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The Delsman Maternal Side(Volume 2)
Geraldine Delsman and Clara Heitkemper Story……………..…page _ 8_
The Bernadina Eimers Story…………………………………………..page _80_
The Richard Wiley Story……………………………………………….page _96_
The Maria Callaby And William Baldra Story……………………….page _139_
The Corena Landess and Elizabeth Conkright Story……………….page _189_
The Leodicia Ingram Story…………………………………………..…page _257_
The Sarah Sally Winn Story…………………………………………….page _302_
Forebearers: The Guenther-Delsman Story Volume II
Authors:
Donald S. Guenther: BS in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, MA in Business
Edward F. Guenther: BA in Art and Mathematics; Teacher, Principal
Researched and Written 2014- 2021
Technical support:
Jereme E. Guenther: BS and MA in Software Engineering, MCP
Support Consultant:
Ronald B. Guenther: OSU Professor, Ph.D. in Mathematics
Editor:
Deborah D. Guenther: Homemaker, High School English Teacher, AA Degree
Special thanks to:
- Washington County Museum for photographs;
- Oregon Genealogical Society for Genealogies;
- Oregon Historical Society for Documents.
- Otto Delsman
- Lois Laughlin
Introduction by Ed Guenther
In Volume 1 of this two set series, the lineage of John
E. Guenther was explored and documented. In Volume 2 John’s wife, Geraldine Clara Delsman’s lineage is portrayed.
As heroes and villains appeared in the Guenther line, so it is in the Delsman line. It should be considered when these people lived. In their time things were accepted as normal that we do not accept today. Some of these things may have been a better outlook on life in their time, some things barbaric, but it was their time. Read these stories with that in mine, a person’s thoughts are heavily influenced by the time they live in.
These true stories span much of the European continent, the Atlantic Ocean, and finally the American frontier. In the end, or a sort of beginning, the Delsman people traveled and lived from Germany to eastern America, and finally to the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
These lives hold lessons in how to live and how not to live. But one thing stands out, they were committed to their families. Heroes and anti-heroes include:
Anna Blanke (1811-1902) was orphaned when she was 5 years old. Working as a maid, she married her employer in Germany. Anna’s husband died 3 weeks after having arrived in America. With 3 small boys she ran the farm in Iowa. Anna finished the trek west and died in Tillamook, Oregon.
Richard Wiley(1823- 1889), sheriff in Hillsboro, Oregon, threatened Ulysses S. Grant, future President of the United States, with arrest, forcing Grant to pay up on a past due loan.
Marie Callaby (1816-1888), born in England, traveled the 2,000 mile York Factory Express across Canada on horseback, on foot, and in canoes for two months with a one and three year old in 1839. She gave birth to Mary Jane Baldra in 1840, the first white girl born in Oregon.
- A Mother’s Longing
- Her hand touched my soul,
- Penetrating deep within.
- Her loving kindness shaped me.
- Who were her people,
- How did she get here?
- She longed for Answers.
By Don Guenther 3/3/2021