Miss Ella Lamar, aged 29 years, teacher at the Auman school house, seventeen miles southwest of Faulkton in the Ellisville school district; Carrie Auman, aged 8 years, a pupil of Miss Lamar's. The teacher and pupil left the school room to go to Mr. Auman's house, a distance of forty rods, nearly with the wind. Their bodies were found as far beyond the house for which they started, as the house was distant from the school house. Had they remained in the school-room they would have been safe.
"Herman and Edwin Giese, aged respectively 12 and 9 years, of 117-70, were at school with Miss Lamar, and against their wishes, accompanied her and little Carrie Auman from the school house into the storm. The boys report that when Miss Lamar gave out they all lay down and remained until Friday. The snow had drifted over them and gave some protection. Though badly frozen, the boys were able to walk a half mile to Henry Hillman's and said, "they could not wake the teacher and Carrie-they were dead."
SOURCE- History of Faulk County, C. H. Ellis, 1909
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The mother, father and Carrie are enumerated in the 1885 Territorial census in township 118, range 71 in Faulk County. Both parents age 24, Carrie age 5. All born in Ill. Parents of parents all born in Penn.
Carrie was an only child when she died, the parents later had 2 sons, Delbert H. and Kenneth C. Auman.
SOURCE- 1910 census
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The 1900 census states 5 children, 2 living.
1910 shows 6 children, 2 living.
Possibly Carrie was born to an earlier wife; the 1900 census shows them married 15 years and 1910 shows 24 years. Carrie was born about 1880, if the 1909 history is correct. The 1885 census also suggests she was born about 1880.
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New data (20 May 2015), the genfritz 2 family tree on ancestry has Auman's wife as Mary Ritzman, b. 1871- if so she could not be the birth mother. (1860/1 would seem most likely correct.) I must say, in reviewing genfritz 2, (1 Jul 2019) that it is unsourced and doesn't even match Mary's Findagrave profile, having incorrect birth and death dates. It cannot be considered a valid source. KG
The 1885 Territorial census states they were both 24 years old.
BLM records show Horace has 160 acres of land in sect. 5 of 117N 71W in Faulk County in August, 1890.
Possibly the mother, also Mary, died shortly before or after the 1885 census was taken and he married another Mary about then?? This would account for the 15 years of marriage in 1900. They are both 39 in 1900 and a year apart in 1910, both a first marriage. Both 58 in 1920. That 1871 birth year for Mary doesn't seem right.
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I speculate she is buried in the Burkmere/Harrington cemetery as it was the closest and there are perhaps as many as 20 unmarked graves there per the landowner. KG
"Herman and Edwin Giese, aged respectively 12 and 9 years, of 117-70, were at school with Miss Lamar, and against their wishes, accompanied her and little Carrie Auman from the school house into the storm. The boys report that when Miss Lamar gave out they all lay down and remained until Friday. The snow had drifted over them and gave some protection. Though badly frozen, the boys were able to walk a half mile to Henry Hillman's and said, "they could not wake the teacher and Carrie-they were dead."
SOURCE- History of Faulk County, C. H. Ellis, 1909
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The mother, father and Carrie are enumerated in the 1885 Territorial census in township 118, range 71 in Faulk County. Both parents age 24, Carrie age 5. All born in Ill. Parents of parents all born in Penn.
Carrie was an only child when she died, the parents later had 2 sons, Delbert H. and Kenneth C. Auman.
SOURCE- 1910 census
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The 1900 census states 5 children, 2 living.
1910 shows 6 children, 2 living.
Possibly Carrie was born to an earlier wife; the 1900 census shows them married 15 years and 1910 shows 24 years. Carrie was born about 1880, if the 1909 history is correct. The 1885 census also suggests she was born about 1880.
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New data (20 May 2015), the genfritz 2 family tree on ancestry has Auman's wife as Mary Ritzman, b. 1871- if so she could not be the birth mother. (1860/1 would seem most likely correct.) I must say, in reviewing genfritz 2, (1 Jul 2019) that it is unsourced and doesn't even match Mary's Findagrave profile, having incorrect birth and death dates. It cannot be considered a valid source. KG
The 1885 Territorial census states they were both 24 years old.
BLM records show Horace has 160 acres of land in sect. 5 of 117N 71W in Faulk County in August, 1890.
Possibly the mother, also Mary, died shortly before or after the 1885 census was taken and he married another Mary about then?? This would account for the 15 years of marriage in 1900. They are both 39 in 1900 and a year apart in 1910, both a first marriage. Both 58 in 1920. That 1871 birth year for Mary doesn't seem right.
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I speculate she is buried in the Burkmere/Harrington cemetery as it was the closest and there are perhaps as many as 20 unmarked graves there per the landowner. KG
Miss Ella Lamar, aged 29 years, teacher at the Auman school house, seventeen miles southwest of Faulkton in the Ellisville school district; Carrie Auman, aged 8 years, a pupil of Miss Lamar's. The teacher and pupil left the school room to go to Mr. Auman's house, a distance of forty rods, nearly with the wind. Their bodies were found as far beyond the house for which they started, as the house was distant from the school house. Had they remained in the school-room they would have been safe.
"Herman and Edwin Giese, aged respectively 12 and 9 years, of 117-70, were at school with Miss Lamar, and against their wishes, accompanied her and little Carrie Auman from the school house into the storm. The boys report that when Miss Lamar gave out they all lay down and remained until Friday. The snow had drifted over them and gave some protection. Though badly frozen, the boys were able to walk a half mile to Henry Hillman's and said, "they could not wake the teacher and Carrie-they were dead."
SOURCE- History of Faulk County, C. H. Ellis, 1909
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The mother, father and Carrie are enumerated in the 1885 Territorial census in township 118, range 71 in Faulk County. Both parents age 24, Carrie age 5. All born in Ill. Parents of parents all born in Penn.
Carrie was an only child when she died, the parents later had 2 sons, Delbert H. and Kenneth C. Auman.
SOURCE- 1910 census
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The 1900 census states 5 children, 2 living.
1910 shows 6 children, 2 living.
Possibly Carrie was born to an earlier wife; the 1900 census shows them married 15 years and 1910 shows 24 years. Carrie was born about 1880, if the 1909 history is correct. The 1885 census also suggests she was born about 1880.
==============================================
New data (20 May 2015), the genfritz 2 family tree on ancestry has Auman's wife as Mary Ritzman, b. 1871- if so she could not be the birth mother. (1860/1 would seem most likely correct.) I must say, in reviewing genfritz 2, (1 Jul 2019) that it is unsourced and doesn't even match Mary's Findagrave profile, having incorrect birth and death dates. It cannot be considered a valid source. KG
The 1885 Territorial census states they were both 24 years old.
BLM records show Horace has 160 acres of land in sect. 5 of 117N 71W in Faulk County in August, 1890.
Possibly the mother, also Mary, died shortly before or after the 1885 census was taken and he married another Mary about then?? This would account for the 15 years of marriage in 1900. They are both 39 in 1900 and a year apart in 1910, both a first marriage. Both 58 in 1920. That 1871 birth year for Mary doesn't seem right.
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I speculate she is buried in the Burkmere/Harrington cemetery as it was the closest and there are perhaps as many as 20 unmarked graves there per the landowner. KG
"Herman and Edwin Giese, aged respectively 12 and 9 years, of 117-70, were at school with Miss Lamar, and against their wishes, accompanied her and little Carrie Auman from the school house into the storm. The boys report that when Miss Lamar gave out they all lay down and remained until Friday. The snow had drifted over them and gave some protection. Though badly frozen, the boys were able to walk a half mile to Henry Hillman's and said, "they could not wake the teacher and Carrie-they were dead."
SOURCE- History of Faulk County, C. H. Ellis, 1909
===============================================
The mother, father and Carrie are enumerated in the 1885 Territorial census in township 118, range 71 in Faulk County. Both parents age 24, Carrie age 5. All born in Ill. Parents of parents all born in Penn.
Carrie was an only child when she died, the parents later had 2 sons, Delbert H. and Kenneth C. Auman.
SOURCE- 1910 census
==============================================
The 1900 census states 5 children, 2 living.
1910 shows 6 children, 2 living.
Possibly Carrie was born to an earlier wife; the 1900 census shows them married 15 years and 1910 shows 24 years. Carrie was born about 1880, if the 1909 history is correct. The 1885 census also suggests she was born about 1880.
==============================================
New data (20 May 2015), the genfritz 2 family tree on ancestry has Auman's wife as Mary Ritzman, b. 1871- if so she could not be the birth mother. (1860/1 would seem most likely correct.) I must say, in reviewing genfritz 2, (1 Jul 2019) that it is unsourced and doesn't even match Mary's Findagrave profile, having incorrect birth and death dates. It cannot be considered a valid source. KG
The 1885 Territorial census states they were both 24 years old.
BLM records show Horace has 160 acres of land in sect. 5 of 117N 71W in Faulk County in August, 1890.
Possibly the mother, also Mary, died shortly before or after the 1885 census was taken and he married another Mary about then?? This would account for the 15 years of marriage in 1900. They are both 39 in 1900 and a year apart in 1910, both a first marriage. Both 58 in 1920. That 1871 birth year for Mary doesn't seem right.
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I speculate she is buried in the Burkmere/Harrington cemetery as it was the closest and there are perhaps as many as 20 unmarked graves there per the landowner. KG
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