Selected Families and Individuals

Notes

S. Stonebraker

1870 Census Federal - Kansas - Washington County - Mill Cereek p 323 (Ancestry.com 31 of 104)

M. Jane Unknown

1870 Census Federal - Kansas - Washington County - Mill Cereek p 323 (Ancestry.com 31 of 104)

Squire F. Stonebraker

1870 Census Federal - Kansas - Washington County - Mill Cereek p 323 (Ancestry.com 31 of 104)

Edward G. Stonebraker

1870 Census Federal - Kansas - Washington County - Mill Cereek p 323 (Ancestry.com 31 of 104)

Age 9

Emily E. Stonebraker

1870 Census Federal - Kansas - Washington County - Mill Cereek p 323 (Ancestry.com 31 of 104)
Age 8

Jan Bastians Kuper\Kuiper

Information provided by David Allen Navorska:
Jan Bastiaans Kuiper

Jan-Dirk Zimmermann spells Bastians.
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For date of birth, Minert gives circa 1775

Death source: Katherine Johnson FGS 6Ap1995 cites La Rie Hull for dod.

Jan Bastian Kuper's wives: (1) Feeke Harms
(2) Elske Jakobs
(3) Grietje Ailderts Auwen
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Merged General Note:
MARRIAGE TO GRIETJE RECORDS STATES AGE OF 60 WHICH WOULD PUT HIS BIRTH
IN YEAR OF 1742. MARRIAGE TO ELSKE JAKOBS LISTS AGE AS 50 WIDOWER OF
FEEKE HARMS ?????
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Grietje Ailderts Auwen

Information provided by David Allen Navorska:
Grietje Ailderts Auwen

Minert spells Aumen. Minert gives circa 1775 for date of birth

Husbands of Grietje: (1) Unknown to this researcher (2) Jan Bastian
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Merged General Note:
ON MARRIAGE RECORD TO JAN B.KUPER STATES AGE AS 41 WHICH EQUAL INFO WE
HAVE. STATES SHE WAS A WIDOW. CHILDREN AND FIRST HUSBAND-NO INFO.LIVED
IN BESCHOTEN- WEG IN 1802. GIVES NAME ONLY AS GRIETJE EILDERTS.

Clarence Albert Navorska

Information provided by David Allen Navorska:
Clarence Albert Navorska

Born at home 3957 W 22nd St Cleveland, OH

Studied the piano. Was inspired by Ignace Padereweski in a concert at
Severence Hall in Cleveland, OH. I think he was fond of his lady
music teacher also. Became a meat cutter. He owned a little store
for awhile. His partner, Mr. Northam died, leaving him sole principle.
He sold the store when the Korean War began. He had his delivery
boys drafted in WWII & figured the same would happen again. He did
not want his wife driving a delivery truck again.

Places of residence: Cleveland, OH; Canton, OH; Cleveland, OH;
Fairview Park, OH;

15 Jun 43 - 1965: 6985 Lewis Rd., Olmsted Twp., Cuyahoga Co., OH

1965-198_: On farm owned by Donald Roy Navorska, Vermillion Twp. Rd
1806 Vermillion Twp., Ashland Co., OH

198_ - 198_ Home of David & Peggy Murray 2243 Henwell Rd Columbia Sta
OH 44028
198_ - 198_ Home of Stephen & Becky Carpenter
8D1985 2243 Henwell Rd Columbia Sta OH 44028

198_-1990 Good Shepherd's Nursing Home Ashland, OH

CAN died at Good Shepherd's Nursing Home
Buried in Strickland Cem. in the S.E. corner of OH 511 & Vermillion
Twp. Rd 1806.

Employers of Clarence: John Taliak, Parkway Market Berea, OH Charles
Barnum, Olmsted Falls, OH Part-time on Cook & Sterns Rd at same time.

Canton OH City Directory 1925-26 Names section, pg 778

"Navorska Albert R (Alvina) meats 608 6th N W h 534 same
Navorska Clarence with A R Navorska h 534 6th N W
Navorska Howard F student h 534 6th N W"

Canton OH City Directory 1929 Names section, pg 789

"Navorska, Albert R (Elva) meats 608 6th St N W h 1216 Ford court N W
Navorska, Clarence A (Rose) meat cutter h 803 McKinley ave N W"

1930 Canton OH Fed. census, e.d. 76-6. The census skipped right over
house # 803 McKinley Ave. I did not find Ford Ct. in e.d. 76-6
either. - D.A. Navorska - 23 Jun 2002

Cleveland OH City Directory 1932 vol LXII, (Cleveland, The Cleveland
Dir. Co., 1932) pg. 1002 Repository: Dallas TX Pub. Lib.

"Navoska Clarence H (Lela) meatctr John M Palmer"

John M Palmer probably is the Clarence's employer, but maybe his
landlord.

pg 1040 - L below means Lakewood OH

"Palmer John M (Nellie A) meats 4407 Clark av 7518 Lake av 12815
Lorain Av 14055 Madison av (L) 15815 Detroit av (L) and 1111.6 Lorain
av h21520 Elmwood rd (Rocky R)
Palmer John M (Iona) meats 15703 Madison av (L) h2164 Overbrood rd
(L")"

4407 Clark Ave is in e.d 18-32 1930 Census reel 1763. nearby e.d.
18-61 is on reel 1764.

War Ration Book No. 3, (Cuyahoga Co., OH, Office of Price
Administration, 1943/1944)

"945310AU War Ration Book No. 3 ... Clarence A. Navorska RFD Lewis
Road Olmsted Falls Ohio Age 37 Sex M Weight 160 lbs Height 5 ft. 8 in.
Food Merchant Signature Clarnece A. Navorska ... Book Four"

Boyd, Donald, et. al., Ashland County, Ohio Research Aid #10
Vermillion Township, (Ashland, OH, A.C.C.O.G.S., 199) pg 229

"Strickland - Twin Cemetery, Vermillion Township burial records,
continued from page 219 ...
GOSMEHR Margaret buried 1 Jun 1976
...
NAVORSKA Clarence buried 29 Dec 1990
NAVORSKA Lela Rose buried 1 Feb 1989 ..."

The dates above are burial dates.

Clarence's parents: Albert Ralph & Alvina Louise (Greenberg) Navorska
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3957 W 22nd St.

Good Shepherd Nursing Home

Lutheran Reformed Chr. The name on the certificate is Clarens
Naworska

Strickland Cemetery on OH 511

Lela Rose Ebel Bowles

Information provided by David Allen Navorska:
Lela Rose Ebel n裠Bowles

Ernest G. Ebel, the 2nd husband of Lela Bell(e) Hill Bowles Ebel,
adopted all the surviving children of William Edward Bowles and Lela
on 2 July 1923 in Cleveland, OH.

Lela Rose Bowles Ebel Navorska

Born at home on Lorain St., somewhere between W 73rd & W 80th,
upstairs.

Christened in a Methodist Chr as a child on the west side of
Cleveland, OH

Baptized 17 Mar 1940 under the auspices of Grayton Rd. Baptist Chr.
but at a Baptist church in Cleveland because Grayton Rd. had no
baptistry.

Before marriage, she lived in Cleveland, OH & Wakeman, OH and perhaps
N. Olmsted, OH.

Rose Navorska writes, "new address Lela Rose Navorska 2243 Henwell Rd
Columbia Station 44028" - 6D1985

After placing Clarence in Good Shepherd's Nursing home, Rose lived
with her oldest daughter, Beth Sine. It is at the Sine home in Orange
Twp., Ashland Co., OH where she died. OH 302 Orange Twp. RD 3 Box 948
Ashland, OH 44805-

She was a homemaker and did work as a floral designer.

Rocky River OH Meth. Episc. Chr., Christening Certificate for Lela
Rose Bowles, (Rocky River OH, E.M. Lewis, 19 Jun 1910), Repository:
David A. Navorska, Irving TX - original document.

"Baptismal Certificate In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
Lela Rose Bowles Child of William Bowles and his wife Lela B. Bowles
was baptized by me in M. E. Church Rocky River Ohio on the Ninteenth
day of June in the Year of our Lord 1910 Methodist Episcopal Church
EMLewis Pastor"

Swim, Mrs. Betty, Adm. Secty, Letter to David A. Navorska, (Rocky
River OH, R. R. U. Meth. Chr., 4 Mar 2003)

"... Rocky River United Methodist church is the right church. ...
church records, in whatever fashion they were kept, were destroyed by
file in 1925. ... A ... directory the Church did in 1985 lists the
names of former ministers and shows Rev. E.M. Lewis as having served
here from 1907-10. ... 19414 Detroit Road, Rocky River, Ohio 44116
...""

Cleveland OH City Directory 1932 Vol LXII, (Cleveland, Cleveland Dir.
Co., 1932)

"Methodist Episcopal ... Rocky River 1944 Detroit rd (Rocky R) Rev
John S. Rutledge pastor h 251 Buckingham rd (Rocky R)"

War Ration Book No. 3, (Cuyahoga Co., OH, Office of Price
Administration, 1943/1944)

"945306AU War Ration Book No. 3 ... Lela R. Navorska RFD Lewis Road
Olmsted Falls Ohio Sex F ... Book Four"

Although the ration book above is not dated, the serial # is 4 less
than the booklet issued to Clarence Navorska. He was born 24 July
1906 & gave his age = 37.

Lela's parents: William & Lela Bell (Hill) Bowles. Later adopted by
Ernest G. Ebel.
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In their childhood, the entire was christened at a Methodist chr on
the west side of Cleveland.

Lela Rose Bowles

Source: Adoption papers, 2 July, 1923, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH.
Her natural mother, Lela Bell Hill Bowles Ebel was married to her 2nd
husband, Ernest G. Ebel, who adopted the living children of William
Edward Bowles and Lela Bell Hill Bowles.
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Carl Meyer

Information provided by David Allen Navorska:
Carl Meyer n矋arl Meijer

Carl's name at birth was Karl Meijer.

Faith = Baptist. Worshipped at Lakota Community Chr. 1993. This has
been their chr. home most of the time since it was founded until he
moved to Cherokee Vlg, Ar.

Residences: Bunderhammrich, Germany; Ledyard Twp., Kossuth Co., IA.
He has owned his farm since the early 1940's; however, the retired
couple moved into the town of Lakota, IA in the 1970's.

Karl Meijer emigrated with his brother, Hindirk "Hank", aboard the
ship "Stuttgart" from port Bremenhaven on 17Mar1925.

According to Carl Meyer, he worked in Germany for the father of
Japwit(sp?) Bauerman Grossfeld. Later, JBG was, according to Carl M.,
a secretary of agriculture in the National Socialist r覩me.

Reisepass - Karl Meyer, (Chicago IL, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 26
Aug 1960), Repository: Betty Navorska, Irving TX, 24 Jan 2003

"Nr. B 2656249 ... Meyer Karl Deutscher Reg-Nr. 1880/60 [stamped
Ung�] Beruf: Landwirt Geburtsort: Bunderhammrich Geburtsdatum: 1
September 1906 Wohnort: Lakota, Iowa/USA Gesichtsform: L㭧lich Farbe
der Augen: blau Gr�175 cm Besondere Kennzeichen Keine Karl Meyer
Unterschrift des Paީnhabers ... [seal] Generalkonsulat Bundesrepublik
Deutschland Chicago [end seal] Chicago 26 Aug 1960 Deutsches
Generalkonsulat Chicago [I am unable to interpret the signature] ...
In~ und Ausland ... Dieser Paݠwird ung�am 25 August 1965 ...
General konsulat der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Chicago 26 Aug. 1960
J. [?] A. ... Sichtvermerke Chicago Illinois Admitted Dec 19 1960
Class N ..."

Carl's passport was issued 26 Aug 1960. He returned to Chicago on 19
Dec 1960 after his trip to West Germany.

New address for Carl & Gertie Meyer effective Wed. 26 June, 1996:
59 PINAL CIR; CHEROKEE VLG AR 72529. The sale of the house at 500
BREWER ST; LAKOTA IA 50451 will be at a meeting scheduled for 11:30
a.m. at the bank in Lakota. Gertie & Carl will still own farm land in
Ledyard Twp., Kossuth Co., IA. Gertie & Carl will live in the same
house occupied by Shirley & Cecil Meyer.

Death source: Cherokee Villager, Cherokee Vlg., AR, vol 42 # 27, 9-15
July 1997, pg 5 col 3 & 4.

Cause of death: Heart attack. Died in the hosp. called Eastern Ozarks
Regional Health System.

Cherokee Vlg development area is an unincorporated area & Arkansas has
no townships. The area spans the counties of Fulton & Sharp. The
eastern end of the area is where most of the institutions are located
along U.S. 167 between Hardy AR on the north & Ash Flat on the south.
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Gertie Sleper

Information provided by David Allen Navorska:
Gertie Sleper Meyer

Born Gertie, not Gertrude. Christened in the Luth. Chr. in Lakota, IA.
1920 Census living in German Twp.

From the 1940's until the 1970's, they lived on IA 9 Ledyard Twp. on a
farm. Since the late 1970's they live at 500 Brewer St. Lakota IA
50451-.

Through 1992, her all residences have been in Kossuth Co., IA. I need
to double check this. It is possible she may have lived in the
western-most part of Winnebago Co., IA.

Shirley, Wm., co-sup't., School Souvenir 1922, (Pub. place unknown,
Lincoln Twp., Kossuth Co. Public School Dist 3, 1922)

"School Souvenir 1922 ... Public School Lincoln Twp., Kossuth County,
Iowa District No. 3 Edith M. Lewis, Teacher Wm. Shirley, Co-Supt.
Pupils First Grade ... Albert Sleper Second Grade ... Jennie Sleper
Third Grade Gertrude Sleper Harold Melz Fifth Grade ... [handwritten
on back] Albert Sleper From Miss Edith Louise"

Faith = Baptist. Currently, they worship at Lakota Community Chr.

Katherine Johnson writes, "David I also received a baptismal date for
Gertie Sleper Meyer as April 2, 1939 at St. Paul ELCA Lutheran Church
Lakota Iowa .. baptized by Rev. Augus Boese" - 28p1994

Passport for Gertie Meyer, (Chicago IL, U.S. Passport Agency, 5 Apr
1982), Repository: Betty Navorska Irving TX 24 Jan 2003

"Type P State U.S. Passport No. 020147514 MEYER GERTIE birth 17 MAR 12
Fem Place of birth IOWA, U.S.A. Date of Issue 05 Apr 82 Date of
Expiration 04 Apr 87 Authority Passport Agence Chicago ..."

6Sep1998 - Died in the morning at Ash Flat Convalescent Ctr., Ash
Flat, Sharp Co., AR.
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Wilhelm Wilhelms Meijer

Information provided by David Allen Navorska:
Wilhelm Meijer

Source: Klaas-Dieter Voݬ Jemgum, Germany, Ortssippenbuch
Ditzumerverlaat, with letter dated 19Feb1996

Herr Voݠwrites, "292. Meijer, Wilhelm Karels ... Katharina Karels
Meijer ... Wilhelm * Dh 21.1.1865 (20.00), ~ 19.3"

Carl Meyer, Lakota, Iowa, gives Wilhelm's place of birth =
Bunderhammrich.

Source: Voݬ Klaass-Dieter, Die Familien der Kirchengemeinde
Ditzumerverlaat (1853 - 1900) Band 53, (Aurich, Upstalsboom -
Gesellschaft, 1999), pg 183

"974. Meyer, Wilhelm, Arbeiter zu Bh, ꞷ.4.1893 Dv Trientje Arends,
Dienstmagd zu Bh

Katharina Meyer * 29.4.1894 Bh, �7.
Berendje Meijer * 13.3.1897 Bh, �5
Wilhelm Wilhelms Meyer * 11.4.1900 Bh, �5."
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Trientje Arends

Information provided by David Allen Navorska:
Trintje Arends

Source: Voݬ Klaass-Dieter, Die Familien der Kirchengemeinde
Ditzumerverlaat (1853 - 1900) Band 53, (Aurich, Upstalsboom -
Gesellschaft, 1999), pg 100

"35. Arends, Hinderk, Arbeiter zu Bh, * 1844, + 27.9.1888, begraben
1.10., -G682-, °° Berendje Penning,

Trientje Arends * 24.9.1872 (9.00), �10., k 30.3.1890
..."
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Carl Meyer gives dob = 14 Sep 1872

Data from conversations with Carl Meyer n矃arl Meijer, son of WWM &
TAM.

Trintje died of skin cancer which spread into her eyes and blinded
her. She prayed that she might be able to see one more time that she
might read the Bible. She was able to do so.

Her nephew, Jan Holthius, remembers her letting white sand pour
through her fingers as she let the sand form the bars of music. In
the corners of the room, she would make music symbols such as the
treble cleft sign. The house had a dirt floor on the ground level.

She would rise at 4 a.m. to prepare breakfast & warm the wooden shoes
on the stove so that they would be warm for the children.
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Hauko "Hugo" Sleper

Information provided by David Allen Navorska:
Hauko "Hugo" Sleper

Occupation = Farmer

The 1885 IA census shows Hauko was born in Kossuth Co --- NOT Buffalo
Center, Winnebago Co., IA. His parents lived in German Twp., Kossuth
Co., IA.

Geerdes, Walter, Enumerator, German Twp., Kossuth Co., IA census,
(German Twp., Kossuth Co., IA, U.S.Govt., 13 May 1920), e.d. 172,
sheet 120-5B, series T625 Reel 498, Repository: Dallas TX Pub. Lib.

"73, FM, 88, 88, Sleper Hugo A, Head, Rents, male, white, ae 35,
married, can read/write, b. IA, parents b. Ger. parents speak Ger.
can speak Eng, Farmer
74, Mina, wife, fem, white, ae 34, married, can read/write, b. IA,
parents b. Ger, parents speak Ger. Can speak Eng, Occ = None
75, Gertie H, Daug, fem, white, ae 7 single, b. IA parents b. IA, Occ
= None
76, Jennie H, Daug, fem, white, ae 6, single, b. IA parents b. IA,
Occ = None
77, Albert H, Son, male, white, ae 4 10/12, single, b. IA parents b.
IA, Occ = None
78, Harka, Daug, fem, white, ae 2 11/12, single, b. IA parents b. IA,
Occ = None
79, Alberdennna, Daug, fem, white, ae 1 5/12, single, b. IA, parents
b. IA, Occ = None"

Hugo was married twice. 1) Mina Kuper
2) Pearl Dobson.

Hugo died at the hospital in Blue Earth, MN Hugo buried in Riverview
Cem., Elmore Twp., Faribault Co., MN

Residences: Ledyard Twp., Kossuth Co., IA; Frost MN; Elmore MN
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Meine "Mina" Kuper

Information provided by David Allen Navorska:
Meine "Mina" K�a

K�ith the diacritical mark on the "u" is as it is found on the
unoffical marriage document provided by Ramsey Ref. Chr. where Hugo &
Meine were married. Without the umlaut, Kuper would be pronounced
"Cooper" which would be a mispronunciation.

Mina died of cancer in her farm home in Ledyard Twp. The death
certificate gives Ledyard Twp. as her place of death which corresponds
with what Gertie Meyer has said verbally. After Mina's death, Gertie
carried a large part of the responsibility of raising her younger
siblings.
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Merged General Note:
SHE DIED AT HOME OF CANCER. LIVED IN BUFFALO CENTER & LAKOTA,IA. Ist
NAME MEINE, MINA. 10/92 ALL OF HER CHILDREN WERE BORN AT THE FARM
HOME.

Jennie Sleper

17 JAN 1941 in Ortonville, Big Stone County, MN of Murdered by Harm's Julius

Albert Sleper

Information provided by David Allen Navorska:
Albert Sleper

Source: B.c. researched by Robert Kent. Ref. SLC film # 1256904
1858-27; D.c.; Alice Winter n裠Bassett 16Au1990.

Alice (Bassett) Winter(letter dated 16 Aug 1990) says AS married Gepke
in Bremen while in the German Army. She believes he deserted & came
to America.

Albert & Gepke emigrated 2 Feb 1884.

1885 Ramsey Twp., Kossuth Co., IA Census:

Twp|Rng|Sct| 51/51 Albert Sleper 98 28 13 age=28 Male Married
Farmer born Germany Fath=Germany Moth=Germany
Margret " age=27 Female Married
Housewife born Germany Fath=Germany Moth=Germany
John " age=6 Male Single
Pupil born Germany Fath=Germany Moth=Germany
Henry " age=4 Male Single born
Germany Fath=Germany Moth=Germany

23Mar1895 German Twp., Kossuth Co., IA census page 227 Age=36 Male
Farmer Reformed r/w German not naturalized Born Germany. Parents
foreign-born.

Albert is buried at Olena Mound Cem. according to D.c.

Naturalization papers for Albert 7 Oct 1896 at Kossuth Co., IA
courthouse.

4Ap1925 Buffalo Center Winnebago Co IA census

"Sleper, Albert, head, male, white, 68?, married, owns free, value of
home = 3000. amt of insurance on home = 2000, foreign born naturalized
= yes, in US/IA 40/40, grade school, 8 yrs ed. can read/write, b.
Ger. Fath = Sleper, John, b. Ger. moth = Albertina Albers, b. Ger.
parents m. Germany, Albert's chr = Reformert"
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Gepke Margret Freerks

Information provided by David Allen Navorska:
Gepke Margret Freerks

1885 Ramsey Twp., Kossuth Co. IA census age 27. Named Margaret by the
enumerator

2F1884 - Emigrated to U.S.A.

23Mar1895 German Twp., Kossuth Co., IA census age 36.

Died in the nursing home in Buffalo Center, IA

4Ap1925 Buffalo Center Winnebago Co IA census

"Sleper, Gepke, wife, female, white, 66, married, grade sch. ed. 8 yrs
in sch. b. Ger. fath = Frerirks, Hunik, b. Ger. moth = Wemesbary, H.,
b. Ger. parents married in Ger., Gepke's chr affiliation = Reformert."

Winter, Alice, Henry Warner Winter Pedigree Chart, (Blue Earth MN,
A.W., 4Mar1998) for middle name = Margret.
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