MORE about the Naber Family--"Our New Mexico Nabers"

Paging thru Ida's photo album is frustrating because almost none of the pics are marked with who or when...but there are a few exceptions, like this one: (and even that has a fairly un-helpful caption!)

We saw this older man (middle) in other photos too--photos that were developed in San Antonio, Texas and New Mexico.  Hmm.  WHO were they, and WHY did Ida have pictures of them?  The grandpa there does look similar to Ida and Walburga's dad Henry, but no, it's not Henry---

But wait, remember the hand drawn NABER tree I found in mom's stuff?  It says that a few Nabers moved to New Mexico.  Taa-Daa! Larry and I think the wedding couple were Joseph Edward NABER and his new wife, Anna C. Roll, and that the man in the middle was Joe's father, John.

(BTW, most of this stunning research was accomplished yesterday by Larry!)

(Most likely, the other look-alike man in that wedding photo was Joe's brother Al--read on to see why we're sure it's them!)

 

This photo was also in Ida's album--certainly, some of the people are recognizable from the wedding photo, right?  The old man, and the couple, now a few years older, with what must be their daughter...but Hmm.  This is about 1933--why is Joe wearing headphones??  Who knew they were even invented then?  Like kids today,  he couldn't be bothered to remove his vintage iPod for the picture??

The answer is below, on Joseph's WWI draft card--check out what he wrote for #12:

WOW--it was an early hearing aid.

 

Even more proof is in these two newspaper clippings from the Albuquerque Journal in 1942:

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The little girl is JoAnn or Joan, daughter of Joe and Anna, and the couple on the far left is probably Aloysius Naber and his wife or sister (I think she's the other woman from the wedding photo, too). 

Or, is it a photo of the whole family except brother Ben?  That would make the 3 unidentified women Frances, Cecilia and Elizabeth.

Now, I need to find other photos from the album with these people!

Was this really a 'hired girl'?

The first time I saw this photo, I asked mom who it was, and she said the little girls were "Loretta and me". Ok....then, who was the big girl?  She glanced at it again and said it was probably one of the 'hired girls' they had in those years. :::::  Now, all these years later, I think mom was wrong.  I recognize the barn with white trim as being in Nabers yard, in Bancroft.  I think the Jansons were there, visiting Henry, Ida and Walburga.  (Mom looks about 8 here, and Loretta, 6.  That would make the year 1923).

So, if the "big girl" was either Ida or Walburg, then we need to compare pictures:

Hmm! Between them, Ida was always the camera nut, so I think she took this picture of the kids with her sister Walburga--who was--wow--quite lovely, at 25!

Which one is OUR Gerhard Naber?

Here are two ships lists, both claiming NABERs arrived.  This first one was the Charlemagne, arriving in New Orleans in May, 1848.  Near the bottom is the B H Naber family: wife (H) ann M, and sons Theodore (25), John H (23) and John G (18).  They were from Salzburg and brought "eight chests clothing".  We're pretty sure "John G." is our Gerhard, because he he was born in April 1829, so would have been 18, as it says here.  We also have other evidence that gives creedence to their arrival in New Orleans, but I can't find it in my notes..sigh! 

Then, in August, 1851, another batch of NABERs arrived on the Stephani, this time in New York City.  Diedrich, Hermann, Margaretha, Heinrich and Gerhard.  They came from Oldenburg and were headed to 'Milwaukie'.  They were all between 15 and 25 years old.  Gerhard here, and John G above, were 18. But this Gerhard would have been born in 1833.  We do know there were Nabers in Wisconsin too, so this might have been that family.

Ok, it's obvious I started out with an answer to the Q posed in the headline.  This is just clarification...lol

Joe Janson, from New Munich

Wow, does this man look familiar, huh?  Here's his website: JOE JANSON. I'm tickled that he looks so much like my brother, Allan. He even sits like Allan... Joe has to be Dick and Pauline Janson's son.  Wanna guess who found Joe's webpage?

Allan

Thanks again, Larry...lol

The IGI (International Genealogical Index)

Jansons and Fuchs came from a town called Balzfeld, in the municipality of Deilheim, district of Rhein-Nekkar in Karlsrhue County, in the state of Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany...., and, they were Roman Catholic (RK).
HERE'S the LINK to the beginning of theGerman IGI; since I posted this, they've updated  and streamlined it.  If you use Chrome, it'll translate automatically (if you've set it that way).  If not, type Balzfeld in the "suchen" box.  You'll get a page with Balzfeld listed 4 times for different eras.  Click the blue links in the second last column for the lists of names.

These are church records from a Catholic town, so the lists includes pretty much every family who had a wedding or kids in those years.  It's fun to scroll thru them and see all the names you recognize from Buckman and central Minnesota, as well as from the Janson family tree--Epp, Ronellenfitch, Janson, Brentzinger, Froehlich, Greulich, Fuchs, Knopf-- families who lived there for generations, but who finally decided to leave for America, so we could have a better life, not to mention more choice of whom to marry.

A Mystery Photo

I've shown this photo to a few of the relatives, but nobody seems to know who the people are.  There's a woman behind the tractor who could be mom (?) and the woman driving it looks sorta familiar (a Dehler?), but I don't recognize the house or yard. 

They could easily be totally unrelated, like the family of one of mom's co-workers from Buzza in Minneapolis, and maybe the faces only seem familiar cuz I've looked at it so often....lol

Click it to enlarge, and see if YOU can figure it out, ok?  Opinions welcome!

A trip to Bancroft, Iowa

This was a negative I found in moms' stuff.  The poor quality is because I scanned it and then reversed the black & white.  It wasn't the best pic to begin with, but I recognize all of 'em, even mom's shadow there on the right, as she took the photo...lol
It's Reinhard Janson, Walburga and Ida Naber, Helen and Lawrence Cable, with Naber's chicken coop in the background.
I'm trying to figure out what year it probably was: it's cold enough to wear coats, but Ida and Walburg just dashed outside for the photo-op.  There are no leaves on the tree to the left and no leaves on the ground, so it's probably spring....Uncle Reinhard looks like he did in his U of M pics....I don't have a date when Helen Gertrude Bahns married Lawrence Anthony Cable, but this trip was probably to introduce Lawrence to the Naber sisters.  My best guess is April, 1942.  If I'm right, Helen was expecting little Lawrence, who was born in November that year.  She does look a little urppy....lol

Helen's mother was Katherine (Naber) Bahns, and Reinhard and Linda (mom)'s mother was Margaret (Naber) Janson. Katherine and Margaret's dad was Gerhard Naber, whose oldest  half-brother was Henry, the father of Ida and Walburga Naber...got it?