Glaeve Sisters marry Schwengels Brothers

My Grandfather Fred Glaeve had two sisters who both married Schwengels

Martha married Fred Schwengels  on 7 Feb 1907 in Winnebago, Illinois 

      Martha and Fred's family

                     Children 

1. Son Edwin John, 9 Oct 1907
2. Son Theodore Otto "Ted", 18 Jul 1910
3. Son Clarence E., 18 Apr 1916
4. Daughter Ruth M. , 13 Nov 1917
5. Daughter Ada Irene, 02 May 1920
6. Son Leonard, 13 May 1923
7. Son Howard Robert, 04 Jul 1925
8. Son LeRoy Paul, 30 Sep 1926

               Minnie married John Schwengels on 04 Mar 1897 in Freeport, Illinois

Children

1. Son Frederick Henry, 07 Feb 1899
2. Son Herman Emil, 24 Jan 1901
3. Daughter Anna, 07 Oct 1902
4. Daughter Martha Sophia,   abt. 1905
5. Son Martin, 30 July 1908
6. Son Paul Gerhard, 19 Aug 1910
7. Daughter Emma Wilhelmina, 19 Oct 1912
8. Son John Albert, 12 Jan 1915
9. Son Walter Robert, 13 Apr 1917 
10. Son Warren E., 13 Mar 1923    

                         Minnie and John's 50th Wedding Anniversary 

     Five of the Schwengels Children: 

top row from left Walter, John, Warren, front row Emma and Fred

Minnie's Obit from the Janesville Daily Gazette, Saturday Dec. 20, 1958

Mrs. John Schwengels, 83, Darien, a former resident of Clinton, died at 2 a.m. Saturday in Lakeland Hospital. Death followed an illness of five days. The former Minnie Glaeve. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Glaeve, was born in Freeport, IL., Dec. 15, 1S75 and was married March 4, 1897 to John Schwengels.

They farmed in Winnebago County until moving to a farm south of Clinton in 1905. In '23, they purchased a home in Clinton, residingthere until '50 when they moved to Darien to make their home with a daughter, Mrs. Morgan Martin. She was a member of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Churchand the Lutheran Women's Missionary League.

Survivors are her husband; six sons, Fred, Janesville, Herman, Beloit, Paul, Waukesha, Walter. Clinton, John, Denver, Colo., and Warren, Mesa, Ariz.; three daughters, Mrs. Martha Reimer, Beloit, Mrs. Anna Simonson, Clinton, and Mrs. Morgan Martin; a sister, Mrs. Martha Schwengels. Rockford; 24 "grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services have been scheduled tentatively for 2 p.m. Monday in Christ Lutheran

Church, the Rev. John Stephan officiating. Burial will be in.Clinton Cemetery