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Chain:-H.H.> HENRY F.wife Marg. Kroeger >HENRY HANS wf.Gesina Scherff, Alvord, IA > MABEL (b.1894)husb.John DeHaan > Susan, Sharon, Tim and Shirlee DeHaan.< ----Tim Gerber, Sharon's son, provided us this picture in April 2002. Mabel is seated and ANNA SCHERFF standing. Anna looks young, but Aunts sometimes do that, especially if she was Gesina's "kid" sister. (It turns out she was only 5 years older.) Anna married a Rath. We have since gathered more Scherff familytree data because Anna is the "3rd sister". (She lived in SW Minnesota.) The "2nd" sister was Johanna "Hanna" Scherff who married Henry H.'s brother Edward George. Many of Edward & Hanna's descendants live around Winston-Salem, N.C.
The Scherff girls parents were John & Mary Steinke (Steinja) Scherff who also had a son named John. They reportedly came to the US from Hannover, Germany in 1900. The children were young when they arrived.
This picture was probably taken in Rock Rapids, Iowa or somewhere near the Sioux City, Sioux Falls area. Tim and his family live in Indiana and an aunt, Shirlee, is still an Iowan.
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