Charles Edward Erskine

ERSKINE THOMAS HAUSER MANN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 8/26/2010 at 21:24:33

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Charles Edward Erskine
By Bonnie J Heetland

Charles was born June 17, 1868, in Ticonic, Monona County, Iowa, the son of Levi and Leanora Thomas Erskine. He went to the Erskine School in Grant Township, Monona County, Iowa, and Sheanandoah, Iowa, Business College. HE started the first meat markets in Rodney and Ute, Iowa, with his father, Levi, and spent the rest of his life in the Real Estate business and farming.

His first wife was Mary E Hauser. She was born on February 2, 1870, and died on April 26, 1953, in California. They were married on January 7, 1891, in Ute, Iowa, and had four children, George, Jessie, Edna and Morse. They were divorced in 1912.

Their chidlren: George Walter, born October 13, 1891, in Ute, Iowa; Jessie Etta, born October 4, 1892, in Ute; Edna Blanche, born October 16, 1895, in Ute; and Morse Lee, born March 1, 1900, in Castana, Iowa.

George married Catherine Mann in Sioux City, Iowa, on July 1, 1913. They had two children, Charlotte and Keith. They moved to San Diego, California, where George was employed in the Grocery and Real Estate business. He also worked for the Government during World War II. He died June 21, 1981, in Glendora, California. They had five grand children.

Jessie married Arthur Homer Frohardt. They had three sons, La Ver Arthur, Lorraine Harold and Russell Lloyd. They had three grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Jessie was married after first husband’s death to Lestor Ray Hawk. She died in Aurora, Colorado, January 17, 1970.

Edna came to Sioux City in 1917 and married Maynard Smith, a builder for a local business firm, on October 30, 1920. They had one daughter, Beverly Jean, born March 14, 1927, in San Diego, California. Edna worked for the Army and Navy during World War II in California at the Consolidated Aircraft and the Naval Hospital, receiving two E Emblems for excellence at both places. Edna managed apartment houses on property that is now Marian Health Care Center in Sioux City. A member of the First Presbyterian Church, she died in Sioux City, July 29, 1980, and is buried in Graceland Park, in Sioux City. Edna and Maynard were divorced when Beverly Jean was young. Daughter, Beverly Jean, worked for Toller Drug, then for Marian Health. She’s been retired for many years. Beverly is a member of the Martha Washington Chapter DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) in Sioux City.

Morse married Louise Hakenholz at the Sioux City Lutheran Church on September 15, 1928. They didn’t have a family. He was a grocer in California. He died as the result of a car accident on April 22, 1942, in San Diego, California.

Charles married for the second time, Iva Ham from Missouri, on November 27, 1913. Iva was born, January 27, 1885, Pettis County, Missouri. She also lived in Sioux City and attended Edwards Business School. They had eight children: Charles, Dorothy, Virginia, Frances, Thomas, James, Bonnie, and Ruth, none of whom ever lived in Woodbury County. Only one lives in Iowa, Bonnie J Heetland, of Laurens, Iowa.

Charles died in Omaha, Nebraska, on March 5, 1928. Iva died January 21, 1955, in Torrance, California. They have seventy-seven descendants still living, most of whom live on the West Coast.