Herman & Luella Eberly Padel

PADEL EBERLY SEIFORT

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Date: 10/13/2010 at 17:47:43

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Herman and Luella (Eberly) Padel
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Herman August Padel was born in November 1847, in Christianfeld, Hadersleben, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, son of Abraham F Padel, born in Christianfeld, and Caraline Emilie Augusta (Seifort) Padel.

After World War I, in 1920 Christianfeld became part of Denmark, when the citizens of North Schleswig chose to be Danish citizens.

Herman emigrated from Germany in 1871, and applied for citizenship in Circuit Court Dane County, Wisconsin, on the 8th of June 1872. In 1880-1881 Herman came from LeMars, and worked on St. Paul railroad, to Sioux City, Iowa. Here again he applied for citizenship on 21 day October 1886. He played cornet with the Mose Reed Band in Sioux City.

On December 27, 1881, at the residence of her mother and father, John and Eliza Eberly of Lawton, Iowa. Herman A Padel and Luella E Eberly were married.

Luella Eliza Eberly was born April 20, 1865, at North Liberty, Johnson County, Iowa, the last and thirteenth child of John and Eliza (Leidig) Eberly. John was born January 1, 1812, in Pennsylvania and died September 21, 1890. Eliza was born July 11, 1819 in Pennsylvania and died July 25, 1900/02. Both died in Woodbury County and are buried in the Eberly Cemetery, Concord Township, Woodbury County, Iowa.

John and Eliza were of German and possible Swiss lineage; the first Eberly of this family settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. John and Eliza had several children born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. In 1849 they moved to Eastern Iowa, living there several years farming and in the spring of 1873 they came to Woodbury County, Iowa, purchasing one hundred and twenty acres of land in Big Whiskey Creek valley north of Old Correctionville Road. 1904 Past and Present of Sioux City and Woodbury County.

To Herman and Luella were born five children, all born in Sioux City.

Herman Otto Reed, born 15 June 1884, married Caroline Maude Onstot, born 7 September 1884, on 16 November 1905, at the Onstot farm, Floyd Township.

Katherine Eliza, born 11 May 1886, married John A Price, October 1907.

Frankie, born 13 October 1887, died October 1891, at the age of four years of Scarlet Fever. He was prepared for burial at home and set out on the porch, cause of quarantine, to be picked up and buried in Block 732 in the Floyd Cemetery of Sioux City.

Eugene A, born 21 April 1890, married Inger Christopherson.

Orrin Leon, born 28 December 1920 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.

The children were baptized at the Trinity Lutheran Church of Sioux City. Herman Otto Reed, Katie Eliza and Frank Eugene were all baptized 28 July 1889; it also shows in the church records they are descendants of Martin Luther. On Easter Sunday, 17 April 1892, another child of Herman’s was baptized; this should be Eugene A as it states he was born in April.

On October 12, 1900 Herman and Luella were divorced. He moved to Sioux Falls in 1903, then on to Fort Pierre, Stanley County, South Dakota, where he died at the age of 83, on 22 November 1930.

In 1900 Katherine went over to Germany to study piano and voice, for four years, with an Uncle Fredrick Padel, who it is said, played with Paderewski, a Polish pianist. Katherine studied near Keil, Germany.

Luella was a beautiful seamstress and earned a living for her children by taking in sewing. She married Charles Albert Hunter on 28 March 1901, Sioux City. Mr. Hunter worked for the railroad and was later transferred to Council Bluffs, Iowa.

In her later years, Luella lived with a son, Eugene, in Los Angeles, California. She died 7 February 1923 at Los Angeles and is buried at Englewood Cemetery, Los Angeles. Mr. Hunter also spent his last years in Los Angeles and died in a Veterans’ Home and is buried in a Veterans’ Cemetery in Los Angeles County, California.