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Hans Detlaf was the youngest son of Detlef Hans Schlotfeldt and Anna Christina Reese who came from Germany to Scott County Iowa in 1856 and Grandson of Hans Henry & Catherine. Hans was a butcher in Clinton County Iowa and migrated to Roslyn, Wash. in the late 1890. Wife Anna Marie Stahl died there in 1897 and Hans married Helen "Ellen" Donovan in Feb.of 1900. (See Hans picture at the Brewery.) Thereafter they produced a fine family of 8 children. Seven are in this picture. The youngest, Ernest, who is not shown was born in July of 1916. Next Youngest, Gertrude, was born in June of 1914 and looks to be about 2 in this photo which is how we date it. FRONT ROW, L to R: "DUDLEY" (Hans D.) b.1908, MARGUERITE b. 1912, GERTRUDE b.1914, HERMAN b.1902. BACK: CATHERINE b.1904 , LEO b.1907, FRED b.1905. (See sep. picture of Fred) Most stayed in or came back to the Yakima Valley of Washington. Leo is recoginzed as a "Pioneer" of Alaska with a family home in Fairbanks. He went there in 1927 as I recall and a Pioneer monument in town acknowledges his family. CATHERINE's daughter, Jane Blair Britz has also been very helpful with all this family history. GERTRUDE was born in Buckley, WA and became Mrs. Lee LINCK. (Fred's kids, Dick & Mary Langevin have been REAL family historians.) Ernest's son Ed, from northern WA has shared some great information he and his sister Ilene Marie had secured from German archives. Ilene was a very dedicated family researcher. As regards Leo, some neighbors of ours in Rio Verde vacationed in Fairbanks a few years ago and came back with the picture of the Fairbanks Pioneer Families monument and plaque with Leo's name on it as was the Hering name of his wife's family. That inspired me (Fay) to call Leo and the next thing we knew Jane Britz was on the phone from Yakima and this whole inter-branch link was started. I had known from from an old will of Aunt Lenora Hagedorn's that we had Alaska relatives. I did
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