Al
Brother Al
Albert Eme (Al) – born April 19, 1915 The fifth child was Albert and they called him “Aap” pronounced, “Op.” Jacob and Albert two boys were always close. We called them “Bop and Aap.” When they were called for supper or to do a chore, it sounded like one word: “Bop’n’Aap.” Throughout the drought and…
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Al and Elsie were of great help to me when I started college at South Dakota State. They supplied me with potatoes and eggs whenever I hitchhiked back from Brookings, South Dakota on weekends. I cooked for my American Indian roommate and myself on a one-burner hot plate. Neither of us had much money. Sometimes…
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Throughout the drought and depression, Al stayed in school and graduated from the eighth grade. There was no work away from home and there was nothing to harvest. Al and Elmer Vander Burg went bumming on the railroads. They lived from day to day on handouts, garden thefts, or small odd jobs. They went as…
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