Solomon Varner
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Emily/Amelia (Rehaume/Rhaume) Varner |
Solomon and
Emily (Rehaume/Rhaume) Varner
Taken from the 1896 Reunion Photograph
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Solomon and Emily in front of their home in Buffalo before Solomon
died in 1898
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Possibly Barbara
Euphebia (Halcrow) Varner
wife of David Albert Varner
Mabel Wirsing believes this to be
Emily (Perron) Rehaume,
mother of Emily/Amelia (Rehaume) Varner. It's possible.
But, Emily was born in 1813 and this picture,
if I remember right from Mabel, is a tintype. Tintypes were first taken in 1856
through 1900. I wonder if this isn't the wife of David Albert Varner, son of Solomon
and his first wife, Martha Magdalena (Burtner).
It is said that David married an "Indian
maiden."
Euphebia's death certificate said, in the
race category,
she was a "breed."
Some
of David Albert's siblings. |
These are the daughters of
David Alger (Varner)
He was married in
Manitoba, Canada, about 1883 and moved onto Kalispell, Montana, about 1893. |
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Cook shack in the grain fields at Graceville,
MN. Here the food was prepared to feed the harvestors who worked in the grain
fields. Annie (Mabel's mother) was the cook; cook helper: Virginia Harrison.
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Standing, Alice (Dorman)
LtoR: Fern Erwin, Mabel Viola (Dorman), and Warren
Mabel said her grandmother Dorman bought her
the shoes she is wearing in this picture--and she still has them. Mabel walked when
she was nine months old.
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Annie (Varner) Dorman
1875-1957
Daughter of Solomon
Mabel Wirsing's mother
She was a natural nurse and helped a doctor
in delivering babies, along with her other
many skills. Mabel said her mother was brilliant
and was an avid reader, even though she didn't
go to school beyond the sixth grade.
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August 1908
Left to Right back: Annie (Varner)
Dorman holding Marilla,
Alice (Dorman), Lewis Dorman
Left to Right front: Warren, David
(sitting), Mabel (sitting),
and Fern (Bud)
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1917
Mabel and her father Lewis Dorman
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Mabel at age 19 in 1923
Mabel went to school to become a teacher and
taught for one year before she got married. Mabel taught
Sunday School and Catechism classes for many, many years
and took care of the elderly in their homes. |
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Our dear Mabel at age 98. |
