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3-4--Lyra Grace Tait, b April 6, 1907; completed 8th
grade, 1921, and was one of eight in a class of fifty-six to be
placed on the efficiency roll; was elected class president.
4--Lucy Ann Garber finished the Red Cloud H. S.;
taught; married Dr. Thaddeus B. Myers, May 20, 1901, to
whom was born in 1903 a son, Harry Garber Myers. Lucy
Garber Myers died September 25, 1918, and was buried at
Red Cloud, Nebr.
5--Joseph Schaeffer Garber completed the Red Cloud
High School and settled at Kellogg, Idaho, where he married,
1912, and is in business. He has no issue.
6--Lawrence Abe Garber, youngest child of Joseph Garber,
is a cattle ranchman near Wheatland, Wyo. He is unmarried,
is fond of reading, and is very popular because of his
thoughtfulness for others.
The following sketch throws a vivid sidelight upon the reason
why America received so many immigrants of the better class from
Germany from the days of Wm. Penn on down. This recital but
represents the lives of the Palatinates, known to history as ten generations
of sturdy old world farmers, driven to abandon lands and
homes and flee to America for their lives during the days of the
Reformation. That was the only way they could escape from the
militarism, tyrrany and bloodshed of unlimited monarchy.
The terrible crimes of the Hohenzollerns during the recent World
War were the same kind of crimes that have torn German civilization
since the 10th century. They were the crimes that devastated
whole provinces during the days of the Reformation. They are but
the foreshadowing of the crimes the crafty deposed--though still unconquered--German
rulers are planning to again project upon a
helpless world. World dominence and Hohenzollern madness are
one; and the form it took in 1854 was the struggle for supremacy
of aggressive Prussia over the Kingdom of Bavaria.
Mrs. Joseph Garber was Catherine Schaeffer, born in the village
of Ferbach, New Bavaria, Germany. Her parents were Joseph
Schaeffer born, Rhein Bayer in 1801, died February 11, 1854, and
was buried there. He owned a landed estate of 57 acres, dwelt in
his three-story stone mansion and was a money lender. His wife
was Anna Maria Meyer, born Aug. 5, 1805, Rhein Bayer and died
April, 1879. Their children were: Joseph Schaeffer, b Aug. 26, 1831;
almost completed university course of Piermecenz, Bavaria; was organist
at Cathedral during student days; had his own piano and
music room in his father's home. Joseph quarreled with the university
authorities on the question of state authority just before his
graduation, then emigrated to America, the ideal home of freedom.
When war broke out that would have swallowed all his brothers, he
returned to his mother, in Bavaria, bribed the French authorities to
help him across the border, loaded the family into two covered
wagons in the night and slipped away from the officer and seven
German private soldiers quartered upon their household, arrived
safely in France, with French assistance, and sailed from port of
Havre de Grace after a wait of two weeks for the sailing boat that
was to bear them to "freedom from military service," and they all
landed at Castle Garden, 1854, after a trip of 30 days on water.
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