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Boy have you gotten a lot of help from quality researchers. We are jealous.
We concur with all that we have seen posted. Ida’s husband was George W and her father was A F Storbeck. Her mother was Elizabeth.
It appears that Ida’s sister Louisa married Otto Schroter in Cochise Co., AZ on Sept 14, 1887. In her son’s delayed birth certificate her hometown is listed as Linton, Osage Co., KS
The 1900 census shows her born in 1862 in MN.
Ida’s brother William is also living in Cochise Co in 1900, he is listed as born in 1869 in MN.
F A Storbeck Enlisted as a Private on 17 August 1862 at the age of 31
Enlisted in Company G, 10th Infantry Regiment Minnesota on 17 August 1862. He was promoted to Corporal.
He mustered out Company G, 10th Infantry Regiment Minnesota on 19 August 1865 in Fort Snelling, MN
He fought in the 1862 Sioux Uprising and later he fought in the south.
He and Dora both received pensions. The information is:
Fredrick A Storbeck
Dora S,
G company, 10th, MN, Inf
Oct 3,1889, Application #732,185, Cert # 815,751
Nov 8, 1904, Application #816,507, Cert #600,292
You can order copies of the pension applications at
http://www.archives.gov/
These normally include family documentation including birth places. It also will often include a lot of juice gossip. This should prove your line. If nothing else it will tell you where he was living after the war so you can find Ida’s birth information.
You asked why a mother would leave 2 small daughters.
It important to understand what it was like in 1900. Real problems were created when a man or woman lost their spouse. There were no daycares then, so a man had to rely on relatives or friends to care for the children while he worked, sometimes the families could not handle the additional kids.
For women there were very few jobs available. If you were literate, you might find a job as a clerk in a store, but there were very few clerking jobs available. If you weren’t literate, you could work as a dance hall girl.
My Grandfather was farmed out in 1898 when he was 12. He ran back to his mother the first night. She walked him back to the family and explained to him he had to stay with them because she could not feed him. It was painful for his mother, but she could do nothing else.
It would appear that after GW was put in the mental hospital that Ida got a divorce from him (that would explain her maiden when she married Frank Homer). She took the family to Arizona to be with her sister. William (her brother) most likely went with her.
George and Caroline Clark had no children and must have wanted some, so they adopted the girls. William (Ida’s Son) most likely was not part of the adoption. Boys were able to support themselves at 13 or 14, my grandfather did.
It appears that the girls had reasonably normal life after the adoption, something that they would have had very little chance at with Ida.
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