Ben and Rosie (Renken) Tiedeken, 1901
|--------Borchert Menke ``Burchardus'' TIEDEKEN (1768, Germany - 1828, Germany) | |---------Bernardus Josephus ``Bernard'' TIEDEKEN (1807, Germany - 1876, Germany) | | | |--------Anna Margaretha NEHUS (1774, Germany - 1851, Germany) | |------Caspar Swibertus TIEDEKEN (1843, Germany - 1890, Iowa) | | | | |--------Caspar Hendrik HUISMAN (1781, Germany - 1853, Germany) | | | | |---------Maria Veronica HUISMANN (1806, Germany - 1869, Germany) | | | |--------Thecla (Teelke) BRUNS (1771, Germany - 1820, Germany) | Benard Joseph ``Ben'' TIEDEKEN (1875, Germany - 1929, Minnesota) | | |--------Conrad BRÜGGEMANN (1784 - 1856, Germany) | | | |---------Conrad Engelbertus BRÜGGEMANN (1821, Germany - 1899, Germany) | | | | | |--------Anna Maria Francisca SCHULTE (1790 - 1842, Germany) | | |------Anna Maria BRÜGGEMANN (1851, Germany - 1934, Iowa) | | |--------Jürgen (Casjen) JANSSEN (1769 - 1830, Germany) | | |---------Friederika JANSSEN (1806, Germany - 1864, Germany) | |--------Anna RASTEDE(ROSTE) (1769 - 1844, Germany)
After their marriage, Ben and Rosie lived and farmed in Butler County near Parkersburg, Iowa. They came to the Madelia area in 1907 and settled on a 160 acre farm approximately 4 miles east and 2 miles south of Madelia, Minnesota in Lincoln Township of Blue Earth County. Rosie was baptized and joined the First Presbyterian Church of Madelia in 1912. Tony was baptized at the same church on June 1, 1909. Tony and Reaka were confirmed on April 14, 1920. Ben lived on the family farm until his death in 1929.
According to Dessa (Tiedeken) Preuhs, his name is Benard (or Ben), but it is listed as Bernard on the Leer Family Record Certificate, the immigration passenger list, and Bernard is the name of his grandfather.
Ben's citizenship application was in process at the time of the 1920 census.
Ben's obit has the following passage about how he died:
He was cleaning his shotgun and had the cleaning rod in his hand when he leaned over the gun, from which he had forgotten to remove the shell. The gun caught on the handle of a cob basket and was discharged, the charge entering his body just over the heart, and killing him instantly. His family was with him in the room.
A funeral was held in Madelia, MN at the Presbyterian church where Ben was a member. His body was then taken to Oak Hill Cemetery in Parkersburg, Iowa for burial on Oct. 29th. At a later date, his grave was moved to Minnesota since the Oak Hill Cemetery records for plot K-7-5 W notes ``removed to Minn.'' and there is no stone in Oak Hill for him.
According to their granddaughter, Dessa, after Ben's death, Rosie bought land and two houses in Madelia for HinReaka and herself. Rosie lived in her small home until failing health necessitated her living in the Morgan, Minn., nursing home until her death of congestive heart failure in 1962. The following was also written by Dessa (Tiedeken) Preuhs:
Rosie mowed her own lawn, kept a large garden, chopped wood and hauled her water long after other homes were modernized. Rosie purchased a cemetery plot in Riverside Cemetery in Madelia and had Ben's body moved from Parkersburg, Iowa to there. Rosie, Reaka, Tony and his son Leon are all buried there. Some things I remember about my grandmother Rosie: Bread baking in her cookstove, cookies, too. Stopping in to see her after school (High School). So fast she could walk, had to run to keep up with her. Her trying to teach me to crochet, she didn't succeed but I did learn to embroidery. I still have pillow cases which I embroidered and she crocheted the edges on. She also taught me how to hang wallpaper. How she curled her hair with curling iron heated in the oil lamp. The very large garden between her and Reaka's house. The curved china hutch and combination hutch and desk which contained her ``treasures'', i.e. a milk green pitcher and matching glasses, green glass trimmed in gold table set (sugar, creamer, spoon holder and covered butter dish) and many other dishes and cups and saucer sets. The oval marble top table (the top had several layers of varnish on it!) which I rescued from going to the dump and spent hours on cleaning the varnish off and helped my cousin Pat who stripped and refinished the wood. There are a couple of stories she told: one was how the Indians came and her mother feed them and the other was about how the Jesse James gang stopped at their farm (in the barn) and after breakfast left ten dollar gold pieces on their plates.
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