Clement and Mary Bernadina Frohle/Froehle Stallman
Sunday, January 11, 2009
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Frances, Anna, Theodore, Clemens Anton, Joseph, Clementina, Emma, Frank |
Clement and Bernadina |
Agnes Bolster-Froehle-Wente, Mary Bernadina's mother |
Clement was born April 22, 1851 and grew to manhood at Vechta in Bakum County, Oldenburg, Germany and migrated to America in 1872 at the age of 21, alone, settling in New Vienna, Iowa. After the death of his father, his mother and brothers and sisters followed him to America in 1873. He lived at New Vienna for five years, working as a carpenter, then moved to Roselle, Iowa and began farming.
Mar. 5, 1878, Clement married Mary Bernadina Frohle. She was born June 28, 1859 to Carl Joseph and Agnes Bolster Frohle at Lohne, Steinfeld County, Germany.
According to information I have found so far, but will try to verify, Bernadina came with her mother to America at age 11 in 1870. Her father was a fisherman and had died at sea before she was born. Her mother went to work for a man named Wente and eventually married him. See Agnes' page.
Clement's daughter, Emma Hoffman, shared with me that when he was courting Bernadina he would walk the 20 miles to her place on one day, stay overnight with the Wente family, and return home the next day. After their marriage they became quite prosperous and built a large home on their place near Breda in Carroll County, Iowa. They were on this farm 23 years before selling out and moving into their new home in Iona, Minnesota.
Emma related the story to me that their house was on a very well-traveled road and it was not unusual for wandering salesmen ("they were called peddlers then", she said,) to stop in for a night's lodging and, more likely than not, paying for their stay with wares from the back of their wagons. "How exciting it was for us children to see all the things they had to sell," she said.
Clem served as school director for Wheatland Township near Iona eight years and as their parents before them, they were strict Catholics. (*See note below)
Emma also shared with me the story of how their father always liked to keep a bottle of whiskey in the cream cooler during the haying season. One hot day she and her sister, Anna, felt mischievous and drank a "considerable amount," accounting for their rowdy behavior that evening. "I also remember Grandma Wente telling of Grandpa Carl Frohle's death at sea and she (Grandma Wente) would recite from memory the last letter she received from him. He told her that if he didn't see her again in this life, he would meet her in the next, then he bid his farewell to her.
Great-grandfather Clement was the first of our Stalmanns to migrate to America. Grandpa Clemens Anton Stallman was our first natural born United States citizen (1879.)
Ten children were born to Clem and Bernadina:
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Clemens Anton 2. Mary Bernadina Clementina 3. Joseph 4. Theodore A. 5. Anna 6. Emma Josephine 7. Angeline Frances 8. Clemens Frank9. Bernadine Louise 10. Victoria Julie
Clem passed away April 25, 1931 at Carroll, Iowa. Bernadina passed away April 27, 1943 at Grantsburg, Burnett County, Wisc. Both are buried at SS Peter and Paul Parish Cemetery in Carroll, Iowa.
Certificate of Naturalization for Clemens Stallman issued from the State of Iowa, County of Carroll ...BE IT REMEMBERED, that at a term of the District Court, holden in and for said county, in the Court House therein, on the 23rd day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy nine, was present the Honorable C.H. Loofbaurow (?), Presiding Judge, John Silbaugh, Deputy Sheriff of said county, and William Lynch Jr., Clerk of Courts, when the following, among other proceedings, were had:
Clemens Stallman, a native of Germany, residing within said state, appeared in open Court, and makes application to be admitted to become a CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he had declared an oath before P. J. Quigley, Clk DC, Dubuque Co., Iowa ( a Court of Record having common law jurisdiction, and using a Seal,) two years at least before his admission that it was bona fide his attention to become a CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES and to renounce forever his allegiance to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State of Sovereignty whatsoever, and particularly to Emperor William of which he was a subject. The Court, being satisfied that said applicant has resided within the United States for the term of five years next preceding his admission, without being at any time during the five years out of the country of the United States, and within this State one year at least, and it further appearing to the satisfaction of this Court, that during this time he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.
Thereupon the Court admitted the said CLEMENS STALLMAN to become a CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES and ordered all of the proceedings aforesaid to be entered of Record, which ... illegible ...
Illegible ... Clerk of Court aforesaid, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at office in said County, this 24th day of February in the year of the Lord one thousand eight hundred seventy nine and of the American Independence the 103rd year.
Signed: Wm. Lynch Jr., CLERK
Submitted by Emerita, daughter of Joseph and Josephine
I noticed a reference to Wheatland Twp. near Iona, MN as the place where Clement Stallman served as a school director for eight years. I grew up in Slayton which is six miles from Iona. I asked my father if he had ever heard of Wheatland Twp and he said it was in Iowa. I located a Wheatland, Iowa on a current Iowa map, but it is not close to Breda, Iowa or Iona, MN. I thought you might want to know this. Your cousin, Kate Coleman.