Title
MICHAEL HOERNER FAMILY
Creator
David Hoerner
Coverage
TOWNSHIP 141N RANGE 93W
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MICHAEL HOERNER FAMILY
Michael Hoerner and Eleonora Stein were married in February, 1902 in Spier, Russia. It was during the time of the Czar that they left as they could foresee what might lie ahead for them in the coming Bolshevik regime. In 1911 they decided to find a new home in America. Because of friends and relatives already here, they chose western North Dakota.
After spending Christmas and New Years on board ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean, they and their fam-ily of four children: Fred, Eleanore, Anna, and Nellie, arrived in this almost forbidding land of the Dakotas in January, 1912. They spent their first night with the R. J. Fleck family who then lived in the home owned now by August Bentz. After a few days here during the bleak and snowswept January, they journeyed by sleigh to the Valentine Hoerner farm 16 miles north of Richardton. That same year they bought the K. T. Eiken farm eight miles north and three miles west of Richardton.
That spring was a time of promise and beginnings for the lonely immigrants who came to seek new homes. But it took times of loneliness and defeat to make them capable of appreciating times of happiness and contentment ahead. Mr. and Mrs. Hoerner remodeled and added onto their farm home in 1924, making it a modern 13 room house. Their wheat farming and raising enterprises were extensive. In those early days their only means of transportation were by buggy, wagon or sleigh until they purchased an Imperial automobile in 1915.
Four more children blessed the Hoerner home: Peter, Emil, Margaret, and Valentine. In 1939 they moved to Richardton where they retired after selling the homeplace to their son, Pete. Mrs. Hoerner passed away at the age of 67 in 1945. Mr. Hoerner followed in 1950. He was 77.
By David Hoerner
Michael Hoerner and Eleonora Stein were married in February, 1902 in Spier, Russia. It was during the time of the Czar that they left as they could foresee what might lie ahead for them in the coming Bolshevik regime. In 1911 they decided to find a new home in America. Because of friends and relatives already here, they chose western North Dakota.
After spending Christmas and New Years on board ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean, they and their fam-ily of four children: Fred, Eleanore, Anna, and Nellie, arrived in this almost forbidding land of the Dakotas in January, 1912. They spent their first night with the R. J. Fleck family who then lived in the home owned now by August Bentz. After a few days here during the bleak and snowswept January, they journeyed by sleigh to the Valentine Hoerner farm 16 miles north of Richardton. That same year they bought the K. T. Eiken farm eight miles north and three miles west of Richardton.
That spring was a time of promise and beginnings for the lonely immigrants who came to seek new homes. But it took times of loneliness and defeat to make them capable of appreciating times of happiness and contentment ahead. Mr. and Mrs. Hoerner remodeled and added onto their farm home in 1924, making it a modern 13 room house. Their wheat farming and raising enterprises were extensive. In those early days their only means of transportation were by buggy, wagon or sleigh until they purchased an Imperial automobile in 1915.
Four more children blessed the Hoerner home: Peter, Emil, Margaret, and Valentine. In 1939 they moved to Richardton where they retired after selling the homeplace to their son, Pete. Mrs. Hoerner passed away at the age of 67 in 1945. Mr. Hoerner followed in 1950. He was 77.
By David Hoerner