Addie was born in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, the daughter of Frederick A Vogel and Veronica Sophrona Foltz, of Star Lake, Minnesota. Her grandparents, John Foltz and Magdalina Doll came to Minnesota in the 1850s from Fort Recovery, Mercer County, Ohio. They were part of a splinter Catholic religious group who had quarreled with the local Catholic authorites over the priest who led them. He apparently was quite the charismatic leader, and after being excommunicated by the Ohio Church, led his people in wagons and oxcarts to the wilds of Minnesota. The point of dispute? He objected to the young girls wearing of crinolines (hoop skirts)--he was cut from the Church for chasing them out of services with a broom!Apparently, the parents agreed with his actions, because they faithfully followed him to Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
Addie's grandpa, Frederick Carol Vogel, was one of the founding fathers in Otter Tail County. When they arrived, it was still basicaly wilderness, and they built a thriving community there. He was a highly educated man having studied in France and Germany before immigrating to America. Schools were most important to him, and he founded and taught in the schools in Otter Tail County. Addie was a teacher before she married. Education was very important to her.
She married Benjamin Anton Weber, of Morrison County, Minnesota about 1912. By 1914, the young couple had left Minnesota forever, and establisehd themselves in Tacoma Washington, where they would live out their lives, and raise their four children. They never returned to Minnesota, save to visit, and they never, never, ever farmed. Ben Weber became a railroad man, and worked for the Great Northern Railroad all of his life. He was a bookkeeper, and all of his sons graduated from college. I think he was enormously proud of them. He and Addie lived a fine and long life.
Addie remained a Roman Catholic all of her life-curiously, in the next generation of Vogels-Dolls after the pioneers, a very few of them remained in the Church. Ben was a confirmed agnostic. Only the oldest son, Leonard, was raised in the Catholic faith, but not his three siblings. I have no idea why that arrangement was struck.
Addied died in 1977, much beloved and respected by all of her children, and the grandchildren who had the privelege to know her.
She was, in my eyes, absolutely perfect. She was a great lady.
Addie's grandpa, Frederick Carol Vogel, was one of the founding fathers in Otter Tail County. When they arrived, it was still basicaly wilderness, and they built a thriving community there. He was a highly educated man having studied in France and Germany before immigrating to America. Schools were most important to him, and he founded and taught in the schools in Otter Tail County. Addie was a teacher before she married. Education was very important to her.
She married Benjamin Anton Weber, of Morrison County, Minnesota about 1912. By 1914, the young couple had left Minnesota forever, and establisehd themselves in Tacoma Washington, where they would live out their lives, and raise their four children. They never returned to Minnesota, save to visit, and they never, never, ever farmed. Ben Weber became a railroad man, and worked for the Great Northern Railroad all of his life. He was a bookkeeper, and all of his sons graduated from college. I think he was enormously proud of them. He and Addie lived a fine and long life.
Addie remained a Roman Catholic all of her life-curiously, in the next generation of Vogels-Dolls after the pioneers, a very few of them remained in the Church. Ben was a confirmed agnostic. Only the oldest son, Leonard, was raised in the Catholic faith, but not his three siblings. I have no idea why that arrangement was struck.
Addied died in 1977, much beloved and respected by all of her children, and the grandchildren who had the privelege to know her.
She was, in my eyes, absolutely perfect. She was a great lady.
Addie was born in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, the daughter of Frederick A Vogel and Veronica Sophrona Foltz, of Star Lake, Minnesota. Her grandparents, John Foltz and Magdalina Doll came to Minnesota in the 1850s from Fort Recovery, Mercer County, Ohio. They were part of a splinter Catholic religious group who had quarreled with the local Catholic authorites over the priest who led them. He apparently was quite the charismatic leader, and after being excommunicated by the Ohio Church, led his people in wagons and oxcarts to the wilds of Minnesota. The point of dispute? He objected to the young girls wearing of crinolines (hoop skirts)--he was cut from the Church for chasing them out of services with a broom!Apparently, the parents agreed with his actions, because they faithfully followed him to Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
Addie's grandpa, Frederick Carol Vogel, was one of the founding fathers in Otter Tail County. When they arrived, it was still basicaly wilderness, and they built a thriving community there. He was a highly educated man having studied in France and Germany before immigrating to America. Schools were most important to him, and he founded and taught in the schools in Otter Tail County. Addie was a teacher before she married. Education was very important to her.
She married Benjamin Anton Weber, of Morrison County, Minnesota about 1912. By 1914, the young couple had left Minnesota forever, and establisehd themselves in Tacoma Washington, where they would live out their lives, and raise their four children. They never returned to Minnesota, save to visit, and they never, never, ever farmed. Ben Weber became a railroad man, and worked for the Great Northern Railroad all of his life. He was a bookkeeper, and all of his sons graduated from college. I think he was enormously proud of them. He and Addie lived a fine and long life.
Addie remained a Roman Catholic all of her life-curiously, in the next generation of Vogels-Dolls after the pioneers, a very few of them remained in the Church. Ben was a confirmed agnostic. Only the oldest son, Leonard, was raised in the Catholic faith, but not his three siblings. I have no idea why that arrangement was struck.
Addied died in 1977, much beloved and respected by all of her children, and the grandchildren who had the privelege to know her.
She was, in my eyes, absolutely perfect. She was a great lady.
Addie's grandpa, Frederick Carol Vogel, was one of the founding fathers in Otter Tail County. When they arrived, it was still basicaly wilderness, and they built a thriving community there. He was a highly educated man having studied in France and Germany before immigrating to America. Schools were most important to him, and he founded and taught in the schools in Otter Tail County. Addie was a teacher before she married. Education was very important to her.
She married Benjamin Anton Weber, of Morrison County, Minnesota about 1912. By 1914, the young couple had left Minnesota forever, and establisehd themselves in Tacoma Washington, where they would live out their lives, and raise their four children. They never returned to Minnesota, save to visit, and they never, never, ever farmed. Ben Weber became a railroad man, and worked for the Great Northern Railroad all of his life. He was a bookkeeper, and all of his sons graduated from college. I think he was enormously proud of them. He and Addie lived a fine and long life.
Addie remained a Roman Catholic all of her life-curiously, in the next generation of Vogels-Dolls after the pioneers, a very few of them remained in the Church. Ben was a confirmed agnostic. Only the oldest son, Leonard, was raised in the Catholic faith, but not his three siblings. I have no idea why that arrangement was struck.
Addied died in 1977, much beloved and respected by all of her children, and the grandchildren who had the privelege to know her.
She was, in my eyes, absolutely perfect. She was a great lady.
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