| His parents | Married 6/29/1897 | Her parents |
| Ancestor 28 (11100): 2GGF August Korb (1872 – 1955) |
 MN –> ND | Ancestor 29 (11101): 2GGM Louise Gerhartz (1878 – 1968) |
| Their ancestral child |
August and Louise married June 29, 1897. Their wedding was in Marytown, WI where they’d grown up. By that time, however, August already lived in Minnesota, apparently for work, and the couple spent the first few years of their marriage in the Norman / Mahnomen / Becker tri-county area of MN. They then moved to Calio, ND in 1903 or ’04, where they spent the rest of their lives and where their family has been rooted for generations now.
Their children were Peter* (b. 1898), Math, Gertrude, Ernest (b. 1903, MN), Andrew (b. 1904, ND), Pauline, Leo, Raymond, Wilfred, and Edmund (b. 1912).
August was a grain farmer. Judging from pictures, he had an impressively large-scale operation. Granddaughter Eileen recalled the Korbs’ barn in detail: “They had a huge barn. Hay on above-ground level and below was room for horses etc. Could drive into the hay mow.” 1
Undated photo on the farm. Barn on left. On the right, you can see the rear end of their “winter bus”, a trailer on skis; it was pulled by horses.
Eileen has written that August was also the Calio school janitor, “starting the fires in the furnace etc.” I think he was exaggerating, but August told people that he “lost an eye” fixing a windmill on his farm. “But that’s okay,” he said. “My other eye is twice as good!” 2
My mom’s middle name is Louise, after her great-grandmother. She was the only great-grandparent that Mom ever knew. Louise lived in Calio, right next to the schoolhouse. Mom would visit occasionally, sometimes with her parents or sometimes with a cousin on the way home from school. She remembers the layout of the house. There was a cookie pantry by the front door. Louise would always offer cookies and milk. Upstairs was a hallway with a low railing that overlooked the downstairs. Mom and her cousin used to run endlessly back and forth down that hallway; in retrospect, they must have driven Louise crazy!
To be continued … See Korb Klan pp. 8 – 15.
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