Amaya = 12 - Twelve - XII - Douze - Doce - Dodici - Doze

Any old people remember turning 12!
Happy Birthday Sweet Little One...

 

Arcade Woman: 1920 Woman of the Year - Gave Birth 10-times, has 12 Children! AttaGirl Lena, Good Job Bill!

I vote for this woman in the Arcade Township in 1920 to be the
Mother of the Year.  A dozen children and two sets of twins!
Joseph and Josephine, ages 18 & 18.
Edward and Edmund, ages 15 & 15.

What are the odds of two sets of twins?
But then again, there were ten rolls of the dice.

Author's Note:  I googled the odds and they came up as follows:  
"So in theory the odds of having two sets would be 112 multiplied by 112,
which is around 12,500 to one and the odds of having three sets would
be 112 cubed, or 1.4 million to one."

 

Loyd Oleson - Outgoing President, 1955. Banquet held to honor the Officers.

Check out Loyd's Sideburns!!  First time for me to see!!

Loyd and Maxine at the Jaycee Banquet - Loyd was 
outgoing President and his friends no doubt honored
him at the Banquet.  (The new President's Team would also
likely be honored as well.)

Steph points out that the arrow in the foreground points
to Dorothy and Harold Hoshor.  Harold is Tom Long's
half brother.

Steph believes that the Banquet was probably at
Saint Bernards Catholic Church.

Above is the newspaper summary of the banquet
as well as a picture showing Ruby and Vernon
Sjoquist, good friends of the parents and the
family as we knew their children.

No mention of Loyd as 1956 President so he
must have been President in 1955.

 

Per Steph, she says:

 "This was your bedroom in Redfield. The door behind
us is the door you used to get out to the deck and
walk around the outside of the railing, scaring
us half to death!!!!  We also may have a
picture where we dressed up a kitten/cat in
doll clothes. It was taken in that room." 

I guess that was the beginning of my
hangliding career.  Standing on the edge
of a drop-off.  Now, if I could get some
attention, that may have been a bonus.

I cannot believe I actually played with
a cat... but then again, you may be
joshing me Steph.

PS  I guess the big chair in front of the
door was to keep me in.

PSS  Pat doesn't look too happy in that
fancy pajama get-up.

 

Quintin, Elora, Addy, Amaya and Panama - These are Your Oleson Grandfather's...

This is an awesome document to find in another Family's Tree!

This is a 1860 Danish Census Document that verifies the names
of Niel Oleson's Father, Mother, Sisters and Brothers.  It also
gives their ages and where they were born.  Note that
Ole's Mother is also living with them as well as two
man servants.  (I translated all of the Danish descriptors.)

The Danes have added a tremendous amount of confusion to
the naming system.  Why would Niels Oleson have a Father
named Ole Larsen?  The naming system is sort of goofy if
you ask me.  The first name of a boy child can be anything
that the parents want him to be.  However the Last Name
is a combination of the Father's First and Last Name.

Use an example, Niels Brother Peter who did not change
the spelling of his surname when he followed Niels to
America.  Peter - the first name obviously - is what
the parents chose for him.  However his last name of
OLSEN came from his father's first name Ole and
the end of his last name, Larsen.  Therefore, Peter's
name is Peter Olesen... except they dropped the middle
"e".  Not sure why.  At any rate, the girls naming system
is even more complicated.  Check out Google for an
explanation.  Too complicated for this old man.

It is fun to be able to tell my grandkids who
their Oleson Grandfathers are:

Doug Oleson - Born in Redfield in 1951 - Grandfather (GF)
Loyd Oleson - Born in Faulkton in 1924 - Great Grandfather (GGF)
Fred Oleson - Born in Iowa in1883 - GGGF
Niels Oleson - Born in Denmark in 1848 - GGGGF
Ole Larsen - Born in Denmark in1815 - GGGGGF
Lars Jensen Syv - Born in Denmark in 1783 - GGGGGGF
Jens Jensen SYV - Born in Denmark in ? - GGGGGGGF

 

Leonard Hern Obituary - Leonard is the Father of Sarah Hern, Josephine Eaton's Mother

Note: The obituary was found in another Family Tree and not polished

up... this is the way it was likely published by the local newspaper.

DIED, AT HIS HOME IN ORIENT SD., SAT,SEPT. 9,1905.  MR. LEONARD HERN,

AGED 73 YEARS, 8 MO. AND 2 DAYS.  DECEASED WAS BORN IN HANOVER 

GERMANY, JAN. 7, 1832. WHEN 22 YEARS OF AGE HE CAME TO AMERICA 

AND SETTLED IN THE THEN FAR WESTERN STATE OF ILLINOIS, AND FOR 

MORE THAN 30 YEARS LIVED THE LIFE OF A PIONEER THERE.  OVER 

20 YEARS AGO, HE MOVED TO SOUTH DAKOTA AND SETTLED IN 

SPRING TWP HAND CO., WHERE HE AGAIN HELPED TO BUILD A NEW 

COUNTRY, MAKING A HOME AND A GOOD FARM.  A YEAR AGO, ON ACCOUNT 

OF FAILING HEALTH, HE BUILT A LITTLE COTTAGE IN ORIENT, WHERE HE 

COULD END HIS DAYS IN QUIETNESS.  FOR TWO YEARS HE BATTLED 

WITH DISEASE, NOT GIVING UP UNTILL SATURDAY, WHEN THE CALL 

CAME TO CEASE THE WELFARE HERE BELOW.  EVERYTHING THAT

 LOVING CARE AND SKILLED PHYSICIANS COULD DO WAS DONE, BUT 

THAT CALL HAD TO BE OBEYED.  ABSCESS OF THE LIVER WAS THE 

CAUSE OF HIS DEATH.  SURROUNDED BY HIS CHILDREN, HE FELL 

QUIETLY ASLEEP.  MR.HERN WAS MARRIED IN 1860, SURVIVED BY HIS 

WIDOW AND NINE CHILDREN, TWO HAVING DIED PREVIOUSLY, THREE SONS,

JOSEPH, JOHN AND ALBERT, AND SIX SISTERS, MRS.MUELLER, ANDRUS, WALTON, ALLEY, SCHMIDT AND ORGAN.  ALL THESE BUT JOHN,

WHO COULD NOT BE REACHED WITH THE NEWS IN TIME, WERE 

PRESENT AT THE FUNERAL, WHICH TOOK PLACE AT THE M.E. CHURCH, THE 

SERMON BEING PREACHED BY THE REV.P.H. MC BETH.  A LARGE 

AUDIENCE WAS PRESENT.  THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN THE 

CEMETERY SOUTH OF TOWN.  MR. HERN WAS A MEMBER OF THE 

LUTHERAN CHURCH NEARLY ALL HIS LIFE.  HE WILL BE REMEMBERED 

AS A CHRISTIANMAN, A STRONG, STURDY CHARACTER, A KIND 

HUSBAND AND FATHER AND A GOOD NEIGHBOR.

 

Rockwell College, Cashell, Tipperary, Ireland --- Home of Catholic Priest Father Johann Muller - Joseph Mueller's Brother

Rockwell College, Cashell, Tipperary, Ireland

Likely around 1915

Cashell, Tipperary, Ireland

Postcard of the College sent to Josephine Mueller Eaton, 19 years old at this time, by Johann Müller, the Music and Language Professors at the Boys College. Josephine's Father was Johann's brother, Joseph Mueller.

 

Josephine Mueller Eaton - A Family Communication Go-Between Germany and Ireland During the World War 1 Conflict.

Josephine Mueller Eaton - A Family 

"Go-Between" During the 

World War 1 Conflict

World War 1 - 1915 - 1919 - Germany against Britain, France and the USA

Orient, Faulk, South Dakota, USA

Two Sides to Every War - The German Side: Many of the Müller family were 

either required or voluntarily joined the Germany Army. Josie was not yet 

married to Orville, but he ended up in France as an ambulance driver, 

serving the Allied Powers against Germany. Some in the family wrote to 

Josie to ask her to communicate between in sending letters from 

Germany to a relative in Ireland. They did not use their real German

names but rather used Nicknames or middle names to avoid being

questioned if the postcards were found suspicious. (Letters were often 

opened and many times just thrown away or heavily redacted prior

to being posted by the German Government.)

Several of their cards are shown below, copied out of the Ancestory Site.

My dear niece! About three months ago I sent you a letter with card enclosed to be sent to my brother 

John Nepomuk. As I did not receive an answer form you I must presume that the 

letter did not reach you. Did you hear from your uncle lately? Would you be kind 

enough to send a card which I send you under your address to my brother. It is the

only way I know of. My best regards to your mothers and sisters. Yours affectionately Uncle G. Anastasius Josef Wemding, Bavaria, Germany

My dear niece! Hereby I want to let you know that my nephew - your cousin Julius was wounded 

and died in a battle near Apremont. Would you have the kindness to inform Uncle John 

Nepomuk of this sad news! Did you hear from him lately? It is an awful 

war & alas! no hope yet, that it will soon be ended.

Greetings to your mother and sisters! Your affectionatly Uncle G. Anastasius Josef

My dear niece Josephine! Your card just arrived reminds me of a favor which you could do for me. On 

account of the war, we did not hear anything from our brother John Neomuk in 

Ireland and your cousins, the children of your aunt Mathilde, feel very uneasy about him.  

Though, for my part, do not think that he was in any way molested by the English, I

would like to be sure of it in order to quiet my nieces. Would you now be kind enough 

to let me know if you have heard lately from your Uncle Nepomuk - and if not, 

would you write him that we would like to know how he is, and also that your cousin 

Julius is in the army, while Gustav and Julius Stoekler, the husbands of Elise & Mary 

are not yet enrolled. Gustav was dismissed on account of bad health. I did not write 

to R.P. J Nepomuk because the letter would not be forwarded to him and also 

because of fear that the attention of the English government might be 

roused & thus troubles caused.

With the best wishes for your mothers and sisters I remain your affect Uncle G. Anastasius Josef Wemding 16.I.15

 

North German Lloyd S.S. Berlin: Joseph Mueller Arrived in America on this Ship

 

North German Lloyd S.S. Berlin

26 Jun 1871

Port of Bremen to New York

This is the Steam Passenger Ship that brought young Josef Muller to America 

in 1871. He changed his name, once in America to: Joseph Mueller.

Doug Ole

Orient - The Town Hub of Many of the Early Eaton/Hern/Mueller Family Members

 

1910 Map of Orient Township, South Dakota

Take a look at the 1920 Federal Census that is in 

the Gallery and you will find many things interesting.  

The census taker, Myron E Loomis, recorded three 

dwellings in a row in the village of Orient, with 

related people living in them.  Of course, unless he 

knew everyone in town really well, he would not know 

the extent of these relationships since their 

surnames do not necessarily give 

their family status away.

Dwelling # 12

Sarah Mueller  -  Head of the House  -  Widow  -  53 years 

Clara Mueller  -  Daughter  -  19 years old

Florence Mueller  -  Daughter  -  17 years old

 

Dwelling # 13

August Zellmer  -  Head of the House  -  50 years old

Emma Noon Zellmer  -  Wife  -  50 years old

Oliver Noon  -  Son  -  30 years old

George Noon  -  Son  -  23 years old

Eva Hill  -  Boarder  -  17 years old

Dwelling # 14

Earl A Evans  -  Head of the House  -  29 years old

Lola Noon Evans  -  Wife  -  28 years old

Russel Evans  -  Son  -  5-11/12, almost 6 years old

Elmer Evans  -  Son  -  4-2/12 years old

Edna Evans  -  Daughter  -  2-7/12 years old

Baby Leroy Evans - Son  -  0/12 years 

Dwelling or Farm # 12 - Sarah may not be living on the land that she homesteaded.  After Joe died, it was reported that she moved to town.  It is likely that she rented her homestead for other families to live and work.  I am presuming that all three mentioned household families are living in the town of Orient.

When Joe Mueller died in 1903, he made a special effort to will his property to his first wife's daughter: Laura Marie Mueller (but not her mother) changed her name to Miller after the divorce.  (Josie kept up with this half sister and her family - she married Jay C Cleland - also from Orient - even after they moved to Port Huron, Michigan.)  For this reason, perhaps Sarah did not include Laura in the estate settlement after she died.  Unclear to me.

Clara and Florence are still living in the house, perhaps Clara is finishing high school and she marries Charles Tuchek 04 Jan 1920.  Florence marries Leal Buchanon on 13 May of 1921.  Note that the third sister is out of the house, my grandmother: Josephine.  She became a very popular school teacher and married Orville Eaton on 26 Nov 1919 after he came back from his service in WW1.  (He served as an ambulance driver in France.)

Josephine was later charged with disposing of Sarah's estate later in life - they rented the farm out for many years after the death of Sarah before selling.

(It is noted in a document that George Evans came back from San Francisco and asked for his share of the estate after he heard that his mother Sarah had died.  Josie Eaton was in charge of the estate and gave him $1,000 as his share of the estate.  She could not find all of her half brothers, the missing ones had their share of the estate proceeds distributed to their children or next of kin.  As a point of reference, $1000 in 1926 translates to the buying power of $13,772 in 2018.  Assuming that Sarah gave all 8-children equal shares, this would translate to her 160 acres & buildings being worth $8000 then and $110,400 today.  However, I believe that property has appreciated much more than the strict value of the dollar.  Orient farm land today is probably worth north of $400/acre or in this case, over $640,000.)

 

Dwelling or Farm # 13  -  Elmer Zellmer married a divorced relative of the family: Emma.  She was previously married to a "Noon" - hence the name of the two older sons living - and likely working on the farm.  Emma had her two boys living at the farm as well as a young lady named Eva Hill.  She was a bookeeper at the same business that one of the Noon boys worked at - his occupation was listed as "machinist."  Josephine, sister of Florence and Clara, not living at the farm any longer, must have known Eva well even though she was seven years older.  Josie had her Hillsboro (near Portland, Oregon) home address in her important papers.  I am watching for a picture of them together as Orville and Josie occasionally got out to the Northwest.

 

Dwelling or Farm # 14  -  Earl H Evans and his wife Lola lived at this farm raising their family.  His mother is Sarah that lives on Farm # 12.  His wife Lola is the daughter of Emma, who is wife of August Zellmer on Farm # 13.  Lola is, of course related to the two Noon boys - they are her older and younger brothers.  The ages of the family children, noted very clearly on the census form, do not correlate with the birth dates presently noted in ancestery.  Therefore, it will be worth checking out.  For the detailed oriented, I have listed the ages in months for further follow-up to see where the discrepancy is:  At the date of the census in 1920, Russel is 71 months old, Elmer 50, Edna 31 and the Baby shown in the census is Leroy George Evans at 0 months old.

 

Dwelling # 9  -  Another interesting note:  Myron enumerated his own family household.  His census details can be seen on the upper part of the page.  I also note that the Loomis Family has two Eggerling relatives living with them - they are shown as sister-in-laws, apparently his wife's sisters.  I notice this because Caspar Eggerling, perhaps their father, eventually bought Sarah's farm from the Evan's estate.  Might be worth following up the relationships. 

 

Josephine's Half Sister Laura Mueller Dies of the 1918 Pandemic Flu plus Pneumonia

Laura Mueller Cleland - Josephine Mueller Eaton's

half sister died of the 1918 Pandemic Flu with Pneumonia

complications - much like Loyd, only Covid, not flu.

Josie and Laura seemed to have a friendship, although

Laura was 6-7 years older than Josie.  One of the family 

letters talked about how her mother, Joe's wife Kate, was

fearful that Joe would take Laura back to Germany -

this was likely the period that they were coming to an

eventual divorce (due reportedly to his drinking issues).

Joe cared for Laura much and as he died at age 51, his

Will left land in Iowa to Laura with definite wording

that her mother would not be party to any of his

estate.  (She was a Chiropracter MD so likely did not 

need the estate money.)  Interesting though that at

the time of his death, he had 5 step-sons (the Evan's Boys) 

and three daughters (Josie, Florence and Clara) and 

a new wife Sarah and he chose to give his Iowa 

estate to his first daughter by his first marriage.

Laura and her husband Jay had two daughters, Margaret

and Jean, ages 2 & 4.  Maxine later was in contact with

one of them Elizabeth "Jean" Cleland Waddell.  She

was quite an accomplished China Painter - Maxine

probably had some of her pieces based on their mutual

respect for each other found in their letters.

Jean once told Maxine that Joe had red, curly hair and

quite a temper.  She said that her mother did not talk about

him but her mother's sister would tell her things.  Maxine

told Jean that Josie told her that she could remember him

drawing beautiful pictures at the dining room table and

that he wheezed terribly due to very bad asthma.  To 

further make his asthma worse, he was managing a

grain elevator where the air would be full of dust.

I wish that I could find a picture of Joe Mueller.

 

Joe Mueller's Homestead in 1897 in reference to Miller, SD to facilitate your visit!

Joe Mueller's Homestead in 1897

This is a view of the Mueller Homestead in relation to Miller, SD 

as a reference in case you want to travel to see it sometime.  

I would like to and likely will. It is on my bucket list!

 

The original land grant acreage that Joe Mueller obtained from the Government.

My friend and relative Dan is my "Map Guy." He makes professional 

maps whenever I can find a legal description that he can work with. 

Today he sent me a map of Joe Mueller's property with a note that 

Camp Dakota, less than one mile away was one of his rural landscape 

design projects in his other life. (His life before his map life.) 

Wow!!

What a small world it is! My friend working the land in 1997 

near land that my GGF Joe worked hard to keep under 

the Land Grant rules 100 years earlier in 1897.  He said that

he likely walked on Joe's land as he followed all the 

river and collection areas nearby before designing the work.

 

Picture of the Neils Oleson Family House in Morningside, Sioux City, Iowa before Traveling to South Dakota by Covered Wagon

Steph, Tom and Loyd stopped in Sioux City on the
way back to Mitchell from the KC Weiss Wedding
to take this picture. This is Loyd hanging out on the
corner of 7th &Steuben.  According to records, this
was the area that the Oleson house below was located.
 

Perhaps one of the oldest pictures that we have of the Oleson Family.  We do not have pictures of Niel's Parents - this is a picture of the Father of Niels Wife Marie:  Hans J Sorenson Sr. 

This is actually a photo taken of a picture in a frame that Aunt Mae had - not sure what happened to Aunt Mae's original.
 
Aunt Mae wrote the following description on the picture.  "Mother's father "Grandfather Hansen."  Little girl on Grandfather's left is Elizabeth, the one on his right is Frederica, then next to her
is Susie and then Carrie."

(This copy-of-Aunt-Mae's framed picture was found in a
box of Aunt Susie's things per Lois.)

Fred and Minnie Oleson have Visitors: Oren Mitchell Johnson and Dorothy Hansen

Undiagnosed Celiac's Disease may have played a part in the passing of Fred in 1963. I can remember him eating "milk toast" as we were sitting at the table eating roast beef and mashed potatoes. I do not remember Fred ever walking with a cane but there is one behind his left leg - a second picture (above) with, I think, Oren Mitchell Johnson".

 The back of the picture says that the younger woman is Dorothy Hansen,

which may indicate that she is not yet Mrs. Stan Arvig.  She is the 

daughter of Morris and Gertie Hansen - Gertie is Fred's sister.

Stan and Dorothy did a wonderful Ancestory Book for the 

Oleson Family.Many of the pictures that I have been able to put 

into my Ancestory sitecame from their work.

  

Thank you Stan and Dorothy!!

Carole Lynn and Jerry Oleson, Malcom's Children, Photographed by Glen, his brother.

Carol Lynn, age 5 and her younger brother: Jerry,
18 months.  Parents are Malcolm and Bernice
Oleson who lived in Seattle.  This picture
reportedly taken sometime in the 1940's.

Glen Oleson, Malcolm's brother, took the
picture of  the children.  The picture says that
Glen also "developed the picture."  
It is a large, obviously custom
sized & backed photograph.

I believe that Fritz, Malcolm and Glen were
close brothers - they all lived in the Northwest
and must have hung out together.

Here you see the three brothers with Cora at
Fritz and Cora's house.  I have seen other pictures
with Glen and Malcolm with Fritz and
Cora's young children as well.

These Girls are Pals... can girls be pals?

They hung out at Mustard's together... then they hung out living in a Winery, then they went to Europe together, now I see them again... and probably not the first bottle of Luna that they have uncorked this week.

Charlotte is probably one of Carol's dearest friends.  I would say the same but I am not sure that I can be Charlotte's Pal.  I need to check the dictionary.

Hanging out on the Deck at the House on the Winery.

 

Amaya - the Center of Rotation - for the moment anyway.

One of my all time favorite pictures.
Amaya and the Wheel in London.
She is the center of rotation in the family - at least for today.

Tomorrow the "Tough Mudder!"

Early morning departure by train to pick-up a rental car to get to the Tough Mudder site.

Before

Hours Later:  Michael has bandages under the sock!

Of course, once we saw it, we had to Eat and Drink at the

world famous, Young's Dirty Dicks!