She was around people of multiple religious beliefs. Her and spouse Paul's son was Raymond P. Jahn, who belonged to a church of the Jehovah's Witnesses. He would have been her survivor, perhaps the one writing her obituary and arranging her service.
The Methodist church at Luella's birthplace of Edwall still exists, serving both Edwall, unincorporated, and the town/township of Davenport, Wa, where her husband Paul's immigrant family farmed. Their own land was located near his family's original homestead.
Instead raised by German-speaking Lutherans was her marriage partner, Paul Albert Jahn. He was born in northern Europe, but not in modern Germany. That was despite consistently stating Germany as his place of birth, maybe meaning a German-speaking place. Instead, his birthplace was in what history books call West Pomerania, its seacoast facing the Baltic, originally part of Poland, then "borrowed" by three other countries that, for a time, divided it into parts. Their part, West Pomerania, was under war-making Prussia beginning in 1871, a big portion later added to northern Germany. The repeated war-making was a good reason to leave, men often not able to marry and raise children until age 30 or 40? Their ethnicity typically brought the good part of Prussia with them, a school in each village, eight grades normal there, not an exception, for their immigrant generation.
Their part is now back inside Poland, which tries to treat its German ethnic minority fairly well. The port city where Paul's parents married is now called Szczecin, Poland, what the German recordkeepers formerly called "Stettin, Pommern, Preussen, Germany".
Perhaps the Jahns of Stettin, now called Szczecin, and her Guhlkes knew of each other, "back there"? There was at least one Guhlke staying, not migrating, his name in the German death records with that interesting address. (He died there in 1874 The deceased's name was Max August Albert Guhlke. His name followed the common German pattern of two middle names, not just one.)
She was the daughter of Albert and Mary Guhlke. Her father listed his birthplace as Germany in US Censuses, much as did her in-laws, the Jahns, without being specific.
By the 1940 Census, her father was still working, despite being 77, referring to himself as a "hired hand". Her mother, twelve years younger then Albert, believed herself to be California-born, with her father from Pennsylvania and mother from Germany.
Her parents called her Luella, in their 1910 Census, second-born of the four children. Her husband, Paul Jahn, called her Luella, on both of his draft registrations. These were for WW I, when Paul was about 30, and WW II, when Paul was about 53.
She used the nickname "Lula" in one Census after their son was born.
How did she turn into "Lucille", seen only in the 1920 US Census?
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From Luella's obituary, submitted by her family
for publication in newspapers:
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"Funeral services for Mrs. Luella J. Jahn, 76, were held at the Chapel of the Strate Funeral Home yesterday morning. Mr. Joe Oestrich officiated at the service and interment was at the Davenport Mountain View Cemetery. Casket bearers were Cliff Oligher, Walt Kik, Harry Schneider, Luke Flood, Robert Kirkwood and Forest Guhlke. Luella J. Guhlke was born March 24, 1896 at Edwall, WA, to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Guhlke. She was married to Paul A. Jahn on Oct. 15, 1914 at Edwall. They farmed just west of Davenport for a number of years. Mr. Jahn passed away in 1966. Mrs. Jahn had been in ill health for some time and a resident of the Lincoln Nursing Home for 8 years. She passed away Sunday. "
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About "Lucille"--The 1920 U.S. Census was a peculiar one, in that it often showed people in immigrant-headed households with their first names drastically changed. Did that have to do with "nativism", discussed by historians as a problem then?
The new names seen that Census rarely were used by themselves or by family in legal papers. Nor were they seen in any other census. Some examples seen by this writer in Iowa-- Germans born as Bernhardt and Catarina found themselves portrayed as a sweet Irish couple, Barnie and Katie. This writer's Bohemian-born great-grandmother, beautifully named Anastasia, also called Anastazie by people from "the old country", found herself transformed into an English-sounding Stella for just that 1920 census and no other. This temporary re-writing of family histories did not happen in just one place, but across multiple states.
Thank you to user CAExpatToSpokane for locating her parents (2024).
Date of writing 2016, last revised 2024
She was around people of multiple religious beliefs. Her and spouse Paul's son was Raymond P. Jahn, who belonged to a church of the Jehovah's Witnesses. He would have been her survivor, perhaps the one writing her obituary and arranging her service.
The Methodist church at Luella's birthplace of Edwall still exists, serving both Edwall, unincorporated, and the town/township of Davenport, Wa, where her husband Paul's immigrant family farmed. Their own land was located near his family's original homestead.
Instead raised by German-speaking Lutherans was her marriage partner, Paul Albert Jahn. He was born in northern Europe, but not in modern Germany. That was despite consistently stating Germany as his place of birth, maybe meaning a German-speaking place. Instead, his birthplace was in what history books call West Pomerania, its seacoast facing the Baltic, originally part of Poland, then "borrowed" by three other countries that, for a time, divided it into parts. Their part, West Pomerania, was under war-making Prussia beginning in 1871, a big portion later added to northern Germany. The repeated war-making was a good reason to leave, men often not able to marry and raise children until age 30 or 40? Their ethnicity typically brought the good part of Prussia with them, a school in each village, eight grades normal there, not an exception, for their immigrant generation.
Their part is now back inside Poland, which tries to treat its German ethnic minority fairly well. The port city where Paul's parents married is now called Szczecin, Poland, what the German recordkeepers formerly called "Stettin, Pommern, Preussen, Germany".
Perhaps the Jahns of Stettin, now called Szczecin, and her Guhlkes knew of each other, "back there"? There was at least one Guhlke staying, not migrating, his name in the German death records with that interesting address. (He died there in 1874 The deceased's name was Max August Albert Guhlke. His name followed the common German pattern of two middle names, not just one.)
She was the daughter of Albert and Mary Guhlke. Her father listed his birthplace as Germany in US Censuses, much as did her in-laws, the Jahns, without being specific.
By the 1940 Census, her father was still working, despite being 77, referring to himself as a "hired hand". Her mother, twelve years younger then Albert, believed herself to be California-born, with her father from Pennsylvania and mother from Germany.
Her parents called her Luella, in their 1910 Census, second-born of the four children. Her husband, Paul Jahn, called her Luella, on both of his draft registrations. These were for WW I, when Paul was about 30, and WW II, when Paul was about 53.
She used the nickname "Lula" in one Census after their son was born.
How did she turn into "Lucille", seen only in the 1920 US Census?
==============================================
From Luella's obituary, submitted by her family
for publication in newspapers:
==============================================
"Funeral services for Mrs. Luella J. Jahn, 76, were held at the Chapel of the Strate Funeral Home yesterday morning. Mr. Joe Oestrich officiated at the service and interment was at the Davenport Mountain View Cemetery. Casket bearers were Cliff Oligher, Walt Kik, Harry Schneider, Luke Flood, Robert Kirkwood and Forest Guhlke. Luella J. Guhlke was born March 24, 1896 at Edwall, WA, to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Guhlke. She was married to Paul A. Jahn on Oct. 15, 1914 at Edwall. They farmed just west of Davenport for a number of years. Mr. Jahn passed away in 1966. Mrs. Jahn had been in ill health for some time and a resident of the Lincoln Nursing Home for 8 years. She passed away Sunday. "
========================================
About "Lucille"--The 1920 U.S. Census was a peculiar one, in that it often showed people in immigrant-headed households with their first names drastically changed. Did that have to do with "nativism", discussed by historians as a problem then?
The new names seen that Census rarely were used by themselves or by family in legal papers. Nor were they seen in any other census. Some examples seen by this writer in Iowa-- Germans born as Bernhardt and Catarina found themselves portrayed as a sweet Irish couple, Barnie and Katie. This writer's Bohemian-born great-grandmother, beautifully named Anastasia, also called Anastazie by people from "the old country", found herself transformed into an English-sounding Stella for just that 1920 census and no other. This temporary re-writing of family histories did not happen in just one place, but across multiple states.
Thank you to user CAExpatToSpokane for locating her parents (2024).
Date of writing 2016, last revised 2024
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JAHN// Paul Albert......Luella Jospehine (GUHLKE)// Married Oct 15 1914
// "Paul and Luella worked hard to establish the farm, Paul working the land and Luella supporting with egg money."
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Stone flat to the ground, with artwork, Paul, behind a horse-drawn plow; Luella, scattering grain for her chickens.
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