Although Joe and Annie had endured the death of their infant daughter Elizabeth soon after arriving in Snyder, less than a year later they welcomed another addition to the family. Son Albert was born on February 14, 1913 and was appropriately given the middle name of “Valentine” in honor of the Saint’s Day. Sometime in 1915, […]
Joe and Annie Rademacher in Snyder, Colorado – Part 2
As young boys, Ted and Clem Rademacher had all kinds of adventures in Snyder with animals, both domestic and wild. The boys took up hunting and especially trapping, and made money by selling pelts. Once they caught a scary and snarling wild animal in their trap and didn’t know what it was! They were so scared they […]
Joe and Annie Rademacher in Snyder, Colorado – Part 1
Sometime in late 1911, Joe and Annie Rademacher left Crete and moved to Snyder, a small town in Morgan County, Colorado. They lived there for more than 15 years. Many stories have been passed down about the years spent in Snyder. I’ll be telling those stories in several parts in the coming weeks. I have three […]
Joe and Annie Rademacher, early 1900’s
This post has been updated: see below As we’ve been reading, Annie Burkey was born in Columbus, Nebraska, and then moved with her family to a sod house on a homestead near Julesburg, Colorado. The date of Joseph Burkey’s homestead application was 1887 and the process became final in 1892. The family legend is that […]
Annie Rademacher – life in a sod house
Our records about the early years of the Joseph and Ottilia Burkey family are a little sketchy, but here’s what we think we know. Shortly after they were married, the family moved to Columbus (Platte County), Nebraska. A Nebraska State Census in 1885 shows Joseph, Ottilia and their two young children Alois and Anna living […]
