Re: Looking for information
LEINHAUS, ARENDS, NABER, NABOR, MEINDERS, STOPPELMOOR, ROELF, ELTJES, WHITESIDE, LEEMHUIS
Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email) In Response To: Looking for information (Aspasia Luster)
Date: 12/10/2011 at 22:00:52
Dietje Minnie Arends was born on July 4, 1870 to Arend and Frauke Arends. It appears that she remarried a third time to Martin Meinders. They are enumerated in the 1920, 1925 and 1930 censuses together. She and her second husband, Wilbrandt/Wil Leinhaus, [I believe that it probably LEEMHUIS] had two daughters, Rosa and Ann. In the 1910 census for Butler County, Iowa, Minnie is enumerated as "Divorced" and living with her four children by Naber and two children by Leemhuis. Interestingly, she is listed as having given birth to 11 children, 6 of whom were living.
I researched her date of death on September 25, 1945 and then looked for an obituary.
Obituary from the Waterloo Daily Courier in Waterloo, Iowa on Wednesday, September 26, 1945:
Aplington, Iowa -- Mrs. Martin U. Meinders, 75, Tuesday at her home here; born July 4, 1870; leaves husband and six children by two previous marriages, Arend H. Nabor, Cedar Falls; George Nabor, New Hartford; Mrs. William Stoppelmoor, Blairsburg; Mrs. Alvin Roelf, Waverly; Mrs. Walter Eltjes, Kesley; Mrs. Robert Whiteside, Grundy Center; 22 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren; funeral, 1 p. m. Friday at the home and at 2 in the Hitesville church north of Aplington; burial in Pleasant View cemetery here.
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It also looks like H. G. Naber left the family on January 24, 1900. The Webster City Tribune on September 30, 1904 also reported that Dirtje Naber was granted a divorce by default from Herman Naber.The story of his abandoning the family as reported in the newspaper:
An Involuntary Bankrupt
The Farmers National Bank, of this city, together with a number of the other creditors of H. G. Naber, of Kamrar, have filed a petition in the United States court at Fort Dodge asking that he be declared an involuntary bankrupt. It will be remembered that Naber conducted a general merchandise store at Kamrar until about three months ago, when he mysteriously disappeared. Since then nothing has been heard of him. At the time of leaving Naber was owing between four and five thousand dollars, the Farmers Bank being among his creditors. The stock of goods, which was at once taken charge of by Sheriff Shaffer, invoiced at between two and three thousand dollars. The book accounts also amounted to something over a thousand dollars. Deputy U. S. Marshal Johnston, of Fort Dodge, was in the city this morning to subpoena Sheriff Shaffer to appear in court at that place on April 6th. Attorneys Martin and Wambach represent the petitioners.
Webster City Tribune - Webster City, Iowa
March 23, 1900FAILURE AT KAMRAR
Proprietor of General Store leaves Some Assets and More LiabilitiesKAMRAR, Jan. 24. --— The general store of H. G. Naber has been attached and is in the hands of the sheriff. Mr. Naber has been acting queer for some time and last Wednesday left town with the clerk of the store in charge of the store. There have been filed accounts to the amount of $2,000, and there is an account of $1,000 in favor of his mother which has not been filed. The assets are a stock of general merchandise, about $2,000, and book accounts about $1,500, but the most of which are not very good.
Semi Weekly Iowa State Reporter - Waterloo, Iowa
January 26, 1900
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