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Adams/McCutchen - Bair/Mehrer Genealogy as presented by Michelle Adams |
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Excerpts
from a tape made by Mary Ann Klain Mehrer in 1973 in Washington My father Ludwig K.
Klain was born in 1864 Germany. My mother, Jacobina Bohnet, was born in
1867 not sure where. They both grew up in Romania. They got married in
1886 in Romania. They settled in a territory not far from the Black Sea.
She states the dates of her siblings and their birth years. My Father
was in the Army and there was a war during the 1800s. The land where
they lived was taken over by the government. In 1919, the Ludwig Klain,
Jacob Mehrer, John Martin, and Hensel families and others started a new
settlement called Mamusle in Romania. It was said that boys didn’t
need to go into the military in America so families started sending them
to America. Jacob Mehrer was quite older then my folks. They sent their
son Jacob to America. Their daughter, Lena, married Sam Russ and went to
America. Their daughter, Mary, married Fred Shalo and went to America. My father’s
father died in 1903. My father’s sister was married to John Mehrer,
brother to Jacob Mehrer. They went to America and took grandma Klain
along. My father had two brothers and one brother died. His wife died
just about a day apart. There was a sickness going around. They had two
children, a son and daughter. Grandma Klain took those children and
raised them in America with the Mehrer family.
My mother’s brother, John Bohnet, married. Her sister, Rose,
married Frank Putz. Her sister, Sarah, married a Blumhagen. Her sister,
Christine, married a Spreket?. They all went to America. In the fall of
1907, the Mehrer family (Jacob, Katherine, Sophie, Gottlib, Andrew), the
Klain family, with all of their children, and John Shalo decided to go
to America. They belonged to the Baptist Church in Mamusle. We made it
to Antwerp, Belgium but the ship had already sailed. We stayed in the
big city for two weeks. We found an old freighter, as there were no
passenger ships. There were no extra cabins just double deck beds in the
hallways. My mother got sick right away and Rose was only six months old
so they were taken to a cabin. My father went to work in the kitchen. We
lived on crackers and dried fish. Because dad worked in the kitchen, we
could lop about around the kitchen. You could always get hot water for
tea, because we had articles along like a tea kettle. We were 19 days on
the ship. Some days it was sunny and we could go on deck by the chimney.
Some days we cried. Some days we sand songs and were really happy. About
half way, there was something wrong with the ship. It stood still. It
was lop sided the rest of the way to New York. Everyone went their
separate ways after arriving. My mother’s sister, Rose, and brother,
John Bohnet, lived in Martin, North Dakota so that is where we stopped.
The Mehrer family settled with Jack Mehrer, their son. Sam Russ had
settled by Mercer in Turtle Lake. In the summer of 1908, my uncle Frank
Putz was a county commissioner. He lived in Washburn, ND. In the spring
of 1908, my father rented a farm from Carl Putz. We lived there until
summer. My father then bought a farm from William Smith, not far from
where Sam Russ lived near Turtle Lake in the fall of 1908. We lived
there just about all our lives. There was a Ludwig Presser who married
the daughter of Jacob Mehrer. Fred Presser married my sister Katie. My
father and mother lived on the farm for quite a few years. They bought a
house in Turtle Lake. But mother was a lot sick. She couldn’t do
anything. So in October 1, 1940, they decided live in the old people
home in Bismarck. Mother had a stroke right away and died the 20th
of October. Father stayed in the old people’s home until spring when
he died March 18, 1941. Our brother, John, had died in 1918 and Carrie
died in 1939. My grandma Klain
(father’s mother) with John Mehrer had a homestead west of Bismarck.
My father visited her there. She died in 1916. I married Gottlib Mehrer.
My sister, Sophie married John Mefley. We bought a place not far from my
father’s place. We lived there, raised our family, our children, our
eight girls and one son. In 1946, we moved to Washington and bought a
place. She lists her
children and spouses. I have 29 grandchildren and 14 great
grandchildren. Helen, Edna, Emma, Violet, and Elenora live in
Washington. My mother’s
mother, grandma Bohnet, and her two sons, Henry and Fred, had moved to
America before we moved. We were just about the last to come out of
Romania. I was 77 years old last Monday, October the 25th. |
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