Dear Listers! For more than 30 years I have tried to find out what happened to my own cousin Ingeborg Oyane "Owens" Schuster (1844-1904)'s two sons, Pete (1865) and Mike (1876) after I heard this story about them when visiting Creighton, NE in 1982. Maybe now with so many NEWSPAPERS online is it possible to find additional information? Ingeborg Pedersdotter Oyane - Americanized to Owens - was born in Luster Co., Norway Aiug. 4, 1844 and emigrated with her parents in 1860 to Crawford Co., WI. She married a Prussian Theodore Schuster - sometimes spelt Shuster - at Lansing, IA July 6, 1864, and they farmed for a number of years in the Minnesota Slough in Houston Co., MN removing about 1977 to Creighton, Knox Co., NE. Ingeborg "Emily" Schuster died at Bloomfield, NE Aug. 12, 1904, while her husband Theodore Schuster had died at Creighton, NE Mar. 20, 1904. Among their 12 children were also these two sons: * John Peter aka Pete Schuster (or Shuster), born in Houston Co., MN Oct. 9, 1865, left home in the late 1880's and wasn't heard from for years until someone came to visit one of his brothers in Creighton, NE in the spring of 1915. As the story goes, Pete had been a miner at Rifle, Garfield Co., CO where he died under "mysterious" circumstances in February of 1915, and the visitor brought with him a few belongings of Pete's! * John Michael aka Mike Schuster (or Shuster), born in Houston Co., MN July 6, 1876, is said to have left home in the 1890's to seek his "fortune" in Montana. Now, as the story goes about him, he got involved with some horse business in Montana and was accused for having stolen these horses, upon which he was "lynched". Noone seems to know when this happened, but it must have been in the late 1890's or very early 1900's! The source of this information was a grandson of their brother Christopher's, who had heard the stories from his father or possibly grandfather (Christopher Schuster died in 1942). I question myself whether he may have "mixed up" the two brothers, but if so, I am convinced there has to be some records about these events, at least in local newspapers? I have found no trace of these guys in the census records! Thanks a million for any suggestions in regard to tracing cousins Pete and Mike! Very sincerely yours, Lars E. Oyane

In regards to the February of 1915 "mysterious” death in Rifle, Colorado, I haven’t been able to see anything yet, but there's a great online selection of historic newspapers for Colorado here: coloradohistoricnewspapers.org I use Safari for a browser, but it’s no longer supported. Maybe someone else can find something? -Mark > On Mar 16, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lars E. Oyane via <norway@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Dear Listers! > > For more than 30 years I have tried to find out what happened to my own cousin Ingeborg Oyane "Owens" Schuster (1844-1904)'s two sons, Pete (1865) and Mike (1876) after I heard this story about them when visiting Creighton, NE in 1982. Maybe now with so many NEWSPAPERS online is it possible to find additional information? > > Ingeborg Pedersdotter Oyane - Americanized to Owens - was born in Luster Co., Norway Aiug. 4, 1844 and emigrated with her parents in 1860 to Crawford Co., WI. She married a Prussian Theodore Schuster - sometimes spelt Shuster - at Lansing, IA July 6, 1864, and they farmed for a number of years in the Minnesota Slough in Houston Co., MN removing about 1977 to Creighton, Knox Co., NE. Ingeborg "Emily" Schuster died at Bloomfield, NE Aug. 12, 1904, while her husband Theodore Schuster had died at Creighton, NE Mar. 20, 1904. > > Among their 12 children were also these two sons: > > * John Peter aka Pete Schuster (or Shuster), born in Houston Co., MN Oct. 9, 1865, left home in the late 1880's and wasn't heard from for years until someone came to visit one of his brothers in Creighton, NE in the spring of 1915. As the story goes, Pete had been a miner at Rifle, Garfield Co., CO where he died under "mysterious" circumstances in February of 1915, and the visitor brought with him a few belongings of Pete's! > > * John Michael aka Mike Schuster (or Shuster), born in Houston Co., MN July 6, 1876, is said to have left home in the 1890's to seek his "fortune" in Montana. Now, as the story goes about him, he got involved with some horse business in Montana and was accused for having stolen these horses, upon which he was "lynched". Noone seems to know when this happened, but it must have been in the late 1890's or very early 1900's! > > The source of this information was a grandson of their brother Christopher's, who had heard the stories from his father or possibly grandfather (Christopher Schuster died in 1942). I question myself whether he may have "mixed up" the two brothers, but if so, I am convinced there has to be some records about these events, at least in local newspapers? I have found no trace of these guys in the census records! > > Thanks a million for any suggestions in regard to tracing cousins Pete and Mike! > > Very sincerely yours, > > Lars E. Oyane > > > > > Norwaylist Archiveshttp://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=norway > > RESUBSCRIBE UNSUB > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/NOR/NORWAY.html > > guidelines http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/guidelines.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message