Orville Ray Hoel was born May 12, 1906. He was the son of William Henry and Martha Ann Fisher Hoel. Orville was the seventh of nine children. He was Carl’s older brother.
Tag: Family History
Posts about family history/genealogy.
As you may know, Michelle and I somehow got appointed as the keepers of family history, lore, and photographs in my family. I’m pretty sure the vote took place when I wasn’t present…
Walter Wellman was born April 25, 1919 to George and Veronica (Moeller) Wellman. He was Georgie’s cousin.
It’s fun to look at how the fashions changed over the years.
Who is in the picture? When was it taken?
When you inherit a lot of pictures, you are often missing information about a picture or 200. Sometimes, you find information written on the photo, or in the album it is in. It may be fairly complete – with date, place, and people. It may be only one of these pieces of information, it may be none. Sometimes, people are identified with nicknames or middle names.
My uncle Paul was born on April 1, 1939. He always seems to me to have the right sense of humor for someone born on April Fool’s Day.
Elizabeth Wellman was born April 2, 1890 to Gerhard and Maria Wellman in West Point, Iowa.
She was born to German immigrants. Gerhard had come to America from Germany in 1884. Maria Kruempelmann had arrived in 1885.
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.
John and Catherine were married in Cincinnati Ohio in 1853. Sometime before 1859, they moved to Iowa and opened Kempker’s Family Store in West Point, Iowa.
