POTTER, Albie 1913-1966

POTTER, BUTTOLPH, NICHOLSON, STUCKEY, PETERSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/20/2010 at 23:04:21

ALBIE POTTER

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OSAGE, IOWA — Funeral services for farmer Albie Potter, 52, who died of a heart attack Wednesday morning at his Osage home shortly after he had awakened his son to go to work, are pending at Champion funeral home.

He is a lifelong Mitchell county resident mostly in the Riceville-McIntire area and started a "pickle" farm last year near Osage.

He is survived; by his wife; four sons: Albie Jr., Jerry and Larry, all of Osage; Russell, in the Air Corps; two brothers; and a sister.

[ Waterloo Daily Courier, Wednesday, March 9, 1966 ]
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REAL REUNION—Together for the first time in 45 year, are a sister and her three brothers, Rose Peterson, Alba Potter, Avery Stuckey and Russell Nicholson. Separated after the death of their mother, they learned just this summer that they were brothers and sisters

SISTER, BROTHERS TOGETHER AFTER A LIFE-TIME SEPARATION

Riceville – Search for a birth certificate and the grave of a mother who died in childbirth 45 years ago has brought about the reunion of three brothers and a sister.

Mrs. Celar (Alta Buttolph) Potter died on a farm near Riceville May 8, 1916, following the birth of her fourth child, Rose. Her mother cared for the four children for a while but finally the father was forced to place the children in foster homes.

Potter’s Sister, Mrs. Olive Nicholson, Kansas City, adopted Elmer, the oldest boy. He was renamed Russell Nicholson and didn’t learn until he was grown that he was not the Nicholson’s own son.

Mrs. Genevieve Stuckey, a cousin of Potter, took Rose and Avery, the second son. Alba, 2 at the time of his mothers death, stayed with grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Buttolph. He was married and has continued to live in Riceville. Rose is now Mrs. Rose Peterson.

Avery had taken the name of his foster parents, Stuckey. He and Rose were reared together. He has lived in the Riceville-McIntire area many years without realizing that he and Alba Potter were brothers. There is little resemblance in the two. But Russell Nicholson (Elmer) and Alba Potter look like twins.

Russell Nicholson (Elmer Potter) is employed as a janitor in the City National Bank, Kansas City. He is married and has two sons. When he wanted to get his birth certificate this year his foster mother sent him to Mrs. Stuckey, now 91, at Osage. She arranged for the four to meet.

Mrs. Peterson joined her three brothers at the home of her foster mother, Mrs. Stuckey, in Osage. Plans have been made for another reunion when Russell will bring his family from Kansas City in August.

They have found the grave of their mother in a little cemetery near the land their father owned. Russell remembered an artesian well on the place during his early childhood. They contacted the present owner of the land, Harold Clause, Riceville, and his son, Clarence who lives on the farm. A search of the fields revealed the artesian well still there.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, July 23, 1960]

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Albie Potters Birth Mother:

Alta (nee Buttolph) Potter 1886-1916, was buried in the Robbins Cemetery, (David, defunct) Mitchell Co., Iowa. Her tombstone simply says Alva Potter 1886-1916

In the Robbins Cemetery, Mitchell County Genealogy she is listed as Alta (Buttolph) Potter: September 26, 1886 – May 8, 1916

The South Dakota Birth index lists her full name and a birth date of October 3.

South Dakota Births 1856-1903
Name: Susan Electa Alta Agnes Buttolph
Birth Date: October 3, 1886
Gender: Female
County: Spink
Fathers Name: Elmer Buttolph
Mothers Name: Myrtle Nellie Seaman

[D.M. Scott, 8/2010]
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Albie Potters Birth Father
In the 1910 US Census: Jenkins, Mitchell, Iowa
Celar C. Potter 29, born Iowa
Alta 22 born South Dakota
Elmer 1 born Iowa

September 12, 1918 World War I Draft Registration shows the following:

Charles Celar Potter 38, born August 10, 1880. He is living in Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska at 601 S. 33 rd and a machinist. He lists a Wife Olive Potter.

Note: He does have a sister Olive, but the nearest relative on this document specifies that this Olive is (Wife)

In 1920 Kansas, Wyandotte, Kansas
Celar Potter 38 born Iowa; wife Ollie 24 born Iowa; Charles Potter son 2; and Viola Nickelson, step-daughter born Iowa.

[D.M. Scott, 8/2010]

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The Social Security Death Index says:
ALBIE POTTER was born 25 Oct 1913, and died in Mar 1966; SSN 479-12-9897 issued in Iowa.