Note
This was found by Vance Smelden when tearing down the Talmo home (Jorgen/Irene) in October of 1997.
John Stephen Stutz - 18 Feb. 1869 - 19 Aug. 1938 - Spring Green, Wisconsin
Lily Mae Stutz - 30 May 1897 - Jan. 1900 - Hillsboro, ND
Lily was injured when falling from a wagon and died shortly after this was taken.
Mr. Stutz lived, worked, and raised his family at Hillsboro, ND. He was a farmer, drayman, worked at Water Works, was a police man who walked his beat with a German shepherd dog, ran the Conoco Station and later the Texaco Station where he was injured and unable to continue working.
His wife Lydia was a Swedish trained seamstress and made all her patterns and had to learn to use patterns here. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her mother died in childbirth and the mid-wife nurse adopted her. She helped pick medicinal herbs, and helped her mother who was working for the doctors there who used them.
They had 7 daughters:
Anna - died at 4 months
Lily Mae - died at 8 1/2 from injury
Inez Genevieve - Waite
Irene Dorothy - Talmo
(Inez & Irene were twins)
Caroline Stutz, died at 33
Mary Ann - Kelstrup
Josephine - Fiss