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Singer
by Mary C. Shaffer

Ida Oneida Ona Marie Harding ¹ ⁵

Birth:	21 Sep 1893 in O'Neill, Holt, Nebraska, USA ¹ ² ³ ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷
Death:	14 Nov 1991 in Littleton, Denver, Colorado, USA ¹ ¹⁰ ⁴ ⁵ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹ ⁹
Sex:	F
Father:	Lawrence Edgar Harding b. 26 Apr 1863 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA
Mother:	Susie Caroline Hamilton b. 21 Jun 1872 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Burial: Cheyenne, Laramie, Wyoming, USA ¹ ¹¹ ¹² ⁵ ¹³ ¹²

Reference: 1

LDS Baptism: 1992 OAKLA

LDS Endowment: 1992 OAKLA

LDS Sealing Child: 1992 OAKLA ¹ ⁵

Changed: 27 Aug 2006 20:27:10

Spouses & Children

John Joseph Rohde (Husband) b. 31 Jan 1893 in Phoenix, Holt, Nebraska, USA
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Marriage:	28 Nov 1916 in O'Neill, Holt, Nebraska, USA
LDS Sealing Spouse:
Children:
Theodore Vincent Rohde b. 5 Mar 1918 in Phoenix, Holt, Nebraska, USA Clara Fern Rohde Helen Mary Rohde b. 8 Dec 1920 in Phoenix, Holt, Nebraska, USA Mildred Arlene Rohde b. 6 Mar 1923 in O'Neill, Holt, Nebraska, USA John Edward Rohde

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Notes

Individual:
Buried in Olivet Cemetary in Cheyenne, Wyoming

Told to Mary Singer Shaffer by Ona Marie Harding Rohde on 3 July 1977 - Sybil was going to ge t up in the night to go to the outhouse. It was winter and cold (January 1908) so her stepmother (Lena Gertrude Utley Harding) called out to her to put on her coat. She paused at the back door with the door open. She turned and grew white and fainted. Her stepmother got hysterical and started screaming, thinking that she was dead. She yelled, "Go get your Daddy", over and over and wouldn't touch Sybil. She was so upset that later that next day she went into labor. By later that night she was ready to deliver and Lawrence (her husband) told Ona to go get the neighbor. As Ona was leaving the house she heard the baby cry upstairs. She didn't want to go. She wanted to stay and help with the new baby. She did go on the horse and told the neighbor and returned right away, alone. The neighbor said that she would come but didn't show up until the next morning. Meanwhile Walter heard all the commotion and started running up the road (1/2 mile away) for Mrs. Striker to come. Mrs. Striker came then and was at the house by the time Ona arrived back. They had washed the new baby and wrapped it. The baby was born at seven months and weighed five pounds. It was very frail. It was unheard of to have a child so small. The mother was sick - had pleurisy and was weak from the shock of going into labor early. The delivery went all right. The next day Ona came down with pneumonia in both lungs and Sybil had the D.T.'s , was terrified and out of her mind. Mother was so weak she couldn't nurse. They tried to force cow's milk down the baby. The baby was too weak to suck. It didn't agree with her and she cried constantly. Mother lived six days and died. The night she died, Clayton, (10 years old) who had been sick with pneumonia, had one of his lungs collapse. Irwin, (16 years) was still down, so was Ona, (14 years) and Sybil (13 years). So the four oldest children were too ill to help. The funeral was held downstairs. All the sick kids were upstairs. Ona was so out of it she remembers being told her stepmother had died, but it was hazy. She dreamt she attended the funeral but she didn't. She stayed upstairs from early January 1908 to the third of March. Neighbors brought food but so many people were dying of it and it was so contagious they wouldn't come in. The fall Ona was 14 (1907) she went to school a few days and then stayed to help the stepmother garden, can, husk corn, wash, etc. The deal was that she could go to school in December. When her mother died in January and Ona was sick until March she never went back to school again. Emory (the youngest) was 2 1/2 and not potty trained yet. They never trained kids until they could use the outhouse in those days. Ona took over Alice (5 years old) and Emory when her stepmother died. Sybil and Ethel (both 8 years old) were close. Ona complained that they would stay away until the work was done.
She was born Ida Oneida Harding. When she was 8 her father remarried Lena Gertrude Utley. H er new mother did not like her name and she told her that when she got a new mother she got a new name. She renamed her Ona Marie Harding. She was always called Onie so it didn't make a lot of difference to her. She always used Ona Marie after that. She was registered in school by that name. It was never changed legally.

Ona was painting the house in Ord, Nebraska, one day when her husband, John, was at work an d the children were in school. She went to go to the bathroom and tripped on the pail of paint and when she fell she fell with her hand under her and broke her ribs. When she fell paint got on her dress. She got up and went to the bathroom anyway, changed her dress into one that was clean and then called her neighbor to get help to go to the doctor.

Marriage:
Ona Marie Harding and John Joseph Rohde were married in O'Neill. After the wedding they cam
e out to the Rohde home (his parent's home) and lived with them for about 3 months. On their wedding night the other children all moved out of the bedroom for them. (the whole second floor was one huge room for all the children to sleep in.) After that night they slept there with all the others. After three months they moved into another building on the property that John built so they could have a little more privacy. They were married in 1916. In 1917 Lawrence Edgar Harding (her father) died. His home was rented out but the renters didn't stay long. In 1921 Ona and John Rohde moved into the Harding Homestead. It was only a few miles from the Rohde homestead. The Harding homestead was sold in the late 40's or early 50's to Orville Thorson (an old neighbor). (Told to Mary Singer Shaffer by Ona Marie Harding Rohde on July 3, 1977)

In the summer of 1978 I (Mary Singer Shaffer) and my husband James Shaffer and Ona Marie Harding Rohde took a trip back to O'Neill, Nebraska and we visited the Harding homestead and the Rohde homestead. The Rohde homestead was still in the family and Bernard Rohde lived there. Other people lived on the Harding homestead but they let us look in the house and around the area.

Sources

Title: Ebenezer.FTW
Text: Date of Import: Sep 7, 1999
Title: Bible of Susie Caroline Hamilton
Publication: Presented by the Congregational Sunday School Christmas 1883
ion of Ona Marie Harding Rohde.
Note: Her mother wrote in her bible Ida Oneida Harding was born Sep 21, 1893 on Thursday at 2:00 AM .
Title: Obituary of Ona Marie Harding Rohde
Title: Source 239 (please edit title)
Text: Date of Import: Sep 7, 1999
Title: Source 246 (please edit title)
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Title: Source 244 (please edit title)
Title: Tombstone (Cemetary Marker)
Note: Olivet Catholic Cemetary in Cheyenne, Wyoming
Title: Source 247 (please edit title)
Title: Personal Information
Author: Shaffer, Mary C.
Note: I saw the grave of Ona Marie Harding Rohde when I attended the funeral of Theodore A. Rohde i n June 2003.
Title: Source 245 (please edit title)
n June 2003.
Title: Newspaper clipping - Cheyenne, Wyo.
Author: The Wyoming Eagle
Publication: Cheyenne, Wyoming
Obituary of John Joseph Rohde - Rohde and the former Ona Harding were married Nov. 28, 1916 a
Title: St. Patrick's Catholic Church O'Neill, Nebraska 1887-1977
Publication: 1977
John J. Rohde of Phoenix, Nebraska and Ona Marie Harding were married on November 28, 1916.