Visiting in Jansen

April 2, 1930  We went to Nick Friesens.  For dinner we went to Peter E. Friesens, and then to Abraham Friesens for supper.  Then we went to Bernhard Kroekers for the evening.  Peter Friesens and Abraham Friesens also came over there.  Heinrich Kroekers took us to Fairbury.  There I bought tickets for us to go to St. Paul, Minn., for $33.70.  We left Fairbury at 11:35 p.m.

Cornelius and Margaret made the rounds in Jansen, visiting her cousins.  Nick, Peter, and Abraham Friesen were her cousins, as were Katharina (Friesen) and Helena (Friesen), the wives of Bernhard and Heinrich Kroeker.  All five of them were siblings.

Surely on that day Margaret would have shown Cornelius the farm where she was born and lived until she was thirteen.  Her parents, Heinrich and Katharina (Barkman) Reimer, had had 160 acres of land there and had lived ¾ mile south of the town of Jansen.  Margaret’s grandmother, Katharina (Bergman) Barkman had lived ¼ mile west of Jansen.

Heinrich F. Reimer farm south of Jansen, Nebr., in 2013

 Then Margaret’s cousins took them to the train station in Fairbury, the county seat, and they bought tickets for St. Paul, Minn.