Steven Christiansen

Harold married Patricia Ann Truax Patricia (daughter of Ralph Charles Truax and Ida Estella Drake) was born on 21 Jan 1929; died before 1970 in St Paul, Ramsey, MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

birth:
1. D-210: Thura Truax Hires Manuscripts

death:
1. committed suicide

Ralph married Ida Estella Drake Ida was born on 29 May 1906 in Dover, Olmsted, MN; died on 2 Nov 1963 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN; was buried on 5 Nov 1963 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

birth:
1. D-1: d cert, State of MN 5270
2. D-12: The Drake Family Tree, from Avis Drake, CA
3. D-35: 1 Jun 1906, Olmsted County Democrat

marriage:
1. Ralph TRUAX; D-183: b cert of Billie Mae TRUAX, MN 159
2. Anton SHEMANSKY
3. George WESTLING; D-1, ibid.
4. Ralph, Justice of the Peace; D-210: Thura Truax Hirees Manuscripts

death:
1. died at St. Barnabas Hospital, Minneapolis, Hennepin, MN; D-1, ibid
2. bur Hillside Cemetery; D-1, ibid.

Notes:

birth:
1. D-206: d cert, MN 10269
2. location; D-210: Thura Truax Hires Manuscripts
3. in Evansville, WI, with handwritten note "wrong;" D-228: Post and
Bulletin
article on Helen and Jay's 50th wedding anniversary

marriage:
1. D-199: Record and Union, Olmsted Co., MN
2. D-210, ibid.
3. D-228, ibid.

death:
1. D-206, ibid.
2. bur Pine Island Cemetery; D-198: Index to Pine Island Cemetery (D-206
abv
shows burial at Oakwood Cemetery, Rochester, Olmsted, MN but headstone was
found in Pine Island Cemetery)

other:
1. blacksmith; D-191: 1900 Fed Cen for Oronoco
2. bought blacksmith shop in Byron, Olmsted, MN; D-192: 15 Dec 1911
Olmsted
County Democrat
3. sold blacksmith shop in Byron; D-193: 19 Jul 1912 Olmsted County
Democrat
4. bought blacksmith shop in Viola, MN; D-195: 15 Dec 1905 Post and
Record
6. from Winona in 1888; D-199: Record and Union
7. came to MN in 1865; D-228
8. fireman for the Chicago and North Western Railway for a while; D-228

Jay married Helen Orilla Packard on 25 Mar 1888 in Oronoco, Olmsted, MN. Helen was born on 25 Jan 1862 in Rochester, Olmsted County, MN; died on 17 Jun 1938 in Rochester, Olmsted County, MN; was buried in 1938 in Pine Island, Goodhue, MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Pickard also in Drake line

birth:
1. D-190: obit in 21 Apr 1938 Pine Island Record, Goodhue Co., MN
2. D-203: 1883 History of Olmsted Co
3. site of the Museum of Medicine and Hygiene; D-228: Post and Bulletin
article
on Helen and Jay's 50th wedding anniversary

marriage:
1. D-188: d cert of Ralph C TRUAX, MN 22-82-010039
2. D-199: Record and Union, Olmsted Co., MN
3. D-228, ibid.

death:
1. St. Mary's Hospital; D-190, ibid.
2. bur Pine Island Cemetery; D-190 abv and D-198: Index to Pine Island
Cemetery
3. have picture of gravestone

other:
1. D-182: 1900 Fed Cen for Oronoco, Olmsted, MN
2. from Oronoco; D-199, ibid.
3. unidentified survivors in obit: Mrs. DUNNETTE, Paul TRUAX, Elton
TRUAX,
Mrs. George DRAFT, Mrs. RJ ALLEN