ZabelFamily Album

ZabelFamily Album

GustavFerdinand

Zabel

Baptism Record

December 2

1866

Gustav Ferdinand

Zabel

1883/Oct/11

Immigrated to US,Passenger #147 on the ship Australia; bound for

New York. It left from Hamburg on the 11th of

October 1883. Captain Franck was

skipper. Gustav’s age was 16, he was from Konigsdank, Prussia. There was only one

other family from that village on board. Their

name was Schultz.

Gustav Ferdinand

Zabel

1893-1900

Worked as a farm hand at

various places in Iowa and Minnesota.

Gustav Ferdinand Zabel &

Augusta Louise Martin

1890/Nov/9

Married: Elmore, Faribault County,

Minnesota Spouse: Augusta Louise

MARTINBirth: 23 Aug 1868,

Lupeschewon, Posen, GermanyFather: Christopher John

MARTIN (1824-1900)Mother: Sophia Caroline KOEPKE (1827-1911)

1891 August 17

1st child:

George Frederick ZABEL

Elmore, Faribault County, Minnesota

Married 2 August, 1916 to Mary Saul

Fred and Mary Zabel

1893 June 8

2nd child:

Alice Louise ZABEL

Algona, Hebron County, Iowa

Married 21 October, 1916

to Walter Beatty

1895 February 9th

3rd child:

Meta Esther ZABEL

Kossuth County,

Iowa

Married 29 December, 1937 to Lother Braihan

1897 February 11

4th child:

Edward Paul Ludwig ZABEL

Algona, Kossuth County, Iowa

Married 4 Jan 1927 to Ida Haase

1898 July 25

5th child:

Alma Albertina ZABEL

Elmore, Faribault County,

Minnesota

Edgar and Alma GerberMarried: 12 December 1917

Alma and Edgar Gerber

Mangels Back Door

1900 Jun 23

6th child:

Lulu Wilhelmina ZABEL

Appleton, Faribault County, Minnesota

Jim and Lulu KiddMarried 29 March 1921

Balfour, North

Dakota Days

Balfour, North

Dakota Days

Farmers Day in Balfour, North Dakota

1902-1917 Gustav and Augusta lived near Balfour, McHenry County, North Dakota

1902-1917 Gustav and Augusta lived near Balfour, McHenry County, North Dakota

Winter of 1917

Threshing at Zabels Balfour, North Dakota

Threshing at Zabels, Balfour, North Dakota

Caroline, Meta, Lulu and Clara -- Balfour, North Dakota

1902 May 7

7th child:

Caroline Emma ZABEL

Balfour, McHenry County, North Dakota

Married 11 April, 1926to Leonard Zimmerman

1903 August 31

8th child:

Clara Greta ZABEL

Balfour, McHenry County, North Dakota

Married 30 September, 1922to John Henry Wood

1905 April 21

9th child:

Edna Viola ZABEL

Balfour,

McHenry County, North

Dakota

Edna and Marvin Mangels

Married 26 November, 1929

1906 June 29

10th child: Helen Mabel

ZABEL

Balfour, McHenry County, North

Dakota

Helen and

William Moody

6 April,1926

1907 November 26

11th child:Gustav Christopher

ZABEL

Balfour, McHenry County, ND

1912 March 20

12th child:

Violet Eleanora ZABEL

Balfour, McHenry County, ND

Dad 1st man on left. Boy left of girls Ed, Clara, Helen, Edna, Caroline, Violet, Lulu,

Three girls standing: Alma, Alice, Meta

1908 April 27 ZABEL GUSTAV Purchased land in North Dakota - BLM land records for McHenry

County, North Dakota

Whose farm, state, date unknown

Is this Pankratz

School was 2 miles from Balfour, North DakotaMeta, Sadie, Inez, Tom, Edward, John, Annie, Lulu, Alma

Lulu 3rd from left, Alma 2nd from left

First row: 1st girl Helen, 6th girl Clara, 8th girl EdnaSecond Row: 1st girl Lulu, 4th girl Alma, 6th girl Caroline

Walter, 2nd boy on left Gust, Starting behind Gust, Caroline, Clara, Lulu, Edna, Alma, ?, Meta, Helen (front of Meta), Alice last women holding baby.

At Pankratz Farm, Balfour, North Dakota, 1916

Back Row: Caroline, Lulu, Mother, Alma, Alice, Ed.Front Row: Clara, Helen, Violet, Gust, Edna

1902-1917Gustav and Augusta lived near Balfour, McHenry Co. ND

Zabel Place in North DakotaLulu, Alma, Mabel, Caroline, Clara, Violet

Gust and Violet

Violet and LuluZabel

Montana1917

Montana1917

Fred’s Homestead in Kremlin Montana after a wind storm, 1919

Zabel Farm between Gildford and Kremlin Montana Winter of 1917

January 1,1919Water in all the low places. Driest year we had in spring.

1917-1922 Moved to a farm near Gildford, Hill County, Montana

Ben Roebecks Home Gustav Zabel’s Car

FREDFRED

Postcard from Ed to his MotherIn Balfour, North Dakota.

Dear Folks: Only a few lines to let you know that I am well and hope

you are the same. Except Mary she is in the hospital. She had the appendicitis. She had her operation Tuesday. Mr. Sand was there Sunday. Doctor said it

was just in time. She is getting long fine. She at Hingham From Fred

Fred, Mary and Orville Zabel

Orville Zabel

Fred Zabel

Fred Zabel

Orville and Leona Zabel

Orville and Leona Zabel

Leona, Orville, Fern and George Zabel –1925—Note the Model T Ford

Fern, Leona, Orville and George Zabel--

1930

Fred’s family with Mary’s sister’s family

Fern Zabel

Leona Zabel1939

Mary, Fred

and

Leona Zabel

At Mangels

Back Door

ALICE ALICE

Alice and Walt Beatty

Baby Hazel, Alice, Alma, Lulu, Edna Zabel

HazelAlice’s

First Girl

Alice with Marion, Hazel and

Walter

Marion, Hazel and Walter-1921

Walter, Marion, Eva, and Hazel Beatty-1923

Walter ‘Sonny’ Beatty

Alice and Walt Beatty

FamilySonny, Marion, Hazel, Verna, Ruby and Eva

Alice and Daughters

Battleground Lake, Washington July 1921

Battleground Lake, Washington-- July 1921

Marion Beatty Married 10 September,

1939 to Robert Aline, Sr.

ED ED

Ed Trapping in Colorado

Ed Zabel

Ed Zabel

Ida Married Ed Zabel

4 January, 1927 in Havre, Hill County, Montana

ALMAALMA

Meta, Caroline, Alma, Pearl, Ken, Virgil and Edgar Gerber

Back Row: LuLu, Alma, Edna, Edgar, Pearl, JimFront Row: Virgil and Ken Gerber, Allan and

Lola

Back Row: Edgar, Pearl, Ken Gerber, Ed Zabel, Art, Virgil Gerber, Lulu KiddSecond Row: Gustav and Augusta Zabel, Alma and Clara Gerber

Front Row: Allan, Bernice, Les and Wes Gerber

Edgar Gerber

Pearl Gerber Thirsk

and Bob Thirsk

Married 28 July, 1940Kelsey, Alberta, Canada

Bob and Pearl Gerber ThirskMarried 28 Jul 1940 in Kelsey, Alberta, Canada

LULULULU

Lulu, Allan and Lola Kidd

Lola Kidd Vogel

Allan Kidd

Allan and Lola Kidd

Lulu, Allan and Lola ready for a ride.

Lola and Allan Kidd

Lulu, Lola and Allan

Henry Wood

Allan and Lola Kidd

Lola Kidd Vogel

Allan Kidd

Jean Kidd And

Danny Shorey

CLARACLARA

John, Clara and Henry

Wood

Henry Wood

Clara and JohnWoodBettyVernaHenry

Edna Zabel and Henry

Wood

EDNAHELENGUST

2nd Street Havre, Montana

EDNAHELENGUST

2nd Street Havre, Montana

Edna and Helen

Confirmation

Violet, Gust, Edna and Ida, December 1927 Havre, Montana

Edna and Helen ZabelZabel House on 2nd Street

Havre, Montana

Edna and Helen ZabelZabel House on 2nd Street

Havre, Montana

Edna and Helen Zabel

Gust and Helen Zabel

Gust Zabel All dressed

up and no place to go.

EDNA EDNA

Edna Viola Zabel

Grandma ZabelWith Mangels

ChildrenWarren, Margie,

Louise and Nelda

Edna, Nelda, Warren, Louise and Margie Mangels

Edna Zabel MangelsWarren, Nelda,

Louise, and Margie

GUSTGUST

Estelle Zabel, Gust’s Wife

Gust Zabel and Gordon

Johnson

Gordon Johnson, son of Estelle

Zabel

Terry Zabel

Terry Zabel

Gust and

Terry Zabel

VIOLETVIOLET

Violet ZabelAugust 29, 1929

Violet

Violet Zabel

Violet and Lee Shorey

Married 11 August 1933

Violet and Lee Shorey

Danny Shorey,

son of Violet and Lee Shorey

Family&

FriendsGatherings

Family&

FriendsGatherings

Ladies Aid 1925Grandma Zabel in black

dress

Ladies Group and Rev. Motzkus

Back Row: Lulu, Alma, Edna, Edgar, Pearl Gerber, JimFront Row: Virgil and Ken Gerber, Allan and Lola Kidd. Taken

June 1928

At Kidd’s June 23, 1929Grandpa Zabel far left, Middle: Ida, ?, Clara, Lulu, Grandma Zabel

Grandma Zabel’s Birthday PartyClara, Ed, Henry, Lulu, Ida, Lola, Betty, Grandma, Marvin holding Louise,

Nelda, Grandpa, Warren, Margie, Allan, behind Allan: John Wood, Jim Kidd

Grandma and Grandpa

Zabel

Kidd FarmGrandma’s

Birthday

Grandma Zabel’s Birthday PartyLulu, Lola, Ida, Margie Front: Edna, holding Louise, Nelda, Grandma and Grandpa, Allan, Warren, Henry

Marvin bending down in front of Lola, Clara behind Lola, Ida, Margie behind Ida, Betty with John on top step ?

Church Picnic Bear Paw Mountains

Lulu, Edna, ?, Mrs. Struck, Mr. Struck, Marvin, Grandma Zabel, Jim, Grandpa Zabel, ?, Clara, John

Front row: Allan, Warren Margie, Lola, Nelda, Henry1937?

Lulu, Ed, Grandma Augusta, Edgar, Alma, Grandpa Gust

Violet, Helen, Gust, Grandma Augusta, Grandpa Gust Zabel

Three Generations of Zabels

Brother, Sisters, Mom & Dad, Cousins

4th of July Fresno Dam Grandpa Zabel, Jim, John, Lulu, Edna, Verna, ?

(Eleanor Vogel)

Fresno DamJuly 4,

1945-1947

Allan and Warren on dock,

In the boat, JohnDanny, Violet,

Clara, Lulu Louise, Edna, Nelda

Zabel Girls

Zabel Girls

Zabel Sisters

Meta, Lulu, Helen, Violet, Alma, Edna, Alice, Clara

Zabel Sisters: Meta, Lulu, Helen, Violet, Alma, Edna, Alice, Clara

Zabel Sisters: Meta, Lulu, Helen, Violet, Alma, Edna, Alice, Clara

Caroline’sFuneral

1925

Caroline’sFuneral

1925

Caroline Zabel Zimmerman’s Funeral March 15, 1927

50th

WeddingAnniversary

1942

50th

WeddingAnniversary

1942

Gustav and Augusta’s

50th Wedding Anniversary

Gustav and Augusta’s 50th Wedding Anniversary

50th Anniversary Gathering

Grandma Zabel and her daughters: Violet, Helen, Alma, Grandma, Alice, Meta and Edna,

Violet, Helen, Alice, Meta

Who pray tell is in the window? Nelda & Margie?

From Photo Album “Jim broke the creamer”

50th Anniversary: Allan Kidd, Mary & Leona Zabel, Grandpa and Grandma Zabel, Edgar, Helen, Nelda, Violet, and Louise

Edgar Gerber, John Wood, Ed Zabel, Jim Kidd

ColleenZimmerman

ColleenZimmerman

Colleen Zimmerman

Colleen Zimmerman

Grandma Zabel, Colleen and Leonard Zimmerman, Grandpa Zabel

Grandma & GrandpaColleen

Mrs. Zimmerman

Leonard Zimmerman

Colleen Zimmerman

Warren Mangels, Colleen ZimmermanNelda and Margie Mangels

Grandma And

GrandpaZabel

Grandma And

GrandpaZabel

Grandma ZabelMother’s Day

1929

Grandma & Grandpa Zabel1600 1st Street Havre, Montana

Grandma Zabel

GrandmaGrandpa

Zabel

Ed Zabel, John and Betty Wood, Grandma and Grandpa Zabel, Henry Wood

Gordon Johnson, Grandma and Grandpa Zabel, and Gust at Glacier Park

Mr. Maxwell and sGrandpa Zabel

Grandpa Zabel in Field

Grandma Zabel 1600 1st Street, Havre, Montana

Grandma Zabel’s Funeral

Zabels&

Martins

Zabels&

Martins

Sophie Caroline Koepke Martin,

Mother of

Augusta Martin Zabel

Picnic Minnesota

DornbachsIn-laws

to the Martins

Wilhelmine, Ludwig, Augusta, Gustav

WilhelmineZabel Martin

and girls

Ludwig Martin Family

Ludwig Martin?

Gustav Zabel

Gustav Zabel and SisterWilhelmine Zabel Martin

Wilehmine Zabel Martin Children

Wilhelmine & Ludwig Martin Family

Grandma Zabel in Minnesota

Timeline Gustav Ferdinand Zabelby: Nelda Mangels Hastings November 22, 2000

• 1866/Nov/18-Birth: Nicholasdorf, Bukowitz,Prussia• Father:Wilhelm Friederich ZABEL (1835-1882)• Mother:Wilhelmine WELLLNITZ (1835-1872)

• 1866/Dec/2 Baptized:

• 1872/Mar/31 Age Six- Mother died

• 1874/Dec/25 Age eight- Father remarries

• 1881/Apr/3 Age fifteen- Step brother Hermann • Friedrich Zabel is born

• 1882/Feb/12 Age Sixteen-Father died

• 1883/Oct/11 Age Sixteen + -Immigrated to USPassenger #147 on the ship Australia; bound for New York. It left from Hamburg on the 11th of October 1883. Capt Franck was skipper. Gustav’s age was 16, he was from Konigsdank, Prussia. There was only one other family from that village on board. Their name was Schultz.

• 1883-1890 Place of residence unknown.

• 1890/ Nov/9 Marr: Elmore, Faribault Co. MN• Spouse: Augusta Louise MARTIN• Birth: 23 Aug 1868, Lupeschewon, Posen, GER• Father: Christopher John MARTIN (1824-1900)• Mother: Sophia Caroline KOEPKE (1827-1911)• 1891/Aug/17-1st child: George Frederick ZABEL

in Elmore, Faribault Co. MN

• 1893-1900-Worked as a farm hand at various places in Iowa and Minnesota.

• 1893/Jun/8-2nd child: Alice Louise ZABEL in Algona, Hebron Co. IA

• 1895/Feb/9-3rd child: Meta Esther ZABEL in Kossuth Co. IA

• 1897/Feb/11-4th child: Edward Paul Ludwig ZABEL in Algona, Kossuth Co. IA

Timeline Gustav Ferdinand Zabelby: Nelda Mangels Hastings November 22, 2000

• 1898/Jul/25-5th child: Alma Albertina ZABEL in• Elmore, Faribault Co. MN

• 1900/Jun/23-6th child: Lulu Wilhelmina ZABEL • in Appleton, Faribault Co. MN

• 1902-1917-Lived near Balfour, McHenry Co. ND

• 1902/May/7-7th child: Caroline Emma ZABEL in • Balfour, McHenry Co. ND

• 1903/Aug 31-8th child: Clara Greta ZABEL in • Balfour, McHenry Co. ND

• 1905/Apr/21-9th child: Edna Viola ZABEL in • Balfour, McHenry Co. ND• 1906/Jun/29-10th child: Helen Mabel ZABEL in • Balfour, McHenry Co. ND

• 1907/Nov/26-11th child: Gustav Christopher • ZABEL in Balfour, McHenry Co. ND

• 1908/Apr/27 -ZABEL GUSTAV Purchased land in • ND - BLM land records for McHenry Co. ND

• 1912/Mar/20-12th child: Violet Eleanora ZABEL • in Balfour, McHenry Co. ND

• 1917-1922-Moved to a farm near Gildford, Hill • Cty, MT

• 1922-1951-Moved and lived in Havre, Mt- Worked • for the Great Northern Railroad.

• 1942/Jul/14-Wife, Augusta Louise (Martin) Zabel • dies.

• 1947?-Sold his Havre home to daughter Lulu • Kidd and her husband—continued to live with them.

• 1951/Oct/31-Death: Sacred Heart Hospital, • Havre, Hill Co. MT

• 1951/Nov/3-Burial: Highland Cemetery, Havre, Hill • County, Mountana

A Short History of The Martin and Zabel FamiliesEighteen Sixties to Eighteen Ninety

Rudolph Vernon Mangels25 of February, 1993

• Our forbearers, Gustav Ferdinand Zabel, born the eighteenth of November Eighteen Sixty Six, in the province of West Prussia, and Augusta Louise Martin, born the Twenty-third of August Eighteen Sixty Eight in the province of Posen, were nearly neighbors they lived only one hundred twenty miles apart when Augusta was born. It took a journey of more than four thousand miles for these two people to meet and marry. Grandfather Gustav, came to America in 1883, and it is said he met or traveled with Grandmother Augusta’s, older brother Ludwig, and settled in new York. In March the very next year Grandmother with her mother and father left Bremen Germany for New York arriving thirty days later. Her parents continued on and settled in Minnesota, while their young, beautiful, daughter of sixteen stayed in New York with her sister, Wilhelmine, for the next six years. At some time during her stay in New York, Grandmother met the young dashing, “Herr” Gustav Zabel, maybe through her brother Ludwig, or possibility at church on the upper east side, where it is shown she lived. The story gets more complicated, because Grandfather’s sister, Wilhelmine, in the spring of 1890, steamed across the ocean, and went directly to Minnesota where she married Grandmother’s brother, Ludwig Martin, on the 29th of May, 1890. Wilehmine Zabel was 27 at the time, and it is not known whether they had known each other previously in Germany. It is assumed that Grandfather and Grandmother went along to the wedding in Minnesota and got so caught up in it all that they decided to get married, and did so the 9th of November 1890 at Elmore Minnesota. That’s not the end of the this story, but really the beginning of another because the immediately started to have children, 12 in all, which is why we’re all here today.

• The search for our ancestors has stopped on this side of the Atlantic Ocean, and as now we can just speculate as to where the parents of our Grandparent’s came from. We know that Grandfather was born in Nikolausdorf, West Prussia, and Grandmother in Lupeschewon, near the town of Ritschenwalde, in the province of Posen. Both of these towns were influenced by events during the reign of Frederick William the first, and his son, Frederick the Great. Frederick William the first, “King in Russia”, assumed the reign of Prussia from his father, Frederick first, after his death in 1713. East Prussia had just experienced a plague, 1710, which wiped out between 1/3 and ½ of the population. Being a good administrator, he took many opportunities to bring in colonists to east Russia. In 1731, when protestants were being persecuted in Salzburg, he brought the whole group to East Prussia, built towns for them, and allowed them their religious freedom. Frederick the Great, his son, learned from his father and applied these lessons, when his reign began in 1740, With the first partition of Poland, in 1772, Russia and Austria took parts of Poland and Prussia was given the land that became West Prussia. One of the very first acts of Frederick the Great, was to build the Bromberg canal, connecting the Brahe and Netze Rivers, which gave access from the Baltic Sea, in East Prussia, all the way to the Elbe river, in the western part of the empire. As many as 300,000 colonists were convinced to move to Prussia, during the reign of Frederick the Great, to help with massive projects. As an example weavers were given free looms, along with the offer of a job there were some financial incentives as well as religious freedoms. In addition to the canal, dams were built to help reclaim upward of 25,000 previously flooded acres, of land. A silk industry was started by using the mulberry trees. No expense was spared to bring in craftsman whose skills were needed but unavailable in the local population. Not included in the numbers of colonists, were 80 - 90 thousand foreign army troops, who decided to stay rather that return to their homeland.

A Short History of The Martin and Zabel FamiliesEighteen Sixties to Eighteen Ninety

Rudolph Vernon Mangels25 of February, 1993

• This short history gives just a little insight into our ancestors. We have many clues yet to follow, and facts waiting to be found. With ach new fact comes a clearer picture as to who our ancestors were and where they came from. Come, join in the search, there are still many things to be discovered.

• Rudolf Vernon Mangels• 25, February, 1993

• Posen came to Prussia in the second partition, 1793, and the third partition, 1795, again Russia and Austria did the dividing giving Russia, Posen. Poland ceased to exist at this time and shortly there after Napoleon the first conquered Prussia. In the second “Peace of Paris (1815), after the defeat of France, Posen or South Prussia as it was called, became part of Prussia again. The people were still living in mud huts and plowing the land with wooden ploys. The land was not up to the standards of either , East Prussia or West Prussia. The king, Frederick William the Second, had no concern for the land, unlike his predecessors, and ended up deeding most of it away to some of his faithful followers.

• The locations of the towns, from which our relatives came, makes for speculation that they were wither colonist, part of military troops who didn’t return home, or Poles. Both towns are located near the Bromberg Canal, and close to the rivers, Netze, Brahe, and Vistual, where many labors were needed during this time in Prussian history.

• The reasons why they left Prussia aren’t that hard to answer. There was the war in 1870 with France, in which thousands upon thousands of men were killed. Any of whom came from this part of Prussia. It is thought that Christopher John Martin, Grandmother’s Father, fought in that was even though he would have been 40 years old. The Germans were out numbered by the Poles and resentment was building. This period of time was the start of A great German exodus, from the resent acquired territories, in the Eastern part of the kingdom. Also some of our people had already gone to America and had been sending back reports of, cheap land and other benefits such as freedom. Grandmothers father was 59 years old when he came to America, in the spring of 1884, but his older brother, Gottlieb, preceded him by more than 4 years. Two of Grandmother’s brothers, perhaps stepbrothers, August and Julius, may have come to America as early as 1868.