Lena Reif, daughter of one of Battle Creek's early day milliners. About 1919, Ed and his family moved to Colorado to take up land there.
Fred Fuerst, Jr., who married Clara Wendt, and another brother Otto moved to Texas many years ago and Ralph "Pete" married Dora Hansen, daughter of Conrad Hansen, the wagon maker and blacksmith.
John Bredehoft, Sr. family came to purchase a farm home owned by George Galloway which is now the home of the Martin Werner family.
Sam Pleksnes came to buy the Reimer Gardels farm when Mr. Gardels moved into town to go into business. His brother Charles Pleksnes bought an adjoining eighty acre farm.
The John C. Dinkel family came from Indiana about 1886 to purchase the SE 1/4 in Section 3 of Battle Creek Precinct from William F. Reavis another retired farmer who moved into town to go into business. Grandchildren of the Dinkel family live in the Battle Creek vicinity, as well as Norfolk, Pierce, and Orchard, Nebraska. Of the first generation, John T. Dinkel, who married Bertha Scheer, was the father of Harry Dinkel, presently on the City Council in Norfolk, and Albert Dinkel, a retired farmer, living in Pierce. Another son Charles, married Mary Reinking, a sister of Mrs. Caemerer, wife of the first called minister in
The picture of the ladies are the members of the Battle Creek
Chapter of the Woman's Relief Corps of the G.A.R. They are: back row — Mrs. W. Craig, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Pratt, Mrs. J. D. Hoover, Mrs. Lovelace, Mrs. Palmer (Jennie Flood in the back). Second row — Mrs. Colterman, Mrs. Rowland, Mrs. Henry Peterson, Mrs. Leo Braun. Front row — Mrs. Wm. Low, Mrs. Avery, Mrs. Maxwell, Mrs. J. W. Stirk.87