John Peter Miltenberger

MILTENBERGER GARLICK

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 9/7/2010 at 00:10:19

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

John Peter Miltenberger
By Lucille Miltenberger

John Peter Miltenberger was born October 13, 1833, at Smittwenback, Prussia. He came to America in April of 1854 after he was discharged from the Army in Germany. He met Eliza Jane Garlick and they were married at Pitcavin, New York, on August 6, 1865. John Peter and Eliza Jane came to Rushville, Illinois, where they farmed. Mary Emma, Nella May, and John Walter, eldest of thirteen children, were born there. They moved to Buena Vista, Illinois, where Franklin Orren and Lillie Ruzella were born. They moved to Cortland, Nebraska, in a covered wagon. A baby was born, died, and was buried along the way. John Peter hauled and sold the first load of corn in Cortland, Nebraska. John Peter died February 27, 1910.

John Walter met and married Lizzie Schroder on November 17, 1892. She was born January 6, 1874, in Alexandria, Nebraska. Her parents, Charles and Anne Elson Schroder, lived in Chicago at one time. Her father was a wagon maker, making the covered wagon that came across the prairies. They went to the 1840 Gold Rush. They lost their beautiful brick home and business because Charles signed a note for a friend who defaulted. They had four grown boys who needed to work, so they went to Nebraska, homesteaded and farmed. The Indians took Lizzie when she was little, but her father and brothers got her back without any trouble.

John Walter and Lizzie lived at Cortland with his parents for a few months. They moved to Bartley, Nebraska, where they bought a farm and lived there about nine years. Because of a drought, they bought and moved back to Cortland. They had nine children. Roy and Orville Harlan, b December 5, 1913, the youngest, wanted to move to Iowa, because of the drought at Cortland which had lasted ten years. Roy and his family came to Sloan, Iowa, in the spring of 1934. Orville and Lucille Wordneck were married May 2, 1934. They lived three miles south of Hornick and farmed 400 acres for a year. Orville’s parents bought some more land east of Sloan with a house on it. Orville and Lucille were to move there in March, but the house burned down so a new one had to be built. They lived in the garage until the new one was finished, but during the moving, a cyclone took the garage and the rest of their possessions.

Since John Walter and Lizzie’s interests were at Sloan, they left Cortland, Nebraska, and moved to Sloan in the fall of 1938. John Walter died May 9, 1947, and Lizzie died June 17, 1963.

Orville and Lucille have two children: William Orville ‘Bill’ born April 3, 1938, and Beverly Kay born May 10, 1944. Bill married Penelope Ooten, December 27, 1958. They farm and live north of Whiting, Iowa. They have two daughters: Debra Lynn, b April 28, 1959, married Jamal Naas on March 13, 1982l They live at Davis, California. Rebecca Ann, b February 16, 1962, who married Vincent Orr on July 17, 1981. They live at Lee Summit, Missouri, and have a daughter, Deena Lee, born May 15, 1983. Beverly Kay married Stephen Longval on June 5, 1965. Their children: Stephanie Renee, b February 9, 1966, Jill Christine, b December 13, 1968, and Jeffrey Stephen, b April 23, 1972. They live at Conyers, Georgia.