ERNEST C. AND MINNIE [STOURAL] SANDOZ
Ernest C. Sandoz, son of Camille and Rosina Sandoz, was born
February 13, 1882, in Neuchatel, Switzerland. In 1884 he came to
this country with his parents and family. Their decisions to
emigrate and come to this country were doubtless influenced by
letters from Jules Sandoz, who was from the Neuchatel area and
probably a distant relative of theirs.
[pg 384 PHOTO Ernest C. and Minnie C. [Stoural] Sandoz]
On October 11, 1904, Ernest C. Sandoz married Minnie Stoural.
Minnie, a daughter of Thomas C. and Antonia Divis Stoural, was born
May 24, 1885, at Verdigre. Five children were born to the couple:
Delbert, who died in infancy, Helen (Mrs. Roy Barta), Edmund,
Leonard, and Lawrence.
The Sandozes lived in Verdigre for most of their lives. Ernest was
at times a barber, a drayline operator, hotel keeper (he was the
proprietor of the Commercial Hotel about 1908), partner in hardware
and implements with his brother Fred, and finally an automobile
dealer. It was the Sandoz brothers who put up the big building at
the south end of Block 18.
When the depression finished off his business, he became a star
route mail carrier in Center and custodian of the Knox County
courthouse. He was finally forced by ill health to resign from this
job. He died September 1, 1962.
Ernest was an honorary life member of the Knights of Columbus, Third
Degree, and a retired member of the Verdigre Volunteer Fire
Department at the time of his death.
Minnie continued to live in Verdigre after her husband’s demise,
dying November 7, 1970.
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