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THE WEDEL CONNECTION

Henry Wedel (1832-unknown) Married Maria Wedel (1838-unknown)

Henry Wedel was a brother of Marie Wedel, wire of the famous, Daniel Unruh. Daniel was a cousin of Tobias B. Unruh, mother's grandfather on her father's side.

Henry's wife "Maria Wedel" (different family) was a sister of Susanna Wedel, wife of Benjamin Dirksen who was mother's grandfather on her mother's side.

Henry and Maria Wedel with their family arrived in America with 700 other Mennonites aboard the "Switzerland"^ docking in Philadelphia on June 24,

1879.

Henry Wedel and Maria Wedel had 6 children as follows:

1. Cornelius Wedel (1856-1885) M. Anna Heinrichs

2. Anna Wedel (1858-unknown)

3. Lena Wedel (1861-unknown)

4. Henry Jr. Wedel (1863-unknown)

5. Jacob Wedel (1867-1922) M. Susie Hiebert

6. Peter Wedel (1871-1950) M. Margaret Wall

1st child of 6 of Henry Wedel and Maria Wedel.

Cornelius Wedel (1856-1885) Married Anna Heinrichs (1858-1895)

I should give a bit of background on Anna Heinrichs. Her mother, Maria Siemans (1821-1897) first husband was Jacob Toews (1818-1856) (direct ancestor of our Toews family) who was killed in the Russian War. Maria and Jacob had 5 children.

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After husband Jacob Toews was killed, Maria Siemans married Peter Heinrichs. They had 1 child, Anna Heinrichs, born April 25, 1858 in Russia. When Anna grew up she married Cornelius Wedel, born September 22, 1856 also in Russia. Anna Heinrichs and Cornelius Wedel came to America in 1879 and settled in the Dakota Territory.

Cornelius Wedel and Anna Heinrichs had 4 children as follows:

1. Anna Wedel (1879-1879) died in infancy

2. Peter Wedel (1881-unknown) died teenager from measles

3. Henry C. Wedel (1884-1965) married Mary Sperling

4. Anna Wedel (1886-1920) married a Mr. Wern

Cornelius Wedel (1856-1885), the first child of Henry Wedel (1832-unknown) and Marie Wedel (1838-unknown) was my father's cousin, he was employed by the railway company as a brakeman. At Marion Junction, Dakota Territory, on October 7, 1885, he was crushed between two railroad car couplers and died instantly.

Cornelius's brother Jacob married Susie Hiebert and 3 of their children married 3 of our cousins. Also Cornelius's younger brother Pete Wedel (1871-unknown) married father's sister, Margaret Wall.

Following the untimely death of Cornelius Wedel, Anna Heinrichs then married Isaac Heinrichs Jr. (1863-1951).

This family is recorded In the Duerksen, and Heinrichs family section.

The 1st and 2nd children of 4 of Cornelius Wedel and Anna Heinrichs both died young

3rd child of 4 of Cornelius Wedel and Anna Heinrichs.

Henry C. Wedel (1884-1965) Married Mary Sperling (1893-1974)

Henry C. Wedel born January 2, 1884 Turner County, Parker, (SD) Dakota Territory. Mary Sperling born March 24, 1893, also in Dakota Territory. They were married on January 12, 1912 at Carrington, North Dakota,

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Henry C. Wedel farmed in Conklin Township, Stutsman County, North Dakota. On September 16, 1937 they left for Freewater, Oregon where Henry got employment at the Harris Pine Mills in Pendleton, Oregon. Henry retired in 1953 and they moved to Turlock, California. Henry died on January 5, 1965, wife Mary passed away on April 26, 1974. Both are buried in Turlock, California.

Henry C. Wedel and Mary Sperling had 4 children as follows:

1. Oswald Wedel (1912-unknown)

2. Reuben C. Wedel (1914-

3. Delores Wedel (1921-1931) died young

4. Edna Wedel (1934-

1st child of 4 of Henry C. Wedel and Mary Sperling

Oswald Wedel (1912- Married Margaret Shafer (1916-

Oswald Wedel born October 18, 1912 at Woodworth, North Dakota. Margaret Shafer born August 14, 1916 at Staples, Minnesota. She was the daughter of John Shafer and Anna Miller. They were married on December 6, 1935 at Long Prairie, Minnesota. Oswald farmed until 1969 when he became a custodian and school bus driver at Randall, Minnesota until 1975. They have 2 children as follows:

1. Gordon Wedel (1936- Married Lois Robinson (unknown- Wesley Wedel (1970- born Albany, Oregon.

2. Joyce Wedel (1940- Married George Kleinschmidt (unknown- Kirk Kleinschmidt (1962- born Minneapolis, MN. Julie Kleinschmidt (1965- born Little Falls, MN. Chad Kleinschmidt (1971- born Little Falls, MN.

2nd child of 4 of Henry C. Wedel and Mary Sperling. Reuben C. Wedel (1914- Married Alta Sander (1923-

Reuben C. Wedel born January 27, 1914 at Woodworth, North Dakota. Alta Sander born October 20, 1923. Reuben was living at Pendleton, Oregon. In 1939 he moved to Turlock, CA. He then joined the US Army and spent 4 years in World War 11. On return he married Alta Sander on May 29, 1946 at Turlock, CA. He then stared a dairy farm, which they operated for over 30 years.

Reuben and Alta have 3 children as follows:

1. Stanley J. Wedel (1950- Married Linda Wesson (1952- Christopher Scott (1975-

2. Cornell Wedel (1954- Born at Turlock, CA.

3. Kendall Wedel (1961- Born at Turlock, CA.

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3rd child of 4 of Henry C. Wedel and Mary Sperling. Delores Wedel (1921-1931)

Delores Wedel born February 28, 1921 at Woodworth, North Dakota. She died on April 9, 1931 and is buried at Turlock, CA.

4th child of 4 of Henry C. Wedel and Mary Sperling Edna Wedel (1934- Married Harry Warner (unknown-

Edna Wedel born September 1, 1934 at Carrington, North Dakota. Edna and Harry Warner have 4 children as follows:

1. Michael Henry Warner (1954- born at Oakland, CA.

2. Ricky Alien Warner (1954- born at Oakland, CA.

3. Eddie Jo Warner (1956- born at Hayward, CA. '4. Jimmie Warner (1966- born at Hayward, CA.

Now go back to the

4th child of 4 of Cornelius Wedel and Anna Heinrichs.

Anna Wedel (1886-1920) 1st marriage to a Mr. Wern (unknown-unknown)

Mr. Wern was killed in a threshing accident in Canada, He and

Anna had 2 children as follows:

1. Mary Wern (1902-unknown)

2. Dave Wern (1904-unknown)

Anna Wedel (1886-1920) 2nd marriage to Joseph Japel (unknown-1943)

(The Joseph Japel and Anna Wedel family is recorded in the Duerksen and Heinrichs Family Section)

Now go back to the 2nd child of 6 of Henry Wedel and Maria Wedel.

Anna Wedel (1858-unknown)

3rd child of 6 of Henry Wedel and Maria Wedel. Lena Wedel (1861-unknown)

One of the above, Anna or Lena married a Loewen and lived in Kansas, need to find

4th child of 6 of Henry Wedel and Maria Wedel. Henry Wedel Jr. (1863-unknown) no record found

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5th child of 6 of Henry Wedel and Maria Wedel. Jacob Wedel (1867-1922) Married Susie Hiebert (1881-1939)

About 1895, Jacob Wedel, age 28 married a young girl of 14, Susie Hiebert who was the youngest (twin) child of Peter Hiebert and Minnie Buller. Minnie Buller was a twin sister of my grandmother, Mary Buller. Susie Hiebert died on February 29, 1939.

Jacob Wedel had a sister who married one of the Loewens. She is the grandmother of Dr. Leiand S. Loewen. Jacob had relatives left behind in Russia. The last time Jacob heard from them the Russians had taken their last cow.

Jacob Wedel and Susie Hiebert had 7 children as follows:

1. Minnie Wedel (1898-1910) died age 12 years

2. Ted Wedel êΩ(1899-1965)

3. Kathryn Wedel (1902-1987)

4. Blanche Wedel (1905-1971)

5. Fred Wedel (1910-1979)

6. Mabel Wedel (1915-1991) (Clara or Johnny)

7. Pete Wedel (1917-1975)

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6th child of 6 of Henry Wedel and Maria Wedel.

Peter Wedel (1871-1950) Married Margaret Wall (1878-1937) (Uncle and Aunt)

Margaret was father's sister and all their children are cousins. (Listed in the Wall section under the 6th child of 8 of Peter Wall and Mary Buller)

Now go back to the 1st child of 7 of Jacob Wedel (1867-1922) and Susie Hiebert (1883-1939)

Minnie Wedel (1898-1910) Minnie was born in North Dakota and died on February 10, 1910 at age 12. The family doctor performed an operation on the family kitchen table for a ruptured appendicitis but he could not save her.

2nd child of 7 of Jacob Wedel and Susie Hiebert.

1. Ted Wedel (1899-1965) Married Elizabeth (Betty) Hiebert (1902-1989)

Theodore (Ted) Wedel born February 18, 1899 at New Home, North Dakota, married Elizabeth (Betty) Hiebert on October 30, 1930 at Santa Rosa, California. Ted died on May 18, 1965 at Zena, California. Elizabeth (Betty) Hiebert born November 23, 1902 at Heaton, North Dakota. She died January 1, 1989 at Glendale, Arizona

Elizabeth (Betty) Hiebert and Ted Wedel had 3 children as follows:

1. Donald Theodore Wedel (1931- (was in Stockton State hospital)

2. Susan Jacqueline Wedel (1933- Married Edwin Odell Rogers (1929-Susan Wedel and Odeli Rogers live at Glendale, Arizona. Susan and Odell have 3 children as follows:

Suzette Rosemarie Rogers (1963—

Married Gary W. Hawkins (1962-Suzette (Sue) and Gary have 3 children as follows:

Evin Hawkins (1984- Ricky Hawkins (1987- Joey Hawkins (1989-

Caria Linnette Rogers (1968-Caria is a school teacher, currently teaching 8th grade math.

Cheryl Denise Rogers (1969-

Married Brian M. Jackson (unknown-Cheryl and Brian received their Master's Degree in Library. They are now living at the Southern Adventist University in Tennessee, with jobs.

3. Benjamin Henry Wedel (1942- lives in Portland, Oregon - single.

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The house or old shack was made of logs with mud stuffed between the logs, which had dried to keep the cold air out. My Dad opened up cardboard boxes and nailed these on the inside walls to keep more of the cold air out. The roof was made of shakes. You could look up and see daylight through the roof. Dad usually kept the roof in good repair.

In the wintertime we bathed in big galvanized tubs by the fire from the wood stoves. The house had an upstairs where the bedrooms were. The first year they used the living room, which had a fireplace in it. Off to the side of the living room was another bedroom. The reason parents had to quit using the living room is because when there was a fire in the fireplace it smoked into the rest of the house.

There was a long room where the kitchen was. Mother canned lots of fruit and vegetables during the summer. We had lots of chickens so we had lots of eggs. When the cows were fresh there was lots of milk. Mother would make cottage cheese from the extra milk. Mother would also make Vareniku and Pluma Mouse.

Dad would often go hunting in the wintertime and we would have venison morning, noon and night. We would have it in steak, stew and hamburger.

Mother also baked lots of bread, usually whole grain bread.

We had three cows. They were named Nancy, April and Goldie. Dad was the one who milked the cows, unless he was gone then Mother did it. When Dad came from the barn with a pail of fresh milk, Dad and I would each have a cup of warm milk. We thought this was great.

There was no electricity there, so the kerosene lamps were used. Wood was used for cooking and heating. We would heat the irons on the stove to iron our clothes, even if it was a hot summer day.

If any canning was done the stove had to be heated with a wood fire. When we first moved there Mother had to wash clothes on a washboard. After while she had a washing machine with a gasoline motor.

Our post office was located in a place called Zenia. Zenia had a store, post office and a gas pump. There was also a one-room schoolhouse located about a quarter mile from the store and post office.

The mail came three days a week. My Dad went the four miles to get the mail. In the winter time the mail didn't come into the valley. The Postman would leave the mail on the ridge road, which was seven miles away. Dad would walk the seven miles to get the mail.

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Once a year we went to town. It was usually to Eureka. Here they bought the groceries for the winter. Being this was before World War 11, they spent only fifty dollars for the groceries, which lasted them all winter. Usually our clothes were ordered from the Montgomery Ward catalog. When we received a new catalog the old ones were used for toilet paper.

There was an old outhouse that was about to fall down if anyone sat in it, so it wasn't used. Dad tore it down and dug a hole for another outhouse. He never did get the outhouse built, probably because he didn't have the lumber to finish it. ' êΩ

Once a year a nurse and doctor from the County Health Department would make the rounds of all the schools in the county. They would weigh and measure the children and give smallpox vaccinations and any other needed immunizations that were available at that time. All the pre-school children were brought to these clinics. This was the only type of medical care available there.

Mother never made a big thing about Christmas because they had so little money. I believe all the money Dad received was a small disability check he received when he was discharged from the army. We always had a decorated tree at Christmas time. Mother always cooked a special Christmas dinner.

One Christmas my doll was under the tree with a new dress Mother had made for it while I was asleep. Another Christmas I had some red slippers under the tree along with a new toothbrush on the tree. I really thought this was great.

When I was seven years old my parents moved away from the Shannon Place, because my Mother was going to have a baby. Mother had taught me to read, print and count at home but I needed to go to school. '.'êΩ'"

Several years after we moved away we received a letter from a former neighbor telling about the old house burning down. Mother was relieved because she knew she would never have to live there again.

(Susan Wedel Rogers)

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Excerpts from "THE SUSAN WEDEL ROGERS STORY" (In her own words)

Susan Jacqueline Wedel — 2nd child of Theodore (Ted) Wedel and Elizabeth (Betty) Hiebert - and granddaughter of Abraham Hiebert and Susan Wall.

Susan Wedel born December 25, 1933 at Hydesville, Humbolt County, California. She grew up in Humbolt and Trinity Counties. At age 15, she left home and attended Monterey Bay Academy, then studied at Pacific Union College, and on to Paradise Valley School of Nursing. Susan worked for a time in Los Angeles, where through a friend, she met Edwin Odell Rogers, son of William Charles Rogers and Avalona Carlton. Susan and Edwin were married on February 21, 1962 at Winterhaven, California.

Susan and Ed have 3 daughters, Suzette, Caria and Cheryl. Suzette Rosemarie Rogers born September 18, 1963 at Covina, California. She served nearly 8 years in the U.S. Navy and after her discharge; she met and married Gary Hawkins.

Caria Linnette Rogers born April 15 1968 at Yuba City, California She is employed as an Elementary School Teacher.

Cheryl Denise Rogers born June 11, 1969 at Riverside, California, she graduated from Pacific Union College in 1993 with a degree in English. She went to Andrews University to get her Masters degree where she met Brian Jackson from Coloma, Mi. In 1996, they both are in Tucson attending the University of Arizona, working for Masters degrees in library science.

Susan's mother, Elizabeth (Betty) Hiebert born November 23, 1902 in Heaton, North Dakota, she was delivered by her father, Abraham Hiebert by the light of a kerosene lamp.

Betty went to several schools in North Dakota until she was 17 years old. The family then moved to Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Betty went to St. Paul, Minnesota and stayed with Aunt Elizabeth Wall where she worked in the homes of wealthy people. Betty attended Hinsdale Academy, then Hinsdale School of Nursing, graduating in 1928.

Brothers Leonard, Abe and sister Sally also attended the Academy at Hinsdale, Illinois. Betty did private duty nursing in Chicago area before moving to California, at first staying with cousins, David and Virginia Wall.

Betty's father, Abraham Hiebert born October 8, 1864 (Ukraine) in Russia. He was going to have to go into military service in the Russian Army, so he decided to run away, but someone stole all the money '-- had with him and had to return home. His father Peter Hienrich, and mother Minnie Buller decided to take the family to America, which they did.

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Betty's father, Abraham Hiebert died March 2, 1925 and is buried êΩthere at Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Betty's mother, Susan Wall born December 16, 1866 in the Ukraine and died at Napa, California on August 20, 1939.

Susan's father, Theodore (Ted) Wedel born February 18, 1899 in North Dakota. In 1908, when Ted was 9 years old, the family moved to Texas with the Peter C. Wall family. After 2 years of Texas, they had enough so the family moved to Washington and then to Idaho, where Ted worked in the woods with his father, Jacob Wedel.

As the story goes, Ted's father was never sick a day in his life. He ate nothing but fried potatoes and drank the grease. He never lost any teeth, however he was shot and killed one day by a bad neighbor, in Idaho, over a minor dispute. Father Jacob fell into his daughter. Blanch's arms and died. A Posse was soon rounded up and they found and hanged the murderer, "Frontier Justice". Young Ted was also in the Posse.

Ted joined the army and went to the Philippines/ while there he became very ill and was shipped back to Letterman's General Hospital, in San Francisco. He was not treated very well there; he had rheumatic fever as a child and now developed a heart condition and got the gout. The doctors said that there was nothing they could do for him, so he should just go home and die.

Ted did go home to die/ but his mother; Susie Hiebert said that people used to go on a fruit juice diet for that condition. He did and got well. Ted used to say that doctors didn't know some of the simplest things and that they acted like you were there for them instead of them being there for you.

After Ted was discharged from the Army, the family moved from Dinuba, Ca. to Napa, California where Ted met Betty Hiebert. He had known her as a little girl in North Dakota. Ted and Betty were married in Santa Rosa, California in 1930. Later they moved to Los Angeles for a short time, but decided Northern California was a better place to live.

Ted wasn't practicing any religion, but said if he did it may be Seventh-Day-Adventist as he was brought up in that environment. He turned against religion after reading one of Darwin's books and this caused friction at home. After 29 years of marriage, Ted and Betty divorced. Ted did remarry, but his new wife, Jina, ran out on him after a short time.

Susan Wedel Roger's oldest brother, Donald Theodore Wedel, born September 2, 1931, stopped talking when he was 4 years of age, and didn't develop normally after that. He has been and still is alive as of 1996 at the Stockton State Hospital, in Stockton, California. The doctors think he probably had "Encephalitis".

Susan's youngest brother, Benjamin Henry Wedel, born March 1, 1942, lives in Portland, Oregon, never married.

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I also have very clear recollections of Aunt Susie Hiebert (Leonard's mother) and Aunt Annie and Uncle Frank Wall. My father and I moved to Oregon and Mother worked in San Rafael and followed later, after Grandmother had died.

Kathryn, my mother, told me that Susie, her mother, had come to this country when she was four years old from Russia and she had memories of being chased across the prairie by bandits and eating out of a common pot with wooden spoons. Susie traveled by covered wagon, I believe in this country. She was 14 years old when she married Jacob Wedel about 1895. He was 28 years old and a schoolteacher from the same part of Russia. Jacob's mother was a doctor in Russia and she would make visits to the sick by horse and wagon. There was also talk of a Polish grandmother. I don't know if they also came to this country but since Jacob was only 14 years old when he arrived, I assume it was possible.

Jacob and Susie had seven children: Minnie, Theodore, Kathryn, Fred, Blanch, Clara and Peter. Minnie, the first child, came down with appendicitis when she was 12 years old. The doctor came to the house way out on the plains in North Dakota in his red automobile, the first car my mother had ever seen. The children were sent outside and Minnie was operated on the kitchen table. She did not survive.

Jacob was a teacher but I don't believe he taught school when my mother was growing up. She was born in North Dakota where they homesteaded and then they moved to Texas around Odessa where they owned property that later became oil land. It must have been a bleak existence in two of the harshest climates our country has to offer. They never prospered. The kids would have to go into the prairie a after the cows barefoot as they had no shoes. They always had stickers in their feet and infections. Then they had to contend with the wild Texas Longhorn bulls who resented their presence.

I believe it was from Texas that Susie packed up the kids and left Jacob. They went on a long journey by train. I don't know where they went or how Jacob caught up with them but eventually they all lived in Farmington, Washington and later near St. Maries in Idaho.

Mother talked fondly of her Uncle Henry and Uncle Pete, her father's brothers, but the family did not seem to keep in close contact with the relatives, probably because they were always so poor and lived in far out rural areas. So seldom did they see anyone outside of the immediate family that Peter, the youngest, would run and hide behind a bush whenever a stranger would come to the house.

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Jacob did not plant a family garden. He would plant one crop, usually potatoes or cabbage, and that was what the family ate all year. His passion was horses, no matter how had up they were, he had horses and traded horses. Mother said he treated his horses better than he did his kids. Mother was kicked in the mouth by one of the horses while riding in the wagon. Luckily she had only a slight scar on her upper lip but she carried it for the rest of her life.

There was a lot of dissension in the home. Mother said she never heard her parents say a kind word to each other. Though the family never went to church, they professed the Adventist religion in such a hypocritical way that my mother and Ted and Blanch and Pete were alienated from any religion but Clara and Fred carried on the Adventist faith in one form or another.

Mother, and the rest of the kids were very good-looking and very bright, yet she was discouraged from going to school. Blanch wanted to be a nurse but was not able to pursue it. Mother got top grades but they weren't good enough for Jacob. She did finish the eighth grade. But it was always work for survival with no thought or dream of betterment. A friend gave her some magazines, which she carried for miles but when she got home Jacob took them away and burned them.

Mother told how Mable (Clara or Johnny) taught herself to read before she ever went to school. She would read by the wood stove then run out into the snow and slide down the hill and run back into the house and read again. The process would go on all day long.

Mother left home as soon as she was 18 years old and shortly after, Jacob was shot by a neighbor with whom he had had a dispute with some months before. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, the neighbor took his rifle and shot Jacob to death. He fell into the arms of Blanch, his favorite child. A posse, including Jacob's son Ted, hunted the man down and dispatched him on the spot.

Peter was only five and Mable (Clara or Johnny) was seven. Mother worked and sent money home. She worked in Lyie Kenworthy's grocery store in St. Maries, Idaho and they were married in 1924. He had two sons, Hugh and Roy, around my mother's age. Five years later in 1929, I was born.

The depression came with me and times were hard. Daddy managed the packinghouse for the orange growers out of Woodlake, California, where mother packed oranges. It was seasonal and we moved many times in search of work. I went to 14 different grade schools in California and Oregon. Mother hated to move because of constant uprooting of the family in her childhood.

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When I was grown they finally had a business and bought a house but father was discontent and mother divorced him in 1954. She moved to Aptos, California and in 1955 she married her first cousin, and first love, James Hiebert. He died in January 1961.

I never knew any of my father's family, he had lost track of his half brother and sister and I was only around Mother's family for short periods of time. We stayed with Blanche when she was married to Cornelius Wall in San Rafael for a short period of time about 1937 when my father was looking for work. We would go to the mountains on Friday nights where Cornelius would work his acreage on Wall Road. .

The two-lane highway was even then bumper-to-bumper traffic with people leaving the cities for the weekend. Eventually, Cornelius left the highway department a few months short of retirement, and they moved to the acreage where they had a vineyard and chickens. When I was 17 years old I again visited them and my Uncle Pete was there. Blanche was fun to be around. When I was little she would tell me stories and make faces. She was first married to a man who raised rabbits. He had a son who was killed, like so many young men, while riding the freight trains in search of work. He was a hobo. Blanche had no children.

We also stayed for a short time with Aunt Johnny (Clara or Mable) and Leonard in Yountville. This was the only time I was with my cousins Opal and Eugene. Then we moved to Oregon and I was not to see them again until I moved with my children to California in 1963.

Uncle Pete lived in Portland, Oregon, when we lived at Scappoose and I was about 12 years old. He was married to Georgia Dale, his first wife, a singer from Texas. They moved away and I was not to see him again until 1947 when I visited Blanche and Cornelius after graduating from high school. And Uncle Ted, I saw only twice, and Uncle Fred only a couple of times—once he and his wife visited us in Woodlake with his daughter Phyllis and stepdaughter Billie. We were hardly a close family.

Mother knew very little about her family origins. She had never heard that they were Mennonites. She had very little contact with her brothers and sisters except for an occasional letter until she moved to California in 1955. She lived longer than any of the Jacob Wedel children, attaining the age of 84 years and 9 months.

She died January 31, 1987, as did the rest of the family, of heart trouble/stroke. Mother was always a hard worker—she was never idle. She left a legacy of beautiful handmade quilts and her house and beautiful garden. Many of her flowers died shortly after she did even though they were cared for.

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The Mennonites were said not to have intermarried with the Russians but the history reveals that they worked in the Russian cities and did business with Russians and the Russians came into their community to work and do business also. My Uncle Pete said he did not believe they did not intermarry because they were "such a passionate bunch." Blanche had the very distinct look of the Russians from Siberia where the influence of the Chinese invaders was strong.

In December 1948, I married William Roy Salleng, born December 1923 to Roy Ivor Salleng and Grace Temple Salteng. He was in the logging business. Marilyn Ann Salleng was born on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1952 in Myrtle Point, Oregon and Jennifer Lorraine Salleng was born February 6, 1954 in North Bend, Oregon. We were divorced in September 1963.

I went to school to learn secretarial skills to support my girls and myself. I worked as executive secretary for business and in education until 1972 when I married Clyde Hutchin Abbott who was a construction estimator and now works for the University of California, Berkeley. I went back to school in 1974 and obtained a degree with a major in interior design. I still work in the field.

Marilyn Ann Salleng married Eugene Keith Franc in 1975 and has one daughter, Margaret Marie Kathryn Franc born 1976 who is working for a degree in biology.

Jennifer Lorraine Salleng, married Lloyd William Marshall in 1973 and her son Anthony William Marshall were born in January 1974. Her daughter Kasie Maree was born in 1990. ___

4th child of '7 of Jacob Wedel and Susie Hiebert Blanche Wedel (1905-1971) Married Cornelius Wall (1883-1971)

Blanche Wedel was born at New Home, North Dakota.

Cornelius Wall was the eldest son of Peter C. Wall father's brother. Blanche

Wedel was the 2nd wife of Cornelius Wall. (For details see the Peter Wall and Mary Buller section)

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5th child of 7 of Jacob Wedel and Susie Hiebert Fred Earnest Wedel (1910-1979) Married Rachel L. Hardy (1910-1997)

Fred Wedel was born on June 3, 1910 at Tyier, Texas. Rachel Hardy was born on May 29, 1910 at Carbon, Texas. They were married in 1932. Fred worked for the Publishing Department of the Southern California Conference of Seventh Day Adventist.

Rachel Hardy divorced Fred Wedel about 1945. He married his second wife, Helen dark, on December 17, 1950 in San Francisco. Helen Clark was born on December 23, 1923 at Gilroy, California.

Fred's 1st wife, Rachel L. Hardy passed away on April 10, 1997 at Monterey, California. Fred and Rachel had 1 child as follows:

1. Phyllis Marie Wedel (1933- Married Howard "Pete" Miller (1931-

Phyllis Wedel born March 28, 1933 at Yuba City, California. Howard "Pete" Miller born June 15, 1931 at Madera, California. They were married in San Francisco on September 6, 1953. Peter graduated class of 1955, Pacific Union College with a Theology Degree.

Phyllis graduated class of 1974, School of Nursing, Loma Linda University. Peter retired on April 1, 1997 with 41 3/4 years of service as Pastor in the Seventh Day Adventist Churches. Peter and Phyllis live in Marina, California.

Peter Miller and Phyllis Wedel have 3 children as follows:

1. Steven Michael Miller (1954- ':

.2. Gregory Carl Miller (1956-3. Mark Andrew Miller (1960-

1st child of 3 of Peter Miller and Phyllis Wedel Steven Michael Miller (1954- Married Debra Lee Harris (1953-

Steven was born on September 5, 1954 at Madera, California. Debra was born on December 14, 1953 in West Virginia. They were married in 1975 at La Crescenta, California. Steven graduated class of 1978, Loma Linda University. He teaches in the Riverside School District. Debra graduated class of 1974, School of Nursing, Loma Linda University.

Steven Miller and Debra Harris have 2 children as follows:

1. Steven Michael Miller II (1978-

2. Jamie Elizabeth Miller (1981-

1. Steven Michael Miller II born September 24, 1978 at Glendale, California. Steven attended Walla Walla College.

2. Jamie Elizabeth Miller born June 24, 1981, attends Upper Columbia Academy, Spangle, Washington.

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