A group of nine people are sitting and standing outside a small white-sided house. Peter B. Sr., Emil Youngblood, Albert D. and Edward Hoffmann are identifiable.
Emily and Edward Hoffmann are fishing while Albert stands on the bank behind them. Prince the horse waits with the buggy on the top of the bank, while another two men - probably Peter B. Sr. and Emil Youngblood - are farther downstream.
“Under the leadership of Father James Nelson, the parish built a gothic style brick church in 1901 to seat 500. It was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title The Immaculate Conception, which is inscribed to the cornerstone. During the…
“When John Plettchette died in 1859, he left six acres on condition that a church be built within two years. When Bishop Clement Smyth did not send a priest on the grounds that there was no church, John Heles and Joseph Friedman assumed leadership…