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Story so far: Grandma Cecile had reached her relatives back in her home village of Nieder-Mohrau, Czechoslovakia. She had crossed the United States by train, from Oregon on the Pacific coast to New York on the Atlantic coast. The Europa, a ship with the North German Lloyd ship line, had carried her across the Atlantic Ocean. She had reached her destination of Nieder-Mohrau and had written some letters and even had time for a diary entry.
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To quote my Grandmother, "What a pause I left unwritten." (From her diary entry of June 23) It seems that I have done the same thing, except for a much longer period of time! My last post was in June of 2017! Unfortunately, life sometimes interrupts the best of plans, but then sometimes leaves time to return to those plans. My thanks to cousin Linda Koenig, who has gently been reminding me that there are a few people out there who would really like to see the story continue.
So, hopefully, I will be able to pick up the story and keep it going this time. Going through my notebooks, I did find a couple of ticket stubs that I missed in the earlier part of the story.
I have added scans of a Passenger's Check that Grandma had for her travel from Portland, Oregon, to Chicago, Illinois. It shows that she had a lower berth in a Pullman car and was stamped on the back with a date of June 1, 1936. You can see that ticket in Post #16.
Grandma also had a ticket stub for a Coupon Transfer for the Parmelee Transportation Company in Chicago. She used that coupon to transfer herself and her luggage to her train to New York. The Parmelee Company moved people and baggage between the different train terminals in Chicago. That coupon was added to Post #17. There is something stamped on the back of that ticket, but I cannot make out what it says, or what it meant.
Now, before continuing on with the story, this seems like a good spot to enter a photograph that I have added to this collection simply because I hope that maybe someone reading this may know who these people are. It was not included with Grandma's materials, but it has the look and feel of others in her bag of souvenirs.
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| Unknown couple working on a farm |
The photo is in a postcard format. There are no markings on the reverse side. On the back is written in what appears to be Sr Agnes Beitel's handwriting, "Joe Schmidt's half sister, Mom's second cousin".
Since they are using a cow (or perhaps an ox?) rather than a horse, it seemed possibly to be more likely to be in Europe. The background does resemble the Nieder-Mohrau region. The Schmidt's and Froemel's (Grandma's cousins) also came from that general area. Of course, it could also be in the Silverton Hills, Oregon, as well. The regions look very similar, which is probably what drew my relatives to this area.
If the people were in Europe, it is possible that they were among the family that Grandma Cecile visited back in 1936.
If anyone has any idea who these people are, please contact me! Thank you.
For a closer view of the photo, simply click on it.
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Story to be continued......
To read Post "45 - Postcard From Johann Schiebel to Grandma - 18 June 1936" Click here
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