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| Moved to Lindau at age 7. Immigrated to America in 1869 at age 19. Homesteaded 2.5 miles E of Clearwater, Segwick County, Kansas. "This is from Aunt Nettie's note. She is suppose to have written this down as Grandpa Lauterbach told it to her: 'I was born in Trebgast, Germany. When seven years of age, moved to a village called Lindau. I had three brothers, George, Fredrick and Alberecht. My father's name was Rudolph. He died at the age of 42 years, born in 1818. Mother died at age 44 years, four years after my father died. When age 14, I learned the shoemakers trade for which I had to pay 25 guilders for learning three years, then got the sum of 1/2 guilder per week until 19 years old when I started to America. A guilder is equal to 40 cents in our money.' "31 First automobile in the Clearwater area was a red Haliday owned by John George. When he later bought a Ford Model T Coupe, he gave the red Haliday to son Charles. In January 1938, Charles Jr. drove the Haliday to the field where his airplane was parked. Charles Jr. crashed on take-off and was killed. The little car was left in the field for a couple of days, and many parts were stolen from it, presumibly to commerate the first air crash that any had seen. (From note written on photograph of the Haliday, in possession of AnaLisa Worden Bischoff, February 2003) It is my understanding that the car is still is a museum in Wichita, but I have not yet tried to locate it. (PLH) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Mama said her grandfather had diabetes and he was a sickly person and that answered why he was so much smaller than Grandma. (Wanda Marlene Jackson Bedwell, 2002)122 I have since asked both Velma Lauterbach and my Mother Helen Lauterbach Hathcoat, if they could confirm this. Both remember their Grandfather as being healthy and neither recalled ever hearing that he was diabetic. But I don't doubt Marlene's recollection. I guess we will never know about Great Grandfather's health, for certain. (PLH, 2003) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| My Grandfather, George William, was a great storyteller. One that he told was when he was a child, his father, John George, had been to Clearwater. Upon seeing he was returning, as usual, several of the children would run up the lane to meet him at the road. They would jump onto the horse-drawn cart, and clamber to find out what exciting things he was bringing home. On one such return trip he had a small toy metal bucket and shovel among the supplies. Now it needs to be mentioned that Great Grandpa had a very strong German accent and his speech was always more German than English. It should also probably be mentioned that young George William loved cheese and was often in trouble for eating all the cheese before anyone else had any. When asked who the toy shovel and bucket were for, Great Grandpa replied in his serious dry humor, "It is for Schorsch to eat Cheese." Schorsch, of course, meaning George. 1 (PLH) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ammi Ann was sweet, with a great sense of humor, all the kids and grand kids loved her. As opposed to GGF, John George, who was almost always serious. Mother said he frightened her as a little girl, because she couldn't understand his speech. (PLH) Mama said her grandmother did the butchering herself. Strong woman. (Wanda Marlene Jackson Bedwell)123 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| As my grandfather George told me, and my mother Helen recently confirmed, Ammi Ann died following a very minor automobile incident on June 2, 1930. She and Great Grandfather were out for a pleasure drive and crossed a small bridge at a fairly slow speed in their automobile. The bridge was decked diagonally with wooden planks, and one plank was missing. This caused the car to lurch sharply back and forth, which threw Great Grandmother, a large woman, around inside the car, apparently breaking or damaging her neck. She was taken home and to bed. Doctors summoned. The family gathered, which both Mother and Velma still recall. She was in great pain and screamed when moved. She died after two weeks, on June 16, 1930. (PLH)1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| After her family moved in 1876 from Iowa to Anthony, Harper County, Kansas, Ammi Ann taught school in the one room Richmond Hill school house, 3 miles East and one mile North of Clearwater. During this time she lived with her Aunt Elizabeth and Uncle Jurd Broomfield in Clearwater where Jurd eventually was the city marshall. This is probably where Ammi Ann and John George met as she would have passed by his homestead going to the school house. A favorite story of Ammi Ann's occurred while John George was courting her. It seems that after school he would get dressed up and pick her up in his buggy to take her home from school, (or horse cart, I don't know that he owned a buggy yet). One day he had dressed hurriedly and forgot to fully button his pants. Of course, her young students noticed and called everyone's attention to the buttons. Even years latter, when Ammi Ann would teasingly tell the story it always caused John George to blush embarrassedly. (As told to me by Velma E. Lauterbach, PLH). One of my Grandfather's boyhood stories was about smoking. Three of the boys, I believe Lew, George, and Charlie, had found a bag of tobacco and rolling papers in the road. They were sitting behind the barn trying to roll a cigarette, which they were finding very difficult, when Great Grandmother, Ammi Ann, discovered them. She made them an offer which the boys thought was very good. So they went up to the house and sat on the porch while she rolled cigarettes and they smoked them. After smoking several, Grandpa said the boys were as sick as they had ever been. And none of the three ever smoked again in their lives. Great Grandmother obviously knew child psychology very well. 1 (PLH) My Grandmother, Blanche Winters Lauterbach, told me that during the period when my Great Grandparents, John George and Ammi Ann, lived in Wagoner, Oklahoma, Blanche and George would always visit them on Sundays when Blanche and George went the 14 miles into Wagoner to attend church. Blanche and her mother-in-law, Ammi Ann, got along well and enjoyed each other's company. They both often wanted Ammi Ann to return to Mazie with them and visit for a few days. But before they would ask Great Grandfather's permission, they would conspire and hide any leftover food. Because when ask, he would check the food stocks. If there was food that might go bad while she would be away visiting, then he would not want her to go. 2 (PLH) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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