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The morning event on Saturday was a tour of local cemeteries to visit the
grave sites of our ancestors. Gilbert prepared a chart
tracing the ancestors of both Amos and Nannie back to their great great
grandparents. Almost all of these ancestors are buried in cemeteries in the
Kalona community. You may download a copy of the chart (in pdf format) by
clicking here.
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We had to walk through a corn field to get to the Wirtz
cemetery. |
Gravesite of John P. Gingerich, Amos's great
grandfather. John emigrated from Europe in 1835.
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The South Gingerich cemetery, burial place of Christian
Gingerich, Amos's grandfather.
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Ruth making a rubbing of Christian's grave stone. |
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The Peter Miller cemetery, where Frederick
Swartzendruber and his wife Sarah Yoder are buried. Frederick and
Sarah were Amos's grandparents, on his mother's side, and the subject of
the "blue family history book" compiled by grandpa . |
Barbara Oesch Gingerich's grave stone (Peter
Miller Cemetery). Barbara was Frederick's mother. She died in 1856, and
was the first of our ancestors to be buried in Iowa.
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Gilbert, reading about Christian Warey and his wife Mary
Troyer, grandma's grandparents, buried in the East Union cemetery.
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Aunt Lois and Uncles Paul, Leroy, Simon and Clayton at
grandpa and grandma's grave in the West Union cemetery. |
After lunch on Saturday we viewed a video on
depression, and then discussed
depression in the Gingerich family and how family members have coped with it
over the generations.
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We celebrated Aunt Alice's birthday with a
fruit bowl and candles.
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And Uncle Paul and Aunt Vesta's 60th
wedding anniversary.
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We also made a listing of everyone in the
family. |
We ended the day with a program in which family members talked about changes
in their work, and changes in our family over the years. Five of Amos and
Nannie's children and spouses were pastors, compared with only one pastor among
their 40 grandchildren. Six of the ten children were farmers -- less than one in
ten of the grandchildren are farmers.
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