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Ferdinand F. Reinke
9 Mar 1840 – 19 Apr 1926
| Birth | 9 Mar 1840 |
| Death | 19 Apr 1926 |
| Cemetery | Ewing Cemetery Ewing , Holt County , Nebraska , USA |
| Added by | Linda W on 11 Jan 2015 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140633474 |
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As the century moved along to it's last decade,the flood of settlers slowed somewhat. By the 1890's, most of the good land had been taken and late comers usually had to buy available farms. This was the case with Ferdinand Reinke who arrived in 1893. Born in Germany, he first came to Columbus and worked in the flour mill there. There he met Antonia Heinz who, with her small son Joseph, had come from Austria in 1880. She worked as a maid in Columbus homes until 1883, when she and Ferdinand were married. The Reinkes had seven children by the time they moved to Ewing and bought the John Lydon farm, southwest of town. There, three more children were born to them. Mrs. Reinke, only four feet, four inches tall and weighing less than one hundred pounds, and was a faithful midwife to her community. Traveling horseback, on foot, by sled or buggy, she assisted in the delivery of more than two hundred babies and "helped out" in many a home where there was sickness or trouble. In 1914, Ferdinand and Antonia retired to Ewing and lived out the remainder of their long lives. Their grandchildren numbered forty-seven. Source: Holt County history
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- Oscar Frederick Reinke 1883–1958
- Ferdinand Frederick Reinke 1884–1971
- Louise Reinke Ott 1886–1967
- Emil F. Reinke 1887–1961
- Emma A. Reinke Taylor 1889–1980
- Rosa M. Reinke Good 1891–1967
- Emilie Katharine "Millie" Reinke Kimble 1892–1959
- Bertha A Reinke Butler 1895–1971
- Oswald L. Reinke 1897–1979
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