Elizabeth Caroline Alema "Lizzie" Berg
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Elizabeth Caroline Alema "Lizzie" Berg  ‎(I22)‎
Given Names: Elizabeth C
Surname: Berg
Nickname: Lizzie
Married Name: Elizabeth C Schoolman

Gender: FemaleFemale
      

Birth: 20 June 1902 20 21
Death: 15 August 1998 ‎(Age 96)‎ Bryant, IA
Personal Facts and Details
Birth 20 June 1902 20 21
MarriageReligious Marriage
Elmer Johannes Schoolman - 22 February 1922 ‎(Age 19)‎ Preston, Jackson, Iowa, United States

Death 15 August 1998 ‎(Age 96)‎ Bryant, IA

Last Change 25 June 2023 - 15:20:36 - by: matthew
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Parents Family  (F9)
Justus Frederick Berg
1882 - 1938
Margarethe Mohr
1880 - 1961
Elizabeth Caroline Alema "Lizzie" Berg
1902 - 1998
Raymond Julius Otto Berg
1904 - 1995
Roy Henry Berg
1907 - 1992
Carl August Berg
1909 -
Ervin Adolf Berg
1911 - 1989
Erma Dora Rose Berg
1913 - 2011
Minnie Margaret Berg
-

Immediate Family  (F8)
Elmer Johannes Schoolman
1899 - 1976
Alma Margaret Schoolman
1923 - 2010
Alvin Schoolman
1923 - 1999


Notes

Note
Full name listed as Lizzie Caroline Alema Berg on marriage certificate.

Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934, familysearch.org

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Transcribed Hand-written Memories from Grandma Schoolman

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Way back when, Justus Berg & family

january 1912, Dad bough the Pat Loffey ‎(can't make it out)‎ farm near Spragville. Moved on to Preston farm spring of 1918. There was no running water. You had to run after that yourself. We'd have a cistern pump in kitchen for washing and cleaning, but you had to heat water on cook stove for washing. The reservoir in back of cook stove was hot water for dishes and cleaning. In the evening, Dad would carry 2 big cooler cans of water for the next day for cooking. No electricity. Kerosene lamps were used. Did get a gasoline engine to run washing machine. Maybe in 1918 or 1919, got carbide lights and that made a very good light. Round Oak wood burning heating stove was used.

In the spring before hot weather, 4 hogs were butchered and mother would stand and fry meat in 5-6 gallon crocks and cover with lard to fry out gallons and gallons of lard for days. When she was frying meat, it was a treat to dip our bread in the hot lard when we came home from school. And they salted down some hams and smoked them with hickory chips or wood. In winter, dress out a beef and fry one quarter - that was when they found out about cold pack canning.

Oat shocking was done by hand. 12 bundles to a shock and ‎(O is hot)‎ to cure when ready to thresh a big steamer and threshing machine came into a neighborhood. Neighbor ladies would help each other. There would 20 to 25 men to feed. There was no refrigerator, had to buy meat at butcher shop same day or day before you needed it. Always lots of cows to milk and seperate the milk, that was fed to calves and hogs. Separator had to be washed and set together at nite. Cream was delivered to creamery and 5 ‎(illegible)‎ of butter was brought back when needed at home.

Corn was picked by hand from one side of wagon with high bang boards on one side and pulled by 2 horses. They would follow the row, on right hand. You had a husking peg to open up the husk and then break off ear and throw in wagon. When load was full, hauled to crib, scoop off corn. There was a high shoveling board in back of wagon in order to start to shovel. It was lowered down and with a shovel scooped into corn crib.

First years to grind ear corn, a sweep was used, that was a grinder in center and 2 horses would go in a circle 20 ft diameter. Carry ear corn into grinder and shovel out ground corn.

In winter, hardly any eggs so had to save in the fall. No egg mash was ever used.

In winter bob sleds were used to haul cream or go to church and we had feather ticks ‎(this refers to pillow making material)‎ to sleep on and sometimes a lite one over top. Had corn husks or straw on beds as mattresses. Straw ones had to be changed every spring as the straw wore out or got too fine and dusty. The corn husks would last a long time.

In the early spring, the cook stove fire wood was split and ranked up in the wood shed to dry. Wood was cut in the winter and sawed into 16 or 14 in. blocks.

If you was too far away from the heating stove, you got gold and too close, you burn.

When summer came, heating stove was put away, stove pipes taken down and stored in a dry place.

Mother did pick a lot of wild black raspberries in the ditches in the field. 10–12 quart packs full in a day, and raised a lot of strawberries.

By Lizzie Berg Schoolman



A Sad Story But True

The Lord saved my little girl.

In the fall, I was cleaning house, had the bed spring raised and set on edge of iron bed. A bed slat was holding it up. had a gasoline engine pumping water into supply tank and it stopped so I went out to start it again. When I came back, the tots ha pulled the slat down from holding that extra heavy bed spring and pinned Alma's neck and ‎(the)‎ slat fell between ‎(the)‎ spring and iron bed frame. I picked up the lifeless body, run to the phone, and called the Chris Schoolman place as I know Grandpa and Grandma Schoolman where ‎(sic)‎ there at that time. Elmer was not home, he was hauling hogs to market in Charlotte with a team and wagon.

I run to the road by the mail box hollering and calling for the Lord to save my little daughter. Dad and Mother picked ups up and took us to Preston to the doctor. Don't remember more of the accident.

The twins were 1 1/2 or 2 1/2 years old then.

By Ma

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Family with Parents
Father
Justus Frederick Berg ‎(I24)‎
Birth 3 February 1882 51 41
Death 20 January 1938 ‎(Age 55)‎ Spraguesville, IA
-15 months
Mother
 
Margarethe Mohr ‎(I25)‎
Birth 31 October 1880
Death 6 March 1961 ‎(Age 80)‎

Marriage: Yes
#1
Elizabeth Caroline Alema "Lizzie" Berg ‎(I22)‎
Birth 20 June 1902 20 21
Death 15 August 1998 ‎(Age 96)‎ Bryant, IA
2 years
#2
Brother
Raymond Julius Otto Berg ‎(I26)‎
Birth 13 September 1904 22 23
Death 31 December 1995 ‎(Age 91)‎
2 years
#3
Brother
Roy Henry Berg ‎(I27)‎
Birth 31 January 1907 24 26 Spragueville, Jackson County, Iowa
Death 6 May 1992 ‎(Age 85)‎ Round Lake Beach, Lake, Illinois
2 years
#4
Brother
Carl August Berg ‎(I28)‎
Birth 12 July 1909 27 28
Death Yes
18 months
#5
Brother
Ervin Adolf Berg ‎(I29)‎
Birth 9 January 1911 28 30
Death September 1989 ‎(Age 78)‎
3 years
#6
Sister
Erma Dora Rose Berg ‎(I30)‎
Birth 5 September 1913 31 32 Preston, IA
Death 12 March 2011 ‎(Age 97)‎ Clinton, IA
#7
Sister
Family with Elmer Johannes Schoolman
Husband
Elmer Johannes Schoolman ‎(I21)‎
Birth 15 February 1899 29 24 Iowa, United States
Death 1976 ‎(Age 76)‎
3 years

 
Elizabeth Caroline Alema "Lizzie" Berg ‎(I22)‎
Birth 20 June 1902 20 21
Death 15 August 1998 ‎(Age 96)‎ Bryant, IA

Religious Marriage: 22 February 1922 -- Preston, Jackson, Iowa, United States
1 year
#1
Daughter
Alma Margaret Schoolman ‎(I9)‎
Birth 13 February 1923 23 20 Preston, IA
Death 5 March 2010 ‎(Age 87)‎ DeWitt, IA
#2
Son
Alvin Schoolman ‎(I23)‎
Birth 13 February 1923 23 20 Preston, IA, USA
Death 7 July 1999 ‎(Age 76)‎ Davenport, IA