Elizabeth was the first born child of her parents Johann Jaeger and Crescentia Gully. She did have six older half brothers and sisters as her mother was previously married and widowed.
Elizabeth was her father's first child. He was from Ebensee, Austria and had been in America ten years. She was born on her mother's farm in Fayette Township, Lafayette Co., WI.
Sometime during the spring or early summer after her birth, in the year 1865, her parents sold the 160 acre Gully farm for $475 and moved with seven children 380 miles NW to Zion Township, St. Martin, MN where they opened a new farm. Mother Crescentia birthed eight more children before she died at age 44 years. Four years later, father Johann died from a heart attack leaving the children parentless.
At sixteen years of age at the time of her dad's death, Elizabeth was the oldest of the children still at home. Half brother Richard Gully, nineteen years old, was gone much of the time working for neighbors and her other older siblings were gone from home married and working. Her younger siblings at home were ages 13, 12, 10, 9, 8, 7, and 5. A great responsibility fell upon Elizabeth. How would the family manage without a parent? Where would they live?
Elizabeth knew that some of her dad's people, her grandparents and some of her Jaeger aunts and uncles, had settled near Pierz, MN (called Rich Prairie, MN at that time). So Elizabeth, either by proxy or by her own hand, notified her Jaeger connections and with two younger sisters and one brother in tow, blazed a trail north. Soon Pierz was their home.
In the final breakup of the local Jaeger household, perhaps within two months of Johann's death, Elizabeth, Crazenz, Catherine and Leonard moved to Pierz, while siblings John, Anna, Tony and Matt Jaeger stayed near St. Martin raised in separate foster homes.
Six years later, in August 1887 at age 22, Elizabeth died from consumption. She was unmarried and may have been ill for an extended time. She died in St. Cloud, MN. Her newly married sister, Crazenz Jaeger Dahmen, followed her to the grave five years later, also a victim of dreaded consumption, leaving behind a husband and five small children.
Of the two other siblings who had traveled to Pierz with Elizabeth, Catherine, mother of twelve children, died at age 86, and is also buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Pierz, MN., and younger brother Leonard Jaeger married in Pierz and later relocated to Saskatchewan where he died of a heart attack at age 51 years. written by Gregory Dorr
Elizabeth was her father's first child. He was from Ebensee, Austria and had been in America ten years. She was born on her mother's farm in Fayette Township, Lafayette Co., WI.
Sometime during the spring or early summer after her birth, in the year 1865, her parents sold the 160 acre Gully farm for $475 and moved with seven children 380 miles NW to Zion Township, St. Martin, MN where they opened a new farm. Mother Crescentia birthed eight more children before she died at age 44 years. Four years later, father Johann died from a heart attack leaving the children parentless.
At sixteen years of age at the time of her dad's death, Elizabeth was the oldest of the children still at home. Half brother Richard Gully, nineteen years old, was gone much of the time working for neighbors and her other older siblings were gone from home married and working. Her younger siblings at home were ages 13, 12, 10, 9, 8, 7, and 5. A great responsibility fell upon Elizabeth. How would the family manage without a parent? Where would they live?
Elizabeth knew that some of her dad's people, her grandparents and some of her Jaeger aunts and uncles, had settled near Pierz, MN (called Rich Prairie, MN at that time). So Elizabeth, either by proxy or by her own hand, notified her Jaeger connections and with two younger sisters and one brother in tow, blazed a trail north. Soon Pierz was their home.
In the final breakup of the local Jaeger household, perhaps within two months of Johann's death, Elizabeth, Crazenz, Catherine and Leonard moved to Pierz, while siblings John, Anna, Tony and Matt Jaeger stayed near St. Martin raised in separate foster homes.
Six years later, in August 1887 at age 22, Elizabeth died from consumption. She was unmarried and may have been ill for an extended time. She died in St. Cloud, MN. Her newly married sister, Crazenz Jaeger Dahmen, followed her to the grave five years later, also a victim of dreaded consumption, leaving behind a husband and five small children.
Of the two other siblings who had traveled to Pierz with Elizabeth, Catherine, mother of twelve children, died at age 86, and is also buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Pierz, MN., and younger brother Leonard Jaeger married in Pierz and later relocated to Saskatchewan where he died of a heart attack at age 51 years. written by Gregory Dorr
Elizabeth was the first born child of her parents Johann Jaeger and Crescentia Gully. She did have six older half brothers and sisters as her mother was previously married and widowed.
Elizabeth was her father's first child. He was from Ebensee, Austria and had been in America ten years. She was born on her mother's farm in Fayette Township, Lafayette Co., WI.
Sometime during the spring or early summer after her birth, in the year 1865, her parents sold the 160 acre Gully farm for $475 and moved with seven children 380 miles NW to Zion Township, St. Martin, MN where they opened a new farm. Mother Crescentia birthed eight more children before she died at age 44 years. Four years later, father Johann died from a heart attack leaving the children parentless.
At sixteen years of age at the time of her dad's death, Elizabeth was the oldest of the children still at home. Half brother Richard Gully, nineteen years old, was gone much of the time working for neighbors and her other older siblings were gone from home married and working. Her younger siblings at home were ages 13, 12, 10, 9, 8, 7, and 5. A great responsibility fell upon Elizabeth. How would the family manage without a parent? Where would they live?
Elizabeth knew that some of her dad's people, her grandparents and some of her Jaeger aunts and uncles, had settled near Pierz, MN (called Rich Prairie, MN at that time). So Elizabeth, either by proxy or by her own hand, notified her Jaeger connections and with two younger sisters and one brother in tow, blazed a trail north. Soon Pierz was their home.
In the final breakup of the local Jaeger household, perhaps within two months of Johann's death, Elizabeth, Crazenz, Catherine and Leonard moved to Pierz, while siblings John, Anna, Tony and Matt Jaeger stayed near St. Martin raised in separate foster homes.
Six years later, in August 1887 at age 22, Elizabeth died from consumption. She was unmarried and may have been ill for an extended time. She died in St. Cloud, MN. Her newly married sister, Crazenz Jaeger Dahmen, followed her to the grave five years later, also a victim of dreaded consumption, leaving behind a husband and five small children.
Of the two other siblings who had traveled to Pierz with Elizabeth, Catherine, mother of twelve children, died at age 86, and is also buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Pierz, MN., and younger brother Leonard Jaeger married in Pierz and later relocated to Saskatchewan where he died of a heart attack at age 51 years. written by Gregory Dorr
Elizabeth was her father's first child. He was from Ebensee, Austria and had been in America ten years. She was born on her mother's farm in Fayette Township, Lafayette Co., WI.
Sometime during the spring or early summer after her birth, in the year 1865, her parents sold the 160 acre Gully farm for $475 and moved with seven children 380 miles NW to Zion Township, St. Martin, MN where they opened a new farm. Mother Crescentia birthed eight more children before she died at age 44 years. Four years later, father Johann died from a heart attack leaving the children parentless.
At sixteen years of age at the time of her dad's death, Elizabeth was the oldest of the children still at home. Half brother Richard Gully, nineteen years old, was gone much of the time working for neighbors and her other older siblings were gone from home married and working. Her younger siblings at home were ages 13, 12, 10, 9, 8, 7, and 5. A great responsibility fell upon Elizabeth. How would the family manage without a parent? Where would they live?
Elizabeth knew that some of her dad's people, her grandparents and some of her Jaeger aunts and uncles, had settled near Pierz, MN (called Rich Prairie, MN at that time). So Elizabeth, either by proxy or by her own hand, notified her Jaeger connections and with two younger sisters and one brother in tow, blazed a trail north. Soon Pierz was their home.
In the final breakup of the local Jaeger household, perhaps within two months of Johann's death, Elizabeth, Crazenz, Catherine and Leonard moved to Pierz, while siblings John, Anna, Tony and Matt Jaeger stayed near St. Martin raised in separate foster homes.
Six years later, in August 1887 at age 22, Elizabeth died from consumption. She was unmarried and may have been ill for an extended time. She died in St. Cloud, MN. Her newly married sister, Crazenz Jaeger Dahmen, followed her to the grave five years later, also a victim of dreaded consumption, leaving behind a husband and five small children.
Of the two other siblings who had traveled to Pierz with Elizabeth, Catherine, mother of twelve children, died at age 86, and is also buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Pierz, MN., and younger brother Leonard Jaeger married in Pierz and later relocated to Saskatchewan where he died of a heart attack at age 51 years. written by Gregory Dorr
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Elizabeth's grave marker was visible in 1970. It may no longer be standing.
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