Hinsbergers

These two photos were also in Ida's Album.  I was curious, and Larry found who they were! The man's a marvel:        Adeline Cecile Gaul, born Sep 29, 1900 in Bancroft, Kossuth, IA; died Aug 27, 1981 in Garden Grove, Orange, CA. She married Leo Andrew Hinsberger Jun 25, 1927 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; born Jun 26, 1899 in Armstrong, Emmet, IA; died Feb 21, 1979 in Orange, Orange, CA.  

Added much later:
A stray photo that was actually identified on the back--wow!

Thru the miracle that is the internet, here's the photo Don talked about in a comment below--if you're related, you should know these folks... from Don Hinsberger's FB page: "Joe St. Hilaire sent me this photo from July 1976 at his Uncle Leo and Aunt Adeline's."  Cool, huh?                                                                        

September 2016--We've had a few terrific Hinsberger family comments since we posted the first four pics in 2010--don't miss em.  Ida & Walberga would be tickled, I think ☺

Something odd about Nabers...

From the Carrol (Iowa) Times, September 1908, comes this article that Larry found....

It struck him that Nabers seem to die in twos--grandma Margaret (Naber) Janson died within three days of her sister Mary, and Joe Naber's sister-in-law became ill at his funeral and died (New Mexico).
(That account is a few posts down).

We're pretty sure Frank Adam Naber, in New Vienna, was a blacksmith.  He was born in November 1845.  John Henry Naber would have been his cousin, I think.  According to family trees on ancestry.com, the John who died in 1908 was born in 1853, but to different parents than Franks.

"What'll ya have...?"

(From the advertising section of  Deutsch-Amerikanisches Vereins-Adressbuch fuer das Jahr 1922-23 available on Google Books).

One of the coolest services offered by Google is being able to search all the old books they've digitized.  The words "Morrison County, Minnesota" will get you this one, among others.  Who knew there were catalogs for church and clergy?  Hoffmann Brothers included just about everything--from where to get pews, organs, candllabras, wine, bells for the tower, and (if you had no convent around), vestments and altar linens. The ad for cassocks was in English, then  repeated in German. There's a liturgical calendar, a hierarchical list, and an account of all the churches and clergy in the country.  Here's Morrison County, in 1886: 

 

Oh, and we might have another connection featured in the Directory--Greulichs were from Horrenburg, and are definitely a branch of our Janson tree.  Whether THIS August Greulich is connected, I don't know, but it's surely possible.

Janson graves

The graves of Joseph Janson and Franziska Fuchs Janson are in St Michaels Cemetery,  Buckman, Minnesota.  This couple came here in 1883 with their first five children, and had three more born in America.

The cross on the right is Franziska's, so the base next to it has to be Josef's.

Wendelin was born 20 October 1871, died in Los Angeles, California 8 June 1958.  He's buried in St Michaels Cemetery, Buckman.

Sebastian was born 20 January 1873, died 1 January, 1962 and is buried with his wife Mary Roos in New Munich, Minnesota.

Sophia, born in 1875 in Balzfeld, Germany, is buried in Campbellsport, Wisconsin near her sister Anna, born in Buckman, Minnesota in 1883.  
They were Franciscan nuns.

Eugen Janson was born in January 1878 in Balzfeld, Germany, and died in March 1940. His grave is in Buckman. 

Anton Janson was born in Balzfeld, Germany 11 June 1880 (or 1881 according to the stone).  

He married Margaret Naber in 1913, and died in Los Angeles, California 22 January 1955.  They're buried in Buckman.

Frances Janson was born 18 May 1885 in Buckman.  

She married John A Brandl, and died March 4, 1985.

Their grave is in St Michaels Cemetery, in Buckman.

Rose Janson was born in Buckman 28 October 1889 and married Joseph Brandl.  
She died 15 July 1985, and was buried next to Joe
in St Michael's Cemetery, in Buckman.

         

Another Janson heard from

Remember the post last week about Joe Janson?  I e-mailed him, he answered, and forwarded the e-mail to his brother, Tom....who (duh) lives within 10 miles of my house.  Tom said he's collected lots of Janson history over the last few years.  In fact, "Some years ago, Glenn and I stayed with relatives in Horrenburg, and visited the church in which our grandfathers were baptized and our great grandparents were married. We also ate at the restaurant our great, great, great grandfather, Georg, owned and sold to pay legal fees. He sold it to a fellow named, Knopf. Knopf's great, great, great grandson, Walter Knopf, still owns the restaurant (Der Wildenman--The Wild Man)".  (Glenn is Tom's cousin, son of Sebastian's son Joeseph).

"The Janson cousins (Kai and Lars) gave me a family book of Horrenburg/Deilheim, with a fantastic family tree of all the town families, including the Jansons and the Fuchs (Franziska). The house is still called the Fuchs house and we met the lady who now lives in it. The fellow who wrote the book is a guy named Ronellenfitch"...Cool!  There are Ronellenfitchs in our tree (as well as in Buckman).  With any luck, Tom, Glenn and I'll get together soon to compare notes.  Hooray!

A little girl named Joan Naber

INTERESTING what can be found in old newspapers!  We started with this photo of Joan Naber as a kid in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  She's not listed in the 1930 US Census with her parents, so she was born after that.

(I probably guessed incorrectly about the year that this pic came from--her grandpa died in 1935, so that larger picture might have been taken as late as that...making Joan, here, 5 years old).  The photo to the right is from Ida's album.  It was with the other NM pics, so I assume its little Joanie, too.

 

Larry checked old Albuquerque newspapers on Ancestry.com and found later references to her...like the announcement of her impending wedding:

Joan was moving quite far away--Nebraska City is pretty far from Albuquerque, but happily, there were/are other Nabers in Nebraska (and I'm speculating that that's how she met Irven Meurer...?)

Here's a picture taken at a shower for her in 1954, given by a Mrs. Moreland and a Mrs. Jenkins, at the Jenkins home.  Joan's dad died in 1942, so it's nice to see a later picture of her mom, too.

Joan would be 80 this year....and a pretty cool link to the past.