Hugo Everette Pressnall

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Linda Pressnall

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1882 LYMAN FLOYD PRESSNALL, was born in Fountain City, Indiana, on November 26, 1882. His parents were John Franklin Pressnall and Frances Emmaline Linville, who were only ages 19 and 16 at the time they married. John had studied for the ministry by correspondence with the " Moody Bible Institute of Chicago " (Lyman was Moody's middle name). There were four living children in the family, of which Lyman was the only son. The two older sisters were Ida and Sarah Ellen and a younger sister Golda Katherine. Two children Frank and Grace had died in infancy.
1887-1888 When Lyman was a small boy, 5 or 6, the family went to Topeka, Kansas by covered wagon pulled by two mules. His father had a preaching assignment there with the Wesley Methodist Church. While there , he was bitten by a rattlesnake when he stepped in a post hole where the snake lay coiled. His dog killed the snake. His mother took his father's razor and sliced the skin in several places around the bite near his ankle, then she sucked the open wounds and spat out the blood and poison for a considerable time. Lyman developed a fever and his leg beame very swollen, but he survived.
Several years later they moved back to Indiana.
Lyman did not enjoy being a preachers son, and was somewhat rebellious, he started smoking cigarettes at an early age, and by age 21, he and a friend caught a ride on a freight train and went to ND " to seek their fortune ". Lyman ended up in the little town of Martin, where he worked in a saloon. It was there he met Sophia Tureck. He had typhoid fever in Martin and was very sick. He was hospitalized in Minot for several weeks. After he was discharged, he came to visit Sophia on the farm, and suffered quite a severe relapse while there.
1909 He and Sophia eloped when she was just 20 and he was 26. They were married Feb. 13, 1909 in Moorehead, Minnesota. They first went to Staples, Minn. where he became a barber. The eldest son Lyman Le Roy was born on his fathers birthday November 26th 1909.
1910 A second son Irving Ellsworth was born Sep. 10th 1910 (His two grandmothers suggested the name). while Irving was still very tiny, they moved to Alexandria, Minn. and shortly there after to Pingree, ND where Lyman started his own business, a pool hall and saloon. Sophia played piano and Lyman played violin in a little dance combo that supplied music for local barn dances. On Sunday they both sang in the church choir. The only daughter, Ione, was born in Pingree, Jan. 29, 1913.
There were many interesting memories of Pingree: there, Leroy at age eight drove our little red ford truck, loaded with kids, around the block a few times.
Lyman's valuable flax crop was destroyed by an early frost during World War I.
Irving nearly died from kidney failure, but was saved by one of his fathers homeopathic remedies, pumpkin seed tea. Ione drank gasoline meant for the kitchen stove, but was revived. Willard was born on Sophias birthday Jan. 14, 1915. His middle name was Edison, because his father was such a great admirer of Thomas Edison and was selling Edison Phonographs at the time.
Hugo Everett was born Dec. 19, 1917. He was named for Sophia's brother who had recently died during the building of a whole new farmstead.(Uncle Hugo had an enlarged heart following childhood rheumatic fever).
1918 The family moved to nearby Kensal, where Lyman started a pool hall, confectionary store and watch making business. There John Franklin was born May 8, 1921 (Mothers Day) and Paul Eugene was also born, on Sunday aug. 12, 1923.
Lyman died March 19, 1961, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Lyman married Sophia Tureck on 13 Feb 1909 in Moorhead, Clay, Minnesota, USA. Sophia (daughter of Ludwig Tureck and Luchia Pach) was born in 1889 in Germany; died on 29 Aug 1954. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sophia came to America through Hamberg, Germany in 1894 at the age of 5. Her father Ludwig Tureck was already a farm worker in South Dakota. So her mother Lucy (Luchia) Pach Tureck brought the five children, Helena, 14; Hugo Ludwig, 11; Alexis, 8; Sophia, 5; and Max, 3; they settled on the farm near Millbank, South Dakota where Ludwig Tureck worked. 1896 About the second year they were here Sophia was offered an opportunity to attend school in Big Stone South Dakota. A childless, middle aged couple provided her with room and board and a chance to go a bigger school. They were very good to her, but she was often extremely lonesome. About this time Ludwig Tureck, was accidentally killed in a farm accident. He fell from the front of a wagon load of grain when the horses became startled. The wagon wheels ran over his chest, he survived only two days. 1897-1898 A year or two later immigrants were offered free land claims in North Dakota, widow Tureck took her children and meager possessions and joined a caravan of South Dakota immigrants and traveled to Anamoose, ND where she filed claim to 160 acres (quarter section) of land. 1900- family in the 1900 ND census; Sophia was 12 years old. 1906 When Sophia was seventeen she stayed with her older sister in Martin ND (Helena Breitzman(n)) Helena's husband Franz Breitzmann was employed by the Post Office in Martin ND. While there, she was shot in the neck by a burglar whom she had startled. Later this "night watchman-turned burglar" was brought back from the state of Washington to stand trial. Several times she had to go by train with witnessess and guardian, to the county seat. Interestingly, this whole episode seemed to leave no lasting psychological scars. Sophia was neither superstitious nor unduly fearful. 1909 While in Martin Sophia met Lyman Pressnall who was working in a " Blind Pig " (saloon) He had recently come to ND from Indiana by " riding the rails" and this was the only job open. After a couple of years of courtship, he and Sophia eloped to Moorehead, Minnesota. wher they were married on Feb. 13, 1909. While in Poland she learned to read and speak German. She used the Bible as a reader. While in Minneapolis, she used to read German poetry from a small book to the Grandchildren.

John married Emeline Frances Linville on 31 Dec 1874 in Henry, Indiana. Emeline was born in 1852 in Indiana; died in 1921. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ludwig married Luchia Pach. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Daniel married Catherine Munden in Henry, Indiana, USA. Catherine (daughter of Elijah Munden and Jane Nixon) was born on 20 Oct 1818 in Indiana, USA; died on 28 Aug 1910 in Henry, Henry, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]