Doris May Fuller

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Family/Spouse: Carl Gordon Pylkas. Carl was born on 27 Feb 1918; died on 13 Mar 1973; was buried in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA, Fort Snelling National Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. David Gordon Pylkas was born on 17 Oct 1946; died on 10 Feb 2011; was buried in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA, Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
2. Living
3. Gail Marie Pylkas was born on 23 Sep 1951 in , Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA.
4. Living
5. Living

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Leroy married Mary Louise Staack on 4 Apr 1913 in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA. Mary (daughter of Charles (Carl) Emil Staack and Augusta C. Warner) was born on 27 Dec 1883 in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA; died on 15 Mar 1975 in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA; was buried in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA, Fort Snelling National Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Carl E. Staack
• _UID: 36DC9D7E833346B98B56AF5213F6E56B1D9B

Notes:

There is a bit of mystery regarding Charles (Carl). He is listed in various sources differently.
1. He is listed in the 1860 Federal census as Charles, age 2, with his parents, Mathias and Mary, and siblings, suggesting a birthdate in 1858.
2. He is listed in the 1875 Minnesota state census as Chales with his parents, Mathias and Mary, and siblings.
3. He is listed in the 1870 Federal census as Charles, age 12, in Winona with his parents, Mathias and Mary, and siblings, suggesting a birthdate in 1858.
4. He is listed in the 1875 Minnesota state census as Chas, age 17, with his parents in Winona, Mathias and Mary, and siblings, suggesting a birthdate in 1858.
5. He is no longer listed in the 1885 Minnesota state census with his parents and siblings in Winona.
6.In the 1895 Minnesota state there is a Carl E. Staack, age 36, listed in St. Paul as a barber with his wife, Augusta and daughter Sylvia. This would suggest a birthdate about 1859. The census date is 1 May, 1895 so Carl would not have turned 37 until two months later. This would again sugggest a birthdate in 1858. Augusta's age is also listed as 36 so this would suggest her birth date is also aroung 1858 or 1859.
7. Carl E. Staack is listed in the 1900 Federal Census with his family in St. Paul. The birtdate is listed as July 1860. His wife Augusta's birth date is list as Nov. 1861, much later than the 1895 census suggests so, for some reason, these dates seem erroneous.
8. In the 1905 Minnesota census both Carl and Augusta are listed as 44 years old which suggest their birth dates were about 1861.
9. In the 1920 Federal census, Carl Staack and his son, Carl Staack, Jr., are listed together as lodgers. Carl's age is 62 which would imply his birth was around 1858, but the census lists his place of birth as New York for some reason. It also lists his father and mother's birth place as Holstein which would be consistent with the place Mathias Staack emegrated from.
10. Carl E. Staack is listed as a widower in the 1930 Federal census, age 72, which again suggests a birthdate of 1858.
11. Carl E. Staack's death certificate lists his parents as Richard Staack and Mary Patterson rather than Mathias Staack and Mary Peterson.


Conclusion: If Charles and Carl are the same person, it appears he changed his name when he moved to St. Paul. It seems strange that his father is listed as Richard on his death certificate, but everything else suggests that they are the same person.

Charles married Augusta C. Warner on 6 May 1883 in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA. Augusta was born in Nov 1861 in , , , Germany; died on 16 May 1907 in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Citizenship: 1852
• Immigration: May 1852, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
• Census: 1900, Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1900, Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA

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From The History of Winona County Minnesota, compiled by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Editor in Chief, Assisted by William Jay Whipple, Revier of Manuscripts and a Large Corps of Local Contributors, Illustrated, Volume II, Chicago, H.C. Cooper Jr. and Co., 1913 (Copy in Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul), page 694.:

Mathias Staack, a pioneer contractor and builder of Winona, was born in the northern part of Germany, June 16, 1826, and came to America as a young man. After landing in New Orleans, he came up the river to Davenport, where he had a friend, arriving in that city in the summer of 1852. There he spent three years. Then he went to Comanche, in the same state, and there on December 5, 1855, he married Mary Peterson, who was born July 26, 1836. In 1856, he was persuaded by E.A. Gertzen to come to Winona. For a time he lived with Mr. Gertzen, and then erected at 522 East Fifth Street, the cozy little house in which he has since made his home. For ten years he engaged in the grocery business at the corner of Third and Kansas streets. This business was not, however, greatly to his liking, and he disposed of his store and started work on the North-Western, then in the course of construction between this place and Rochester. Then he went into the the general building and contracting business. In 1904 he retired. He is in excellent health, and is one of the substantial citizens of the city. He has been prominently identified with the Odd Fellows, and is one of the oldest members of that order in the city. He has also joined the Druids. The subject of this sketch has eleven children, twenty grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. The children are: Emma, wife of Louis H. Thurow; Sophia, wife of H.F. Gerlicher; Clara, wife of Fred J. Welty; Richard; Gustaf, deceased; William, deceased; Edward, Albert, Matilda, Otto and Carl.

(Research):A web site in German lists Mathias as being born in Süderhastedt. It shows his correct birthdate and date of immigration. It also shows that he first settled in Davenport. The same web site lists a Catharina Staack, born 8 Mar 1837 in the same village and migrating to Davenport in 1852. Mathias would have been 26 years old in 1852. This Catharina would have been 15. It is possible that she may have been his sister.
The web site is found at:
http://www.aggsh.de/ger/pag/ags/st-sy.htm and is listed under the AGGSH registered association.


Citizenship:
Came from Schleswig-Holstein in Denmark. Renounced allegiance to the King of Denmark

Immigration:
Arrived on the Columbia from Bremen, Germany

Census:
He Was The Census Taker For This E.D.

Residence:
3rd Precinct

Mathias married Mary Peterson on 5 Dec 1855 in Camanche, Clinton County, Iowa, USA. Mary (daughter of ? Peterson) was born on 26 Jul 1836 in , , , Germany; died on 9 Sep 1930 in Seattle, King County, Washington, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The 1857 census shows a John Peterson, age 24, living with Mathias and Mary. This person was probably Mary's brother.

Mary went to live with her son, Richard, in Sioux City, Iowa, after Mathias died. She then went to Seatlle, Washington, to live with or near her son, Otto, where she died in 1930.