In 1910.

Joseph went on to become the manager of a mail order business as indicated in the 1910 census. They continued to rent the home on Rhine.

The girls, Mabel and Stella, worked in a simple pasties shop. The pasties came with immigrants from the British Isles where it was a staple for the men who worked in the mines. A traditional filling in Wales made use of locally grown lamb and leeks. The uncooked meat made a nice gravy as the pasty baked, keeping the meal warm. It easily packed for lunch in the metal pails the men brought from home.

Recipes are as varied as those who made them. The girls' grandmother Elizabeth Wolfe would likely have had her own version, one that her mother Mary Jones learned in Wales.

Their Children Start Their Families.

The two older children, Mable and Walter, both married their respective mates at Nazareth Evangelical Church in Chicago, Illinois with Pastor August Glade officiating. Walter married our ancestor Marie Hansen, daughter of Sam Hansen and Christine Henricksen on October 26, 1912, and Mabel married Welser Weaver on August 8, 1914. The Weaver's had a daughter, Charlotte, born 29 December 1915 in LaPorte, Indiana and son Welser born there 8 February 1918.

Stella, who married the flour salesman Charles Thoma 19 July 1913 in Indiana, had a child, Joseph Thoma, born in Chicago May 24, 1914. Though a divorce was not found, another marriage record was. She married Emil Bergman, also in the state of Indiana, on 30 August 1919. Her son Joseph went to live with his grandparents Joseph and Lula to be raised. Emil was photo engraver with whom she had two more children, Nathalie and Belva. They separated sometime before 1930, when she is found in the census with the police officer David Young and her two girls.

Joseph and Lula moved to 2250 Milwaukee Avenue. The world was at war, but at age 50 Joseph would not be called. He was a department manager in 1914. His brothers Charles, a laborer, and Paul, a clerk, were living at 2028 Milwaukee.

Joseph's mother Edesse died in 1915 on November 24th and was buried in Bohemian National Cemetery, where her second husband Odilon rests. Lula's father John Wolfe died November 25, 1917.