16. Louis or Ludwig KOBERSTEIN Senior
On the Colonie Brinsk Taufen records he is listed as "Kolonist" for both children, Gottlieb and Ludwig Jr.
1860 Cencus taken on August 4, Town of Newton, County of Marquette,WI
Lastname, Firstname, age, sex, occupation, birthplace
Cablestine, Ludovic, 45,M, Farmer, Prussia
Cablestine, Caroline, 40, F,, Prussia
Cablestine, Gotlip, 17, M,, Prussia
Cablestine, Ludovic, 14, M,, Prussia1870 Cencus taken June 18, Town of Newton, County of Marquette, WI Lastname, Firstname, age, sex, occupation, birthplace Koberstein, Louis, 50, M, Farmer,Prussia
Koberstein, Caroline, 56, F, Keeping House, Prussia1875 State Cencus (May 1875)
Last Name First Name Birthplace Father bp Mother bp
Koberstein, Lewis Prussia Prussia Prussia
Koberstein, Cornellia Prussia Prussia Prussia1880 Federal Cencus of Holden, Goodhue, Minnesota
Last Name First C S Age Occupation Birth F birth M birth
Koberstein, Ludwig W M 61 Retired Farmer Prussia Prussia Prussia
Koberstein, Caroline W F 72 Wife Prussia Prussia Prussia1885 State Cencus of Holden, Goodhue, Minnesota
Last Name First Age Sex Color Birthplace
Koberstein, Ludwig 68 M W Prussia1895 State Cencus of Holden, Goodhue, Minnesota
Last name First Age Sex White Birthplace
Koberstein, Lewis 80 M W Ger1910 Cencus ED 273, Gaston, sheet 6, line 95
Koberstein, Louis 62 born Germany
, Caroline 56 born GermanyBIRTH: Birthyear calculated from 1870 cencus age of 50 and this gives a year of 1820 which is the same as that in the "Genealogie Koberstein" book. The information from Goodhue County Historical Society gave the 1818 date which is probably the most accurate.
BURIAL: Goodhue Historical Society information. Buried in the Evangelical Cemetary, Wheeling Township, Rice county, Minnesota (52W624 section 7) With note of the spouse being Caroline. Birth year and Death year given on tombstone.
BIRTH: Birthyear calculated from 1860 cencus age of 40.
BURIAL: Goodhue Historical Society information. Buried in the Evangelical Cemetary, Wheeling Township, Rice county, Minnesota (52W624 section 7) With note of the spouse being Ludwig.
e-mail from Julie Seeley (jseeley@win.bright.net) dated 5/3/99:
abn Obit for - Mrs. Amelia (George) Koberstein b. 2/7/1872 d. 7//14/1937. Her parents were August & Augusta (Kroky) Voge. They were both born in Germany. Gotlieb Koberstein - b. 4/26/1884 Keynon, Mn. d. 1/31/1922. He was a farmer. His parents were Louis & Caroline (Kapitsky) Korberstein. They both came from Germany.
Death certificate of Caroline Hoffman
BIRTH: Birth county given as Germany in death record for Amelia Koberstein at the Rice county courthouse, in Faribault, MN. I extrapolated that to mean Prussia.
NAME: Death certificate of Caroline Hoffman. The marriage registration at Marquette county lists her as the mother, with a first name of Gustena.
NAME: Name given as Justina Betner in death record for Amelia Hoffman at the Rice county courthouse, in Faribault, MN.
BIRTH: Birth county given as Germany in death record for Amelia Koberstein at the Rice county courthouse, in Faribault, MN. I extrapolated that to mean Prussia.
In my November, 1999 trip to Wisconsin I found the death registration for Justine Hoffman nee Buettnes (I interpret this to be a variation of Bitner) With a father of Adam Buettnes and a birth place of Stobnzo Hauland, Germany and the mother not listed. I had previously found her daughter Ernestine Emilie Hoffman's obituary in a Goodhue county newspaper with a birth place of Obersitzko. Research of the Obersitzko Kirchenbuch 1826-1874 (microfilm 1194740 Item 2&3) found her and her sister Caroline Auguste Hoffman ne Bittner). In the same microfilm I found an Adam Bittner with six children and wife of Marie Dorothea Kunitz. One Child was Ernesine Wilhelmine Bittner was listed as being born in Hauland Slobnice and a birthdate of 18 Jul 1828. There is a variation in the name Justine Buettnes vs Ernesine Wilhelmine Bittner. I believe it is not unreasonable that Justine is an americanized contraction for Ernestine (a probable spelling variation of Ernesine). I don't know how to explain the Augusta. The birthdates are quite difference, I believe the birthdate given on her death registration is unreliable and I have put the date given on the birth registration. This is the assumptions of this connection. It will need to be further evaluated.
20. Julien William Sr. SEVIGNY-LAFLEUR
Name given as Sevigny-LaFleur in Loiselle's marriage index given in letter from
Freida Child dated June 29, 1977. Son known as LaFleur, ancestor known as
Sevigny and earlier as Sevigny dit LaFleur. Marriage date and place given in
this research. On January 14, 1994 I was proxy for his baptism, confirmation,
ordination, initiatory, and endowment.
Name and marriage date from Loiselle's marriage index, as given in letter from
Freida Child dated June 29, 1977. Also in same research Sarah was listed as
Sara who was 22 in the 1851 cencus Eaton, Sherbrooke, Quebec. No reference for
first name of Marie. Luetta was proxy for her Baptism and confirmation (I did
both), initiatory, and endowment
"Barney Clover Family" p4 (Family Bible Record gives birth date of 16 Apr 1835 in Cattaragus County, New York.
1992 AF update indicates B, E, and SS as PS (submitted) 12Nov96 AF gave B,E,SP,&SS dates/temples
Tomestone at the Sunrise Cemetery transcribed by Joleen and in 1/98 e-mails. "Clover, Dan'l S.; Co.H, 2 Minnesota Cavalry"
"Pioneers" Scrapbook (Chisago County) by Earl W. Leaf, 1995
"Clover, Daniel and Sarah Dan (no dates on tombstone) served in the Civil War (Co. H., 2nd Minn. Cavalry). He entered the service 15 Feb. 1865 at the age of 28 and left the army 1 Mar. 1866. A John N. Clover, age 18, is shown in the same regiment, with the same enlistment and discharge dates. That could be Barny's son John.
Dan was married to Sarah M. Furman, who was born 3 June 1842, died 3 Mar. 1903. Both are buried in Sunrise Cem. Daughter Alice A. was born 14 Nov. 1862, died 14 Dec. 1888, married J. W. Flowers. Daughter Charolotte I. married a Mr. Warner. She was born in Jan. 1867 and died 18 Dec. 1931 in Harris Village. She is listed as Belle Clover Warner on the cemetary transcriptions for Sunrise Cem. (Sunrise Cem. Transcriptions, Minnesota in the Civil and Indian War).
1992 AF update show SS as PS (submitted)
Tomestone at the Sunrise Cemetery transcribed by Joleen and in 1/98 e-mails.
"Clover, Sarah M.; Wife of D.S.; 3 June 1842 - 3 Mar1903"
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2 SLGC 13 JAN 1969 MAY 1928"History of Bear Lake Pioneers" Compiled by Edith Parker Haddock and Dorothy Hardy Matthews, edited by F. Ross Peterson, Edith Parker Haddock and Dorothy Hardy Matthews, published by Daughters of Utah Pioners, Bear Lake County, Idaho
page 312,313
"CHRISTIAN JENSEN by Merrilyn Lewis
Christian Jensen was born in Jutland, Denmark, September 4, 1815. He was converted to the L.D.S. Church and married Elsie Johnsen in 1859 before sailing for America. They lived at Mendon, Utah, where two children were born, and then moved to Clover Creek, now Montpelier, Idaho. Their three children were named Christian, Margret, and Sena. Later he married in plural marriage Ellen Anderson, who had no children, and Lena Martina Larsen to whom twelve children were born as follows: Hermine, Joseph, Sarah, Rachel, Nora, Hyrum, James N., Jacob Isiac, Wilhelm, Clarence, and Emma Kathrine. Christian was a blacksmith by trade and owned and operated a ranch north of Montpelier. He passed away at his home in May, 1894.
The following is a true experience about Christian Jensen, Sr.,
..."
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(BIRT) 2 PLAC Ny Koborg FaleterFrom Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
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"Pioneers and prominent Men of Utah" vol 6 pg 206
PHELPS, JOSEPH M. (son of Morris Phelps and Laura Clark). Born June 2, 1837, Far West, Caldwell Co., Mo. Came to Utah with father.
Married Eliza Clift Jan. 1, 1861, at Alpine, who was born Jan 25, 1846. Their children: Joseph Morris, m. Mary Osborne; Hyrum Milton; Arthur Marion; Ezra James, m. Jennie Roberts; Caddle Madora, m. William Shupe; Benjamin Franklin; Clara, m. Joseph Raleigh; Pauline, m. Oscar G. Molen; Walter George, m. Ella Holmgren; Hugh Stanley; Heber John, m. Inez Jones.
Married Sarah Leggett Aug. 17 1867, Salt Lake City, who was born July 25, 1846, in England. Their children; Laura; Eva. m. Enoch Bagley; William, m. Ellen Pearson; Rosetta, m. Ned Bolles; Josephine, m. Randolph H. Groo; Martin Henry, m. Iva Smart; Louise; Lottie A., m. Edward Grosjean; Areta, m. Parley P. George.
Married Margaret Hunter (Groo) May 30, 1880, Salt Lake City, who was born Sept. 30, 1851, Salt Lake City. Their children; Leo Wesley, d. May 19, 1894; Jospeh Smith b. March 6, 1883, m. Margaret Wilcox Sept. 30, 1906; Mary Ann, m. William Charles Parker of Hooper; George Lafayette. Family home Montpelier, Idaho.
Elder; teacher. Assisted in settlement of Alpine City; and with Charles C. Rich helped to settle Bear Lake valley. Assisted in building wagon roads in and around Montpelier, Idaho. Railroad contractor and rancher. Died Sept. 29, 1886, near Cokeville, Wyo.
Margaret Hunter was the widow of Isaac Groo, whom she married Jan. 24, 1870 and mother of Howard Groo, m. Priscilla Clark; Randolph Groo, m. Josephine Phelps."History of Bear Lake Pioneers" Compiled by Edith Parker Haddock and Dorothy Hardy Matthews, edited by F. Ross Peterson, Edith Parker Haddock and Dorothy Hardy Matthews, published by Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Bear Lake County, Idaho
page 595-599JOSEPH MORRIS PHELPS, ELIZA CLIFT PHELPS, SARAH LEGGETT PHELPS AND MARGARET HUNTER GROO PHELPS by Mrs. Heber Phelps, Lottie Phelps Grosjean and Mary Ann Phelps Parker
Joseph Morris Phelps was born at Far West, Missouri. He was the son of Morris and Laura Clark Phelps. He moved with his family from Missouri to Illinois during the heavy anti-Mormon persecution. Joseph's mother died when he was about fourteen years of age, he moved with his family to Utah and settled in Alpine. His father had married Sara Thompson and Martha Barker Holmes in the meantime.
Joseph married Melissa Stevens, the daughter of Roswell and Marier Vale Stevens. They were pioneers of 1847. Melissa and her new born baby both died March 19, 1859. On January 1, 1861, Joseph married Eliza Jurusa Clift. Two sons Joseph Morris, Jr. and Hyrum Milton were born in Alpine. Young Joseph was about two years old and Hyrum only six weeks when they left Alpine for Bear Lake Valley. The following children were born to them in Bear Lake: Arthur M., Ezra James, Caddie M., Benjamin F., Claire D., Pauline, Walter G., HughStandley, and Heber J. Four of these children died when young. Hyrum and Arthur died the same day during a diphtheria epidemic. Benjamin and Hugh were small boy when they died. Mrs. Pauline Schenck of Los Angeles is the only living child of Joseph and Eliza Phelps.
Upon arriving where the city of Montpelier now stands, the Phelps family made homes of their wagon boxes and began preparations for permanent homes. One of the first things needed was logs to build cabins and for fuel. Joseph and John Cozzens were chosen to look for the best place to get timber, and were asked to report to the town meeting when they returned. Joseph said, "there is timber enough in a gap just north of here to supply us and our children as long as we live." John said, " I agree with Joseph as neither we nor our children can ever get a log of it out." Joseph answered, "Give me another team and a good man to help and I'll get it out." This he did and right then they started to call it Joe's Gap and still do.
Joseph owned a cattle ranch where he raised some of the best cattle and horses in the valley. The old Oregon Trail passed his home and Eliza said that he was such a blessing to the immigrants as so many of them had cattle and horses whose feet were so sore they could not go on, so he let them camp in his pasture where there was water and feed. Sometimes they would trade their sore-footed horses for fresh ones. He often shoed their teams and did anything to help.
At one time after the railroad came through Montpelier, a railroad man brought his wife to the Phelps home. The wife was expecting a baby and Eliza agreed to take care of her until he could find a permanent home for them. He had to take his train out that evening and he next day Eliza discovered the lady had smallpox. She and her children were quarantined. Before the husband returned both his wife and baby were dead. After they were buried Eliza had to burn the lady's clothing and the bedding. She and her children all contracted the disease.
People who knew Joseph said that he did not know the meaning of fear. He could always get along with Indians because they knew he was not afraid of them. He always helped feed them and let them know that he was their friend. On September 3, 1886, he started from his ranch in Sheep Creek Valley for Cokeville. He was driving one of his favorite horses and riding in a buckboard. When he did not return and his dog did, they began to search for him. They could see a horse out in the sagebrush. The faithful mare had remained with her head above his dead body. It looked like he had bent over to get his gun and had accidentally discharged it.
He left three wonderful wives who loved and respected him.
Sarah Legget was born in Lyons, England. Her parents joined the church when she was a small child and later they moved to Suffolk where Sarah was baptized in the ocean. Her Father, William, was a proficient gardener by trade and worked for wealthy landlords, caring for their shrubbery, trees, flowers and lawns.
Susan Legget, Sarah's sister, immigrated to Utah where she married Ezra T. Clark of Farmington, Utah. Sarah came to live with them in 1863. She often told of here journey from England - how she kissed her mother goodbye and left her in bed, and went to the depot with her father. It was no small thing for a young girl to leave her loved ones behind and undertake such a long trip, but she was anxious to join the Saints in Zion and knew that they would be united again. She celebrated her seventeenth birthday while crossing the ocean on the Amazon with 900 other passengers. It took seven weeks to cross the plains. At night when they camped, they sang, danced, and held meetings. They suffered none of the hardships of the earlier companies. Two years later, her mother and three children came. The father stayed to earn enough money to join the family. The day he arrived, Brigham Young hired him to be his head gardener. There were twelve men who worked under him and the family lived in one of Brigham Young's houses.
Joseph Morris Phelps went with his brother-in-law, Charles C. Rich, to the Bear Lake Valley. He was then married to Eliza Clift Phelps. Joseph had a great love for horses and he often drove Elder Rich to conference in Salt Lake. It was on one of these trips that Elder Rich said, "Joseph, you should take another wife," and when he saw Sarah with her trim little figure, long, black hair and brown eyes, he was not long in caring out Brother Rich's advice. They were married in 1867 in the Endowment House.
Sarah lived most of the time on a ranch twelve miles from Montpelier on Bear River. It seemed like a hardship to the children, but Sarah loved it and spend many hours gathering wild berries and fishing. I was always afraid she would fall in the river and I trudged along from hole to hole clutching at her skirts. It was common for her to catch a five-pound trout at Indian Hole not far from our house. The Indians came each summer and put up their teepees at Indian Hole to catch fish and salt them in a barrel. They loved Joseph and called him "Coo Co Boo," which means redhead. They taught him to make lariats with sixteen strands and rosettes for bridles and he traded for buffalo robes. Sometimes they came to the house and mother would put a big pan of clabbered mild on the table with the sugar bowl and they would eat until it was all gone.
Joseph had an electric battery with handholds or thimbles, and we would form a ring and when it was turned on we would get shocked. It was thought to be a cure for rheumatism. The Indians tried it and would stare in disbelief. They came back each year and enjoyed the Phelps family.
Joseph loved to trade and Sarah said that she never had to worry about him losing a bargain, but one time he traded her spool bed and dresser that her father gave her for a wedding present. When he saw how badly she felt, he patted her on the head and said, "Sally, I will buy you another that will put that to shame." She never saw it.
Joseph owned two ranches and worked long hours. He built two dams on Bear River to get water on his hay. His wives loved each other and he tolerated no quarreling among his children. Each of his wives thought she was the favorite. He died when some of the children were very young.
He married Margaret Hunter Groo, who lived next door to Sarah and Eliza lived across the street. Aunt Eliza told me how she loved my mother and all the children, especially my oldest brother, Willie. Sarah had nine children, two died in infancy.
It was difficult to obtain an adequate education for we often went to the ranch in the spring six weeks before school was out. We would stay late in the fall also. Some winters, my brothers stayed all winter on the ranch to feed the cattle while the rest of us went to school. Mother cooked bread cakes to last until they came to town. After Joseph died, Sarah went back to the ranch with seven children. Eight months after his death, my sister Areta, was born. This was a sad time for Mother, but she said it was impossible to be unhappy forever with a new baby and other children to love and care for.
Years later she fell and broke her hip and a stroke followed. She spent nineteen years in bed and in a wheelchair. She lived with Lottie most of the time and Areta helped take care of her. She was beautiful and had a clear, alert mind to the very last. She loved children and they in turn loved her. My own children used to love to fix her tray, brush her long hair, play records and sing and dance at her bedside. Visitors were plentiful and always welcomed and she made scrapbooks for the little ones who came to see her.
She saw many trials and endured great suffering, but with it all she displayed patience and faith. Often I would hear her pray for me after my children died, and it seemed then as if she was talking face to face with God. It was a great loss to all of us when she died of pneumonia on June 24, 1931 at our home in Montpelier.
Margaret Hunter, the daughter of Isaac and Ann Lund Hunter, was born September 30, 1850 in Salt Lake City. She was the second daughter of eight children. She waited until she was sixteen to be baptized because she wanted to understand the gospel before she became a member of the church. She cut the stocks from vegetables a child so they could get seeds. The father would then thresh the seeds out.
Margaret remembered going to school as a child, attending parties, celebrating Christmas without toys or gifts. She was set apart by Brother Goddard and President Young to gather rags for the paper mill. She grew up in Salt Lake City and watched the growth of the Tabernacle and the Temple. Her earliest recollections of Bear Lake are found in her autobiography, which was dictated in 1932.
"Joseph Rich printed a little paper called "Keep a Pitchin' In." It was on blue writing paper and he brought it down to show Mothers and laughed at the printing. It was cartooned showing the splendid outfits used going to Bear Lake Valley and then showed the old worn out horses, outfits, and tired out drivers returning. The drivers were pulling on the poor, skinny teams to get them to go."
Margaret married Isaac Groo on January 24, 1870. She became the president of the eWard Retrenchment Association (later the Y.W.M.I.A.). They moved to the Sugarhouse and made their home there for three years. Her children, Howard and Randolph H., were born in Utah. From her written record, it is not discernable what happened to her husband, Isaac Groo. He did go on a mission to Australia. Margaret married Joseph M. Phelps on May 31, 1879 in the Endowment House. She then moved with him to Montpelier. They had four children: Leo W., J. Smith, Mary Ann, and George L.
She was very cultured and refined woman. Margaret was civic-minded and helped to promote woman suffrage in Idaho. It was said that she taught many of the young people of Montpelier how to behave in public. Her children were younger than the other wife's children, so the produce given to her was equivalent to the livestock for the older boys. She would have a wagon box of hoops of cheese and crocks of potted butter in brine sealed with heavy brown paper over cheesecloth and it would carry to Salt Lake City very well. It would take three days down and three coming back and the children slept on a straw mattress laid on the hoops of cheese. Five twenty pound cheese in each hoop. They all had a good time on these trips.
Margaret was forced to make many adjustments after moving to Bear Lake. After her husband was killed in 1886, it became an especially trying time. She had five children and one was born after Joseph's death; this was almost more than she could take. She eventually moved to Salt Lake City and stayed with some of her children after they were married and on their own. She passed away on March 29, 1936 at the age of eighty-five.