This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rambow-Blocker-Langhof-Hartkopfe/Hartkop-Dittmer-Wulf Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yl.2ADE/1015.1 Message Board Post: I am assuming this is the correct Gertz! Name: FRED BLOCKER Birth Date: 02/17/1868 [in Rock Island, IL] Death Date: 06/05/1957 Death Place: BROWN [Co. MN] State File Number: 001903 Mother's Maiden Name: HARTKOP Name: ANNA MARIE BLOCKER [Birth Date: 21 Jul 1868 in Davenport, Scott Co., IA] Death Date: 04/12/1945 Death Place: BROWN [Co., MN] State File Number: 001557 [Mother's Maiden Name: DITTMER] "History of Rock and Pipestone Counties [Minnesota]" by A. Rose c1911(page 647) FRED BLOCKER, of Kanaranzi township (Rock County), the son of Christian and Minnie (Hartkop) Blocker, was born in Rock Island, Illinois, on February 17, 1868. The father died when Fred was six years of age. Upon his parents' decease, the subject of this biography went to live with C. H. Gertz, a farmer near Davenport, Iowa. In the school near by he received his education and there he grew to manhood, the valued assistant of his guardian. His residence in Rock County dates from 1894. That year he rented and settled upon the southwest quarter of section 20. Kanaranzi township, and that has since been his home. He is one of the stockholders in the Farmers Elevator Company of Kanaranzi. For five years he served school district No. 60 as one of its directors. He is a member of the German Lutheran church and of the M.W.A. lodge. The date of Mr. Blocker's marriage in Davenport, Iowa, to Mary Wulf was February 22, 1894. Mrs. Blocker is a daughter of Claus and Margrette Wulf, of Davenport. Six children, four of whom are living, have been born to this union. Adele and Fred are deceased. The living children are Louis, Erwin, Roy and Mathilda.