It had been previously noted in the February 18 edition of the Wahoo Wasp: Harry Rudeen is seriously ill at this writing. Harry was the younger brother of my grandfather, Lawrence Rudeen. Then from the February 25, 1915 edition of the Wahoo Wasp: Harry Rudeen passed away February 15, 1915 at the home of his […]
Louis Kreifels, early years
Herman and Anna Margaretha Kreifels had ten children altogether. The oldest two, both girls, were born while the family lived in Missouri. The next seven, two girls and five boys, were born in Minnesota. The youngest, a boy, was born in Nebraska City. To the genealogist, this means a lot of different records in a […]
Book review: “Giants in the Earth” by Rölvaag, 1927
I can’t believe I’d never heard of this book before, “Giants in the Earth“. It was written in 1927 by Ole Edvard Rölvaag, a Norwegian immigrant and a professor at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. The book is a fictionalized account of original homesteaders on the South Dakota prairie, and goes into quite a […]
OTD in 1899: Marriage of Edward Hanson and Hulda Martinson
On this date (February 8) in 1899, Edward Cornelius Hanson and Hulda Martinson were married. Edward and Hulda were my great-grandparents. This was a second marriage for Edward. His first wife, Anna Hanson – Hulda’s sister, had died of “brain fever” not quite two years earlier. Edward and Anna had two daughters together. Hulda […]
P.W. Pearson Probate Records, Part 6
The probate file for P.W. Pearson is 27 pages long. The first page is his will, signed on February 2, 1920. The next two pages consist of the Petition for Probate, which Clara filed on September 15, 1920 – about three months after Will’s death. Next comes a one-page document dated October 29, 1920 in which […]
