15. | Jungermann, Henrietta Emma was born 5 Feb 1888, St. Charles, St. Charles County, Missouri, USA (daughter of Jungermann, Johann Fredrick Andreas Christian and Wesseler, Katherine Wilhelmenia); died 1974; was buried , Genoa, Nance County, Nebraska, USA. Notes:
Linwood (Nelson) Jungerman wrote this sketch of Emma's life:
"Henrietta Emma was a twelve year old girl when her family moved to Saline County, Missouri. After her father's stroke they moved to Blackburn for a few years. In the winter months she furthered her education by staying in her brother Julius' home and attending school in Higginsville. While her brother, George, was attending Veterinary School in Kansas City, he brought home a friend -- one Walter Randall. The course, nor the courtship, was a very long one. Soon the young couple were starting life together in a small town in Nebraska (Genoa). Here they remained for over fifty years and made for themselves a place of honor and respect in the hearts of the community.
"We are sure the first few years were very lonely ones for Emma as she had always been part of a large family. Added to the difference was terrain -- the dry heat of summer was hard to bear and the intensity and duration of the severity of storms of winter were often frightening. The death of her first-born was another disheartening factor.
"In time, her brother Theodore, came to make his home there. Later her mother came, then Meta and her husband came to retire there. Much of the information about the early family ties of her father, Aunt Emma gave us in a letter written some time before her death."
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