Dear Annie...: Annie from John

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Annie from John

Dear Sis Anna: Rec'd your letter some time ago and was glad to hear from you. I am pretty busy these days working kind of late and a letter is a big thing for me to write. We are toing to work 9 hours beginning now so will have more time for myself. I am well and the weather is not bad yet. Will write more in letter. Loving B. J.

This card was next to the previous card and I believe that it is the same group of soldiers. On the front of the card "Norg Spruce Stump, Toledo, Oregon

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Unknown said...: This postcard is a photograph of members of the US Army Spruce Division near Toledo, Oregon where they were stationed to log the spruce forests for airplane quality spruce during WW I. They arrived in 1917 and lived in tent cities around the area while they built railroads to access the spruce timber and started a large sawmill. The mill was not finished before the war ended.; 11:59 AM
Lorlee said...: Thanks so much for info.

Lorlee; 9:46 PM

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Aunt Annie

My great Aunt Annie Bartos lived with her twin Uncle Wencil until his death at 83 and then lived by herself until she died at 90 in 1983. She was a collecter. One walked between boxes in her house. Among this treasure is a collection of about 800 postcards from about 1910 to 1924. It is my goal to share them with her descendants and with the world.

The picture above is in her garden.

If anyone has information they would like to add -- either about the identity of people or photos to add, please contact me at lorlee0828@att.net. If you are a descendant of Aunt Annie and would like a copy of the cards on disc, please let me know.

I will try to posta new card every day, so please check back often. Please feel free to leave me your comments and to share this site with your friends.

BLOG EXPLANATION

Each card will have 2 views, front and back and will include my interpretation of the message [as best I can read it] including misspellings. Each card will have tags -- the year, the sender and the receiver. So if you want to see all of the cards from a certain year, you would search by that year or from a certain person, search on that name. If you click on either the front or the back view, it will open in a separate window, somewhat larger, and you can better see the details of the card.

A LITTLE FAMILY HISTORY

Frank Bartos [my great grandfather] emigrated from Bohemia in 1864 at age 18, with his four siblings and his parents Martin and Kathryn. They first settled in New Prague, Minnesota before coming to Lowry, Minnesota about 4 years later.

He and his wife Frances [Chan] had five children -- Frank Philomen, Joe, John, Wencil and Annie

Joe is my grandfather. He and Annie [Kalina] lived in the Lake Reno area all of their lives.

Frank Philomen and Mary [Prchal] settled in Superior, Wisconsin.

Annie and Wencil lived on the homestead all of their lives.

John was the traveler. He was WWI veteran, but did not serve overseas. He worked in Colorado and died in a freak accident, we believe, struck by lightning.

Dear Annie...

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Annie from John

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