We might have been Texans!

Evidently there was a lot of talk around Pierz in 1919 about relative land prices around the country compared to Morrison Co.  Wasn't the soil here just as fertile as soil in Iowa, the Dakotas or Wisconsin?  Then how come we were selling it for so little per acre?

Grandpa Janson decided to check the latest Big Deal state, Texas.  He says "we"--perhaps his brother Eugene went along, we don't know.  It was a big enough deal that he got front page space two weeks in a row in the PJ.

It's kinda fun to speculate about how things might have been different if Grandpa had LOVED Texas, huh? Wow.

Great Grandpa Gerhard Naber

Wow, Larry provides AGAIN--☺--When I first searched the Delaware Co Genweb site in Iowa, there was no mention of Nabers having lived there.  I added (on the search list) that I was interested in the family.  I haven't been back to the site in probably a year tho.  But this week Larry found that they've added grave stones from county cemeteries, Petersburg among em, and LOOK:

(Johannes Gerhard Naber was the father of mom's mom, Margaret).

You can orient yourself by looking for the U shaped "Welcome to Petersburg" sign.  Above, it's on the corner of the cemetery fence.

 No, I zoomed way in and couldn't see a  metal cross near the fence.  

It's okay tho, he's there.