JOHANN BAPTIST FRISCH
[pg 252 PHOTO John B. Frisch family, back row from left: Katie,
Anton, John, Mary, Frank; front: August, John B. [father], Christ,
Annie [mother], Carl, and Henry]
Johann (John) Baptist Frisch was born in Zwiesel, Bavaria, Germany,
on October 13, 1853.
After his first wife’s death, the broken-hearted Johann came to
America with a sister in 1883. First they lived near Carroll, Iowa,
where he married Annie Tracie Horn in approximately the year of
1884. She was born in Galesburg, Illinois, on September 15, 1860.
(When she was 12 years old, her father froze in a severe winter
storm; he and a neighbor had driven a team of horses and wagon to
town for groceries and the storm came up so suddenly and was so
severe they couldn’t see where to go, so they unhitched the horses,
turned the wagon box upside down, and huddled underneath. They were
found three days later frozen to death.)
About 1888 the family set out for Nebraska with three small children
in a covered wagon. They lived for awhile on farms near Brunswick
and in the Sioux County area before settling on a farm in Knox
County twelve miles west of Verdigre. Together they built their
house and other buildings, struggling to keep going. The description
of their land was: the South half of the Northeast Quarter, the
Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter,; the East Half of the
East Half of the Northwest Quarter, the West Half of the Northwest
Quarter, the West Half of the East Half of the Northwest Quarter and
the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 3,
Township 30 North, Range 8 West, of the 6th P. M., Knox County,
Nebraska.
They were the parents of ten children: John H., Frank, Mary, Anton,
Katie, Henry, Christ, August, Carl, George, and a stepdaughter,
Clara.
After John’s death in October of 1913, his oldest son, John H., took
over the farm.
Annie kept house for her son, Frank, after he lost his young wife,
and she also helped care for his children. Later she lived with her
other children. The last several years she made her home with her
son, John H. On August 10, 1947, at the age of 87 years, Annie
passed away and was laid to rest in the St. Wenceslaus Cemetery
beside her husband and daughter.
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