13. | SPORLEDER, Caroline was born on 4 Oct 1873 in Joliet, Will, Illinois, United States (daughter of SPORLEDER, Carl Friedreich William and BERENS, Johanna Dorothea Marie); died on 24 Sep 1941 in Pierce, Nebraska, United States. Notes:
Daughter Lena's Family and Her Descendants
The Henry and Lena Sporleder Buckendahl Family
Lena Sporleder was born October 4, 1873, at Joliet, Illinois. At age two, she moved with her parents to Carroll, Iowa. Later, they moved to Pierce. She attended school and was confirmed into the Lutheran faith at St. John's Lutheran School east of Pierce.
Henry C. Buckendahl was born on March 27, 1867, at Hanover, Germany. He came to the United States with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Buckendahl, when he was three years of age. Information from the Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Henry Senior was born in 1837 and died in 1922. His wife was born in 1841 and died in 1914. The family initially lived in Omaha, Nebraska and then homesteaded a farm six miles east of Pierce.
Henry and Lena were married on February 18, 1890, at St. John's Lutheran Church. To this marriage were born seven sons; Fritz Wilhelm (Fred), Carl, Hugo J., Otto, Theodore, Edward, and Ruben as well as two daughters, Lizzie and Rose.
Henry and Lena purchased a homestead tract seven miles east of Pierce and farmed until 1907. They then moved to Pierce and engaged in the hardware and implement business.
After serving on the Pierce city council, Henry was elected mayor for three terms. He served as the president of the Board of Directors of the Farmers Grain Company and the Pierce County Fair and Agricultural Association. He was a member of the Community Club. He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Zion Lutheran Church. At the time of his death, the local newspaper's obituary noted he, "was a man of honor and integrity. He was square in his business dealings and to this fact might be attributed his success as a Pierce business man."
Henry suffered from diabetes for a number of years and underwent surgery to amputate his left leg. The shock of the operation caused him to die of a heart attack on August 16, 1932, at the age of 64. Lena died September 24, 1941, at the age of 67. She had been of ill health for more than a year and died because of a heart condition as well as other complications.
Children:
- BUCKENDAHL, Lizetta Louise was born on 29 Dec 1890 in Pierce, Nebraska, United States; died on 22 Mar 1979 in Pierce, Nebraska, United States.
- BUCKENDAHL, Fritz Wilhelm was born on 3 Sep 1893 in Pierce, Nebraska, United States; died in May 1964 in Pierce, Nebraska, United States.
- BUCKENDAHL, Rosa Maria Sophia was born on 14 Dec 1896 in Pierce, Nebraska, United States; died on 11 May 1972 in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States.
- BUCKENDAHL, Hugo Albert Johann was born on 30 Nov 1898 in Pierce, Nebraska, United States; died on 13 Aug 1960 in Malvern, Mills, Iowa, United States; was buried in Malvern, Mills, Iowa, United States.
- BUCKENDAHL, Ella Rose was born on 21 May 1900 in Pierce, Nebraska, United States; and died.
- BUCKENDAHL, Otto Charles Wilhelm was born on 21 May 1900 in Pierce, Nebraska, United States; died on 21 Feb 1951 in Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, United States; was buried in Pierce, Nebraska, United States.
- BUCKENDAHL, Carl Johann Herman was born on 4 May 1902 in Pierce, Nebraska, United States; died on 30 Apr 1980 in Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States.
- 6. BUCKENDAHL, Theodore Albert Heinrich was born on 2 Aug 1904 in Pierce, Nebraska, United States; died on 30 Oct 1992 in Pierce, Nebraska, United States.
- BUCKENDAHL, Edward Heinrich Carl was born on 15 Jan 1907 in Pierce, Nebraska, United States; died on 26 Jul 1969 in Pierce, Nebraska, United States.
- BUCKENDAHL, Ruben Reinhold was born on 9 Oct 1911 in Pierce, Nebraska, United States; died on 24 Dec 1989 in Norfolk, Madison, Nebraska, United States.
- BUCKENDAHL, Donald was born in 1917; died in DECEASED.
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