My Family History:Information about Eisine Effie Hoppen
Eisine Effie Hoppen (b. September 02, 1897, d. March 08, 1998)
Notes for Eisine Effie Hoppen:Birth: 2 Sep 1897, Blue Hill, Nebraska
Death: 6 Mar 1998, Blue Hill, Nebraska
Burial: Rosemont Cemetery, Rural Rosemont
Eisine E. 'Ida' Wilhelms
Blue Hill resident Eisine E. 'Ida' (Hoppen) Wilhelms, 100 died Sunday, March 8, 1998, at Community Care of Blue Hill.
Services are 10 a.m. Wednesday at Blue Hill United Methodist Church in Blue Hill with the Rev. Baldeo Singh officiating.Burial will be in Rosemont Presbyterian Cemetery near Rosemont.Merten-Butler Mortuary of Blue Hill is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Wilhelms was born Sept. 2, 1897, to Dirk and Hinderike (Luitjens) Hoppen on a farm northeast of Rosemont.On March 2, 1921, she married Carl Wilhelms at Rosemont Presbyterian Church.They farmed in Webster County.Her husband died June 30, 1963.She lived in Rosemont.In 1973 she moved to Westgate Manor in Blue Hill where she lived until 1994 when her health failed.
She was a member of Presbyterian Church in Rosemont until it closed in 1972.She then attended United Methodist Church in Blue Hill.
Survivors are five daughters, Doris Adams of Atwood, Kan., Norma Easter of Sun City West, Ariz., Irma Nejezchleb of Hastings, Eleanor Jensen of Norton, Kan., and Mona Faimon of McCook; one son, Roy of Blue Hill; 16 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and four great great grandchildren.
She also was preceded in death by two brothers and two sisters.
Memorials may be given to United Methodist Church.
Very hard worker.Picked corn, milked cows, chopped wood.Did a lot of canning for her family of 6.Loved to play bridge and quilt.She made each of her grandchildren a quilt.
 | Carl & Ida Wilhlems |
More About Eisine Effie Hoppen and Carl Martin Wilhelms:
Marriage: March 02, 1921, Rosemont Presbyterian Church.
Marriage Notes for Eisine Effie Hoppen and Carl Martin Wilhelms:Carl Martin Wilhelms was born in Jemgum, Germany on March 25, 1899 to Emil and Elskea Steen Wilhelms.He came to the United States in 1909 at the age of 10 with his parents, a brother, Menno, and two sisters, Dede and Helen.He became a U.S. Citizen in 1919 and settled in Rosemont, Nebraska.Before marriage, he did farm work for Bill Stroh near Rosemont.
In 1921 he was married to Eisine (Ida) Hoppen, daughter of Dirk and Hinderike (Luitjens) Hoppen.They live on the farm northeast of Rosemont owned at the time by William Busking, Sr., until 1934.
The family was kept busy milking cows, gardening, raising hogs and putting up fruit from the orchard.During the drought years when highway #4 was constructed he, along with many other farmers, worked on the highway.Most of the work was done with horse or mule-drawn dump wagons.
After moving from the Busking farm in 1934, they rented the Edgar McBride land south of Rosemont which was then a watershed project.They lived here until the project manager moved into the buildings and they took up residence on the Ralph Van Boening farmstead.
In 1952 they purchased the former Herman Eigenberg property in Rosemont.They farmed their 80 acres of land north of Rosemont which was purchased from Mrs. Oliver Shepherd in 1926.Along with renting the Oberle Farm northwest of Rosemont and the Szopieray Farm southeast of Rosemont until Carl's health failed and they held their farm sale in November, 1961.At this time their son, Roy, took over the farming operation plus the land he already was farming.After a long illness Carl passed away June 30, 1963 and is buried in the Rosemont Cemetery.Ida remained in Rosemont until 1973.She had her sale in December, 1973 and moved to West Gate Manor in Blue Hill, Nebraska.She enjoys all the activities there, 'quilting, playin bridge, their dinners".Seems she is always busy.
All their children were born northeast of Rosemont on the Busking farm.They attended school at District #84, Rosemont Pulbic School and high school in Blue Hill.
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from "The Families of Rosemont, Nebraska 1890-1990"
Children of Eisine Effie Hoppen and Carl Martin Wilhelms are:
- +Irma Alice Wilhelms.
- +Roy Emil Wilhelms, b. March 17, 1922, Rosemont, Webster County, Nebraska, d. November 27, 2002, Franklin, Nebraska.
- +Norma Elskea Wilhelms.
- +Eleanor Esther Wilhelms.
- +Doris Hinderike Wilhelms.
- +Mona Viola Wilhelms.