Submitted by Wayne Pearson
Peter Stoller
Written by Robert Pearson
Peter Stoller came to America in 1865 with his wife Margaret,
daughters Margaret, Mary, Elizabeth, Susanna and son Peter. They stayed a
few years in Illinois where John was born in 1867 then moved to Iowa where
Lydia and Sam were born.
In 1877 they came west and in 1879 they were living in
Camas Prairie at what is now referred to as the old Dymond place. In 1880
they were the first family to settle in Trout Lake valley across the creek
from the end of Guler Road.
All the family went to Trout Lake except daughter Margaret.
She had moved to Silverton and soon after, William Stadelman, a neighbor
in Camas Prairie came down and they were married June 18, 1880. They lived
in Husum for about 2 years before taking a homestead in Trout Lake in 1883
on Stadleman Road.
Mary left in 1886 when she went to Silverton and married
Julius Mader.
Elizabeth married Henry Fiene in 1883 and they homesteaded
in Trout Lake. In 1886 he was felling trees and when she brought lunch to
him a tree fell on her and she was killed.
Susanna married Charles Pearson in 1887 and they homesteaded
in Trout Lake.
Peter left Trout Lake in 1888, and in 1892 he married
Luise Maier. They homesteaded in Wasco county east of The Dalles, in Petersburg,
a town named after him.
John died shortly after 1887.
Lydia married Fred Stoller, a cousin from Switzerland,
in 1893, and they resided at the end of Stoller Road in Trout Lake.
In 1890 Peter his wife Margaret and son Sam moved to
11504 Kaufman Road, Silverton, Oregon. In 1894 Sam married Anna Schlegel.
In 1906 Margaret died and shortly after Peter went back to Huniback, Switzerland
and in 1909 married Susanna Willen, he died in 1918 and is buried there.
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