Helen Bernice ENGLE

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1926-MN-016040

Notes:

Her death certficate shows her cause of death as a streptococcus infection of the throat. Her husband, Charles Harder, was the informant.

The 7 Aug 1898 date is inferred from the Pepin County birth record of that date for “Frank F Engel.”

Died:
died at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Wabasha

Helen married Charlie William HARDER on 3 May 1923 in Chisago County, Minnesota. Charlie (son of Charles H HARDER and Anna Dorothy ARLT) was born on 10 Feb 1899 in Minnesota; died on 9 Nov 1971 in Winnebago County, Illinois; was buried in Willwood Burial Park, Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
as Charles William Harder Jr and Helen Bernice Engle

1. Charles Leslie HARDER was born on 17 May 1923 in Minnesota; died on 28 Nov 2020 in Illinois; was buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Machesney Park, Illinois.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Butcher

Notes:

In the 1900 census (June 2), Frank and his family were living in the village of Pepin, Pepin County, Wisconsin. (Indexed as “Lean Engler!”) The family consisted of Frank Engles, 32, born in June 1868, Etta, 20, born in January of 1879 or 1880, Helen, 1, born in Aug of 1898, and “Baby,” born in September of 1899. Etta had had two children, both still living. Everyone was born in Wisconsin. Frank’s and Etta’s fathers were born in Germany and their mothers in Pennsylvania. Frank owns the farm that they live on without a mortgage. Frank’s occupation is illegible but it’s not farmer. It may be butcher.

Shown as Frank R. Engels in the 1910 census (April 18th). At that time, the family lived in Baden Township in Ward County, North Dakota. Frank was a farmer. He owned his farm with a mortgage. The family consisted of Frank R., 40, Etta J., 30, Helen B., 11, Gertrude, 10, August D., 6, and Viva, 4. August and Viva were born in North Dakota. Everyone else was born in Wisconsin. Frank and Etta had been married for 12 years. Etta had had 4 children, all still living. Frank’s and Etta’s fathers were born in Germany. Frank’s mother was born in Pennsylvania and Etta’s mother was born in the U.S.

In the probate records for his father’s estate, he is listed as Frank R. Engel, son, town of Garfield, Wisconsin.

Interestingly, Shirley James was born August D.

Died:
Influenza

Fredrick married Julietta (Etta) June YOUNG on 6 Oct 1897 in Pepin County, Wisconsin. Julietta (daughter of Frederick YOUNG and Eliza Ann FLEMING) was born on 30 Jun 1879 in Wisconsin; died on 18 Jan 1962 in Polk County, Wisconsin; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Pepin, Pepin County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Wisconsin Death Certificate: 002369

Notes:

Called Julietta or Juliaetta in the 1880 census.

Her obit said that she and Frank were in North Dakota between 1903 and 1911. Etta was a Methodist. She was a charter member of the Pepin Lakeside Camp 3184 of the Royal Neighbors of America. (This was basically a women’s social organization, that later became a life insurance company targeted towards women.)

Etta Engels and family were living in Garfield township, Polk County, on January 13, 1920, the day they were visited by the census "enumerator", Hazel Wolf.

Etta is shown as 41, a widow, and a farmer. She is shown as born in Wisconsin but her father was born in Germany and her mother in Pennsylvania.

Children living with her are: Helen, 21, born in Wisconsin, Shirley (occupation:farmer), 16, born in North Dakota, Viva, 14, also born in North Dakota, Dorothy, 6, born in Wisconsin, and Donald, 3, born in Wisconsin. (Gertrude, the oldest, was married and gone by 1920.)

Donna says: “Etta was a young widow..You know that she lived near my grandparents and she and grandma Marta were friends. Etta was mom's Bible School teacher and taught at her house. Poor Etta had to raise kids alone and keep that farm going which she did.”

Shown as Etta J. Engels in the 1930 census. Living with her at that time were Shirley J., his wife, Letha or Latha R., their daughter Margerie A., Etta’s daughter Viva E., Etta’s daughter Dorothy, and Etta’s son Donald F.

Etta and Dorothy and Donald lived in Garfield Twp, Polk County, in the 1940 census. Etta owned her house, the same house everyone lived in in 1935. The property’s value was $1500. They also had a school teacher living with them as a lodger.

Etta was a half-first cousin of the North Dakota senator Milton R. Young.

Birth:
her obit said 1878

Died:
as Etta J Engel at Apple River Valley Memorial Hospital in Amery

Notes:

Married:
Etta’s obit said October 8th

Notes:

The family name was spelled in the 1860 census as Engle, in the 1870 census as Ingles, in the 1880 census as Engel, and in the 1900 census as Engle.

His son William’s obit referred to August’s farm as “on Big Hill.”

In the 1895 state census, he is August Engel. His household consists of 6 males and 2 females, 7 of whom were born in the U.S. and 1 in Germany. This suggests that Sarah may have died by 1895 and that one of the girls was not living at home.

According to the 1900 census he came to the U.S. in 1854.

August Engel, 63, retired farmer, and Anna, 49, are living in the village of Pepin at the time of the 1905 state census.

In the 1910 census, he lives in Pepin County. Living with him are the widow Lousia Anderson, housekeeper, age 24, and her two children, Vernon H., 2, and Elma E., eight months. (She may be the Mrs. Lucy Anderson who was a witness to August’s will. She later filed a claim against the estate and was awarded $600.)

The probate of his estate was initiated by his son William, as executor, in March of 1916. That proceeding was completed on 25 March 1918 in Pepin.

August’s real estate at the time of his death was described in the probate documents as follows:

SW ¼ of NW ¼ of Sec 3 of Town 23 Range 14, 40 acres, valued at $2800.
W ½ of SE ¼ of SW ¼ of Section 34 of Town 24 Range 14, 20 acres valued at $300.
SE ¼ of SW ¼ of Section 4 of Town 23 Range 14, 40 acres valued at $375.
SW ¼ of SE ¼ of Section 4 of Town 23 Range 14, 40 acres valued at $1525.
South end of Lot no. 6, Section 22, Town 23 Range 14, 22 acres valued at $150.
Lots 9, 10, and 11 of Block 8, Village of Pepin, valued at $1800.
Lot 1 of Block 8, Village of Pepin, valued at $75.
SW corner of SE ¼ of NE ¼ of NW ¼ of Section 25, Town 23 Range 15, illegible but perhaps valued at $600.

August’s estate also contained a note from Schruth Brothers, 1915, valued at $250 and one horse valued at $150.

Birth:
the record for his marriage to Anna Fuller shows his birthplace as Frienstein, Prussia

Died:
date from probate record

Buried:
as August Engel

August married Sarah A SADDLER on 21 Jun 1865 in Pepin, Pepin County, Wisconsin. Sarah (daughter of William F SADDLER and Rachel S JONES) was born on 8 Sep 1849 in Pennsylvania; died on 6 Jan 1893 in Pepin County, Wisconsin; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Pepin, Pepin County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to the 1870 census, neither she nor her husband could read or write. In that census she was indicated as having a father of foreign birth although the 1880 census indicates that both of her parents were born in Pennsylvania.

Birth:
date according to the story of her father in History of Chippewa County

Died:
from gravestone

Notes:

Can’t find them in Pepin County in the 1870 census.

Find A Grave notes that there are two unidentified graves in spaces 3 and 4 of plot 161b in Oakwood that are listed for Fred. Those two graves are probably for the two children who died in the 1870s. Alternatively, they may have been saved for his sons by his first marriage.

Frederick married Eliza Ann FLEMING on 4 Oct 1863 in Pepin County, Wisconsin. Eliza (daughter of James Clinton FLEMING and Susannah PENCE) was born on 19 Jun 1847 in Pennsylvania; died on 25 Nov 1923 in Wabasha County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1923-MN-016150

Notes:

Eliza Young was a 32 year-old new widow, and pregnant, heading up her household in Pepin in the 1880 census. She and her family lived a few houses away from, and very near, the August Engel family. Living with her were her children Mary E., 14, Albert C., 11, Caroline S., 9, Anna R., 7, Frederick W., 5, Clara B., 3, and Julietta 1. Also living with her were her step-sons George Young, 19, and John Young, 18. The father of all of her children and step-children was born in Bremen. The mother of John and George was also born in Bremen.

In the 1900 census, she and Frank and family are living in Wabasha. She is shown to have had 15 children, 12 still living. Living with her and Frank are Etta, 16, James, 13, Jessie, 12, Archie, 11, and Cathy, 7.

In the 1910 census, she is shown to have had 15 children, 12 still living. Archie and Kate are still living at home.

By September of 1918, she was living with her son James in Chisholm.

In the 1920 census, she was living with her son James and his wife in Chisholm, Minnesota.

It seems likely that Eliza is buried at Oakwood Cemetery. However, Find A Grave’s listing of the burials in that cemetery do not include her.

Notes:

Married:
Find A Grave’s entry for Fred says 21 Oct.

Notes:

In the 1860 census, Frederic and his family are farming in the town of Pepin, Pepin County, Wisconsin. His real estate is worth $400 and his personal estate is worth $100.

Frederic married Wilhelmina. Wilhelmina was born about 1804 in Germany (Prussia). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1870 census, she is a widow and is living with her son Adolph on the family farm in Pepin County.

Notes:

From Find A Grave and Cynthia and the History of Chippewa County, published in 1891-1892.

William F. Saddler was born in Armstrong county, Pa. July 28, 1827, a son of Isaac P. Saddler, D.D., and Sarah C. (Philliber) Saddler, who were of German descent. When he was six years of age his parents removed to Oliver, Jefferson county, Pa., which was then a wilderness.

He received but little education, and at eighteen years of age began life as a laborer. December 21, 1848, he married Rachel S. Jones, who was born June 10, 1828, and died May 21, 1870. They had six children, as follows: Henry P.; Sarah A. (Mrs. A. Engel), born September 8, 1849; William I., October 5, 1851; John W., April 20, 1854 died November 2, 1886; Nancy E. (Mrs. G. Wartinby), December 4, 1856, died October 8, 1877; and Vinnie E., born February 18, 1870, died August 3, 1870. April 16, 1871, Mr. Saddler married Mrs. Eliza Fayerweather, and in April, 1855, the family removed to Pepin.

Mr. Saddler had just sufficient means to buy eighty acres of wild land on section nineteen, township twenty-three, range fourteen, and began working out to support his family. He helped to build the mill for Mills & Ingalls, and ground the first grain and sawed the first lumber there in in the spring of 1856.

[The Isaac Ingalls family was listed next to the Saddlers in the 1860 census. Isaac was born in Maine and was not, alas, related to Charles Ingalls, the father of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who lived in Pepin County in the second half of the 1860s.]

As soon as he was able he built a log house and began to improve his farm. His first team was a pair of calves reared by himself, and the vehicle was a sled hewed out by himself. The embryo oxen began to do duty as yearlings, drawing wood and water for the house, and soon after were set to plowing. By patient industry and perserverance the little farm was finally converted into a comfortable home.

August 30, 1862, Mr. Saddler enlisted in Company G, Sixteenth Wisconsin infantry, Chippewa guards. They took part in the battle of Corinth and the siege of Vicksburg, serving mostly in detached pioneer corps. He came home on furlough, with malarial fever, September 3, 1863, but returned in ninety days and was soon obliged to go to the hospital, where he remained until the close of the war, when he returned to the farm, where he lived till 1881, when he removed to the village.

Besides having considerable sickness in his family, Mr. Saddler met with several severe financial losses. He had about $1000 worth of horses killed by lightning and disease, which was very discouraging in those early days.

He takes an active interest in politics, taking the side of the Republicans. He has served as treasurer, assessor and supervisor of the town. He is also a notary public, and has declined nominations for assemblyman and county treasurer. He is a member of the American Protective association.

In the 1850 census, he and his family lived in Pine Creek Twp, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.

He was part of the 16th Infantry Regiment in the Civil War. He was in the service between 30 August 1862 and 10 May 1865.

William married Rachel S JONES on 21 Dec 1848 in Pennsylvania. Rachel was born on 10 Jun 1828 in Pennsylvania; died on 21 May 1870 in Wisconsin; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Pepin, Pepin County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Shares a gravestone with her daughter Vinnie.

Notes:

From "History of the Chippewa Valley Wisconsin" published by A. Warner, Publisher, Chicago, Illinois, 1891-2:

JAMES FLEMING was born at Kittanning, Amstrong County, Pa., August 31, 1816, and died at Pepin, May 14, 1887. His parents' names were John and Sarah (Everett) Fleming. the Flemings are of Irish descent. James received but little education, and at nineteen years of age began life as a pilot ofn a lumber raft, running on the Allegheny and Ohio rivers. In 1837 he made a trip as far as New Orleans. He was married December 27, 1838, to Miss Susan, daughter of Henry and Betsy (Gumbert) Pence. She was born March 31, 1820. Seven children blessed their union, namely: John, born March 23, 1840, Nancy J. November 6, 1841, died December 7, 1845; Elizabeth, December 14, 1842, died December 1, 1845; Milton, April 6, 1846, Eliza A (Mrs. F. Dunn) June 19, 1847; Sarah E., February 27, 1849, died February 2, 1890. Mr. Fleming worked at carpenter work, in a distillery and at farming until 1848, when he removed to Jefferson county, Pa., and bought a farm and engaged in lumbering. In 1854, he made a trip to Pepin and decided to move thither with his family. The following year he loaded his goods and family into a wagon and started to drive to Wisconsin. One horse became lame and he then shipped his outfit on a steamboat from Pittsburgh, paying all his ready money for their fare to Dubuque, Iowa. On the route he was seized with cholera and they were unable to proceed by team. Riding the horses out a few miles they were met and befriended by a farmer who kindly entertained the family, gave Mr. Fleming medicine, which soon caused him to recover, and advanced a small sum of money. The balance of his wagon having arrived in the meantime, the proceeds of which the journey was continued to Guttenburg, Iowa. Here he took passage by steamer to Read's Landing, Minn., agreeing to leave the goods as security for a portion of their fare, which was advanced by a merchant at Read's on their arriveal, who took security on the goods. Crossing to Pepin, Mr. Fleming began teaming, redeemed his goods, and the following year, 1856, made a claim on section seventeen, township twenty-three, range fourteen, built a log house, and continued to make improvements until his death. Mr. Fleming was a member of the Protestant Methodist church, and an active, enterprising man, respected by all who knew him.

Source: Curtiss-Edge, Franklyn. History of Buffalo and Pepin Counties, Wis. Winona: H.C. Cooper Jr., and Company. 1919 pages 783-785

James Fleming: A pioneer of Pepin township, Pepin County, in his day widely known and respected, but now deceased, was born at Kittanning, Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania, August 31, 1816, and died at Pepin, May 14, 1887. He was of Irish descent, his parents being John and Sarah (Everett) Fleming. After acquiring a limited education, James Fleming, at 19 years of age, began life as a pilot of a lumber raft running on the Allegheny and Ohio rivers. In 1837, he made a trip as far as New Orleans. He was married December 27, 1838 to Susan, daughter of Henry and Betsy (Gumbert) pence. She was born March 31, 1820.

Mr. Fleming worked as a carpenter, as an employee in a distillery, and at farming until 1848, when he removed to Jefferson County, PA., where he bought a farm and also engaged in lumbering. In 1854, he made a trip to Pepin and decided to locate here with his family. The following year he loaded his goods and family into a wagon and started to drive to Wisconsin. One horse became lame, and he then shipped his outfit on a steamboat form Pittsburgh, paying all his ready money for their fare to Dubuque, Iowa. On the route, he was seized with cholera and landed penniless at Davenport. A part of the wagon had been miscarried, so they were unable to proceed by team. Riding the hourses out a few miles, they were met and befriended by a farmer, who kindly entertained the family, gave Mr. Fleming medicine, which soon caused him to recover, and advanced him a small sum of money. The balance of his wagon having arrived in the meanwhile, the family drove to Le 'Claire, Iowa, where Mr. Fleming got work teaming, with the proceeds of which the journey was continued to Guttenburg, Iowa. Here he took passage by steamer to Reed's Landing, Minnesota, agreeing to leave the goods as security for a portion of their fare, which was advanced by a merchant at Reed's on their arrival, who took security of the goods.

Crossing to Pepin, Mr. Fleming began teaming, redeeming his goods, and the following year, 1856, made a claim on Section 17, Township 23, Range 14. Here he built a log cabin and began the work of developing a farm, continueing to make improvements until his death.

He was an active and enterprising man, a member of the Protestant Methodist Church, and respected by all who knew him. His wife died about 1894.

Died:
of dropsy according to an article about his son-in-law, Frank Dunn

James married Susannah PENCE on 27 Dec 1838 in Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Susannah (daughter of Henry PENCE and Maria Elizabeth (Betsy) GUMBERT) was born on 31 Mar 1820 in Pennsylvania; died in Jun 1897 in Pepin County, Wisconsin; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Pepin, Pepin County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
the Dunn Family tree says June 20th