Hi Janice,
I think we 'spoke' once before. Oh how I wished that ypur Charles A.
(Karl) Zimmerman would have been the one I was lppking for.
My Charles (Karl) was born in 1876 in Albany, MN about 80 miles North West
of Minneapolis. I found his name on an 1880 Census of Stearns Co. MN. Until
then I thought his given name was Karl. Rumor has it that after he divorced
his wife (Susanna Carson) in 1914 he traveled to ND. There he supposedly was
killed and robbed of his wages earned working through the summer and fall in
the harvest in the wheat fields of ND.
He has grandson living in Stearns Co. MN who knows nothing about his
grandfather. He saya his father told him that after her divorce from Karl;
Susanna destroyed all photos of him and refused to talk to her children ever
again of him. Consequently all we know him is the hearsay story above. He
did appear in his parents obituaries (1914 & 1921); but not on his brother's
in 1939.
Sooooo... I still grasp at any and all straws.
Happy hunting, Deacon BZ (deaconbz(a)aol.com)