6088. Herbert J. Conger
Herbert J. CongerRESIDENCES: Lived at Clyde
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. II, p. 115 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
Cora LinnigerProblem: Was the surname, Linniger or Lininer? Both listed in CFA II.
Ida H. RitterSPOUSE: Ida H. Ritter was the second spouse of Herbert J. Conger.
10249. John Herbert Conger
John Herbert CongerMILITARY: U.S. Army 1944-1945
OCCUPATION: Employee Counselor
RESIDENCES: N82-W-13514 #B-106; Fond du Lac Avenue; Menomonee Falls, WI
SSN:
Individual: Conger, John
Social Security #: 285-24-5237
Issued in: Ohio
Birth date: Jan 13, 1927
Death date: Apr 11, 1997
ZIP Code of last known residence: 92169
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:
San Diego, California
[Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-K, Ed. 7, Social Security Death
Index: U.S., Date of Import: Nov 11, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.111.7.54150.105]
Grace Susan NievinskiBIRTH-QUESTION: In what county did the birth occur?
6093. Aaron Denman Conger
Aaron Denman CongerPARENTS: William J. Conger and Mahala E. Bowers
BIRTH-CONFLICT: 10 Dec 1856 at Mahaska Co., IA or 10 Dec 1856, near Knoxville, IA per his obituary?
EDUCATION: Uncle Thomas Bowers took John Thomas, Aaron and William Conger to teach them the building trades when they were old enough to learn. John Thomas and Aaron followed the building business during useful lives.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 323 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)RESIDENCES: Hedrick, IA, move to Grinnell, IA in 1912
OCCUPATION: Carpenter
CHILDREN-DEATH: Four children died in infancy
OBITUARY: FUNERAL OF AARON CONGER HELD THURSDAY
Aaron Denman Conger, 78 years old, passed away Tuesday, October 22, [1935] at 5:50 a.m., at his home at 317 Main street.
Mr. Conger had been a resident of Grinnell for the past 23 years.
He was born near Knoxville, Iowa, Dec. 10, 1856, the son of William and Mahala Bowers Conger, and followed the trade of a carpenter.
He was married June 4, 1893, to Nettie M. Miller, daughter of Enoch and Eliza Miller. They lived near Hedrick, Iowa, until 1912 when they moved to Grinnell.
About a year ago he was injured in a fall and had been an invalid since.
He is survived by his wife and three children, Bessie McGrew, Mrs. Ola Grovenburg, and Leslie Conger, all of Grinnell. Four children died in infancy.
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon [24 Oct 1935] at 2 o'clock from the Smith Funeral Home with burial at the West Liberty cemetery, two and one-half miles southeast of Searsboro.
(Source: Obituary dated Oct. 25, 1935, posted to the Internet by Marilyn Holmes)
10250. Bessie Fern Conger
Bessie CongerPARENTS: Aaron Denman Conger and Aneta M. Miller
10252. Leslie Conger
Leslie CongerPARENTS: Aaron Denman Conger and Aneta M. Miller
RESIDENCES: As of Nov 1969, Leslie Conger of Grinnell, IA
6094. William J. Conger
William J. CongerPARENTS: William J. Conger and Mahala E. Bowers
EDUCATION: Uncle Thomas Bowers took John Thomas, Aaron and William Conger to teach them the building trades when they were old enough to learn. John Thomas and Aaron followed the building business during useful lives.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 323 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
AKA: Lida Burtlow, CFA II, p. 407 & 62
10260. Ora Conger
RESIDENCES: Davenport, IA
6097. John Thomas Conger
John Thomas CongerPARENTS: William J. Conger and Mahala E. Bowers
OCCUPATION: Stone mason and carpenter. He made and played violins
COMMENT: John Thomas Conger, 1861, was bound out at age, 6, to work on a farm.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 41a - Maxine Crowell Leonard)EDUCATION: Uncle Thomas Bowers took John Thomas, Aaron and William Conger to teach them the building trades when they were old enough to learn. John Thomas and Aaron followed the building business during useful lives.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 323 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)RESIDENCES: Butler, Keokuk Co., IA; Burlington, Kit Carson Co., CO
RECOLLECTIONS: Harley Conger, son of John Thomas Conger, recalls the following incidents, submitted by his son, Milton Bailey (Pete) Conger."When Alfred, Horace, John, Harley and Roy [Conger] were small boys the adventurous men who scouted in the West were the heroes of the day and were revered by these boys. One of these retired scouts was grandfather, John Burtlow, who was the father of [Laura] Viola (Burtlow) [Conger.] He had scouted for the army out of Fort Wallace, Kansas and Fort Laramie, Wyoming and up through Yellowstone Park and in the Dakotas. Grandfather Burtlow would sit with the boys in the afternoon shade and tell wonderful stories of the west and fighting Indians, of swimming dangerous rivers, etc. He could shoot out a squirrel's eye, saying the squirrel was not fit to eat if shot otherwise. He was a deadly shot. Grandfather scouted with Buffalo Bill Cody and also knew Wild Bill Hicock.
"When John T. [Conger] was sparking Viola, before they were married, he was coming home through heavy woods one night. Uncle Owen Bowers waited behind a long to scare John T., as reports had come in of a big cat in the neighborhood. He waited for John T. to come close; then Owen raised up from behind the log and made a terrifying sound like a cat. What Owen didn't know -- but was soon to find out -- was that John T. carried two nice big rocks in his hands! Immediately he threw at that terrible cat (he thought) and hit it directly in the forehead. From the whooping and hollering then ensuing from behind the log he knew that Uncle Owen had tried to play another trick on him. This one back-fired.
"John T. acquired a 160 acre timbered farm 6 miles south of Ottumwa, Iowa. He cut barrel hoops and delivered them to Ottumwa Packing House for $9.00 per thousand. All the family worked at the barrell hoops and they did this work in the kitchen of the house in the winter time on a shaving horse.
"Tom (John T.) and Harley went to Fremon to do some trading; Tom had a good horse except he was a "stump sucker." They met a friend that had a heavier mare and the friend talked Tom into an even trade. Seemed like a fine horse for the first few miles; then it became evident that the mare had 'heaves.' When they reached home Viola said, 'Tom, what happened to your horse?' Upon confessing the trade to her, Viola said, 'Dog-gone it, Tom, you know you can't trade horses without getting took every time. You are too honest to come out ahead of a horse-trader.'
"Times were tough and it seemed the people of substance looked down on tenant farmers (Tom and his boys farmed and did building at the same time). It seemed that they could not get ahead, so Tom began to think about moving west. In 1906, he took a Homestead at Landsman, Colorado (near Burlington) on the South Fork of the Republican River. After the covered wagon trip in 1907 Viola was very homesick and returned to Iowa to visit her people. While in Iowa she became ill with smallposs and was under quarantine.
"Tom wrote: 'Well, Viola, I would like to hear from you, we are well. Write and tell me when you are going to get to go to Delta and make arrangements to come home.
"'Monday and Tuesday we are going to plant a big corn patch, about 20 acres and get us a mill to make molasses. Well, Viola, I attended a meeting today with the beet factory men and signed a $100.00 note for a railroad and factory and agreed to raise 20 acres of beets. You know what a railroad means to us; it means that our land is worth $50.00 per acre today. We will build a good stone house and get a good grow. Won't we enjoy life?
"'Now Uncle Porter (Burtlow), we are building that stone house for Mace. We have the first story built. Porter, everybody is going wild over the railroad. You ought to be here as soon as you can and get in on the ground floor. When they locate the towns there will be a boom. There will be about five towns from St. Francis. All will have to be build. It will take 1,000 hands for the beets. I like this country better every day I stay here.
"'Viola, when you get home let us spend the rest of our days together and be happy. We have had a long and stormy life so let us build and enjoy our remaining days as best we can. I hope when these lines come to hand it will find you all well.' (From Tom to Viola)
"Tom later returned to Iowa for his family, livestock and belongings. The family making the trip consisted of Tom and wife, Viola, children: Alfred, Horace, John, Roy, Harley and Merle. Also, Grandmother, Mahala [E. (Bowers) Conger], and her other son, Aaron Conger. The trip was made in a covered wagon, also one riding horse. The family carried a tent which was pitched at night to sleep in. In Nebraska Grandmother became sick so they pitched camp and nursed her back to health. During this time Tom got a job on construction at some small town. Two weeks later they were able to travel. Without further incident they arrived at the Colorado homestead on October 25, 1907.
"The railroard was never finished. ... no beets were raised until 1956 -- twenty-vie years after Tom [Conger's] death."
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 323-325 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
Laura Viola BurtlowHEALTH_HISTORY: Moved to Colorado from Iowa in 1907. She became very homesick and returned to Iowa for a visit. While there she contracted smallpox and was under quarantine. (CFA I, p. 324)
10270. Alvin Conger
Alvin CongerRELATIONSHIP: Alvin and Elvin Conger were twins.
10271. Elvin Conger
Elvin CongerRELATIONSHIP: Alvin and Elvin Conger were twins.
6101. Nancy E. Edmondson
Nancy E. EdmondsonAKA: Probably called, Nina
OCCUPATION: Seamstress
HEALTH_HISTORY: Crippled by polio at the age of 3. She spent the rest of her life on crutches and in a wheel chair
Joseph Ward MooreCEMETERY: Old Presbyterain Church cemetery
OCCUPATION: Farmer, cattle buyer, cabinet maker
6105. Araminta Conger
Araminta CongerProblem: Was she born on 18 May 1865 as listed on p. 122 of CFA I or 15 May 1865 as listed on p. 709 of CFA I?
Virgil BrownProblem: Was his first name, Virgel as listed on p. 122 of CFA I or Virgil as listed on p. 709 of CFA I?
6106. Eliza E. Conger
Eliza E. CongerRELATIONSHIP: Eliza E. Conger was the grandmother of researcher, Richard R. Crocker.
10283. Oscar Dale Crocker
Oscar Dale CrockerAKA: Called, Dale, most of his life; Listed as O. Dale Crocker in family Bible that Richard R. Crocker had access to.