Elizabeth (Tiedeken) Nicklaus with her sons Peter B. (left) and George Edward
|--------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) | Elizabeth Margaretha TIEDEKEN (1877, Germany - 1958, Iowa) | | |--------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)
Elizabeth was always known as ``Ma'', not just by her children, but also by her grandchildren. Here are a few memories of her as written by some of her children.
First, from Fred:
They [the Tiedeken family] lived on a farm north of Aplington. They had no
money and had a very hard life. Ma worked in the hotel in
Aplington when she was old enough. It was here that she learned
to cook. She also did cleaning at the hotel. There was a farmer
who lived near. His name was William Watkins and he helped them.
He later lived in Parkersburg.
I remember going to school in grade school. Ma would visit,
she wore a large brimmed lavender hat. She was really a beautiful
lady and I was always proud to have her come. \ldots
Ma liked to go to the show [movies] and went often.
We were taught religion and brought up as faithful Catholics\ldots
I remember Ma would walk to Mass every day.
From Frances: I remember the night Mama went to a Will Rogers movie, and all the way home she was happily singing ``Ta-ra-ra- boom-deay.'' That is one of my many happy memories of Mama. I remember Mama had a lot of pretty flowers in her garden. She would pick bouquets of them every Saturday evening, and I would go with her to take them to the church for the altars for Sunday Mass.
From Ed:
Each member of the family had certain tasks that they performed.
These were not assigned, but just naturally flowed to one or the
other. Of course, the tasks changed over time, and everyone helped
each other. Ma had control of the kitchen, doing the cooking and
baking. Who can forget her bread, her thin sugar cookies and at
holiday time, the double cookies filled with mincemeat. At harvest
time, hundreds of quarts of vegetables were canned and when Pete
butchered a hog, he always brought half of it to Ma. Canning the
meat, making sausage, liverwurst and lard was a several days task.
Ma also did the laundry and the large garden at the house.
Pa, Fred and Pete (until he married and moved to the farm) worked
the succession of family businesses - the grain elevator, the pool
hall on main street and the hotel. Anna taught country school, but
also helped the other girls keep the house clean. Frances and I
kept the cob baskets, wood chest and coal buckets full for the wood
and coal burning kitchen stove. Everyone worked the 2 1/2 acre
garden on the edge of town.
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