Henry was born in Snyder, Nebraska in 1889 to Aline and Frederick Vietmeier, a family of eight children. He worked as a carpenter in Chicago until 1930. When the depression came he moved to Herbster, purchased land that had all the big pine logged off on what is now Bark River Road and began clearing for farming. The pine stumps were removed with dynamite. It was a slow process but there were other families doing the same process and they worked together. He built a house ordered out of The Sears Roebuck catalogue. In 1937, he married Anna Maria Larson at the church he and Herman Ehlers helped build the same year. Their wedding was the first in Immanuel Lutheran Church in Cornucopia, Wisconsin. They had three children.
The neighbors to the south were the Lamkens and to the north were the Walters. They were all small scale dairy farms. Henry also raised chickens and sold eggs. His Model A Ford was used for everything from the honeymoon trip to pulling the hay wagon and grinding feed for the cows, and flour for bread; jacking up one back wheel removing the fender and pulling a belt around the wheel and on to the grinder which was mounted in feed bin.
There was always music in the farm house. Henry liked to play the violin that he ordered in Germany and have the children sing German songs that he taught them. Anna learned music through a correspondence course from New York, and Hildegard and Emeline learned to play the piano.
Henry Vietmeier farmed on small scale until shortly before he passed away in 1973 and Anna Vietmeier lived on the farm enjoying gardening and reading until 1985. She passed away in 1990.
The neighbors to the south were the Lamkens and to the north were the Walters. They were all small scale dairy farms. Henry also raised chickens and sold eggs. His Model A Ford was used for everything from the honeymoon trip to pulling the hay wagon and grinding feed for the cows, and flour for bread; jacking up one back wheel removing the fender and pulling a belt around the wheel and on to the grinder which was mounted in feed bin.
There was always music in the farm house. Henry liked to play the violin that he ordered in Germany and have the children sing German songs that he taught them. Anna learned music through a correspondence course from New York, and Hildegard and Emeline learned to play the piano.
Henry Vietmeier farmed on small scale until shortly before he passed away in 1973 and Anna Vietmeier lived on the farm enjoying gardening and reading until 1985. She passed away in 1990.
Henry was born in Snyder, Nebraska in 1889 to Aline and Frederick Vietmeier, a family of eight children. He worked as a carpenter in Chicago until 1930. When the depression came he moved to Herbster, purchased land that had all the big pine logged off on what is now Bark River Road and began clearing for farming. The pine stumps were removed with dynamite. It was a slow process but there were other families doing the same process and they worked together. He built a house ordered out of The Sears Roebuck catalogue. In 1937, he married Anna Maria Larson at the church he and Herman Ehlers helped build the same year. Their wedding was the first in Immanuel Lutheran Church in Cornucopia, Wisconsin. They had three children.
The neighbors to the south were the Lamkens and to the north were the Walters. They were all small scale dairy farms. Henry also raised chickens and sold eggs. His Model A Ford was used for everything from the honeymoon trip to pulling the hay wagon and grinding feed for the cows, and flour for bread; jacking up one back wheel removing the fender and pulling a belt around the wheel and on to the grinder which was mounted in feed bin.
There was always music in the farm house. Henry liked to play the violin that he ordered in Germany and have the children sing German songs that he taught them. Anna learned music through a correspondence course from New York, and Hildegard and Emeline learned to play the piano.
Henry Vietmeier farmed on small scale until shortly before he passed away in 1973 and Anna Vietmeier lived on the farm enjoying gardening and reading until 1985. She passed away in 1990.
The neighbors to the south were the Lamkens and to the north were the Walters. They were all small scale dairy farms. Henry also raised chickens and sold eggs. His Model A Ford was used for everything from the honeymoon trip to pulling the hay wagon and grinding feed for the cows, and flour for bread; jacking up one back wheel removing the fender and pulling a belt around the wheel and on to the grinder which was mounted in feed bin.
There was always music in the farm house. Henry liked to play the violin that he ordered in Germany and have the children sing German songs that he taught them. Anna learned music through a correspondence course from New York, and Hildegard and Emeline learned to play the piano.
Henry Vietmeier farmed on small scale until shortly before he passed away in 1973 and Anna Vietmeier lived on the farm enjoying gardening and reading until 1985. She passed away in 1990.
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