land Precinct south of town. The Fred Neuwerk family were: Minnie who married George Werner; Fred, Jr., married August Knaak; Charles married Lena Wegner; Mary married Paul Hofmann; Anna married Frank Meyer; Clara married Rev. Ernest Eckhardt, now of Hooper; and George who now owns the old farm where the children grew up.

Charles Neuwerk having married Lena Wegner reminds us of the Ed Wegner family who came here during the nineties. Wm. Wegner had married a daughter of D. J. Braje who owned the farm now owned by Bernard Kohl. The Wegner children were William who married Hedwig Raasch, daughter of the pioneer August Raasch family of the first Norfolk colony at Norfolk. Ed, Jr., who moved to Oklahoma; Anna married Wm. Schott, they now live in town; Minnie, Mrs. Ernest Kleider; Alma and Augusta and John left this vicinity when they grew up and Albert operates a service station at the junction of Highways 121 and 275 north of town.

To name others, as we review previously written material and relying on memory, we find in Battle Creek Precinct that Delia Halpin, daughter of Michael Halpin who homesteaded in Section twenty-two, married William Lauver, son of Samuel Lauver who homesteaded in Section thirty-four. The grandson, Donald Lauver, son of William Lauver now lives on his grandfather Lauver's homestead.

Another son of the Samuel Lauver family was John, who with his wife Mary lived on the farm across the road to the west of the Samuel Lauver homestead and lived there all their married life. This couple has now passed away (Mrs. Lauver

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