There are a lot of people looking for the history of the house they live in now or where they grew up. I have also done a bit of looking. My starting knowledge was that my parents bought the property before my brother was born in 1966. The woman who sold the farm was named Shoemaker and lived there with her daughter. The husband had already passed. Our address was 1444 84th Ave.
I believe I have found the correct couple from newspaper accounts. Mr. Cornelius Shoemaker married Hattie Lubbers 23 November 1917. "The newly-weds were the recipients of many beautiful and useful gifts, and will make their home one and one-half miles southeast of this city where they will be at home to their friends after December 15." This would have been before the address was assigned and was probably a rural route. There were of course other articles that helped me narrow it down. And it doesn't say they built the house so maybe it was already there? More to discover.
The Lubbers surname is quite familiar to me since that was the maiden name of my great-grandmother. There are a large number of folks with that surname still in the area but I am not totally sure they are all related. Maybe. To narrow the field down, I am working on the many family group sheets of the family and hopefully I will find a connection.
