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Married: 11 Sep 1898 |
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His parents had come to America approximately one year before he was
born. I'm sure they came from the Southern Russia area but I can not
recall of ever hearing any discussions or stories. The only story I
recall my father telling about the early days in Nebraska was when a
neighbor visited them on a rainy day in their sod shanty. It rained long
enough so that the sod on the roof was saturated. As the two men sat at
the table, drinking their "roasted barely and chicory coffee"
two drips fell into the neighbor's cup. He said "Martin, in your
house, you truly have God's Blessing. You drink and drink but the cup
does not run dry."
Sometime later, they moved to South Dakota in the triangle area of
Scotland, Tripp, and Yankton. They were in this area until 1894, when a
drought, a depression and who knows what else caused them to Move to
Colorado. Martin Stahlecker, bought a place 1/4 mile south of the brick
church one the east side of the road where the road curves and my cousin
Edgar has lived there until 1977. My father first homesteaded 5 miles
north and 2 miles west of Bethune (Uncle Bill Stahlecker's old place,
George Stahlecker lives there at the present time), then with crop
failure, grasshoppers, and other problems, they gave up and worked for a
rancher on the Republican River for a time. Then for a while, he worked
on a section crew of the Rock Island Railroad and lived in Burlington.
He then homesteaded the farm 9 1/2 miles north of Bethune where Norman
Meyer lives now, (recorded in Kit Carson County Record Office, filed on
the southwest quarter of section 15, township 7, range 45 west on
January 23, 1912). In about 1916, he traded for a section of land across
the road west of the place where I was born. They called this the
Frank's place. A year or so later, he bought the place where I was born.
He had many years of illness, stomach ulcers, then apparently a brain
tumor of some sort that at certain times caused him severe fainting
spells. He died at a not very old age of 65 while I was in the Aleutian
Islands. Mail was such that I didn't hear of it until nearly four weeks
later. -- Walt Stahlecker -- 1989 |
