Nabers in Dairyland

 ...Naber and Sons, Muscatine, Iowa

I remember mom mentioning relatives in Muscatine, Iowa, but I doubt we ever went there to visit.  Ida and Walburg probably visited there, and kept mom in the loop with family news about them.  

Larry found this bottle cap for sale on line.  COOL, huh?  Wonder what year it was from.  This sort of cover fit in the tall, slope-sided bottles (from earlier times), not the ones below...but why do I know that?  The squarish bottles were what we bought at the Dairy Bar on 3rd Street in St Cloud, but they had foil caps that fit down over the lip, remember?  The phone number is just four digits--1791--so it was before the national system was fancied-up with letters.

I'm guessing the Naber and Sons Dairy existed in the 1920s to 40s?

We can change this info if we find out different! 

(Next day--Larry found these ads in the Muscatine Journal in the 1940s)

THANKS, LARRY X2 ☺

Mom's cousins Ida & Walburga

More NABERS

Most mornings, Larry and I chit-chat a bit on instant messenger before I go off to work, and if either of us found something fun, we share it.  My sharing tends to be news items and goofy pictures, while Larry shares vids and music and family links from places online it never occurred to me to look.  Today, he was looking at Arcadia, Carroll County, Iowa. (Why there, huh? But we knew some Nabers traveled thru Carroll and a few stayed.  We didn't know much else, and still don't ☺ ).  The website has a bunch of old pictures from Arcadia's early years, and THERE .....

H. F. Schroeder, Joe Schweers, Ted Staples, Gerd Hammers, Elmer Schroeder, Bernard Naber, Mike Booth, Ras Nelson, Gilbert Michael, Barney Vander Loo, Shorty Anderson, Val Naber, Harry Wood

...in one of the few photos with names, we have TWO Naber men--Bernard in the middle of the top row, and Val, second from the right.  The photo isn't dated, but it looks like late 30s/early 40s. No, we don't know how they connect, but it's a good bet that anyone with that name in the U.S. does.

Click the link--Arcadia looks like a nice little town--there's an Aloysius Naber pictured on a baseball team from 1923-24, too.  If you have info about these Nabers, let me know, ok?  I'll post it!

BTW, if the photo above was a map of IOWA, then Carroll Co would be Ted Staples waist band button.  Got it?  ☺

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?

Petersburg, Iowa

Two years ago, in January, I was traveling for a living, and ended up 60 miles from Delaware County, Iowa.  I couldn't resist!  I drove to Dyersville, got a plat map and directions from the police department, and went looking for where Margaret Naber came from.

Approaching from the north, you can see the church steeples for about 5 miles--the land is low rolling hills and what looked like streams in the valleys under the snow.  Here's the last mile or so....

On the left, behind the fence, is the cemetery where our great grandfather, Gerhard Naber, is buried.  I didn't go in cuz of the snow, and because most of the monuments looked old--I'd have spent hours, and messed up the serene look of the snow, too.  I went to the church, took a picture there, and turned around to get a pic of the cemetery:

Besides, Gerhard died in 1891.  How legible is a 116 year old tombstone?

Margaret Naber Janson 1882-1945

One of the major mysteries we've come across in researching Jansons is my mother's mom, Margaret Naber. She was born in Petersburg, Delaware County, Iowa in February, 1882. Her parents were Gerhard (John) Naber and Elizabeth ___. According to her Minnesota Death Certificate, Elizabeth was a Schlichting.

No problem, right? It's there, on the Certificate. BUT, in that part of Iowa at the time, there were no Schilchtings, only Schlichtes...(say the names out loud, they sound almost the same). A logical mistake on the part of the undertaker or Doc here in Minnesota.

What difference does it make? Well, from what we can find out, Gerhard Naber married Elizabeth Rupiper on the 5th of April, 1861.
So, who was Elizabeth Schlichting/Schlichte?
We're pretty sure Gerhard was married twice, and that both Elizabeths had children with him.

The first family was Herman, Bernard, Henry, and Mary (listed in the 1870 census), and in 1880, Anna is added, at 10 years old....plus Elizabeth, John and Katherine.

So? Couldn't this simply be the same Elizabeth? Yes, it could, except for three things: There's an "Elizabeth Naber" in the Petersburg Cemetery who died in 1870... there's mom's claim that her grandma had 4 children: John, Catherine, Gerhard and Margaret....and there's the 1925 Special Census from Iowa: (This is Mary, from the first family, who became Sr Raphael. Her mother was Elizabeth Rupiper).
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Now, here's the Death Certificate of Elizabeth Naber, widow of Gerhardt Naber. She and five grown children moved to Minnesota sometime after 1900 but before 1910.

When Elizabeth died, Grandpa Anton, her son-in-law, gave this information to the undertaker. He could very well have been wrong, or else, we're dealing with a THIRD Elizabeth?

Still, we've tried to researched "Bernard Richls"
or "Richle"....and haven't found anything.

It's an interesting puzzle.