Althouse, Henry Sr. & Anna (Linderbaum)

ALTHOUSE, STEFFENS, LINDERBAUM, MARTENS, BINJEGERDES

Posted By: Darla Doyle (email)
Date: 4/9/2006 at 14:34:36

Henry Althouse, Sr. was born 15 Aug 1874 in a log house in Sec 8. Bloomfield Twp. He was the second child of Christian and Margaret (Steffens) Althouse.

Henry and his famiy moved to a new location the "Hollow"as it was called. The log house and horse barn were moved to a new location by Maurice Hoenshel for $20.00. At the new place the log house was used as a hog house.

Henry Althouse, Sr. married Anna Linderbaum (b. 19 Jan 1879) on 26 May 1896. Anna was the daughter of Ludwig and Caroline (Martens) Linderbaum. Anna came to American with her parents and 4 other siblings at the age of 3 or 4 from Germany. She was the third of 11 children.

In this house in the "Hollow" 2 sons were born: William - known as Willie - (7 May 1897 - 11 Aug 1920) and Henry Frank - known as H.F. Jr. - (27 Jun 1899 - 24 May 1987). In 1901 or 1902 Henry Sr. again moved his family. This time to the corner where a Teiskoetter now lives. Here Caroline (6 Feb 1902 - 11 Nov 1923); Ludwig (6 May 1904 - 7 Oct 1904); Emma (b. 23 Feb 1906); married Henry Binjegerdes; and Carl (6 Sep 1908) were added to the family making 6 children in all.

In 1906 a new house was built by the family. They lived there until March 1915 when they moved to a farm southeast of Postville in Clayton Co., IA. They started to moved the corn and such in the Fall of 1914.

In the months of January and February only 2 or 3 days were spent at home. Of these one was spent butchering. It was too bad a day to be on the roads with a team anyway because of a big storm.

In 1921 a new house was built by the family on this farm. Henry, Sr. and Anna lived the rest of their lives here. Henry died 16 Nov 1954. Anna died 13 Nov 1973. Their son Carl still lives in the house but no longer owns the farm.

Winneshiek County, Iowa
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