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Florence T. Tritt Bauer

Birth	:	27 Aug 1881 Covington, Fountain County, Indiana, USA
Death	:	22 Feb 1935 Ritzville, Adams County, Washington, USA
Burial	:	Southcreek Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Ponca, Dixon County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.5264100, -96.7563300
Description	:	Daughter of Rev. Henry A. and Christie S. (McCalum) Tritt; Wife of Henry J. Bauer, Jr. Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, November 24, 1955 Covered Wagon Roll Reduced Now to Six The death last Thursday of Henry J. Bauer, 76-year-old Ritzville pioneer, apparently reduced to six the number of survivors of a historic covered wagon caravan which brought 17 Russian-German families westward in 1883. Within a year or two after their arrival in Walla Walla most of these families had homesteaded in the Ritzville area, and today their descendents - many of the Rosenoffs, Thiels, Kanzlers, Amens, Millers, Kiehns, Wolsborns and Bauers... Read More	Daughter of Rev. Henry A. and Christie S. (McCalum) Tritt; Wife of Henry J. Bauer, Jr. Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, November 24, 1955 Covered Wagon Roll Reduced Now to Six The death last Thursday of Henry J. Bauer, 76-year-old Ritzville pioneer, apparently reduced to six the number of survivors of a historic covered wagon caravan which brought 17 Russian-German families westward in 1883. Within a year or two after their arrival in Walla Walla most of these families had homesteaded in the Ritzville area, and today their descendents - many of the Rosenoffs, Thiels, Kanzlers, Amens, Millers, Kiehns, Wolsborns and Bauers - form a paramount population group in this area. The Journal-Times this week conducted a survey and found apparently there are only six persons still living who - as five small boys and a 3-year-old girl - traveled westward with the caravan in 1883. The survivors are Mike Thiel, father of Lawrence Thiel; Mrs. Mike Thiel, the former Mary Kanzler; J. J. Schoesler, who operates Henry Bauer's ranch; Henry Schoessler, father of Mayor H. E. Schoessler; Pete Bauer, Henry Bauer's older brother; and Jacob Rosenoff, who lives in Pullman. The Journal-Times would appreciate hearing from any other persons who may have been overlooked in this list. The covered wagon train left Nebraska under the leadership of Frederick Rosenoff to follow the Old Oregon Trail across the plains. The group never traveled Sundays, but drew their wagons into a circle and posted lookouts while the rest listened to an elder read church services in German. Their overland trip was marked by hardship and a constant vigilance for Indians. The Battle of the Little Bighorn had occurred only seven years earlier. Their train reached Walla Walla safely. Some families preceeded immediately to homestead in the Ritzville area. Others worked at Walla Walla two or three years before joining their friends in Ritzville. Henry Bauer died Thursday on the same Ritzville area farm his parents, Jacob and Elizabeth Bauer, had occupied when they reached Ritzville following the 1883 covered wagon journey. Pete Bauer recalled a few years ago how 11 of their 12 chickens were devoured by coyotes the first night they stayed on their new farm. Later that fall all the family's horses disappeared. They were found the following spring near Paha, about 10 miles from home. Jacob Bauer raised 13 acres of wheat the first year, 28 acres the second and more than 100 acres the third. Though life was hard and crop failures not infrequent, the farm gradually "took hold." Through his life Henry Bauer was a lover of horses. In 1916 or 1917 he began breeding his own Belgian work horses and by the 1930s he had developed a prime herd of more than 40 animals. Some weighed a ton, and one of his best beeding stallions weighed 2,400 pounds. Bauer was reluctant to give up horses in the face of increasing mechanization, and according to Elmer Schoesler, who has operated the Bauer ranch for the past 10 years, might not eveng have "gone tractor" in the early 1940s had it not become so difficult to hire labor familiar with work horses. When a Belgian became too old to work, Bauer always retired him to pasture rather than disposing of him. Today one of Bauer's Belgians still survives - a 27-year-old mare named "Laura" - and Schoesler made it clear this week Laura will be well treated until she dies, as Henry Bauer would have wished it. Bauer, who had been five years old when his family crossed the plains, had an inventive mind. About 1918 he devised a straw picker, pulled by four horses, it gathered up loose straw while a gasoline motore ran the straw up an elevator into an accompanying wagon...so pitchforking was virtually eliminated. Bauer applied for a patent on his straw picker, though the machine never went into production. But he used it himself for years. W. G. Danekas, another Ritzville pioneer and a neighbor of Bauers, recalled this week how the straw picker once achieved the remarkable record of clearing half-a-section at Mike Thiel's farm in a single day. Bauer also devised a series of sprockets and chains to operate a harvester reel from one of the harvester's wheels, so the reel would slow down or speed up depending on the harvester's speed. Bauer was widely known as the traditional marshal for the Adams county fair parade, and until three years ago he usually accompanied the state cattlemen's association on their annual cross-country ride to the state convention. Funeral services for the 76-year-old Bauer were held Saturday at Trinity Methodist church with the Rev. Alfred Carter officiating. Burial was in the Ritzville Memorial cemetery. The pioneer was survived by his widow, Jennie, at the home place three miles west of Ritzville; a daughter, Mrs. Fern Girton of Ritzville; his brother, Peter, also of Ritzville; and a sister, Mrs. Lydia Taylor of Spokane. Also surviving were four step-children, Mrs. John Stedham of Chehalis, Mrs. Paul Wood of San Francisco, Mrs. Jerry Meehan of Carnation, and Raymond Pinney of Seattle, and two grandchildren. Lewis Hughes Dies In Tacoma; Attended School In This Area HATTON - Word was received Monday of the passing of Mr. Lewis Clark Hughes at his home in Tacoma. He will be remembered in this community as he attended grade school at the Sutton school on Michigan Prairie, attending high school in Lind, graduating in 1918. He then attended Washington state college, graduating in pharmacy. After graduation he worked in drug stores in Spokane and Longview then went to Auburn in 1924 where he became associated with Mr. Clarence Olberg. They operated a drug store in Tacoma in 1927. Mr. Hughes bought out Mr. Olberg and operated the store the last 28 years. He became ill last March and had been confined to his home. A complete obituary will be published in next week's paper. - gapwork90 (#47544482)

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Florence T. Tritt Bauer's memorial is located at: Southcreek Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Ponca, Dixon County, USA.
When did Florence T. Tritt Bauer death?
Florence T. Tritt Bauer death on 22 Feb 1935 in Ritzville, Adams County, Washington, USA
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Latitude: 42.5264100
Longitude: -96.7563300

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