Tombstone Tuesday: Thomas and Hattie Gleason

Hedvig (Hattie) Lucy Motzko Gleason

10.14.1885 - 5.3.1963

Thomas E.Gleason

1.29.1878 - 11.11.1949



To read more about Hattie Motzko Gleason please follow the below link:

Hedvig Lucy Motzko

Hedvig Lucy Motzko Revisited





Mary Post Warren

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Super Sister Sunday - Mary Motzko and Hedvig Lucy Motzko

My third in my series on Super Sister Sunday spotlights my maternal grandmother (Mary Motzko) and her sister Hattie Motzko.  Mary and Hattie were child number 3 and 4 in a family of 10 children.  Although all the Motzko children were friends and playmates Mary and Hattie were close in age and were closer than usual. I assume (not necessarily fact) that their older sisters Catherine and Anna were more the 'grown up children' in the family and helped raise the younger ones.  I'm sure that Mary and Hattie eventually moved into this role but at their earliest ages Mary and Hattie were able play together easily. As teens they had each other to commiserate with - boys, marrying someday, having babies of their own - all the things that young girls chat about.

Mary was born in September 1883 and Hattie was born in October 1885....I can just vision Mary trying to be a little mother to Hattie. My views of what life was like in the mid-1880's is very "Little House on the Prairie-ish". Growing up in Minnesota and Idaho with lots of siblings close to your age, everyone helping everyone else, the older helping with and playing with the younger...maybe a few cousins living on a farm down the road.  Life was not easy for them and I'm not sure I know I could not have been as strong as the Motzko family.

The two pictures posted are Mary and Hattie at youngest age available.  Mary is 15 in this picture and Hattie is 23.  I wish I had others at younger ages.  I have group pictures with all or some of the family but not many individual pics.

You can read Hattie and Mary's full stories by clicking on these links:

Mary Motzko Troyer

Hedvig Lucy Motzko Gleason

Hedvig Lucy Motzko Revisited





Mary Post Warren

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Thursday Treasure

No stamp - maybe fell off, if you look close you can see the postmark.



Mary Post Warren

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Hedvig Lucy Motzko revisited

I goofed up a lot on my post of January 6, 2010 on Hattie Motzko so I thought I would redo it.   Since posting the other post on Hattie I've also received a beautiful wedding photo to post here.  Don't they make a most handsome couple?  I have to say all the Motzko 'girls' were beautiful.


Born in Bermidjii MN, Helvig Lucy (aka Hattie) Motzko (b. 10/14/1885 Bermidjii MN; d. 5/3/1963; buried: Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise ID) was the fourth child of Philipp and Maria Motzko.

Hattie Motzko married Thomas E. Gleason (b. 1/29/1878 NV; d. 11/11/1949 ID) September 4, 1912 at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Nampa ID.

Hattie and Thomas had 5 children - Robert Bernard (Killed in WWII),  George Patrick,  John W. Gleason, Thomas J. Gleason, Mary Ellen Gleason (Normoyle)

Mary Post Warren

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Philipp and Maria Motzko Family Recap

(note: picture is dated 1896 two children are missing - Frances and Philipp Jr. had not been born yet)

Well, I finally finished the Philipp and Maria Motzko family!  All posts are in my 2010 blogroll.  Next week I will move forward with the grandchildren of  Philipp and Maria.  Doing my postings on the Motzko family I was surprised to see there were not more grandchildren... 

  1. Catherina had one child Raymond Herman
  2. Johanna had no children
  3. Mary had two children, Margaret Troyer (Post) and Dorothy Helen Troyer (Haines)
  4. Hattie had three children John W. Gleason, Thomas J. Gleason, Mary Ellen Gleason (Normoyle)
  5. Theresa had one child Rena Marie Olsen (Coelho)
  6. Frank had one child Helen Bernice (Kaufman)
  7. Thomas no children (to my knowledge)
  8. John had no children (to my knowledge)
  9. Frances had four children: Susan (Martin Grier), Nola (George Grier), Louis, William
10. Philipp Jr had no children (to my knowledge)

I also found it interesting that each child was born almost exactly two years apart.  I cannot imagine 20 years of being pregnant and/or nursing.  On the other hand if Philipp and Maria had not spent 20 years having children there would be a lot of people not here today....including possibly myself and my children.

It's been a pleasure to research these people.  There is much information still missing although I am still researching.  Special thanks to those who helped gather this information - specifically Greg Gleason (grandson of Hattie), the amount of information he provided is worth its weight in gold.  My mother and her sister (daughters of Mary) also left me a rich inheritance of diaries and photos.  Irreplaceable information.

I truly feel blessed to be a part of the Motzko family.  

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 Mary Post Warren

Just Pictures (Motzko Family)

My brain is warped from putting together the info in the last 5 posts. So I'm taking a break and just doing pictures today. MANY MANY thanks to my (2nd or 3rd) cousin Greg Gleason (Hattie's grandson) who sent me most of the information/pictures on disk. He was also kind enough to donate to me a flat bed scanner so that I could put together the info I have on my grandmother Mary Motzko Troyer.

Any picture you 'click on' with your mouse will enlarge and you will be able to see the picture and the print under each one in a larger view.

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 Mary Post Warren

Hedvig Lucy Motzko

Born in Bermidjii MN, Helvig Lucy (aka Hattie) Motzko (b. 10/14/1885 Bermidjii MN; d. 5/3/1963 buried Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise ID) was the fourth child of Philipp and Maria Motzko.

Hattie Motzko married Thomas E. Gleason (b. 1/29/1878 NV; d. 11/11/1949 ID) September 4, 1912 at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Nampa ID.

Hattie and Thomas had 2 children - Patrick J. II and Ellen G.

Visit Hedvig Lucy Motzko revisited for updated information.  Anyone reading this who is related to these people please contact me via this blog...I'll get back to you and we can share tons of additional information.

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 Mary Post Warren