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151	Memories by Nadine Gunn Fisher<br><br>I had many wonderful times with my grandmother because she enjoyed having fun.<br><br>I often stayed overnight and I loved to hear the ticking of her clock as I lay nestled in her warm bed. Grandma Tena read poems to me from Edgar A. Guest and because I liked them so much she wrote in her book, "Belonging to Nadine." <br><br>Another favorite was "101 Famous Poems." And she she told me over and over the story of "The Little Match Girl." I am always reminded of her as I read that story to my grandchildren.<br><br>She had a marvelous sense of humor and loved to play bizarre tricks on me such as flipping out her false teeth and stuffing paper in the toes of my shoes when I was asleep. If I didn't hang up my clothes, she would spread them out all over the floor as a reminder.<br><br>Grandma Tena sang "Su Ru Relta" to me and "Rita rita runka", and said things like "fie scump a dey", songs and phrases that I have passed down to my grand children. Some may question whether those were the exact words but that is what they sounded like to me.<br><br>She loved her great grandchildren and when she was playing with them, she would stick them in a shopping bag and pull them across the floor.<br>Grandma Tena was an excellent seamstress and for our son Doug she made his first Easter coat. She also made slippers of left over material and sold them on consignment at various retail outlets.<br><br>Our daughter, Janice Bertena was named after my grandmother. Because Jan does such fine sewing and has fantastic craft skills, I am sure she inherited them from Grandma Tena.<br><br>Grandma was pleased when we named Jan after her and she left her 100 dollars in ten $10.00 bills when she died.<br><br>She was always busy and often went into Chicago's loop on public transportation. She especially enjoyed visiting the Chicago Temple and hearing Doctor Preston Bradley preach.<br><br>My grandmother and grandfather lived separate lives for many years under the same roof and I hardly knew my grandfather. Grandma prepared his meals, left them on the kitchen table, then left the room so she and Charles wouldn't have to talk. I have no idea what happened to cause these unhappy circumstances.	OLSEN, Bertina (I697)
152	Memories by Nadine Gunn Fisher Grandpa Larsen was one of five children who came from Oslo, Norway with his parents in 1870. He was two years old when he boarded the sailing ship bound for Chicago by way of Quebec and Detroit, Michigan the beginning of a journey that took six weeks to complete. â?? According to family records, his brother George Larsen lived close to the palace in Oslo. He used to walk past the palace basement windows and remembered seeing the kitchen staff juggling or tossing oranges. The children had never seen oranges before and were impressed. In later years a relative (Joan Larsen, Nadine Gunn Fisher's cousin by marriage) visited Norway and she walked up the hill to the palace. There was no fence around it and she really could walk past the basement windows and as she did so, imagined seeing oranges being tossed by the kitchen staff. The small houses down the hill described by George Larsen were no longer there. But an old cashier in one of the nearby shops confirmed that there used to be lots of small homes down the hill from the palace. It was a rare treat to be able to go up to Grandpa Larsen's room at 628 North Laramie, sit on his lap and read his encyclopedias while he shared his Smith Brothers black cough drops with me. One Christmas Grandpa Larsen gave me a celluloid reindeer with a dollar bill wrapped around it and I am reminded of him every year when we hang that treasured gift on our Christmas tree. Grandpa died almost twenty years before Grandma Tena died. He was 73 years old when he passed away on December 6, 1941, the day before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and World War II began for America. Grandma died on December 30, 1960 at the age of 91. They are both buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Westchester, Illinois in the same area where Lois and Asa Gunn, and Milton Larsen are buried.	LARSEN, Charles E (I18)
153	Memories by Nadine Gunn Fisher I had many wonderful times with my grandmother because she enjoyed having fun. I often stayed overnight and I loved to hear the ticking of her clock as I lay nestled in her warm bed. Grandma Tena read poems to me from Edgar A. Guest and because I liked them so much she wrote in her book, "Belonging to Nadine." Another favorite was "101 Famous Poems." And she she told me over and over the story of "The Little Match Girl." I am always reminded of her as I read that story to my grandchildren. She had a marvelous sense of humor and loved to play bizarre tricks on me such as flipping out her false teeth and stuffing paper in the toes of my shoes when I was asleep. If I didn't hang up my clothes, she would spread them out all over the floor as a reminder. Grandma Tena sang "Su Ru Relta" to me and "Rita rita runka", and said things like "fie scump a dey", songs and phrases that I have passed down to my grand children. Some may question whether those were the exact words but that is what they sounded like to me. She loved her great grandchildren and when she was playing with them, she would stick them in a shopping bag and pull them across the floor. Grandma Tena was an excellent seamstress and for our son Doug she made his first Easter coat. She also made slippers of left over material and sold them on consignment at various retail outlets. Our daughter, Janice Bertena was named after my grandmother. Because Jan does such fine sewing and has fantastic craft skills, I am sure she inherited them from Grandma Tena. Grandma was pleased when we named Jan after her and she left her 100 dollars in ten $10.00 bills when she died. She was always busy and often went into Chicago's loop on public transportation. She especially enjoyed visiting the Chicago Temple and hearing Doctor Preston Bradley preach. My grandmother and grandfather lived separate lives for many years under the same roof and I hardly knew my grandfather. Grandma prepared his meals, left them on the kitchen table, then left the room so she and Charles wouldn't have to talk. I have no idea what happened to cause these unhappy circumstances.	LARSEN, Hannah Bertena Olsen (I19)
154	Memories By Richard Carl Kowal My father was eighteen years old when he came from Russia to the United States in 1912, the year the luxury ocean liner, Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and 1500 people died. It was also the year that Arizona and New Mexico entered the Union bringing the total to 48 United States of America. European immigrants often changed their names after arriving in this country because they wanted to be `Americanized` so my father changed his name from Kowalchuk to Kowal. My mother and father loved the outdoors and spent as much free time as they could hunting and fishing. I`ll never forget our first family fishing trip to Lake Nakomis in Tomahawk, Wisconsin when I was fifteen years old. Dad`s 1936 Pontiac was loaded with Mom, Dad, Aunt Ann, me, and Brownie the dog. There wasn`t enough room in the car for the dog so we had to put Brownie in the trunk. We stopped every thirty or forty miles because the car was over-heating and while the car cooled off we released Brownie from the trunk and let him swim in nearby creeks to cool down. There are so many happy memories. One fall Dad and I went mushroom hunting in his old Buick. While we were picking the mushrooms, an angry bull suddenly appeared and chased us but Dad picked me up and we ran to safety. Shortly after Dad and Mom were married in 1922, he and his brother-in-law Emil bought a movie theater. It was called the Lasalle and it was located near Lincoln Park in Chicago. It was very successful but Emil decided later on to get out of the business and buy a farm. After `talkies` (as sound motion pictures were called then), Dad sold the theater around 1930, the year the Great Depression started. Later, he bought another movie house called the Lucille located on Cicero Avenue on Chicago`s near north side. I had my own favorite seat in the back of the theater and I remember when they gave away things like dishes to lure customers to the show. One time they gave away a raft of live turkeys at Thanksgiving. We made an interesting car full when I helped my father bring the turkeys to the theater; Dad driving, me next to him and a cage full of gobbling turkeys in the back seat. The Lucille was Dad`s financial downfall. He borrowed a lot of money to keep it going and when it failed, he was deep in debt so he resumed the trade he learned when he first came to this country, became a barber and managed the barber shop at Homan and Arthington Streets. My mother and father were married on August 20, 1922. Her name was Bessie Hosnedl and she was born in Velhortice, Bohemia. Mom immigrated to America in 1905 when she was seven years old. Mom liked gardening, fishing, and especially the Fox River where she and Dad spent so much of their free time. My grandparents built their first cottage many many years ago across the river from where we are located today in St. Charles, Illinois. My father was 61 years old when he died of a heart attack in 1955 and Mom passed away in 1961 at the age of 63.	HOSNEDL, Bessie (I23)
155	Memories By Richard Carl Kowal My father was eighteen years old when he came from Russia to the United States in 1912, the year the luxury ocean liner, Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and 1500 people died. It was also the year that Arizona and New Mexico entered the Union bringing the total to 48 United States of America. European immigrants often changed their names after arriving in this country because they wanted to be `Americanized` so my father changed his name from Kowalchuk to Kowal. My mother and father loved the outdoors and spent as much free time as they could hunting and fishing. I`ll never forget our first family fishing trip to Lake Nakomis in Tomahawk, Wisconsin when I was fifteen years old. Dad`s 1936 Pontiac was loaded with Mom, Dad, Aunt Ann, me, and Brownie the dog. There wasn`t enough room in the car for the dog so we had to put Brownie in the trunk. We stopped every thirty or forty miles because the car was over-heating and while the car cooled off we released Brownie from the trunk and let him swim in nearby creeks to cool down. There are so many happy memories. One fall Dad and I went mushroom hunting in his old Buick. While we were picking the mushrooms, an angry bull suddenly appeared and chased us but Dad picked me up and we ran to safety. Shortly after Dad and Mom were married in 1922, he and his brother-in-law Emil bought a movie theater. It was called the Lasalle and it was located near Lincoln Park in Chicago. It was very successful but Emil decided later on to get out of the business and buy a farm. After `talkies` (as sound motion pictures were called then), Dad sold the theater around 1930, the year the Great Depression started. Later, he bought anothermovie house called the Lucille located on Cicero Avenue on Chicago`s near north side. I had my own favorite seat in the back of the theater and I remember when they gave away things like dishes to lure customers to the show. One time they gave away a raft of live turkeys at Thanksgiving. We made an interesting car full when I helped my father bring the turkeys to the theater; Dad driving, me next to him and a cage full of gobbling turkeys in the back seat. The Lucille was Dad`s financial downfall. He borrowed a lot of money to keep it going and when it failed, he was deep in debt so he resumed the trade he learned when he first came to this country, became a barber and managed the barber shop at Homan and Arthington Streets. My mother and father were married on August 20, 1922. Her name was Bessie Hosnedl and she was born in Velhortice, Bohemia. Mom immigrated to America in 1905 when she was seven years old. Mom liked gardening, fishing, and especially the Fox River where she and Dad spent so much of their free time. My grandparents built their first cottage many many years ago across the river from where we are located today in St. Charles, Illinois. My father was 61 years old when he died of a heart attack in 1955 and Mom passed away in 1961 at the age of 63.	KOWAL, Samuel (I22)
156	Michael was shot and killed during a strike related protest - see newspaper article	GOODWIN, Michael (I58)
157	MTSGT US MARINE CORPS WORLD WAR II	HOLDEN, Gordon L (I604)
158	My childhood memories are a blend of sadness and happiness with my early life probably more difficult than most because my father died when I was a baby. That was a sad time. I was born and grew up in Old Appleton, Missouri, a small German community where many of the residents were related. It was a typical Southern town where prejudice and segregation were the rule not the exception and black and white people went to separate schools and churches. I went to the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church along with the other white people in the town while the blacks went to the "Nigra Church or the "Nigra" school. Prejudice is such a peculiar human failing. All the black and white children played together but they weren't allowed to attend the same schools or churches. Life was a combination of love and hate during my early years and the love I had for my grandmother Pauline Frentzel was as strong as any I have ever known. She was a beautiful, kind woman; we could just sit together, not saying anything and I could feel that love between us. Sometimes she sang softly to me in German and she made me feel loved, and warm, and safe. We were very close. School was not my favorite place when I was a child. When the teacher thought I had done something naughty she made me feel like I was garbage and put me in a waste paper box and told the other kids to throw rubbish at me. Other times she put me behind the piano, then pushed it until I said I was sorry for whatever I was supposed to have done. Some of my happy memories are church picnics and listening to Negro spiritual music. I sat in the weeds outside the Negro churches listening to them sing. It was moving because they were so beautifully sad. Sometimes after a church picnic I would sit in my bedroom and stare at the full moon, my mind full of marvelous dreams. My mother said I shouldn't do that because staring at a full moon would drive me crazy. One of my teachers encouraged me to read and I loved it because in my imagination I became the character in the book. Mom thought I was just being lazy and sometimes she would pull the book from my hands and tell me to do something useful. I started working when I was very young and the first job I remember was working for a family across the road. They paid me $1.50 a week to clean house and start fires in their stove. When I was thirteen years old, I went to St. Louis where I was a maid and I earned six dollars a week. Then I left home when I was fourteen and I worked at the Chippewa Drug Store and earned 60 cents an hour. My rented room cost five dollars a week. In St. Louis I worked in a brewery. The brand name was Mule Beer and they advertised it as "the beer with a kick." I was about ten years old then and they let us have all the beer we could drink but the treat I enjoyed most (when I could afford it) was a bottle of Pepsi. Now that was really something great. I can still hear that jingle being played on the radio: "Pepsi Cola hits the spot; twelve full ounces, that's a lot. Twice as much for a nickel too, Pepsi Cola is the drink for you." There were difficult times in my life but the nice thing about memories is that the good times outweigh the bad and it is the happy times we remember best.	KLAUS, Shirley (I161)
159	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I275)
160	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I4)
161	Nadine Gunn Fisher's maternal great grandfather Hannah Bertena Olsen Larsen's father Otte, Martinus, and Ole Johan all immigrated to America but there is no record of Kristian Ole Kristensen bought property called Grotland in 1821. The state church of Norway originally owned this property and it was first called Grjotland as the name Grojt means some kind of stone and the house on the property is built on solid rock. The first record of people owning it was in the year 1610...ten years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Masssachusetts in 1620.	KRISTENSEN, Ole (I87)
162	Name: Cathrina Maria Olsen Gender: Female Event Date: 19 May 1834 Event Place: , IBESTAD, TROMS, NORWAY Birth Date: 05 Feb 1834 Birthplace: null Death Date: null Name Note: null Race: null Father's Name: Ole Christensen Father's Birthplace: null Father's Age: null Mother's Name: Hanna B. Ottesdr Mother's Birthplace: null Mother's Age: null Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C42552-2 System Origin: Norway-EASy GS Film number: 127105 Reference ID: null Citing this Record: "Norway, Baptisms, 1634-1927," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N4ST-L91 : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Ole Christensen in entry for Cathrina Maria Olsen, 05 Feb 1834; citing ; FHL microfilm 127105.	OLSEN, Cathrina Maria (I89)
163	Name: Joseph E Fisher Titles and Terms: undefined Event Type: Census Event Year: 1930 Event Place: Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States District: 0263 Gender: Male Age: 61 Marital Status: Married Race: White Race (Original): White Relationship to Head of Household: Head Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head Birth Year (Estimated): 1869 Birthplace: Ohio Immigration Year: undefined Father's Birthplace: Germany Mother's Birthplace: Ohio Sheet Number and Letter: 14B Household ID: 220 Line Number: 71 Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Affiliate Publication Number: T626 Affiliate Film Number: 1836 GS Film number: 2341570 Digital Folder Number: 004639655 Image Number: 01189 Household Role Gender Age Birthplace Joseph E Fisher Head M 61 Ohio Catherine Fisher Wife F 60 Scotland Marjorie C Fisher Daughter F 35 Ohio Ellen L Fisher Daughter F 27 Ohio Dorothy A Fisher Daughter F 25 Ohio Citing this Record: "United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X44X-HR6 : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Joseph E Fisher, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0263, sheet 14B, family 220, NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1836.	FISHER, Joseph Edward (I46)
164	Name: Joseph Fisher Event Type: Census Event Year: 1870 Event Place: Ohio, United States Gender: Male Age: 1 Race: White Race (Original): W Birth Year (Estimated): 1868-1869 Birthplace: Ohio Page Number: 53 Household ID: 419 Line Number: 10 Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Affiliate Publication Number: M593 GS Film number: 000552732 Digital Folder Number: 004093981 Image Number: 00270 Household Role Gender Age Birthplace Mathias Fisher undefined M 45 Germany Catherine Fisher undefined F 29 Ohio Anna Fisher undefined F 10 Ohio Philemea Fisher undefined F 6 Ohio George Fisher undefined M 4 Ohio Joseph Fisher undefined M 1 Ohio Joseph Betz undefined M 78 Baden Citing this Record: "United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M6VT-FFK : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Joseph Fisher in household of Mathias Fisher, Ohio, United States; citing p. 53, family 419, NARA microfilm publication M593, FHL microfilm 000552732.	FISHER, Mathias (I41)
165	Name: Joseph Fisher Event Type: Census Event Year: 1880 Event Place: Newark, Licking, Ohio, United States District: 192 Gender: Male Age: 11 Marital Status: Single Race: White Race (Original): W Occupation: At School Relationship to Head of Household: Son Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Son Birth Year (Estimated): 1869 Birthplace: Ohio, United States Father's Birthplace: Germany Mother's Birthplace: Ohio, United States Sheet Number and Letter: 409A Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Affiliate Publication Number: T9 Affiliate Film Number: 1040 GS Film Number: 1255040 Digital Folder Number: 004243647 Image Number: 00821 Household Role Gender Age Birthplace Mathias Fisher Self M 52 Germany Minnie Fisher Daughter F 17 Ohio, United States George Fisher Son M 13 Ohio, United States Joseph Fisher Son M 11 Ohio, United States Catharine Fisher Wife F 39 Ohio, United States Citing this Record: "United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M89J-294 : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Joseph Fisher in household of Mathias Fisher, Newark, Licking, Ohio, United States; citing sheet 409A, NARA microfilm publication T9.	FISHER, Mathias (I41)
166	Name: Margaret Fisher Event Type: Birth Event Date: 16 Jun 1894 Event Place: Delaware, Delaware, Ohio Registration Date: null Registration Place: null Gender: Female Race: W Father's Name: Joseph Fisher Father's Titles and Terms: null Father's Birthplace: null Father's Age: null Mother's Name: Catharin Goodwin Mother's Titles and Terms: null Mother's Birthplace: null Mother's Age: null Additional Relatives: null Reference ID: Vol. 3 p 122-123 GS Film number: 391375 Digital Folder Number: 004978698 Image Number: 00067 Citing this Record: "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X648-Y8B : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Joseph Fisher in entry for Margaret Fisher, 16 Jun 1894; citing Vol. 3 p 122-123, Delaware, Delaware, Ohio; FHL microfilm 391375.	FISHER, Marjorie K (I38)
167	Name: Marthinus Olsen Gender: Male Event Date: 15 Sep 1837 Event Place: , IBESTAD, TROMS, NORWAY Birth Date: 28 May 1837 Birthplace: null Death Date: null Name Note: null Race: null Father's Name: Ole Christensen Father's Birthplace: null Father's Age: null Mother's Name: Hanna Ottesdr Mother's Birthplace: null Mother's Age: null Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C42552-3 System Origin: Norway-EASy GS Film number: 127106 Reference ID: null Citing this Record: "Norway, Baptisms, 1634-1927," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N4SY-Q28 : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Ole Christensen in entry for Marthinus Olsen, 28 May 1837; citing ; FHL microfilm 127106.	OLSEN, Marthinus (I93)
168	Name: Ole Christensen Birth Date: 1797 Birthplace: null Age: 29 Spouse's Name: Hanna Birgitta Ottesdr Spouse's Birth Date: 1799 Spouse's Birthplace: null Spouse's Age: 27 Event Date: 26 Sep 1826 Event Place: , Ibestad, Troms, Norway Father's Name: Christen Stephensen Mother's Name: null Spouse's Father's Name: Esaias Ottesen Spouse's Mother's Name: null Race: null Marital Status: null Previous Wife's Name: null Spouse's Race: null Spouse's Marital Status: null Spouse's Previous Husband's Name: null Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M42552-2 System Origin: Norway-EASy GS Film number: 127105 Reference ID: null Citing this Record: "Norway, Marriages, 1660-1926," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NWMF-FVS : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Ole Christensen and Hanna Birgitta Ottesdr, 26 Sep 1826; citing , Ibestad, Troms, Norway, reference ; FHL microfilm 127105. http://records.ancestry.com/ole_kristensen_records.ashx?pid=23430180	Family: Ole KRISTENSEN / Hannah Bergitta OTTESDATTER (F19)
169	Name: Ole Johan Olsen Gender: Male Event Date: 20 Apr 1840 Event Place: , IBESTAD, TROMS, NORWAY Birth Date: 03 Mar 1840 Birthplace: null Death Date: null Name Note: null Race: null Father's Name: Ole Christensen Father's Birthplace: null Father's Age: null Mother's Name: Hanna Berg. Olsdr Mother's Birthplace: null Mother's Age: null Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C42552-3 System Origin: Norway-EASy GS Film number: 127106 Reference ID: null Citing this Record: "Norway, Baptisms, 1634-1927," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N4SY-H8R : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Ole Johan Olsen, 03 Mar 1840; citing ; FHL microfilm 127106.	OLSEN, Olaf "Ole" Johan (I94)
170	Name: Otte Esias Olsen Gender: Male Event Date: 19 May 1834 Event Place: , IBESTAD, TROMS, NORWAY Birth Date: 05 Feb 1834 Birthplace: null Death Date: null Name Note: null Race: null Father's Name: Ole Christensen Father's Birthplace: null Father's Age: null Mother's Name: Hanna B. Ottesdr Mother's Birthplace: null Mother's Age: null Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C42552-2 System Origin: Norway-EASy GS Film number: 127105 Reference ID: null Citing this Record: "Norway, Baptisms, 1634-1927," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N4ST-LSS : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Ole Christensen in entry for Otte Esias Olsen, 05 Feb 1834; citing ; FHL microfilm 127105.	OLSEN, Otte Esias (I92)
171	November 8, 1913, Paul F. Mauck, of Batestown, driver, aged 17 years, single, was killed in Joe Mauck's mine, Danville, Vermilion County. Deceased was making an extra trip for the regular driver and in some manner he fell before moving trip and was crushed by car wheel. Source: http://hinton-gen.com/coal/vermilion_fatal2.html#m	MAUCK, Theodore Paul (I150)
172	Obituary Danville Commercial News Nov. 2, 1940 Life-long resident of this community, Charles Henry Holden, 78, died at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, 1940 at his home in Hillery. He was born in Middlefork Twp., Vermilion Co. near Higginsville, June 27, 1862, son of Alexander T. Holden and Sarah (Andrews) Holden. Greatest part of his life was spent as a Miner and he was a member of the United Mine Workers Union. Surviving in addition to his widow, Josephine Evelyn Holden, are two daughters, Mrs. Ruth Scott and Mrs. Naomi Lane of Hillery, and four sons, Thomas A., Clarence A., Harvey O., and Charles H. JR., all of Hillery. Two daughters and one son preceded him in death. He is also survived by a brother, A.T. Holden JR of Batestown and three sisters, Mary Wonderland, Danville Rt. 1; Mrs. Esther Eve, Vermilion Heights, and Mrs. Cora Mauck, of Danville. The body is at Berhalter Funeral Home where it will remain until Saturday when it will be returned to the home in Hillery. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m., Monday at the United Brethren Church in Hillery. Burial in Oakhill Cemetery. Burial: Oak Hill Cemetery Danville Vermilion County Illinois, USA	HOLDEN, Charles H Sr (I201)
173	Obituary Danville Commercial News Mrs. Josephine Evelyn Holden, 75, of Hillery, died at 4 a.m. Thursday (September 28, 1950) at Lake View Hospital where she had been taken one hour previously. She was born Nov. 19, 1874, in Indiana, the daughter of John and Mary Catherine Fish Hughes. Surviving her are four sons, Harvey, Thomas, Clarence and Charles, all of Danville Route 1; two daughters, Mrs. Ruth Scott and Mrs. Naomi Lane of Danville Route 1; three grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren; one half-brother, Ora Hughes of Danville. Her husband, Charles, and a sister preceded her in death. The body will be taken from the Berhalter Funeral Home to the Hiller residence Friday morning where it will remain until funeral services at 2 p.m. Sunday at Evangelical United Brethren Church at Hillery. The Rev. Mr. Van Wey of Marshall will officiate. The Rev. Ernes Nickoson, pastor of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, will assist in the services. Interment will be in Oakhill Cemetery. Burial: Oak Hill Cemetery Danville Vermilion County Illinois, USA	HOLDEN, Josephine Evelyn (I202)
174	October 26, 2004 Kenneth M. Roe, suddenly, 51 years, beloved husband of Patti, nee Piper; cherished father of Christopher, Ginny, Nick, Theresa, Mary Catherine, Kevin and Rosie; loving son of James and Dolores; dear brother of James, Steven and Daniel; favorite uncle and brother-in-law of many nieces and nephews; fond son-in-law of Edward and Rosemarie Piper; loving friend to all. Funeral Thursday 9 a.m. from Becvar & Son Funeral Home, 5539 W. 127th Street, Crestwood, to Incarnation Church for a 9:30 a.m. Mass. Interment Holy Sepulchre. Visitation Wednesday 2 to 9 p.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to Patti Roe account at Palos Bank, 12600 S. Harlem, Palos Heights, IL 60463. 708-824-9000 or www.becvarfuneralhome.com http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-10-26/news/0410260092_1_mary-catherine-brother-in-law-incarnation-church	ROE, Kenneth M (I555)
175	On January 12, 1861 Alexander met and after a short courtship he married Sarah Andrews. She came to Rossville area in July 1860 from Hamilton Ontario, Canada. Alexander and Sarah lived in the Rossville and Potomac area on the famous eight mile prairie until around 1870. They later moved to Oakwood Twp. in Vermilion Co. Ill. and settled on a farm in the Batestown area with Alexander's son Edward Wallace Holden and their four sons, Charles Henry Holden born in 1862, Oscar Vincent Holden born in 1864, Logan Tincher Holden born in 1866, and Alvan Gilbert Holden born in 1868. They later had three daughters and another son, they being Esther Ann Holden (Eve) born in 1872, Cora Ellen Holden(Mauck) born in 1873, Mary Isabel Holden (Wonderlin) born in 1877, and Alexander Thompson Holden Jr. born in 1881. All of the above family were buried in Oakhill Cemetery in Batestown.	Family: Alexander T HOLDEN / Sarah ANDREWS (F24)
176	On March 9, 1847, Alexander married Jane Bain, whose father Samuel Bain, was the executor in his father's will. Of this union were born five sons and one daughter. They were John Robert Holden, born in 1848,died in the Civil War and was buried in a National Cemetery near St. Louis. Samuel Wilson Holden born 1850, died in infancy. Thomas Alison Holden born 1851, also died in infancy. Elizabeth Jane Holden born in 1853, never married and died in 1877. It was told she died on her wedding day. She is buried in Oakhill Cemetery, near Danville. Edward Wallace Holden was born 1855, died in 1928 and is also buried in Oakhill Cemetery. He was a life long resident of the Potomac Ill. area. It is believed that shortly after the birth of Edward in 1855, Alexander and Jane left Jefferson Co. In. and came to Rossville, in Vermilion Co. Il. In May 1857, Jane gave birth to William Hood Holden and shortly afterward she died, leaving Alexander with an infant son. Unable to properly care for the young son, Alexander allowed William Hood to be adopted by Alvan Gilbert, a well known and prominent farmer in the Rossville area.	Family: Alexander T HOLDEN / Jane BAIN (F133)
177	On on February 22, 1933, Everett was in an accident at the Catlin mine and passed away the next day at the age of 30.	MAUCK, Everett Alvin (I148)
178	ONARGA - Patricia L. Mikeworth: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice Pantagraph, The (Bloomington, IL) - Saturday, January 21, 1989 Deceased Name: ONARGA - Patricia L. Mikeworth ONARGA - Patricia L. Mikeworth, 50, Mount Vernon, formerly of Onarga, died at 8:30 p.m. Thursday (Jan. 19, 1989) at her home after a lingering illness. Her funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Knapp Funeral Home, Onarga, the Rev. Thomas Logsdon officiating. Burial will be in Lyman Cemetery, Roberts. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Mrs. Mikeworth was born Sept. 17, 1938, in L'Erable, a daughter of James Patrick and Catherine Mae Osborne Doyle. She married Roger William Mikeworth on June 9, 1955, in Onarga. He survives. Other survivors include three sons, Kevin, Baltimore, Md.; Bryan, Decatur; and Douglas, Chicago; a daughter, Peggy Jordan, Mount Vernon; four sisters, Irene Hall, Tell City, Ind.; Vivian Rabideau, Onarga; and Mary Flesher and JoAnn Neal, both of Phoenix, Ariz.; a brother, Paul Gene Doyle, Clifton; and four grandchildren. Her parents, a son, four brothers and a sister preceded her in death. She was a member of the United Methodist Church of Mount Vernon. Memorials may be made to a charity of the donor's choice. Edition: FINAL Page: B7 Copyright (c) 1989, Pantagraph Publishing Co.	DOYLE, Patricia Lorraine (I340)
179	Otto was born in Germany and came to the United states when he was a young man . He worked for Raymond Lead Works until he retired. Otto married Caroline Gerling when she lived in Bloomington, Illinois. She was born in Germany on August 13, 1865 and she died in 1914 when their only son, Edwin Paul Sr. was 13 years old. In 1923 Otto bought a house on North Springfield Avenue in Chicago . He lived there with his two sisters, Tracey Pelz and Augusta Pelz Topel. Later, their son Edwin and his wife Estelle moved into a one room apartment on the scond floor. It had a kitchen sink and a one-burner stove. Of course they had some use of the rest of the house and the fenced-in back yard where Edwin Jr.played. Edwin Jr. vividly recalls those days: "I was in my warm bed in the middle of winter and I could hear Grandpa Otto get up before dawn, shake the coal furnace and carry out the ashes to the alley. I remember thinking to myself, I hope I never have to do that job." Otto was a humble, kind, and generous man who never complained about anything. Ed Pelz remembers his grandfather: "When I was in fifth grade and having trouble with asthma, he would walk to school with me and carry my books. It was about a seven block walk and when the weather was cold, we would stop and rest in the foyers of apartment buildings. I will never forget Grandpa Otto." Otto A. Pelz was 80 years old when he died on April 5, 1947.	PELZ, Otto A (I278)
180	Patrick CALLAGHAN (Cormick) was born 1806 in Lisdrumneil, Tibohine, Frenchpark, Roscommon, Ireland?. He died 25 Jun 1876 in isdrumneil, Tibohine, Frenchpark, Roscommon, Ireland. Patrick was counted in a census 1857 Griffiths in Lisdrumneil, Tibohine, Frenchpark, Roscommon, Ireland. Patrick married Winnifred MULRENAN in c1830. Winnifred was born C1803. She died 16 Feb 1882 in Lisdrumneil, Roscommon County, Ireland. They had the following children: Cormick CALLAGHAN was born 1846 and died C1920. Margaret (3rd) CALLAGHAN was born 19 Jun 1838 in Lisdrumneil, Roscommon County, Ireland. Honoria (2nd) CALLAGHAN was born 18 Nov 1834. Patrick CALLAGHAN was born 25 Jun 1839 in Lisdrumneil, Roscommon County, Ireland. Mariam CALLAGHAN was baptized 14 Jun 1833 in Loughlyn RC Parish, Roscommmon. Margaret (2nd) CALLAGHAN was baptized 22 Jul 1836 in Loughlyn RC Parish, Roscommmon. Margaret (1st) CALLAGHAN was born 19 Jun 1831 in Lisdrumneil,Roscommon County, Ireland. Honor (1st) CALLAGHAN was born 14 Jun 1833 in Lisdrumneil, Roscommon County, Ireland. Owen CALLAGHAN was born 1834 and died 3 Jul 1897.	CALLAGHAN, Patrick (I355)
181	Phoebe was large, brunette, smoked a pipe	CARMICHAEL, Phoebe (I488)
182	Photo: Left to right: James Garfield Nelson, Agnes Dahlberg Nelson, Francis, Roxenna, Roland, Lawrence, Lester, and James Donald (standing on chair) As remembered by James D Nelson President Harry Truman was born in 1884, the cornerstone of the Statue of Liberty was laid on August 15, and one month later James Garfield Nelson was born on Septenber 13 in Joliet, Illinois. My mother was born in Minnesota where her mother and father (Nels Dahlberg and Hulda Sunbaum Dahlberg) settled after emigrating from Sweden. My Dad wanted to earn money so he left school after the fourth grade and went to work. Mom finished the sixth grade and married Dad when she was sixteen years old. James Garfield and Agnes Nelson had six children and I, James Donald was the youngest. With such a large family and living on the farm, my mother worked hard every day; she even made clothes for all the children. According to Barbara Nelson, Jim and Agnes were "the best people in the world people who never lost their cool or got upset over trivial things." As an example, Jim remembers what it was like to come home at 2:00 A.M. one morning and explain to his father why he was so late. "I rolled the car over, he said." And Poppie, as he was called, asked "Are you hurt...you O.K.?" And Jim said he was all right, and his father said something like , "Well that's good. Better go up to bed now and get some sleep and we'll talk about it in the morning." Now that's cool! Agnes Nelson loved to go places. If someone said, "Let's go out," she had her coat on and was out the door. When they stayed home on week-ends, she enjoyed having company and playing cards. At one time, James Garfield Nelson managed Sunny Acres Farm for two wealthy Chicagoans who farmed on week-ends. He did this until 1937 when the family moved to 63rd Street. He started a small chicken business in 1940. The business grew and by 1948 he raised 40 thousand chickens a year and his customers included restaurants like the White Fence Farm. He did that until he retired in 1950. Dad died in 1959 at the age of 75 and Mom died eleven years later in 1970 at the age of 77.	NELSON, James Garfield (I209)
183	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I556)
184	Plot: Row F19	KLAUS, Herbert Henry (I162)
185	Remembering With Shirley Klaus Lardizabal My father was a banker and I was only six months old when he died so I have no conscious memory of him. He was so young; only 38 years old when he died of an infection after an operation for appendicitis. My mother talked about him a lot and described him as handsome with blue green eyes, blond hair, broad shoulders and about five feet ten inches tall. When I was little I sometimes walked in my sleep. One night when I was about six years old I dreamed that my father was standing under the grape arbor in our back yard with his arms outstretched and I went to him. I remember it vividly because it was so real and I told Mom that I saw Daddy. father took good care of us and when he died, our home was completely paid for. My mother Hedwig was a beautiful woman and probably more submissive than most but of course that is how she was brought up: the woman takes a back seat to the man and once you are married you stay married, no matter what that married life is like. After my father died, mother married Mr. Hecht. I`m not sure of the date but I am sure that he was the meanest man I ever knew. He told us from the very beginning that he was to be called Mr. Hecht.` Not Dadddy, or Father or any other name caring people use for their loved ones. Oh, how I despised Mr. Hecht. He was mean, stingy, and hateful. We used to dunk our bread in coffee and when the bread would fall into the coffee, he would make us eat the soggy mess and not leave a single sticky crumb in the cup. And he was so stingy even though he finally broke down and bought Mom a ringer washer, he never did buy her a refrigerator. I could not understand then why Mom ever married him, but later I understood that she needed help raising her six children.	KLAUS, Herbert Henry (I162)
186	Robert served in the war and was gassed with Mustard Gas. He died of pneumonia which was a complication of his lung damage.	SHOUKAIR, Robert Nathaniel (I534)
187	Roger Mikeworth: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice Register-News (Mount Vernon, IL) - Saturday, March 9, 2013 Deceased Name: Roger Mikeworth Roger William Mikeworth, 77, of Mt. Vernon and formerly of Paxton, died at 6:40 a.m. Friday, March 8, 2013, at Good Samaritan Regional Health Center in Mt. Vernon. He was born on Aug. 15, 1935, in Melvin, to Frank and Mamie (Mickens) Mikeworth. He married Patricia Lorraine Doyle on June 9, 1955, and she preceded him in death in January 1989. He later married Beverly Ann Badgett Messiha in Mt. Vernon on June 15, 1991. He graduated from Melvin-Sibley High School class of 1953 and later attended Eureka College in Eureka, Ill. He worked for United Parcel Service for three years and then 40 plus years as an agent and manager for Bankers Life & Casualty Co. where he was a member of the Presidents Club and a recipient of numerous President's Honor Circle awards for sales excellence. He was the Agent of the Year award recipient in 1992, 1994, 1995, and 1996. He also received the Quarterback Award for outstanding leadership as a Branch Sales Manager. He retired from Bankers Life and became an independent insurance broker for the past seven years. He attended the First Baptist Church of Mt. Vernon and sang in the church choir. He was a past president of the Paxton High School Sports Booster Club and was active in the leadership of Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts in Paxton. He was a Boy Scout Troop Leader for Pack 35. His life goal was to support and encourage others including his children and grandchildren to excel in their endeavors. He enjoyed spending time working in his yard. Roger is survived by his wife, Beverly Mikeworth; two daughters, Peggy Mikeworth-Jordan and husband Michael of Maiden, N.C. and Julie Messiha-Watson and husband Mark of Wheaton; four sons, Kevin Mikeworth and wife Laurie of Huntersville, N.C., Brian Mikeworth and wife Terry of Forsyth, Doug Mikeworth of Naperville and Mark Messiha and wife Kristi of Carol Stream; one sister, Virginia DeFries of New Harmony, Ind.; two brothers, Vincent Lloyd Mikeworth of Onarga and George "Homer" Mikeworth of Ashkum; nine grandchildren, Amanda Jordan-Malone and husband Patrick, Christina Jordan-Johnston and husband Christopher, Ryan Jordan, Brian Mikeworth, Sean Mikeworth, Laura Mikeworth, Tim Mikeworth, Tyler Mikeworth, and Justin Mikeworth. He was preceded in death by his parents; first wife Patricia Mikeworth; two sisters, Beth Kutenbach Holferty of Chatsworth and Mary Mikeworth of Onarga; and four brothers, Wesley Mikeworth, Dennis Mikeworth, Raymond Mikeworth and Elvin Mikeworth, all of Onarga. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at First Baptist Church in Mt. Vernon with Dr. Ryan Burge officiating. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Hughey Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon. Graveside interment services will be at 4 p.m. Monday at the Lyman Township Cemetery in Roberts, Ill.	MIKEWORTH, Roger William (I339)
188	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I156)
189	Sarah Andrews was born on board a steamship on September 24, 1839. The steamship left London, England and was bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sarah's father was a Sergeant in her Majesty's (Royal Coldstream Guards). It is believed he was sent to Quebec City to be a part of the newly formed Royal Canadian Regiment which was made up of volunteers, NCO's and men from the Coldstream Guards. This local force was formed on December 10, 1839 with 464 rank and file. Capt. Halkett, also of the Coldstream guards, superintended the formation of this local force. Sarah also had two brothers, an older brother John H., who was born in London on May 14,1837 and Edward who was born at the Quarantine Station, Grosse Island on April 28, 1847. Sarah's life was an eventful one as she was stolen by the Indians, who kept her for several weeks. Her parents, Vincent and Mary, contracted typhus while her father, Vincent, was serving as a Nurse at the Quarantine Station at Grosse Island, (an island in the St.Lawrence Seaway) where they died within three weeks of each other. The children, Sarah, who was 7 and John who was 10 and baby Edward, were placed in the Soldiers Orphans Home in Quebec City. From there, John went to learn the trade of a Shoemaker. Not liking his employer, he ran away and crossed into New York and found employment with a merchant. After a few years sojourn there crept into his heart to again see his sister, whom he had not seen for years. He found the object of his search in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Later, he entered her Majesty's Service and three years after that he emigrated to Illinois and located near Rossville in Vermilion County. There he worked and saved money and sent for Sarah to come to Rossville, this being in July of 1860. After arriving at Rossville she went to the home of Dr. Brickwell, where a few weeks later she met and wed Alexander Holden, January 12, 1861.Eight children were born to the union, Charles, Alvin, Oscar and Alex Holden of Batestown, Mrs Cora Mauck and Mrs. Mary Wonderlin of Batestown, Mrs Esther Eve of Vermilion Heights. One son, Logan Holden died in infancy. Sara (Andrews) Holden died on December 5, 1911 and had one of the largest funeral ever seen in this area. Burial: Oak Hill Cemetery Danville Vermilion County Illinois, USA	ANDREWS, Sarah (I144)
190	Sebastian was born in Baden Baden Germany and Amelia was born in Alsace Lorraine which is located on the border of Germany and France. We have no information concerning their birth, marriage or dates of death.	MEISTER, Sebastian (I221)
191	Sebastian was born in Baden Baden Germany and Amelia was born in Alsace Lorraine which is located on the border of Germany and France. We have no information concerning their birth, marriage or dates of death.	EIREMAN, Amelia (I222)
192	Second wife of Albert Henley. Nickname Minnie Burial: Cedar Hill Cemetery Newark Licking County Ohio, USA	HENLEY, Philomena Fisher (I43)
193	Services to Be Held Monday for Mrs. F. D. Lodge COLUMBIANA â€” Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the Seederly-Beilhart Funeral Home here for Mrs. Emma D. Lodge, 87, formerly of 123 E. Park Ave., who was active in church and business here many years. Mrs. Lodge died at 9:46 a.m. Friday at the Salem Convalescent Center, where she had been a patient two years. She had been ill five weeks. Mrs. Lodge was bom Sept. 30, 1878, in Mahoning County, a daughter of Jefferson and Eliza Fisher Detrow, and lived in this area all her life. She was a member of the Columbiana . lfethoÂ«!ist-~Ctairch,_ was president of the Womenâ€™s â€œMtssiea-ary Society, for 25 years and taught the womenâ€™s Bible Class I of the Sunday School for 50 i years. She attended Mount i Union College and taught in the Columbiana School System for three years. In the 1920s she and her husband, Fred. D., operated the Lodge Dry Goods Store on S. Main. Street, and for 20 years she did alterations and tailoring for the . Fitzpatrick. Clothing Store. Her husband, to` whom she was married in 1901, died in 1960. She leaves two daughters, Mrs.. Herbert Williams of Columbus and Mrs. Bertram Williams of Dayton; a son, Evan of Hudson, Ohio; a sister, Mrs. Ray J. Miller of Columbiana; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Friends may call Sunday evening at the Seederily-Beilhart Funeral Home.Services to Be Held Monday for Mrs. F. D. Lodge COLUMBIANA â€” Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the Seederly-Beilhart Funeral Home here for Mrs. Emma D. Lodge, 87, formerly of 123 E. Park Ave., who was active in church and business here many years. Mrs. Lodge died at 9:46 a.m. Friday at the Salem Convalescent Center, where she had been a patient two years. She had been ill five weeks. Mrs. Lodge was bom Sept. 30, 1878, in Mahoning County, a daughter of Jefferson and Eliza Fisher Detrow, and lived in this area all her life. She was a member of the Columbiana Methodist Church, was president of the Womenâ€™s â€œMissionary Society, for 25 years and taught the womenâ€™s Bible Class of the Sunday School for 50 years. She attended Mount Union College and taught in the Columbiana School System for three years. In the 1920s she and her husband, Fred. D., operated the Lodge Dry Goods Store on S. Main. Street, and for 20 years she did alterations and tailoring for the Fitzpatrick Clothing Store. Her husband, to whom she was married in 1901, died in 1960. She leaves two daughters, Mrs.. Herbert Williams of Columbus and Mrs. Bertram Williams of Dayton; a son, Evan of Hudson, Ohio; a sister, Mrs. Ray J. Miller of Columbiana; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Friends may call Sunday evening at the Seederily-Beilhart Funeral Home.	LODGE, Emma (I70)
194	Several events occurred in 1924 that are worth noting. A cartoon strip `Little Orphan Annie` first appeared in newspapers that year, Asa Gunn and Lois Larsen were married, Presidents George Bush and Jimmy Carter were born and so was Joseph Norman Fisher. The birth place of all four Fisher children was Ashland, Ohio. My oldest brother, Robert Joseph was born in 1915, Donald Jefferson born in 1917, and Bonita Marie born in 1921. When I was a little boy, I wanted to grow up to be a fireman, policeman, actor, musician, and newspaper man, more or less in that order. Before I was thirteen years old my family lived in eight houses in four different states. I was born in the house at 128 East Liberty in Ashland, Ohio, then moved to 47 W. Mildred Avenue, Akron, Ohio, and 2200 (can`t remember the exact address) Argonne Drive, Kirkwood, Missouri, 9 Hyde Place, Toledo, Ohio, 110 W. Alvord Street, Springfield, Massachusetts, 133 Westford Avenue in Springfield, and finally to Illinois. We lived in an apartment in Oak Park at 428 S. Maple Avenue and after I returned from the army we moved to 421 Clinton Avenue in Oak Park. Most of us have one or more embarrassing memories during our lifetime. Mine occurred when we moved from Massachusetts to Oak Park. I was in the seventh grade and on the first day at Emerson School I was led to the new class room. Every eye was on the new kid. When I looked at them I wanted to run from the room as I made a devastating discovery. I was the only boy wearing knickers in a room full of long pants.I never wore knickers again. I was also very lucky because one day in Toledo, Ohio I fell from the top of a bill board when I was six years old. I was at the top and the boys down below were throwing mud balls that I was supposed to catch. I reached out too far and tumbled to the ground and luckily fell on my feet in a crouched position. Fortunately my only injury was a pain in the stomach that lasted for several days. I was cured, however of one thing. I never again climbed to the top of a billboard. I liked acting and my debut was in the title role of The Big Bad Wolf when I was in the first grade in Toledo, Ohio. I appeared in various plays in high school, played the trumpet in the high school band as well as in several U.S. Army bands while in Europe during World War II. While attending high school I worked in the Jewel Food Store produce department, ushered at the Lamar Theater in Oak Park, and was a stock boy at Wieboldts and Marshall Field department stores. While in college, I drove a Village taxi cab and after college I drove the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. I was hired by Sears in 1953 and worked there for 32 years before retirement in 1985. On December 31, 1946 Nadine Gunn and I went out together on our first date. We went to a movie in downtown Chicago and saw, `The Best Years of Our Lives,` an appropriate title for our life that was to follow. We were married on January 22, 1949 when I was on a semester break from college.	FISHER, Joseph Norman (I1)
195	She married William H. Mickens on Sep. 11, 1877, in McLean County, Illinois. They had 11 children.	CROTINGER, Martha (I346)
196	She was a tall stately brunette.	COOKE, Rhoda (I846)
197	She was born in Danville, Il. to Charles and Mary Holden Wonderlin. She married Virgil M. Smith on Feb. 14, 1941, in Morganfield, Ky. He preceded her in death on Aug. 23, 1963.	WONDERLIN, Lois Alberta (I599)
198	She was born in Manchester, Michigan in 1871 and died in 1936 at the age of 65. She is remembered by her granddaughter Nadine as tiny, quiet, and refined; a lady who was proud of her fancy dishes and other cherished possessions displayed in their apartment at 642 East 67th Street in Chicago. Lillian Mahrle Gunn loved giving dolls to Nadine when she was little and most of her dolls came from Lillian. After Grandpa William Chester Gunn died, Lillian came to live in the house on Taylor Avenue. She died in 1936 in the home of Asa and Lois Gunn. Both William Chester and Lillian Mahrle Gunn are buried at Cedar Park Cemetary in Chicago.	MAHRLE, Lillian Wilhelmina (I21)
199	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I125)
200	Since their first child was born in 1795, Kristen Olsen was probably born in 1775 or 1774 assuming he was either 20 or 21 years old at the time of Methe Kristensen's birth.	OLSEN, Kristen (I77)

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Memories by Nadine Gunn Fisher I had many wonderful times with my grandmother because she enjoyed having fun. I often stayed overnight and I loved to hear the ticking of her clock as I lay nestled in her warm bed. Grandma Tena read poems to me from Edgar A. Guest and because I liked them so much she wrote in her book, "Belonging to Nadine." Another favorite was "101 Famous Poems." And she she told me over and over the story of "The Little Match Girl." I am always reminded of her as I read that story to my grandchildren. She had a marvelous sense of humor and loved to play bizarre tricks on me such as flipping out her false teeth and stuffing paper in the toes of my shoes when I was asleep. If I didn't hang up my clothes, she would spread them out all over the floor as a reminder. Grandma Tena sang "Su Ru Relta" to me and "Rita rita runka", and said things like "fie scump a dey", songs and phrases that I have passed down to my grand children. Some may question whether those were the exact words but that is what they sounded like to me. She loved her great grandchildren and when she was playing with them, she would stick them in a shopping bag and pull them across the floor. Grandma Tena was an excellent seamstress and for our son Doug she made his first Easter coat. She also made slippers of left over material and sold them on consignment at various retail outlets. Our daughter, Janice Bertena was named after my grandmother. Because Jan does such fine sewing and has fantastic craft skills, I am sure she inherited them from Grandma Tena. Grandma was pleased when we named Jan after her and she left her 100 dollars in ten $10.00 bills when she died. She was always busy and often went into Chicago's loop on public transportation. She especially enjoyed visiting the Chicago Temple and hearing Doctor Preston Bradley preach. My grandmother and grandfather lived separate lives for many years under the same roof and I hardly knew my grandfather. Grandma prepared his meals, left them on the kitchen table, then left the room so she and Charles wouldn't have to talk. I have no idea what happened to cause these unhappy circumstances.

OLSEN, Bertina (I697)

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Memories by Nadine Gunn Fisher

Grandpa Larsen was one of five children who came from Oslo, Norway with his parents in 1870. He was two years old when he boarded the sailing ship bound for Chicago by way of Quebec and Detroit, Michigan the beginning of a journey that took six weeks to complete.
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According to family records, his brother George Larsen lived close to the palace in Oslo. He used to walk past the palace basement windows and remembered seeing the kitchen staff juggling or tossing oranges. The children had never seen oranges before and were impressed.

In later years a relative (Joan Larsen, Nadine Gunn Fisher's cousin by marriage) visited Norway and she walked up the hill to the palace. There was no fence around it and she really could walk past the basement windows and as she did so, imagined seeing oranges being tossed by the kitchen staff.

The small houses down the hill described by George Larsen were no longer there. But an old cashier in one of the nearby shops confirmed that there used to be lots of small homes down the hill from the palace.

It was a rare treat to be able to go up to Grandpa Larsen's room at 628 North Laramie, sit on his lap and read his encyclopedias while he shared his Smith Brothers black cough drops with me.

One Christmas Grandpa Larsen gave me a celluloid reindeer with a dollar bill wrapped around it and I am reminded of him every year when we hang that treasured gift on our Christmas tree.

Grandpa died almost twenty years before Grandma Tena died. He was 73 years old when he passed away on December 6, 1941, the day before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and World War II began for America.

Grandma died on December 30, 1960 at the age of 91.

They are both buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Westchester, Illinois in the same area where Lois and Asa Gunn, and Milton Larsen are buried.

LARSEN, Charles E (I18)

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Memories by Nadine Gunn Fisher

I had many wonderful times with my grandmother because she enjoyed having fun.

I often stayed overnight and I loved to hear the ticking of her clock as I lay nestled in her warm bed. Grandma Tena read poems to me from Edgar A. Guest and because I liked them so much she wrote in her book, "Belonging to Nadine."

Another favorite was "101 Famous Poems." And she she told me over and over the story of "The Little Match Girl." I am always reminded of her as I read that story to my grandchildren.

She had a marvelous sense of humor and loved to play bizarre tricks on me such as flipping out her false teeth and stuffing paper in the toes of my shoes when I was asleep. If I didn't hang up my clothes, she would spread them out all over the floor as a reminder.

Grandma Tena sang "Su Ru Relta" to me and "Rita rita runka", and said things like "fie scump a dey", songs and phrases that I have passed down to my grand children. Some may question whether those were the exact words but that is what they sounded like to me.

She loved her great grandchildren and when she was playing with them, she would stick them in a shopping bag and pull them across the floor.
Grandma Tena was an excellent seamstress and for our son Doug she made his first Easter coat. She also made slippers of left over material and sold them on consignment at various retail outlets.

Our daughter, Janice Bertena was named after my grandmother. Because Jan does such fine sewing and has fantastic craft skills, I am sure she inherited them from Grandma Tena.

Grandma was pleased when we named Jan after her and she left her 100 dollars in ten $10.00 bills when she died.

She was always busy and often went into Chicago's loop on public transportation. She especially enjoyed visiting the Chicago Temple and hearing Doctor Preston Bradley preach.

My grandmother and grandfather lived separate lives for many years under the same roof and I hardly knew my grandfather. Grandma prepared his meals, left them on the kitchen table, then left the room so she and Charles wouldn't have to talk. I have no idea what happened to cause these unhappy circumstances.

LARSEN, Hannah Bertena Olsen (I19)

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Memories By Richard Carl Kowal

My father was eighteen years old when he came from Russia to the United States in 1912, the year the luxury ocean liner, Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and 1500 people died. It was also the year that Arizona and New Mexico entered the Union bringing the total to 48 United States of America.
European immigrants often changed their names after arriving in this country because they wanted to be `Americanized` so my father changed his name from Kowalchuk to Kowal.

My mother and father loved the outdoors and spent as much free time as they could hunting and fishing. I`ll never forget our first family fishing trip to Lake Nakomis in Tomahawk, Wisconsin when I was fifteen years old. Dad`s 1936 Pontiac was loaded with Mom, Dad, Aunt Ann, me, and Brownie the dog. There wasn`t enough room in the car for the dog so we had to put Brownie in the trunk. We stopped every thirty or forty miles because the car was over-heating and while the car cooled off we released Brownie from the trunk and let him swim in nearby creeks to cool down.

There are so many happy memories. One fall Dad and I went mushroom hunting in his old Buick. While we were picking the mushrooms, an angry bull suddenly appeared and chased us but Dad picked me up and we ran to safety.

Shortly after Dad and Mom were married in 1922, he and his brother-in-law Emil bought a movie theater. It was called the Lasalle and it was located near Lincoln Park in Chicago.

It was very successful but Emil decided later on to get out of the business and buy a farm. After `talkies` (as sound motion pictures were called then), Dad sold the theater around 1930, the year the Great Depression started. Later, he bought another movie house called the Lucille located on Cicero Avenue on Chicago`s near north side. I had my own favorite seat in the back of the theater and I remember when they gave away things like dishes to lure customers to the show. One time they gave away a raft of live turkeys at Thanksgiving. We made an interesting car full when I helped my father bring the turkeys to the theater; Dad driving, me next to him and a cage full of gobbling turkeys in the back seat.

The Lucille was Dad`s financial downfall. He borrowed a lot of money to keep it going and when it failed, he was deep in debt so he resumed the trade he learned when he first came to this country, became a barber and managed the barber shop at Homan and Arthington Streets.

My mother and father were married on August 20, 1922. Her name was Bessie Hosnedl and she was born in Velhortice, Bohemia. Mom immigrated to America in 1905 when she was seven years old.

Mom liked gardening, fishing, and especially the Fox River where she and Dad spent so much of their free time. My grandparents built their first cottage many many years ago across the river from where we are located today in St. Charles, Illinois.

My father was 61 years old when he died of a heart attack in 1955 and Mom passed away in 1961 at the age of 63.

HOSNEDL, Bessie (I23)

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Memories By Richard Carl Kowal

My father was eighteen years old when he came from Russia to the United States in 1912, the year the luxury ocean liner, Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and 1500 people died. It was also the year that Arizona and New Mexico entered the Union bringing the total to 48 United States of America.

European immigrants often changed their names after arriving in this country because they wanted to be `Americanized` so my father changed his name from Kowalchuk to Kowal.

My mother and father loved the outdoors and spent as much free time as they could hunting and fishing. I`ll never forget our first family fishing trip to Lake Nakomis in Tomahawk, Wisconsin when I was fifteen years old. Dad`s 1936 Pontiac was loaded with Mom, Dad, Aunt Ann, me, and Brownie the dog. There wasn`t enough room in the car for the dog so we had to put Brownie in the trunk. We stopped every thirty or forty miles because the car was over-heating and while the car cooled off we released Brownie from the trunk and let him swim in nearby creeks to cool down.

There are so many happy memories. One fall Dad and I went mushroom hunting in his old Buick. While we were picking the mushrooms, an angry bull suddenly appeared and chased us but Dad picked me up and we ran to safety.

Shortly after Dad and Mom were married in 1922, he and his brother-in-law Emil bought a movie theater. It was called the Lasalle and it was located near Lincoln Park in Chicago.

It was very successful but Emil decided later on to get out of the business and buy a farm. After `talkies` (as sound motion pictures were called then), Dad sold the theater around 1930, the year the Great Depression started. Later, he bought anothermovie house called the Lucille located on Cicero Avenue on Chicago`s near north side. I had my own favorite seat in the back of the theater and I remember when they gave away things like dishes to lure customers to the show. One time they gave away a raft of live turkeys at Thanksgiving. We made an interesting car full when I helped my father bring the turkeys to the theater; Dad driving, me next to him and a cage full of gobbling turkeys in the back seat.

The Lucille was Dad`s financial downfall. He borrowed a lot of money to keep it going and when it failed, he was deep in debt so he resumed the trade he learned when he first came to this country, became a barber and managed the barber shop at Homan and Arthington Streets.

My mother and father were married on August 20, 1922. Her name was Bessie Hosnedl and she was born in Velhortice, Bohemia. Mom immigrated to America in 1905 when she was seven years old.

Mom liked gardening, fishing, and especially the Fox River where she and Dad spent so much of their free time. My grandparents built their first cottage many many years ago across the river from where we are located today in St. Charles, Illinois.

My father was 61 years old when he died of a heart attack in 1955 and Mom passed away in 1961 at the age of 63.

KOWAL, Samuel (I22)

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Michael was shot and killed during a strike related protest - see newspaper article

GOODWIN, Michael (I58)

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MTSGT US MARINE CORPS
WORLD WAR II

HOLDEN, Gordon L (I604)

158

My childhood memories are a blend of sadness and happiness with my early life probably more difficult than most because my father died when I was a baby. That was a sad time.

I was born and grew up in Old Appleton, Missouri, a small German community where many of the residents were related. It was a typical Southern town where prejudice and segregation were the rule not the exception and black and white people went to separate schools and churches.

I went to the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church along with the other white people in the town while the blacks went to the "Nigra Church or the "Nigra" school. Prejudice is such a peculiar human failing. All the black and white children played together but they weren't allowed to attend the same schools or churches.

Life was a combination of love and hate during my early years and the love I had for my grandmother Pauline Frentzel was as strong as any I have ever known. She was a beautiful, kind woman; we could just sit together, not saying anything and I could feel that love between us. Sometimes she sang softly to me in German and she made me feel loved, and warm, and safe. We were very close.

School was not my favorite place when I was a child. When the teacher thought I had done something naughty she made me feel like I was garbage and put me in a waste paper box and told the other kids to throw rubbish at me. Other times she put me behind the piano, then pushed it until I said I was sorry for whatever I was supposed to have done.

Some of my happy memories are church picnics and listening to Negro spiritual music. I sat in the weeds outside the Negro churches listening to them sing. It was moving because they were so beautifully sad.

Sometimes after a church picnic I would sit in my bedroom and stare at the full moon, my mind full of marvelous dreams. My mother said I shouldn't do that because staring at a full moon would drive me crazy.

One of my teachers encouraged me to read and I loved it because in my imagination I became the character in the book. Mom thought I was just being lazy and sometimes she would pull the book from my hands and tell me to do something useful.

I started working when I was very young and the first job I remember was working for a family across the road. They paid me $1.50 a week to clean house and start fires in their stove.

When I was thirteen years old, I went to St. Louis where I was a maid and I earned six dollars a week. Then I left home when I was fourteen and I worked at the Chippewa Drug Store and earned 60 cents an hour. My rented room cost five dollars a week.

In St. Louis I worked in a brewery. The brand name was Mule Beer and they advertised it as "the beer with a kick." I was about ten years old then and they let us have all the beer we could drink but the treat I enjoyed most (when I could afford it) was a bottle of Pepsi. Now that was really something great. I can still hear that jingle being played on the radio:

"Pepsi Cola hits the spot; twelve full ounces, that's a lot.
Twice as much for a nickel too, Pepsi Cola is the drink for you."

There were difficult times in my life but the nice thing about memories is that the good times outweigh the bad and it is the happy times we remember best.

KLAUS, Shirley (I161)

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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

Living (I275)

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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

Living (I4)

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Nadine Gunn Fisher's maternal great grandfather
Hannah Bertena Olsen Larsen's father

Otte, Martinus, and Ole Johan all immigrated to America but there is no record of Kristian

Ole Kristensen bought property called Grotland in 1821.

The state church of Norway originally owned this property and it was first called Grjotland as the name Grojt means some kind of stone and the house on the property is built on solid rock. The first record of people owning it was in the year 1610...ten years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Masssachusetts in 1620.

KRISTENSEN, Ole (I87)

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Name: Cathrina Maria Olsen
Gender: Female
Event Date: 19 May 1834
Event Place: , IBESTAD, TROMS, NORWAY
Birth Date: 05 Feb 1834
Birthplace: null
Death Date: null
Name Note: null
Race: null
Father's Name: Ole Christensen
Father's Birthplace: null
Father's Age: null
Mother's Name: Hanna B. Ottesdr
Mother's Birthplace: null
Mother's Age: null
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C42552-2
System Origin: Norway-EASy
GS Film number: 127105
Reference ID: null

Citing this Record:
"Norway, Baptisms, 1634-1927," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N4ST-L91 : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Ole Christensen in entry for Cathrina Maria Olsen, 05 Feb 1834; citing ; FHL microfilm 127105.

OLSEN, Cathrina Maria (I89)

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Name: Joseph E Fisher
Titles and Terms: undefined
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1930
Event Place: Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States
District: 0263
Gender: Male
Age: 61
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race (Original): White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head
Birth Year (Estimated): 1869
Birthplace: Ohio
Immigration Year: undefined
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
Sheet Number and Letter: 14B
Household ID: 220
Line Number: 71
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: T626
Affiliate Film Number: 1836
GS Film number: 2341570
Digital Folder Number: 004639655
Image Number: 01189

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Joseph E Fisher Head M 61 Ohio
Catherine Fisher Wife F 60 Scotland
Marjorie C Fisher Daughter F 35 Ohio
Ellen L Fisher Daughter F 27 Ohio
Dorothy A Fisher Daughter F 25 Ohio

Citing this Record:
"United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X44X-HR6 : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Joseph E Fisher, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0263, sheet 14B, family 220, NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1836.

FISHER, Joseph Edward (I46)

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Name: Joseph Fisher
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1870
Event Place: Ohio, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 1
Race: White
Race (Original): W
Birth Year (Estimated): 1868-1869
Birthplace: Ohio
Page Number: 53
Household ID: 419
Line Number: 10
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M593
GS Film number: 000552732
Digital Folder Number: 004093981
Image Number: 00270

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Mathias Fisher undefined M 45 Germany
Catherine Fisher undefined F 29 Ohio
Anna Fisher undefined F 10 Ohio
Philemea Fisher undefined F 6 Ohio
George Fisher undefined M 4 Ohio
Joseph Fisher undefined M 1 Ohio
Joseph Betz undefined M 78 Baden

Citing this Record:
"United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M6VT-FFK : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Joseph Fisher in household of Mathias Fisher, Ohio, United States; citing p. 53, family 419, NARA microfilm publication M593, FHL microfilm 000552732.

FISHER, Mathias (I41)

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Name: Joseph Fisher
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1880
Event Place: Newark, Licking, Ohio, United States
District: 192
Gender: Male
Age: 11
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Race (Original): W
Occupation: At School
Relationship to Head of Household: Son
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Son
Birth Year (Estimated): 1869
Birthplace: Ohio, United States
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio, United States
Sheet Number and Letter: 409A
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: T9
Affiliate Film Number: 1040
GS Film Number: 1255040
Digital Folder Number: 004243647
Image Number: 00821

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Mathias Fisher Self M 52 Germany
Minnie Fisher Daughter F 17 Ohio, United States
George Fisher Son M 13 Ohio, United States
Joseph Fisher Son M 11 Ohio, United States
Catharine Fisher Wife F 39 Ohio, United States

Citing this Record:
"United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M89J-294 : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Joseph Fisher in household of Mathias Fisher, Newark, Licking, Ohio, United States; citing sheet 409A, NARA microfilm publication T9.

FISHER, Mathias (I41)

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Name: Margaret Fisher
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 16 Jun 1894
Event Place: Delaware, Delaware, Ohio
Registration Date: null
Registration Place: null
Gender: Female
Race: W
Father's Name: Joseph Fisher
Father's Titles and Terms: null
Father's Birthplace: null
Father's Age: null
Mother's Name: Catharin Goodwin
Mother's Titles and Terms: null
Mother's Birthplace: null
Mother's Age: null
Additional Relatives: null
Reference ID: Vol. 3 p 122-123
GS Film number: 391375
Digital Folder Number: 004978698
Image Number: 00067

Citing this Record:
"Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X648-Y8B : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Joseph Fisher in entry for Margaret Fisher, 16 Jun 1894; citing Vol. 3 p 122-123, Delaware, Delaware, Ohio; FHL microfilm 391375.

FISHER, Marjorie K (I38)

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Name: Marthinus Olsen
Gender: Male
Event Date: 15 Sep 1837
Event Place: , IBESTAD, TROMS, NORWAY
Birth Date: 28 May 1837
Birthplace: null
Death Date: null
Name Note: null
Race: null
Father's Name: Ole Christensen
Father's Birthplace: null
Father's Age: null
Mother's Name: Hanna Ottesdr
Mother's Birthplace: null
Mother's Age: null
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C42552-3
System Origin: Norway-EASy
GS Film number: 127106
Reference ID: null

Citing this Record:
"Norway, Baptisms, 1634-1927," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N4SY-Q28 : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Ole Christensen in entry for Marthinus Olsen, 28 May 1837; citing ; FHL microfilm 127106.

OLSEN, Marthinus (I93)

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Name: Ole Christensen
Birth Date: 1797
Birthplace: null
Age: 29
Spouse's Name: Hanna Birgitta Ottesdr
Spouse's Birth Date: 1799
Spouse's Birthplace: null
Spouse's Age: 27
Event Date: 26 Sep 1826
Event Place: , Ibestad, Troms, Norway
Father's Name: Christen Stephensen
Mother's Name: null
Spouse's Father's Name: Esaias Ottesen
Spouse's Mother's Name: null
Race: null
Marital Status: null
Previous Wife's Name: null
Spouse's Race: null
Spouse's Marital Status: null
Spouse's Previous Husband's Name: null
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M42552-2
System Origin: Norway-EASy
GS Film number: 127105
Reference ID: null

Citing this Record:
"Norway, Marriages, 1660-1926," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NWMF-FVS : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Ole Christensen and Hanna Birgitta Ottesdr, 26 Sep 1826; citing , Ibestad, Troms, Norway, reference ; FHL microfilm 127105.

http://records.ancestry.com/ole_kristensen_records.ashx?pid=23430180

Family: Ole KRISTENSEN / Hannah Bergitta OTTESDATTER (F19)

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Name: Ole Johan Olsen
Gender: Male
Event Date: 20 Apr 1840
Event Place: , IBESTAD, TROMS, NORWAY
Birth Date: 03 Mar 1840
Birthplace: null
Death Date: null
Name Note: null
Race: null
Father's Name: Ole Christensen
Father's Birthplace: null
Father's Age: null
Mother's Name: Hanna Berg. Olsdr
Mother's Birthplace: null
Mother's Age: null
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C42552-3
System Origin: Norway-EASy
GS Film number: 127106
Reference ID: null

Citing this Record:
"Norway, Baptisms, 1634-1927," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N4SY-H8R : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Ole Johan Olsen, 03 Mar 1840; citing ; FHL microfilm 127106.

OLSEN, Olaf "Ole" Johan (I94)

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Name: Otte Esias Olsen
Gender: Male
Event Date: 19 May 1834
Event Place: , IBESTAD, TROMS, NORWAY
Birth Date: 05 Feb 1834
Birthplace: null
Death Date: null
Name Note: null
Race: null
Father's Name: Ole Christensen
Father's Birthplace: null
Father's Age: null
Mother's Name: Hanna B. Ottesdr
Mother's Birthplace: null
Mother's Age: null
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C42552-2
System Origin: Norway-EASy
GS Film number: 127105
Reference ID: null

Citing this Record:
"Norway, Baptisms, 1634-1927," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N4ST-LSS : accessed 30 Jun 2014), Ole Christensen in entry for Otte Esias Olsen, 05 Feb 1834; citing ; FHL microfilm 127105.

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November 8, 1913, Paul F. Mauck, of Batestown, driver, aged 17 years, single, was killed in Joe Mauck's mine, Danville, Vermilion County. Deceased was making an extra trip for the regular driver and in some manner he fell before moving trip and was crushed by car wheel.

Source: http://hinton-gen.com/coal/vermilion_fatal2.html#m

MAUCK, Theodore Paul (I150)

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Obituary Danville Commercial News Nov. 2, 1940

Life-long resident of this community, Charles Henry Holden, 78, died at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, 1940 at his home in Hillery. He was born in Middlefork Twp., Vermilion Co. near Higginsville, June 27, 1862, son of Alexander T. Holden and Sarah (Andrews) Holden. Greatest part of his life was spent as a Miner and he was a member of the United Mine Workers Union.

Surviving in addition to his widow, Josephine Evelyn Holden, are two daughters, Mrs. Ruth Scott and Mrs. Naomi Lane of Hillery, and four sons, Thomas A., Clarence A., Harvey O., and Charles H. JR., all of Hillery. Two daughters and one son preceded him in death. He is also survived by a brother, A.T. Holden JR of Batestown and three sisters, Mary Wonderland, Danville Rt. 1; Mrs. Esther Eve, Vermilion Heights, and Mrs. Cora Mauck, of Danville.

The body is at Berhalter Funeral Home where it will remain until Saturday when it will be returned to the home in Hillery. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m., Monday at the United Brethren Church in Hillery. Burial in Oakhill Cemetery.

Burial:
Oak Hill Cemetery
Danville
Vermilion County
Illinois, USA

HOLDEN, Charles H Sr (I201)

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Obituary Danville Commercial News

Mrs. Josephine Evelyn Holden, 75, of Hillery, died at 4 a.m. Thursday (September 28, 1950) at Lake View Hospital where she had been taken one hour previously.

She was born Nov. 19, 1874, in Indiana, the daughter of John and Mary Catherine Fish Hughes.

Surviving her are four sons, Harvey, Thomas, Clarence and Charles, all of Danville Route 1; two daughters, Mrs. Ruth Scott and Mrs. Naomi Lane of Danville Route 1; three grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren; one half-brother, Ora Hughes of Danville. Her husband, Charles, and a sister preceded her in death.

The body will be taken from the Berhalter Funeral Home to the Hiller residence Friday morning where it will remain until funeral services at 2 p.m. Sunday at Evangelical United Brethren Church at Hillery. The Rev. Mr. Van Wey of Marshall will officiate. The Rev. Ernes Nickoson, pastor of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, will assist in the services. Interment will be in Oakhill Cemetery.

Burial:
Oak Hill Cemetery
Danville
Vermilion County
Illinois, USA

HOLDEN, Josephine Evelyn (I202)

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October 26, 2004

Kenneth M. Roe, suddenly, 51 years, beloved husband of Patti, nee Piper; cherished father of Christopher, Ginny, Nick, Theresa, Mary Catherine, Kevin and Rosie; loving son of James and Dolores; dear brother of James, Steven and Daniel; favorite uncle and brother-in-law of many nieces and nephews; fond son-in-law of Edward and Rosemarie Piper; loving friend to all. Funeral Thursday 9 a.m. from Becvar & Son Funeral Home, 5539 W. 127th Street, Crestwood, to Incarnation Church for a 9:30 a.m. Mass. Interment Holy Sepulchre. Visitation Wednesday 2 to 9 p.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to Patti Roe account at Palos Bank, 12600 S. Harlem, Palos Heights, IL 60463. 708-824-9000 or www.becvarfuneralhome.com

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-10-26/news/0410260092_1_mary-catherine-brother-in-law-incarnation-church

ROE, Kenneth M (I555)

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On January 12, 1861 Alexander met and after a short courtship he married Sarah Andrews. She came to Rossville area in July 1860 from Hamilton Ontario, Canada. Alexander and Sarah lived in the Rossville and Potomac area on the famous eight mile prairie until around 1870. They later moved to Oakwood Twp. in Vermilion Co. Ill. and settled on a farm in the Batestown area with Alexander's son Edward Wallace Holden and their four sons, Charles Henry Holden born in 1862, Oscar Vincent Holden born in 1864, Logan Tincher Holden born in 1866, and Alvan Gilbert Holden born in 1868.

They later had three daughters and another son, they being Esther Ann Holden (Eve) born in 1872, Cora Ellen Holden(Mauck) born in 1873, Mary Isabel Holden (Wonderlin) born in 1877, and Alexander Thompson Holden Jr. born in 1881. All of the above family were buried in Oakhill Cemetery in Batestown.

Family: Alexander T HOLDEN / Sarah ANDREWS (F24)

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On March 9, 1847, Alexander married Jane Bain, whose father Samuel Bain, was the executor in his father's will. Of this union were born five sons and one daughter. They were John Robert Holden, born in 1848,died in the Civil War and was buried in a National Cemetery near St. Louis. Samuel Wilson Holden born 1850, died in infancy. Thomas Alison Holden born 1851, also died in infancy. Elizabeth Jane Holden born in 1853, never married and died in 1877. It was told she died on her wedding day. She is buried in Oakhill Cemetery, near Danville. Edward Wallace Holden was born 1855, died in 1928 and is also buried in Oakhill Cemetery. He was a life long resident of the Potomac Ill. area.

It is believed that shortly after the birth of Edward in 1855, Alexander and Jane left Jefferson Co. In. and came to Rossville, in Vermilion Co. Il. In May 1857, Jane gave birth to William Hood Holden and shortly afterward she died, leaving Alexander with an infant son. Unable to properly care for the young son, Alexander allowed William Hood to be adopted by Alvan Gilbert, a well known and prominent farmer in the Rossville area.

Family: Alexander T HOLDEN / Jane BAIN (F133)

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On on February 22, 1933, Everett was in an accident at the Catlin mine and passed away the next day at the age of 30.

MAUCK, Everett Alvin (I148)

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ONARGA - Patricia L. Mikeworth: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
Pantagraph, The (Bloomington, IL) - Saturday, January 21, 1989
Deceased Name: ONARGA - Patricia L. Mikeworth

ONARGA - Patricia L. Mikeworth, 50, Mount Vernon, formerly of Onarga, died at 8:30 p.m. Thursday (Jan. 19, 1989) at her home after a lingering illness.

Her funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Knapp Funeral Home, Onarga, the Rev. Thomas Logsdon officiating. Burial will be in Lyman Cemetery, Roberts.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Mikeworth was born Sept. 17, 1938, in L'Erable, a daughter of James Patrick and Catherine Mae Osborne Doyle. She married Roger William Mikeworth on June 9, 1955, in Onarga. He survives.

Other survivors include three sons, Kevin, Baltimore, Md.; Bryan, Decatur; and Douglas, Chicago; a daughter, Peggy Jordan, Mount Vernon; four sisters, Irene Hall, Tell City, Ind.; Vivian Rabideau, Onarga; and Mary Flesher and JoAnn Neal, both of Phoenix, Ariz.; a brother, Paul Gene Doyle, Clifton; and four grandchildren.

Her parents, a son, four brothers and a sister preceded her in death.

She was a member of the United Methodist Church of Mount Vernon.
Memorials may be made to a charity of the donor's choice.

Edition: FINAL
Page: B7
Copyright (c) 1989, Pantagraph Publishing Co.

DOYLE, Patricia Lorraine (I340)

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Otto was born in Germany and came to the United states when he was a young man . He worked for Raymond Lead Works until he retired.

Otto married Caroline Gerling when she lived in Bloomington, Illinois. She was born in Germany on August 13, 1865 and she died in 1914 when their only son, Edwin Paul Sr. was 13 years old.

In 1923 Otto bought a house on North Springfield Avenue in Chicago . He lived there with his two sisters, Tracey Pelz and Augusta Pelz Topel.

Later, their son Edwin and his wife Estelle moved into a one room apartment on the scond floor. It had a kitchen sink and a one-burner stove. Of course they had some use of the rest of the house and the fenced-in back yard where Edwin Jr.played.

Edwin Jr. vividly recalls those days: "I was in my warm bed in the middle of winter and I could hear Grandpa Otto get up before dawn, shake the coal furnace and carry out the ashes to the alley. I remember thinking to myself, I hope I never have to do that job."

Otto was a humble, kind, and generous man who never complained about anything.

Ed Pelz remembers his grandfather: "When I was in fifth grade and having trouble with asthma, he would walk to school with me and carry my books. It was about a seven block walk and when the weather was cold, we would stop and rest in the foyers of apartment buildings. I will never forget Grandpa Otto."

Otto A. Pelz was 80 years old when he died on April 5, 1947.

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Patrick CALLAGHAN (Cormick) was born 1806 in Lisdrumneil, Tibohine, Frenchpark, Roscommon, Ireland?. He died 25 Jun 1876 in isdrumneil, Tibohine, Frenchpark, Roscommon, Ireland.

Patrick was counted in a census 1857 Griffiths in Lisdrumneil, Tibohine, Frenchpark, Roscommon, Ireland.

Patrick married Winnifred MULRENAN in c1830. Winnifred was born C1803. She died 16 Feb 1882 in Lisdrumneil, Roscommon County, Ireland.

They had the following children:

Cormick CALLAGHAN was born 1846 and died C1920.

Margaret (3rd) CALLAGHAN was born 19 Jun 1838 in Lisdrumneil, Roscommon County, Ireland.

Honoria (2nd) CALLAGHAN was born 18 Nov 1834.

Patrick CALLAGHAN was born 25 Jun 1839 in Lisdrumneil, Roscommon County, Ireland.

Mariam CALLAGHAN was baptized 14 Jun 1833 in Loughlyn RC Parish, Roscommmon.

Margaret (2nd) CALLAGHAN was baptized 22 Jul 1836 in Loughlyn RC Parish, Roscommmon.

Margaret (1st) CALLAGHAN was born 19 Jun 1831 in Lisdrumneil,Roscommon County, Ireland.

Honor (1st) CALLAGHAN was born 14 Jun 1833 in Lisdrumneil, Roscommon County, Ireland.

Owen CALLAGHAN was born 1834 and died 3 Jul 1897.

CALLAGHAN, Patrick (I355)

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Phoebe was large, brunette, smoked a pipe

CARMICHAEL, Phoebe (I488)

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Photo: Left to right: James Garfield Nelson, Agnes Dahlberg Nelson, Francis, Roxenna, Roland, Lawrence, Lester, and James Donald (standing on chair)

As remembered by James D Nelson

President Harry Truman was born in 1884, the cornerstone of the Statue of Liberty was laid on August 15, and one month later James Garfield Nelson was born on Septenber 13 in Joliet, Illinois. My mother was born in Minnesota where her mother and father (Nels Dahlberg and Hulda Sunbaum Dahlberg) settled after emigrating from Sweden.

My Dad wanted to earn money so he left school after the fourth grade and went to work. Mom finished the sixth grade and married Dad when she was sixteen years old.

James Garfield and Agnes Nelson had six children and I, James Donald was the youngest. With such a large family and living on the farm, my mother worked hard every day; she even made clothes for all the children.

According to Barbara Nelson, Jim and Agnes were "the best people in the world people who never lost their cool or got upset over trivial things." As an example, Jim remembers what it was like to come home at 2:00 A.M. one morning and explain to his father why he was so late.

"I rolled the car over, he said." And Poppie, as he was called, asked "Are you hurt...you O.K.?" And Jim said he was all right, and his father said something like , "Well that's good. Better go up to bed now and get some sleep and we'll talk about it in the morning."

Now that's cool!

Agnes Nelson loved to go places. If someone said, "Let's go out," she had her coat on and was out the door. When they stayed home on week-ends, she enjoyed having company and playing cards.

At one time, James Garfield Nelson managed Sunny Acres Farm for two wealthy Chicagoans who farmed on week-ends. He did this until 1937 when the family moved to 63rd Street.

He started a small chicken business in 1940. The business grew and by 1948 he raised 40 thousand chickens a year and his customers included restaurants like the White Fence Farm. He did that until he retired in 1950.

Dad died in 1959 at the age of 75 and Mom died eleven years later in 1970 at the age of 77.

NELSON, James Garfield (I209)

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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

Living (I556)

184

Plot: Row F19

KLAUS, Herbert Henry (I162)

185

Remembering With Shirley Klaus Lardizabal

My father was a banker and I was only six months old when he died so I have no conscious memory of him. He was so young; only 38 years old when he died of an infection after an operation for appendicitis.

My mother talked about him a lot and described him as handsome with blue green eyes, blond hair, broad shoulders and about five feet ten inches tall. When I was little I sometimes walked in my sleep. One night when I was about six years old I dreamed that my father was standing under the grape arbor in our back yard with his arms outstretched and I went to him. I remember it vividly because it was so real and I told Mom that I saw Daddy.
father took good care of us and when he died, our home was completely paid for. My mother Hedwig was a beautiful woman and probably more submissive than most but of course that is how she was brought up: the woman takes a back seat to the man and once you are married you stay married, no matter what that married life is like.

After my father died, mother married Mr. Hecht. I`m not sure of the date but I am sure that he was the meanest man I ever knew. He told us from the very beginning that he was to be called Mr. Hecht.` Not Dadddy, or Father or any other name caring people use for their loved ones. Oh, how I despised Mr. Hecht. He was mean, stingy, and hateful.

We used to dunk our bread in coffee and when the bread would fall into the coffee, he would make us eat the soggy mess and not leave a single sticky crumb in the cup. And he was so stingy even though he finally broke down and bought Mom a ringer washer, he never did buy her a refrigerator.

I could not understand then why Mom ever married him, but later I understood that she needed help raising her six children.

KLAUS, Herbert Henry (I162)

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Robert served in the war and was gassed with Mustard Gas. He died of pneumonia which was a complication of his lung damage.

SHOUKAIR, Robert Nathaniel (I534)

187

Roger Mikeworth: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice

Register-News (Mount Vernon, IL) - Saturday, March 9, 2013
Deceased Name: Roger Mikeworth

Roger William Mikeworth, 77, of Mt. Vernon and formerly of Paxton, died at 6:40 a.m. Friday, March 8, 2013, at Good Samaritan Regional Health Center in Mt. Vernon.

He was born on Aug. 15, 1935, in Melvin, to Frank and Mamie (Mickens) Mikeworth. He married Patricia Lorraine Doyle on June 9, 1955, and she preceded him in death in January 1989. He later married Beverly Ann Badgett Messiha in Mt. Vernon on June 15, 1991.

He graduated from Melvin-Sibley High School class of 1953 and later attended Eureka College in Eureka, Ill. He worked for United Parcel Service for three years and then 40 plus years as an agent and manager for Bankers Life & Casualty Co. where he was a member of the Presidents Club and a recipient of numerous President's Honor Circle awards for sales excellence. He was the Agent of the Year award recipient in 1992, 1994, 1995, and 1996. He also received the Quarterback Award for outstanding leadership as a Branch Sales Manager. He retired from Bankers Life and became an independent insurance broker for the past seven years.

He attended the First Baptist Church of Mt. Vernon and sang in the church choir. He was a past president of the Paxton High School Sports Booster Club and was active in the leadership of Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts in Paxton. He was a Boy Scout Troop Leader for Pack 35.

His life goal was to support and encourage others including his children and grandchildren to excel in their endeavors. He enjoyed spending time working in his yard.

Roger is survived by his wife, Beverly Mikeworth; two daughters, Peggy Mikeworth-Jordan and husband Michael of Maiden, N.C. and Julie Messiha-Watson and husband Mark of Wheaton; four sons, Kevin Mikeworth and wife Laurie of Huntersville, N.C., Brian Mikeworth and wife Terry of Forsyth, Doug Mikeworth of Naperville and Mark Messiha and wife Kristi of Carol Stream; one sister, Virginia DeFries of New Harmony, Ind.; two brothers, Vincent Lloyd Mikeworth of Onarga and George "Homer" Mikeworth of Ashkum; nine grandchildren, Amanda Jordan-Malone and husband Patrick, Christina Jordan-Johnston and husband Christopher, Ryan Jordan, Brian Mikeworth, Sean Mikeworth, Laura Mikeworth, Tim Mikeworth, Tyler Mikeworth, and Justin Mikeworth.

He was preceded in death by his parents; first wife Patricia Mikeworth; two sisters, Beth Kutenbach Holferty of Chatsworth and Mary Mikeworth of Onarga; and four brothers, Wesley Mikeworth, Dennis Mikeworth, Raymond Mikeworth and Elvin Mikeworth, all of Onarga.

Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at First Baptist Church in Mt. Vernon with Dr. Ryan Burge officiating.
Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Hughey Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon.
Graveside interment services will be at 4 p.m. Monday at the Lyman Township Cemetery in Roberts, Ill.

MIKEWORTH, Roger William (I339)

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Living (I156)

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Sarah Andrews was born on board a steamship on September 24, 1839. The steamship left London, England and was bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sarah's father was a Sergeant in her Majesty's (Royal Coldstream Guards). It is believed he was sent to Quebec City to be a part of the newly formed Royal Canadian Regiment which was made up of volunteers, NCO's and men from the Coldstream Guards. This local force was formed on December 10, 1839 with 464 rank and file. Capt. Halkett, also of the Coldstream guards, superintended the formation of this local force. Sarah also had two brothers, an older brother John H., who was born in London on May 14,1837 and Edward who was born at the Quarantine Station, Grosse Island on April 28, 1847.

Sarah's life was an eventful one as she was stolen by the Indians, who kept her for several weeks. Her parents, Vincent and Mary, contracted typhus while her father, Vincent, was serving as a Nurse at the Quarantine Station at Grosse Island, (an island in the St.Lawrence Seaway) where they died within three weeks of each other. The children, Sarah, who was 7 and John who was 10 and baby Edward, were placed in the Soldiers Orphans Home in Quebec City. From there, John went to learn the trade of a Shoemaker. Not liking his employer, he ran away and crossed into New York and found employment with a merchant. After a few years sojourn there crept into his heart to again see his sister, whom he had not seen for years. He found the object of his search in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Later, he entered her Majesty's Service and three years after that he emigrated to Illinois and located near Rossville in Vermilion County. There he worked and saved money and sent for Sarah to come to Rossville, this being in July of 1860. After arriving at Rossville she went to the home of Dr. Brickwell, where a few weeks later she met and wed Alexander Holden, January 12, 1861.Eight children were born to the union, Charles, Alvin, Oscar and Alex Holden of Batestown, Mrs Cora Mauck and Mrs. Mary Wonderlin of Batestown, Mrs Esther Eve of Vermilion Heights. One son, Logan Holden died in infancy. Sara (Andrews) Holden died on December 5, 1911 and had one of the largest funeral ever seen in this area.

Burial:
Oak Hill Cemetery
Danville
Vermilion County
Illinois, USA

ANDREWS, Sarah (I144)

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Sebastian was born in Baden Baden Germany and Amelia was born in Alsace Lorraine which is located on the border of Germany and France. We have no information concerning their birth, marriage or dates of death.

MEISTER, Sebastian (I221)

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EIREMAN, Amelia (I222)

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Second wife of Albert Henley. Nickname Minnie

Burial:
Cedar Hill Cemetery
Newark
Licking County
Ohio, USA

HENLEY, Philomena Fisher (I43)

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Services to Be Held Monday for Mrs. F. D. Lodge
COLUMBIANA â€” Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the Seederly-Beilhart Funeral Home here for Mrs. Emma D. Lodge, 87, formerly of 123 E. Park Ave., who was active in church and business here many years.
Mrs. Lodge died at 9:46 a.m. Friday at the Salem Convalescent Center, where she had been a patient two years. She had been ill five weeks.
Mrs. Lodge was bom Sept. 30, 1878, in Mahoning County, a daughter of Jefferson and Eliza Fisher Detrow, and lived in this area all her life. She was a member of the Columbiana . lfethoÂ«!ist-~Ctairch,_ was president of the Womenâ€™s â€œMtssiea-ary Society, for 25 years and taught the womenâ€™s Bible Class I of the Sunday School for 50 i years. She attended Mount i Union College and taught in the Columbiana School System for three years.
In the 1920s she and her husband, Fred. D., operated the Lodge Dry Goods Store on S. Main. Street, and for 20 years she did alterations and tailoring for the . Fitzpatrick. Clothing Store. Her husband, to` whom she was married in 1901, died in 1960.
She leaves two daughters, Mrs.. Herbert Williams of Columbus and Mrs. Bertram Williams of Dayton; a son, Evan of Hudson, Ohio; a sister, Mrs. Ray J. Miller of Columbiana; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Friends may call Sunday evening at the Seederily-Beilhart Funeral Home.Services to Be Held Monday for Mrs. F. D. Lodge
COLUMBIANA â€” Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the Seederly-Beilhart Funeral Home here for Mrs. Emma D. Lodge, 87, formerly of 123 E. Park Ave., who was active in church and business here many years.
Mrs. Lodge died at 9:46 a.m. Friday at the Salem Convalescent Center, where she had been a patient two years. She had been ill five weeks.
Mrs. Lodge was bom Sept. 30, 1878, in Mahoning County, a daughter of Jefferson and Eliza Fisher Detrow, and lived in this area all her life. She was a member of the Columbiana Methodist Church, was president of the Womenâ€™s â€œMissionary Society, for 25 years and taught the womenâ€™s Bible Class of the Sunday School for 50 years. She attended Mount Union College and taught in the Columbiana School System for three years.
In the 1920s she and her husband, Fred. D., operated the Lodge Dry Goods Store on S. Main. Street, and for 20 years she did alterations and tailoring for the Fitzpatrick Clothing Store. Her husband, to whom she was married in 1901, died in 1960.
She leaves two daughters, Mrs.. Herbert Williams of Columbus and Mrs. Bertram Williams of Dayton; a son, Evan of Hudson, Ohio; a sister, Mrs. Ray J. Miller of Columbiana; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Friends may call Sunday evening at the Seederily-Beilhart Funeral Home.

LODGE, Emma (I70)

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Several events occurred in 1924 that are worth noting. A cartoon strip `Little Orphan Annie` first appeared in newspapers that year, Asa Gunn and Lois Larsen were married, Presidents George Bush and Jimmy Carter were born and so was Joseph Norman Fisher.

The birth place of all four Fisher children was Ashland, Ohio. My oldest brother, Robert Joseph was born in 1915, Donald Jefferson born in 1917, and Bonita Marie born in 1921.

When I was a little boy, I wanted to grow up to be a fireman, policeman, actor, musician, and newspaper man, more or less in that order.

Before I was thirteen years old my family lived in eight houses in four different states. I was born in the house at 128 East Liberty in Ashland, Ohio, then moved to 47 W. Mildred Avenue, Akron, Ohio, and 2200 (can`t remember the exact address) Argonne Drive, Kirkwood, Missouri, 9 Hyde Place, Toledo, Ohio, 110 W. Alvord Street, Springfield, Massachusetts, 133 Westford Avenue in Springfield, and finally to Illinois. We lived in an apartment in Oak Park at 428 S. Maple Avenue and after I returned from the army we moved to 421 Clinton Avenue in Oak Park.

Most of us have one or more embarrassing memories during our lifetime. Mine occurred when we moved from Massachusetts to Oak Park. I was in the seventh grade and on the first day at Emerson School I was led to the new class room. Every eye was on the new kid. When I looked at them I wanted to run from the room as I made a devastating discovery. I was the only boy wearing knickers in a room full of long pants.I never wore knickers again.

I was also very lucky because one day in Toledo, Ohio I fell from the top of a bill board when I was six years old. I was at the top and the boys down below were throwing mud balls that I was supposed to catch. I reached out too far and tumbled to the ground and luckily fell on my feet in a crouched position. Fortunately my only injury was a pain in the stomach that lasted for several days. I was cured, however of one thing. I never again climbed to the top of a billboard.

I liked acting and my debut was in the title role of The Big Bad Wolf when I was in the first grade in Toledo, Ohio. I appeared in various plays in high school, played the trumpet in the high school band as well as in several U.S. Army bands while in Europe during World War II.

While attending high school I worked in the Jewel Food Store produce department, ushered at the Lamar Theater in Oak Park, and was a stock boy at Wieboldts and Marshall Field department stores. While in college, I drove a Village taxi cab and after college I drove the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. I was hired by Sears in 1953 and worked there for 32 years before retirement in 1985.

On December 31, 1946 Nadine Gunn and I went out together on our first date. We went to a movie in downtown Chicago and saw, `The Best Years of Our Lives,` an appropriate title for our life that was to follow.

We were married on January 22, 1949 when I was on a semester break from college.

FISHER, Joseph Norman (I1)

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She married William H. Mickens on Sep. 11, 1877, in McLean County, Illinois. They had 11 children.

CROTINGER, Martha (I346)

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She was a tall stately brunette.

COOKE, Rhoda (I846)

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She was born in Danville, Il. to Charles and Mary Holden Wonderlin.

She married Virgil M. Smith on Feb. 14, 1941, in Morganfield, Ky. He preceded her in death on Aug. 23, 1963.

WONDERLIN, Lois Alberta (I599)

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She was born in Manchester, Michigan in 1871 and died in 1936 at the age of 65.

She is remembered by her granddaughter Nadine as tiny, quiet, and refined; a lady who was proud of her fancy dishes and other cherished possessions displayed in their apartment at 642 East 67th Street in Chicago.

Lillian Mahrle Gunn loved giving dolls to Nadine when she was little and most of her dolls came from Lillian.

After Grandpa William Chester Gunn died, Lillian came to live in the house on Taylor Avenue. She died in 1936 in the home of Asa and Lois Gunn.

Both William Chester and Lillian Mahrle Gunn are buried at Cedar Park Cemetary in Chicago.

MAHRLE, Lillian Wilhelmina (I21)

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Since their first child was born in 1795, Kristen Olsen was probably born in 1775 or 1774 assuming he was either 20 or 21 years old at the time of Methe Kristensen's birth.

OLSEN, Kristen (I77)

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