Sleepy Meadow Farm: August 2011

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Profile: Rosa Klara Burkhalter

1903: Born in Menlo, Pacific County, Washington

Parents: John & Rosa Grossen

late 1900s

Hulda, Claire, LA, Lee (clockwise from left)

1910: Resident of Menlo, Pacific County, Washington

1920: Resident of Menlo, Pacific County, Washington

1922: Graduated from Valley High School, Menlo, Pacific County, Washington

early 1920s, Marie Berger & Claire Burkhalter

1924 Aug 12: Died; had leaky heart valve

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Profile: John Alfred Burkhalter

1869 September 28: Born in Neuchatel, Switzerland

Parents: Unknown

1890: Resident of Leele, Switzerland

1890 March: Immigrated to the United States, arrived in New York on the ship S.S. La Bourgogne

1890 - 1892: Moved from New York to Minnesota to Oregon

1893 April 3: Married Rosina Lidia Grossen at St. Joseph's Church, Tillamook, Oregon

1900 April 3: Became citizen of the United States; Resident of Tillamook, Oregon

1900: Resident of Fairview, Tillamook County, Oregon

1910: Resident of Menlo, Pacific County, Washington

1915: Traveled to Vermont; Purchased 12 Brown Swiss Dairy Cows for farm in Menlo; Cows were the first variety of Brown Swiss in the Valley

1920: Resident of Menlo, Pacific County, Washington

1922: Retired; Farm taken over by son Louis Alfred Burkhalter

1922: Moved to Mount Vernon, Skagit County, Washington

1926: Died in Mount Vernon, Skagit County, Washington

Children:
     Louis Alfred (1894 - 1974)
     Lida (1896 - 1899)
     Hulda (1897 - 1970)
     Edward (1898 - 1899)
     Elizabeth E (1900 - 1966)
     Rosa Klara (1903 - 1924)
     Bertha Magdalena (1909 - 1987)
     John Vernon (1915 - 1975)