Margaret Rieck

From the Busse autograph collection.


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Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

So many of these autographs are dated January 13, 1909, that I wonder if Lena brought her new album to school that day and circulated it among her friends.

Margaret was born in 1896 to Fred and Sofie Rieck, both German immigrants. I believe that Sofie, widowed in 1916, would later marry John Kegebein, who had once farmed his land half a mile north of Ainsworth. But as for Margaret, I have not been able to trace her beyond the 1910 Census, nor do I have a photo of her.