| Summary: | as a Speech Therapist at Minot. Mary Beth is a L.P.N., working in the Cardiac Unit at St. Lukes Hospital in Fargo, North Dakota. Quinten (Bud) and Barbara are at home. Bud is employed by Brauer Construction of Garrison, North Dakota, and Barbara is attending Marion High School. In 1964 the Matzkes moved into Marion and both are employed as Custodians of Marion Public School. MAURER, JESSE AND MARY Jessie was born in Ohio in 1832, in 1856 he married Mary Kodel. In 1882 their son, Hiram, came to N.D. to homestead for the family in Meadowlake Township. Their daughter, Fanny, hauled the lumber from Sanborn for the farm home. In 1884 the family arrived. Their fuel the first winter was James River timber, green boxelder. They moved to Jamestown about the turn of the century. Mr. Maurer died in 1908 and Mrs. Maurer in 1914. Their other children were Elsi and Mary. Their farm home now belongs to Ted Kiser. MELANSON, DONALD AND BEATRICE Donald, son of Paul and Blanche Melanson, was born and raised in the Marion community. He married Beatrice Draheim in St. Frances of Assisi Church in Marion in 1945 and they have five children. Beatrice was born in Waseca, Minn., and came to Marion in 1927. While in Marion, he operated a Texaco Station. In 1961 they moved to Eureka, California, where he had a Chevron Station until 1974 when he began work with North Coast Motors. Their children are: Corinne, employed by Bank of America in Sacramento; Gregory, who just finished four years with the United States Air Force and will attend College of the Redwoods; Renae, attending Humboldt College in Areata; Paula, a junior in high school and Janine in the sixth grade. MELANSON, FRANCIS AND BLANCHE Francis Melanson was the son of Paul and Margaret Melanson. He farmed his parents homestead and in 1918 married Blanche McCleary, who was born near Mitchville, Iowa. They had three children, Laurence, Eileen (Mrs. Wm. Kosse), and Donald. Francis lost his life in a farm tractor accident in 1937 and she continued farming with the help of her teenage children. The Kosses presently farm this farm and Blanche makes her home with them and spends part of each year with her sons. Blanche recollects as a child, moving from S.D. to Adrian, N.D. in 1905. Her father came with an emigrant car loaded with livestock, machinery and household goods. Her mother brought the 6 children on the passenger train as far as Oakes, N.D. As there was no passenger train to Adrian on Sunday, the brakeman allowed the family to ride the emigrant car. How surprised people were to see a whole family arrive in that car. They drove out to the farm that night; it was dark and the children were hurlgry and thirsty. "Mother had baked and packed a wooden churn with bread, and when the cow was milked, how good that bread and milk tasted." The house had not been lived in for a few years, so they slept in the haymow until the house was cleaned and liveable. "The haymow was the home of some pigeons, and I can remember the welcome they gave us." That summer they were hailed out and the winter was hard. The next summer the Danuser-McCleary school house was built. Mrs. Melanson later taught the Saratoga School two terms in 1917 and 1918. MELANSON, LAURENCE AND CHARLOTTE Laurence, son of Blanche and Francis Melanson, served four years in World War II and then attended and graduated from N.D.S.U. with a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering. He married Charlotte Schommer and they lived in Fargo, where he taught at N.D.S.U. until 1963, when they moved to Boulder, Colorado. He is employed at the Bureau of Standards. They have three children: John, graduated from Colorado University in 1974 with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computor Science, he is married and lives in Portland, Ore., where he works for Tek Tronix; Paul is a student at Colorado Springs College and Mary is attending Colorado University in Boulder, Colorado. MELANSON, NAPOLEON (PAUL) AND MARGARET Paul Melanson was born on August 19, 1852 at St. Guillaume d'Upton, Province of Quebec, Canada. He was the second born and last survivor of seven children. At the age of six he came to the United States with his parents and lived at Artie, Rhode Island, until he reached the age of 17. After spending some years in New York City, Grand Rapids, Mich., and Minneapolis, he settled near the present town of Marion, where he lived from 1885 to 1922. He married Miss Margaret Barrett in the St. James Church, Jamestown, N.D., November 28, 1894 (she was one of the first teachers in the Marion vicinity, teaching in the Baertsch School). They homesteaded in Section 32, Greenland Township, northwest of the present town site in 1895. To this union four children were born: Leonard, Francis, Paul Alvin and Marie. Leonard, a World War I veteran having served in France, married Evata Wadeson of Jamestown, N.D. He passed away at Hillsboro, Ore., where he had lived since 1935. Francis, who lived on the homestead, passed away in 1937 due to an accident. His wife, Blanche (McCleary), now lives on the farm with her daughter, Mrs. Eileen (Bill) Kosse. She spends part of each year with her two sons, Laurence and Donald. Paul Alvin (Bubs) lives in Milaca, Minn. His wife Betty passed away and he is now retired and enjoys fishing, his children, grand and great-grandchildren. He has visited N.D. and the old homestead several times in the last 15 years. His daughters are Marjorie, now Mrs. Walt Bender of Moline, III., two children; Irene, Mrs. Ray Thompson, Rockford, III., one son; Helen, Mrs. Francis Lovelett, widowed, Remer, Minn., three children; and Virginia, Mrs. James Wills, Milaca, Minn., four sons. About 10.years ago Paul met his only sister, Marie, Mrs. J. Morrissey of Coos Bay, Ore., on the farm near Marion for a reunion. This was the first time in 35 years they had been together. The Morrisseys were on their way to the World's Fair in New York. Marie, Mrs. Joseph Morrissey, now widowed, lives in Coos Bay, Ore., where she teaches English in the high school. Her family, Joanne, Mary Claire and Micheal are married and live on the west coast. MEREDITH, C. J. AND GRACE Dr. C. J. Meredith, a native of Canada, came to Marion in 1925 and purchased the practice and equipment of Dr. Bradley. He was married to Grace in 1926, and moved his practice to the Jorve House, where he and his wife operated a hospital. They have one son, Donald, an Orthopedic Surgeon in Mankato, Minn. He married Marge Rabe and 100 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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