After a while we really got big. Each family got a little Ford truck—a one-ton truck. Then we put a…
Some of Kathrina’s family also came to Lustre to homestead. Her brother Henry came in 1921 and bought a farm…
Our second trip out included materials for building a 16×24 frame building. We got the studding up for a slant…
The latter part of March (1916) we loaded an immigrant railroad car in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. Peter Franz, Kathrina’s brother,…
(Dietrich and Kathrina Olfert continue their life story. You may notice a discrepancy in the spelling of the name of…
In Kathrina’s family the work was divided among the children. My sister Susan was not so strong, so she did…
Introductory Notes Having been introduced to Dietrich Olfert in the previous two installments, we now hear from Kathrina Franz Olfert…
To this point, I have focused primarily on direct ancestors of our family: parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc. It is my…