A Bereavement Poem In Memory Of Fred Boese

She is an object of beauty and strength
and I stand and watch her until at length
she hangs like a speck of white clouds
just where the sea and sky come down
to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says, "There! She's gone!"
"Gone where?"
"Gone from my sight, that's all".
She is just as large in mast and spar and hull
as ever she was when she left my side;
just as able to bear her load of living freight
to the place of her destination.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her.
And just at that moment when someone at my side says,
"There! She's gone!"
there are other eyes watching her coming
and other voices ready to take up the glad shout,
"Here she comes!" And that is dying.

~Anonymous
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1910 Federal Census

Name: Fred Boese

Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1910
Event Place: Taloga, Dewey, Oklahoma
District: 139
Gender: Male
Age: 36
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race (Original): White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Birth Year (Estimated): 1874
Birthplace: South Dakota ***
Immigration Year:
Father's Birthplace: Russia
Mother's Birthplace: Russia
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Fred Boese..............M/36/South Dakota
Wife Fannie Boese............F/33/Pennsylvania
Son Etret Boese...............M/10/South Dakota
Dau Esther Decker Boese...F/08/Oklahoma
Son Stelwell W Boese.......M/05/Oklahoma

Stats for wife, Fannie

Name: Fannie Boese
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1910
Event Place: Taloga, Dewey, Oklahoma
District: 139
Gender: Female
Age: 33
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race (Original): White
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Birth Year (Estimated): 1877
Birthplace: Pennsylvania***
Immigration Year:
Father's Birthplace: Russia
Mother's Birthplace: Russia
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1930 Federal Census

Name: Fred J Boese

Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1930
Event Place: Taloga, Dewey, Oklahoma
District: 0024
Gender: Male
Age: 55
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race (Original): White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Birth Year (Estimated): 1875
Birthplace: South Dakota
Immigration Year:
Father's Birthplace: Russia
Mother's Birthplace: Russia
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Fred J Boese...........M/55/South Dakota/Head
Fannie Boese..........F/52/Pennsylvania/Wife
Ellet Boese.............M/30/South Dakota/Adopted Son
Stelwell W Boese....M/25/Oklahoma/Son
Alice C Boese.........F/16/Oklahoma/Daughter
Wettis I Boese........F/02/Oklahoma/Granddau.
Albert Parrot..........M/26/Oklahoma/Son-in-law
Esther Parrot..........F/28/Oklahoma/Daughter
Alberta A Parrot......F/02/Oklahoma/Granddaughter
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