Erhart Lawrence (/E.L./Loraina/Lawrence) was born November 13, 1875 and died in March 8, 1949 at the age of 74.
He was a son of Erhard Accola and Anna Kindschi.
Erhart was the brother of Andrew; Jacob; Mary; Ursula; George C; Anna K; John; Heinrich W; Lidia; and Dora B.
He was a half-brother to Maud Accola (born abt 1897) and Walter Accola (born abt 1899).
Erhart, sometimes called by his middle name "Lawrence", grew up in a large family on a farm outside Prairie Du Sac, Sauk County, Wisconsin.
Sometime before 1910, he and his younger brother George, (who worked for the railroad at the time) headed off to the Edgeley, LaMoure County, North Dakota to seek their fortune. It was the railroad which caused the growth of Edgeley in the first decade of the 20th century, and it may have been the prospect of economic opportunity that drew the brothers to the Dakota plains.
In the 1910 US Census Erhart Accola is shown farming in Willowbank Township, LaMoure County with a family of fellow Wisconsinites, headed by a Dorland Bagley. Included in this family was a future brother-in-law named John Bagley, who married Bessie Kime.
It was in Edgeley that Erhart met his wife Myrtle Lavina Kime. They were married November 22, 1911 in Edgeley, LaMoure County, North Dakota. After six years of marriage they had the first of four daughters, Anna Blanche Accola. (She may have had a twin brother named Horace. Erhart's brother George moved on to Bozeman, Montana after the marriage of his brother. By the time of the US Census in February 1920, "Lawrence", Myrtle, and daughter Anna were listed as farming in Cameron County, south Texas.
Until 1932 Erhart and Myrtle lived in the southern tip of Texas at San Benito where he made a living truck farming. It was there that their next 3 daughters Bessie, Mabel Lois [27 Apr 1925-17 Oct 1925], and Alma Frances were born, with young Mabel dying of Pneumonia before she reached six months of age.
The coming of the Great Depression brought the collapse of the market prices for fruits and vegetables, so Erhart and his family made their way north to his family farm in Wisconsin in a car held together with baling wire.
For much of the remaining years of his life, Erhart worked as a farm hand with his relatives in Sauk County, Wisconsin. In 1949 he met a tragic death when walking across Highway 12 near his farm by Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin. A drunk driver travelling at high speeds, hit him, decapitating him in the process.
He was a son of Erhard Accola and Anna Kindschi.
Erhart was the brother of Andrew; Jacob; Mary; Ursula; George C; Anna K; John; Heinrich W; Lidia; and Dora B.
He was a half-brother to Maud Accola (born abt 1897) and Walter Accola (born abt 1899).
Erhart, sometimes called by his middle name "Lawrence", grew up in a large family on a farm outside Prairie Du Sac, Sauk County, Wisconsin.
Sometime before 1910, he and his younger brother George, (who worked for the railroad at the time) headed off to the Edgeley, LaMoure County, North Dakota to seek their fortune. It was the railroad which caused the growth of Edgeley in the first decade of the 20th century, and it may have been the prospect of economic opportunity that drew the brothers to the Dakota plains.
In the 1910 US Census Erhart Accola is shown farming in Willowbank Township, LaMoure County with a family of fellow Wisconsinites, headed by a Dorland Bagley. Included in this family was a future brother-in-law named John Bagley, who married Bessie Kime.
It was in Edgeley that Erhart met his wife Myrtle Lavina Kime. They were married November 22, 1911 in Edgeley, LaMoure County, North Dakota. After six years of marriage they had the first of four daughters, Anna Blanche Accola. (She may have had a twin brother named Horace. Erhart's brother George moved on to Bozeman, Montana after the marriage of his brother. By the time of the US Census in February 1920, "Lawrence", Myrtle, and daughter Anna were listed as farming in Cameron County, south Texas.
Until 1932 Erhart and Myrtle lived in the southern tip of Texas at San Benito where he made a living truck farming. It was there that their next 3 daughters Bessie, Mabel Lois [27 Apr 1925-17 Oct 1925], and Alma Frances were born, with young Mabel dying of Pneumonia before she reached six months of age.
The coming of the Great Depression brought the collapse of the market prices for fruits and vegetables, so Erhart and his family made their way north to his family farm in Wisconsin in a car held together with baling wire.
For much of the remaining years of his life, Erhart worked as a farm hand with his relatives in Sauk County, Wisconsin. In 1949 he met a tragic death when walking across Highway 12 near his farm by Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin. A drunk driver travelling at high speeds, hit him, decapitating him in the process.
Erhart Lawrence (/E.L./Loraina/Lawrence) was born November 13, 1875 and died in March 8, 1949 at the age of 74.
He was a son of Erhard Accola and Anna Kindschi.
Erhart was the brother of Andrew; Jacob; Mary; Ursula; George C; Anna K; John; Heinrich W; Lidia; and Dora B.
He was a half-brother to Maud Accola (born abt 1897) and Walter Accola (born abt 1899).
Erhart, sometimes called by his middle name "Lawrence", grew up in a large family on a farm outside Prairie Du Sac, Sauk County, Wisconsin.
Sometime before 1910, he and his younger brother George, (who worked for the railroad at the time) headed off to the Edgeley, LaMoure County, North Dakota to seek their fortune. It was the railroad which caused the growth of Edgeley in the first decade of the 20th century, and it may have been the prospect of economic opportunity that drew the brothers to the Dakota plains.
In the 1910 US Census Erhart Accola is shown farming in Willowbank Township, LaMoure County with a family of fellow Wisconsinites, headed by a Dorland Bagley. Included in this family was a future brother-in-law named John Bagley, who married Bessie Kime.
It was in Edgeley that Erhart met his wife Myrtle Lavina Kime. They were married November 22, 1911 in Edgeley, LaMoure County, North Dakota. After six years of marriage they had the first of four daughters, Anna Blanche Accola. (She may have had a twin brother named Horace. Erhart's brother George moved on to Bozeman, Montana after the marriage of his brother. By the time of the US Census in February 1920, "Lawrence", Myrtle, and daughter Anna were listed as farming in Cameron County, south Texas.
Until 1932 Erhart and Myrtle lived in the southern tip of Texas at San Benito where he made a living truck farming. It was there that their next 3 daughters Bessie, Mabel Lois [27 Apr 1925-17 Oct 1925], and Alma Frances were born, with young Mabel dying of Pneumonia before she reached six months of age.
The coming of the Great Depression brought the collapse of the market prices for fruits and vegetables, so Erhart and his family made their way north to his family farm in Wisconsin in a car held together with baling wire.
For much of the remaining years of his life, Erhart worked as a farm hand with his relatives in Sauk County, Wisconsin. In 1949 he met a tragic death when walking across Highway 12 near his farm by Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin. A drunk driver travelling at high speeds, hit him, decapitating him in the process.
He was a son of Erhard Accola and Anna Kindschi.
Erhart was the brother of Andrew; Jacob; Mary; Ursula; George C; Anna K; John; Heinrich W; Lidia; and Dora B.
He was a half-brother to Maud Accola (born abt 1897) and Walter Accola (born abt 1899).
Erhart, sometimes called by his middle name "Lawrence", grew up in a large family on a farm outside Prairie Du Sac, Sauk County, Wisconsin.
Sometime before 1910, he and his younger brother George, (who worked for the railroad at the time) headed off to the Edgeley, LaMoure County, North Dakota to seek their fortune. It was the railroad which caused the growth of Edgeley in the first decade of the 20th century, and it may have been the prospect of economic opportunity that drew the brothers to the Dakota plains.
In the 1910 US Census Erhart Accola is shown farming in Willowbank Township, LaMoure County with a family of fellow Wisconsinites, headed by a Dorland Bagley. Included in this family was a future brother-in-law named John Bagley, who married Bessie Kime.
It was in Edgeley that Erhart met his wife Myrtle Lavina Kime. They were married November 22, 1911 in Edgeley, LaMoure County, North Dakota. After six years of marriage they had the first of four daughters, Anna Blanche Accola. (She may have had a twin brother named Horace. Erhart's brother George moved on to Bozeman, Montana after the marriage of his brother. By the time of the US Census in February 1920, "Lawrence", Myrtle, and daughter Anna were listed as farming in Cameron County, south Texas.
Until 1932 Erhart and Myrtle lived in the southern tip of Texas at San Benito where he made a living truck farming. It was there that their next 3 daughters Bessie, Mabel Lois [27 Apr 1925-17 Oct 1925], and Alma Frances were born, with young Mabel dying of Pneumonia before she reached six months of age.
The coming of the Great Depression brought the collapse of the market prices for fruits and vegetables, so Erhart and his family made their way north to his family farm in Wisconsin in a car held together with baling wire.
For much of the remaining years of his life, Erhart worked as a farm hand with his relatives in Sauk County, Wisconsin. In 1949 he met a tragic death when walking across Highway 12 near his farm by Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin. A drunk driver travelling at high speeds, hit him, decapitating him in the process.
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