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Pleasant Plain MM, Dec 1872 per 1900 Census
Greenleaf Cemetary, Randall Emery Officiated
Find A Grave Memorial# 17001584John Tuning (Tunning ), b 12-31-1872 , Jefferson Co, IA , s Wm R & Phoebe (Roberts)
w Mattie , b 12-8-1877 , Hardin Co, IA , dt Jesse & Mary (White) Pressnelle , m 3-6-1894 , Dixon Co, NB
Ch: Walter b 3-27-1895 , Dixon Co, NB
Harlan b 4-6-1897 , Dixon Co, NB
Jessie O b 5-26-1899 , Dixon Co, NB
Wm Jesse b 2-16-1905 , Dixon Co, NB
Everett b 6-29-19071880 Census: Springbank, Dixon Co., NE
1885 Nebraska Census: Dixon Co, NE
1900 Census: Springbank, Dixon Co., NE
6-4-1904 John Tuning , (Tunning ) Mattie & minor ch Walter P , Harlan E & Olive , gct Cross MM, NB
1-18-1908 John Tuning & w Mattie & ch Walter , Harlan & Jessie O , rolf (?)
1910 Census: Norden, Keyapaha Co., NE
11-28-1910 John Tuning (Tunning ) & w Mattie & ch Walter , Harlan , Jessie O , Wm Jesse & Everett J , glt (?)
5-24-1913 John Tuning & w Mattie & minor ch Walter , Harley , Ollie , Jesse , Everett , Theodore & Viola , rocf Norden MM, NB
?-?-1914 John Tuning , b (?)
w Mattie , b (?)
Ch: Walter b ?
Harley b ?
Ollie b ?
Jesse b ?
Everett b ?
Theodore b ?Viola b ?
Raymond b ?4-27-1918 John Tuning & Mattie & ch (except Walter ) gct Norden MM, NB
1920 Census: McGuris, Keyapaha Co., NE
2-21-1927 John Tuning & fam gct Greenleaf MM, Idaho
1930 Census: Greenleaf, Canyon Co., IdahoTHE HISTORY OF THE JOHN TUNING FAMILY
From 1871 to 1958
John Tuning began his life with his parents, William R. and Pheobe [Roberts] Tuning on a farm at Pleasant Plain, Iowa on December 31, 1871. He lived there until the age of three when with his parents and sister Eva moved to a farm between Allen and Waterbury, Nebraska. This place was know as the Cleveland place. The family lived there for several years and then they moved nearer to Allen and settled in the Springbank Community where a Friends or Quaker church was organized. They were only a short distance from the Springbank School where the children attended. The first house burned down and later it was replaced with a bigger and better house. After they had lived there for several years and John grew to young manhood the family of Jesse R. Pressnall moved there from Kansas and in this family was a pretty little miss by the name of Martha. They became very interested in each other and on March 6, 1894 they were married by a Justice of the Peace, along with her brother Otto and his sister Eva at Ponca, Nebraska, making it a double wedding. John's brother's and sister's were, Eva, David, Orville, Lillie, Mary, and Nellie. Martha's brother's and
sister's were, Otto, Benjamin, Jessie May, Lizzie, and Huldah Ann..
To give some of Martha's history we will go back to where she was born at Newton, Iowa, December 8, 1876 and moved with her parents to Enisdale, Kansas at the age of 16 years. Soon she moved to Allen where she taught school one term before her marriage. Grampa Pressnall took sick and died July 6, 1891 soon after they moved to Dixon County.
The following story is taken off of a tape the family made about the life of John and Mattie, so there will be
names of who is talking.... also part of what Ollie has transcribed.
[Walter] They bought 40 acres North of Grandpa Tunings place North and East of Allen four miles more
or less. I was born there, March 27, 1895, Papa (John) farmed the 40 acres and lived there until after Harley
was born on April 6, 1897. "Walter remembers this because he said that was the place he got his face slapped
for biting his [Harlies] fingers." (Walter is telling this on a tape) The folks moved from there and bought 40
acres out of the South West corner of Grandpas place, now whether they bought it from him I don't know, and I
don't know if they built a house or not. This is where Ollie was born May 26, 1899. He (Papa) run a
blacksmith shop in Allen and farmed. Mama done (the) a lot of the farming. I know she had a box on the
cultivator that summer and she put Ollie in the box to cultivate corn. Now they lived there - well I just couldn't
tell you how long - cause I was to young to pay any attention.
[Ollie] I might put this in that I was born the last
day of school and Aunt Nellie was so mad cause Grandma Tuning had to come to our house and didn't go to
the picnic. She told me one day she couldn't hardly forgive me for that.
[Walter] I think you must have been mad too for the amount of racket you were making the first time I seen you.
[Ollie] Well, I probably didn't like this world. Was I born day or night?
[Walter] It was daytime - you was sure putting up a lot of fuss about it.
[Ollie] What did they call that place?
[Walter] Well I don't know there was a man moved out of there by the name of Waddell - cause he had the first white hogs I ever seen. Whether he had bought it from grandpa I don't know but it was out of the square that originally belonged to Grandpa. Florence Lucille was born here September 22, 1901, she only lived about 6 weeks.
[Evert] How long were you there?
[Walter] I don't think - well making a guess of just over a year because we moved from there to a place North and East of Allen about a mile I'll say.
[Ollie] Was it on that place that Papa was awfully sick? Was it pneumonia or Typhoid Fever?
[Walter] Pneumonia I think he had there. [Ollie] I know Mama said she was so afraid he'd die she'd go to the bedroom door to see if he had moved.
[Walter] Iremember when he was sick. [Ollie] Harley and him both had it cause she said Harley would cry and then he
would turn over and go back to sleep. Wasn't that the winter it was 40 below for a week and Mama had all the
chores to do?
[Walter] Yeah! [another womans voice says something about typhoid] and Walter says -- Maybe it was Typhoid - you're getting in pretty deep for a 4 or 5 year old kid to remember, but I can remember when they were both sick and she stayed there alone and took care of them a Doctor by the name of Wanzer, an old, old man was their physician and in them days they put up their medicine instead of capsules they had powder and they would do them up in a little paper. And when the Doctor came back a day or so after he had been there and said did you give him all of that powder that I left? Mama says, you didn't leave any. He chuckled and said well I guess I didn't. So she just proceeded to send word to Ponca for another Doctor. That Doctor done so much forgetting - he's the man who ushered me (Walter) into the world and his grandson was my ditch rider over here in Black Canyon, name of Wanzer.
[Evert] Now they moved to Allen and Papa continued in the Black Smith shop?
[Walter] Yeah!
[Evert] And how long was he there in that place?
[Walter] It was 1902 we sold out then and went to California, Enyo [O'Enyo] Valley, from there we went to McMinnville, Oregon. Wasn't there but just a short time and then we went from there to Woodland.
[Evert] You went to all three of those places in 1902?
[Ollie] We skipped right along that year.
[Walter] Then we wasn't at Woodland to long, I forget, spring and part of the summer maybe. We stayed with Grandma Pressnall Osburn. They met us at Kamiah with a lumber wagon and 4 horse's to get us up the mountain. We crossed the Clearwater river on a ferry boat. Grandma used to carry her butter and eggs down the mountain on horseback. This was the spring of 1903
[Walter] For some reason I don't know why Papa, Harley and me left and went back to Allen, Mom and Ollie didn't come till later.
[Evert] Now that's from Woodland?
[Walter] Yeah, and I don't know why they didn't go with us. But when they got into Spokane Teddy Roosevelt's train was coming through and there was a crowd at the depot and then the crowd just as the train got even with the platform pushed an 11 year old girl off onto the track and the train run over her and killed her.
[Ollie] I remember that.
[Walter] I don't remember - the only thing I remember of the trip is going through Billings, Montana and the Indians coming on the train and trying to sell moccasins and gloves and other things.
[Ollie] You went back to Allen and we moved to Gross, Nebraska and Papa was again in the Blacksmith business..
[Walter] I was just going to ask where we went to from there.
[Ollie] Seems to me we went in a covered wagon.
[Walter] I can't remember how we went I know thats the way we left. We weren't there over a year or so.
[Evert] Then he had Blacksmith shop in Gross too?
[Walter] Yeah!
[Evert] Well, what did he do - what kind of job did he have in these other places?
[Walter] Well, he worked on a ranch in California and I can't remember - I used to remember - the first peoples names. They had water, there was a canal run along the base of the hill, I don't know which way it run either. He worked for them and they had a general run of stock and they had goats, that was the first goats I ever saw. Then at McMinnville it rained all the time and was a mess, shovelled a ditch had lots of mud and we got out of there. When we went to Gross we were not there very long till we left there and went back to Allen and lived on the Ward place and Papa started his third Blacksmith shop. Jess was born there February 16, 1905 when he was a few weeks old, Papa sold the Blacksmith shop and we moved down on the Springer place by Waterbury and farmed there that summer. Walter and Harlie always remembered how they cut cockle burrs out of the corn fields.
[Ollie] I shall never forget how I hauled Jess in the little red wagon that summer. When it got to hot to have him out in the sun Papa made some little bows for it and Mamma covered it with some canvas and I hauled him rain or shine. Every time he howled, all I had to do was grab the wagon and around the house we would go again. I have a lot of mileage charged up to him. Then in December 1905 Papa and Uncle Ott had a sale and we went to Entiat, Washington, sometime in December, we was there the rest of that winter both families lived in a small house at the foot of the mountain. We children put in our time carrying water from a spring up the canyon and rolling rocks off the mountain just to see the sparks fly. The folks bought a place there and built on it and set out an orchard. Our place bordered the Columbia River on the West. Us kids spent lots of time catching ground hogs back near the river. Then in the spring of 1907 we moved to Templeton, South Dakota. We landed in South Dakota in March that’s two winters and one summer we was at Entiat, Washington. In South Dakota he bought 120 acres unimproved land, Evert was born July 29, 1907 in the parsonage at
Wessington Springs - Harmony Hills Church. In the fall of the year Papa sold out and I guess he shipped Mom and the kids by train, cause him, Harley and me took the covered wagon and headed for Allen again. "Boy what did we do then?"
[Evert] How long were you in Allen this time?
[Walter] I don't think we were there very long and then bought a place in Plainview which was one of the places he bought a Blacksmith shop up there. We stayed there then till the spring of 1909, that year we moved up to Norden, on a place down on the Niobrara River the old Davis place. He farmed there that summer and thrashed with a horse power thrashing machine. Theo was born January 14, 1910 - When he was a baby, Ollie has a picture of Mom holding him on her lap and just big enough to crawl around right good and we killed a rattlesnake out in front of the spring house - boy Mom just wasn't going to stay there at all with them crawling around where the kids were at. In July Papa drove the team to Springview and filed on 160 acre homestead 4 miles northwest of Norden. That summer and fall whenever the men folk had any time to spare they were getting buildings ready to move onto the claim in the spring. The chicken house and barn were made of sod with hay roofs. They dug the well and boarded it and we used a rope and pulley and bucket to draw the water up. It also served as a cooler for butter, meat, or milk. Just put it in a bucket and hang it down the well. As soon as the buildings were up Papa plowed fire brakes around them so if a Prairie fire came along it wouldn't burn us out. We planted potatoes, corn, and cane on strips of plowed ground. The house was built on a side hill and dug back in the hill and then boarded up the front and built the upper story. It was a dugout. Viola was born there October 9, 1911. It was
same as the place in Greenleaf on the hill (under the hill just identical)
[Ollie] We went to bed one night and the east window was open and there come up a blizzard and whipped that snow around and I can see Pop yet standing in his shirt tail with a scoop shovel shoveling that snow out of the house so we could get up.
[Walter] We used to always take a scoop shovel in the house with us of a night in the winter time and I've crawled out that upstairs window more than once when that snow drifted around and we couldn't open the door. One cold evening when a blizzard was raging, Walter came home with a tiny black and white puppy in his coat pocket which he had gotten at Hungenbergs. "Old Ring" was a faithful member of the family for about 13 years. For fuel at home it was simple. Papa made a two wheeled cart to push and us kids just pushed it around over the prairie and picked up cow chips. If we wasn't all out gatherin' cow chips, the rest was at the house packing out the ashes from the chips we had picked up the day before. Kept us out of mischief anyway and gave us plenty of exercise. Sometimes our shoes wore out before we could get them replaced and one day Papa and Walt took a load of hogs to Ainsworth, 40 miles away. There was snow on the ground and Papa's shoes were worn through and also the hide he had in them and he left blood on the snow every step of the way. One morning when the lightening was so bad and struck so often that when Papa saw that some of the buttons were off Evert's shoes and he told Papa the lightening had knocked them off. That’s getting pretty close. We were a pretty healthy family but one day Harlie was pounding two hammers together and a piece of steel flew off and hit him in the eye. Papa took him to Sioux City to the hospital but they never found it and he suffered all his life with it.
[Evert] Now then I can start to remember.
[Walter] Really, I'm glad somebody can.
[Ollie] we should mention the company we had just before Viola was born - the South Dakota people that swooped in on us.
[Walter] Was that before she was born?
[Ollie] Three families from South Dakota up in Line County, Jesse Hunt, McCard's and Drewery's. They had cattle all over the place.
[Walter] Uncle Cy went up and got em and brought em down to build things up.
[Ollie] Well that Jesse Hunt and somebody came down to prospect around so they had a place didn't he?
[Walter] Yeah, thats when the Indians stole his horses and then he went home and in a little while they all came down.
Hunts lived in that stone house didn't they, over east of us.
[Ollie] yes.
[Walter] Boy, you have got a memory. I'm glad somebody has from here on cause I don't remember that good.
[Evert] I remember one instance that happened, the folks was making molasses (sorghum) and some of the Hunt kids were there. We got the idea, well, they said one of their older brothers had a package of chewing gum in his pocket at home and we decided we wanted to go over there and get it. How far was it 6 miles?
[Ollie] Oh no.
[Evert] 3 miles?
[Ollie] Oh lands..
[Walter] 2 or 3 miles across there.
[Evert] Anyhow we, I guess we walked.
[Walter] You must of cause there wasn't nothing you could ride.
[Evert] And then you got to looking for us and I don't know who it was found us, anyway we were over there. We got the gum.
[Walter] I imagine that wasn't all you got either.
[Ollie] Well we didn't catch no school buses to go to school either I'm a telling ya.
[Walter] No.
[Evert] No, we had a school bus though.
[Ollie] Yeah, old hoss single tree.
[Evert] I remember when we drove one horse we took and left it over to Hunts place and walked from there over to the school house.
[Evert] I can remember Theo and I having to take the wash tub out and gather up cow chips on the prairie.
[Walter] Yeah!! [Evert] for fuel.
[Walter] Yeah and corn cobs too.
[Ollie] Papa fixed up a cart with buggy wheels and we pushed that around - oh you wouldn't get more that a tub of cow chips. Ollie telling Viola she never did have to pick up cow chips on the plains. During this time we were going to church and Sunday school at Norden. Part of this time we had meetings n the school house and part of the time in the Methodist church where Uncle Cy Emry preached. Aunt Lillie was the organist. Papa was Sunday School superintendent a lot of the time we lived there. Most of the time we went in a lumber wagon twice a day. It took a bad blizzard to keep us home. We were always there on time and most always had to build the fire. We knew what hard times were but we got a lot out of living out there away from the rush of the world. Often times the men of the neighborhood would bring their horses to get them shod and some corn to get ground into cornmeal and the women and pre-school children would come along and visit with Mamma. We knew what real neighbors were in those days and UNCLE JERRY'S salve was used as a cure for most ailments with a little sage tea and a spoon of hydrange for good measure. Ollie says "boy I can taste it yet" but for a few
doses of that and we were ready to take on a fed of cornbread and jackrabbit. We didn't know anything about a shot in them days, only for the coyote and rabbit or rattlesnake.
[Evert] I was 5 years old when I started to school there and I don't know how old I was when we left there.
[Walter] How much older are you than Theo?
[Ollie] You was 2 years and a half when he was born in January. Theo was 2 weeks old when we moved there.
[Walter] Papa and me went over there and put up what buildings were put up. Dug a hole out of the hill and then in the spring we moved over there I guess altho I don't remember one thing about moving. We moved over on there and how long we stayed there I don't know. I thought Viola was born in October and we left there the next spring.
[Ollie] No, she was about 2 years old when we moved away from there.
[Walter] I'm just a little hazy about that cause I don't know.
[Evert] Well then lets see if Theo was just a few weeks old when we went there and she was about 2 years old when we moved away.
[Ollie] She was 2 years and a half cause we moved in the spring and she was 2 years old in the fall when we moved away
[Walter] She claims she's 2 1/2 older than Ray.
[Ollie] She is, well, there's something wrong somewhere.
[Walter] You're wrong there - cause when we got down there on the old McCracken place the folks left you (Viola) with me and went to something and I don't know what and I don't know why either over there at that school and you woke on the bed and you was a squallin', I don't know what I done with ya but I felt like paddling ya, I don't know if I did or not - so you was just a tiny baby when we moved there.
[Ollie] Moved where?
[Walter] On the McCracken place, so I don't know it was sometime and thats just about as close as I can get to it.
[Viola] That figures.
[Ollie] She was no tiny baby.
[Walter] Then why was she laying on the bed a bawling. [Ollie] Oh she could do that yet without any reason.
[Walter] Well I ain't going to argue with you cause I'm not to positive.
[Evert] Well it does seem to me as I seem to remember we usually stayed about 5 years in one place.
[Ollie] Well thats the way to straighten things out I hadn't thought about a special gauged record of how long we stayed. You mean on a claim.
[Evert] Yeah, there and as we moved back to Nebraska we were 5 years there as I remember it.
[Viola] Well I was under school age when we left there, wasn't quite school age.
[Evert] When you left Nebraska.
[Viola] Norden.
[Ollie] Shorty was about three when we went to Norden the last time.
[Viola] I didn't start to school until after we came back to Norden.
[Evert] Now we moved back to Allen from the homestead and we moved to the McCracken place. I recollect Ray there.
[Ollie] And we lived on the McCracken place about 2 years before we moved to Grandpas place. The first year we moved on Grandpas place Ray was about 2 years old and we all had the measles. So we were on the McCracken place about 2 or 3 years.
[Evert] Down on the McCracken place I recall one day. Mama, when Ray was just a little baby and some body else and it was in the winter time and the roads were drifted in so that they went across the field ( [Ollie] Right across the fence.) and was going around the side hill and it was so steep that the buggy upset and Mom threw Ray out and he rolled down the hill in the snow. Ray was born May 3, 1913 (1914). Theo cut one of Viola's braids while we lived there, and he got what for.
[Evert] I remember there was one of the old mares somebody had borrowed to use and Papa sent me to get her and I was riding her down the road and when I got down down in front of the house there was a car coming - I was on the wrong side of the road from where I should have been and the old mare wanted to cross the road into the gate but the car was coming and I didn't want her to but I couldn't keep her from running and she got across right in front of the car
and the car clipped her and crippled her, knocked me off in the ditch but didn't hurt me.
{Ollie} We children went to the Oakdale school. We lived on this place until 1915 and moved near Allen to the new set of building on the south side of Grandpa Tuning's place and Papa and the boys farmed the whole place. We lived there about a year and exchanged places with Grandpa and he moved to the South side and us on the North side to the old home place. Grandpa died in June 1917. In the spring of 1918 we moved back to Norden on the Howard Burley place west of Norden. The first summer we were there, Walter was called to the Army and went to camp in Kansas. The war was over in the fall of 1918 and Walter came home. When Walter came home from camp he had gained some weight and when Ruth ran up and threw her arms around Walter and kissed him she then backed off and said "Oh, some old fat travelin' man." Walter and Ruth were married December 7, 1918 in Springview, Nebraska. This was the first fall the flu was so bad and killed so many folks. Papa would go into town every morning and do the chores for the town folks as they were all sick with the flu, and haul hay for them if they needed it. Jake Swim died with the flu and they were not allowed to have the funeral inside the church so Papa took him to the cemetery and Mrs. Sheppard, Walter, Ruth and I sang some songs and Mrs. Sheppard said a few words and we buried him. We never took the flu that winter but the next winter I [Ollie] came down with it first and the day I got up all the rest of the family went to bed with it. I would hang on to the chairs and table and make the rounds giving them the medicine. Luther Emry came up and did the outside chores. We sent for a Doc. at Johnstown, 25 mile away. In the spring of 1919 we moved on the place at the south edge of Norden. Bethel was born there on September 5, 1920. November 30, 1920 Dale Piersall and I [Ollie] were married. In February 1922, Papa along with Walter and Ruth, Dale and Ollie had a sale and moved to Greenleaf, Idaho. It was a bitter cold day that we had the sale, 17 below and the air was so frosty you could hardly see the sun. We served a hot dinner to them, (everyone at the sale) chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, bread and butter, beans, pie, and coffee. We shipped out in an emigrant car from Valentine, Nebraska, to Caldwell Idaho The folks had old Maude and Jerry, a cow, Walter's pet, Clyde, Babe, a team of Harlie's. Dale and Ollie had Bell, Dolly and the old black cow. We all brought our household goods. For awhile we all lived in a house south of Greenleaf [with Otto and Eva Pressnall] and then Dale and Ollie moved to part of the house that the Boise Payette lumber yard office was in. Walter's moved in a tent house on the north side of the railroad track. Papa built a shop in Greenleaf (on the street that is now Academy near Binford) and they later moved to the Tozier place east of the Greenleaf store and he moved his shop there. They lived there for awhile; and during this time Theo and Donna were married. Then they bought a piece of land north of the R. R. track from Mr. Antrim and they built on it. Harlie and Glenna were married at Mrs. Deans home October 28, 1923. Evert and Virena were married May 4, 1933 at Virena's parents home. Papa and Mamma lived north of the tracks for several years and then bought the place below the cemetery from Mrs. French and built there and again moved the shop next to the house. It was while they lived here that Ray and Violet, Viola and Lyle, and Bethel and Ed were all married. It was here that on a Saturday afternoon, October 18, 1952 that Papa went to the house from the shop and found Mamma sitting in the rocking chair just like she was asleep but he couldn't wake her up. We called the doctor and he said she'd had a stroke. We rushed her to the hospital where she slept through the night and woke up in Glory early Sunday morning. Ollie said she had fallen and struck her head causing a blood vessel to hemorrhage. After Martha's death John lived most of the time with Ollie and Jess (Jess having moved in with Ollie after Dale died and they ranched together) spending only a short time each with Walter's, Harlie's and Bethel.JOHN TUNING OBITUARY
Services for John Tuning, 92, of Caldwell Route 1 a retired blacksmith, who died Saturday in his home, will be conducted at the Greenleaf Friends Church at 10:30 am Thursday. The Rev. Randall Emery of the Whitney Bench Friends Church will officiate. Interment will be at Greenleaf under direction of Peckham-Dakan-Davis Chapel.
Mr. Tuning was born December 31, 1871, in Pleasant Plain, Iowa, and moved with his parents and baby sister in a covered wagon to Allen, Nebraska when he was three years of age. He began his education in a log schoolhouse at Waterbury, Nebraska. He was married March 6, 1894 in Ponca, Nebraska to Martha Pressnall.
A blacksmith for 65 years, he owned and operated his own shop in Greenleaf for 31 year, prior to retiring in 1953. He and Mrs. Tuning lived in Entiat, Washington, and Gerrald County, South Dakota, prior to coming to Greenleaf on March 10, 1922. Mrs. Tuning died October 19, 1952. He was a member of the Friends Church.
Surviving are six sons, Walter and Jess both of Caldwell, Harley of Greenleaf, the Rev. E. J. Tuning of Sprague River, Oregon, Theodore of Meadows, and Ray Tuning of Kamiah; three daughters, Mrs. Olive Piersall of Caldwell, Mrs. Viola Fleming of Lancaster, California and Mrs. Bethel Cronrath of Nampa; 26 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren,, and one great-great-grandchild. A daughter, Florence Lucile, died in infancy September 22, 1901. Caldwell News Tribune.
Martha White (Mattie) PRESSNALL
Hardin County, IA?, 1877 per 1900 Census
Friend Cemetary, Greenleaf
Friends Cemetary
Find A Grave Memorial# 17001598MARTHA TUNING OF GREENLEAF DIES IN LOCAL HOSPITAL
Martha Tuning, Greenleaf, died at a local hospital Sunday Morning. She was born December 8, 1876, in Newton, Iowa.
Survivors are her husband John Tuning of Greenleaf: six sons, Walter of Notus, Harley of Caldwell route 2, Jesse of Renton, Washington, Evert of Scotts Mills, Oregon, Theo of Vale, Oregon, and Raymond of Kamiah, Idaho; three daughters, Mrs. Ollie Piersall, Greenleaf, Mrs. Viola Fleming, Los Angeles, Mrs. Bethel Cronrath, Nampa; 26 grandchildren, 8 Great grandchildren; two brothers, Otto Pressnall of Greenleaf and Benjamin Pressnall; A sister, Mrs. Lizzie Holliday of Bremerton, Washington.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Greenleaf Friends Church with the Rev. Hubert Mardock officiating, assisted by Rev. Edward Baker. Interment will be at Greenleaf.
When Mrs. Tuning was small, her family moved to Kansas where they remained until she was 15 years old. The family then moved to Allen, Nebraska where she was married to John Tuning March 6, 1895. The two later moved to Entiat, Washington, then to Jerrald County, South Dakota. The family came to Greenleaf from Nebraska (sic - Washington) March 19, 1922. She was a member of the Greenleaf Friends Church. Caldwell News Tribune.
Marriage Notes for John Tuning and Martha White (Mattie) PRESSNALL-386882
1895?
Find A Grave Memorial# 62134987
Friends Cemetery
1930 Census: Boarder, Caldwell, Canyon Co., IDGraveside services for William ''Jess" Tuning 80, Caldwell, who died Monday July 8, 1985, in a Caldwell nursing home following a long illness, will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Greenleaf Cemetery. The Rev. Paul Goins of the Greenleaf Friends Church will officiate under the direction of the Dakan Funeral Chapel, Caldwell.
Mr. Tuning was born February 16, 1905, at Allen, Nebraska to John and Martha Tuning. He moved with his parents to Idaho in 1922 and settled in Greenleaf. He worked in his father's blacksmith shop in Greenleaf for a time and during the war he was a welder in the Seattle shipyards. He returned to Idaho and then moved to Vale, Oregon, where he worked for Malheur County as a mechanic. In the mid 1950's he returned to Greenleaf to help his sister. They farmed and raised dairy cattle until his retirement in 1979.
He is survived by three brothers, Theo of Middleton, Ray of Kamiah and Evert of Newberg, Oregon; two sisters, Olive Piersall of Greenleaf and Bethel Cronrath of Nampa; and numerous nieces and nephew. He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and a sister. Friends may call today from 4 p.m. to 9
p.m. at the Dakan Chapel.
Memorials may be made to the Greenleaf Friends Academy.
Amos Dale (Dale, “Uncle Bob”) PIERSALL
Friends Cemetery
Find A Grave Memorial# 17015530Had a “Beautiful Team of Work Horses”
1930 Census: Greenleaf, Canyon Co., Idaho
A. Dale Piersall, 74, of Greenleaf, died Wednesday at an Orofino, Idaho hospital. He was born May 4, 1885, in La Piere, Michigan, and moved with his family to Ainsworth, Nebraska when a small child and was reared there.
He married Olive Tuning, on November 30, 1920. They made their home at Norden, Nebraska prior to moving to Greenleaf in 1923 (1922) where he was engaged in farming and raising of livestock. Mr. Piersall attended the Friends Church at Greenleaf. His survivors include his wife Olive Piersall, Greenleaf; six brothers, William, Walla Walla, Washington, Frank of Nampa, Earl of Hamilton, Montana, Charles of Casper, Wyoming, Ray of Blue Lake, California and Dewy of Coeur d' Alene, Idaho; three sisters, Mrs. Edith Smith , Weiser, Mrs. Hazel Frentress, Idaho City and Vera Fisher, Norden, Nebraska.
Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Greenleaf Friends Chruch with the Rev. Oscar Brown officiating, assisted by the Rev. Hurbert Mardock and Rev. Max Zell. Interment will be in the Greenleaf cemetery under the direction of the Peckham-Dakan-Davis Chapel.. (Caldwell News Tribune)
Friends Cemetery
Find A Grave Memorial# 17015509Jessie Olive "Ollie" Piersall, 97, of Caldwell, died Tuesday April 15, 1997, at a Caldwell care center. Graveside services will be held at 2 pm Friday, April 18, at Greenleaf Cemetery. Pastor Steve Fine of the Greenleaf Friends Church will officiate. Services are under the direction of Dakan Funeral Chapel, Caldwell.
Ollie was born May 26, 1899, at Allen, Nebraska, to John and Martha Pressnall Tuning. She was their third child. On November 30, 1920, she married Amos Dale "Uncle Bob" Piersall at Ainsworth, Nebraska. In 1922 they sold the farm and moved with her parents to Idaho and settled in the Greenleaf area. After her husband Bob passed away in 1959, her brother Jess moved in with her and they farmed and milked cows until they retired in 1979.
Ollie had no children of her own, but she was like a mother to her many nieces and nephews. Survivors include one sister, Bethel Cronrath of Nampa and one brother Theo Tuning of Boise; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by 5 brothers and 2 sisters. Memorials may be made to the Greenleaf Friends Academy, Greenleaf, Idaho.
Find A Grave Memorial# 170101371900 Census: Ainsworth, Brown Co., Nebraska
Find A Grave Memorial# 170101291900 Census: 11 children, 11 living
1918 Address: Norden, NE
“the Devil”
Died soon after marriage