Jake’s brother Carl who was killed in the Philippines in WWII
Jake & Rosie’s Wedding Picture
Karen and her Great Grandmother Katja
Wreath from Carl’s memorial service
Katja’s family (The Mell family)
Katja’s mother & sister in law and her children
Karl & Katja’s wedding photo
Jake & Rasia Wedding Picture
The Mell house in Surtchin, Hungary
Katja and Karl on their 50th Wedding Anniversary
Map shows the Upper Volga River with Susannethal marked
A Steiner Genealogy Chart
Lutheran Church in Susannethal, Russia
Map of town – Landstrasse home on the top left end was the birthplace of Rosie
David & Sophie Steiner after their children were grown
David & Sophie with their family after they left Russia; Oldest child (far right) is Rosie
Rosie & her sister, who bore the facial characteristics of their Mongolian DNA
David’s workhorses
The S.S. Main landing in Baltimore, MD – David & his family came to America on this ship.
Catherine the Great, who first took the Germans into Russia by offering them free land (she was a German)
Painting by Dorothea Lange
Jake & Rasia Wedding Picture
Rosie dressed in the latest fashions
Karen on the back of Old Jack
Karen’s mother and uncle
Jake and Rosie dressed in the latest style
Karen & her mother around 1945
The dragline that Jake helped work on digging canals around Lovell, WY
Jake, Rosie, Karen’s mother, father and Karen in front of their farmhouse
Jake and Rosie on their 50th Wedding Anniversary
The car that Karen’s grandmother almost turned over while learning how to drive in Port Huron, MI
Arnold & Beth Wamhoff on their wedding day
Arnold & Beth
Arnold & Beth
Four generations: Karen with her grandmother, great-grandmother and mother.
Rosie (Flesh on the Bone), Sophie (Seed of the Volga)
Karen’s mother Beth & Arnold as children (Beth, 8, Arnold, 5)
Karl and Katja & their family of 8 children (Jake is the older child all the way to the left)
Beth at her high school graduation
Jake with the children in Port Huron, MI
Beth’s confirmation photo at age 14 (Arnold is about 11)
Jake and Rosie with the children in Port Huron, MI
A map of Hurtdgen Forest – Arnold’s unit was trying to take the dams in this map, along the border of Belguim & Germany
An overview map of the campaign
LT Ship that carries tanks on the beach at Normandy
The brick silos that Jake helped build during the depression
The car that Karen’s grandmother almost turned over while learning how to drive in Port Huron, MI
A Sherman Tank
Beth and her brother, Arnold, the day he shipped out
One of six bronze medals found in a box from WWII & Korea
Some of the medals that Arnold was awarded in WWII
A map created after the war, showing different areas occupied by the Allies by country
A Panther IV tank – This was the German workhorse
Arnold and his wife, Noreen
Arnold in his 70s with his military uniform – the first time it had been out of the box in years – he said putting it on brought back too many memories
In the trenches in the Hurtgen Forest
Middle section of Greater United States was a critical division of slavery indecision. 1863
Posters to recruit men to join Union Civil War Cavalry
UNITED STATES slavery states
THE hell of a hand to hand Civil War battle
Civil War Battlefield after the battle
French Minie lead bullets used in the Civil War
Union Pontoon Bridge used to cross wide, deep rivers
Elizabeth Klingermuller Westerhoff (author’s great-grandmother)
Civil War Union portable Bellows which John used to tend to the iron works of horses and wagons
Captain Louis Merrill, leader of Merrill’s Horse Union elite cavalry
John Westerhoff’s official military papers
Medal for service in the GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
Layout of Precinct H in Seward County, Nebraska – outlined areas are John Westerhoff’s farming lands
A type of dugout/adobe house used on the prairies
Attempting to plant/grow corn in the rolling arid hills of Nebraska
Minnie, Lizzie, (author’s grandmother) Mary, and Elizabeth Westerhoff
Willie, Robert, Charles, Ludwig, John J.W. Westerhoff---sons of John and Elizabeth
Seward County Census 1885
The Deadly Children’s Blizzard 1888
Westerhoff ‘Home Place’ near Germantown (Garland), Nebraska
Original letter from Private Robert Westerhoff to his mother in 1918
John Westerhoff