Grandpa’s siblings 8

The first post in this series (here) noted that Peter P and Margaretha’s first child, also named Peter, died eight days after being born. Twenty years later, on 25 May 1911, they welcomed another son named Peter into the family.

Unlike the first son, who had the middle initial P after his father, this fifth son and tenth child in the family had the middle initial E, after his mother’s maiden name: Epp.

Peter E married Elsie Louise Fast on 29 August 1935, and together they raised two daughters and three sons. The 1940 U.S. census reports that Peter, Elsie, and two children lived and farmed in the Henderson area at that time, but at some point Peter E and family moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where he worked in the nursery business (according to the Grandma database).

It was in Omaha that Peter passed away on 3 September 1979 and where he and Elsie (who outlived him by thirty years, passing away on 28 December 2009) are buried, in Mount Hope Cemetery.