R.D. Riegel

R.D. married J.L. Wahl [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. M.J. Riegel

S.K. married C.J. Kusler [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 179
• Reference Number: M1
• Residence: Walsh, Alberta, Canada
• Residence: 1942, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
• Occupation: 14 Feb 1957, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada; for the City Transit
• Occupation: 1967, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada; feed lot operator with 1500 head of cattle on 5 acres where they lived
• Occupation: Mar 1977, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada; the owner of the 'Kusler' bus company
• Retired: 09 Jan 2003, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Notes:

Residence:
lived and worked on Dave's parent's farm

Residence:
where Dave worked for the bus company and Ella worked as a waitress. Dave eventually started his own bus company.

Retired:
and living in the house on his acreage south of town.

Dave married Mary 'Ella' Olhausen on 20 Dec 1941 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Mary (daughter of Heinrich 'Henry' Ohlhausen and Mathilda 'Matilda' Mayer) was born on 17 Aug 1920 in Irvine, Alberta, Canada; died on 09 Apr 1991 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada; was buried on 12 Apr 1991 in Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Ella Kusler
• Reference Number: 99
• Reference Number: M1
• Residence: Walsh, Alberta, Canada
• Education: Between 1926 and 1938, south of Irvine, Alberta, Canada; the Newburg school. ||During that time she went to the Nueburg Church of God.
• Residence: 1942, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Notes:

Name:
Ella grew up being called (and thinking that her name was) 'Mary Ella' and was not happy when she saw Ella Maria on her birth certificate and, Dave said it cost $60 to make legal a legal change to Mary Ella

Residence:
lived and worked on Dave's parent's farm

Residence:
where Dave worked for the bus company and Ella worked as a waitress. Dave eventually started his own bus company.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 541
• Reference Number: M1

Emil married Dorothy Flemmer in Sep 1916 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Dorothy was born on 03 Sep 1898 in North Dakota, USA; died on 15 Jul 1982 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada; was buried on 21 Jul 1982 in Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Dorothy Kuzler
• Reference Number: 542
• Reference Number: M1

Notes:

Married:
and moved to SW 25-9-1W4

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Henry Olhausen
• Reference Number: 322
• Reference Number: M1
• Immigration: 1904, Pfeilsdorf, West Prussia, Germany
• Immigration: Abt 1912, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
• Occupation: 1915, Irvine, Alberta, Canada
• Naturalization: 03 Jul 1928, Irvine, Alberta, Canada
• Occupation: 1944, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada

Notes:

moved with his parents ||where he spent his earlier life

Birth:
and was baptized on the 5th of February.

Name:
Reuben confirmed that his father legally changed his last name to "Olhausen", because he lived very close to his cousin Henry H. Ohlhausen and their mail was continually being mixed up. Wayne Fuller's grandfather Henry H Ohlhausen told him that he added an "H" between his first and second names because there was another Henry Ohlhausen living very close and their mail was always mixed up. This explains why this branch of the family has the spelling 'Olhausen'.

Immigration:
Role: Witness

Immigration:
likely because he had 2 uncles farming south east of Medicine Hat at Irvine, AB.

Occupation:
bought the Daniel Gill homestead south of Irvine || and this farm was about 1 mile south of the Wilhelm Ohlhausen homestead, which was taken over by his son Henry H. Ohlhausen in 1917.

Naturalization:
It was interesting to find that he used the spelling 'Ohlhausen' on his naturalization papers dated

Occupation:
they sold the farm south of Irvine and bought a dairy farmer near || and then in 1947 he bought a 400 acre ranch in Nevis, AB and ran 100 head of cattle.

Heinrich married Mathilda 'Matilda' Mayer on 28 Feb 1913 in Newburg, Alberta, Canada. Mathilda (daughter of Ludwig Mayer and Maria Bischel) was born on 03 May 1895 in Bessarabia, Russia; died on 15 Jul 1981 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada; was buried on 18 Jul 1981 in Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Mathilda Ohlhausen
• Reference Number: 323
• Reference Number: M1
• Immigration: Apr 1899, Irvine, Alberta, Canada

Notes:

Immigration:
landing first in New York and traveling through S. Dakota.

Notes:

Married:
and we know that in 1914 he worked for the Ogilvie Flour Mill in Medicne Hat for $2.25 per day.