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Andrew County, Missouri Genealogy Trails

Biographies

Frederick Oscar and Carrie (Martin) Dudeck

Frederick Oscar (known as Oscar) Dudeck, born in 1876, was one of ten children. They lived on a small farm and orchard in Andrew County, Missouri. When he was 27 years old in 1903, he heard that workers were needed for the wheat harvest in western Kansas. So he went there to work. During that summer, protracted religious meetings were held in the area where he was working and so he attended. Carrie Mae Martin, along with her parents and some other siblings went from Atlanta to attend those meetings also. There she met Oscar Dudeck. They corresponded then, and married in Arkansas City, Kansas, in 1905. He was 29 and she was 21 year of age.

After their marriage, they lived in Hollenberg, Kansas, until at least 1907. They then, moved to Atlanta. Oscar came with a wagon and horses his parents had given him. Carrie and their first born young daughter, Selma Grace, rode the train to Atlanta. Little is known of their first year or two in the Atlanta area. They possibly lived in a 'dug out' or a sod house, but this has not been verified. It is known that in 1908 or 1909, they moved to a small farm approximately 1 mile north and 2 miles east of Atlanta. They lived there and farmed until 1911. They then bought and moved to the farm 2 miles west and 1 mile south of Atlanta where they raised their family of 6 children. They were Selma, Forest, Herman, Inez, Raymond and Claude. They sold the farm and moved into Atlanta to begin retirement in 1950.
by Raymond Dudeck of Arlington, Va. (Submitted by Kyle M. Condon) source #01