Tag: Family History

Posts about family history/genealogy.

Storekeeper’s daughter to high school mathematics teacher: Remembering Grandma Kellogg

On March 26, 2021

Hazel Anna Durfee was born February 26, 1917 in Morristown, South Dakota. Her parents, Aaron Bradford “Bud” and Anna Durfee ran the general store there. They moved to Reeder, North Dakota in 1921 and had a store there as well.

*This photo was probably taken in Wyoming, where Bud’s parents and some of his siblings lived. I’m not sure yet which cousin Sonny was. Ella was Hazel’s aunt.*

Remembering Kempker’s Family Store: Then and Now

By Michelle

On March 19, 2021

In Family History

John and Catherine were married in Cincinnati Ohio in 1853. Sometime before 1856, they moved to Iowa and opened Kempker’s Family Store in West Point, Iowa.

Image show the Kempker Family store building in the late 1800s with wagons out front. — *The store in the late 1800s*