Anna was born near Lansing, Iowa, the daughter of German immigrants. When she was 19 she and her sister Marie came to Hastings, NE, to seek employment. During that time she met William Marks, who resided on a homestead farm in Valley County, and they were married in 1881. They lived in a sod house and over the next few years had five children: Henrietta, Theodore, Clara and Alvine. Clara had a twin who died in infancy. William moved the family to Colorado where he had established a homestead.
The homestead ranch near Leroy was all native buffalo grass and there were no trees. It must have been a barren looking land to come to, where there was only a small barn with one room for the family to live. The barn had a manger in the middle, the family lived on one side and the livestock were on the other side. They acquired dairy cattle and miked the cows to make butter to sell. The sod was broken and crops were planted. They built a two-story house and proceeded to have six more children: Ida, Elsie, Gustave, Walter, Oscar and Florence. The years were full of hard work and the heartbreak of losing one of the daughters to typhoid fever - Alvine died at the age of fifteen.
Anna Marie was converted to the Christian faith in her early youth and united with the Evangelical Church in Lansing, Iowa. She always transferred her church membership to a church wherever she was living. She was one of the charter members of the Leroy church when it was established in 1888. One evidence of her devotion to the Christian cause was that her children and grandchildren were active workers in the faith, either by participating, ministering or through benevolence. Anna must have had a green thumb because the yard around the farm house was beautiful with flowers and shrubs. The vegetable garden supplied plenty of fresh vegetables to feed the family. They were fortunate to have two good wells on the farm to water the garden and the stock.
Anna came to Sterling when she fell ill and spent a time in a hospital. She died about a week lter at the home of her daughter Henrietta.
The homestead ranch near Leroy was all native buffalo grass and there were no trees. It must have been a barren looking land to come to, where there was only a small barn with one room for the family to live. The barn had a manger in the middle, the family lived on one side and the livestock were on the other side. They acquired dairy cattle and miked the cows to make butter to sell. The sod was broken and crops were planted. They built a two-story house and proceeded to have six more children: Ida, Elsie, Gustave, Walter, Oscar and Florence. The years were full of hard work and the heartbreak of losing one of the daughters to typhoid fever - Alvine died at the age of fifteen.
Anna Marie was converted to the Christian faith in her early youth and united with the Evangelical Church in Lansing, Iowa. She always transferred her church membership to a church wherever she was living. She was one of the charter members of the Leroy church when it was established in 1888. One evidence of her devotion to the Christian cause was that her children and grandchildren were active workers in the faith, either by participating, ministering or through benevolence. Anna must have had a green thumb because the yard around the farm house was beautiful with flowers and shrubs. The vegetable garden supplied plenty of fresh vegetables to feed the family. They were fortunate to have two good wells on the farm to water the garden and the stock.
Anna came to Sterling when she fell ill and spent a time in a hospital. She died about a week lter at the home of her daughter Henrietta.
Anna was born near Lansing, Iowa, the daughter of German immigrants. When she was 19 she and her sister Marie came to Hastings, NE, to seek employment. During that time she met William Marks, who resided on a homestead farm in Valley County, and they were married in 1881. They lived in a sod house and over the next few years had five children: Henrietta, Theodore, Clara and Alvine. Clara had a twin who died in infancy. William moved the family to Colorado where he had established a homestead.
The homestead ranch near Leroy was all native buffalo grass and there were no trees. It must have been a barren looking land to come to, where there was only a small barn with one room for the family to live. The barn had a manger in the middle, the family lived on one side and the livestock were on the other side. They acquired dairy cattle and miked the cows to make butter to sell. The sod was broken and crops were planted. They built a two-story house and proceeded to have six more children: Ida, Elsie, Gustave, Walter, Oscar and Florence. The years were full of hard work and the heartbreak of losing one of the daughters to typhoid fever - Alvine died at the age of fifteen.
Anna Marie was converted to the Christian faith in her early youth and united with the Evangelical Church in Lansing, Iowa. She always transferred her church membership to a church wherever she was living. She was one of the charter members of the Leroy church when it was established in 1888. One evidence of her devotion to the Christian cause was that her children and grandchildren were active workers in the faith, either by participating, ministering or through benevolence. Anna must have had a green thumb because the yard around the farm house was beautiful with flowers and shrubs. The vegetable garden supplied plenty of fresh vegetables to feed the family. They were fortunate to have two good wells on the farm to water the garden and the stock.
Anna came to Sterling when she fell ill and spent a time in a hospital. She died about a week lter at the home of her daughter Henrietta.
The homestead ranch near Leroy was all native buffalo grass and there were no trees. It must have been a barren looking land to come to, where there was only a small barn with one room for the family to live. The barn had a manger in the middle, the family lived on one side and the livestock were on the other side. They acquired dairy cattle and miked the cows to make butter to sell. The sod was broken and crops were planted. They built a two-story house and proceeded to have six more children: Ida, Elsie, Gustave, Walter, Oscar and Florence. The years were full of hard work and the heartbreak of losing one of the daughters to typhoid fever - Alvine died at the age of fifteen.
Anna Marie was converted to the Christian faith in her early youth and united with the Evangelical Church in Lansing, Iowa. She always transferred her church membership to a church wherever she was living. She was one of the charter members of the Leroy church when it was established in 1888. One evidence of her devotion to the Christian cause was that her children and grandchildren were active workers in the faith, either by participating, ministering or through benevolence. Anna must have had a green thumb because the yard around the farm house was beautiful with flowers and shrubs. The vegetable garden supplied plenty of fresh vegetables to feed the family. They were fortunate to have two good wells on the farm to water the garden and the stock.
Anna came to Sterling when she fell ill and spent a time in a hospital. She died about a week lter at the home of her daughter Henrietta.
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