title:
Family Memoirs of Hubert Joseph Wesselman and Nellie May Walker Wesselman
creator:
Ourada, Frances L.
subject:
Country life -- Colorado -- Jefferson County -- Memoirs; World War I -- Diaries; Floods -- Colorado -- Jefferson County
description:
Memories, stories, and family histories of Hubert and Nellie (Walker) Wesselman of the Bear Creek Valley, Morrison, Jefferson County, Colorado, as written by their daughter Frances. The memoirs begin with Wesselman and Walker family genealogies then how and when each line came to Colorado from Germany in 1901 and Missouri in 1915. Many pages are devoted to the transcription of Hubert Wesselman’s diary, kept during his service in World War I. The memoirs describe life on farms in Edgewater and Broomfield, then the farm in the Bear Creek Valley, three miles east of Morrison on Highway 285. There are mentions of attending the Semper School and the Bear Creek School, the Walker & Son Mountain View Dairy, the 1938 Bear Creek flood, and life during World War II.
publisher:
contributor:
Tarchek, Irma Nellie; French, Lenora Gertrude
date:
1998; 2005
type:
Text (unpublished manuscript)
format:
PDF; 41 pages
identifier:
Wesselman Family Papers
source:
Is part of Morrison History Collection
language:
en
relation:
coverage:
Sullivan (Mo.); (Broomfield (Colo.); Edgewater (Colo.); Morrison (Colo.); Jefferson County (Colo.); 19th century; 20th century
rights:
This resource is the property of the Jefferson County Archives and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of this resource are asked to please credit the Jefferson County Archives. Copyright not evaluated.
