Gloria Grade Olson --- from Taloga, Oklahoma to Topeka, Kansas

By Gloria Grade Olson: Family History, Current News, Genealogy

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LATEST NEWS!

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Caroline Grade and I took a Danube River Cruise In May/June, 2005. First is a picture of me having a beer in Nurenberg. Second is a picture of Caroline and I in Salzberg (I think.)

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My cousin, Caroline Grade, from Cottonwood, California came to visit from April 25 to May1, 2004. During the week we took a trip to the Ozarks. We stayed in Eureka Springs, Arkansas and visited Silver Dollar City one day.
This is a picture of the three of us at Silver Dollar City in our matching "Kansas" tee shirts.
   Click to enjoy seeing us in full living color.

A BEAUTIFUL WATERFALL AND MOSS IN OREGON. (Gloria standing on rock)       Click on picture to enlarge.

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My e-mail address: golson@cox.net.

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Ancestors and Other Family
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Great grandparents

• August Emil Grade and Otille Bertha Kiefer

  Note: Otille Bertha Kiefer was married again after August Emil Grade died. Her second husband was Gottfried (Huenergardt) Hintergardt.Gottfried is probably on the right.
  
  

• John Jantzen and Susanna Ratzlaff---
• William Cowdry Hedrick and Nancy Mehettable Hazleton
• Thomas T. Bland and Nancy Jane Houser.
  

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  Grandparents
• Otto Emil Grade and Karlina Jantzen---
• George A. Hedrick and Susie Edith Bland.
  

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  Parents
• Emil Benson Grade and Gladys Marie Hedrick.   
  

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  Brothers:
• Terry Lee Grade and Lanny Von Grade

  Husband:

• Philip Albert Olson, son of Henry Albert Olson and Ellen Anderson

  Sons:

• Eric Olson and Davin Olson

Recent News! I have been in contact with "Grade" descendents of Albert Grade and his wife, Louise Glander who had 9 children. Their third child was named August Emil Grade (same name and birth year as my great-grandfather.) The family constellation looks like this:

1. Auguste Albertine Wilhelmine Grade b: 4/19/1858 Zelgniewo, Posen, Prussia
2. Wilhelmine Ernestine Grade b: 2/12/1860 (same birthplace)
3. August Emil Grade b: 11/25/1861 (same birthplace)
4. Gustav Otto Grade b: 1/17/1864 (same birthplace)
5. Rudolph Ernst Grade b: 11/10/1870 (same birthplace)
6. Carl Otto Albert Grade b: 7/26/1868 (same birthplace)
7. Marie Bertha Grade b: 11/9/1870 (same birthplace)
8. Martha Caroline Wilhelmine Grade b: 3/31/1873 (same birthplace)
9. Wilhelm Grade b: 5/7/1875 in Alexandrowka, Volhynia, Russia

We would like to locate more descendents of this family. You can find out more about them by going to ancestry.com on the internet.

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Click on picture to enlarge. This is a picture of Eric at the Tallgrass Konza Prairie National Preserve near Manhattan, Kansas. We went there on October 12, 2003.