Anna Barbara Kasparek

   Another name for Anna was Anna B. Kasparik.

  General Notes:

see husband's notes

per T Walden on www.ancestry.com
From Arlene Greiner: "Ashley had a 3rd wife .Arlene remembers him telling her 'the best woman God ever let the sun shine on" ...Anna.... however it lasted a very short time. Just before he died."
also -"
Anna had quite a life.
Previous husbands:
a Hamsware about no more is yet known.
John A Pfiester or Pfister 1876-?; their children are Havey John Pfister 1899-1965, Clarence Pfister 1900-1985, Lillian E Pfsiter Asay ca. 1903-? and Leo Pfister 1905-?
Here is the fascinating saga of her history.
"Being kidnapped by Indians is only one of the rugged experiences that happened to Mrs. Anna Straw. The 74-year-old pioneer woman doesn't remember being kidnapped. She was only 7 weeks old at the time.
But she does remember vividly warding off with a corn knife Winnebago Indians who wanted to steal her horses when she was traveling from Southern Minnesota to Sioux City several years later.
Mrs Straw was born on a farm near Wilber, Neb. She was lying in a crib in the yard of their farm home one day while her mother was working indoors. Her father was in the fields.
An Indian galloped into the yard, snatched the baby from the crib and rode swiftly away. The frantic mother summoned her husband. Neighbors formed a posse which combed the countryside for the child. Two days later the posse came upon the Indian kidnapper. He had hidden the baby Anna in the woods. For a ransom of 100 pounds of flour, some wheat and bread and a promise that there would be no reprisals, the Indian led the posse to the child. She was unhurt and lay safely cradled in a hollow log.
When her family numbered three boys and a girl, Mrs. Straw's husband died. She put her family into a covered wagon and travelled to Pipestone, Minn. where she expected to take up a homestead. The family could find no place to live so stayed in the wagon. Mrs. Straw worked in the fields in summer and at cooking jobs in winter.
She managed to save $50 and bought a "little tumbledown shack and a half acre of ground" and fixed up the shack in her spare time. "I just got it finished when a Minnesota hurricane spread it all over the state," she said.
That was when she headed for Sioux City. Some Indians tried to take her horses, but she defended the stock with her corn knife. "It was pretty bad, but God was with us and we made it," she said"

www.familysearch.comName:John Pfister Birth Date: 1876 Birthplace: Illinois Age: 22 Spouse's Name: Anna Kasparik Spouse's Birth Date: 1877 Spouse's Birthplace: Nebraska Spouse's Age: 21 Event Date: 25 Jul 1898 Event Place: Saline Co, Nebraska Father's Name:John M. Pfister Mother's Name:Catherine Schriber Spouse's Father's Name:Joseph Kasparik Spouse's Mother's Name:Margaret Packop Race: White Marital Status: Single spouse's Race: White Spouse's Marital Status: Single Indexing Project (Batch) Number:M00326-4 System Origin: Nebraska-EASy ntbl GS Film number: 1985882 ntbl Reference ID: p 25 Citing this Record
"Nebraska, Marriages, 1855-1995," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X587-NBS : accessed 29 Mar 2013), John Pfister and Anna Kasparik, 25 Jul 1898.

1900 Swan Creek, Saline, Nebraska
John Pfeister b. July 1876 IL; married one year [c1899]
Anna b. July 1875 NEB;married one yr; ch: 1/1
Harvey [son] b. May 1899 Nebraska

1910 Lancaster, Lancaster, Neb
Anna Pfister age 32 wid; b. 1878 Nebraska
Ch: Harvey, Clarence, Lily and Leo born 1904

1920 Sioux City, IA
Anna Hamsware age 42 and married. b. Nebraska
ch: Harvey, Clarence and Lillian Pfister
[Anna runs a boarding house with 8 male roomers]

1925 Bethel, Cloy County SD
Anna B. Pfister age 46 b. Nebraska;wid

1940 Sioux City, IA
Annie STUKAS is age 64 and widowed; born Nebraska. she lives with married son Leo Pfeister; Leo's wife Hazel and their three children.

Sioux City, Iowa, City Directory, 1952-53
Anna B. Straw (wid of Ashley)

Find A Grave Memorial# 69526774

Anna married Ashley Sylvester Straw, son of Cyrus Griffin Straw and Sarah Mae Stearns, after 1940. (Ashley Sylvester Straw was born on 26 Aug 1864 in West Bolton, Chittenden County, Vermont, died on 30 May 1946 in Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa and was buried in Graceland Park Cemetery;Clark, South Dakota.)

Anna next married John Pfeister on 25 Jul 1898 in Saline County, Nebraska. (John Pfeister was born in Jul 1876 in Illinois.)

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Anna next married Hamsware in 1910-1920.

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