3. Gustav
Ferdinand
Zabel
1883/Oct/11
Immigrated to US,
Passenger #147 on the
ship Australia; bound for
New York. It left from
Hamburg on the 11th of
October 1883.
Captain Franck was
skipper. Gustav’s age
was 16, he was from
Konigsdank, Prussia.
There was only one
other family from that
village on board. Their
name was Schultz.
4. 1893-1900
Worked as a
farm hand at
various places
in Iowa and
Minnesota.
Gustav
Ferdinand
Zabel
5. Gustav Ferdinand Zabel
&
Augusta Louise Martin
1890/Nov/9
Married:
Elmore, Faribault County,
Minnesota
Spouse: Augusta Louise
MARTIN
Birth: 23 Aug 1868,
Lupeschewon, Posen, Germany
Father: Christopher John
MARTIN (1824-1900)
Mother: Sophia Caroline
KOEPKE (1827-1911)
6. 1891 August 17
1st child:
George Frederick
ZABEL
Elmore, Faribault
County, Minnesota
Married 2 August,
1916 to Mary Saul
7. 1893 June 8
2nd child:
Alice Louise
ZABEL
Algona, Hebron
County, Iowa
Married 21 October,
1916
to Walter Beatty
8. 1895 February 9th
3rd child:
Meta Esther
ZABEL
Kossuth County,
Iowa
Married 29
December, 1937
to Lother Braihan
9. 1897 February 11
4th child:
Edward Paul Ludwig
ZABEL
Algona, Kossuth
County, Iowa
Married 4 Jan 1927
to Ida Haase
10. 1898 July 25
5th child:
Alma Albertina ZABEL
Elmore, Faribault
County,
Minnesota
25. 1906 June 29
10th child:
Helen Mabel
ZABEL
Balfour, McHenry
County, North
Dakota
Helen
and
William
Moody
26. 1907 November 26
11th child:
Gustav Christopher
ZABEL
Balfour, McHenry
County, ND
27. 1912 March 20
12th child:
Violet Eleanora ZABEL
Balfour, McHenry County, ND
28. 1908 April 27 ZABEL GUSTAV
Purchased land in North Dakota - BLM land records for McHenry
County, North Dakota
Dad 1st man on left. Boy left of girls Ed, Clara, Helen, Edna, Caroline, Violet, Lulu,
Three girls standing: Alma, Alice, Meta
32. Walter, 2nd boy on left Gust, Starting behind Gust, Caroline, Clara, Lulu, Edna, Alma, ?, Meta, Helen
(front of Meta), Alice last women holding baby.
At Pankratz Farm, Balfour, North Dakota, 1916
33. 1902-1917
Gustav and Augusta lived near Balfour, McHenry Co. ND
Back Row: Caroline, Lulu, Mother, Alma, Alice, Ed.
Front Row: Clara, Helen, Violet, Gust, Edna
34. Zabel Place in North Dakota
Lulu, Alma, Mabel, Caroline, Clara, Violet
45. Postcard from Ed to his Mother
In Balfour, North Dakota.
Dear Folks: Only a few lines to let
you know that I am well and hope
you are the same.
Except Mary she is in the hospital.
She had the appendicitis. She had
her operation Tuesday. Mr. Sand
was there Sunday. Doctor said it
was just in time. She is getting long
fine. She at Hingham From Fred
78. Back Row: LuLu, Alma, Edna, Edgar, Pearl, Jim
Front Row: Virgil and Ken Gerber, Allan and
Lola
79. Back Row: Edgar, Pearl, Ken Gerber, Ed Zabel, Art, Virgil Gerber, Lulu Kidd
Second Row: Gustav and Augusta Zabel, Alma and Clara Gerber
Front Row: Allan, Bernice, Les and Wes Gerber
131. Back Row: Lulu, Alma, Edna, Edgar, Pearl Gerber, Jim
Front Row: Virgil and Ken Gerber, Allan and Lola Kidd. Taken
June 1928
132. At Kidd’s June 23, 1929
Grandpa Zabel far left, Middle: Ida, ?, Clara, Lulu, Grandma Zabel
133. Grandma Zabel’s Birthday Party
Clara, Ed, Henry, Lulu, Ida, Lola, Betty, Grandma, Marvin holding Louise,
Nelda, Grandpa, Warren, Margie, Allan, behind Allan: John Wood, Jim Kidd
134. Grandma and
Grandpa
Zabel
Kidd Farm
Grandma’s
Birthday
135. Grandma Zabel’s Birthday Party
Lulu, Lola, Ida, Margie Front: Edna, holding Louise, Nelda, Grandma and Grandpa, Allan, Warren, Henry
Marvin bending down in front of Lola, Clara behind Lola, Ida, Margie behind Ida, Betty with John on top step ?
194. Timeline Gustav Ferdinand Zabel
by: Nelda Mangels Hastings November 22, 2000
• 1866/Nov/18-Birth: Nicholasdorf, Bukowitz,Prussia • 1883-1890 Place of residence unknown.
• Father:Wilhelm Friederich ZABEL (1835-1882)
• Mother:Wilhelmine WELLLNITZ (1835-1872) • 1890/ Nov/9 Marr: Elmore, Faribault Co. MN
• Spouse: Augusta Louise MARTIN
• 1866/Dec/2 Baptized: • Birth: 23 Aug 1868, Lupeschewon, Posen, GER
• Father: Christopher John MARTIN (1824-1900)
• Mother: Sophia Caroline KOEPKE (1827-1911)
• 1872/Mar/31 Age Six- Mother died
• 1891/Aug/17-1st child: George Frederick ZABEL
in Elmore, Faribault Co. MN
• 1874/Dec/25 Age eight- Father remarries
• 1893-1900-Worked as a farm hand at various
• 1881/Apr/3 Age fifteen- Step brother Hermann places in Iowa and Minnesota.
• Friedrich Zabel is born
• 1893/Jun/8-2nd child: Alice Louise ZABEL in
• 1882/Feb/12 Age Sixteen-Father died Algona, Hebron Co. IA
• 1883/Oct/11 Age Sixteen + -Immigrated to US • 1895/Feb/9-3rd child: Meta Esther ZABEL in
Passenger #147 on the ship Australia; bound for Kossuth Co. IA
New York. It left from Hamburg on the 11th of
October 1883. Capt Franck was skipper. Gustav’s
• 1897/Feb/11-4th child: Edward Paul Ludwig
age was 16, he was from Konigsdank, Prussia.
ZABEL in Algona, Kossuth Co. IA
There was only one other family from that village
on board. Their name was Schultz.
195. Timeline Gustav Ferdinand Zabel
by: Nelda Mangels Hastings November 22, 2000
• 1898/Jul/25-5th child: Alma Albertina ZABEL in • 1912/Mar/20-12th child: Violet Eleanora ZABEL
• Elmore, Faribault Co. MN • in Balfour, McHenry Co. ND
• 1900/Jun/23-6th child: Lulu Wilhelmina ZABEL • 1917-1922-Moved to a farm near Gildford, Hill
• in Appleton, Faribault Co. MN • Cty, MT
• 1902-1917-Lived near Balfour, McHenry Co. ND • 1922-1951-Moved and lived in Havre, Mt- Worked
• for the Great Northern Railroad.
• 1902/May/7-7th child: Caroline Emma ZABEL in
• Balfour, McHenry Co. ND • 1942/Jul/14-Wife, Augusta Louise (Martin) Zabel
• dies.
• 1903/Aug 31-8th child: Clara Greta ZABEL in
• Balfour, McHenry Co. ND • 1947?-Sold his Havre home to daughter Lulu
• Kidd and her husband—continued to live with them.
• 1905/Apr/21-9th child: Edna Viola ZABEL in
• Balfour, McHenry Co. ND • 1951/Oct/31-Death: Sacred Heart Hospital,
• 1906/Jun/29-10th child: Helen Mabel ZABEL in • Havre, Hill Co. MT
• Balfour, McHenry Co. ND
• 1951/Nov/3-Burial: Highland Cemetery, Havre, Hill
• 1907/Nov/26-11th child: Gustav Christopher • County, Mountana
• ZABEL in Balfour, McHenry Co. ND
• 1908/Apr/27 -ZABEL GUSTAV Purchased land in
• ND - BLM land records for McHenry Co. ND
196. A Short History of The Martin and Zabel Families
Eighteen Sixties to Eighteen Ninety
Rudolph Vernon Mangels
25 of February, 1993
• Our forbearers, Gustav Ferdinand Zabel, born the eighteenth of • The search for our ancestors has stopped on this side of the Atlantic
November Eighteen Sixty Six, in the province of West Prussia, and Ocean, and as now we can just speculate as to where the parents of
Augusta Louise Martin, born the Twenty-third of August Eighteen our Grandparent’s came from. We know that Grandfather was born
Sixty Eight in the province of Posen, were nearly neighbors they lived in Nikolausdorf, West Prussia, and Grandmother in Lupeschewon,
only one hundred twenty miles apart when Augusta was born. It took near the town of Ritschenwalde, in the province of Posen. Both of
a journey of more than four thousand miles for these two people to these towns were influenced by events during the reign of Frederick
meet and marry. Grandfather Gustav, came to America in 1883, and William the first, and his son, Frederick the Great. Frederick William
it is said he met or traveled with Grandmother Augusta’s, older the first, “King in Russia”, assumed the reign of Prussia from his
brother Ludwig, and settled in new York. In March the very next year father, Frederick first, after his death in 1713. East Prussia had just
Grandmother with her mother and father left Bremen Germany for experienced a plague, 1710, which wiped out between 1/3 and ½ of
New York arriving thirty days later. Her parents continued on and the population. Being a good administrator, he took many
settled in Minnesota, while their young, beautiful, daughter of sixteen opportunities to bring in colonists to east Russia. In 1731, when
stayed in New York with her sister, Wilhelmine, for the next six years. protestants were being persecuted in Salzburg, he brought the whole
At some time during her stay in New York, Grandmother met the group to East Prussia, built towns for them, and allowed them their
young dashing, “Herr” Gustav Zabel, maybe through her brother religious freedom. Frederick the Great, his son, learned from his
Ludwig, or possibility at church on the upper east side, where it is father and applied these lessons, when his reign began in 1740,
shown she lived. The story gets more complicated, because With the first partition of Poland, in 1772, Russia and Austria took
Grandfather’s sister, Wilhelmine, in the spring of 1890, steamed parts of Poland and Prussia was given the land that became West
across the ocean, and went directly to Minnesota where she married Prussia. One of the very first acts of Frederick the Great, was to
Grandmother’s brother, Ludwig Martin, on the 29th of May, 1890. build the Bromberg canal, connecting the Brahe and Netze Rivers,
Wilehmine Zabel was 27 at the time, and it is not known whether which gave access from the Baltic Sea, in East Prussia, all the way
they had known each other previously in Germany. It is assumed to the Elbe river, in the western part of the empire. As many as
that Grandfather and Grandmother went along to the wedding in 300,000 colonists were convinced to move to Prussia, during the
Minnesota and got so caught up in it all that they decided to get reign of Frederick the Great, to help with massive projects. As an
married, and did so the 9th of November 1890 at Elmore Minnesota. example weavers were given free looms, along with the offer of a job
That’s not the end of the this story, but really the beginning of there were some financial incentives as well as religious freedoms.
another because the immediately started to have children, 12 in all, In addition to the canal, dams were built to help reclaim upward of
which is why we’re all here today. 25,000 previously flooded acres, of land. A silk industry was started
by using the mulberry trees. No expense was spared to bring in
craftsman whose skills were needed but unavailable in the local
population. Not included in the numbers of colonists, were 80 - 90
thousand foreign army troops, who decided to stay rather that return
to their homeland.
197. A Short History of The Martin and Zabel Families
Eighteen Sixties to Eighteen Ninety
Rudolph Vernon Mangels
25 of February, 1993
• Posen came to Prussia in the second partition, 1793, and the • This short history gives just a little insight into our ancestors.
third partition, 1795, again Russia and Austria did the dividing We have many clues yet to follow, and facts waiting to be
giving Russia, Posen. Poland ceased to exist at this time and found. With ach new fact comes a clearer picture as to who
shortly there after Napoleon the first conquered Prussia. In our ancestors were and where they came from. Come, join in
the second “Peace of Paris (1815), after the defeat of France, the search, there are still many things to be discovered.
Posen or South Prussia as it was called, became part of
Prussia again. The people were still living in mud huts and
plowing the land with wooden ploys. The land was not up to • Rudolf Vernon Mangels
the standards of either , East Prussia or West Prussia. The • 25, February, 1993
king, Frederick William the Second, had no concern for the
land, unlike his predecessors, and ended up deeding most of it
away to some of his faithful followers.
• The locations of the towns, from which our relatives came,
makes for speculation that they were wither colonist, part of
military troops who didn’t return home, or Poles. Both towns
are located near the Bromberg Canal, and close to the rivers,
Netze, Brahe, and Vistual, where many labors were needed
during this time in Prussian history.
• The reasons why they left Prussia aren’t that hard to answer.
There was the war in 1870 with France, in which thousands
upon thousands of men were killed. Any of whom came from
this part of Prussia. It is thought that Christopher John Martin,
Grandmother’s Father, fought in that was even though he
would have been 40 years old. The Germans were out
numbered by the Poles and resentment was building. This
period of time was the start of A great German exodus, from
the resent acquired territories, in the Eastern part of the
kingdom. Also some of our people had already gone to
America and had been sending back reports of, cheap land
and other benefits such as freedom. Grandmothers father
was 59 years old when he came to America, in the spring of
1884, but his older brother, Gottlieb, preceded him by more
than 4 years. Two of Grandmother’s brothers, perhaps
stepbrothers, August and Julius, may have come to America
as early as 1868.
Editor's Notes
Ed and Ida Zabel
Alma Zabel
Alma and Edgar Gerber
Lulu Zabel Kidd and Jim Kidd
Farmers Day in Balfour North Dakota
Balfour North Dakota
Zabel’s threshing, Balfour, North Dakota
Caroline, Meta, Lulu,& Clara in Balfour, North Dakota
Caroline and Zimmerman
Edna Viola Zabel Mangels
Marvin Mangels and Edna Zabel Married November 21, 1928 Chinook Montana
Violet Zabel
Dad 1 st man on left. Boy left of girls Ed, Clara, Helen, Edna, Caroline, Violet, Lulu, Three girls standing: Alma, Alice, Meta
Walter, 2 nd boy on left Gust, Starting behind Gust, Caroline, Clara, Lulu, Edna, Alma, ?, Meta, Helen (front of Meta), Alice last women holding baby.
Front Row: Caroline, Lulu, Mother, Alma, Alice, Ed. Front Row: Clara, Helen, Violet, Gust, Edna
Fred Zabel Homestead at Kremlin Montana, 1919 after wind storm.
January 1, 1919, Snow Melt
January 1, 1919 Water in all the low places. Driest year we had in spring.
Water up to the House January 1 st , 1919 Zabel Home Later moved to Havre Montana and put next to the Mangels home on 1 st Street.
Mary, Fred and Leona Zabel
Hazel, Alice’s first daughter
Beatty Wedding
Ida Married Ed Zabel
Edna and Helen Zabel Zabel House on 2 nd Street Havre, Montana
Gordon Johnson son of Estelle Zabel
Back Row Lulu, Alma, Edna, Edgar, Pearl Gerber, Jim Kidd Front Row: Virgil and Ken, Allan and Lola Kidd
Grandma Zabe’ls Birthday Party Clara, Ed, Henry, Lulu, Ida, Lola, Grandma, Marvin holding Louise, Grandma, Nelda, Grandap Warren, Margie, Allan, behind Allan John Wood, Jim Kidd Baby girl Bettywood?
Lulu, Edna, Louise, Mrs. Struck, ?, Marvin, Grandma Zabel, Jim, Grandpa Zabel, > Clara, John Front row: Allan, Warren Margie, Lola, Nelda, Henry
Zabel Sisters: Meta, Lulu, Helen, Violet, Alma, Edna, Alice, Clara
Zabel Sisters: Meta, Lulu, Helen, Violet, Alma, Edna, Alice, Clara
Zabel Sisters: Meta, Lulu, Helen, Violet, Alma, Edna, Alice, Clara
Grandma Zabel and Her Daughters: Violet, Helen, Alma, Grandma, Alice, Meta and Edna, Whose in the Window?
50 th Anniversary: Allan Kidd, Mary & Leona Zabel, Grandpa and Grandma Zabel, Edgar, Helen, Nelda, Violet, and Louise
