Where did they live? 

Here’s a map of the land that the Langdons and Clarks owned when they were living in the area from around 1882 through 1895.

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• Early 1990s Roy and Evie traveled to Clear Lake. Roy is the Eldest son of Ruby Langdon. Ruby was the daughter of Oscar. Oscar was the son of Rufus (Younger)

They shared these photos of Catherine Langdon’s home in Clear Lake.  LINK

Catherine’s Home 2014 

Catherine’s Barns

John Aulwes in the foundation of the home that burnt down. The stone he’s looking at would have been a good place to set your lantern when you went into the cellar. Note sure about the date, but I believe the home burned down in the 1920s.

More photos can be found here

A group of us traveled to Clear Lake on June 28, 2014 and visited several locations. LINK

1882 Pre-Fab Housing 

Interesting biography of Newton made in 1898. He came to Deuel County in September of 1881, filed a homestead claim and returned for his family in February of 1882.  He made a house in Wisconsin and shipped it to his new farm in Dakota. In short time he put the home together, thus providing a home for his family while he began to build the barn and outbuildings. I didn’t realize that they did anything like that!

“Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated compendium of biography… 1898”.  Here’s a version of it online. LINK

Catherine Langdon’s 1890 Diary 

Thanks to Ginger Westfall! These are multiple page PDF files.

• 1 January through 15 March 1890.   LINK

• 16 March through 30 Aug 1890.   LINK

• 1 September through 8 December 1890.   LINK

From Ginger’s email: Great Grandma Catherine did a lot of ironing and going out from what I read. There are names of other people, friends that might help in more genealogy.  I’ve skimmed over the entries and noted the following:

Jan 5 ‘”Went to meeting and went … Oscar”

Jan 6  “Herbert  came and I…”

Jan 10 “Herbert and Anne came … went to Charlie Giles.. Oscar brought me home”

Jan 22 “Sewed on Annes … and fixed Oscars scarf…”

Feb 12  “Newt was here… Oscar better”

Feb 13 “Dr came dressed Oscars foot”

Feb14 it looks like “letter from E… Enna, Ch… Jesse (?)…”

Mar. 1 “Newt, Mary, Effie, Roy came….

Mar 26 Oscar came we went had his foot dressed

Apr 3 “with Oscar to have his foot dressed”  Oscar must have done something bad to his foot.

Apr 11 “Got a letter from Erwin”

May 13 “Annie has chicken pox”

May 23 “Ann and Susie came and tried on their dresses”

Jun 1 “church …. went home with Oscar and Joe”

Jun 17 “Herbert and Berta  were here….”

Jun 29 1890 “Oscar is 19 today

July 22 “very warm  118 in the sun  ironed and sweet”

Jul 25  …”got telegram…”

Oct 8 “Made Herbert shirt..

Dec 4 “Snowed all day…

Dec 8 last page in this book.

Catherine Langdon Church 

In addition to being a member, she was also:
Trustee – Catharine Langdon.
Steward – Catharine Langdon.
Ladies Aid Society – President, Mrs. Catharine Langdon
Here’s Catherine in the Clear Lake, Deuel CO., SD – 1888 Methodist Church Records.  LINK

Ed Stickle (Catherine’s Brother) 

Catherine Langdon brother Edward Stickle died in Clear Lake at the age of 75 on 30 May 1898. He is buried in Lakeview Cemetery Lot 4 Number C.
Edward Stickle’s wife Melissa died in Clear Lake on 14 Mar 1904, and is buried in Lakeview Cemetery Block C Lot 04 Grave W6.

Here’s Melissa Stickle’s Obit.

Herbert & Anna Langdon 

Herbert and Anna married in Clear Lake, Deuel Co., SD. After he died 3 May 1912, she married Pete Erickson (no relation to the other Peter Erickson on this site), and then Viron (Barnie) Marshall.

• Herbert Arthur Langdon Death Certificate  LINK

• Here’s Herebert and Anna’s Marriage Certificate. Her place of residence is listed as Norden. LINK

Herbert & Anna’s Children 

Archie Rufus Langdon (1891-1976)
Belle Carrie Langdon (1893-1989)
Myrtle Esther Langdon (1896-1987)
Mary Catherine Langdon (1898-1923)

Blanche Susan Langdon (1901-1987)
Kenneth Steven Langdon (1903-1974)
Jenner C. “Jack” Langdon (1906-1996)
Louis D. Langdon (1908-1976)
Herbert A Langdon Jr. (1911-1997)

Archie & Hattie’s Children 

Sylvan Arthur Langdon (1912-2005)
Cora Elizabeth Langdon (1915-1994)
Lillian Trina Langdon (1917-)
Marion Langdon (1919-)
Alice Irene Langdon (1921-2011)
Loren H Langdon (1924-1926)
Vernon Archie Langdon (1924-1991)
Lorraine H Langdon (1925-)

Donna Lou Langdon (1928-2009)

Anna (Olson) Langdon 

Wife of Herbert Arthur Langdon. Here’s a few bits of assorted info that might help track her family down. She was born 10 Sep 1872 in Norway. 20 May 1889 she married Herbert Langdon. He passed away 3 May 1912. At age 45 in 1917 she married Peter J. Erickson. He passed away and she married Viron (Barnie) Marshall. He passed away 20 May 1958.  Anna passed away 29 Nov 1964 and is buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Clear Lake. It looks like she is listed with both Herbert and Viron. Links below to findagrave.

Anna B Langdon  LINK

Anna B Marshall  LINK

SPECULATION:

From one of Sylvan’s daughters:
I remember there are a LOT of Anna Olson (Oleson)s out there at that time.  She did have a sister Susan also.  I don’t know how many siblings, but I remember her sister Susan dying was why they came back from Oregon so that would have been around 1900.  I kinda think Susan was married also.

Anna lived near Mower County.  They came there from Norway when she was little.  I don’t know at what age she moved to Dakota.  Both her parents died and she was raised by a Ole Grinde (who may have been her mother’s brother?).  She sometimes went by Anna Grinde.

AND
My dad always said she was raised by “Old Man Grinde” who I think from other conversations was her mother’s brother.  They first came to Mower Co MN and then to Goodhue Co MN and then just over the state line to SD.  Her mother died first, then her father and then her sister Susan.  Don’t know if there were siblings.  He could be Grinde from Grinden NOR what with their naming patterns.

NEW JULY 2014 

Anna’s sister was Susan “Susie” Grinde Olson. She married Stephan Smith Skinner.

Birth 26 Jun 1876 in Mower Co., Minnesota, United States

Death 27 Apr 1904 in Watertown, Codington, South Dakota, USA

Susie SKINNER
Mount Hope Cemetery, Codington County, South Dakota. LINK

Ole O. Grinde 

Could this be the man who raised Anna? He lived in the township of Norden, just below ND Clark’s home. Ole died in 1935 and is buried in Brandt, SD. Here he is in Find-A-Grave.

LINK

Here’s a photo of his headstone in “south dakota gravestones”.

LINK

Herebert and Anna’s Marriage Certificate lists her place of residence as Norden.

LINK

Ole’s naturalization papers. He was born in Norway and emmigrated to America via Quebec, Canada in May of 1885.

LINK

Did he come with Anna’s parents? Here’s the index to Naturalization papers for the same area. It shows the Olsens. Could one of these be her parents? The papers are online at Familysearch, but I haven’t been able to look through them.

LINK

Here’s a link to the Norwegian Archives that shows a Bortel Olsen with his daughters Anna and Susan. They are living in Deuel County, Dakota Territory in the 1880 Census. Is this them? The age for Anna would be correct, and Susan was born in Minnesota, which would also fit what we know.

LINK

Interesting 1918 article about Ole.

Here’s Ole’s death notice. Not pretty. He had his leg ampuatated.

NEW OCT 2013 

Well just who is Ole Grinde?  The name comes up several times, but he is NOT the one who raised Anna. I’ll leave the info above, because it’s just too strange that the name “Grinde” kept coming up. They must have been good friends of the family. Thanks to Linda Stoops for clearing this whole mess up!

Clear Lake Centennial Book?

It was published in late 1980 or so. I’m guessing because other people on this page died in the late 1980s. Below is a photo of the A. B. Anderson farm near Brandt where Anna went to live at 12 years old when her dad died.

NEW JULY 2014 

Here’s Anna’s obit from the “Clear Lake Courier” on 10 Dec. 1964; pg. 1.  It names her sister. Mrs. Steven Skinner, who died in 1904 in Watertown, SD.

Here’s a photo of Anna’s home in Clear Lake from the 1950s. She lived in many places. The house had been abandoned and no one was living in it at the time this photo was taken.

Donna Langdon Family Research 

Here’s an email about Archie and Hattie gathered from Donna’s research. I’d love to see the rest, but this is all I have:

Archie was born in Deuel County in the Clear Lake, South Dakota area.  His parents were Anna and Herbert Langdon.  When Archie was a baby, they moved to the Yoncalla, Oregon area and lived there until Archie was about 13 years of age.  They then moved back to the Clear Lake area.

Hattie Wohler was born in Brandt, South Dakota.  Her parents were Carrie and Lars Wohler.  They farmed in the Brandt South Dakota area for several years.  When Hattie and her sisters and brothers were young, her parents were divorced.  Her father moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota where he operated a hotel.  Her mother stayed on the farm with the children and continued to operate the farm with the help of her son Henry.  In later years, after her father Lars became ill, he returned to the Brandt area where he died.  Both Hattie’s parents are buried at the cemetery at Brandt, South Dakota.

Hattie and Archie were married in Brandt, South Dakota at the Highland Lutheran Church.  They farmed a few years in the Brandt and Clear Lake area.  They then moved to Watertown, South Dakota where Archie worked for the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad.  He worked for the railroad until 1922 and lost his job because of the strike.  He then worked at several other jobs until they moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 1925 with their eight children and Archie started working at the John Morrell Packing Plant.  He worked there until his retirement in 1926.  Shortly after Hattie and Archie moved to Sioux Falls, their son Loren Herbert (Lorraine’s twin) died from spinal meningitis when he was approximately 9 months old.  Hattie and Archie lived to celebrate their 62nd wedding anniversary.  They both died in Sioux Falls and are buried at the Hills of Rest Cemetery in Sioux Falls.

Belle Carrie (Langdon) Jaus 

One of Herbert and Anna Langdon’s children was Belle Carrie Langdon. She was born in April of 1893 in Oregon and passed away 18 May 1989 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. On 18 March 1910 at the age of 16 she married 18 year old William Macklin Burbridge in Deuel County, South Dakota.

Source: South Dakota Department of Health. South Dakota Marriage Index, 1905-1914 and South Dakota Marriage Certificates, 1905-1949. Pierre, SD, USA: South Dakota Department of Health.

They had five children.
James Macklin Burbridge Jr. (1911-1968)
Marjorie C Burbridge (1912-2000)
Jeanette Burbridge (1917-?)
June A Burbridge (1917-?)
Doris E Burbridge (1919-?)

William died at the age of 51 on 21 Mar 1943 in Deuel County, South Dakota. She then married Charles S Jaus.

Belle Carrie (Langdon) Jaus 1950s

Here’s a photo of her with her siblings in 1972. LR: Belle Jaus, Herb Langdon (Herbert Langdon Jr.), Lilly Clarksean, Blanche Doran, Archie Langdon, Myrtle Stoops. LINK

Belle Jaus Descendants 

I have two things to add that should help. First is an excerpt from an email:

Rufus and Catherine had a son named Herbert.
Herbert had a daughter named Belle (my maternal great grandmother),
Belle had a daughter named Marjorie Catherine (my maternal grandmother),
Marjorie Catherine had a daughter named Sharon (my mother)
..and I’ve left the name of the daughter out.

Second is a link to a post in Rootsweb:

Charles Jaus was married 4 times. His first wife, Hilda Manache, was the mother to Gordon and Forest. His 2nd wife was the chiroractor and her name was Eva Willy, and she had the adopted son named Rex. I remember seeing him when I was little. His 3rd wife was Jenny, she died, and then he married Belle, who I remember the most. I don’t think Rex is the biological son of Charles Jaus, but I’ll ask my sister, she remembers more of the history.

He had two other children, Everett & Marilyn who I think Belle is their mother. Born in 1946 and 1948.

My Mom just died last year at 91 yrs. old., but my Dad died in 1973. Grandpa and Belle Jaus were able to be at the funeral, but now have passed away.  LINK

Lily Clarksean 

Here’s the same photo linked above for Belle. 1972. LR: Belle Jaus, Herb Langdon (Herbert Langdon Jr.), Lilly Clarksean, Blanche Doran, Archie Langdon, Myrtle Stoops.

LINK

Lily Clarksean was actually born Lily Partridge. She was the daughter of Mary Catherine Langdon and Edward Ivan Partridge. Mary Langdon was born in 1898 while Anna and Herbert lived in Oregon.

NOTE/SPECULATION:

Herbert’s wife Anna had a sister named Susan who lived in South Dakota.  Susan was dying (around 1900) and it seems this was part of the reason Herbert and Anna moved back to South Dakota.  Anna wanted to be there and help them out.

Back to Lily. She was born 29 Sep 1921 in South Dakota. When she was two years old her mother Mary died. (1923)  I don’t know the circumstances, but she did not stay with her father. She was raised by her grandmother Anna as a daughter and was treated as a sibling to her Aunts and Uncles.

Assorted Info 

• Just thought this was a strange article to find, so I thought I’d include it. A Walnut Log is found on Newton Clark’s land. (Actually 300 feet under it.) This was Catherine’s old farm. The question now is – who has the Walnut Log!?

• (L-R) Archie Langdon, little girl is Sandy Clarksean, Fred Clarksean, Maime (Langdon) Lee, Lyle Lee, Oscar Langdon, LilyAnn Partridge Clarksean, Fred Lee.

• Twins Helen, Hazel and father Erwin Langdon

Catherine Langdon Colorized

Thought I’d try to give her some color. The original photo is on Chris Bremer’s “Bremer Family History” site.  LINK