The following story was written by Pauline Bachman Mann in her book: "Our Heritage The Bachmans of Lititz Pennsylvania" 1981
Oscar was working at the Zehring farm, Germantown, Ohio, when he met Margaret. She had been orphaned at eleven years of age and, with a sister Mary, stayed with an older married sister for a few years before going to help in the Zehring household. She and Oscar were married and farmed one of the Zehring farms, where they did general farming and tobacco raising, and where most of their eight children were born. In 1903 they moved to Ankeny, Iowa, ten miles north of Des Moines, where Oscar lived on a farm of a brother-in-law, J.L. Hildreth, five miles northeast of Ankeny, for several years before buying his own farm a few miles away.
Of all of Father's family, we knew Oscar and his family best. It was Oscar and Margaret who gave the family shelter in their farm home when we arrived in Iowa in the midst of a howling blizzard in January of 1909. I well remember visiting Oscar and "Aunt Maggie", as we knew her, in their home in Ankeny after their retirement from the farm. Oscar and Margaret left Ankeny in the '20s and lived for a time with a daughter, Susie Shaw, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, then moved to Bell, California, to live with another daughter, Edna Hall. There Aunt Margaret died in 1928 and was brought back to Ankeny for burial in the Hilltop Brethren Cemetery near Elkhart, Iowa. Oscar remained in Iowa following her death and made his home with yet another daughter, Clara West, until his death in 1943. He too is buried at Hilltop beside Margaret.
Oscar was working at the Zehring farm, Germantown, Ohio, when he met Margaret. She had been orphaned at eleven years of age and, with a sister Mary, stayed with an older married sister for a few years before going to help in the Zehring household. She and Oscar were married and farmed one of the Zehring farms, where they did general farming and tobacco raising, and where most of their eight children were born. In 1903 they moved to Ankeny, Iowa, ten miles north of Des Moines, where Oscar lived on a farm of a brother-in-law, J.L. Hildreth, five miles northeast of Ankeny, for several years before buying his own farm a few miles away.
Of all of Father's family, we knew Oscar and his family best. It was Oscar and Margaret who gave the family shelter in their farm home when we arrived in Iowa in the midst of a howling blizzard in January of 1909. I well remember visiting Oscar and "Aunt Maggie", as we knew her, in their home in Ankeny after their retirement from the farm. Oscar and Margaret left Ankeny in the '20s and lived for a time with a daughter, Susie Shaw, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, then moved to Bell, California, to live with another daughter, Edna Hall. There Aunt Margaret died in 1928 and was brought back to Ankeny for burial in the Hilltop Brethren Cemetery near Elkhart, Iowa. Oscar remained in Iowa following her death and made his home with yet another daughter, Clara West, until his death in 1943. He too is buried at Hilltop beside Margaret.
The following story was written by Pauline Bachman Mann in her book: "Our Heritage The Bachmans of Lititz Pennsylvania" 1981
Oscar was working at the Zehring farm, Germantown, Ohio, when he met Margaret. She had been orphaned at eleven years of age and, with a sister Mary, stayed with an older married sister for a few years before going to help in the Zehring household. She and Oscar were married and farmed one of the Zehring farms, where they did general farming and tobacco raising, and where most of their eight children were born. In 1903 they moved to Ankeny, Iowa, ten miles north of Des Moines, where Oscar lived on a farm of a brother-in-law, J.L. Hildreth, five miles northeast of Ankeny, for several years before buying his own farm a few miles away.
Of all of Father's family, we knew Oscar and his family best. It was Oscar and Margaret who gave the family shelter in their farm home when we arrived in Iowa in the midst of a howling blizzard in January of 1909. I well remember visiting Oscar and "Aunt Maggie", as we knew her, in their home in Ankeny after their retirement from the farm. Oscar and Margaret left Ankeny in the '20s and lived for a time with a daughter, Susie Shaw, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, then moved to Bell, California, to live with another daughter, Edna Hall. There Aunt Margaret died in 1928 and was brought back to Ankeny for burial in the Hilltop Brethren Cemetery near Elkhart, Iowa. Oscar remained in Iowa following her death and made his home with yet another daughter, Clara West, until his death in 1943. He too is buried at Hilltop beside Margaret.
Oscar was working at the Zehring farm, Germantown, Ohio, when he met Margaret. She had been orphaned at eleven years of age and, with a sister Mary, stayed with an older married sister for a few years before going to help in the Zehring household. She and Oscar were married and farmed one of the Zehring farms, where they did general farming and tobacco raising, and where most of their eight children were born. In 1903 they moved to Ankeny, Iowa, ten miles north of Des Moines, where Oscar lived on a farm of a brother-in-law, J.L. Hildreth, five miles northeast of Ankeny, for several years before buying his own farm a few miles away.
Of all of Father's family, we knew Oscar and his family best. It was Oscar and Margaret who gave the family shelter in their farm home when we arrived in Iowa in the midst of a howling blizzard in January of 1909. I well remember visiting Oscar and "Aunt Maggie", as we knew her, in their home in Ankeny after their retirement from the farm. Oscar and Margaret left Ankeny in the '20s and lived for a time with a daughter, Susie Shaw, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, then moved to Bell, California, to live with another daughter, Edna Hall. There Aunt Margaret died in 1928 and was brought back to Ankeny for burial in the Hilltop Brethren Cemetery near Elkhart, Iowa. Oscar remained in Iowa following her death and made his home with yet another daughter, Clara West, until his death in 1943. He too is buried at Hilltop beside Margaret.
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