Mathilda "Tille" M. Bals & Fred Buntemeyer

Mathilda is Henry and Elizabeth’s fifth child and third daughter.

1900 US Census: Mathilda [9mo] is living with Henry and Elizabeth.

1910 US Census: Mathilda [11] is living with Henry and Elizabeth and presumably attending school.

1920 US Census: Mathilda [20] and her husband Fred [25] are living/farming in Turkey Creek precinct, Nebraska with their young daughter Savella [1].

1930 US Census: Mathilda [30] and Fred [55] are living in Lancaster, Nebraska. Savella [11], Bernice [9], and Genevive [7] are presumably attending school whle Marjorie [3] is at home. Fred is driving truck for a coal company and Mathilda is presumably a housewife.

1940 US Census: I have yet to find this record.

1950 US Census: I have yet to find this record.

At some point Mathilda and Fred move to Clinton, IA. I don’t currently have any documents, but the 1940 Census shows his brother Elmer and sister-in-law in Clinton and I assume they migrated together.

Fred dies in 1963 aged 78. Mathilda dies in 1982 aged 83.

Fred’s cause of death appears to be a sudden acute hemorrhage of a gastric ulcer.



Mathilda & Fred

1910 US Census [Mathilda]
1930 US Census
1920 US Census
Find a Grave [Fred]
Find a Grave [Mathilda]
Certificate of Death [Fred]
1900 US Census [Mathilda]

Mathilda "Tille" M. Bals
b. 20 October 1899 - Crete, Nebraska, USA
d. December 1982 - Clinton, Iowa, USA

Fred Buntemeyer
b. 23 November 1884 - Nebraska, USA
d. 25 March 1963 - Iowa City, Iowa, USA

m. Currently Unknown

m. 27 August 1924 - Sherman, Nebraska, USA

m. 20 October 1936 - Lancaster, Nebraska, USA

Fred Buntemeyer
b. 23 November 1884 - Nebraska, USA
d. 25 March 1963 - Iowa City, Iowa, USA

Savella E. Buntemeyer
b. 1917 - Currently Unknown
d. Currently Unknown

Bernice Buntemeyer
b. Currently Unknown
d. Currently Unknown

Genevive Buntemeyer
b. Currently Unknown
d. Currently Unknown

Marjorie Buntemeyer
b. Currently Unknown
d. Currently Unknown

Roy Gruntorad
b. 1913 - Currently Unknown
d. Currently Unknown

Mathilda "Tille" M Bals
b. 20 October 1899 - Crete, Nebraska, USA
d. December 1982 - Clinton, Iowa, USA

Sources

FamilySearch.org:
US census reports, death certificate

Family tree names and dates - Gene Bals, FamilySearch, and Find a Grave
Bals-Lusebrink grain field picture - Gene Bals