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Rudolph and
Monica (Nepple) Moser Family History
Now that summer is behind us and
fall has made its entry, the area is finding itself ablaze with fall
colors. Don’t miss the beauty around you, take a “Trip on a Tankful”
and enjoy these fall days in Northern Minnesota.
The museum has received some
interesting items lately. Neal & Lavonne Johnson donated a grain
scoop. A grain scoop was probably a very useful item on a farm, or in
town. If one lived in town it was probably used as a coal scoop.
A photograph from a 1949 Ford Show
at the Roseau Auditorium was donated by David and Patty Lee. We hope
that someone can identify who the individuals are in the photograph.
If you think you may know who these people are, please come to the
museum and we will show you the photo. It has been scanned into our
computer which makes it easier to identify the people. We have the
ability to can zoom in on faces.
Please check your older
“children’s” closets to see if there are any Barbie Dolls or GI Joes
and accessories. We hope that we are able to have enough items to put
the exhibit before our Christmas open house the end of November. Call
the museum if you have something to loan or donate to this collection
at 21-.463.1918.
RCHS Focus of the Week
Rudolph and Monica (Nepple) Moser
were born in Bavaria Germany in the same year, 1873. Rudolph
immigrated to the United State in 1891, and worked in Wisconsin and
St. Paul. He and Monica were married at St. Paul on January, 1898.
Rudolph traveled to the German community of Marietta, Minnesota in
1898 at twenty-five years of age. That fall he came to Roseau County
looking for homestead property, he brought some household goods and
four or five head of horses. After Thanksgiving his wife and baby
daughter traveled to Stephen by train, then by stagecoach to
Greenbush.
Mr. Moser took up a homestead in
Section twenty-four of Barnett Township the following spring. In the
early days Roseau County did not have a county road system; trails
produced by the Indians of the area were used to travel to ones
homestead. Without modern roads or a ditch system, these trails were
often nearly impassable.
Acquiring machinery and tools took
a great deal of time and money. “It is told that Mr. Moser threshed
some grain, most likely wheat, on the kitchen floor, producing cracked
wheat for cereal and whole wheat bread.
“One year when the community could
not get a threshing rig for harvest, Mr. Moser built an ice rink and
had his cattle tramp out the grain on the ice.” Not having grain
drill during the first years he farmed, he sowed his grain by hand,
carrying the seed in a bag strapped over his shoulder. When able he
purchased a cyclone seeder [spin spreader], and eventually bought a
grain drill.
Rudolph was instrumental in
organizing School District 88 and served a treasurer for many years.
The Moser family had seven
children: Amelia (Carl Dahl) - Badger, Josephine (Kemper) -
California, Anton - Salol, Helen (Bjerk), Rudolph Jr., Ann (Edward
Smith) – Warroad, and Bertha (James Glen) – Badger, two children died
prior to their parent’s death. Many decedents of Rudolph and Monica’s
still live in Roseau County. Monica died in 1957 while Rudolph lived
to be 89, passing away in 1962.
Information for this article
extracted from Roseau County Historical Society, pg 180, “Pioneers! O
Pioneers! Book One” and the Roseau Times-Region.
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