Johann Nepomuk

He lived from 5/13/1855 – 8/30/1899. He was the youngest and seems to have been largely forgotten among the Yankton siblings, not surprising since he was twenty years younger than Franz, the oldest.

Mark Arbach* remembers: “When I was small and grandpa was still on the farm, a portrait of two soldiers in blue uniforms hung on the living room wall, and I was told that it was Johann Baptist and his brother. Our mother remembered  his name as “Ebemuck”, but it was a memory dimmed since she was a little girl when she heard his name.

During a visit to the Pirking farm in 1985, a Josef Huber recounted that Johannes Nepomuk, named for the patron saint of nearby Bohemia, had, indeed, left with the intention of joining all his older siblings in America. 

He went to Hamburg, the big harbor in north Germany, to take passage on a ship to America but met a girl there, dallied, and finally stayed in north Germany to marry Johanna Luis Schwitters. Their son, Peter, was born in 1889. Like his parents, Peter stayed in Germany where he married Hermine Lisette Clara Gruss. He died in 1942 and the trail stops there. We don’t know if he and Hermine had any children. If they did, we assume they would live around Hamburg.

 *Mark is a great grandson of Johann Baptiste Huber