Leo's first wife, Alfrieda Abts,who passed away in 1936. Histories From The Genevieve married Harold Caldwell; they were the parent’s of one daughter, Terry. Harold passed away in 1961. Genevieve is now Mrs. RJ. Durante and is living in 1986 Centennial Book Fairfax, California. Helen married William Dwyer in 1943. They had one child, William Patrick. William, a Abts Major in the Air Force during World War II lost his life in Michael Abts, son of John and Maria Abts was born in the Pacific area. In 1950, Helen married Louis Dwyer. Rommerskershen, Germany in 1825. He came to They are the parents of four children: Daniel, Colleen, America in 1853 and settled in Galena, Illinois. On Joan and Karen. In 1945, Marie married Donald Lenhoff. March 31, 1861, Michael married Anna Lemper. They Their children are: Donald Charles, Mary Lou, William, moved to Cassville, Wisconsin, and lived there until 1864, Randall, Timothy, Nicholas and Victoria (twins), and when they moved to Fountain City, Wisconsin. Donna. Victoria died in infancy. Helen Dwyer Seventeen children were born to this union: Adeline, John Henry, William, Joseph, John Peter, Anton, Peter, Martin Sherman Adams Matilda Marie, Adeline, Moritz, Carl, Marie Caroline, Martin Sherman Adams, better known as "Sherm", was George, Jacob, Marie Gertrude, Anna Marie and Edward. born June 25, 1866, at Cedar Falls, Iowa. He came to Of the seventeen children, four: William, Joseph, Anton Randolph from Pierson, Iowa, in 1898 or 1899. He came and Henry settled in the Randolph area. William married because there was carpenter work to be done in this new Frances Hildebrand in 1896 in Fountain City, Wisconsin. community. He lived at the old Randolph House until his He was a carpenter and contractor. He built many sets of marriage to Eliza Ostrander of Pierson, Iowa in 1900. buildings in this area. The wedding took place at the home of her sister, Mrs. Will and Frances were the parents of four children: RF. Smith, and was conducted by Rev. Morning of the George, Gertrude, Ervan and Herbert. All are deceased Presbyterian Church. except Herbert who lives in Belden. Herbert married The family first lived in rented houses, but by the spring Beulah Seyl in 1926. They are the parents of two of 1904, they moved to their own home that he had built children, Louis of Dixon, Nebraska, and Norma (Mrs. in south Randolph. By that time, they had two daughters, Alvin Ehlers) of Wayne, Nebraska. Herbert and Beulah Louise and Mildred. own and operate the farm homesteaded by Beulah's Both daughters are graduates of Randolph High School. grandfather. To date the farm has been in the family for Both became teachers. Louise has a B.A.Degree from one hundred fifteen years. Wayne State College and a Masters Degree from the Joseph married Sedonia Kuhl. They were the parents of University of Nebraska. six children: Lena, Jerome, Everett, Beatrice, Genevieve Mildred has a B.A. Degree from Wayne State College. and Dolores. Two children died in infancy. Lena and Sherm spent most of his life doing carpenter work, but Everett are presently residing on the family farm east of during the depression he took the job as janitor of the high Randolph. school. He retired in 1936 and that was the year of his Anton came to Randolph in 1892 and went into the wife's death. harness and leather business. Four years later he sent for While in Randolph, Sherm enjoyed the summer trips he Christina Lang, who came from Fountain City, Wisconsin took, mostly by car, with his family. They toured the to be his bride. Anton stayed in the same location on main Black Hills, Minnesota, the Ozarks, the Colorado street until he sold his business in the 1940's. Children of Mountains, Yellowstone Park, Washington, Oregon, and Anton and Christine Abts were: John, Albert, Arthur, Canada. Dorothy, Eugene, LaVerne and Thomas. Thomas was a In 1942, the family home was sold and he and his World War II casualty. daughters moved to a home in Kearney, Nebraska, where Henry Abts married Anna Schleier and farmed in the Louise was teaching at the college. He passed away there Randolph area. They were the parents of five children: in 1961. He was 95 years of age. Katherine, Mayme, Anton, Edward and Frank, plus an Louise and Mildred retired from teaching in 1966 and adopted daughter Alfrieda. Henry was also a musician moved to Laguna Hills in California where they lived for and played the accordion for many dances. 14 years, spending much of their time in travel. In 1980, Mayme was the only member of Henry and Anna's they returned to Nebraska and now live at Eastmont children to remain in the Randolph area. She married Towers in Lincoln. Mildred Adams James Dendinger, they farmed northeast of Randolph and raised a family of four daughters; Loretta, Genevieve, Helen and Marie. Loretta and Leo Wattier were married in 1939. They have five children: James, Thomas, Roger, Barbara, and Larry in addition to a son Robert by Family Histories Submitted for the 1986 Centennial History Book Page 415 They did, and he did, and the church building went up. My mother, Elsie Elizabeth, married Fredrich Wilhelm Matschullat on February 17, 1929, and they had four daughters; Maxine, Rita, Myrna and Donna. I am Myrna. Myrna is married to Ray Welch and they reside in Berthoud, Colorado, belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, love family history and have a keen interest in the life and times of Randolph, Nebraska. The descendants of myself, Myrna Mae (Matschullat) Welch are a son, three daughters, and three grandchildren with two more on the way. The total descendants of my mother and father are four daughters, six grandchildren, Picture of Wagon with Aegerter on side and nine great-grandchildren. My mother passed away on October 21, 1982, and my Emil C. Aegerter father passed away on January 28, 1984. They both are My grandfather, Emil Clement Aegerter, was born April buried in Boulder, Colorado. My grandfather Emil 30, 1865, in Curselen, Bern, Switzerland, and came to this Aegerter passed away August 10, 1941, in Norfolk, country as a young man of 16. My grandmother, Minnie Nebraska, and my grandmother Minnie Aegerter passed Augusta Brauer, was born in Anamosa, Iowa, August 16, away April 30, 1951, in Boulder, Colorado. They are 1864. She was born to Charles and Dorthea (Peters) both buried in the Randolph cemetery along with some of Brauer who had immigrated to Jones County in Iowa from their children and great-grandfathers Aegerter and Brauer. Prussia some time in their early married life. My All of Grandfather Aegerter's children have passed grandparents, Emil and Minnie, were married in away except my Aunt Mae who is 93 and living in Monticello, Iowa on September 15, 1886, and their first Cedaredge, Colorado. She has given me much of the child, Pearl was born July 10, 1887, in Hopkinton, Iowa, above information, for which I am very grateful. where Grandfather worked at a creamery. Sometime When my husband and I went to Randolph in 1984, and during this period Emil's parents, Clement and Elizabeth went searching for my grandparent's graves in the (Graub) Aegerter came over from Switzerland to the same cemetery, I knew that they must be somewhere on the hill. location. More children soon joined Emil's and Winnie's Sure enough, that's where they were, as in life he wanted family; Carl in 1890, Minnie Mae in 1892, Hazel in 1893, to live on a hill. Myrna (Matschuttal) Welch and Earl in 1897. The family, Grandfather and Grandmother, and their Amanda Albers five children, then moved to Randolph, Nebraska, where Amanda's parents were John and Caroline Albers. They they set up housekeeping in a rented house in the country. came from Germany with their parents. John and Grandfather then went to work for a time in a creamery Caroline were married at Atlantic, Iowa. They lived in and then a butcher shop, both in Randolph. Atlantic for nine years before they moved to Randolph, in My mother, Elsie Elizabeth, was born in Randolph on 1892. They lived on a farm two and one-half miles north September 10, 1899, and the youngest of the family came of Randolph, known as the Theodore Frederick farm. The along June 1, 1901. His name was Martin. Around this Albers were parents of two daughters, Martha and time, Grandfather decided to go into real estate where he Amanda. made a substantial living and moved his family into a Martha married Anton Helms and they had one son who large white home at the top of the hill on the main street died as a very young man. of town. My Aunt Mae indicated to me that the home was Amanda was born January 24, 1897, and lived her remodeled and my mother always told me that young life in Randolph. The Albers moved to town when Grandfather believed in living on a hill. Amanda was six years old, and she attended the Randolph I was in Randolph the summer of 1984 and my husband Public School, graduating with a class of 20 from high and I went searching for that home, and sure enough it school in Randolph. After graduation she taught a rural still stands. Now there have been some additions, but the school for one year. She started working as a postal clerk spirit of my mother's family and what she told me about it in Randolph in May 1918.