Category:Martin A. Jaus

Martin A. Jaus
PictureHere	Born:1892 - March 6th Died: 1980 - March 15th Married:1919 - Oct 7th Spouse: Hannah Lieske Children: Marvel Myrtle Roman Lyla Parents: Martin Jaus Sr. and Louise Harms Siblings: Lydia Otto Anna Martin Herbert Spouse: Olivia Schilling Married: 1941 - Dec. 21st Other: More Information:	Contents 1 Timeline 2 Personal Account 3 Short Biography 4 Timeline of Life Events 5 Death 6 Marriage 6.1 Martin A. Jaus & Hannah Lieske Wedding 6.2 Hannah Lieske & Martin A. Jaus Wedding 6.3 Hannah Lieske Graduated from Henderson Highschool in 1911 and attended Normal School in Winthrop for 2 years 7 Memories 8 Related Links 8.1 Bottom of Page

Timeline

1892

Born March 6th in Moltke Township, Sibley County

1919

Married Hannah Lieske Oct 7th

1941

Married Olivia Schilling December 21st

1954

Retired and moved to New Ulm, MN.

1976

35th Wedding Anniversary (celebrated with Kathryn Baur, Paul Scharrer, Ralph Baur, Lyla Jaus.

Personal Account

Martin A. Jaus was born in 1892. The people mentioned are the correct relationship to him. I believe he is likely the author. I don't know who this was written to.

You asked for my early recollections of the home farm and if you want to know how the buildings developed one by one by one I wish you would ask Lois <ref> Don't know which Lois. It could be a Bode. Could be the wife of Roman Jaus</ref>. I had to write a detailed history for her 2 years ago with dates as close as I could remember. I put a lot of work into it from the time on where Aunt Augusta (Uncle Simon Jaus’ wife ) gave me my first bath in 1892.

I gave her everything in detail as close as I could trace it and I don’t like to tackle the job for the second time whereas dad set foot on Moltke soil in about 1870<ref>1878</ref> and when he left his feed sacks standing outside the wild whooping crane would come early in the morning and eat holes into sacks and eat the feed. It was a bird a little less than a turkey<ref>Whooping cranes are on the endangered species list and stand 5 feet tall. I wonder if this was a different breed of bird or indeed a young Whooping Crane</ref>.

The way I first knew Moltke, they thought would all connect, unless a very dry season. Aunt Mandy Lieske’s Dad helped survey Moltke Township and he told me it was a continuous slue out of one and into the other, till before the change of the century a full ditch came thru and made a little runway for some of the water as long as it lasted this was a big plow directly drawn by a span of bulls, as many as they had.

My dad sold them and then as early as 1904 a bigger plow came along ?? pulled by ?? (able that would span over a share and 4 horses would wind it up on a spool to pull the plow prior to the bull ditch days.

The settlers had a big menace with prairie fires in fall when this vast miles of tall grass annually would catch fire and sweep the country and would consume many a building. I can still hear dad say, when he met friends “Was das Prarie fluer auch schon bei euch,”<ref> I think this means something like "Have you seen the prairie fire yet?"</ref> Grandma would stay dressed on dangerous nites, to be ready. When it would strike, especially on windy nights.

source: Myrtle Jaus collection

Memories

Susan Jones: Hard to imagine the tall grass. The sloughs I can believe since we have photos of when Grandpa- Winnie Glaeser would have duck hunting parties on our farm. We had at least 1 of those sloughs.
Todd Buboltz: Excellent piece of history....we had a lot of water in that area before drainage occurred ...pictures taken somewhere around the turn of the century looking towards Buffalo Lake indicated many swamps/sloughs on the farms...many farms in the area appear to be on little islands of higher elevated land....they had kept the farm sites above the potential water lines that occurred in the spring, fall,and rainy summer months

Short Biography

Timeline of Life Events

Death

Marriage

Martin A. Jaus & Hannah Lieske Wedding

Hannah Lieske & Martin A. Jaus Wedding

Left to Right: Rose Lieske Emily Lieske Hannah Lieske Martin Jaus Herbert Jaus

Hannah Lieske Graduated from Henderson Highschool in 1911 and attended Normal School in Winthrop for 2 years

source:James Baur collection. The Baur/Jaus "God's Word is our Great Heritage" binder by Lyla Jaus Baur.

Memories

Rosemarie Hinderer My Dad also married the nurse who came to help take care of my mom. She was 14 years younger then my Dad and 17 years older then I. I was always grateful to her for making us all happy again.

Lyla Jaus: Dad's birthday was a date when many, many people, relatives and neighbors, would come over to our house for an evening of card playing. I would say between 50 and upward.

We would set up card tables...... people would bring card tables..... cards etc. etc. Don't know that they ever brought goodies for eating since I think we provided all of them. Will have to ask Marvel that, since she was in charge of that for many years.

When I was in DMLC /HS and driving home after class...we had class Sat. forenoons...... on Sat. March 6th, maybe 1948 or 1949, the roads were icy. As a car was approaching me in a curve, it was in my lane and the ice prevented it from being able to get back into its own lane so it hit me. Know I had a passenger from Gibbon, but don't know anything else. .......Except thinking that it was Dad's birthday and now he had to come and take care of things in conjunction with the accident.