1927 Confirmation Class

Back: Grace Kietzman Lee, Gottlieb Hubner

Front: Clarence Hartzel, Ida Ebert, Rev. Fisher, Lora Kietzman (died at 18), Glen Kietzman

--Photo from Barbie Brutlag Dicks. Ancestry.com

Ebert Photos

Above Photo:  Reuben Samuel Ebert

Above Photo:  Amelia Sophia Ebert

Above Photo:  Mary Amelia Ebert

Above Photo:  Charles William Ebert

Above Photo:  Samuel Robert & Theophelia E. Warnke 

Above Photo:  Samuel Ebert Family

Back row: Charles, Sam, Frank, Reuben, Homer 

Front row: Mary, Amelia, Samuel, Ida, Ophelia, Laura

--All Photos from Barbie Brutlag Dicks.  Ancestry.com

Ebert Giepe License

--Paxton Record.  29 January 1885.

Roeder 1902

--From Daniel Flora 

 

Mr. J. D. Roeder

Dear Brother Dan
Well how are you getting along. How is your foot? Is it nearly well? Next time you listen to me and don't try that again. And you remember May (sister Mary) told you she dreamed you got your foot hurt just that way. But it's done now and I hope it will soon be well again. Too bad you could not have been with one of us we could have waited on you better perhaps and you would not have had to be around strangers. Dear me Dan you might have got killed. And then what. It worries us so when we heard about it. Take good care of yourself, good thing Lew (brother Louis) came up there in time. Ma came here Friday afternoon to spend a couple days but Saturday afternoon Henry got her home again. Pa was sick that was yesterday. I haven't heard how he is today. He has a bad cold and may be rheumatism with it. That's what ails him I guess. The boys hauled in oats yesterday. How do you like this cold weather? We were all to church this morning. We went to the Congregational church to hear Mabel Eberts funeral sermon it was so sad poor Francis is almost dead with grief it's too pitiful to see her. It was so sad. Rev Rumells preached her sermon. I haven't seen May today. Ma and I went to see her yesterday afternoon. But ma could not stay long so she had to go home. You should see Mabel. She has a little Doll buggy ma gave it to her and she had to take it along to bed with her last night . . .

More Undertakers

Ebert: Hardware, Furniture, Undertaker.

--Clipping from Jean Fox.  Dated 1908.

"All of the other children except Samuel eventually moved from the Roberts area. Here Sam Ebert, born in 1863, reared his ten children and died in 1960 at the age of 97.
A wise talented man, he was a person with strong convictions. He was probably the earliest licensed embalmer (1907)in the village, operated a furniture and hardware store, tended over 100 colonies of bees and an apple orchard. 
He first married Amelia Zahn, who was the mother of six of his children.  Later he married Theophelia Warnke."

--Submitted by Ida Tornowski.  (Youngest child of Samuel Ebert.)
--History of Ford County, Illinois.  1984.  Page 242-243. 

Bees

A BIG MONEY PRODUCER
Samuel Ebert of Roberts is probably one of the biggest honey producers in this part of the state. Mr. Ebert is in the mercantile business at Roberts, but still finds time to give to his bees, and he is an expert apiarist. His bees are the three-banded leather colored Italian variety and Mr. Ebert believes there are no better kind of bees as honey producers. This year his bees produced nearly eight tons of honey of the finest quality. Besides producing honey for the market, Mr. Ebert raises queens for sale, and has already disposed of about 150 this year. He is as careful to keep his bees up to the highest standard of breed as would the breeder of pure bred livestock. --Paxton Record.

--Roberts Herald. 16 August 1922.

Killed by Indians

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ercheringer, of Tacoma, Washington, have been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rueck and Mr. and Mrs. S. Ebert and other relatives here for the past week. Mrs. Ercheringer is a cousin of Mr. Reuck and Mr. Ebert, whom they had not seen for 33 years. When she was a child of about 5 years of age her parents and baby sister were killed by the Indians at New Ulm, Minnesota. Her brother, John, aged 11, seeing the Indians shoot their parents, led his three smaller sisters safely to a fort 11 miles away. Mrs. Ercheringer never knew whether the baby sister had been killed by the Indians or carried away, until some 28 years ago. Then a tenant, who was setting posts on the farm where they had lived notified her that three skulls, two large ones and a baby one, had been found there. Upon learning this the remains were taken to St. Paul and buried. Mr. John Kockendorfer, the brother mentioned, is now living at St. Paul and here two years ago.

--Roberts Herald. Old clipping. No date.

Recent Moves 1950

The sale of a house and the leaving of the Reserves, caused a flurry of moves the past week.  Mr. and Mrs. William Mammen and family moved from the Howard Walters house to a trailer recently purchased and parked near the Floyd Kietzman residence. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Whitaker and family moved to Fisher where she and the children will stay during his time in service.  Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Kief moved to the Whitaker home which they purchased. They had been in the Bertram apartments.  Mr. and Mrs. Richard Krallman and family moved to the Bertram apartments from the Ebert residence.  Mr. and Mrs. ??? of Clinton moved to the Ebert residence.  Mr. ? is the new manager of the Alexander Lumber Co. 

--Roberts Herald.  25 October 1950.

The Kief home on North Main Street in Roberts.  I remember it being white though.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Kief purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Francis Whitaker.