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Title: Wilma Ruth Schneider Viseur
Dates: 1913-1918
Collection Number: 00776
Quantity: 4 items
Abstract: Real photo postcards of Elma Leonore Johnson Schneider and her fellow students at Valley City Normal School in 1913, a real photo postcard of Elma Leonore Johnson Schneider astride a horse in Pretty Rock, Grant County (N.D.) 1913 and a photograph of family with an Indian woman at Fort Yates (N.D.) 1918.
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota received this collection in June 1989 from Wilma Ruth Schneider Viseur, Sun City (Calif.). Originally it was accessioned as 89AV047.
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Biographical Sketch: Wilma Ruth Schneider Viseur
Wilma Ruth Schneider was born on March 1, 1917 in Greenwood, Christian County Ill. to Adolph Philip (1889-1951) and Elma Leonore Johnson (1892-1982) Schneider. They were farmers on a general farm. Her older brother, Duane George Schneider died at birth in 1915 and a second brother, Darrel Vance Schneider was born in 1920 and died in 1922. Wilma moved to rural Bent County, Colo. in 1935, and Jordan Valley, Malheur, Oregon in 1940 where she worked as a teacher at a public school. On June 8, 1957 she married Woodrow C. Viseur (1913-2001) and they lived in Decatur, Ill. where he worked as a social studies teacher for McArthur High School and she specialized in working with partially seeing students at Washington Elementary School. She was also a speaker at the 1958 Sight-Saving Conference in Philadelphia, Pa. on March 12, 1958. They retired and moved first in 1991 to Hemet, Calif. and later Sun City, Calif. On February 6, 2001, Woodrow passed away and was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park Cemetery in Whittier, Calif. Wilma died on April 9, 2008 and is buried with him there.
Elma Lenore Johnson Schneider
Elma Lenore Johnson was born on March 29, 1892 in Greenwood, Ill. to George L. (1866-1896) and Abigail “Abbie” E. Zinn (1868-1942). Her father George died in 1896 and her mother Abbie married James McGinnis (1864-1952) on February 8, 1898 in Sangamon Ill. The family moved to Morton County around 1910 where they farmed their own land. Elma attended Valley City Normal School and obtained her teacher’s certificate and taught at Pretty Rock (N.D.) in 1913. She married Adolph Philip Schneider (1889-1951) on August 11, 1914 in Christian County, Ill. In 1920, they worked a general farm in Greenwood, Ill. From 1926 to 1931 they lived in San Diego, Calif. In 1935, they lived in Las Animas, Colo. working as farm laborers and then around 1940 moved to Arcadia Or. working the farms there. Her husband, Adolph died on December 4, 1951 and is buried in the Kettelkamp Cemetery, Christian County, Ill. Elma lived near her daughter Wilma in Sun City, Calif. until her death on November 3, 1982. She is buried with her husband in the Kettelkamp Cemetery, Christian County, Ill.
Sources:
Bismarck Tribune, Ancestry.com
INVENTORY
00776-00001 Indian woman holds young child with man and woman standing to side at
Fort Yates (N.D.) September 1918
00776-00002 Elma Leonore Johnson Schneider and her Valley City State Normal classmates at boarding house Valley City (N.D.) 1910
00776-00003 Elma Leonore Johnson Schneider and classmates at Valley City State Normal school Valley City (N.D.) 1910
00776-00004 Elma Leonore Johnson Schneider astride horse in Pretty Rock (N.D.) January 24, 1913
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