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; cerebral hemorrhage Buried: Saints Peter and Paul … [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...]