Gustav E Meilicke Draft

This is a bit of the story of Gus's life, to be added as new insights and memories come back.

Nostalgia for a misremembered past is no basis for governing a diverse and advancing nation.

David Frum

Gustav Eberhardt Meilicke, 1881 - 1965 , born August                1881, died
 1965. Gautav was born in Marshall County, Iowa according to the 1885 Census. The family record says Dallas County. The family record say the Gustav Meilicke 1851-1929 and Mathida Schallert 1849-1927 family first stopped in Marshall, the home of  Julius H Meilicke, who had left Prussia in 1866, late summer. He was the father of EJ, and that bunch.

Gus is buried in Evergreen Memorial Gardens, Old Iron Cross section, marker 317. This was taken fall 2012.

 Easter Dinner ? mid-late 1950's, Andy&Jessie's ?

 Likely taken by Nellie Webber, back row, Aaron, JA, Andy, Gus
front row, Emma, unknown, Alberta controlling Albert, Dolly Muster?

 Nellie Webber plus....
Note the planes on Albert... It must have been WWII years, What do you think Albert? 1942?

There is no one to ask about this one. The children are mother, Alberta and Aaron, summer 1919?. That GGP Gustav, GP JA, Grandmother Emma, William Meilicke, and Gustav at an age of 38 more or less.

The captions says about 1920, but perhaps not. It looks to be the same role of film as above. This is Gus's Cabin, where Julius and Gus called home from 1907 until 1914 when Julius returned to Iowa.
Now I understand that the caption is unknown, Julius, Gustav, unknown. Note the Ruberoid roof. It was in general use by 1905. Was Gus an early adopter? Note that they nearly missed the quarter, with that cabin, as the land was not surveyed until 1908. Andy Thinkstad did miss, and that was the other log house, which Emma "lived" in from Nov 1915 to Jan 1916, but claimed to have never live in a log house. Note the south exposure, but I remember a window on the north, rear, when it was being used as a grainery for clean seed/ and seed cleaning. There was a cellar under this one also.

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