Emma
(Minerd) Treseder
(1859-1919)
Emma Jane (Minerd)
Treseder was born in 1859 in Farmington, Fayette County, PA, the daughter of Samuel
and Rebecca (Smalley) Minerd.
When the federal census was taken in 1880, Emma made her home with her parents in West Newton, Westmoreland County, PA. She and her sister unmarried Margaret (Hester) are shown as laborers in a local paper mill, with Emma listed as having a "finger cut off," apparently related to her work in the mill. It may well have been her right hand involved in the accident, as in a later photo, she is shown covering the hand with her other hand.
In 1886, unmarried and at age 27, Emma and her parents and siblings ventured westward. They left their longtime homes and became pioneer settlers of Kansas, settling in Pittsburg, Crawford County.
In Kansas, sometime between 1900 and 1910, Emma met and married Stephen Treseder (1860- ? ). He was a native of Wisconsin, whose parents were from England.
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| Broadway, north from Fourth Street, early 1900s |
Stephen once gave Emma a pewter
pitcher onto which were engraved the words, "E. Minerd, 1904."
Because they never had any children, Emma gave the pitcher to her
firstborn Minerd nephew.
When the federal census was taken in 1910, the Treseders resided on West Euclid Street in Pittsburg. Stephen was employed as a salesman in a clothing store, and Emma worked as a sales lady in a dry goods store.
Emma and her sister Hester
adopted a small girl, Kathryn (Minerd)
Schewaski, "which the two of them
raised."
Kathryn died in 1958 in Joplin, MO, but never had any children of her own.
Steve's fate is unknown.
Emma died in 1919, but the date, and cause, are not yet known. She rests for eternity beside her parents at the Mt. Olive Cemetery in Pittsburg.
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