It's Memorial Day weekend, 2009.
I'm thinking of going up to the cemetery in Sauk Rapids where Mom and Dad are buried, just to say hi and clean the in-ground stone a little. What a tradition, huh? But it's the last permanent place we can go to "visit" ancestors.
Here's a short virtual walk thru the "Hesch Cemetery"...
Paul Hesch, and Mary Otremba...from Bohemia and Poland....they met and married here, in Buckman. Their son Anton is my Grandpa.
Mathias Hesch and Agnes Trachofsky...both from Oberschlagles, Bohemia...they emmigrated to Waumandee, Wisconsin, married there and had a family. They eventually moved to Pierz with their youngest 5 kids, and are buried in Pierz with two of their daughters.
Anton Hesch, Johann and Marias youngest son, who never married but stayed with his parents all their lives. When he died in Pierz in 1911, his brother Mathias moved here and took over the farm in Agram township, passing it on to his own son John (Huntz) Hesch, who'd been born 250 miles away, in Waumandee.
I'm thinking of going up to the cemetery in Sauk Rapids where Mom and Dad are buried, just to say hi and clean the in-ground stone a little. What a tradition, huh? But it's the last permanent place we can go to "visit" ancestors.
Here's a short virtual walk thru the "Hesch Cemetery"...
Johann and Maria Hesch...born in Bohemia...lived there till they were in their 50s...then sailed to a new world and two homes, in Waumandee, Wisconsin and finally in Pierz, Minnesota...4,500 miles from their births. (You can see where they lived in Agram in the post from yesterday).
Their sons:
Paul Hesch, and Mary Otremba...from Bohemia and Poland....they met and married here, in Buckman. Their son Anton is my Grandpa.
Mathias Hesch and Agnes Trachofsky...both from Oberschlagles, Bohemia...they emmigrated to Waumandee, Wisconsin, married there and had a family. They eventually moved to Pierz with their youngest 5 kids, and are buried in Pierz with two of their daughters.
Anton Hesch, Johann and Marias youngest son, who never married but stayed with his parents all their lives. When he died in Pierz in 1911, his brother Mathias moved here and took over the farm in Agram township, passing it on to his own son John (Huntz) Hesch, who'd been born 250 miles away, in Waumandee.Paul's son:
Our grandparents, Anton Hesch and Elizabeth Sand, buried in Royalton, Minnesota. Royalton is about 14 miles from where they were born, in Buckman, Minnesota.
Our grandparents, Anton Hesch and Elizabeth Sand, buried in Royalton, Minnesota. Royalton is about 14 miles from where they were born, in Buckman, Minnesota. Anton's son, my dad:
What we owe these stoic people is incalculable.
What we owe these stoic people is incalculable.
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