He and his wife, both native Minnesotans, were early California snowbirds with a mission, keeping in touch with a grandson. Daughter, Minnie, who married Canadian Ralph Hodgson, died young, decades before them, of TB. Before Minnie died, she and Ralph left their Minnesota-born son with Hodgson relatives in Canada. Was leaving him in Canada a sign they feared Ralph had tested positive? They feared his giving TB to the boy, after she died?
George and wife Della would see their grandson by both parties going to and fro, across the Canada line?
On a final trip, in 1925, as they brought George south, over the border at Portal, ND. The boy said he'd made repeated visits from Canada to Minnesota, but that he was now returning to the US permanently, that his grandfather was paying for the return, and that they were on their way to California. He would still live with them for the 1930 US Census, their residence, at that point, in Crookston, Minn..
George died just four years later, his death record noting they'd only been in Pomona three months, their normal address . Della died similarly, but later. She clearly had had her body shipped back to Minnesota, as her name is still viewable at the Motley Cemetery.
His undertaker specifically noted George would be buried (cremation already was popular in California). They noted putting in a "receiving vault", but unlike burials that stayed in California, named no local cemetery, not sure of Minnesota cemetery names, so leaving it blank. Minnie is in the same cemetery, in Motley, Minnesota. His mother, Mrs. Green, also there. The town was in Minnesota's "Lake Country", not far west of Brainerd, and they'd lived there for some time .
The small town of Motley was odd, in one way. Its downtown was in Morrison County, while its rural edges were in two other counties. In Todd County, at the town's west edge, was the Motley cemetery.
Earlier, in Cass County, northwest of Motley by the late 1880s, their little family and two others had farmed, adjacent in the census list, farther apart if checking land records, as population in May Twp was sparse. They were across the river from Motley's down town and railroad, near Hwy 64 and Mosquito Creek. With brother Josiah Cooley and stepfather Ford Green, they had filed for a total of three homesteads, timed in a staggered fashion, Ford Green filing paperwork at St Cloud in 1886 and the two Cooley brothers in 1888, in idfferent months, his brother Josiah, aka Joe, calling himself Joseph.
George's daughter Minnie was born in 1887, maybe as they went to and fro, maybe, at first, a house kept in town while they cleared land for pastures? Or?
That three-household arrangement lasted through the July, 1895, Minnesota State Census? Their PO was located at Gull River that year. Their township still was rudimentary, with survey numbers only, May Twp's name not official until 1901. Mr and Mrs Green told the interviewer they'd been there for over 10 consecutive years, the two Cooley families, for over 6 years. Little Minnie was 8, her father George, 29.
In 1903 George had taken his little end of the family into Saskatchewan, censuses in 1906 and 1911 repeating 1903 as the immigration to Canada. In 1906 Minnie was still with them, their place with a long Canadian name, post office Estevan. In 1911, Minnies was next-door, maybe pregnant, married to Ontario-born Ralph Hodgson, everyone farming, as seen in other years. Minnie and her parents called their ethnicity "American". Ralph called his ethnicity Irish, no easy way to say he was of Quaker-descent from Pennsylvania, as well, or that his parents had had a big family, his mother widowed early.. Everyone was currently "Free Methodist". The town of Estevan still has a Free Methodist presence, a church of that faith possibly keeping old records.
Did they have a second daughter, born two years after Minnie? The 1911 Census, at Assiniboia, Sask. Canada showed her in the house, born July 1889, named Sarah Ardella, for her mother, born United States July 1889 , not present in the 1900 US Census or the 1906 Canada Census? In the 1916 Canada Census, Minnie had been dead a year, Ralph Hodgson was not in the house, but a four year old grandson using his middle name was present. His father would stay apart in Minnesota, later, in Oregon, no cure for active TB and for positive TB tests not yet active until antibiotics after WW II he married in Brainerd, MN, (around 1924?), in a Swedish Lutheran church, a relative of this writer's spouse, Jennie Benson. They would have an auto court in Oregon by the sea, a good place for visiting in the open air, distancing?
See FamilySearch.org for images of records.
He and his wife were early snowbirds, making treks from Saskatchewan, Canada, and Minnesota, down to the LA area of California. Border crossings were definitely done in North Dakota (town of Portal) or coming from Vancouver Canada, if wanting to see their son-in-law (John Ralph Hodgson).
JB, 2022
Contributor: JBrown, IA, MN, Calif, AustinTX (48697180)
George and wife Della would see their grandson by both parties going to and fro, across the Canada line?
On a final trip, in 1925, as they brought George south, over the border at Portal, ND. The boy said he'd made repeated visits from Canada to Minnesota, but that he was now returning to the US permanently, that his grandfather was paying for the return, and that they were on their way to California. He would still live with them for the 1930 US Census, their residence, at that point, in Crookston, Minn..
George died just four years later, his death record noting they'd only been in Pomona three months, their normal address . Della died similarly, but later. She clearly had had her body shipped back to Minnesota, as her name is still viewable at the Motley Cemetery.
His undertaker specifically noted George would be buried (cremation already was popular in California). They noted putting in a "receiving vault", but unlike burials that stayed in California, named no local cemetery, not sure of Minnesota cemetery names, so leaving it blank. Minnie is in the same cemetery, in Motley, Minnesota. His mother, Mrs. Green, also there. The town was in Minnesota's "Lake Country", not far west of Brainerd, and they'd lived there for some time .
The small town of Motley was odd, in one way. Its downtown was in Morrison County, while its rural edges were in two other counties. In Todd County, at the town's west edge, was the Motley cemetery.
Earlier, in Cass County, northwest of Motley by the late 1880s, their little family and two others had farmed, adjacent in the census list, farther apart if checking land records, as population in May Twp was sparse. They were across the river from Motley's down town and railroad, near Hwy 64 and Mosquito Creek. With brother Josiah Cooley and stepfather Ford Green, they had filed for a total of three homesteads, timed in a staggered fashion, Ford Green filing paperwork at St Cloud in 1886 and the two Cooley brothers in 1888, in idfferent months, his brother Josiah, aka Joe, calling himself Joseph.
George's daughter Minnie was born in 1887, maybe as they went to and fro, maybe, at first, a house kept in town while they cleared land for pastures? Or?
That three-household arrangement lasted through the July, 1895, Minnesota State Census? Their PO was located at Gull River that year. Their township still was rudimentary, with survey numbers only, May Twp's name not official until 1901. Mr and Mrs Green told the interviewer they'd been there for over 10 consecutive years, the two Cooley families, for over 6 years. Little Minnie was 8, her father George, 29.
In 1903 George had taken his little end of the family into Saskatchewan, censuses in 1906 and 1911 repeating 1903 as the immigration to Canada. In 1906 Minnie was still with them, their place with a long Canadian name, post office Estevan. In 1911, Minnies was next-door, maybe pregnant, married to Ontario-born Ralph Hodgson, everyone farming, as seen in other years. Minnie and her parents called their ethnicity "American". Ralph called his ethnicity Irish, no easy way to say he was of Quaker-descent from Pennsylvania, as well, or that his parents had had a big family, his mother widowed early.. Everyone was currently "Free Methodist". The town of Estevan still has a Free Methodist presence, a church of that faith possibly keeping old records.
Did they have a second daughter, born two years after Minnie? The 1911 Census, at Assiniboia, Sask. Canada showed her in the house, born July 1889, named Sarah Ardella, for her mother, born United States July 1889 , not present in the 1900 US Census or the 1906 Canada Census? In the 1916 Canada Census, Minnie had been dead a year, Ralph Hodgson was not in the house, but a four year old grandson using his middle name was present. His father would stay apart in Minnesota, later, in Oregon, no cure for active TB and for positive TB tests not yet active until antibiotics after WW II he married in Brainerd, MN, (around 1924?), in a Swedish Lutheran church, a relative of this writer's spouse, Jennie Benson. They would have an auto court in Oregon by the sea, a good place for visiting in the open air, distancing?
See FamilySearch.org for images of records.
He and his wife were early snowbirds, making treks from Saskatchewan, Canada, and Minnesota, down to the LA area of California. Border crossings were definitely done in North Dakota (town of Portal) or coming from Vancouver Canada, if wanting to see their son-in-law (John Ralph Hodgson).
JB, 2022
Contributor: JBrown, IA, MN, Calif, AustinTX (48697180)
He and his wife, both native Minnesotans, were early California snowbirds with a mission, keeping in touch with a grandson. Daughter, Minnie, who married Canadian Ralph Hodgson, died young, decades before them, of TB. Before Minnie died, she and Ralph left their Minnesota-born son with Hodgson relatives in Canada. Was leaving him in Canada a sign they feared Ralph had tested positive? They feared his giving TB to the boy, after she died?
George and wife Della would see their grandson by both parties going to and fro, across the Canada line?
On a final trip, in 1925, as they brought George south, over the border at Portal, ND. The boy said he'd made repeated visits from Canada to Minnesota, but that he was now returning to the US permanently, that his grandfather was paying for the return, and that they were on their way to California. He would still live with them for the 1930 US Census, their residence, at that point, in Crookston, Minn..
George died just four years later, his death record noting they'd only been in Pomona three months, their normal address . Della died similarly, but later. She clearly had had her body shipped back to Minnesota, as her name is still viewable at the Motley Cemetery.
His undertaker specifically noted George would be buried (cremation already was popular in California). They noted putting in a "receiving vault", but unlike burials that stayed in California, named no local cemetery, not sure of Minnesota cemetery names, so leaving it blank. Minnie is in the same cemetery, in Motley, Minnesota. His mother, Mrs. Green, also there. The town was in Minnesota's "Lake Country", not far west of Brainerd, and they'd lived there for some time .
The small town of Motley was odd, in one way. Its downtown was in Morrison County, while its rural edges were in two other counties. In Todd County, at the town's west edge, was the Motley cemetery.
Earlier, in Cass County, northwest of Motley by the late 1880s, their little family and two others had farmed, adjacent in the census list, farther apart if checking land records, as population in May Twp was sparse. They were across the river from Motley's down town and railroad, near Hwy 64 and Mosquito Creek. With brother Josiah Cooley and stepfather Ford Green, they had filed for a total of three homesteads, timed in a staggered fashion, Ford Green filing paperwork at St Cloud in 1886 and the two Cooley brothers in 1888, in idfferent months, his brother Josiah, aka Joe, calling himself Joseph.
George's daughter Minnie was born in 1887, maybe as they went to and fro, maybe, at first, a house kept in town while they cleared land for pastures? Or?
That three-household arrangement lasted through the July, 1895, Minnesota State Census? Their PO was located at Gull River that year. Their township still was rudimentary, with survey numbers only, May Twp's name not official until 1901. Mr and Mrs Green told the interviewer they'd been there for over 10 consecutive years, the two Cooley families, for over 6 years. Little Minnie was 8, her father George, 29.
In 1903 George had taken his little end of the family into Saskatchewan, censuses in 1906 and 1911 repeating 1903 as the immigration to Canada. In 1906 Minnie was still with them, their place with a long Canadian name, post office Estevan. In 1911, Minnies was next-door, maybe pregnant, married to Ontario-born Ralph Hodgson, everyone farming, as seen in other years. Minnie and her parents called their ethnicity "American". Ralph called his ethnicity Irish, no easy way to say he was of Quaker-descent from Pennsylvania, as well, or that his parents had had a big family, his mother widowed early.. Everyone was currently "Free Methodist". The town of Estevan still has a Free Methodist presence, a church of that faith possibly keeping old records.
Did they have a second daughter, born two years after Minnie? The 1911 Census, at Assiniboia, Sask. Canada showed her in the house, born July 1889, named Sarah Ardella, for her mother, born United States July 1889 , not present in the 1900 US Census or the 1906 Canada Census? In the 1916 Canada Census, Minnie had been dead a year, Ralph Hodgson was not in the house, but a four year old grandson using his middle name was present. His father would stay apart in Minnesota, later, in Oregon, no cure for active TB and for positive TB tests not yet active until antibiotics after WW II he married in Brainerd, MN, (around 1924?), in a Swedish Lutheran church, a relative of this writer's spouse, Jennie Benson. They would have an auto court in Oregon by the sea, a good place for visiting in the open air, distancing?
See FamilySearch.org for images of records.
He and his wife were early snowbirds, making treks from Saskatchewan, Canada, and Minnesota, down to the LA area of California. Border crossings were definitely done in North Dakota (town of Portal) or coming from Vancouver Canada, if wanting to see their son-in-law (John Ralph Hodgson).
JB, 2022
Contributor: JBrown, IA, MN, Calif, AustinTX (48697180)
George and wife Della would see their grandson by both parties going to and fro, across the Canada line?
On a final trip, in 1925, as they brought George south, over the border at Portal, ND. The boy said he'd made repeated visits from Canada to Minnesota, but that he was now returning to the US permanently, that his grandfather was paying for the return, and that they were on their way to California. He would still live with them for the 1930 US Census, their residence, at that point, in Crookston, Minn..
George died just four years later, his death record noting they'd only been in Pomona three months, their normal address . Della died similarly, but later. She clearly had had her body shipped back to Minnesota, as her name is still viewable at the Motley Cemetery.
His undertaker specifically noted George would be buried (cremation already was popular in California). They noted putting in a "receiving vault", but unlike burials that stayed in California, named no local cemetery, not sure of Minnesota cemetery names, so leaving it blank. Minnie is in the same cemetery, in Motley, Minnesota. His mother, Mrs. Green, also there. The town was in Minnesota's "Lake Country", not far west of Brainerd, and they'd lived there for some time .
The small town of Motley was odd, in one way. Its downtown was in Morrison County, while its rural edges were in two other counties. In Todd County, at the town's west edge, was the Motley cemetery.
Earlier, in Cass County, northwest of Motley by the late 1880s, their little family and two others had farmed, adjacent in the census list, farther apart if checking land records, as population in May Twp was sparse. They were across the river from Motley's down town and railroad, near Hwy 64 and Mosquito Creek. With brother Josiah Cooley and stepfather Ford Green, they had filed for a total of three homesteads, timed in a staggered fashion, Ford Green filing paperwork at St Cloud in 1886 and the two Cooley brothers in 1888, in idfferent months, his brother Josiah, aka Joe, calling himself Joseph.
George's daughter Minnie was born in 1887, maybe as they went to and fro, maybe, at first, a house kept in town while they cleared land for pastures? Or?
That three-household arrangement lasted through the July, 1895, Minnesota State Census? Their PO was located at Gull River that year. Their township still was rudimentary, with survey numbers only, May Twp's name not official until 1901. Mr and Mrs Green told the interviewer they'd been there for over 10 consecutive years, the two Cooley families, for over 6 years. Little Minnie was 8, her father George, 29.
In 1903 George had taken his little end of the family into Saskatchewan, censuses in 1906 and 1911 repeating 1903 as the immigration to Canada. In 1906 Minnie was still with them, their place with a long Canadian name, post office Estevan. In 1911, Minnies was next-door, maybe pregnant, married to Ontario-born Ralph Hodgson, everyone farming, as seen in other years. Minnie and her parents called their ethnicity "American". Ralph called his ethnicity Irish, no easy way to say he was of Quaker-descent from Pennsylvania, as well, or that his parents had had a big family, his mother widowed early.. Everyone was currently "Free Methodist". The town of Estevan still has a Free Methodist presence, a church of that faith possibly keeping old records.
Did they have a second daughter, born two years after Minnie? The 1911 Census, at Assiniboia, Sask. Canada showed her in the house, born July 1889, named Sarah Ardella, for her mother, born United States July 1889 , not present in the 1900 US Census or the 1906 Canada Census? In the 1916 Canada Census, Minnie had been dead a year, Ralph Hodgson was not in the house, but a four year old grandson using his middle name was present. His father would stay apart in Minnesota, later, in Oregon, no cure for active TB and for positive TB tests not yet active until antibiotics after WW II he married in Brainerd, MN, (around 1924?), in a Swedish Lutheran church, a relative of this writer's spouse, Jennie Benson. They would have an auto court in Oregon by the sea, a good place for visiting in the open air, distancing?
See FamilySearch.org for images of records.
He and his wife were early snowbirds, making treks from Saskatchewan, Canada, and Minnesota, down to the LA area of California. Border crossings were definitely done in North Dakota (town of Portal) or coming from Vancouver Canada, if wanting to see their son-in-law (John Ralph Hodgson).
JB, 2022
Contributor: JBrown, IA, MN, Calif, AustinTX (48697180)
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