Adam Halboth was born June 11, 1830 in Bavaria, Germany and emigrated to America in 1849, locating in Bureau County, Illinois.  In 1853 he came to Lee County, Illinois.  In 1853 he married Barbara Hefner, who was born June 19, 1834 in Bavaria, Germany.

Mr. and Mrs. Adam Halboth came to Iowa in 1877 and purchased land in Clinton and Richland Townships where they lived until they moved into Odebolt, where they died.

Mr. and Mrs. Adam Halboth were parents of Lewis; Henrietta (Mrs. Frederick Brucker); Josie (Mrs. John Schnuckel); Fred, married Elizabeth Reutzel; Rosa (Mrs. Louis Voltz); Julius, married Emma Niestrom; Ben, married Augusta Lindberg; and two died in infancy.

Lewis Halboth, born in 1855, in Mendota, Illinois, came to Odebolt area in 1877.  In 1879 he married Louisa Yost, daughter of John and Eva (Sauressig) Yost of Illinois.  They established a home northeast of Odebolt.  They were the parents of Elizabeth (Mrs. John Hoefling); Alfred, married Flora Lentz; Ida (Mrs. Alfred Christianson); Josephine (Mrs. Henry Raasch); William, married Beulah Alderson; Mabel (Mrs. Fred Geyer); Julius, married Minnie Hannel; Clarence; Rosena (Mrs. Carl Stommel); and Lucelia, who died at five months.

Elizabeth's history under Hoefling and Josephine's history under Raasch.

Mr. and Mrs. William Halboth, parents of Everett, who married Irene Fineran and Fern (Mrs. E.W. Neiderfrank).

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Geyer were parents of Esther (Mrs. Carl Bettin); Faye, married Ester Obman; Edna (Mrs. Harold Obman); Roland, married Dorothy Morey; and Leo, married Esther Bettin.

Mr. and Mrs. Julius Halboth had one son, Rev. Donald Lewis Halboth.

Mr. and Mrs. John Schnuckel were parents of Fred; Charles, married Lucille Swanson; John, married Marie Batz; Martha; and Ida (Mrs. John Mauer). [*see below]

Mr. and Mrs. John Mauer were parents of Helen (Mrs. Norman Oxendale) and Marvin, married Amy Paul.

The others left the Odebolt area after marriage.

*From Ronald A. Oxendale, New York City, July 18, 2003

There were two other children born to Grandpa and Grandma Schnuckel; a boy, Henry, who died in infancy and is buried in the Odebolt Cemetery, and a girl, Julia.  She graduated from Odebolt High School and was struck down by the great flu epidemic. Martha married Dave Maples and is the Mother of Odebolt's 2002 Quasquicentennial King, David C. Maples.  Martha and her sister Julia died from the flu on consecutive days in 1918 leaving the family in deep mourning.

So, the above text should read:  "Mr. and Mrs. John Schnuckel were parents of Fred; Henry; Charles, married Lucille Swanson; John, married Marie Batz; Martha, (Mrs. Dave Maples); Julia; and Ida (Mrs. John Mauer)".

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Henry Hanson

(Source: “As Time Goes By”, Odebolt, Iowa 1877-1977, 
printed by The Odebolt Chronicle May, 1977)

    
Henry Hanson and his wife Augusta (Eckblom) Hanson

Henry Hanson, born 1849 in Sweden, son of Jens and Kristy Hanson.  At the age of nineteen, Mr. Hanson crossed the ocean and landed in New York in 1868.  In 1874 he came to Sac County and in partnership with A.E. Johnson, purchased three hundred and twenty acres of land in Wheeler Township for six dollars and sixty cents an acre, bought on a time contract for five years time allotted them in which to complete the payments.  In 1877 each of the partners took one hundred and sixty acres for his own.  In 1880 Mr. Hanson disposed of his Wheeler township land and invested in one hundred fifty acres adjoining the town of Odebolt.  In 1877 he made his residence in Odebolt and located his family here in 1878 when the town was first started.

He engaged in the buying of grain and livestock for shipment to markets.  He was the pioneer grain dealer of Odebolt.  He began as manager of the Swedish Farmers' Elevator Company and soon bought out the business which was the second grain establishment in Odebolt.

Mr. Hanson was a large stockholder and vice president of the First National Bank of Odebolt.

Mr. Hanson married Augusta Eckblom, a native of Sweden, in 1872. They were parents of four children; Mrs. Robertina Von Marrell; Lillian; George; and Grace.

George Hanson married Zella Hardy.

(See a more complete biography of Henry and August Hanson;  excerpts from their grandson, Henry Lewis Hanson's book, "The Family of Henry Hanson and Augusta Mathilda Ekblom; A Genealogical and Biographical Record."

Nels Hanson

(Source: “As Time Goes By”, Odebolt, Iowa 1877-1977, 
printed by The Odebolt Chronicle May, 1977)

Nels Hanson was born in 1839 in Sweden, and his wife Anna (Nelson) Hanson was also born in Sweden, in 1847.  They were married in Sweden and came to America in 1868 and lived in New York for two years, then located in Oyster Bay where the father Nels was a caretaker for a summer estate.  The family, in the spring of 1883, wishing to better their condition came directly to Odebolt, Sac County, Iowa.  After a year's stay in Odebolt, the family moved to a farm of a brother of Nels, who had come earlier to America.  In 1886 he moved to his own farm in Richland Township.  In 1902 he moved to Odebolt where he died in May of that year.  Mrs. Hanson died in 1913.

Mr. and Mrs. Nels Hanson were the parents of nine children; Charlie, married Ada Down; Al married Mary Down; Joe married Mabel Fuller; Emma (Mrs. Thomas Down); Edward married Ella Down; Carrie (Mrs. George Barkley); Edna (Mrs. Sherman Iverson); Harry married Margaretta Newcom; and Anna, married Dr. Frank Williams.

Charlie and Ada Hanson had two sons; Leslie, and Morris.
Al and Mary Hanson had one daughter, Mae
Joe and Mabel Hanson were parents of four children, Paul, Louise, Zelma and Robert.
Emma under Down history.
Edward and Ella Hanson had three sons, who died in infancy, and they adopted Alice.
Carrie and George Barkley's children were Ralph, Edna, Flora and George.
Edna and Sherman Iverson had one daughter, Ruth.
Harry and Margaretta Hanson's children are Sarah Kathleen, and Doris.
Anna under Williams history.

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