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Martha Young. the wife of James McBride, Jr., born in 1759, died April 15, 1828, was the daughter of Alexander Young and Anna, his wife. Alexander died in 1798. The county records show that letters of administration of his estate were granted Sept. 26, 1798. He is buried on the old farm. The will of his father, Alexander, was probated in Lancaster county, Pennsyl- vania, in 1751. Alexander. Sr., was the son of .James Young, who was the son of Captain Thomas Young, of London, who settled in Jamestown, Virginia.
The Youngs, through two lines, are descended from Kings of Wales. Tudor Trevor, the son of the heiress of William le Yonge, was the grandfather of Henry Tndor, who slew Richard III of England at Bosworth field and became Henry VII of Eng- land, fulfilling the prophecy that a Welchman would some day rule over Great Britain.
Nancy Iluey, the wife of David Kerr, was the danghter of Joseph Huey and Jane (Love) Huey. Joseph died in 1806.
Mary MeClure, the wife of James George, was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. Oet. 19, 1770, and died in 1841.
According to the "History of Westmoreland County, " the Georges. MeBrides and Kerrs were among the earliest settlers in the county.
Joseph Shafer Kribs, the father of Josephine (Kribs) George, was born near Hamilton, Ontario, March 18, 1836, and died Nov. 24, 1864. His health prevented him from taking part in the Civil war. consequently he furnished the government with a substitute. He was married to Anna W. Remington at Beaver Dam, Wiseon- sin. Jan. 11. 1859. They had besides Josephine one other dangh- ter, Ruth, who married Simon Hanson, late of Renville. Her two sons, Roslyn Joseph and Rodney S .. born and edueated in Renville, are living in North Dakota, the former engaged in a bank and the latter practicing law. Joseph was a jeweler at Trempealean, Wisconsin, at the time of his death, Nov. 24, 1864. 1Ie was the son of Paul Kribs and Ruth (Sherman) Kribs. Paul was born near Hamilton, Ontario, Jan. 1, 1797, and died in Trem- pealeau, Oct. 16, 1866. Ile was married in Barton township. On- tario, Jan. 18, 1816, by Rev. Daniel Eastman. His father was Aaron Kribs, who came to New York in 1776.
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The Kribs family began preparations to emigrate from Ger- many, their native land, in 1774, to a large tract of land which they had acquired in Canada. They came from a settlement near Berlin. The boundaries of their Canadian lands are roughly de- scribed as "Commencing at the Niagara Falls, running west about sixty miles and lying north of Grand River and south of Lake Ontario." But when the colony arrived, in 1776, they found the Revolutionary war in progress, and, being unable to settle upon their Canadian possessions, they located temporarily in New York and New Jersey. Some of the family served in the war, and it was not until 1786 that Aaron Kribs and some of his relatives made their way northward into Canada.
Anna W. Remington, the wife of Joseph Kribs, was born Jan. 20, 1844, at Granger, Alleghany county, New York. After the death of her first husband she married James Hart, and removed to Meeker county, Minnesota, thence to MePherson county, South Dakota, where she now lives. Her parents were Abner Reming- ton and Nancy Elizabeth ( Reynolds) Remington, of Alleghany county, New York, and later of Kasson. Minnesota. They were married Feb. 6, 1842. Abner was born at Genoa, New York, Ang. 31, 1819, and died April 4. 1898. Ile was commissary-ser- geant of Company A, Fifth Minnesota Volunteers, during four years of the Civil war, and later postmaster and justice of the peace at Kasson. He was the son of Salmon Remington and Thankful (Kemp) Remington. Salmon was born Sept. 2. 1794. and was killed May 17. 1857, while driving a team of colts. His father was Moses Remington, a wealthy Quaker of Genoa, Cayuga county, New York, born May 21, 1768 (3) ; died Feb. 24, 1836. Ile married Rebecca , by whom he had ten children. Ilis second wife was Rachel (Guthrie) Kemp, widow of John Kemp. Rebecca was born Feb. 8 (3), 1776, and died March 30, 1820. They were married Oct. 14. 1792. Moses, orig- inally of Vermont, purchased of an English company 600 acres of forest in Caynga county, New York. Upon arriving at his property overland from Vermont, he found located thereon a traet of about 100 aeres which had for years since been swept elear of trees by a "hurricane," the name at that time given to destructive wind storms of every description. It was only neces- sary for him to burn the sumac and other shrubbery before the virgin soil was ready for cultivation. Upon finding this tract, he prepared it for seed and carried on his baek, from his former home in Vermont. enough potato seed to raise 500 bushels, from which he was well paid for his labors.
Naney Elizabeth (Reynolds) Remington was born Feb. 5, 1825, in Skaneateles, Onondaga county, New York, and died Feb. 14. 1888, at Kasson, Minnesota. She was the daughter of Aziza Reynolds and Phoebe (Platt ) Reynokls, of Onondaga and Al-
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leghany counties. New York. Aziza had five brothers and six sisters, all of them peculiarly named, each name reading the same when spelled forward or backward as, for example: Harrah, Iri, Numum, Alila, Hannah, Alla, Appa, Ada and Anna. Aziza re- ceived a land warrant for services in the war of 1812. His father, according to tradition, served in the Revolution. Phoebe (Platt) Reynolds was the daughter of Dr. Platt, a direet descendant of the founder of Plattsburg, New York.
Ruth (Sherman) Kribs, born in Buffalo Creek, New York. Dec. 11, 1797, died Nov. 9, 1871 at Trempealean, Wisconsin, was the daughter of William Sherman and Ruth (Bateman) Sherman. She married Paul Kribs in Barton township, Ontario, Jan. 18, 1816. Her parents both died at Dundas, Ontario, in 1813 (14), during an epidemie of typhoid fever, and the duty of raising the family fell upon her. Her father was a cooper and, in 1812, was engaged to make snare drums for the British at Hamilton. At the outbreak of the war with England he was visiting in New York and had great difficulty in returning to Canada. Ile and his wife, Ruth Bateman, were natives of Massachusetts, probably Rochester. His father was named William, or "Billy," and is supposed to have been a sea captain sailing between New York and Liverpool and was killed on one of his voyages. Records of Rochester show that a William Sherman married Abigail Handy, June 4, 1752, and had 14 children, among them William, Jonathan, Alice. Sally and Jane. William and Jonathan were twins, bap- tized Nov. 9. 1766, and the former is believed to be the one who married Ruth Bateman and named five of his children after the five named above.
William Sherman, the sea captain, supposed to be the William who lived in Rochester and married Abigail Handy was, if the supposition is correet, the son of John Sherman, Jr., the grand- son of John Sherman, Sr., and the great-grand son of William Sherman, "The Pilgrim," who settled at Plymonth and Marsh- field, Mass .. and whose descendants are, therefore, of Mayflower aneestry.
Thankful (Kemp) Remington who at the age of fourteen, mar- ried Salmon Remington, died Feb. 14, 1888, was the daughter of John Kemp and Rachel (Guthrie) Kemp and was born in Scipio, New York. Her father died in 1809. He came originally from Massachusetts and, according to the "History of Tioga County" (Pa.), was a member of the New York State Militia and fought in the Revolution. His Father was Silas Kemp who married Tam- merson , and was a native of Massachusetts. Silas fonght in the Revolution as a private in Captain Nehemiah Curtis' com- pany of Colonel Jonathan Mitchel's (Mass.) regiment, in which he enlisted July 7, 1779, and was mustered out Sept. 25, 1779, tak- ing part in the Penobscot expedition. His enlistment roll was
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dated at Harpswell, Massachusetts (Mass. Men of the Revo- lution).
Rachel (Guthrie) Kemp is the descendant of an old Scotch family whose reeord runs back to the time when Robert Bruce and Sir William Wallace were fighting for Scotch freedom in the thirteenth century. The first Guthrie, of whom there is any reeord, was Squire Guthrie. of Forfairshire, Scotland, born in 1299. He was sent to Franee to procure the return of the patriot Wallace. Alexander Guthrie, of Guthrie, a grandson, obtained the Barony of Guthrie Trom King David II of Scotland. He was granted the Estate of Kinkoldrum by charter, dated April 10, 1457. His wife was named Margorie, and they had Sir David, James and William. Rev. James Guthrie, of Edinborough, a descendant and son of the Laird of Guthrie, was minister at Ster- ling, where he was executed for his religious beliefs and writ- ings, June 1, 1661. Ile was the father of John Guthrie, Sr., who died in 1730 and who was an iron worker of Edinborough. He migrated to Ulster, Ireland, in 1680, thenee to Boston in 1700, and from there to Litchfield county. Connectient. His son. John, married Abigail Coe at Stratford, Conneetient, June 1, 1727, and they had ten children. He died in 1756. Their son, Ephraim, born at Durham, Conneetieut. March 1, 1737, died in Auburn, New York. He married Thankful Stone and lived in Kent for some time. He enlisted in Captain Wooster's company of King's foot soldiers for an invasion of Canada in 1758. His enlistment papers are on record at Boston. Tradition says that he fought against the King when the colonies later obtained their freedom. Rachel, his daughter, referred to above, was born October 27, 1779, died April 21, 1865. She married first, John Kemp, second Moses Remington.
Thankful Stone, the wife of Ephraim Guthrie, was the daugh- ter of Josiah Stone, born April 10. 1710. who married Hannah Barnes, September 14. 1738, and died November 10, 1777. He was the son of Josiah Stone, of Guilford. Connecticut, born May 22, 1685, who married Temperance Osborn, of East Ilampton, Long Island, June 29, 1705. Josiah Sr., was descended from William, born in 1642, who married Hannah Wolfe, February 20, 1674 and later Mary -: died Sept. 28, 1730. Ilis father, Wil- liam Sr .. whose second wife was Mary Hughes, married in 1659, eame to America in 1639, died November. 1683. His father was Rev. Samuel Stone, of Hertford. County Surrey. England.
Abigail Coe was born Nov. 11. 1702. at Stratford, Connecti- ent, was married to John Guthrie June 1, 1727, and removed to Durham, Conneetieut in 1735, thenee to Southbury, Connecticut, in 1743, where she died in March, 1747. She was the daughter of Captain John Coe, born May 10. 1658, at Stratford, Conneeti- eut. He sueeeeded to the real estate of his father in Stratford
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and in addition aequired extensive holdings and became a lead- ing man in publie affairs. He was, in addition to holding many town offices, deputy for Stratford in the Connectieut Assembly. Ile was successively commissioned ensign, lieutenant and captain and served in the French and Indian war during 1708. On Dec. 20, 1682, he married Mary Hawley, died April 19, 1741, and is interred with her in the Congregational churchyard at Stratford. His father, Robert Coe, Jr., was born at Boxford, Suffolk county, England, and baptized there Sept. 19, 1626. When seven years of age, he came to America with his father. About 1650 he mar- ried Hannah Mitchell, who was baptized at Halifax, Yorkshire, England. June 26, 1631, the daughter of Mathew and Susan (Bntt- erfield) Mitchell, who came to New England in the spring of 1635, settling at Wethersfield, Connecticut. She died April 2, 1702. Robert died in 1659 and was buried at Stratford. Robert Coe, Sr., the founder of the New England family, was born (baptized October 26) 1596 at Thorp-Morieux in Suffolk county, England. His father, Henry Coe, was a substantial yeoman, probably a cloth maker and a man of character and standing, holding for several years at Thorp-Morieux the honorable position of church warden. Robert, Sr., was elected overseer of cloth at Boxford in 1625 and was chosen "questman" of the church in 1629. On April 20, 1634, he and his family sailed from Ipswich among the 83 passengers on the ship "Franeis," commanded by Captain John Cutting. He resided at Watertown, Massachusetts, and founded, with others, Wethersfield, Connecticut ; Stamford, Con- nectient (1641) : Hempstead, Long Island (1644) : Newtown, New York (1652) : and JJamaica, Long Island (1656). He married Mary in England about 1623: she was the mother of all his children. Robert Coe, Sr., died in 1689 and his wife. Mary, Oct. 27, 1628. Ile was married twice in America. Ile is descended through the following line from John Coo (Coe), of Gestingthorpe, England : John1, John2, John3, Thomas". John5, John", John", Henrys. John1 Coo was born in Gestingthorpe, Essex county, in 1340, during the reign of Edward III, and died in 1415. He served against France under Sir John Hawkwood. Knight, and about 1360 he went to Italy as a captain, under Sir John, who took with him one thousand picked Englishmen, afterward famed throughout Italy as the "Compagnia Bianca" ( White Company), coneerning which Conan Doyle wrote the romantic novel of that name.
Mary (Hawley) Coe, born July 16, 1663, died Sept. 9, 1731, was the danghter of Joseph Hawley. a shipbuilder born at Par- wiek, Derbyshire, England, in 1603, died in Stratford, Conneeti- ent. May 20, 1690, and Cathrine (Birdseye) Hawley. He was deacon and treasurer of the First Congregational church of Strat- ford. Connecticut, town clerk and recorder for sixteen years, and
N. J. HOLMBERG
THE ATRE PUBLIC LILIA
ASTOR. LENOX IND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS
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deputy to the General Assembly from 1665 to 1685. He came originally to Boston in 1629 and removed to Stratford, Conneeti- cut, in 1646.
The Sherman Coat of Arms: Or a lion rampant, sable, be- tween three leaves vert. The Crest: On a wreath a sea lion sejeant or. By right of the Leicester grant of 1619.
At the Visitation of Essex in 1612, Edward Coe entered a pedi- gree of his Family, claiming for arms :. Argent, three piles wavy meeting near the base gules between twelve martlets sable. Ilis claim was based on the seals appearing on two deeds over two centuries old at that time, bearing the names of John1 Coo and John- Coo. The heralds acknowledged his descent and right to the coat of arms.
The Hawley Coat of Arms: Vert a saltier, or a St. Andrews' cross, engrailed argent. Crest : A dexter arm in armour proper, garnished, hokling in the hand a spear, in bent sinister, pointed downward proper. Motto: "Suivez Moi."
The arms of the Youngs, who are descended from Tudor Trevor, are shown in various detail, the most common being a plain shield with a lion rampant or: and the erest : a greyhound passant proper. It also appears this wise with the same crest : Ermine and counter of the same per bend sinister, a lion ram- pant or.
Nathaniel J. Holmberg, state senator, was born July 24, 1878, in a log house erected by his father on his homestead in seetion 24, Sacred Ileart township. He was the second son and fifth child of John M. and Mary C. Holmberg. His father, John M. Holmberg, was born in Smoland, Sweden, Dec. 23, 1838, and eame to America in 1869, loeating at St. Peter, Minnesota, where he worked on a farm for a while. While at St. Peter, he was mar- ried to Mary C. Wallin, who came from Stockholm, Sweden. Their romanee commenced years prior to coming to America. They had heard about the opportunities in the "'new world" and ven- tured to marry and make their way in the then undeveloped coun- try. In 1871, they took up a homestead of 80 acres in section 24. Sacred Heart township. With very little property and penni- less, they started to develop their new possessions, which the kind "Uncle Sam" had so generously given them. The "dugout" or sod house served as a home for a few years. Then came the log house, 16 by 20 feet, a straw barn and other buildings in keeping with the times. Here a family of eight children was born and raised to maturity, Rudolph, Esther, Emma, Ellen, Nath- aniel, Ruth, Edith and David, all of whom are living.
The city of Willmar was the nearest market, being a distance of thirty-five miles. Regular trips were made to haul the grain and bring supplies for the farm and family in return. It was not an uncommon occurrence when streams were forded to have
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to unload the load, drive the oxen and wagon across, then carry the saeks, one by one, in four and five feet of water, and re- load on the other side. It would take several days to make the trip to Willmar. When they reached the city, there would be long strings of teams waiting to unload and everyone had to wait his turn. Meanwhile, the family had to get along as best they could at home.
John M. Holmberg took pride and interest in the social, re- ligious and political life of the community. He helped to organ- ize and served for many years as a director on the board of his home school district. He was a charter member of the Swedish Lutheran church at Sacred Heart. He took a deep interest in polities and was a stanch Republican. John M. Holmberg died in 1910, but his wife is still living and at the age of 74 is en- joying good health and marvels at the great changes taken place since they filed on their homestead.
Nathaniel Holmberg struggled along on the farm, going to country school when he could be spared from the farm work. He attended the school at Renville for three winters, and in the fall of 1899 enrolled at the Minnesota School of Agriculture of the University of Minnesota, graduating therefrom in the spring of 1902.
Returning to the home farm, which he purchased from John N. Holmberg, and which he still owns and operates, the farm having been substantially increased in size, modern buildings have been erected and a herd of Shorthorn cattle is being de- veloped.
On June 3. 1908, he was married to Hilda M. Peterson, dangh- ter of P. J. Peterson who, like Mr. Holmberg's father, came from Sweden and settled in the same seetion and township, and who went through the same experiences of pioneer life. Mr. Holm- berg and his wife went to the same country school, the same church, and were attached to each other from childhood. They have one daughter named Edith, born Dec. 16, 1911.
Nathaniel Holmberg, like his father, attached himself to the Republican party in politics. Hle served on the school board of his home school as supervisor of Sacred Heart township for three years. In 1907 he became the Republican candidate for the State Legislature and was elected to the House. Re-elected in 1909-1911 and 1913, in the primaries, 1914, he became a ean- didate for the State Senate and, after a spirited campaign, was elected state senator, which office he now holds.
Mr. Hohnberg takes advanced ground on political questions. His courage and honesty is unquestioned and he commands the re- speet of his large constituency.
Hans H. Elstad, a professor at the Red Wing Seminary, was born at Ullensaker, Christiania, Stift, Norway, Nov. 3. 1860, son
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of Haakon and Mathea (Hanson) Elstad. He attended public school in Norway and came to America in 1870 with his parents, who located in Camp township, Renville county, where he at- tended distriet school and grew up on the farm. In 1880 he en- tered the Red Wing Seminary and was gradnated in 1884. Then he taught there one and a half years. Next he taught for three terms in the public schools of Camp and Bandon. In 1887 he became instructor in the Red Wing Seminary and taught Nor- wegian, history and physies in the academie department. Later he became professor of physies, astronomy and chemistry, in the college department, and geometry in the academic department. For several years he was a member of the board of trustees of the Hauges Synod and from 1889 to 1893 was associate editor of the "Budbareren." a weekly paper. He was on the board of publieation for several years and was secretary and treasurer from 1899 to 1913, on the home mission board of the Hlanges Synod. He also served for five years as secretary of the synod.
Sept. 26, 1889, Mr. Elstad was united in marriage to Anna Norum, of Minneapolis. They have the following children : Clar- ence, born July 13, 1890, a teacher at Ipswich, South Dakota, high school, a graduate of the Red Wing Seminary in 1910 and from the St. Olaf's College in 1912; Agnes, born July 11, 1892, a graduate of St. Olaf's College in 1914, and now a teacher in the high school at Cooperstown, North Dakota : and Alice. born June 19, 1902, a student at the Red Wing high school.
Hans H. Mangseth, a venerable citizen of Camp township, was born in Norway, May 31, 1841, son of Hans Mangseth, who died in 1850 at the age of fifty, and of Guro Torkel, who died in 1871 at the age of sixty-five. Hans 11. Mangseth came to America in 1868, and located at Racine, Wis. In 1873 he came to Camp township, and purchased From Jens Skarness 130 aeres in section 21. where he still resides. Ile still lives in the house built on the place in 1871, a true relic of pioneer times. When he first came here he farmed with a pair of oxen. The county seat was at Beaver Falls. The trading point was at New Uh. He now owns 260 acres of land, and his farm is well equipped with everything needed in carrying on general farming on an extensive scale. Mr. Mangseth has been town treasurer and school treasurer and has served in other positions of trust and responsibility.
Hans HI. Mangseth was first married May 7. 1874. to Inga Skar- ness, danghter of Jens and Marie (Gulbrand) Skarness. She died in 1879. Jeaving two children, Guring, born April 21. 1875. now Mrs. Ole Korsmo, of Bandon township, and Henry. now of Min- neapolis.
Ilans Hl. Mangseth was married the second time to Indiana Skarness, a sister of his first wife, and to this nion three children have been born : John, born March 1, 1888, is on the home farm :
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Mathilda, born April 6, 1892, is now Mrs. Elmer Erickson, of Minneapolis ; Helen, born Sept. 22, 1896, lives at home. The fam- ily church is the Norwegian Lutheran.
Jens Skarness and family came to America in 1869 and, in 1871, bought 140 acres in section 21. Camp township, which, in 1873. he sold to Hans H. Mangseth, with whom he lived until his death in 1904, at the age of seventy-two. Mrs. Skarness died in 1907 at the age of seventy.
Gilbert Olson was born in Norway Sept. 11, 1835, son of Ole Christenson and Kersti (Isaacson), both natives of Norway. Gil- bert Olson grew to manhood in Norway, receiving his education there and came to America in 1869, locating in Milwaukee, where he remained for two months. Then he went to St. Panl, where he lived five months, and next came to Camp township, where he took a preemption claim of 160 acres in section 25. It was all will land. He built a log house and straw barns, and engaged in farming. Later he built a good substantial house. He suf- fered all the hardships incident to pioneer life. March 21, 1905. he rented his farm and moved to Fairfax, where he purchased a home, and has resided there ever since. He was married May 29, 1872, to Helen Arneson, born in Norway, Sept. 9, 1845, dangh- ter of Arne Ilelgeson and Bertha Magimison, natives of Norway, who lived and died there. Mrs. Olson eame to America in 1866 and located at Beaver Creek, Wis .. where she lived for two years and then removed to Camp township, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Olson have had five children: Annie, born April 8, 1873, now Mrs. Peter Carlson, of Red Lake Reservation, Polk county, who has two children, Carl and Arthur : Clara, born Nov. 19, 1874, who keeps house for her brother, a farmer; Ella, born Jan. 10, 1876, now Mrs. llenry Mangseth, of Minneapolis, who has three children, Etherl, Hihnar and Inga: Amanda. born Sept. 3, 1879, now Mrs. Henry Anderson, of Minneapolis, who has three chil- dren, Gerhard, Carl and Ardes: and George, born July 2, 1885, who rondnets the home farm in Camp township. The family are members of the United Norwegian Lutheran church.
Louis Zinne, a prominent farmer of Beaver Falls township, was born in Germany, July 27, 1859, son of Frederick and Char- lotte (Meyer) Zinne. His father came to America in 1869 and secured 160 aeres in section 12, Beaver Falls township, where he remained until his death, in 1888. llis mother died in 1907, at the age of seventy-three. Louis Zinne remained on the home farm until his marriage. Ile rented the home place for five years, then he bought 160 acres in section 12, southeast quarter of Beaver Falls township, in 1888. He now owns 426 acres, one of the other farms being in section 31, Norfolk, and one in Beaver Falls. He has improved his farms and erected good buildings. Mr. Zinne has been a stockholder in the Morton State Bank for
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several years and is a stockholder and president of the Morton Rural Telephone Company. He is a director in the Flora town- ship Mutual Fire Insurance Co. He has been clerk of school dis- triet No. 135, for fourteen years, and has served as township treasurer for seventeen years and been a member of the township board for the past three years. He is a member of the German Lutheran church in Morton, and has been a trustee and treasurer of the church since its organization in 1889. Mr. Zinne was united in marriage June 1, 1883, to Berthia Schmidt, who was born Feb. 9, 1862. Her father, Christian Schmidt, was a farmer in Winfield township and died in 1889, at the age of eighty-six. Iler mother, Wilhelmina (Kuhn) died in 1877, at the age of forty-eight. Mr. and Mrs. Zinne have had nine children: Anna, born April 12. 1884; now married to Albert Kline, a truck farmer, near Olivia; George, born March 10, 1886, who is at home and has followed the threshing business for many years: Louis HI., born Feb. 20, 1888, a farmer of Beaver Falls township, who married Minnie Ewert, a school teacher, and has one child, Carl: William, born Dec. 23, 1889, and died Sept. 18, 1902; Luey, born June 23, 1892, who is at home ; Meta, born Jan. 23, 1895, and died June 27, 1913; Wilhelmina, born April 12, 1897, and died April 9, 1898; Ernest, born May 9, 1899, and Arthur, born Nov. 3, 1902, who are at home.
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