Elizabeth the first

I realize I'm all over the map (ahem) with Jansonabilia, but there really is no clear way to tell the story. If you read from the beginning, maybe it'll all make sense eventually.

We're constantly searching for clues--that's the FUN part--and we're trying to make reasonable connections.

(When/if you explore Nabers in Iowa, you'll fine these 4 towns mentioned: Dyersville, Earlville, Petersburg and New Vienna).

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Here, from the church record book in New Vienna, Delaware County, Iowa, is the entry for Gerhard Naber and Elizabeth Rupiper's wedding on the 18th of May, 1858.

We think this couple had 4 children, and that three of them died before age 5...OR, they had only Henry, and Elizabeth the second had nine kids, four of whom died in infancy (if you go by the hand-drawn tree I posted yesterday).

If we go by census records, then 4 children were born before 1870, when Elizabeth (Rupiper) Naber died. She's buried in the Petersburg cemetery.


This is the plat map of most of Bremen township in Delaware County, Iowa. New Vienna (also called New Wine) is just off the right side....5 miles away.

Commit these maps to memory--we'll refer to them again.