Entry from Journal #1: August 22, 1930

I got a fishing basket for Christ[opher] & little flower baskets for Irene & Evelyn Schenk (Wilber & Myers¹) made by their Uncle Jno Eisenbardt² from willows³.

1.  Wilber & Myers.  Did Mary mean to write “Weber & Marks”?  These were the married names of Irene and Evelyn in 1930, at the time this journal entry was made.

2.  Uncle Jno Eisenbardt.  John “Eisenbardt”, correctly spelled “Eisenbart”, was married to George Schenk‘s older sister, Emma Rose.  John and Emma married in Michigan in 1887 when Emma was about 16 years old.  The couple had four children, all daughters.  They lived for a time in Sand Coulee, Montana, and then moved to Great Falls, Montana.

3.  willows.  Through some research at Ancestry.com, I uncovered the fact that although John was a farmer by trade, he was also considered an expert at caning furniture.  So he likely made the fishing basket and “little flower baskets”.