Picture Series - Ahlf/Whidden

As while back I wrote about David Whidden & Rebecca ‘Grandma’ Grey….they had 7 children and the pictures below are of Tina Vincent Whidden and her husband Carl Frederick Ahlf shared by Jody19641 (Williams Family Tree) on Ancestry and from Elizabeth Tambeau.

Carl Ahlf was born in Missouri to Claus Hienrich Ahlf & Elizabeth Anne Osborne.  

According to the censuses, Carl's father worked for the railroad and I wonder if they took a trip north at one point because by 1921, Carl had left home, married and had 4 children!

If you have never seen the fields of mustard or wheat on the prairies, with the Rockies in the background ~ oy, it can take your breathe away ~~ yep, just got smacked with it - homesick ~~ perhaps that was the draw for Carl because became a farmer.

Wedding Day

Pictured on their wedding day at some place called Bats Valley, Irma, in 1913, Tina & Carl had 6 children - David, Elmer, Enid, Mary, Carol & Arthur.

Yet Irma would not be their final destination.

In 1930, Carl and his clan relocated to Edson, Alberta - over 200 miles west of Irma.  

It's a mere 3 ½ hr drive today but trekking over 200 miles in an old Model-T, hauling all your belongings probably took all day and then some back then; even by train it probably took all day!

This picture is Carl, Tina, and their baby David Claus Ahlf who was born in 1916 being held by Grandma Whidden 

Carl died in 1965, Tina in 1969 and are both buried at the Glenwood Cemetery.