Jantje Gerhardena LUBBEN

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Our Observations Regarding Creston People

Listed as one of Platte County’s foremost old settlers and known as a pioneer woman of this communityis Mrs. H. Meyer, one of Creston’s best loved and most highly respected citizens.

When eighteen years of age she left her home in West Vicktober, Hanover Germany, where she was born in1866, and came to America with a friend. They came directly to West Point, Neb., and there Mrs. Meyer remained for almost a year. The next year found her in Columbus, she having gone there to visit the members of the Cooper family, who had been her neighbors at her home in Germany. She remained in Columbus and soon thereafter was employed in Platte Center where she remained for four years, and while there witnessed the blizzard of 1888, a memorable one in the minds of our pioneers. She recalls that after being snowed in for three weeks they made a trip to Columbus to get the mail.

On September 29(missing line, assumption) 1889 she was united in marriage to Henry Meyer, who had come over from Hamburg, Germany, in 1883. He owned a large threshing outfit and she remembers their being charivaried by four different threshing crews.

From the old family bible Mrs. Meyer reads dates and incidents which cover the important events of her lifetime in this country and will make history for her future generations.

One of the interesting events was on March 4, 1890, when a three day snow storm visited this section whichcovered everything out of doors. Oats had already been planted and the yield in that year was 75 bushels to the acre.

It was in that year that her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lubbe H. Lubben and herbrother, Herman Lubben, came to America. Her parents located on a farm near Platte Center and remained there until their death. Both are at rest at the Shell Creek Baptist cemetery. After thirty-fouryears in Nebraska her brother returned to Germany, where he still resides, and Mrs. Meyer keeps in touch with him by regular correspondence.

Mr. and Mrs. Meyer established their home a mile west of the Shell Creek Baptist church. In 1902 they moved into what had been the Peter Zumbrum farm, southwest of Creston, and resided there until 1922.

At the first farm where they went Indians often passed through there. Many of these Indians stopped at the home and begged food and would often approach the home unaware to the members of the family and would not be discovered until they were seen peeking through the windows of the home.

Both were members of the Shell Creek Baptist church and both were active workers in the affairs of the congregation. They taught Sunday schoolclasses and Mr. Meyer served as one of the deacons of the church. He was also a moderator of the Cooper school-district 72.

In her keepsakes Mrs. Meyer has some of the old order books of theschool which shows the orders issued for wages to teachers and the wages paid at that time, which was $30 per month. The first order issued fifty years old, being dated in 1886. Mr. Meyer held the jobof moderator of the school district from 1892 until 1895 and also served for several years as road supervisor in that district.

In 1894, the year of the great drought, Mr. Meyer was still operating his threshing outfit and during that year a rule was made that the machine would not be set up at any place unless the job was worth $3, and in many places there was not enough crop to even paythat much. Seed potatoes the next year sold for $2.50 a bushel.

The Meyer family moved to the second farm in 1902 and resided there for twenty years. Up to that time they had done their banking and transacted most of their business in Humphrey, but during the last few years of their farm life Mrs. Meyer became a familiar figure in Creston, for in addition to attending to her household duties caring for her family and doing her share of the work about the farm, she had sixteen butter customers in Creston to whom she personally delivered fresh butter once or twice a week, driving the distance of eight miles from the farm to town with horse and buggy.

Mr. Meyer paid a visit to his old home in Germany in the winter of 1901 and also spent the summer of 1913 there. On one of these trips he brought back with him six linen sheets his mother had made for him. The flax was raised on her farm near Hamburg, spun into thread and then woven into the MISSING LINEthey have been in use for a good many years, they are still in excellent condition and Mrs. Meyer plans on giving one to each of her six children, and they will no doubttreasure them as heirlooms.

In 1922 Mr. and Mrs. Meyer purchased the residence now occupied by her from Mrs. Harbert and they moved to Creston. Mr. Meyer was employed by the Farmers Cooperative Mercantile association in which he was a large shareholder and he continued working there until his death in November, 1931.

The German Baptist church, organized here in July, 1910, found in them loyal members and active workers. Mr. Meyer here again assumed the important duties and offices he had held in the Shell Creek church, serving as deacon, as treasurer and as a member of the missionary board. Both taught Sunday school classes and today all their children and grandchildren attend the same church.

Mrs. Meyer visited at her old home in Germany in the spring of 1928, being accompanied on the trip by some old friends, the party spending the entire summer across the Atlantic.

During all the years of her residence in this country Mrs. Meyer has kept in touch with her relatives and friends in Germany through their regular correspondence.

In her home are many souvenirs from the places she or Mr. Meyer had visited for both had the hobby of bringing homesome remembrance of the places they had visited. Their travels were extensive. They attended several world’s fairs in this country, were regular patronizers of the state fair and also MISSING LINEand were at many expositions, Mrs. Meyer having attended the world’s fair in Chicago in 1932, spending two weeks in the Windy city. In thewinter of 1933 she was in California and has enjoyed several auto trips to interesting points in Colorado, western Nebraska, South Dakota, she having particularly enjoyed the trip through Estes park.She still enjoys occasional trips, but is always happy to get back to her home, her garden and her chickens.

Not long ago she went to Corona, S.D., where she attended the silver wedding anniversary of her eldest daughter Mrs. Fred Settje and Mr. Settje.

There are six children in the Meyer family-Mrs. Fred Settje, of Corona, South Dakota; Mrs. Herman Settje, of Creston; Fred, who recently moved to Chicago, where he is in the trucking business; Louis of this city; Dena, who teaches home economics in the high school at La Porte, Colo., and Marilda, who is supervisor of nurses at ahospital in Waukegan, Illinois. There are twenty-five grandchildren, all boys but five. Two other daughters, Hannah, who was Mrs. Art Baumgart, and Lydia, died within a week of each other during theflu epidemic in 1918.

Mrs. Meyer enjoys good health and for one of her age can do a great deal more work than most people much younger in years. She has a large sixe garden and she works thisall by herself, and also raises some corn on other land MISSING LINE to this. She does all her own housework and gets much enjoyment out of cooking a fine Sunday dinner and having her children and families over to enjoy the meal. She is a pleasant and friendly neighbor who is held in high esteem.

She has watched the growth and development of a community in which she has resided for over fifty years, from the days of the ox team to the present mode of transportation. As to its progress and hopes of the future she is very optimistic, having lived through good timesand bad time, through drought and years of planty. “We always got along somehow,” she often says, “and we always will as we have in the past.”

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Titel	Settje-Familie-Deutschland-USA-230830
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Hochgeladen	2023-08-30 18:13:59.0
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