William married Irene Agnes Armbrust on 3 May 1950 in Saint Patrick’s Church, Dickinson, Stark County, North Dakota, USA. Irene (daughter of Daniel Armbrust and Elizabeth Jaeger) was born on 2 Feb 1929 in Post Office, Grassy Butte, McKenzie County, North Dakota, USA; died on 23 Sep 2000 in Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana, USA; was buried in Highland Cemetery, Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

https://tidbitsandtreasures2011.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/daniel-armbrust-1897-1936-by-his-own-hand/

Irene Agnes Armbrust (1929-2001): Making the most of what she had (52 Ancestors #11)
Posted for the blog meme 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks hosted by Amy Johnson Crowe of No Story Too Small.

My mother, Irene Agnes Armbrust,[1] was born February 2, 1929. She was the first child of Daniel and Elizabeth (Jaeger) Armbrust. Though both her civil birth certificate and church baptism record state she was born in Kildeer, Dunn County, North Dakota, she always claimed that she was born at the Grassy Butte, North Dakota post office. You can read more about that here.[2]

Records are scarce between Irene’s birth in 1929 and the 1940 U.S. census, when Elizabeth Armbrust was enumerated as a widowed head of household with three children in Watford City, McKenzie County, North Dakota.[3] Daniel died in Dickinson, North Dakota in February 1936.[4] Irene was 11 years old and her siblings Dolores and Elmer were 7 and 5 years old respectively. Elizabeth Armbrust died in September 1946.[5] Irene was 17 years old, Dolores was 13, and Elmer was 12.

Irene was 18 when she graduated from St. Joseph High School in Wild Rice, North Dakota in June 1947.[6] I don’t have specific information about Irene’s location or activities between 1947 and 1950 except that she was employed as a stenographer at Bismarck Grocery in Dickinson before her marriage in May 1950.[7] She had some sort of relationship with the Jack and Barbara Reisenhauer family in Dickinson sometime between her father’s death in 1936 and 1950. I have only a vague recollection that she was fostered to the Reisenhauers at some point between Daniel’s death in 1936 and her high school graduation in 1947. Whatever the relationship, I know that “Grandma Reisenhauer” gave my sister Wynne and me fragile, porcelain-head dolls in the late 1950s.

Peter married Magdalena Wehner on 21 Nov 1915 in Scheffield, Dunn County, North Dakota, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

https://tidbitsandtreasures2011.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/daniel-armbrust-1897-1936-by-his-own-hand/

Daniel married Elizabeth Jaeger on 8 Jul 1925 in Manning, Dunn County, North Dakota, USA. Elizabeth died in 0Sep 1946. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

https://tidbitsandtreasures2011.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/daniel-armbrust-1897-1936-by-his-own-hand/

Johannes married Anna Oberding. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

My maternal great grandparents, Anton and Barbara (Ehli) Armbrust, and their seven children immigrated to the United States from Russia in May 1892.[1] https://tidbitsandtreasures2011.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/daniel-armbrust-1897-1936-by-his-own-hand/
According to the ship’s manifest, the children’s names and (approximate) ages were Wilh.e,[2] 19; Anton, 16; Marianne, 14; John, 12; Marcus, 9; Michael, 3; and Katharine, 6 months. Anton and Barbara had two more children after their immigration: Eva (b. May 1896[3], later known as Genevieve) and Daniel, my maternal grandfather.

Daniel Armbrust, was born in or near Richardton, Stark County, North Dakota on November 13 in either 1895,[4] 1896,[5] or 1897,[6] depending on which record you review.

Daniel’s father, Anton Armbrust, died in December 1904.[7] His mother, Barbara (Ehli) Armbrust, subsequently married Peter Heiser in July 1908.[8] Daniel would have been between 7 and 9 years old when his father died and between 9 and 11 years old when his mother remarried. Barbara was enumerated in the 1910 U.S. census as Peter Heiser’s wife, along with Mr. Heiser’s children, Geneva and Markus.[9] I have not yet located a 1910 census report for Daniel.

The next record for Daniel is his marriage to Rosa Mischel on January 7, 1918, at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Dickinson, Stark County, North Dakota.[10] A few months later, on June 5, 1918, “Dan” Armbrust registered for the draft, reporting Rosie Armbrust as his wife.[11] Rosa died on June 23, 1919.[12] Daniel is subsequently enumerated in the 1920 U.S. census as a laborer on a farm in Dunn County, North Dakota.[13]

Anton married Barbara Ehly. Barbara (daughter of Martin Ehly and Margaretha Wetzstein) was born on 15 Aug 1851 in Sulz, Odessa, Ukrayina; died on 16 Feb 1919 in Dickinson, Stark County, North Dakota, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]