Hallo Susan,
Jeanee t already gave you a lot of information. Luebbe Buenting is also working on it.
Have you seen this family on findagrave.com.
Uschi (Boes)
Yes, thank you so much for the information. From my records, Eilbert, my
gr-grandfather, died in 1936, so he died before his father did. He was
living in Illinois, a state south of Minnesota. I have lived in both
Illinois and Minnesota, and Minnesota is much colder. It mentions he went
to live in North Dakota, that too, is one of our coldest states. No, I
haven't seen the family on findagrave.com, thank you for the link, and
thank you so much sir for contacting me. My gr-grandfather married a very
young woman, my gr-grandmother, and they had two children, and they then
divorced shortly thereafter, which was very rare back then. Then they later
both remarried. I do not know much of the story or anything about them, but
my grandmother and her brother only had one pair of shoes between them,
even in the snow. He met her in Illinois, and all of my relatives ended up
in one town in Illinois. I was about the 6th generation (on my other
grandma's side) to be born into that town, so I was related to many people
in the town, many school friends, etc. My fathers mother's side kept a
record of all the Busse descendants, and they had a reunion every 50 years,
and in 1998, they had the 150th reunion. It made the Guinness Book of World
Records!
So truthfully, because my one grandma Kirchhoff Stier (her mother was the
Busse), my dad had many, many Busse and Kirchhoff relatives, and we had a
lot more to do with that side of the family. But of course my grandma
Jeannette Schipper, who became Jeannette Verret, was included in
everything, and she knew everyone in town too since it was a small town
back then. It's funny how all of my relatives ended up in one place. But
it's good of course to trace the Schippers as I'm sure they have many
interesting family stories. When I was little, I used to sit on the floor
and listen to my grandma talk about the horse and buggy days with her
friends and relatives, and I used to just love that. And now, in a few
years, I may be the Oma, and my stories will hopefully interest my
grandchildren, as my childhood was very different than the childhood of
children today.
Vielen Dank,
susan stier voth