Thursday, October 9, 2014

Peter P and Margaretha’s anniversary

On 4 June 1950 the Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star recognized Peter P and Margaretha’s sixtieth wedding wedding anniversary, even if if was a few months late. The article reads:

ONTARIO, Calif.—Mr. and Mrs Peter P. Buller, former Nebraskans, observed their sixtieth wedding anniversary February 27, 1950, at their home here.
Both are of Dutch descent and came with their parents from South Russia to settle in America in the 1870s. Mr Buller at the age of 10 came with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Buller, to locate in Hamilton county, Nebraska, in 1879.
Mrs. Buller, the former Margaretha Epp, accompanied her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Epp, to York county, Nebraska, in 1877.
The Bullers were married February 27, 1890, and lived on the Epp farm near Lushton for many years. Here they reared their family of 12 children.
They have five daughers, Mrs. D. C. Quiring, Henderson, Neb., Sarah and Maria, both at home; Mrs. David Regier, Lushton, Neb., and Anna, Los Angeles, Calif.; five sons, Benjamin of York, Klass of Lushton, Cornelius of Grafton, Neb., Peter of Omaha, and Henry of Newton, Kas.; 43 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren. A son died in infancy and a daughter, Mrs. K. T. Friesen of York, Neb., has also passed away.
The Bullers moved to Ontraio [sic] in August, 1936. Mrs. Buller is 79 years old; her husband is 81.

A little more than fourteen months after this article appeared Margaretha passed away (19 August 1951). Peter P lived for another thirteen years and died at age ninety-five. I have a vague memory of meeting/seeing him once, so presumably he visited Nebraska sometime in his nineties. Does anyone have any other photos of Peter P and/or Margaretha?




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