Joseph and Anna were married Religious Marriage on January 21st, 1913 in
Polo, SD by Father Burkel.
- Marriage Notes
- Miss Anna Matter of Orient hand sewed Anna's beautiful wedding gown.
- Family Notes
- Lambert "Bert" Gaspar was born July 16, 1884 and married Anna Wieseler on January 21, 1913 in Polo, SD. Anna was born April 1, 1889. Father Burkel officiated at the marriage. Miss Anna Matter of Orient hand sewed Anna's beautiful wedding gown. During the hard times later, she made first communion dresses out of her wedding dress.
The lived on the Anton Hardes farm for several years and then built a home one mile east. All ten children, except Leo, were born at home with the help of a very good neighbor, Mrs. Alex (Jenny) Pollock. Leo was born during a blizzard and his father had to deliver him.
Living eight miles from the church and school, where all the children were baptized and made their first communion was quite a hardship at times. But everyone expected to give thier children an education.
Some of the happy memories are: the Polo Bazaars, the July 4th celebration at Orient, taffy pulls, the awe of midnight Mass when all the family would go, swimming at the Clements, relatives coming from Iowa bringing apples and clothing, the barn dances, "Dad loved music and played the violin."
The memories you want to forget, the dust storms, the gasshoppers, picking cow chips for fuel, seeing my Dad cry while driving the cows to government pits to be shot. The horses injured in run-aways and having to be shot, and years of no crops.
In 1938 Bert bought a farm near Dell Rapids, and farmed until retired. His son Mike farmed it until his retirement, and Mike's son, Terry lives on this farm.
Bert and Anna are buried in Huntimer Cemetary close to their farm home.
They had five sons and five daughters, named
Raymond,
Isidore,
Leo,
Michael,
Harry,
Renata,
Mary,
Magdalen,
Florence and
Leona.
Renata Margaret Gaspar
Renata was born on December 13th, 1913. She died at the age of 46 on December 19th, 1959.
Michael Phillip Gaspar
Michael was born on November 22nd, 1924. He died at the age of 76 on November 2nd, 2001.
