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Marie E Stumpf Bleess

Birth: 1877
Strasbourg, Departement du Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
Death: 1964 (aged 86–87)
Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Burial: Saint Josephs Cemetery

Pleasant Plain, Jefferson County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14616298/marie_e-bleess: accessed ), memorial page for Marie E Stumpf Bleess (1877–1964), Find a Grave Memorial ID 14616298, citing Saint Josephs Cemetery, Pleasant Plain, Jefferson County, Iowa, USA; Maintained by billcarr (contributor 46560268).

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I just found this photo. Marie in 1922! Almost 100 years ago. Maurice used to talk about the barn, how large it was. There is a slight view of it on the left of the picture. Marie is 45 here. Right pretty I think. Life on the farm was HARD!

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Marie, you look very snappy here, it is surely sunday and just back from church. Probably early mass, you would have been up at 4 am anyway. Moe (Maurice Ralph Bleess) looks good too. He won many academic awards in school, he was very bright. Picture in 1927, Soccum Ridge, south of Washington Iowa. From your dress and new shoes one can tell the depression hasn't started yet. 1929 is two years away. Things will tighten up for sure.

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Marie, here you are as a governess for a family in London, England, 1895. You sure are a sharp looking young woman. Mom's notes say you are about 18 years. Coming across in 1910ish to Ellis Island must not have been a picnic. Later you settle with Carl on an Iowa farm. Mud roads no electricity, no running water. Mom told me you dearly missed life in London and felt Iowa farm life a poor trade. Still you were in Iowa when the Guns of August roared and WW1 was on in earnest. Carl couldn't have possibly made it through that. Coming to Iowa mud sure beats going to the sea of mud in Flanders Fields. Godspeed Marie and thank you for the stories. I loved the Napoleon story best.One night you were baby sitting me - how I hated that. I was about 8. The quilting frame was set up with a quilt in place. You were knitting which means the dishes were put up and all was clean. The table was covered with a hand crocheted table cloth. You simply could not waste a minute of daytime. You addressed me pointedly as we had our conversation. " You think Georgoe Washington is a great man? Let me tell you about Napoleon. You told me two stories. In one Napoleon was visiting a fair and one of the vendors challenged the great Napoleon to balance an egg on a stick. Losing this would have cost him money of course and winning wasn't likely, true of any carnival scheme. Promptly Napoleon jammed the egg on to the stick and there it stayed. The vendor had to swallow his pride and admit he had been beaten. No one coudl argue with Napoleon nor accuse him of cheating. I can not remember the other story but at least this one is recorded. Godspeed Marie and thank you.

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The house on Soccum Ridge, Washington County Iowa. About 5 miles south of Washington. Only plowed field remains. No road, no driveway, no trees. No trace to tell their story.

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Rest in peace, Marie.

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