Postmark:
Appleton, Wisconsin, December 23, 1918, 9 ?M
Addressed to:
Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Hackleman
Connersville
Ind.
R.F.D.
Message:
Dear Folks –
We are renewing your subscription to the Leslie Magazine – for your Xmas gift – Hope you have many Merry Xmasses & N. years – Lovingly
Kit & Huston
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Postmark:
Appleton, Wisconsin, December 20, 1917, 5:30 PM
Addressed to:
Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Hackleman
Connersville
Ind.
R.F.D. #2
Message:
Dear Mother & Father,
We are sending you a yearly subscription to the “Leslie,” a weekly magazine. May you both enjoy a merry Xmas & a prosperous & happy n.y.
Lovingly,
Kitty & Huston
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Postmark:
Appleton, Wisconsin, May 9, 1914, 10:15 AM
Addressed to:
Mr. J.W. Hackleman
Connersville
Ind.
Message:
6-8-14
Dear Folks: Our first chickens are 9 weeks old and one of cockerels was up on the coop this AM crowing can you [?].
Clearing up the garden getting ready to plow next week.
Spring rather late this year. Let us hear from you often
Love from all, Huston
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Postcard Undated
Addressed to:
Mrs. John Hackleman
Message:
Dear Grandma,
Wish you were here on my birthday. Papa gave me $10 and mama made me a nice large kite, a baseball suit, a wading suit, candy, and a birthday cake with ice cream. I flew my kite all after noon & had a lot of fun –
Lots of love – Willard
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Postmark:
23 December 1910, 5:15 PM, Appleton, Wisconsin
Addressed to:
Mrs. J.W. Hackleman
Connersville
R.F.D. #2 Ind.
Message:
12-23-10
Dear Grandma
Something all rolled up came from Connersville this morning. Santa will open it tomorrow night.
Yours
Willard
In 1910, Willard was only 3 years old. It is likely that the postcard (and the one posted yesterday) were written by Willard’s father, Huston Hackleman.
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Postmark:
Appleton, Wisconsin, 23 December 1910, 5:15 PM
Addressed to:
Mr. J.W. Hackleman
Connersville
R.F.D. #2 Ind.
Message:
Dear Grandpa:-
Don’t see much of papa now days. Says I’m in the way at the store will be glad when Santa comes
Lovingly,
Willard
Willard was the oldest son of Huston Hackleman. Born in 1907, his mother Elizabeth “Bessie” (Miller) Hackleman died soon after his birth.
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Postmark:
Appleton, Wisconsin, August 2, 1910, 9:30 AM
Addressed to:
Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Hackleman
Connersville
Ind.
Message:
My address is
J.C. Hackleman
Appleton,
Wis,
1009 Coll. Ave.
Let me hear from you.
The present day house at 1009 W. College Ave, Appleton, Wisconsin (Image via Google street view)
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Postmark:
July 13 1909 12 – ?M Appleton Wisconsin
Addressed:
Mr. J.W. Hackleman
Connersville
R.R.#2 Ind
Message:
7-13-09
All OK. this morning fine weather [?] had a little rain last night
Your J.C. Hackleman
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Postmark:
Appleton, Wis. June 12 1909 10 A.M.
Addressed to:
Mrs. J.W.Hackleman
Connersville
Ind
R R #2
June-12-09
Dear Folks: – We are expecting Grandma Miller today. J. Jr. wants an automobile (big one), bicycle, and a box of chocolates. I wonder if she’ll bring all of them.
Yours Huston
Huston’s first wife was Elizabeth Irene “Bessie” Miller. They were married on 25 April 1906 in her hometown of McGregor, Clayton County, Iowa. They had one son, Willard Wesley Hackleman, who was born in the spring of 1907. Six months later, in October, Bessie died suddenly while they were visiting family in Iowa. John Carl Hackleman, Huston’s brother, lived with the family in Appleton for many years. In Huston’s postcard, J. Jr. could possibly be his son, Willard, or his brother, John Carl!
MRS. HACKLEMAN DEAD
Wife of Huston Hackleman Passes
Away at McGregor, Iowa –
News Received, To-day.
J. W. Hackleman, living east of Fairview, received a telegram, from his son, Huston Hackleman, to-day, stating that the latter’s wife had died very suddenly, while on a visit to relatives at McGregor, Iowa. Huston Hackleman, who is a young man, is well known in this city, as well as in his native neighborhood about Fairview. He was married less than two years ago and has lived at Appleton, Wisconsin since that time.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hackleman have gone to McGregor.
“Mrs. Hackleman Dead,” Connersville Evening News (Connersville, Indiana), 2 October 1907, p. 1, col. 3; digital image, Newspaper Archive (http://www.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 11 March 2015).
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[Editor’s note: As my posts about the smallpox epidemic have been going for several months now, I’m going to make a little adjustment. I will still post a few days a week on the epidemic until the articles run out. This is the first post in a new series titled Lena’s postcards.]
Lena (Scofield) Hackleman was my other Indiana grandfather’s great aunt. Lena married late in life so she never had her own children. However, she married a man with six sons, the youngest of whom was six when his father remarried. Lena also had many nephews and nieces. The extended family corresponded regularly. When Lena died in 1935, her niece Ina (Kerschner) McGraw inherited many of the old family papers. Ina was my great grandmother. This branch of my family was among the early settlers of Fayette County, Indiana.
Back row: Daniel Kerschner with Eugene, Oliver McGraw, Ina McGraw with Charles, Norma Strong, Ella (Scofield) Kerschner/Front row; John W. Hackleman, Esther Strong, Lena (Scofield) Hackleman/Taken c.1911-1912, Fayette County, Indiana
This collection contains over 100 postcards which were sent to Lena and her husband, John Wesley Hackleman.
Postmark: May 19 1909 Appleton Wis. 10 AM
Addressed to:
Mr. J. W. Hackleman
Connersville
RR #2 Ind
This is where you get off when you come to Appleton. All are well.
Yours
J.C.H. [John Carl Hackleman]
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