Vandenberg, Clement Stephen b. 10 Feb 1912 Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 26 Sep 1996 Ashwaubenon, Brown, Wisconsin, USA: 1FAMILYTREE Genealogy

1912 - 1996 (84 years) Has 28 ancestors and 47 descendants in this family tree.

Name	Vandenberg, Clement Stephen [1, 2]
Born	10 Feb 1912	Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA [1]
Gender	Male
Biography	A story of Clem & Margaret - Clem - I was born in 1912, the year the Model T Ford came out. At six yea rs of age, I walked 112 miles to a one room school located on the corn er of Mc Cabe'Road & Golden Glow Road (the schoolhouse now stands on Bob V andenberg's farm). The school had all eight grades and one teacher. T he teacher and pupils did the janitor work and we felt quite proud when o ur turn came to fire the stove and wind the clock. Our lunch buckets wou ld freeze in the hall and we carried our water from Pat Mc Cabes nearb y. We looked forward to a picnic at the end of the year. I walked to S t. Nick's for First Communion and Confirmation instructions. After eight y ears of grade school, I walked 312 miles to Freedom High School. After gr aduation I worked on the farm. In 1936 my father passed away and the ne xt vear we bought the farm. I knew Margie thru school, never thinking s he would be my wife. We lived through the worst depression in histor y. We struggled together and God gave us six wonderful children.My mother stayed with us for 17 years. She was a large woman and had diab etes and was confined to a wheel chair. I think 17 years is a record f or a mother-in-law living under the same roof as her daughterin-la w. I am proud of Margie for caring for and putting up with mother as s he was not an easy person to live with. Mother took turns staying at t he homes of other brothers and sisters in the area after Margie became i ll and the doctor told her she was trying to handle too niuch. We took o ur turn several more time through the years.After 38 years on the farm on County Trunk S, we sold the farm to a catt le dealer. We moved near Freedom on County Trunk UU across from Fox Vall ey Golf Course, where I learned to play golf and take life easy. We ho pe to stay here the rest of our lives.Margie and I play Scrabble and I enjoy reading. We visit the sick and t he old and lonely whenever possible. We've done some traveling since reti ring. Before the advent of modern machinery we farmed the hard way, by han d. We cut the grain with a binder that tied a piece of twine around each b undle and dropped it on the ground to be picked up and put into shoc ks to dry. From there it was picked up by a fork by hand and loaded on to a wagon to be put into the barn and wait for a threshing machine to thr esh it. Soon this was done away with and threshed from the shocks. The s ame was done with the corn. Loaded onto a wagon and hauled to the silo fi ller that cut it up into 1411 pieces and blown into the silo to cure.Hay was hauled by a team of horses and wagon and put into the barn whe re we fed it to cows daily throughout the winter. The manure was wheel ed onto a pile and hauled onto the land and spread with a manure spread er which took the place of spreading it with a fork by hand.We grew all our own vegetables and apples for the winter and butchered o ur own hogs and beef for the family.When a barn was to be built, neighbors got together and had a raising b ee supervised by a carpenter. Neighbors and families did everything toget her. They had husking bees, barn raising bees, wood sawing bees, quilti ng bees, canning and sausage making were also done by all.When there was a death, neighbors got together and got the corpse ready a nd put the corpse in a coffin and they were viewed at home before the comi ng of the funeral homes. The graves were dug by neighbors and friends.For recreation there were always a few that could play a piano or a violi n. They played at square dances and at weddings. They danced in the hou se and sometimes on the thresh floor in the barn.This way of doing everything together was brought over from Europe when th ey migrated to this country and continued for 300 years until the adve nt of modern machining When everybody became independent.Those days everybody knew everybody for miles around. At that time they e ither walked or took a horse and rig. Now people don't even know their ne xt door neighbor.When my brother, Harold, and I took over the farm in 1935, we farmed the s ame way as always. Gradually farming methods changed drastically over t he years. Barn cleaners came into existence, bulk milk coolers, combine s, electric stoves, oil furnaces, clothes dryers, refrigerators, etc. Th is mad,--it much easier on the farm and in the house. One man could do wh at it took several to do in former generations.Harold married about a year later and went to work for another farmer.In 1975 we sold the farm and moved 2 miles south of Freedom on County Tru nk UU across from the Fox Valley Golf Course, where I learned to play go lf and take it easy. I read quite a bit and write letters to the People 's Forum which is run in the Appleton Post Crescent newspaper.
Death Record - Civil	26 Sep 1996
Clement VANDENBERG Birth Date: 10 Feb 1912 Death Date: 26 Sep 1996 Social Security Number: 396-22-0992 State or Territory Where Number Was Issued: Wisconsin Death Residence Localities ZIP Code: 54313 Localities: Ashwaubenon, Brown, Wisconsin Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin Hobart, Brown, Wisconsin
Died	26 Sep 1996	Ashwaubenon, Brown, Wisconsin, USA [1]
Obituary	Aft 26 Sep 1996
	Vandenberg, Clement Obituary
Prayer Card	Aft 26 Sep 1996
	Vandenberg, Clement Prayer Card
Buried	Aft 26 Sep 1996	St. Nicholas Catholic Cemetery, Freedom, Wisconsin, USA [2]
St. Nicholas Church Cemetery, Freedom, WI
	Vandenberg, Clement Stephen St. Nicholas Catholic Cemetery, Freedom, Wisconsin
Person ID	I32398	1FamilyTree \| JulieGonnering112641
Last Modified	9 Sep 2017

Father	Vandenberg, Cornelius, b. 18 Sep 1867, Freedom, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA , d. 7 Oct 1936, Freedom, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 69 years)
Mother	Blindauer, Magdalena "Lena" Mary, b. 14 Mar 1875, Greenleaf, Brown, Wisconsin, USA , d. 2 Jan 1961, Freedom, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 85 years)
Family ID	F7373	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Hooyman, Margaret Anna, b. 9 Nov 1916, Freedom, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA , d. 7 Aug 1995, Freedom, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 78 years)

Married 23 Nov 1937 St. Nicholas Catholic Church, Freedom, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA [1, 2]

Children

+	1. Vandenberg, Bonita Margaret "Bonnie"
+	2. Vandenberg, Colleen Imelda
+	3. Vandenberg, Vernon Eugene
+	4. Vandenberg, Jane Mary
+	5. Vandenberg, Lois Ann
+	6. Vandenberg, Kathryn Ann

Last Modified 9 Sep 2017

Family ID F27747 Group Sheet | Family Chart

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	Born - 10 Feb 1912 - Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
	Married - 23 Nov 1937 - St. Nicholas Catholic Church, Freedom, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
	Died - 26 Sep 1996 - Ashwaubenon, Brown, Wisconsin, USA
	Buried - Aft 26 Sep 1996 - St. Nicholas Catholic Cemetery, Freedom, Wisconsin, USA