life were:
• Religion. Luthern LCMS
Jennifer married Mike Maier [14] [MRIN: 9], son of Kenneth Maier [465] and Peggy Alger [466], on 25 Sep 1999 in Grand Rapids, MN. Mike was born on 17 Feb 1971 in Green Bay, WI. They had one daughter: Adalee Jean.
Noted events in his life were:
• Occupation: 21 Feb 2004. Network Administrator
• Religion. Catholic
8-Adalee Jean Maier [461] was born on 28 Mar 2003 in Dallas, TX.
7-Jana Kristine Kirkeby [13] was born on 6 May 1976 in Grand Rapids, MN.
6-Fern Louise Schleicher [22] was born on 1 Aug 1954 in Crookston, MN.
Fern married Johathan M. Frusti [27] [MRIN: 14]. Johathan was born on 4 Feb 1954 in Calumet, MI. They had two children: Teresa Ruth and Kathryn Leigh.
7-Teresa Ruth Frusti [26] was born on 17 Jun 1978 in Fort Wayne, IN.
7-Kathryn Leigh Frusti [28] was born on 7 May 1981 in Pipestone, MN.
5-Lloyd B. Schleicher [19] was born on 15 Jul 1920 in McIntosh, MN.
Lloyd married Gladys E. Simonson [433] [MRIN: 5] on 10 Jul 1943. Gladys was born on 27 May 1922 in McIntosh, MN. They had four children: Carole, Paulette Lynn, Angela Rae, and Randi Kay.
6-Carole Schleicher [434] was born on 28 Nov 1945 in Crookston, MN.
Carole married Donald Lee Eckstrom [435] [MRIN: 143] on 31 Aug 1968. Donald was born on 28 May 1945 in Hood River, OR. They had four children: Boy Twin, Bow Twin, Wendy Lynn, and Robert L..
7-Boy Twin Eckstrom [436] was born on 15 Feb 1972.
7-Bow Twin Eckstrom [437] was born on 15 Feb 1972.
7-Wendy Lynn Eckstrom [438] was born on 12 Aug 1974.
7-Robert L. Eckstrom [439] was born on 3 Mar 1981.
6-Paulette Lynn Schleicher [440] was born on 1 Nov 1946 in Crookston, MN.
Paulette married Richard Roy Rose [441] [MRIN: 145] on 9 Nov 1974. Richard was born on 18 Dec 1946 in Guthrie, OK. They had two children: Erica Lynn and Emily Jenna.
7-Erica Lynn Rose [442] was born on 16 Dec 1979 in San Diego, CA.
7-Emily Jenna Rose [443] was born on 20 Jun 1981 in San Diego, CA.
6-Angela Rae Schleicher [444] was born on 20 Jun 1953 in Fosston, MN.
Angela married Kalvin W. Martin [445] [MRIN: 146] on 18 Jun 1977. Kalvin was born on 23 Jul 1953 in Devils Lake, ND. They had two children: Paul J. and Kyle W..
7-Paul J. Martin [446] was born on 18 Nov 1983 in Albuquerque, NM.
7-Kyle W. Martin [447] was born on 24 Feb 1987 in Albuquerque, NM.
6-Randi Kay Schleicher [448] was born on 18 Aug 1957 in Fosston, MN.
Randi married Wade Moore [449] [MRIN: 147]. Wade was born on 29 Aug 1946 in Boston, MA. They had two children: Julie and Paul.
7-Julie Moore [450] was born on 18 Apr 1966 in Moline, Ill.
Julie married James Miller [462] [MRIN: 148] on 10 Jun 1988. James was born on 7 Jan 1965 in Peoria, Ill. They had two children: Justin and Sarah K.
8-Justin Miller [452] was born in Oct 1989 in Daytona Beach, FL.
8-Sarah K Miller [451] was born in 1993 in Daytona Beach, FL.
7-Paul Moore [453] was born on 22 May 1970.
Randi next married Butch Milne [463] [MRIN: 152]. They had one daughter: Daughter.
7-Daughter Milne [464] .
5-Gordon Schleicher [20] was born on 19 Jun 1923 in McIntosh, MN.
Gordon married Shirley J. Palmer [454] [MRIN: 149] on 30 Dec 1949. Shirley was born on 12 Jan 1928. They had two children: Joel A. and Heidi Ann.
6-Joel A. Schleicher [455] was born on 9 Mar 1952 in Minneapolis, MN.
Joel married Diane M. Devine [456] [MRIN: 150] on 30 Jun 1979. Diane was born on 3 Jul 1953 in Minneapolis, MN. They had one daughter: Kelly Lyn.
7-Kelly Lyn Schleicher [457] was born on 12 Dec 1987 in FL.
6-Heidi Ann Schleicher [458] was born on 7 Dec 1954 in Minneapolis, MN.
Gordon next married Laverne A Chaplin [459] [MRIN: 151] in 1979. Laverne was born in 1944 in IN.
4-Agnes K. Helena Schleicher [362] was born on 24 Sep 1893 in Norwood, MN and died on 23 Apr 1978 in Bell Plaine, MN at age 84.
Agnes married Herbert Schimelpfenig [363] [MRIN: 121] on 10 Jun 1920. They had two children: Ruth and Amber.
5-Ruth Schimelpfenig [372] .
Ruth married Feran [374] [MRIN: 124]. They had one son: Steven.
6-Steven Feran [375] .
5-Amber Schimelpfenig [373] .
Amber married Kamarud [376] [MRIN: 125]. They had four children: Dan, Bryan, Joe, and Rose.
6-Dan Kamarud [377] .
Dan married Lois [381] [MRIN: 126].
6-Bryan Kamarud [378] .
Bryan married Wendy [382] [MRIN: 127].
6-Joe Kamarud [379] .
Joe married Gail [383] [MRIN: 128]. They had one daughter: Jason.
7-Jason Kamarud [384] .
6-Rose Kamarud [380] .
4-Elenor Agusta Schleicher [364] was born on 6 Jun 1903 in Norwood, MN and died on 18 Feb 1987 in Shakopee at age 83.
Elenor married Oswin A. Scott [365] [MRIN: 122] on 15 Oct 1925. They had six children: Donald, Deborah, Audray, Gerald, Shirley, and Carol.
5-Donald Scott [366] .
Donald married Ruth [367] [MRIN: 123]. They had one daughter: Barbara.
6-Barbara Scott [368] .
5-Deborah Scott [369] .
5-Audray Scott [370] .
5-Gerald Scott [371] .
5-Shirley Scott [405] .
Shirley married Herrman [406] [MRIN: 135]. They had one daughter: Lynn.
6-Lynn Herrman [407] .
5-Carol Scott [408] .
3-Maria Margretha Schleicher [138] was born on 8 Nov 1851 in Kohlsville, WI and died on 8 Feb 1917 in Therese, Dodge, WI at age 65.
General Notes:Maria had curly hair.
Maria married Phillip Roeker [139] [MRIN: 49] on 2 Oct 1879 in Washington Co. WI. They had five children: William Frederich, George Louis, Alma, Otto, and Emil.
4-William Frederich Roeker [140] .
William married Sylvia Wolfe [141] [MRIN: 50]. They had six children: George, Robert, Allen, Marian, Curtis, and Doris.
5-George Roeker [142] .
George married Ruth [149] [MRIN: 51]. They had two children: Martin and Vega.
6-Martin Roeker [150] .
6-Vega Roeker [151] .
5-Robert Roeker [143] died in 1974.
Robert married Dorthy Rissauer [152] [MRIN: 52].
5-Allen Roeker [144] .
Allen married Maxine Spees [153] [MRIN: 53]. They had three children: William, Barbara, and Bonnie Jean.
6-William Roeker [154] .
6-Barbara Roeker [155] .
6-Bonnie Jean Roeker [156] .
5-Marian Roeker [145] .
5-Curtis Roeker [146] .
Curtis married Onalee [157] [MRIN: 54].
5-Doris Roeker [147] .
Doris married Robert Havermehl [158] [MRIN: 55]. They had five children: Robert, Alan, Wendy, Neil, and James.
6-Robert Havermehl [159] .
6-Alan Havermehl [160] .
6-Wendy Havermehl [161] .
6-Neil Havermehl [162] .
6-James Havermehl [163] .
4-George Louis Roeker [148] was born on 22 Aug 1886 in Herman, Dodge Co., WI and died on 24 Feb 1975 in Bowman, ND at age 88.
George married Flora Belle Utter [164] [MRIN: 56] on 30 Apr 1913 in Mott, ND. Flora was born on 6 Aug 1888 and died on 30 Apr 1968 in San Bernadino, CA at age 79. They had five children: Mary Elizabeth, Lafern Grace, Lois Maxine, Annabelle, and William Allen.
5-Mary Elizabeth Roeker [165] was born on 8 Nov 1916 in Elgin ND, died on 18 Dec 1918 at age 2, and was buried in Mott, ND.
5-Lafern Grace Roeker [166] was born on 13 Jun 1918 in Mott, ND.
Lafern married Emil C. Pulkrabek [167] [MRIN: 57] on 8 Jun 1939 in New England, ND.
5-Lois Maxine Roeker [168] was born on 14 Aug 1923 in Mott, ND.
Lois married John Barcraft [169] [MRIN: 58].
Lois next married Florine Clapp [409] [MRIN: 136].
5-Annabelle Roeker [170] was born on 13 Jun 1926 in Elgin ND.
Annabelle married Hugh Dryer [171] [MRIN: 59]. They had three children: James, Allen, and Gary.
6-James Dryer [172] .
6-Allen Dryer [173] .
6-Gary Dryer [174] .
Annabelle next married Art Surt [410] [MRIN: 137].
5-William Allen Roeker [175] was born on 7 Jun 1930 in Elgin ND.
William married Joyce Williams [176] [MRIN: 60]. They had three children: Margaret Ann, Karen, and Barbara.
6-Margaret Ann Roeker [177] .
Margaret married Joyce Williams [411] [MRIN: 138]. They had three children: Barbara, David, and Karen.
7-Barbara Williams [412] .
7-David Williams [413] .
7-Karen Williams [414] .
6-Karen Roeker [178] .
6-Barbara Roeker [179] .
4-Alma Roeker [180] .
4-Otto Roeker [181] .
General Notes:Lived in Wisconsin. Had 1 daughter and 6 sons.
Noted events in his life were:
• Retirement. Slinger, WI
Otto married Elsie [183] [MRIN: 61].
4-Emil Roeker [182] .
Emil married Emily [184] [MRIN: 62].
3-Elizabeth Schleicher [35] was born on 10 Mar 1853 in Kohlsville, WI and died on 27 Dec 1891 in Campbellsport, WI at age 38.
General Notes:Elizebeth Schleicher Guenther died about 1892 after a fatal burning from an accident with a kerosene lamp. This was soon after they moved from Kohlsville to Campbellsport. In Kohlsville, Philip operated a sawmill with water power. He developed the gout, sold the mill and purchased a hotel in Campbellsport. He marred a second time to Louise Ferber. Three sons were born to this union: Arthur, William and Orval. Orval was Supt. of Milwaukee Institutions and was a cerified public accountant.
Elizabeth married Phillip Guenther [81] [MRIN: 31] on 10 Mar 1875 in Wayne WI, Grooms Home. Phillip was born on 3 Aug 1852 in Bechdheim Grosshagen Hessendamer, Germany and died on 18 Oct 1927 in Campbellsport, WI at age 75. They had ten children: Caroline, Elizabeth, Gordon, Marvin, Olive, Oscar F., John Jacob, Ida, Selma, and Tuska.
4-Caroline Guenther [87] .
Caroline married John Pickard [415] [MRIN: 139].
4-Elizabeth Guenther [85] was buried in St. Johns Cemetary, Kohlsville, WI.
4-Gordon Guenther [84] .
4-Marvin Guenther [83] .
4-Olive Guenther [90] .
Olive married Charles Nelson [100] [MRIN: 36]. They had two children: Delawarence and Fay Ann.
5-Delawarence Nelson [101] .
5-Fay Ann Nelson [102] .
4-Oscar F. Guenther [91] .
Oscar married Myrtle Knickle [103] [MRIN: 37] on 3 Apr 1915 in Meth. Episcopal Church, Campbellsport, WI. They had two children: Vernon and Patricia.
5-Vernon Guenther [104] .
5-Patricia Guenther [105] .
4-John Jacob Guenther [82] was born on 15 Dec 1875 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI, died in 1955 in Brownsville, TX at age 80, and was buried in Campbellsport, WI.
John married Rose Litscher [92] [MRIN: 32]. Rose was born on 18 Mar 1881 in Wisconsin and died on 15 Sep 1966 in Fond Du Lac, WI at age 85. They had three children: Verna, Gordon, and Marvin.
5-Verna Guenther [93] was born on 26 Feb 1901 and died on 8 Jul 1986 in Fond Du Lac, WI at age 85.
5-Gordon Guenther [417] was born in 1904 and died in 1986 at age 82.
5-Marvin Guenther [416] was born in 1908 and died in 1992 at age 84.
4-Ida Guenther [86] was born on 27 Sep 1879 in West Bend, WI and died in Mar 1967 in West Bend, WI at age 87.
Ida married Bernard Doepke [94] [MRIN: 33].
4-Selma Guenther [88] was born in 1884, died in Nov 1947 in Mott, ND at age 63, and was buried in Wisconsin.
Selma married Arnold Bannon [95] [MRIN: 34]. Arnold was born in 1880 in Wisconsin and died in 1906 in Wisconsin at age 26. They had two children: Violetta and Virgil.
5-Violetta Bannon [96] was born in 1908 in Hettinger Co. ND and died on 1 Nov 1963 in Lansing, MI at age 55.
5-Virgil Bannon [97] was born in 1913.
4-Tuska Guenther [89] was born on 1 Oct 1886 in Wisconsin and died in Nov 1974 in Milwaukee, WI at age 88.
Tuska married Herman Wegner [98] [MRIN: 35]. They had one daughter: Virginia.
5-Virginia Wegner [99] .
3-Katharina Schleicher [34] was born on 23 Mar 1856 in Kohlsville, WI, died on 1 Jan 1939 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI at age 82, and was buried in Wayne Township, Washington, WI.
Katharina married John Guenther [36] [MRIN: 15], son of Phillip Guenther [431] and Barbara Reicherl [432], on 4 Sep 1877. John was born on 26 Sep 1853 and died on 2 Dec 1933 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI at age 80. They had six children: Barbara, Henry, Ella, Louise, Carol, and Neal Edwin.
4-Barbara Guenther [37] was born on 30 Apr 1878 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI.
Barbara married John Sosp [38] [MRIN: 16]. They had one daughter: Gertrude.
5-Gertrude Sosp [39] .
Gertrude married Roy Meyer [40] [MRIN: 17]. They had one daughter: Ruth.
6-Ruth Meyer [41] .
Ruth married Andrew Wentz [42] [MRIN: 18]. They had two children: Ruth Jean and David.
7-Ruth Jean Wentz [43] .
Ruth married Harry Winship [45] [MRIN: 19]. They had four children: Paul, David, Donna, and Vicki.
8-Paul Winship [46] .
8-David Winship [47] .
8-Donna Winship [48] .
8-Vicki Winship [49] .
7-David Wentz [44] .
David married Carol [50] [MRIN: 20]. They had one son: Andrew.
8-Andrew Wentz [51] .
4-Henry Guenther [52] was born on 4 Jan 1881 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI.
Henry married Emma Guth [53] [MRIN: 21]. They had one daughter: Vinelda.
5-Vinelda Guenther [54] .
Henry next married Kathry Baumbach [55] [MRIN: 22].
4-Ella Guenther [56] was born on 2 Dec 1887 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI.
Ella married William Eberle [57] [MRIN: 23]. They had one daughter: Violet.
5-Violet Eberle [60] .
Violet married Howard Schmidt [59] [MRIN: 24].
4-Louise Guenther [58] was born on 28 Mar 1893 in Wayne Township, Washington, WI and died in Feb 1987 in Sheboygan, WI at age 93.
Louise married Roland C. Widder [61] [MRIN: 25]. They had four children: Roger, Stephen, Mark, and John.
5-Roger Widder [62] .
Roger married Cheryl Ostagaard [66] [MRIN: 26]. They had two children: Jennifer Ann and Janice.
6-Jennifer Ann Widder [67] .
6-Janice Widder [68] .
5-Stephen Widder [63] .
Stephen married Wendy Gilbreth [69] [MRIN: 27].
5-Mark Widder [64] .
Mark married Carol Ash [70] [MRIN: 28].
5-John Widder [65] .
4-Carol Guenther [71] .
Carol married Omer Benn [72] [MRIN: 29]. They had three children: Susan Louis, Barbara Emma, and Liesa Ann.
5-Susan Louis Benn [73] .
5-Barbara Emma Benn [74] .
5-Liesa Ann Benn [75] .
4-Neal Edwin Guenther [76] .
Neal married Shirley Tenhaken [77] [MRIN: 30]. They had three children: Carl Randal, Jeffrey Neal, and Lynn Carol.
5-Carl Randal Guenther [78] .
5-Jeffrey Neal Guenther [79] .
5-Lynn Carol Guenther [80] .

Roy's Memories - longer version

START FARMING:
a. My parents built a house, barn, granary, chicken house, etc in the first 2 to 3 years. Dad needed more open field to grow grain and hay for livestock. He would follow a practice that was common in those years of taking in one or two young men to stay at our place during the winter months and work for room and board. These men would cut wood for $1 per day to buy tobacco and clothes. They would make “cord wood” – lengths 4 ft. long which they split lengthwise and piled into a 4’ x 4’ x 8’ cord. These men would very seldom leave our place and dad would buy the tobacco and other need when he went into town.
b. Dad would load up a cord of wood on a sleigh pulled by 2 horses and take it to town once a week, along with his 5 gallon cans of cream and a case of eggs. The cream and eggs had to be covered well with heavy blankets to prevent freezing. Blankets, called horse blankets, were taken along to cover his horses when he arrived in town to keep them from cooling off too fast in cold weather.
c. The cord wood was sold to the McIntosh Creamery where it was used for fuel both to heat the buildings and feed the huge boiler that created the steam pressure. Lots of cord wood was used by the creamery so many other farmers also delivered cord wood.
d. The 5 gallon cream cans were unloaded onto the loading shelf so the “butter maker” could remove the cover of each can, dip his pencil into the can, run it across his mouth and then proclaim the grade as: #1 sweet, #2 common or sour. As the grade was entered into his book the cans were dumped into a hopper scale of the proper grade, the cream weighed and weight entered into his book. The farmer would get his cream check once a month along with a record of each sale and grade.
2. SELLING EGGS AND PRODUCE FOR GROCERIES
a. The eggs that were taken into town were delivered to the local grocery store. A clerk would carry your case of eggs into the back of the store into a “dark room” where one person sat checking or “candling” eggs, a process to check the quality of the egg by holding it up to a tube through which light shown from a candle. Eggs that were a couple of weeks old or if a rooster was kept with the laying hens and the eggs were too old, this candling process would show the start of a chick in the egg. Of course, they only paid for the good eggs, the bad eggs were sent home in your case.
b. While the eggs were being checked you would hand your grocery order to a clerk. She would then run all over this large store picking up the items for you and bringing them to the counter. Most items were in bulk – large barrels, boxes or jars. Coffee was freshly ground through a large grinder with a big wheel that was turned by hand. It was ground according to your order: Course, medium or fine. Our biggest general store was owned by the Wichern family and stocked everything in groceries but also had a full line of clothing and shoes – no need to go to any other store or out of town. Farmers could trade eggs, homemade butter, garden vegetables, fruits, berries, etc in for groceries and clothes.
c. While the clerk was doing all of the work getting your grocery order together most people would sit in front of the store and visit with neighbors and friends. This was especially nice in winter as the store had a large furnace that heated from the basement and everyone could sit around the furnace to visit.
d. There were no credit cards, very few had monthly income, so farmers especially, would run large credit accounts that they paid up each fall after harvest or when they sold livestock. This was also true of those that purchased fuel for gas engines and kerosene for lights – most people could pay only once a year – a real burden for the dealer.
3. CLEARING LAND:
a. Clearing land of trees and stumps was very hard work. Popular trees and some ah and oak trees were cut for cord wood or heating the homes. Oak trees were made into fence posts in the wintertime, hauled home to a farm yard where the bark was peeled off in late spring. They would be sorted into piles according to size – 3 inch, 4 inch, 6 inch, etc. These posts were used to fence around the farm but Dad also sold lots of fence posts to neighbors or dealers.
b. The larger oak trees were hauled to someone who owned a saw mill, to be sawed into lumber. This mill would only operate one time a year, depending on how much timber was hauled to him to be sawed and when he could get extra help.
c. Once the trees were sawed into lumber Dad was notified to come and haul it home. This lumber was green and very heavy and had to be graded for size and piled with strips between so air could go between the boards to dry them out. This curing would take at least a year or more.
d. After the trees were removed from a piece of land, the stumps needed to be removed by explosives. Sometimes he would hire someone, but most of the time he would do it himself. Mother always worried when Dad was out blowing up stumps or rocks. He would make a deep hole under one side of the stump with a “crow bar” that had been sharpened to go into the ground. Then he would push a half stick or depending on how large a stump, a whole stick of TNT explosive down into the hole. Inserted into the stick of TNT was a cap or shell that had been attached to a 3 or 4 foot length of fuse. He would then light the fuse, get up and run as fast as he could, as far as he determined he had to go to be a safe distance.
e. This was the critical time – will it go off or won’t it? If it did not go off he would, after a long wait, go back and insert another cap and fuse. This was very dangerous and we heard of several deaths because of delayed explosions. Many times my brothers and I would be with him when he blew stumps and rocks. After the explosions we would help gather the pieces into piles that could be hauled off by the team of horses and wagons. Dad did a lot of grubbing of remaining roots and stumps.
f. After he had cleared a few acres he would rent a “breaking Plough” and use his 3 horsed to plough up the land. This was very slow going because of roots under ground. It could take several weeks to get even a small patch ready to be used as a field. Then we had to help pick roots, rock, and anything left on the field, level the ground, disk it many times, pick more roots and rock, then finally seeding in to grain for a crop.
4. MILKING COWS:
a. Our barn had stalls for 11 cows, 4 horses, several young calves, and a large pen that was used as a maternity ward for mother cows and/or pigs. It was a good barn, built in 1920 by the local Bjella and Olson Co. with all concrete floors and mangers, steel stalls and stanchions. In a few years an automatic water drinking system was added. A gas engine ran the pumps that pumped the water into an overhead tank in the barn.
b. My Dad’s preferred breed of milk cows was “milking shorthorn” mainly because they could be sold for beef meat and while the amount of milk they produced was less than some other breeds, the butterfat test was high. The cows were milked by hand by Dad and Mother while us boys played in the hay with the cats and the dog. The milk put through a cream separator which was cranked by hand to separate the cream from the skim milk. It was very important that the cranker keep an even rhythm in order to remove all the cream. The skim milk was fed to calves, cats, dogs, hogs - even some cows, and if we still had milk left it was dumped on the manure pile outside.
c. Grinding the grain that was used to feed the cattle and hogs was a never ending job. Dad would bag up 10 or 15 sacks of grain, haul it into town to the mill where it was ground and the proper concentrates added. In later years after Dad passed away we stripped the body off our 1923 Model T Ford and mounted a grinder on the chassis so we could grind and mix rations right at home. Even after grinding the grain we would have to get it into the feed boxes in the barn. This was done by carrying several wash tubs full into the barn every day – no easy job.
5. GRAIN HARVEST:
a. Grain was harvested with a McCormick-Deering grain binder. This machine cut the grain with a 6 ft. sickle, moved it up with canvases to a knotter which tied the grain into bundles. These bundles were then set into shocks, by hand, butt ends on the ground, grain tops up, usually 8 or 10 bundles to each shock.
b. After a couple of weeks of drying, these shocks were hauled into our farm yard were they were stacked. Dad usually had a neighbor help with this as exchange work, although my Mother also would help pitch bundles off the horse drawn rack. Dad would make a beautiful round stack, starting with bundles laid in a circle about 12 feet in diameter with butts outward, layer upon layer carefully overlapped to hold together. The stack went up about 10 feet before each succeeding ring would be drawn inward until a peak was reached, making the stack about 25 or 30 feet high.
c. Depending on how much grain each farmer raised, several stacks were make, then left to cure or dry. After a few weeks a neighbor would bring his Threshing Machine and thresh the stacks.
d. As long as Dad lived we always stacked the grain bundles. After Dad Padded away in 1934 we decided to join a shock threshing “run”. I was going on 16 and Lloyd was 14 so the neighbors asked us to join this run with one team of horses and to two of us working as one man. The run included nine or ten farmers, each contributed the number of teams and men they could furnish.
e. The custom thresher, Oscar Jones of Erskine, had a large 42” thresh machine, powered by a big “oil pull” tractor. To me the drive wheels were at least 8 feet high although I never measured them.
f. This machine required 10 teams to haul the grain bundles from the fields, two or three “spike pitchers” who helped load in the field, two men, extra, at the machine to help the man unload his bundles into the machine. Two teams unloaded bundles into this machine at a time – one from each side of the conveyor.
g. Since our team was supposed to be up to unload into the machine every fifth time, we had to hustle out team back to the field to load – sometimes a half or three quarters of mile away – load quickly and get back to the machine. Every teamster tried to load his rack as high and as quickly as possible, and sometimes there would be trouble. Some loads had their bundles side off the rack, wagons tipping over going on steep side hillsides, wagons getting stuck in wet grounds. Then other drivers would come over to help reload the rack, or pull out the wagon.
h. This machine had 3 men with grain wagons to haul the grain to the granary. All grain was run into bags in the grain box wagon. The machine was set to dump ½ bushel of grain at a time so three dumps or 1½ bushel was usually put into each bag. The grain wagon was driven along side of the granary unto a raised area. This raised area was so the grain hauler could hand each sack onto a side shelf, the man on the inside of the 2nd story of the granary would pull up the sack, dump it through a hole in the top floor to fill the downstairs bins – then fill the bins upstairs.
i. This was the only means of elevating grain until a few years later somebody heard of a stat conveyor, powered by a gas engine that could convey the grain up to heights of a two story granary. Our threshing run convinced the owner of the threshing machine to buy a conveyor and rent it to each farmer to use for $.01 per bushel.
j. The going rate for threshing was $.02 for oats, $.03 for barley, and $.04 for wheat. This was fairly standard around the country but each fall farmers would check around to see who would do the threshing the cheapest.
k. A few weeks after the early grain was threshed, the machine would come back to those who had later crops like flax, clover, buckwheat and late grain. Then would come time to “settle up” between these ten farmers who were in the “run”. Each farmer had kept record of the hours he had furnished teams and men. At an evening meeting they would turn in their records. They appointed me to do the calculations because I was the” only one who had more then 8th grade”. Each man received $.35 per hour, each team was worth $.25 per hour. After all figuring was done each farmer would settle up with his neighbors.
l. The best part of threshing each fall was the good home cooked meals provided by the house wife at each farm. Since most farmers slaughtered and put up their meat in the wintertime by canning it or smoking, fresh meat was on the menu at every farm at threshing time. It was purchased in town for as many meals as was needed. This was the case at every farm and it was a big deal for the wife as well as the entire thresh crew.
m. Breakfast was served at 5-6 AM, forenoon lunch at 9 AM, a big noon meal in the home, lunch again at 3 PM and supper as late as the threshing continued into the evening – usually 9:30-10:00 PM. Lunches were many good sandwiches, bars and cookies with lots of coffee and cool aid. Threshing was stopped at noon dinner so everyone could take time to eat, relax and have a smoke. Evening meals were as large as noon meals and would start when the farmer decided not to send out the next teams into the field for more loads because the bundles became too damp from dew.
6. TELEPHONE SERVICE:
a. We always had a telephone on the farm as far as I remember. But just when my folks had it installed I do not know. My father had purchased a “share” in the Garden Valley Telephone Co. of Erskine in _____________. Until later years each city or town had a local telephone office with one or two operators on duty from 6 AM to 10 PM. McIntosh had several lines, each party line had 10-15 neighbors on it. One of the best features of a party line was that anyone could ring 6 short rings which was general call to all on the line to make a public announcement. This was great to have a birthday party, dance, public meeting at the Lessor Town Hall, or to get a crew together to open up the roads in the winter, etc.
b. Another good (or bad) use of the line was to “rubber neck” to hear what others on the line were talking about. When they would ting for a neighbor your phone would make a vibration with each ring so you know who they were calling. Then you could lift the receiver and listen. If too many people were “rubber necking” the signal would weaken, the two parties that were talking would get upset and say for all to hear “get off the line you rubber necks”.
c. My Mother, who spoke good German, would talk in English to her German friends until she would hear the receivers going up – then they would switch to German which very few on our line could understand.
d. Having the telephone operator in town was also very helpful. My Mother could call her and ask if she would contact my Dad who was in town to pick up some item to bring home. She could see every thing from her location as well as hear everything.

7. HORSE RIDE AND OUR FIRST CAR
a. Our means of transportation and field work in the first few years of my life was by horses. Dad was a lover of fine big horses. He always had at least 2 or 3 very large gray-white horses which he said weighed 1700-1800 pounds. His friends and neighbors could never figure why he, a man 5’ 4”, 135 lbs. wanted such large horses. However, he did buy a smaller horse, Dell, for pulling our buggy and snow cutter to travel with to town and to neighbors when he did not have a load to haul. Dell was a trotter who had been used as the local race track on the north edge of McIntosh, now the Bicentennial Addition. She had run many races and liked to trot, going from our farm to McIntosh (about 6 miles) trotting all the way and not even breathing hard. She was also a good saddle horse that us boys used to ride around the farm and to the mail box.
b. I can still remember (I was about 4 years old) a trip into McIntosh with my parents and brothers to attend church. Dad was driving Dell and the buggy. I was sitting on a low stool. As we entered town and rounded the corner unto Broadway, I rolled off the buggy and the back wheel went over me. The end of one of my ribs was broken. No one knew it at that time but it healed up and I still can feel the break.
c. In 1923 Dad figured it was time to buy a car - a 1923 Ford Touring. Side curtains were purchased for it later. As memory serves, he paid $525 for it at the Ford garage in McIntosh, owned by a Joe Espeseth. The Ford was our summer transportation but in the winter when roads got too much snow, the cutter with Dell, or the two big horses on the sleigh were used when loads needed to be hauled.
8. COUNTRY SCHOOL
a. Our country school was District #189 located on the Ramse farm in Section 29 of Lessor Township. Attending school meant walking or driving 2 ¾ miles if we to go on the road. So, we walked across country about ¾ miles through fields, woods, sloughs, across Poplar River and brush. In the winter we could use skies quite well, in spring the river would become very high so we would try and means we could to cross it, lots of times coming to school or home soaking wet, and lucky not to have drowned.
b. Some of the other kids in our district had fathers who would haul them to school if weather was bad, and then we could catch a ride with them part ways in a heated, covered sleigh in the winter time. But I can say that as long as I went to the country school my Dad did not give us any rides, figuring we could walk it.
c. Our country school was a one room building which I would guess was about 32’ long by 16’ wide with attached entry about 12’ x’8’. It had a wood burning stove in the back end, the teachers desk was in the front end, with 3 rows of seats and 2 aisles. Of course every country school had a bell tower on the roof with a large, loud bell.
d. All 8 grades were taught by the one teacher. Attendance varied from 20 to 35 during my years there. My first teachers were paid $60 a month from which they paid room and board. My parents boarded teachers for several years. This teacher had to teach all subjects to all eight grades, besides music, and recess games, fire the stove, fill the water fountain, sweep the floor, dust all the desks, wash the windows, haul in fire wood, shovel snow paths to the 2 toilets that were each 100 feet from the school, at Christmas put on a Christmas program and at the final day in the spring line up a picnic for all the parents and kids.
e. Oh, some of the parents would feel sorry for the teacher and help out, and school board members would wash the school floor once a month to help out. We really had very good teachers. After all, they had gone through high school and attended 9 months of Teachers Training or Normal School as it was called. That training took place in the McIntosh school building usually attended by 8 or 10 each year, and then they were prepared to teach country schools.
f. I started school at age 6, finishing 8th grade at age 13 having skipped one grade. I was the only one in fourth grade so was advanced into fifth grade. The big advantage of country school was everyone in the school could hear the discussions in the classes in session so those in other classes learned a lot from listening. No one (hardly) ever had school work to take home as work periods in school found the teacher helping out with everyone’s next assignment.
g. No one from District #189 had ever gone on to high school so when our 8th grade teacher came to “algebra” in the 8th grade arithmetic book she closed the book and declared arithmetic done for the year because no one would be going on to high school and if they did they would get this “algebra” then. Well, I went on to high school the next year and had such a bad time trying to pick up algebra that I was ready to quit after the first 2 months. A very good teacher helped me out by working with me after school many nights.
9. TRANSPORTATION AND AIRPLANES:
a. There were many attempts to make a horseless carriage back in the lat 1800’s and some proved quite successful. In fact, I have a large photo, dated July 5, 1915, of a parade of 18 autos lead by a McIntosh Mayor Talle going down the main street in McIntosh – no horse carriages. Where these autos came from is questionable because it is sure very few were locally owned.
b. Airplanes became more popular after World War I as this war proved the plane as a weapon of war and a lot of them were used. In the early 1920’s small planes appeared at County fairs and local celebrations, giving air rides to anyone who had $5 to spend to go up and look over the countryside.
c. 1927 saw Charles Lindberg fly to Paris from the U/S/ and that was really big news, he was a hero, a very big hero in MN being a MN boy.
10. RADIO
a. The first radios that we knew of were to appear locally in 1921-22 at a couple of our neighbors. They were kits put together and operated on several batteries. I was about 4 years old when my folks went to the neighbors to listen to the radio. They were squeaky and lots of noise but very exciting. The next few years whenever there was a Tunney-Dempsey prize fight, or a Max Schaemling-Dempsey fight we were invited to go to Henschke’s and listen to it.
b. I don’t know when my folks got their first radio but it probably was around 1927 or 28. Our biggest program was every evening, get out of the barn and its chores to be able to hear Amos and Andy, a negro comedy team.
11. ELECTRICITY:
a. Electricity on the farm was unknown in the early 1920’s but some people installed 32 volt battery systems where the batteries were charged up by a gas engine powering a generator. Our neighbors William Keller’s sons put in such a system and had lights in the house and outside buildings. But very few had these systems, continuing to use kerosene lamps in the house and lanterns in the out buildings. These lanterns were especially dangerous working around the cattle barns at night because to be able to see with them they had to be carried everywhere you went even into the hay loft. If they tipped over or an animal tipped them there was a fire danger.
b. As long as I lived on the farm (to 1940) we had no electricity. The R.E.A. promoted by the U.S. Government brought electricity to most rural areas in the 1940’s.

Memories - ROY J. SCHLEICHER

My Early Life in Minnesota
Background: My parents were Arthur Schleicher and Elsie Roth who grew up in Carver County, Minnesota at Norwood and Young America. They married in 1916, purchased land in Polk County, MN, sections 28 of Lessor Township (6 miles north of Mcintosh) where they moved in 1916. I was born in 1918, brothers Lloyd in 1920 and Gordon in 1923. Augusta and Casper Roth were our grandparents. The farm they purchased was mostly wooded, with a small lake and very little open cropland. My dad and mother did a remarkable Job in a few years to clear some of the land, build a house, barn, chicken house and shed, raise a family of 3 boys, and start a good dairy herd, as well as hogs, chickens and other livestock.
Clearing the Land: Much of the land was cleared of trees by making cord wood, which was sold to the McIntosh Creamery every winter. The oak and poplar trees were made into fence posts or taken to a sawmill and made into lumber. Dad then used explosives to clear out the stumps and rocks, plowing up most of it with his 3 horses, clearing a few acres each year.
Selling Milk and Eggs: Dad had 11 milk cows most of the time which he and mother milked by hand, while we boys would play in the hay with the dog and cats. The milk was put through a separator; the skim milk fed to calves, the cream taken to town in 5-gallon cans along with the eggs from mother’s chickens. The cream was sold at the Creamery where it was graded by the butter-maker who dipped his pencil into each can running it through his mouth to proclaim it sweet or sour. The eggs were traded for groceries and other supplies at the local Wichern Store. This was more than a store because you gave your grocery order to a clerk to fill while you took the liberty of sitting in chairs in the front and visiting with your friends and neighbors. The general store would charge supplies to almost everyone. Some could pay once a month, while most farmers would pay their entire bill each fall when they sold grain or livestock.
Grain for Livestock: Grinding grain for the milk cows, hogs, calves, and chickens was a big job on the farm. Dad would sack up 10 to 15 sacks of grain, haul it to town where he had it ground and concentrate added, then hauled it home and dumped into various feed boxes. In later years, after Dad passed away (in 1934) Lloyd and I took the body off our Model T Ford and mounted a feed grinder on it to make our own rations right at home.
Harvesting grain: Our grain was harvested with a McCormick-Deering binder, which cut the grain and tied it into bundles. We would set these up, 8 to 10 in each shock, to dry for a few weeks. Then the bundles were hauled into the farmyard where they were made into a round stack, large on the bottom tiers, with each tier smaller, all the way up to the peak, 25 to 30 feet high. Several large shocks were made, and then a custom thresher would come, along with a few neighbors, to thresh the grain. After Dad passed away, we decided to join a threshing ring of neighbors and thresh directly from the shocks. Our ring had 10 farmers in it. Each furnished as many men and teams as they could. Lloyd was 14 and I was almost 16, so we went as one man with one team. The thresher had a large 42” machine powered by a big “oil pull” tractor—the biggest I had ever seen. This required 10 teams to haul bundles, 2 spike pitchers in the field, 3 grain haulers, and 2 extra pitchers at the machine. Two haulers would unload at one time—one on each side of the conveyor. The grain haulers sacked the grain, 1 1/2 bushel per sack, and these sacks were lifted up to a platform on the second story of the granary. A man above would pull them in and dump the grain through a hole in the floor, down to the bin below. So much for elevating grain until a few years later (1936) the custom thresher purchased a long slot conveyor powered by a gas engine, to elevate the grain. He rented it out for 1 cent per bushel. Custom threshing rates most years were 2 cents for oats, 3 cents for barley, 4 cents per bushel for wheat. Farmers would check each year to see which thresher offered the lowest rates. After harvest was completed, the neighbors in the run would meet to settle up. Each would turn in his record book of hours he had furnished teams or men. I was appointed to figure out all the bills. Each man received 35 cents per hour and each team was worth 25 cents per hour.
Threshing meals: The best part of the threshing run was the good meals at each farm. Fresh meat was always purchased and the farm wives were all good cooks. Breakfast was at 5:30 a.m. and lunch at 9 a.m. A noon dinner was served at 12 sharp, when everything shut down. After eating the men could rest up and smoke. The horses were watered and fed also. At 3 p.m. lunch was again served. Suppertime started when the farmer decided not to send any more teams out to load, usually between 9 and 10 p.m.
Telephone service: We always had a telephone as far back as I can remember. Dad purchased stock in Garden Valley Telephone Company, and McIntosh had one or two local operators and several party lines. Our line had 10 to 15 parties (families) on it. A party line had some features. If you wanted to make an announcement, you rang 6 short rings. When someone was calling a friend, you could hear by the vibrations who they were calling and you “rubber” by lifting the receiver partway. Everybody’s business was common knowledge. Having local operators was very helpful. Mother could call the operator to ask if she would have someone locate Dad so that he could pick up some item she had forgotten to put on her shopping list. Olga always knew who was in town, who died, who was sick, or who had a new baby.
Horsepower: My Dad had 3 large horses, 1700-1900 pounds each, to do the fieldwork or haul loads into town. He did buy a buggy horse that was a trotter, good to ride horseback on and pull the one horse sleigh in winter. In 1923 when I was 5 years old, Dad purchased a new Model T Ford Touring Car for $525 from the local Ford garage that was owned by Joe Espeseth. The car was good for summer transportation, but the horse and cutter were used on the winter roads. Country School: Country school was 2 ¼ miles by road, ¼ miles walking across fields, swamps and river bottom. We always walked it, every day, using skis in winter, many times getting soaked when the water was high. Our school was one room, 32’ x 16’ with 20 to 34 pupils while I went to school. My first teachers were paid $60 per month from which they paid room and board to some local neighbor. The teacher had all subjects for all eight grades, besides music and recess. She fired the stove, filled the water fountain, swept the floor, washed the windows, hauled in firewood, shoveled snow paths to the two outside toilets each 100 feet away. We always had very good teachers who were graduates of high school and one additional year of teacher’s training.
Automobiles and airplanes: Until we owned the 1923 Model T Ford, there were very few people who had autos in our community. From then on, more appeared and in 1928 when the first Model A Ford appeared, many bought them. I have a local parade picture of 1915, which shows 18 autos going down our main street—I don’t know where they were from! Airplanes were used in World War I, so after the war we had an occasional plane appear at a local fair or town celebration to give rides to look over the local country. Our big thrill came when Charles Lindbergh crossed the ocean to Paris, more so because he was a Minnesota boy.
Electricity: Our rural farms had no electricity until around 1940. Many farms had 32-volt battery systems charged by a gas engine driven generator. My first experience with electric lights and radio on a farm was at our close neighbor’s in the early 1920’s. My folks got their first radio about 1927 or 28, a battery operated one. As long as I was at home, until 1940, we had no electricity, so gas engines were used for power and the Aladdin lamps in the homes for light. In the barn, the kerosene lantern was our only light.