Household 650: Otto Emil Retzlaff & Mary Ann Cook

Household Record 650

Res.1/Male/Husb} Retzlaff, Otto Emil

Family History} Olson

Res.2/Fem./Wife} Cook, Mary Ann

HH Type} Historic household

Address/Location:
Name(s)}	Otto E. & Mary Retzlaff
Optional}	Griggs County
Str./Apt.}	Tyrol Twp.
City/etc.}	North Dakota

Household Dates:

Source} Exa 4 Mar 1920

Move-In} Cir 1914

Move-Out} Cir 1949

Source 1}	373 = Geog history
Source 2}	1624=1910 USA cen
Source 3}	965 =1915 KS cen
Source 4}	845 = Military rec
Source 5}	966 = 1920 USA cen
Source 6}	967 = 1925 KS cen
Source 7}	968 = 1930 USA cen
Source 8}	1269=1940 USA cen
Source 9}	1614=Cemetery rec

Last Updated
by} Karen Hancock

Date Updated} 22 May 2014
Date Created} 13 May 2014

Notes: Otto E. Retzlaff, born in Iowa on 13 Feb 1876, moved to Cooperstown, Griggs, North Dakota in 1881 with his parents. In 1905, he married Helena Steffen, daughter of William and Elizabeth Steffen. They homesteaded near Ray, Williams, North Dakota. Helena died in 1907 during the childbirth of twins, and only one twin, Helen, survived. Helen went to live with her maternal grandparents, and Otto moved to Cooperstown.

In the 1910 U.S. census, Otto, 34, was living in a boarding house on Burrell Ave., Cooperstown Ward 1. He was the owner/operator of the livery stable. In 1911, he moved to Jesse, Griggs, North Dakota; he married married Mary Ann McCook in 1914. They are enumerated in the 1915 Kansas State census, in Tyrol Twp., Griggs, North Dakota.

On 9 Sep 1917, when Otto registered for the World War I draft, they were living in Jessie, Griggs, North Dakota. He was the elevator manager for the Farmers Merc. & Elevator Co. He was described as being of medium height and build, with green eyes and black hair.

In the 1920 U.S. census, Otto, 44, and Mary, 45, were living on Dewey Street, Jesse, Tyrol Twp., Griggs, North Dakota. His daughter Helen, 12, was living with them, as well as Dave Wilcox, 56, a boarder. Otto was the manager of the Farmers Elevator. Otto E., 48, Anna, 49, and Helen Retzlaff, 18, and Dave Wilcox, 68, are enumerated together in the 1925 Kansas census.

In the 1930 U.S. census, Otto, 54. Mary A., 55, and Helen, 22, were again enumerated in Jesse. Otto was manager of the grain elevator, and they owned their home valued at $2,000. and had a radio set. Helen was a public school teacher; she married Louis Abraham LaPlant in 1933.

In the 1940 U.S. census, Otto, 64, and Mary, 65, were still living in Tyrol Township, and Otto was still manager of the grain elevator. Otto had had 1 year of high school, and Mary, 2 years.

Otto and Mary moved into Cooperstown in 1949. Otto died in 1952, and Mary died in 1956. Both are buried in the Cooperstown Cemetery, Cooperstown, Griggs, North Dakota. Otto's first wife Helena is buried there also.

Total # of Residents} 4

Other Residents:

Household	His Last HH} ___	His Next HH} 391
Links =>	Her Last HH} ___	Her Next HH} 391

3rd Res.}	Retzlaff, Helen	651
4th Res.}	Wilcox, Dave	___

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