Interview with Roy Wilhelm, December 24, 1992
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'''Roy''': Yeah, They were teenagers when that happened on account of Haight was supposed to get married and eventually Pa. | '''Roy''': Yeah, They were teenagers when that happened on account of Haight was supposed to get married and eventually Pa. | ||
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'''John''': Wonder at what point in time did they decide to go homestead up at Vernon? | '''John''': Wonder at what point in time did they decide to go homestead up at Vernon? | ||
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'''Roy''': Yeah, that's right. | '''Roy''': Yeah, that's right. | ||
| - | '''John''': Well now, we've talked about John, he married somebody and I read about him and his troubles in a Rothlisberger book, he must have married a Rothlisberger. (Ed. | + | ==Pa's siblings== |
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| + | '''John''': Well now, we've talked about [[John Benjamin Wilhelm|John]], he married somebody and I read about him and his troubles in a Rothlisberger book, he must have married a Rothlisberger. ''(Ed. Note: He married Luella Hall June 25, 1906. After John's death on June 9, 1911, she married a Rothlisberger.) '' | ||
'''Roy''': Yeah, he did. | '''Roy''': Yeah, he did. | ||
| - | '''John''': But what about the two sisters, Zora and Fan, what do you know about their . . . ? | + | '''John''': But what about the two sisters, [[Lydia Isora Wilhelm|Zora]] and [[Fanny Marilla Wilhelm|Fan]], what do you know about their . . . ? |
'''Roy''': Zora went down to, now wait, there was a girl that married a Rogers fellow and he went up with this homestead drive and he homesteaded "John Dutch's" place, John Rothlisberger's place and then he moved off and turned his equity over to John and John homesteaded. It happened all the time. You'd buy a homesteader out; buy his squattin' rights, get him out and you'd file on it, see. Now what was her name, oh that's Zora. | '''Roy''': Zora went down to, now wait, there was a girl that married a Rogers fellow and he went up with this homestead drive and he homesteaded "John Dutch's" place, John Rothlisberger's place and then he moved off and turned his equity over to John and John homesteaded. It happened all the time. You'd buy a homesteader out; buy his squattin' rights, get him out and you'd file on it, see. Now what was her name, oh that's Zora. | ||
