FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Margaret Elizabeth “Maggie” Clemens 4th of 7 living children of Mathias/Mathew Clemens & Anna Mary Reiland Born: Jul 21, 1866, Mazeppa, Wabasha Co., Minnesota Died: Nov 29, 1954 (age 88), Morgan Township, Traill Co., North Dakota Buried: Dec 2, 1954, Calvary Cemetery, … [Read more...]
Peter D. Clemens & Alvina Priebe
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Peter Daniel Clemens 3rd of 7 living children of Mathias/Mathew Clemens & Anna Mary Reiland Born: Oct 7, 1864, Mazeppa, Wabasha Co., Minnesota Died: May 26, 1956 (age 91), Rochester, Olmsted Co., Minnesota Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Rochester, Olmsted Co., … [Read more...]
Catherine Clemens & John Hoeft
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Catherine “Kate” Clemens 2nd of 7 children of Mathias/Mathew Clemens & Anna Mary Reiland Born: Feb 7, 1863, Mazeppa, Wabasha Co., Minnesota Died: Jun 14, 1934 (age 70), Pine Island, Goodhue Co., Minnesota Buried: St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery, Pine Island, Olmsted Co., … [Read more...]
Maria Elizabeth Clemens
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY 0. infant Clemens 1st child of Mathias/Mathew Clemens & Anna Mary Reiland Feb 5, 1860, Mazeppa, Wabasha Co., Minnesota Feb 5, 1860, Mazeppa, Wabasha Co., Minnesota Buried: unkn 1. Maria Elizabeth Clemens 1st of 7 living children of Mathias/Mathew Clemens & Anna Mary … [Read more...]
John E. Clemens & Mary Befort
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY John E. Clemens 4th of 4 children of Peter Clemens & Maria Mary Reding Born: Jun 29, 1844, Consdorf, Canton d'Echternach, Grevenmacher, Luxembourg Died: Feb 17, 1901 (age 56), Olmsted Co., Minnesota Buried: Saint Michael's Catholic Cemetery, Olmsted Co., … [Read more...]
Peter A. Clemens & Mary Newell
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Peter A. Clemens 3rd of 4 Children of Peter Clemens & Maria Mary Reding Born: Mar 14, 1841, Consdorf, Canton d'Echternach, Grevenmacher, Luxembourg Died: Apr 28, 1918 (age 77), Mazeppa, Wabasha Co., Minnesota; chronic and acute intestinal nephritis ending in a … [Read more...]
Nicholas Clemens & Rose Maire
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Nicholas "Nic" Clemens 2nd of 4 children of Peter Clemens & Maria Mary Reding Born: Aug 18, 1838, Consdorf, Canton d'Echternach, Grevenmacher, Luxembourg Died: Sep 18, 1911 (age 73), Mazeppa, Wabasha Co., Minnesota; atheroma of arteries, paralysis Buried: Sep 20, 1911, … [Read more...]
Peter Clemens & Mary Reiland
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Peter Clemens 2nd of 4 children of Mathias Clemens & Margaretha Welter Born: Dec 16, 1808, Betzdorf, Canton Betzdorf, Luxembourg Died: Jul 3, 1871 (aged 62), Mazeppa, Wabasha Co., Minnesota; consumption Buried: Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery in Mazeppa, Wabasha … [Read more...]
Mathew Clemens & Anna Mary Reiland
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Mathias/Mathew Clemens 1st of 4 children of Peter Clemens & Maria Mary Reding Born: Mar 15, 1836, Consdorf, Canton d'Echternach, Grevenmacher, Luxembourg Died: Dec 22, 1920 (age 84), Rochester, Olmsted Co., Minnesota; lobar pneumonia Buried: Calvary Cemetery, Rochester, … [Read more...]
Peter Clemens & Maria Reding
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Peter Clemens 2nd of 4 children of Mathias Clemens & Margaretha Welter aka: Pierre Clement at birth (French spelling used during the time of Napoleonic and French rule) Born: Dec 16, 1808, Betzdorf, Canton Betzdorf, Luxembourg Died: Jul 3, 1871 (aged 62), Mazeppa, … [Read more...]
1.014 Sketches of Clemens Family
My Father’s Family (Carl John Clemens) The Clemens’ place was a 210-acre dairy farm that in the first flurry of winter was a Norman Rockwell picture of snow-covered paradise. It was the first farm lying just west of the outskirts of the city of Rochester in the Township of Cascade, Olmsted County, … [Read more...]
1.013 The Clemens Farm (part 3)
The Clemens and Nigon families did well, all successful farmers of German heritage. Not one family lost their farm in the Great Depression, like so many farmers who had strapped their land with bank loans. They worked, paid cash for what they needed, then drank beer and danced... but not until work … [Read more...]
1.012 The Clemens Farm (part 2)
The Clemens children went to the county school just down the hill, and then to St. John’s Grade School in the former St. Mary’s Hall, a big, two-story brick building a mile away. The three oldest girls were so close in age that Grandma held Mary back a year so she and Elizabeth could start school … [Read more...]
1.011 The Clemens Farm (part 1)
My grandparents, Matt and Barbara Clemens, were known for attending funerals. Relatives, close friends, acquaintances, people they barely knew: it didn’t matter. They went to all of them. It was their social center. If anyone wanted to visit them and a nearby funeral was happening, they knew Grandpa … [Read more...]
1.010 Minnesota Catholics and Cows
1920 • Minnesota ~ When the wheels needed to be changed or the axles greased, my father—not yet a man—lifted the more than 200-pound hay wagon with his back, raised it higher with his arms, and held it steady while his older brother Aloysius, or Louie as the family called him, slipped the new wheel … [Read more...]