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Bertha Ann Lemke Sands

7 Aug 1874 – 4 Dec 1959

Birth7 Aug 1874
Death4 Dec 1959
CemeteryHillcrest Memorial Park
Grants Pass , Josephine County , Oregon , USA
Added byPat Ellingson on 19 Jul 2009
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39630742

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Bertha was born in Jefferson township, Bremer County, IA on a farm to Julius & Paulina Neske Lemke who were recent immigrants from Posen, Germany. She was the first child born in America. She was 14 and working as a servant when her father was fatally injured in a logging accident in Taylor County, WI where her family lived in 1889. Her mother was incapacitated and her siblings were "scattered" to various local families who would take them in return for work. Bertha continued to work on her own and on 13 Jan 1892, she married Stephen Sands in Fifield, Price, WI when she was 17 years old. In the 1900 US census for Aitken Twp of Aitken County, MN, Stephen Sands is 30 (b. Oct 1869) married to Lemke age 25, (b. Aug 1874). They have been married 9 years with no children and he is a lumberman. He is born in Maine as are his parents and she is born in Iowa with both her parents born in Germany. Marriage date would be 1891 then. In the 1910 census, she was in Lewis Precinct, Kootenai, Bonner, ID and was married to George Servis, age 30, and she was 35, a second marriage for both. Pearl Sands, age 8, was listed as George's step-daughter. There was also a marriage certificate for George Servis and Bertha Sands. They married 14 Sept 1909 at Coeur D'Alene, ID. (vol 5 p.519) In the 1920 census, Bertha (age 45) was living in Kootenai, Bonner, ID with first husband Stephen Sands and had a daughter Pearl age 18 with a son, Philip, who was age 5. Stephen is working at a logging camp. In the 1930 census Bertha (55) was married to Stephen Sands (59) in Kootenai, Bonner, ID who was a farmer. (Stephen Sands 13 Oct 1870-1-Sept-1941 death record 127013 in Bonner County). Bertha said in the census she was born in 1875 in Iowa and her parents were both born in Germany. She said she was married at age 17 (so around 1892). Her husband, Stephen was 59 and was married at 21, born in Maine. They had one son, Philip age 15, born in ID. Stephen Sands and his brother, John, both died in Bonner County, ID and both are buried in Pinecrest Cemetery in Bonner County. After his death and the death of her daughter, Bertha went to live with her son, Philip in Medford, OR, where she died. Mail Tribune, Medford, Or. Sunday, Dec. 6, 1959 Mrs. Bertha Sands Private funeral services for Mrs. Bertha Ann Sands, 85, of box 94, Trail, who died at the Jackson County Farm home Friday, will be conducted by Perl Funeral home Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Hillcrest Memorial park. Mrs. Sands was born in Iowa on Aug. 7, 1874, and had been a resident of the state for 12 years. She is survived by one son, Philip Sands, Trail, and one brother, Charles Lamke, of Minnesota. The funeral home had no more information on Bertha as her funeral was paid for by the State of Oregon. The obituary for Bertha's son, Phillip, in Medford, OR reads that he is the son of Bertha and Stephen Sands and was born 1914. Here is his obit. The Mail Tribune, Medford, OR Philip ‘Bud' John Sands Philip ‘Bud' John Sands, 88, of Medford, died Friday (June 27, 2003) at his home. At his request, no service will be held. Mr. Sands was born Nov. 28, 1914 in Sand Point, Idaho, a son of Steven and Bertha Mae Sands. On June 6, 1941, in Reno, Nev., he married Doris Vera Lee, who survives. (died a few months later) Mr. Sands had lived in the Rogue Valley since 1935, where he worked as a sawyer and a cat skinner. Family members said he grew the best vegetable garden in the neighborhood. Mr. Sands enjoyed the outdoors, especially the area near Trail, where he worked, fished and hunted for many years. Mr. Sands served in the Civilian Conservation Corps in World War II. Survivors, in addition to his wife, include two daughters, Carol Washbish, Gold Hill, and Janet Sands, Medford; and a granddaughter, Cassandra L. Miller, Gold Hill. He was preceded in death by a grandson, Byron Craven Jr. Arrangements: Conger-Morris Funeral Directors, Medford.

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