Emil married Gertrude Lillian Goehring on 26 Sep 1932 in South Dakota, USA. Gertrude (daughter of Charles Goehring and Emma Maria Christina Baumgart) was born on 11 Apr 1912 in South Dakota, USA; died on 10 May 2004 in Highmore Healthcare Center, Highmore, Hyde County, South Dakota, USA; was buried in Highmore City Cemetery, Highmore, Hyde County, South Dakota, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Charles Goehring was born December 13, 1884, in Hutchinson County near Freeman, South Dakota to Jacob and Katharina Goehring. He was baptized in the German Reform Church. As a youth he took a course in steam engineering at the Agricultural College at Brookings and attended the Sioux Falls Business College.
He was pitching for a baseball team when he met Emma Maria Christina (Mary) Baumgart whom he married on October 6, 1906; in Bridgewater, South Dakota. She had been born March 6, 1888 at Boone, Iowa, to George and Barbara Baumgart. She came to South Dakota with her brother John and worked in a hotel in Menno, South Dakota.
Charles worked with his father in their International Farm Implement business in Bridgewater until 1907 when he began farming in Hutchinson County. Their first daughter, 1. Ruby, was born on October 10, 1907, on the same farm where Charles had been born.
In 1909 Charles and family, along with Andrew and Fred, his brothers, decided to move west because they had become more or less hemmed in by Mennonites. Land seemed more plentiful, however, they found the soil not nearly as rich nor did it rain as much as in Hutchinson County, but they decided to stay in Hyde County. Charles settled on a farm in Lincoln Town-ship. While there they had a second daughter, 2. Elaine, born on February 21, 1910. They moved to another farm in Valley Township where 3. Gertrude was born April 11, 1912, .and 4. Wilbur on February 1, 1915.
They farmed there until they moved to Highmore for a short time in 1917 before moving to a farm in Loomis Township in 1918. Their last son, 5. Norval, was born there on October 25, 1927, and in November they moved into their new house that Mary had waited for for so many years.
Charles was a raiser and breeder of fine horses. He held a horse sale on June 22, 1927, (because of the shortness of pasture), in which he sold 85 head of horses from Percheron and Belgian studs which averaged $67. The top price was slightly over $150. His 15 yearlings averaged $40 and three six-year-olds sold for $140 each. He always had a large herd of horses.
Mary organized what is believed to be the first 4-H club in Hyde County in August 1929, called the 4-H Canning Club at Holabird, South Dakota, with eight members. In 1936, Charles was elected a member of the board of directors of the Hyde County Agricultural Conservation Association which was to have charge of the new national soil conservation program. He made out work sheets for farms making appraisals of the productivity of the land that is diverted from soil depleting crops to soil conserving crops. He served for a number of years on this committee and was always active in conservation and agricultural programs. He was active in community affairs including township boards and school boards.
Charles and Mary were charter members of the Aasby Local Farmers Union, later known as the Loomis Local Charles was an avid hunter and enjoyed hunting deer and pheasants especially. He made many trips to the Black Hills hunting and had some of his trophies mounted. Charles had a faith and vision of the future of South Dakota. He loved the land and stock and had a knowledge of farming and a belief in the rewards of hard work. In spite of all the drawbacks, it was "his dream." California was for others. Poor they were at times, but. so rich in experiences.
The winter of 1951-52 was a hard winter with roads blocked already in early December. Charles had to be flown from his farm to Highmore so he could go to hospitals in Rochester and Huron for treatments of cancer. He battled his cancer until his death on May 7, 1952.
After Charles' death, Norval operated the farm for a time. Mary moved to town to live with her son Wilbur for a while until she moved into her own home in Highmore. She boarded high school students for a number of years. She was active in community affairs and was a member of the Women's Relief Corp and Porch Club. She was a member of the Our Savior Lutheran Church. She lived for a few years in old folks' homes in Miller and Highmore before dying on November 20, 1970.

Ruby married John Strohmenger and lives in Fremont, California.

Elaine is married to Henry Borcherding and runs a yarn and hobby shop in Highmore.

Gertrude married Richard Schlenker (now deceased) and lives in Highmore.

Wilbur married Agnes Haiwick, farmed in Loomis Township, and is now deceased.

Norval is married to Vera Spillaway and is a mail carrier living in Hitchcock, South Dakota.

Charles married Emma Maria Christina Baumgart on 26 Oct 1906 in South Dakota, USA. Emma was born on 6 Mar 1888 in Iowa, USA; died on 20 Nov 1970 in South Dakota, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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August Speck family from Germany to Illinois, Iowa, Hand County, South Dakota
Jakob and Katharina Goehring family
of Hyde County, South Dakota

Pages reprinted from the Hyde County History Book, "Hyde Heritage", published in 1977 by the Hyde County Historical Society of Highmore, SD

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Jakob and Katharina, First generation Americans

During her reign of Russia in the eighteenth century, Catherine the Great drove through the Ukraine area of South Russia with a general and was impressed by the country and wanted the Ukraine developed for agriculture. She proposed to have Germans settle there and develop the land because the Germans were hard working and productive farmers. Her plan was carried out by her son, Czar Paul, after her death.
Farmers and settlers came from Germany and Switzerland as did the ancestors of Jacob and Katharina Goehring. Jacob was born December 19,1850, and Katharina Neuhart was born September 14, 1852, in South Russia. They lived and grew up in different villages. Katharina was from the Reformed Church founded by Zwingli and Jacob was a baptized Lutheran. He later joined Katharina's church.
Jacob was supposed to marry a wealthy farmer's daughter (the parents had arranged the marriage), but he and some boys took a Sunday trip to a town to attend a "Harvest Festival". They had a huge pole in the center of a ring with ropes extending outward and music was played and girls danced around the pole. Here he saw Katharina for the first time. He became acquainted with her and made up his mind to marry her.
They were married January 23, 1872. This caused a lot of trouble between the two families who had arranged Jacob's marriage and Jacob's father refused to set him up in farming. Katharina's father was a cabinet maker of fine furniture, which was a good trade. They had relatives in America who wrote about the opportunities in the new land. It is believed that they had financial help from someone in South Dakota so they decided to come here. While in the Ukraine seven children were born: 1. Kristina, who died at seven months; 2. Carl, died at two years; 3. Andrew; 4. Karolina; 5. Christina; 6. Rosa; and 7. Louisa.
Jacob, his pregnant wife, and five children left their home in Odessa, Russia and sailed for America. It was a long hard voyage. It was terribly crowded. The men stayed together and the women and children stayed together. Katharina was very ill, being pregnant. The women were fine Christian women and did a lot of praying. The food was awful and the smell was bad. Katharina always remained very sensitive to smells, particularly fish smell. They landed on May 8, 1884, and came to South Dakota to take a tree claim on a farm north of Freeman in Hutchinson County where the rest of the children were born: 1. Charles, 2. Katharina, 3.Fred, 4. Anna, 5. Jacob and 6. Lydia. Jacob and Lydia died of diphtheria and were buried in the same grave.
They lived there until 1905 when they moved to Bridgewater where they operated an International Farm Implement business. They decided to move west in 1910. They settled on a farm in Lincoln Township now owned by the Ashdowns. They farmed there until they retired in 1919 when they moved to Highmore where they lived until 1932 when they moved to live with their son Charles on a farm in Loomis Township. Jacob died of a stroke on December 16, 1932, and Katharina died October 24, 1940, also of a stroke.
Andrew married Sophia Hoff and after her death married Emma Rittel and farmed in Lincoln Township. Karolina (Caroline) married Fred Myers and lived at Armour, South Dakota. Kristina narried George Guttmiller and lived at Hosmer, South Dakota. Rosa married Jacob Shaffer and lived at Oakland, California. Louisa married Fred Neidenbach and lived in Hyde County and LakeCity, South Dakota. Charles married Mary Baumgart and farmed in Loomis Township. Anna married Bill Silvernail and after his death married Cobe Everleth and lived in Sturgis, Rapid City, and Mesa, Arizona. Katherine married Jacob Mettler, Jr. and lived near Menno, South Dakota. Fred married Cora Smith and lived in Hyde County and California.

Johannes married Katharina Neuhardt on 23 Jan 1872 in Kassel, Odessa, Ukrayina. Katharina (daughter of Ludwig Neuhardt and Katharina Barbara Brüllose) was born on 14 Sep 1852 in Kassel, Odessa, Ukrayina; died on 24 Oct 1940 in South Dakota, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]