Showing posts with label Ina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ina. Show all posts
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Ina’s memories of Doraville country life ~ related to niece Carol in 1986
“I came from the heart of Oregon – a dear little town named Rainier and the outlying district. Of course I didn’t like Rainier, but the outlying district, how lovely. It was a real wild part of Oregon really.That old house, that was the most wonderful . . . see we had to climb all the hills to get to it. It sat on a kind of embankment. It was a beautiful place, it really was beautiful. So far from the water made it awfully hard on everybody. So we used to have to carry the water in pails – it was almost a quarter of a mile to go – way down to the spring and it was a trail, a rough trail that went down. We used to walk down there and take the empty pails and carry them back as full as we could. And the water was really lovely in those springs, it was awful nice. Some of the men – I don’t know who it was – put some kind of a wooden box in there and so there would be clean spring water. And that water was the best in the world. The reason Dad built the other house was because of the good water supply.
Property Dispute
Two buyers from out of state showed interest in buying the homestead, but Josef decided to keep it in the family and sold to Joe Jr. and Pearl. The relationship between buyer and seller was not good to begin with and only became worse as time went on. Two lawsuits were filed by Josef over the matter; the first when Joe Jr. was married to Pearl, the second lawsuit mentioned below when Joe Jr. was married to Wilma.
Josef’s letter to Ina, dated July 20, 1935: “. . .Our trouble with Joe is far from being settled. When Joe would not give us the back pay we filed suit for foreclousre, and instead of an answer his lawyer filed a demurrer, and when the matter came before the judge, he said that no demurrer could be filed in a foreclosure suit and gave Joe another 10 days to file an answer, and that is where the matter stands now. His lawyer made the proposition to pay all the mortgage off if we pay the costs, and this we refused to do as the mortgage should have been all paid last year. Our attorney told us that we have nothing to fear, Joe will either have to pay all of it or get off, and under the circumstances either one will suit us. . .”
(The undated Rainier Review article below should have correctly stated “Joe Jr. and Wilma”, “Jos. Hackenberg Sr. and wife Carrie”)
1920 and 1921
The year 1921 brought tragedy with the suicide by hanging of the children’s beloved “Mamma” Dora on November 11th. She had been in declining health and there are many 1920 – 1921 journal notations such as “Dora sick. Did housework.” Otto was 12 years old at the time and the only one still at home with his parents. Emma was married and close by in Rainier. She often came out to check on her mother, or took Dora home with her for a few days. Joe Jr. “left for good” according to Josef’s sendoff for 1919 and only occasionally back to visit, Rudy lived in Underwood, and Bill and Ina were both in California.
Josef’s end of the year journal summaries:
“Sendoff for the year 1920: The year 1920, the year of worry, trouble and expenses, was financially fair, very wet in spring and fall. Repaired fences extensively, seeded 25 acres to pasture, cut out part of north fencerow, lost much time through fire and wife’s sickness; bought 22 Victor records and a small drugstore (?). Farewell rotten year 1920!”
“Sendoff for 1921: The year 1921 has been the worst year since 1886 for me; financially poor, lost wife by death, much time and money through her sickness, in fact the last half was a time of worry and trouble. Finished fencerow, bought wire and 8 Victor records. Farewell rotten year 1921!”
“Sendoff for 1922: The year 1922 has been one of the worst I have lived through. Financially very poor, extreme in cold and drought, dust, smoke and fire. All crops were good except summer grain, hay and pasture. Lost heifer; lost shingle shed and much fence by fire. Laid new floor, built granary; had many aggravations through gossiop; joined Correspondence Club and corresponded with 20. Farewell rotten year 1922.”
Josef’s end of the year journal summaries:
“Sendoff for the year 1920: The year 1920, the year of worry, trouble and expenses, was financially fair, very wet in spring and fall. Repaired fences extensively, seeded 25 acres to pasture, cut out part of north fencerow, lost much time through fire and wife’s sickness; bought 22 Victor records and a small drugstore (?). Farewell rotten year 1920!”
“Sendoff for 1921: The year 1921 has been the worst year since 1886 for me; financially poor, lost wife by death, much time and money through her sickness, in fact the last half was a time of worry and trouble. Finished fencerow, bought wire and 8 Victor records. Farewell rotten year 1921!”
“Sendoff for 1922: The year 1922 has been one of the worst I have lived through. Financially very poor, extreme in cold and drought, dust, smoke and fire. All crops were good except summer grain, hay and pasture. Lost heifer; lost shingle shed and much fence by fire. Laid new floor, built granary; had many aggravations through gossiop; joined Correspondence Club and corresponded with 20. Farewell rotten year 1922.”
1899
Josef began the new year with a larger diary with columns for the weather and correspondence. January 1899: “Worked on horsepower.” Repaired the fanning mill. Trashed and cleaned flax. Went to Rainier, “came from Rainier with a heavy load.” Cleaned toolbox, filed handsaw, cut roots. Fixed sled. Made a rake and ladder. “Cut hair.” Made a brakeblock, repaired tongue holder. Made a trail to spring, dug velvet grass, set out new trees. Put window in barn, made a stool. Worked on the county road. Took Ina to Rainier, and went smelt fishing with Bob. “Came home with heavy load.” Cut wood for Holsapple. School ended on January 28. Cow had a calf. Correspondence during the month with: Albertine, Risher, and Mrs. Beusch.
February 1899: Trashed and cleaned garden seeds. Cut wood for Holsapple and Dad. Worked on county road at school house. Made a cow trail on the hill. Carried blankets to C. Snyder’s mill, cut shinglebolts [two weeks work]. Weather notations of “Devilish cold” “Creeks very high” and “Farewell you rotten month!” Letters from: Albertine and home.
March 1899: Another two weeks during the month were spent working off and on at Snyder’s, then he quit and “settled with Snyder.” “Went to Hogtown pruned Huffmann’s orchard.” He also pruned trees at Johnson’s, and Malcom’s. Cut wood for Dad. Went to Rainier with Rudy, “came home with Ina”. Went to McKee’s for flour with Mike, exchanged calves.
April 1899: Hauled manure and wood. Sowed pasture. Went to Kilby’s, got a cat and artichokes. Plowed and sowed peas, vetch, barley, and clover. Turned “Billy” out for first time. Finished and put up windmill. Made a barrel cover. Grubbed on the hill, and south of the house. Cut wood for Dad, brought Rudy home. Went to McKee’s for flour. Dora went to Rainier, “went with Rudy for Dora and children.” Made garden in hollow. Went to McKee’s for a stove. There was an inch of snow on April 30. “Farewell you mean stinker of an April!”
May 1899: Made a cow trail on the hill, “connected 2 cowtrail on North line (Braddock)”. Grubbed south of the house. Sprayed. Braced shrubs. Fell timber and cut bolts for Snyder, and also worked at Peterson’s camp during the month. “You glorious May, full rain and hell, get!”
June 1899: Fell timber and cut bolts at Snyder’s. Oiled clock. Went to Rainier, cut wood for Dad. Grubbed south of the house on the new patch, plowed. “Hung transmission wheel.” Went to Morris’s and Headlee’s. Worked with Headlee on school ground. Hung bull wheel, split timbers. Kitchen “got a fire.” “Hauled and placed horsepower timbers, cleaned stovepipe.” “Finished horsepower.” Worked for C. Snyder, put up frame of mill building at the Washburn place. Fixed hay wagon, mowed meadow, got in first hay. Split flooring. “This has been the first good month this year.”
Letters were from Whiteheads, and home.
July 1899: Emma’s first birthday. Josef spent most of his time harvesting hay, then “Went to Snyder’s and Holsapple’s for nothing.” After that he got a week’s work at Peterson’s. He also went into Rainier twice, leaving Ina and coming home with Willie. “Big fire at Peterson’s.” Cut thistles, cleaned grain barn. And, he did his own burning “Set out fire.”
The weather notation indicates “This month has been very dry.”
August 1899: The first week was “hot” and Josef “set out fires”, then made a trip into town to “cut wood for Dad”. After that the weather rapidly deteriorated as indicated by numerous notations of “Heavy Showers”, and the extra steps he took to harvest his grain “dried wheat” “turned wheat and rye”, “turned grain”. A horsepowered device aided his harvest efforts as he again went to Rainier and “came home with the belts, put on one”, “worked on the horsepower, Mike rheumatic.” During the month, Bob and Annie came for an overnight stay and that evening the “kitchen caught fire.” Dora made a trip to town with Rudy, and two days later “Dora came with Ina and Rudy.” Weather notation: “The foulest August that ever was in Oregon.”
Correspondence: Mrs. Whitehead, Risher. Mentioned contacts: Art Snyder, Holsapples, Nelsons.
September 1899: The weather improved and there was more thrashing, cleaning , and fanning of grain. First Ina was sick with “measles”, and two weeks later “Dora, Willie, and Emma having measles” Once again Josef did the “housework” four consecutive days. During the interval between family bouts with measles, Josef left Rudy in Rainier and “went to Portland and back on Iralda. Hauled flour to Dad:” The next day he “went to Rainier with Mike and back” [to pick up the supply of flour?] Dug potatoes, plowed at the barn, grubbed. Hauled first manure on hill. There were also two more trips into Rainier, one with Mike. “This month has been very fair.” Contacts: Will Snyder, George Moeck, W.H. Kyser, Morris. Correspondence: Home, Risher, Mrs. Beusch, Mrs. Hawkins, Kyser
October 1899: Sowed wheat and rye, and cleared east of the barn the first week. The rest of October was spent working at Snyder’s where he “cut bolts”, ran the “cut off saw” and “cut roads”. He did have time for a visit to the neighbor “Rowed with old Headlee”. “This month has been tolerably fair.” Correspondence: Dad, Mrs. Hawkins, Peterson, home
November 1899: Starting out the month, he first “cut bolts for Snyder” for four days, then “quit”, and “came home with blankets”. He worked in town the next week “cut wood for Dad, “hauled Dad’s freight”, “dug thistles”, “came home with heavy load.” The next day he went back to Rainier with Ina and Mike, and again “Came home with heavy load.” Fixed Mike’s bell, made sauerkraut, threshed vetch and peas, hauled in rutabagas. Cut and hauled in wood. “This month has been very warm and rainy.” Correspondence: Dad, Lohmann, Hawkins, Albertine.
December 1899: Cut and hauled wood. Cleared east and below the barn; cleared below the house. Raked and grubbed on the new patch. “Made timbers for horsepower.” “Hewed timbers for horsepower.” “House got badly on fire, repaired roof.” There were two trips to Rainier, one with the horse. He visited Gallien’s. December 28: “Birthday the 40th, rested.” “This month has been tolerable fair.” Correspondence: Risher, Mrs. Beusch, Schroth.
“Sendoff for the year 1899. The year 1899 has been every thing concerned tolerable good, extreme in rain and cold. Good crops, except fruit, were raised everywhere. Made a windmill, made a failure on treadpower. Grubbed ½ acre new ground, 1/8 acre meadow, cleared 1/3 acre.”
February 1899: Trashed and cleaned garden seeds. Cut wood for Holsapple and Dad. Worked on county road at school house. Made a cow trail on the hill. Carried blankets to C. Snyder’s mill, cut shinglebolts [two weeks work]. Weather notations of “Devilish cold” “Creeks very high” and “Farewell you rotten month!” Letters from: Albertine and home.
March 1899: Another two weeks during the month were spent working off and on at Snyder’s, then he quit and “settled with Snyder.” “Went to Hogtown pruned Huffmann’s orchard.” He also pruned trees at Johnson’s, and Malcom’s. Cut wood for Dad. Went to Rainier with Rudy, “came home with Ina”. Went to McKee’s for flour with Mike, exchanged calves.
April 1899: Hauled manure and wood. Sowed pasture. Went to Kilby’s, got a cat and artichokes. Plowed and sowed peas, vetch, barley, and clover. Turned “Billy” out for first time. Finished and put up windmill. Made a barrel cover. Grubbed on the hill, and south of the house. Cut wood for Dad, brought Rudy home. Went to McKee’s for flour. Dora went to Rainier, “went with Rudy for Dora and children.” Made garden in hollow. Went to McKee’s for a stove. There was an inch of snow on April 30. “Farewell you mean stinker of an April!”
May 1899: Made a cow trail on the hill, “connected 2 cowtrail on North line (Braddock)”. Grubbed south of the house. Sprayed. Braced shrubs. Fell timber and cut bolts for Snyder, and also worked at Peterson’s camp during the month. “You glorious May, full rain and hell, get!”
June 1899: Fell timber and cut bolts at Snyder’s. Oiled clock. Went to Rainier, cut wood for Dad. Grubbed south of the house on the new patch, plowed. “Hung transmission wheel.” Went to Morris’s and Headlee’s. Worked with Headlee on school ground. Hung bull wheel, split timbers. Kitchen “got a fire.” “Hauled and placed horsepower timbers, cleaned stovepipe.” “Finished horsepower.” Worked for C. Snyder, put up frame of mill building at the Washburn place. Fixed hay wagon, mowed meadow, got in first hay. Split flooring. “This has been the first good month this year.”
Letters were from Whiteheads, and home.
July 1899: Emma’s first birthday. Josef spent most of his time harvesting hay, then “Went to Snyder’s and Holsapple’s for nothing.” After that he got a week’s work at Peterson’s. He also went into Rainier twice, leaving Ina and coming home with Willie. “Big fire at Peterson’s.” Cut thistles, cleaned grain barn. And, he did his own burning “Set out fire.”
The weather notation indicates “This month has been very dry.”
August 1899: The first week was “hot” and Josef “set out fires”, then made a trip into town to “cut wood for Dad”. After that the weather rapidly deteriorated as indicated by numerous notations of “Heavy Showers”, and the extra steps he took to harvest his grain “dried wheat” “turned wheat and rye”, “turned grain”. A horsepowered device aided his harvest efforts as he again went to Rainier and “came home with the belts, put on one”, “worked on the horsepower, Mike rheumatic.” During the month, Bob and Annie came for an overnight stay and that evening the “kitchen caught fire.” Dora made a trip to town with Rudy, and two days later “Dora came with Ina and Rudy.” Weather notation: “The foulest August that ever was in Oregon.”
Correspondence: Mrs. Whitehead, Risher. Mentioned contacts: Art Snyder, Holsapples, Nelsons.
September 1899: The weather improved and there was more thrashing, cleaning , and fanning of grain. First Ina was sick with “measles”, and two weeks later “Dora, Willie, and Emma having measles” Once again Josef did the “housework” four consecutive days. During the interval between family bouts with measles, Josef left Rudy in Rainier and “went to Portland and back on Iralda. Hauled flour to Dad:” The next day he “went to Rainier with Mike and back” [to pick up the supply of flour?] Dug potatoes, plowed at the barn, grubbed. Hauled first manure on hill. There were also two more trips into Rainier, one with Mike. “This month has been very fair.” Contacts: Will Snyder, George Moeck, W.H. Kyser, Morris. Correspondence: Home, Risher, Mrs. Beusch, Mrs. Hawkins, Kyser
October 1899: Sowed wheat and rye, and cleared east of the barn the first week. The rest of October was spent working at Snyder’s where he “cut bolts”, ran the “cut off saw” and “cut roads”. He did have time for a visit to the neighbor “Rowed with old Headlee”. “This month has been tolerably fair.” Correspondence: Dad, Mrs. Hawkins, Peterson, home
November 1899: Starting out the month, he first “cut bolts for Snyder” for four days, then “quit”, and “came home with blankets”. He worked in town the next week “cut wood for Dad, “hauled Dad’s freight”, “dug thistles”, “came home with heavy load.” The next day he went back to Rainier with Ina and Mike, and again “Came home with heavy load.” Fixed Mike’s bell, made sauerkraut, threshed vetch and peas, hauled in rutabagas. Cut and hauled in wood. “This month has been very warm and rainy.” Correspondence: Dad, Lohmann, Hawkins, Albertine.
December 1899: Cut and hauled wood. Cleared east and below the barn; cleared below the house. Raked and grubbed on the new patch. “Made timbers for horsepower.” “Hewed timbers for horsepower.” “House got badly on fire, repaired roof.” There were two trips to Rainier, one with the horse. He visited Gallien’s. December 28: “Birthday the 40th, rested.” “This month has been tolerable fair.” Correspondence: Risher, Mrs. Beusch, Schroth.
“Sendoff for the year 1899. The year 1899 has been every thing concerned tolerable good, extreme in rain and cold. Good crops, except fruit, were raised everywhere. Made a windmill, made a failure on treadpower. Grubbed ½ acre new ground, 1/8 acre meadow, cleared 1/3 acre.”
1898
January: Worked on road at Stuart’s, worked at Beusch’s. Went to school board meeting, made and painted a blackboard for the school. Ollie Rice came to board January 2 - 28. Notation of “night of weeping women” on January 25th. and later Josef “went to Rice’s for meat”.
February 1898 : Dora made a trip to Rainier the first week and “came home with Willie.” Worked on wagon, harrowed meadow, cleared below barn. Trashed and cleaned peas and clover seed. Poled, pruned and set out orchard trees, hauled logs with Mike. Finished garden markers and stepladder. Made the trial trip with the new wagon. Repaired stove. Grubbed at Beusch’s. Ollie Rice came for a visit.
March 1898: Josef worked at Beusch’s, grubbed and grafted trees there for 6 days. He was reelected director at the school meeting, and painted the blackboard. Plowed garden, planted some potatoes, sowed oats in front of the house, and oats, barley and clover west of the house. On the hill, he sowed veatch, and flax, and south of the house he put in China peas. Cut down two trees for fence, split stakes and rails, and fenced on the hill. Went to Rainier with Rudy, cut wood for Dad. Worked on new Stehman road.
April 1898: “Sowed and harrowed in clover seed on new patch below barn.” Went to Rainier and worked for Dad, spaded at Bob’s. Made fence below barn, spaded hog lot. Planted garden seeds, which included celeriac. Worked at spring west of house [to ensure a summer water supply?] Went to Peterson’s camp, worked there 3 days, and “worked for old man Meserve” a couple of days. Filed saw, made a sledge handle, made railroad ties. Dora and Ina made a visit to Rainier, and the last day of the month Josef went to Rainier and brought back Rudy.
May 1898: Worked at Peterson’s camp the first half of the month. “Blazed and swamped a trail on the hill for hauling fence rails.” Hoed garden, made bean poles, cut logs in the new trail on hill. Made table boards, improved table. Sprayed “a few trees”. Went to Portland on the Iralda, and on the way back “came home with R. Lovelace” [a teamster]. Hoed Dad’s garden.
June 1898: Cut out and graded road. Hauled fence timbers with Mike, cut and split rail timbers. Filed saw, cleaned shop, fixed cowstand, repaired cow’s bellstrap. Hoed potatoes. Fixed hay wagon, mowed and hauled in first grass hay. Cut down a cedar, made rails and stakes, and cut logs in the fence road, made fence. Went to Rainier, came back with Rudy. Mrs. Beusch visited during the month. June 3: Josef and Dora’s 7th wedding anniversary.
July 1898: “Nice day, mowed and hauled in hay – at 10 o’clock P.M. Emma born” July 2. Josef is again doing “housework” with “Dora resuming her old post” 10 days later. [Rudy is 6, Willie 4, and Ina about to turn 3 years old.]
Canned raspberries, picked blackberries, went to Morris’ for beef. “At 6 o’clock in the evening kitchen got badly on fire.” Fenced spring, cut thistles, cut and trashed rye, cut wheat. Mrs. Morris visited, there was also a visit from the assessor. Went to Rainier, cut wood for Dad, came home with Willie.
August 1898: “Devilish hot”, “Hellroaring hot”, cut wheat, oats, rye and barley; trashed and cleaned grain. Set fire on hill, grubbed. “Bob, Annie, Mr. and Mrs. Lohmann visiting, hauled Mrs. Lohmann to Larson’s place, came home late, had a bull fight. Bob and Annie with Rudy went back.” Fixed wagon’s harness, went to Rainier, came home with flour and pears. Dora and Ina went to Rainier with baby Emma on a visit. Pulled last of flax. Finished the big stump south of house, split railroad ties for Peterson.
September 1898: The first week of September “worked for Peterson”. Then on the 10th ,“worked in the mud hole of a chute in forenoon, got fired for refusing to work on Sunday at noon, went to Rainier in afternoon” and brought home glass jars. He returned to Petersons’ camp for his blankets, going “through Peterson’s chute to Rainier.” Cut wood for Dad. Back at home again he picked Bartlett pears, and the Italian and French prunes; then went to Petersons for “time check, thence to Rainier”. On that trip he went to Portland and back on the Iralda, and came home with more fruit jars. Hauled big roots with Mike, fixed wagon for manure, plowed, grubbed, and trashed grain.
October 1898: Josef started out the month with a trip to Rainier, and the next day “came home with Rudy.” Trashed last peas, sowed rye and wheat, picked fall Pepins. Made a hay rack for “Bullil”. There were two trips to town and back with “Mike”; and two family trips on wheels - “hauled Dora and children to Larsen’s place.” Sawed stumps, made pickets. “Made a bed for the boys.” Visited Mr. Kilby.
November 1898: Tore old hen house down, made and raised rafters, shingled and finished new hen house. Made a new wheelbarrow, fixed axe handle. Worked at Holsapple’s, came home with meat. Cut wood for Dad. Went to school board meeting. Picked some Stark apples, dug rutabagas. Went with William Holsapple to visit Mr. and Mrs. Washburn. Another long dry summer, as first water in the well on November 18.
December 1898: Plowed rutabaga ground. Cut and hauled in wood. Made chicken lot fence. Moved hog barn and fence. Dug on barn lot. Made timbers, hauled and spread manure. Fired two stumps, grubbed east of the barn. Cut wood for Dad. Fixed Daisy’s stand. Prepared for calf stand, fixed singletree, repaired Mike’s harness. “Worked on horsepower.”
“The year 1898 has been everything concerned tolerably good; splendid crops of hay, grain and fruit were raised. Moved hen house and hog barn. Cleared 1/6 of an acre, grubbed ½ of an acre new ground and ½ acre meadow. Fenced ground on hill, made ½ mile cow trail. Work simplyfied by the use of a small waggon instead of the cart.”
February 1898 : Dora made a trip to Rainier the first week and “came home with Willie.” Worked on wagon, harrowed meadow, cleared below barn. Trashed and cleaned peas and clover seed. Poled, pruned and set out orchard trees, hauled logs with Mike. Finished garden markers and stepladder. Made the trial trip with the new wagon. Repaired stove. Grubbed at Beusch’s. Ollie Rice came for a visit.
March 1898: Josef worked at Beusch’s, grubbed and grafted trees there for 6 days. He was reelected director at the school meeting, and painted the blackboard. Plowed garden, planted some potatoes, sowed oats in front of the house, and oats, barley and clover west of the house. On the hill, he sowed veatch, and flax, and south of the house he put in China peas. Cut down two trees for fence, split stakes and rails, and fenced on the hill. Went to Rainier with Rudy, cut wood for Dad. Worked on new Stehman road.
April 1898: “Sowed and harrowed in clover seed on new patch below barn.” Went to Rainier and worked for Dad, spaded at Bob’s. Made fence below barn, spaded hog lot. Planted garden seeds, which included celeriac. Worked at spring west of house [to ensure a summer water supply?] Went to Peterson’s camp, worked there 3 days, and “worked for old man Meserve” a couple of days. Filed saw, made a sledge handle, made railroad ties. Dora and Ina made a visit to Rainier, and the last day of the month Josef went to Rainier and brought back Rudy.
May 1898: Worked at Peterson’s camp the first half of the month. “Blazed and swamped a trail on the hill for hauling fence rails.” Hoed garden, made bean poles, cut logs in the new trail on hill. Made table boards, improved table. Sprayed “a few trees”. Went to Portland on the Iralda, and on the way back “came home with R. Lovelace” [a teamster]. Hoed Dad’s garden.
June 1898: Cut out and graded road. Hauled fence timbers with Mike, cut and split rail timbers. Filed saw, cleaned shop, fixed cowstand, repaired cow’s bellstrap. Hoed potatoes. Fixed hay wagon, mowed and hauled in first grass hay. Cut down a cedar, made rails and stakes, and cut logs in the fence road, made fence. Went to Rainier, came back with Rudy. Mrs. Beusch visited during the month. June 3: Josef and Dora’s 7th wedding anniversary.
July 1898: “Nice day, mowed and hauled in hay – at 10 o’clock P.M. Emma born” July 2. Josef is again doing “housework” with “Dora resuming her old post” 10 days later. [Rudy is 6, Willie 4, and Ina about to turn 3 years old.]
Canned raspberries, picked blackberries, went to Morris’ for beef. “At 6 o’clock in the evening kitchen got badly on fire.” Fenced spring, cut thistles, cut and trashed rye, cut wheat. Mrs. Morris visited, there was also a visit from the assessor. Went to Rainier, cut wood for Dad, came home with Willie.
August 1898: “Devilish hot”, “Hellroaring hot”, cut wheat, oats, rye and barley; trashed and cleaned grain. Set fire on hill, grubbed. “Bob, Annie, Mr. and Mrs. Lohmann visiting, hauled Mrs. Lohmann to Larson’s place, came home late, had a bull fight. Bob and Annie with Rudy went back.” Fixed wagon’s harness, went to Rainier, came home with flour and pears. Dora and Ina went to Rainier with baby Emma on a visit. Pulled last of flax. Finished the big stump south of house, split railroad ties for Peterson.
September 1898: The first week of September “worked for Peterson”. Then on the 10th ,“worked in the mud hole of a chute in forenoon, got fired for refusing to work on Sunday at noon, went to Rainier in afternoon” and brought home glass jars. He returned to Petersons’ camp for his blankets, going “through Peterson’s chute to Rainier.” Cut wood for Dad. Back at home again he picked Bartlett pears, and the Italian and French prunes; then went to Petersons for “time check, thence to Rainier”. On that trip he went to Portland and back on the Iralda, and came home with more fruit jars. Hauled big roots with Mike, fixed wagon for manure, plowed, grubbed, and trashed grain.
October 1898: Josef started out the month with a trip to Rainier, and the next day “came home with Rudy.” Trashed last peas, sowed rye and wheat, picked fall Pepins. Made a hay rack for “Bullil”. There were two trips to town and back with “Mike”; and two family trips on wheels - “hauled Dora and children to Larsen’s place.” Sawed stumps, made pickets. “Made a bed for the boys.” Visited Mr. Kilby.
November 1898: Tore old hen house down, made and raised rafters, shingled and finished new hen house. Made a new wheelbarrow, fixed axe handle. Worked at Holsapple’s, came home with meat. Cut wood for Dad. Went to school board meeting. Picked some Stark apples, dug rutabagas. Went with William Holsapple to visit Mr. and Mrs. Washburn. Another long dry summer, as first water in the well on November 18.
December 1898: Plowed rutabaga ground. Cut and hauled in wood. Made chicken lot fence. Moved hog barn and fence. Dug on barn lot. Made timbers, hauled and spread manure. Fired two stumps, grubbed east of the barn. Cut wood for Dad. Fixed Daisy’s stand. Prepared for calf stand, fixed singletree, repaired Mike’s harness. “Worked on horsepower.”
“The year 1898 has been everything concerned tolerably good; splendid crops of hay, grain and fruit were raised. Moved hen house and hog barn. Cleared 1/6 of an acre, grubbed ½ of an acre new ground and ½ acre meadow. Fenced ground on hill, made ½ mile cow trail. Work simplyfied by the use of a small waggon instead of the cart.”
Friday, March 19, 2010
Welcome to Doraville
This glimpse of the past lives of our ancestors is dedicated to Josef’s grandson Joe "Butch" and wife Luella, who own and live on Doraville homestead now known as Hackenberg Tree Farm. Joe and Luella are shown in a photo taken in 2005 in South Dakota.
. . . and in loving memory of Joe Jr. and Wilma Hackenberg.
“We clasp the hands of those that go before us, And the hands of those who come after us.” ~ Wendell Berry
INTRODUCTION: This little history shall give any future generations of this family Hackenberg knowledge of their ancestors, describing their character, birthplace, life and prominent movements with dates of year and months as far as possible. Many people of the United States know nothing about their parents, about ½ know nothing about their grandparents and hardly 1/10 know anything about their great-grandparents, because people move and mix more (more divorces) in the U.S. than in the well settled and stable countries of Europe. It will be divided as follows: 1) The history of the Hackenbergs in Europe, 2) The history of the Winchesters and, 3) The history of the Hackenbergs in Amerika. The present family Hackenberg in Oregon near Rainier has been founded by the marriage of Josef Hackenberg and Mrs. Dora Wells (Winchester) on the 3 of June 1891 in Rainier. It will certainly be interesting for our posterity to look back several centuries of family life in different generations, different conditions and countries. Hoping my few lines may satisfy I am one of your Dadies.
Josef Rudolf Hackenberg
South Beaver, March 8, 1896
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As we ponder our rapidly changing computerized world in the 21st century it is hard to visualize pioneer life at “South Beaver” over a hundred years ago when 36-year-old Josef Hackenberg sat at his desk, reached for his Ivy Leaf stationery, and with a firm hand wrote the “little history” of his European roots, and a brief sheet on the Winchesters. There is no evidence that he wrote a section on the Hackenbergs in America; however, it is known that his brother William lived in Wheeling,West Virginia.
The accomplishments of Josef’s generation of hardy pioneers, both men and women, are now mostly forgotten, their deeds and names lost in time. Through Josef’s journals, family letters, and newspaper articles we have a historical glimpse into a homesteader’s life in rural Oregon written by Josef himself. Nothing is said of the contributions of pioneer women like Josef’s wife Dora who had to manage pregnancy and birth with little or no medical attention; i.e., Josef’s journal entry the day of Joe Jr’s birth “May 31, 1902: Hoed potatoes, 3:20 p.m. Joseph born”. At times Dora and the children would be left isolated in the country when Josef was off for extended periods working in the logging camps,
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