John William (Will) Hodler was the son of Samuel Gottleib and Margaret Igel Hodler. On Feb. 26, 1908, he married Regina Koch, daughter of Daniel & Marie Bachtel Koch. The young couple lived with his father southeast of Beloit, where their first son, Rexford Daniel, was born. Will had the Oklahoma fever and the young family bought a farm southeast of Tulsa. Nearly 100 years later when building the Promenade Shopping Mall in Tulsa, city planners traced the property back to when it was sold to Mr. J. W. Hodler by the Creek Indians. Will was working on the farm in the timber and a tree branch struck him in the head. Regina noticed after his accident that he couldn't think right—he would come in for the milk bucket and take the slop bucket instead. She wrote to his brother Fred and he came to help her. He was taking Will to Kansas City to see a specialist when Will died on the way on Mar. 30, 1913. This left Regina in a strange state with two young sons, Rexford Daniel and Paul William. She moved back to Beloit and lived in a small house at 1200 N. Hersey. Rex has only a dim memory of his father. He remembers being perched on his shoulder at the edge of a big crowd of people. They were all looking at a man on a platform. Later his mom told him that Will was a staunch supporter of Teddy Roosevelt and the above memory was probably of a big political rally held near Tulsa when Teddy was Bull Moose candidate for president of the USA.
A copy of the obituary & additional family information is available at the North Central Kansas Genealogical Society, Cawker City, KS , [email protected]
John William (Will) Hodler was the son of Samuel Gottleib and Margaret Igel Hodler. On Feb. 26, 1908, he married Regina Koch, daughter of Daniel & Marie Bachtel Koch. The young couple lived with his father southeast of Beloit, where their first son, Rexford Daniel, was born. Will had the Oklahoma fever and the young family bought a farm southeast of Tulsa. Nearly 100 years later when building the Promenade Shopping Mall in Tulsa, city planners traced the property back to when it was sold to Mr. J. W. Hodler by the Creek Indians. Will was working on the farm in the timber and a tree branch struck him in the head. Regina noticed after his accident that he couldn't think right—he would come in for the milk bucket and take the slop bucket instead. She wrote to his brother Fred and he came to help her. He was taking Will to Kansas City to see a specialist when Will died on the way on Mar. 30, 1913. This left Regina in a strange state with two young sons, Rexford Daniel and Paul William. She moved back to Beloit and lived in a small house at 1200 N. Hersey. Rex has only a dim memory of his father. He remembers being perched on his shoulder at the edge of a big crowd of people. They were all looking at a man on a platform. Later his mom told him that Will was a staunch supporter of Teddy Roosevelt and the above memory was probably of a big political rally held near Tulsa when Teddy was Bull Moose candidate for president of the USA.
A copy of the obituary & additional family information is available at the North Central Kansas Genealogical Society, Cawker City, KS , [email protected]
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