Abel & Sabina Family Group & Misc Photos

Group & Misc Photos of the Family of Abel & Sabina German

Abel and Sabina German and family, 1889
back, L-R: Chesman, Edward, Otis
center: Sabina, Abel, Grace
front: Harvey, Homer, Henry

Vesta and Walter were born after this photo was taken.

Two additional children, Hattie (1870) and Frank (1886),  died in infancy.
Homer died as a result of of diphtheria and a fractured skull in 1897, at age 14 years

Photo above. A more original copy, but probably not THE original.  Faces seem a little wider.
Is that just because of shadows, or was this photo widened a little, or was the top photo narrowed a tiny bit?
Abel and Sabina German and family, 1889
back, L-R: Chesman, Edward, Otis
middle: Sabina, Abel, Grace
front: Harvey, Homer, Henry

Abel & Sabina German Family, about 1902
LtoR BACK Grace, Otis, Chet, Henry, Ed,
MIDDLE Harvey (toddler in the 1st photo), Abel, Sabina, Vesta
FRONT Walter 

L to R: Henry, Chet, Ed, Otis

German siblings (L to R): Walter, Grace, Ed, Chet, Harvey
Taken in New Mexico before 1938
Their sister Vesta and her husband Milo Talbot lived in New Mexico
Ed's wife, Minnie, took the photo

German Siblings L to R: Grace, Walter, Ed, Harvey, Chet, Eva (Chet's wife), probably Harvey's wife Lulu
Ed's wife, Minnie, took the photo

Chet (left) and  Harvey

L to R back: Chet, Harvey, Henry, Otis,
front: Vesta, Nettie Grace, Walter

Newspaper Article about the 1946 German family reunion.
Beloit Daily Herald 4 Sept 1946

German Family 1946 at Porter Hotel, Beloit, Kansas
Names taken from key shown below

L to R: front row (seated): Lulu (Harvey's wife), Eva (Chet's wife), GRACE, Alice Adell (Verda & Donald's daughter), VESTA, Myrtle (Otis' wife), Dorris (Walter's wife)

2nd row (seated on stools behind 1st row): Esther Neifert (Otis & Myrtle's daughter), Verda Adell (Otis & Myrtle's daughter), Birdie (Delmar's wife), Alice (Harold & Cecil's daughter), Della (Henry's wife)

Standing (all L to R): Ellen (Kenneth's wife), Blanche Brokaw (Chet & Eva's daughter), Arletta (Lowell's wife), Hazel Thompson (Chet & Eva's daughter), Cecil (Harold's wife), Walter Jr (Walter & Dorris' son), OTIS, HENRY, Milo Hadley (Grace's husband), HARVEY, CHET, Charley Talbot (Vesta's husband), Aaron Brokaw (Blanche's husband), Lowell (Chet & Eva's son), WALTER (big man with white hair), Doyle Niefert (Esther's husband), Kenneth (Chet & Eva's son), Donald Adell (Verda's husband), Howard Thompson (Hazel's husband), Delmar (Chet & Eva's son), Harold (Ed's son)

Missing: ED passed away in 1938.  Ed's wife, Minnie, passed away in Aug. 1946, weeks before the reunion.  HOMER passed away in 1897 at age 14 years.   HATTIE & FRANK died as infants.

Gay Whited's grandparents: Cecil Brodie German is left end of back row, next to the man.  Harold D German is back row far right.  Harold & Cecil's daughter, Alice (who passed away in a car accident in 1951) is on the second row of women, 2nd from right.  

Doug German's grandparents: The first woman standing on the left is my grandmother, Ellen Shull German. Her husband Kenneth, my grandfather, is the 2nd man from the right in the front row of men.

Ellen's numbered faces.  See list of names below.

How many members of the extended family can you name?
Ellen (wife of Kenneth, who Chet's son) knew everyone needed to be identified.
So she placed numbers on each face (below) and  then listed the name of each person beside each number (below).

Who's who at the 1946 German family reunion (photos above).
Many thanks to Doug German for providing this identification key.
NOTE ERROR: #1 should be Lulu, HARVEY'S wife

A more readable copy of the key
NOTE ERROR: #1 should be Lulu, HARVEY'S wife

Sons & Sons-in-Law of Abel and Sabina German, about 1948
L to R: Milo Hadley (husband of Grace German), Chet German,
Charley Talbot (husband of Vesta German),
Walter German, Harvey German, Otis German, Henry German
Note:  Ed German died in 1938, before this photo was taken.
 Hattie (1870) and Frank (1886) died in infancy.   Homer died in 1897, at age 14 years.

Walnut Creek Cemetery, near Glen Elder, Mitchell Co., Kansas
Grave stones of Abel & Sabina German (left), and Homer and Frank German (right)
Also buried at Walnut Creek Cemetery are an unnamed infant child of Otis H. & Myrtle German, and an unnamed infant child of Chet German and his first wife Mabel.