1954

Anna Aleck died July 22, 1954

Anna was the wife of John Aleck.  John was a brother to Martha Jane Aleck Henderson. 

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Summer of 1954 Drowning

 

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Bert Gilpin retires.

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December 1954

1935

John Xaver Aleck died he was a brother to Martha Jane (Aleck) Henderson

He was born March 9 1864 and died November 16 1935

 

                                           

John Xaver Aleck

This is Martha Jane’s older brother John. 



John married Mary Ann Birkes in Logan Iowa on 14 March 1894.
They would have five children.
Hazel Kathryn born 13 December 1894
Clifford Carl born 15 April 1899
Donald born 15 April 1901
Rolo born 23 August 1902
Floyd born 23 October 1903

They moved to Park Rapids Minnesota in 1912  and he became a farmer.

He was instrumental in Tracie and Jim and Rubert and Emma and  the rest of the Stuves coming to Minnesota.  John located land for his relatives.  He died 17 November 1935 and is buried in Park Rapids.

Hazel his oldest daughter married  James Henry Wall in Park Rapids Minnesota.   ( Hazel was a favorite relative of Marvin and Evelyns.  She would often babysit for Eugene and take care of him and his sister in the Fall of the year.)