(Grandma's father, Gerhard Naber, married his second Elizabeth in 1871. They had 5 more kids together: Elizabeth, John, Catherine, Margaret, and Gerhard. My grandmother was Margaret).
We've wondered why Elizabeth and her grown kids left Petersburg, Iowa and moved to Buckman, Minnesota, of all places. Ok, daughter Catherine was living in Pierz with her husband and kids. Did they move to be near her?
In my mind, it was a mother who moved to another state and whose unmarried kids came along. But 'society' saw it differently, evidently. Here's a blurb from the Buckman News of March 4th, 1910:
John Naber, his two sisters and mother, who are now the proprietors of the A.L. Kiernan farm arrived here from Iowa on Saturday with their stock and household goods, and will make their future home here.Wow. Ok, we know Elizabeth's husband Gerhard died in 1891, so she'd been a widow for almost 20 years by 1910. John was 37, his sisters were 38 and 28, but his mom was only 64 when they arrived in Minnesota...hardly over the hill.
But wait--John's brother Gerhard wasn't listed with the family there. No wonder--he'd married Julia Grittner in 1909. Her family was from Buckman, so the Nabers had earlier associations with Morrison County...it's a still unfolding story!
(Thanks to Horst's book (see the sidebar) for including this blurb).
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