The Pictorial Atlases of Morrison County, Minnesota (1970, 1976 and 1988) continue to provide some wonderful family and Buckman history photos. I open that file and pick a family or face from fifty or a hundred years ago--and start researching. Thing is, I saved pics of families I recognize, but I rarely know all their names, or the year the photo was taken, or how this pic relates to that one. I'll figure that stuff out online as I type, or I'll summon the Big Guns* if I'm really stuck, but he's often researching someone else at the same time. It's really pretty mind-boggling...
Ahem, I suppose you've guessed which family this post highlights, right? ☺
Skip this part if you already know how Andrew Suess fits in HH:
Dad's uncle John Hesch married Ketrina Mueller in Buckman in 1902. They had 5 kids (Mary, Agnes, Paul, Laura, and John, Jr) before John died in January, 1926.
Andrew Suess was widowed in 1924 when his wife of 33 years, Elizabeth Wurtzburger, died. They had six kids (Frank, Catherine, Joseph, Anna, George, and Mary). Andrew was 13 years older than Ket. His last kid was born the same year as Ket & John's first kid, 1903. In other words, Ket still had child-raising responsibilities when they married in February, 1927, while Andrew didn't. Her youngest was 11, and his was 23.
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| Andrew & Elizabeth Suess family about 1925. Catherine, Andrew and Elizabeth, seated; Anna, Frank, Joseph, George and Mary, standing. |
I'm fairly confident of who's who in the pic above, but I was going on their birth years and how old they looked in the photo. Still, I'd only have goofed on the boys, and the one I labeled "George" looks the most like the guy below, don't you think?
*Big Guns=Larry ☺
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