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WERNER - EATON
LOKEN - DUNKLEE
*PHOTOGRAPH IDENTIFICATION PROJECT*
If you can help me put names to some of these faces
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By today's landmarks, the Adam Werner homestead is off of
Palmer Fishhook Road in the Matanuska Valley. Werner was born in Liebenstein,
Austria in 1888 and came to Knik in 1914 on the same ship as early Valley
pioneers: Alex Olson, Curtis Ross and Roy Cornelius. He received a homestead
patent to 320 acres in 1921.
Werner's future mother-in-law, Jenny (Morall) Eaton, came to Alaska (from England) in 1918 and worked as a cook. In 1921, (although technically still married with 8 children back in England) she married a very successful Valley vegetable farmer named John Marcus Loken. Loken died in 1929 when his clothing got caught in the belt of a gasoline wood saw. He was taken, by train, to Anchorage where he died the next day.
Jenny's oldest daughter (Fanny Eaton) came to Alaska to be with her grief stricken mother. Six months later, Fanny married Adam Werner. In that same ceremony, Jenny married a widower named Edward Albert Dunklee.
Dunklee lived on a 319 acre homestead that he received patent to, in 1919. The homestead was eventually sold to the U.S. Government and used for the Matanuska Colony Project.
After Dunklee died in 1943, Jenny went back to England, where she married William Finley in 1954. Jenny (Morall)Eaton-Loken-Dunklee-Finley died in 1963.
Adam Werner died in 1944, leaving his wife Fanny and 3 young daughters: Hazel, Fay and Violet Jean. After Adam's death, Fanny turned the homestead into a dairy farm until 1957. Fanny died in 1992.
A few years ago, one of Jenny Eaton-Loken-Dunklee-Finley's grandsons (in England) sent me some photographs that he inherited. He believes the photos were taken while Jenny was in Alaska. Jenny's granddaughter, Violet Werner- Norbo told me she didn't recognize anyone in the photographs.
Werner's future mother-in-law, Jenny (Morall) Eaton, came to Alaska (from England) in 1918 and worked as a cook. In 1921, (although technically still married with 8 children back in England) she married a very successful Valley vegetable farmer named John Marcus Loken. Loken died in 1929 when his clothing got caught in the belt of a gasoline wood saw. He was taken, by train, to Anchorage where he died the next day.
Jenny's oldest daughter (Fanny Eaton) came to Alaska to be with her grief stricken mother. Six months later, Fanny married Adam Werner. In that same ceremony, Jenny married a widower named Edward Albert Dunklee.
Dunklee lived on a 319 acre homestead that he received patent to, in 1919. The homestead was eventually sold to the U.S. Government and used for the Matanuska Colony Project.
After Dunklee died in 1943, Jenny went back to England, where she married William Finley in 1954. Jenny (Morall)Eaton-Loken-Dunklee-Finley died in 1963.
Adam Werner died in 1944, leaving his wife Fanny and 3 young daughters: Hazel, Fay and Violet Jean. After Adam's death, Fanny turned the homestead into a dairy farm until 1957. Fanny died in 1992.
A few years ago, one of Jenny Eaton-Loken-Dunklee-Finley's grandsons (in England) sent me some photographs that he inherited. He believes the photos were taken while Jenny was in Alaska. Jenny's granddaughter, Violet Werner- Norbo told me she didn't recognize anyone in the photographs.
Let me know if you can identify
any of the people or places in
the following photographs
any of the people or places in
the following photographs
There is typing on the back of some of these photos,
I've posted the photo backs here as well
PHOTO 1
Dan Carney says this is Bessie Wells
(this is the back of photo #1)
PHOTO # 2 COLORADO STATION
Colorado Station was on the railroad tracks at
Colorado Creek in the Broad Pass area
This is the back of photo #2
Dan Carney, a researcher of the Well's family suggests the following:
"This is without doubt, Alonzo Orville Wells and his wife Bessie Shultz-Craig-Cupples-Wells
at their homestead at Colorado Station. Alonzo and his brother Frank and a man
named John Coffee discovered the Broad Pass Mining District in about 1913."
PHOTO #3
Any idea who this woman and her children are?
Photo was taken in Anchorage, probably 1938-1939 because road is not paved.
This is the back of photo #3
PHOTO # 4
Where is this church?
This is the back of photo #4
Note: Sheri Hamming of the Palmer
Historical Society thinks the above church
might be the Church of God in Anchorage. She also says that Jenny
was friends with Mrs. A. Wells.
might be the Church of God in Anchorage. She also says that Jenny
was friends with Mrs. A. Wells.
This is the back of photo #5
PHOTO #6
This is the back of PHOTO #6
PHOTO #7
THE WERNER HOME IN PALMER, ALASKA
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