Posts Tagged ‘Sue Hunter Weir’
100 Year Old Church is a Treasure within 129 Year Old Legacy and 1500 Years of Welsh Culture
By Sue Hunter Weir Since at least the 1880s, what we now call the Phillips Neighborhood, has been home to thousands of immigrants and their families, many of whom are buried or have relatives buried, in Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery. Their contributions to the city’s early development are among the reasons why the [...]
The Hankinson Family
by Sue Hunter Weir The Hankinson family monument is one of the most substantial and well preserved of the cemetery’s early markers. Although it is now surrounded by many other graves, when Myrtle Hankinson was buried in 1870, the Hankinson family plot was the only one in Section G, near what was then the cemetery’s northern boundary. Most [...]
James Womack and Frances Collier Womack “Happy Trails to You, Until We Meet Again”
By Sue Hunter Weir Those of us who grew in the late 1940s and 1950s, in the age of black and white movies and television, are all familiar with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, King and Queen of the West. At the end of their weekly television show, they signed off by singing “Happy Trails to You,” a song written by Dale. Even now, most of us can [...]
“Bring a shawl and get a baby” from a 1908-09 Baby Farm 3341 Nicollet Avenue
By Sue Hunter Weir Between June 24, 1908 and September 6, 1909, 27 infants died at the same address--3341 Nicollet Avenue South. These babies (13 girls, 13 boys, and one whose gender was not recorded) were under the care of “Doctor” Hans Oftedal. As the quote marks suggest, Hans Oftedal was not a licensed physician; he was the proprietor of [...]
