The Past 50
Years
The Past 50
Years
by Hazel
Kaeding
Fredrick
Maronde
was born in
Prussia,Germany on December 14,1845,His
parents died when
he was a young boy. As he grew in
manhood,
Fredrick herded
sheep for a living and acquired an
earning of $12.00 a
year. Around 1872-1873,at the age of
19, Fredrick came
to america and landed in Chicago. He
worked for a farmer
by the name of Wm Brahmsteadt
at Englewood Chicago,Illinois, where he
was hired to haul
prairie hay to Chicago to the livery
barns there.
Carolina Zanzig, who was born
in Mackelburg,Germany on July 11,1853.
Also as
young girl
had to work out, she herded geese for
the
rich people of
the town where she lived. As she
followed
the geese she
picked up all the feathers that the
geese
would lose.
She picked up enough feathers in this
manner
to make a
feather bed. When Carolina was a girl
she
contacted
measles and due to a backset became
blind at
her young
age. Later she and her brother William
went
to see a man
that managed to help her and she
received the
sight of
one eye back. By this time Carolina
was
expected to go
and work for her living and was not
permitted
to go on to
school. Her neighbors were coming to
America, so she
decided to come across to America with
them.
Her plans
were to go to Indiana to be with an aunt
that lived there, but due to the
misfortune of having her birth
certificate and all other valuable
papers stolen as she
came across on the ship. She went to
Chicago to search
for a job. It so happened it was close
to the Wm
Brahsteadt farm. This is where Fredrick
met Carolina as
she was pitching praire hay to the
cattle.
After a short
and sweet romance they were married
April 1872.
Fredrick Maronde remarked that he didnt
have anything
money wise but that he did have his
Savior,his Health and
two hands to work.
In 1885 Mr & Mrs Fredrick
Maronde
and a
family of six children moved to York,
Nebraska. There
names were Carl, who died at the age of
nine months,
Anna, Bertha,Ernest,Emma, and Louis.
They bought 160
acres and later had a car load of lumber
and a carpenter
sent out from Chicago to build the farm,
home, six
children were born to the Maronde later.
They moved into
new home. Martha,Ida,Amanda,Lena,Dora,
and Lizzie.
Mr & Mrs. Maronde lived
through many
hardships, but they seemed to prosper
well. He bought
several farms, but above all saw to it
that all there
children were baptized, confirmed, and
attended parochial
schools.
They lived on the same farm
until they retired
and moved to 815 E.7th St. in York,
Nebraska. He only
lived in town for several years. When
passed away in
July 1927. Carolina lived 10 years
longer and passed away
on March 28,1937.
Mr.& Mrs. Maronde had 12
children of which
there are 3 daughters that are living
Martha Krah, Lena
Junger, and Lizzie Schrader. There are
3 living in laws,
which are Tilla Maronde, Bill Strobel,
and Carl
Schrader.
It has been customery in the
past years that
the Maronde children gather for the
family reunion
annually during the month of July. This
being the year
of 1962, it also marks the 50th
anniversary of this
group. In 1912 was the 1st records that
were kept. They
gathered much before this time but have
no definite date
of such.
The newest increase to the
group is the
daughter of Lowell Schrader of Hampton,
Nebraska. Which
was born in April of 1962. The eldest
person with most
age behind them him/her is Tillis
Maronde and Mr.Bill
Strobel. The most recent death was that
of Martha
kaeding Wheeler, who passed away in San
Diego, California on July 8,1962. 12
children of which 3 are
living 58
grand-children of which are 39 living
130 great grand
children of which 128 are living. There
are 35 great
great grand children of which all
living.
Total of 205
Living descendants of Mr. and Mrs.
Fredrick
Maronde
note Hazel
Kaeding wrote
this letter to Mervin, she is the mother
of Mervin
William Kaeding, Mervin is the keeper of
the Kaeding
Family Tree. I dedicated this page to
him, Thanks for
giving the history of Our Family, I
love you!, Debbie
Kaeding-Nelson
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