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By Eilene Lyon Evelyn Ethel (Halse) Hansen (1913–1981) Evelyn was the eighth-born child of Mabel Cutting and Guy Halse. According to my great-aunt, she was the “black sheep” of the family who avoided family reunions. However, she was known to visit cousins in South Dakota. Unlike some of her siblings, Evelyn did complete high school... Continue Reading →
By Eilene Lyon I’ve been renewing my interest in botany lately. You may recall this subject is one of my connections to my great-grandmother, Clara Ransom Davis. I recently received communication from the University of Idaho and learned their herbarium contains 144 valuable specimens that Clara collected in her undergraduate years in the 1890s. (She... Continue Reading →
Myron Leslie Halse (1908–1972) Myron Leslie Halse was the 6th child born to Guy and Mabel (Cutting) Halse. He attended school in Dexter, South Dakota, to 8th grade. At age 21, he married Gladys Belle Brown in Rupert, Idaho. Prior to the marriage, he lived and worked at the Brown family dairy farm. By 1935,... Continue Reading →
By Eilene Lyon For this story, I have to begin at the ending. The whole shebang is much more complicated—but this is bad enough! Who Are Louisa's Parents? My 2nd great-grandmother, Louisa Mary Dills, died on February 29, 1928 in Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa. Her death certificate gives her name as Mary Louisa Dills,... Continue Reading →
By Eilene Lyon A Visit to Ancestral Homes A couple of years before I did my DNA testing, The Putterer and I went on vacation to Switzerland, Strasbourg, and western Germany. We went to the German village, Heidelsheim, that my Springer family emigrated from in the 1800s. What I did not know at the time... Continue Reading →
Week 49: #52 Ancestors – Family Recipe By Eilene Lyon Holidays at Grandma Halse’s house included an old-time dessert: suet pudding. This is not a gooey type of pudding, but a very moist raisin cake served with a glazing sauce. It gets it’s rich, dark-brown color from a generous measure of molasses. Because we were... Continue Reading →
By Eilene Lyon Lloyd Richard Halse (1902-1957) Lloyd was the fourth of eleven children in the Guy and Mabel Halse family. He had no children, but took younger brother Al under his wing like a son. He twice married the same woman, Berdyne Ulven (1901-1998), but it was not a close relationship. Lloyd preferred the... Continue Reading →
Week 30: #52 Ancestors – In the News By Eilene Lyon I have done very little research on my great-great-grandparents Louis and Louise (Arbogast) Schaaf. They married in Jerseyville, Illinois, in 1880 and moved to Clark County, South Dakota, in 1883.1 This prompt sent me to Newspapers.com where I turned up a surprising news item... Continue Reading →
Week 14: #52 Ancestors – Begins With a Vowel By Eilene Lyon My great-great grandmother, Olive (Springer) Gusso, was born into a large family of first-generation Americans in 1870. Both her parents were German-born immigrants, Charles Springer of Heidelsheim and Margaret Delle of Mainz. The Springer family moved from Wisconsin to South Dakota when Olive... Continue Reading →
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