| Summary: | Lizie (Schneider) Mintner was born September 6, 1871, at Addison, Wis. She was the eldest daughter of Louis and Hannah Schneider. (In. the year 1880 she came with her parents to Davenport, N. D., where they homesteaded. Five children were born to this union, two dying in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Mintner were both charter members of the Evangelical U. B. Church all their lives. They helped build the Emmanuel Evangelical church in 1898 where both held various offices. Mr. Mintner was Treasurer of Grand View Township for 14 years. They went through many pioneer hardships. Mr. Mintner passed away at the age of 77 years February 2, 1945. Mrs. Mintner passed away at the age of 71 years January 24, 1943. Their children, Elroy, Irene, and LaVyrn, now operate the home farm. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Maurer Jesse and Mary Maurer were pioneers of the early eighties. Born in Ohio in 1832, Jesse was a frail child in a family of 13. However, he grew strong and was an able assistant in clearing their land of timber. In 1856, he married Mary Kodel and together they pioneered in Ohio. They had three children, Hiram, Elsi, and Mary Phoebe. Shortly after Mary's birth, Civil War broke out and Jesse entered the service. He spent much time in the hospital as he was unable to adjust himself to the unpalatable food and the hot swampy land where he was stationed. Upon receiving his discharge, the family moved farther west to Michigan, where Fannie Amanda was born. In 1882 the son, Hiram, went to Dakota Territory to homestead and in 1884 the rest of the family followed, shipping all their belongings to Sanborn, N. D. Hiram had secured the southwest quarter of section 34, Meadow Lake township. Mr. Maurer found that an adjoining quarter could be contested as the man who had filed on it had not fulfilled his contract. Mr. Maurer started proceedings and built that fall. Fannie recalls hauling all the lumber hersef from Sanborn. Their fuel that winter was James River timber, green boxelder. After a number of years on the farm, the Maur- ers moved to Jamestown. They lived' to celebrate their golden wedding in 1906. In 1908 Mr. Maurer passed away and was buried with military honors, the GAR attending in a body. Mrs. Maurer survived him by six years. Jamestown was putting in their first curbing and the aging lady made a misstep in newly fallen snow, and she fell, breaking her hip. She never fully recovered and passed away in 1914. The Maurer farm was later sold to Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Her and now belongs to Philip Kiser. Mr. and Mrs. Laurence A. Peterson Laurence A. Peterson was born in Trondhjem, Norway, Feb. 23, about 1848, and came to America in 1870. He settled in Waupun, Wis. In 1883, he along with Will Campbell, Charles Walker, and W. S. Germain came to North Dakota and filed claims in Meadow Lake and Greenland town ships. Mr. Peterson's niece, Miss Anna Field- stead, taught school in Piano before it was moved and also in Greenland in the little schoolhouse which later became the farm home of the Nels Fosmarks and now the home of the Grot Johns. Mr. Peterson spent part of the year on his homestead and part in Waupun. In 1881, he was married to Anna Martin in Waupun. Mrs. Peterson passed away in 1884. Their only child, Albert, passed away in 1913 at the home north of Marion. On January 6, 1891, he was married to Miss Fannie Maurer. To them two children were born, Rois Albert and Palma Alice. Both died in infancy and are buried beside their father in the cemetery of the North Marion Reformed Church. Previous to his marriage to Miss Maurer, Mr. Peterson had given up his homestead and worked for the Campbells. Following his marriage he bought and sold several pieces of land and finally settled on section 34 of Meadow Lake township where he built a fine modern home. There he spent his declining years in a well earned rest. He went to his eternal reward about the year 1916 following a long illness. For a few years, Mrs. Peterson remained at the big house on the hill where she was a friendly hostess to a host of friends. In 1926 "Fannie" as she was familiarly known, left the homestead and later married Tim Capkey of Little Sauk, Minn. The Capkeys have a little farm, the land of which they rent out on shares. Fannie, now 82, is the sole survivor of the Peterson and Maurer families. She likes the timber country, but, to her, North Dakota is still home. Her cup of happiness overflows when she has visitors from home. "For," she says, "once you've lived on the prairie, it becomes a part of you." "There's a wholesomeness about it That you cannot quite explain; Once you breathe the air, you love it And you long for it again." —James Foley £m£i, ''*-* *. i k \*. Henry B. Struble Henry B. Stuble was born in Vicksburg, Mich., on August 16, 1866. There he went to grade school and grew to manhood. In the spring of 1886 he came to North Dakota and landed at Lisbon and had to walk from there to LaMoure over the snow as the railroad was blocked. He went to work as a farm hand around LaMoure and Grand Rapids. In the spring of 1887 his brother Charles came out and they homesteaded the south half of section 22 in Sheridan township. November 24, 1893, he was married to Alida Crist, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Crist of Grand Rapids. They made their home on the farm. In order to get groceries or supplies they 51 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited in Multi-page TIFF Editor.
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