The Family of Anna and Louis Nipp: They had 9 children. Except for the youngest, Lewis, it is hard to identify the other children. Hattie is probably the young woman with the braid -perhaps Clara is also in the front row. Four of the nine never married. Clara and Hattie never married, and seemed to have tried to always work together for the same employer. They both died in 1981. One of the sons, William, who also never married, died in 1989 at the age of 99.
A wedding which occurred at Peter Huber’s residence, near Jamestown yesterday afternoon was productive of a great deal of pleasure. Louis Nipp and Miss Annie Huber, two of the popular young people in that section, were united in the bonds of holy matrimony.
Three hundred of their friends from Yankton and other places were present to give them an auspicious start in life. The Yankton band was also present and the afternoon and all of last night were made hours of unalloyed pleasure. A portion of the band returned about 8 o’clock this morning, and before going home played some more music on the streets. ~ The Daily Press & Dakotaian, July 2, 1888
The few accounts that we have of Peter and Theresia portray a couple that frequently entertained in their house which is described as having seven large rooms.
When Anna married, neither her sister, Theresa (m.Drotzman), nor her mother, Anna Huber (nm), had immigrated to America yet. However, it appears that Peter and Theresia looked after both sisters. Theresa emigrated in 1890. In the 1900 census, the 25 year old Theresa is working as a dress maker for the family of George Wagner. She is also living with the Wagners and their three children. George Wagner was the maternal uncle of Emma Rothmeyer. By 1900, Emma Rothmeyer and Joseph E. Huber had been married for seven years.
Peter and Theresia also welcomed many friends to their home. Here are some other accounts of their hospitality.
The old James River home was many a time the scene of lavish hospitality in the years past by, many owing their acquaintance with the family to some such occasion. (November 1905 article about the death of Peter Huber)
We see the same sentiment when Theresia died eight years later:
Mr. Huber took a homestead on James River, fifteen miles north, and here this pioneer couple raised a large family, met with material success and earned the high esteem in which they were held in this community. Mrs. Huber ably seconded her husband in his well known generous impulses and widely known hospitality, and was a friend indeed to a large circle of friends. The news of her death will be deeply regretted in this community where the deceased has continually resided for nearly forty-four years. (January 1913 article about the death of Theresia Reisinger)
Unfortunately, just four weeks after the wedding of Anna and Louis Nipp, the homestead was the scene of tragedy in when a friend drowned while swimming in the James River:
A party of young men, all of them robust and full of animation, were at Peter Huber’s on the James River engaged in fishing that stream with a seine. The party contained, among others, Paul Muller, Fred Neth, and Sigm und Jaegge, of Yankton, Peter Huber Jr. and Frank Huber. This party was divided into two squads, one on each side of the river. They had dragged the seine several times up and down stream, but without making a catch and had been forward and back across the river at least five times. One of the party was finally sent up river some distance to walk down stream in order to drive the fish into the seine . . .
~ Press and Daily Dakotaian, July 30, 1888
Sadly, the young man, Paul Muller, who had walked down stream would fall into a seven foot hole. The valiant effort of his friends to rescue him was to no avail.
