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About Me
- Amy at The Quilted Garden
- A little about me: My home town is Council Bluffs, I was raised in a neighborhood on Mudhollow Road, which is North of Council Bluffs. The Acreage has been passed down since 1907 and still remains in the family. I have 2 children, Jenny who is 23 and Robbie who is 21. I am also blessed with Grand Children, Makenzie who is 5, Baby Matthew who just joined the world May 15th, Jaden who is 4, Elle who is almost 2. Life is truly what you make it! For the first time in a long time, I'm truly happy and I'm going to shine!
This was written by our cousing Dick Warner.
ReplyDeleteAnother bit of family lore dad always
told us was one of the things that prompted our great grandparents to
move from the south end where they had lived was to start anew after
the heartbreak of having four children die at the 1901 South 12th
Street house. A nice story, but I'm not sure I totally buy it. The
Mud Hollow acreage had to be a big step up from the house in town.
Great grandpa's career was going well; he started as a car cleaner for
the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad then worked his way up to fireman
and then engineer, which would have been a very good job (and probably
still is today). I figure he was just looking for a bigger, nicer
place. Prior to getting married he lived at 713 Washington Avenue
(house no longer standing) and great grandma lived where she worked as
a maid, 212 Pearl Street. The two married 11/18/1887; dad has a copy
of their marriage license. Dad has only a couple of vague memories of
our great grandfather (dad was three when he died) but remembers our
great grandmother very well (he was 13 when she died). Our great
grandfather had eight brothers and sisters; of the nine kids four came
to the US. Dad remembers our great grandfather's brother Christen who
had a brickyard off of what is today Ivy Drive. I'm guessing he sold
it for housing, or maybe built the houses himself. If you look at an
old city plot map that area is marked as the "Norgard Addition."
Interestingly Aunt Sis lived in one of those houses; I assume that's
not a coincidence... perhaps they got a good deal through the family
connection.