A-Z Blogging Challenge - The letter Q is for Quakers! Gauquie in Minnisota

In 2017, there was a challenge. I heard about it from jillballau blog and more information can be found out about it on the A-Z Blogging Challenge (which was at http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/) page itself. However, as I was testing links I found the A-Z Blogging Challenge link is no longer working *frown*

Many people had done this challenge in April 2017, but I’m a rebel and do things when I have time, so I’ll do mine now. I’ve been working on it over many days, and was hoping to get it all done before posting BUT it’s taking me a lot longer than I expected. I’ll do a few posts now and work on the rest. 

I know I have about ½ of this challenge done in draft format, so not too bad.  J

What can I say – I’m an original. So, here I go…

The letter Q is for Quakers! Gauquie in Minnesota

My mother once told me how my grandmother, who married into the Gauquie family, was on a farm alone near Warsaw after her husband and baby died. Quakers came by and found her alone and took her with them and she ended up in New York because of it. 

I have to admit when I heard this story it seemed plausible because I didn't know anything about Quakers. This was one of the first stories I researched when I first started genealogy. I learned so much about them and where they were at certain points. One of these was they were in Poland but not where my mother said her mother was. Further, her mother would never had been able to living on farm land by herself in Poland because it would have gotten taken from her because she was an unmarried woman. That's how things worked over in Poland then. 

This is one reason why you must check out stories. You will find some are correct, like I have, and others, like above, are not correct at all. 

Anyhow, I stopped looking for the Quaker story. 

I was researching the Minnesota Gauquie's because we knew there was a link to them but we didn't know how. This was on my maternal grandfather's paternal side. 

The Chart (above) I've put together based upon research papers I've found over the years including 2018. I haven't been able to find the direct link from my ancestors to theirs. However, I do know the place Camiel was born was where my ancestors once lived. 

I had names and places and started to link everyone up. Wouldn't you know the research I did for the story above, actually helped? 

I found one of the Gauquie's named Jerome, married Lula Yoder and had children. This is demonstrated by the above chart. They were Quakers or so I've read. Talk about interesting. They were huge into religion and their church from what I've read. 

Look at at the side of the article for credit

Credit for this is in the above article as it was in the same newspaper on same date.

Credit is at the top of the newspaper article above

I find this interesting someone could marry someone else and take their religion. I know my part of the family were all very strict Roman Catholics, so its more than probable Jerome Sr was born into the Roman Catholic faith, which is why I say he had to convert or take up his wife's religion as stated in his obituary above. True, I still don't care about a persons religion, but it impressed me someone would do that for someone they love. 

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