I am looking for information on Frederick F. Mabuce, (1889-1940), m. to Dinnie Olive Hawn (1891-1968)...they lived in Bollinger Co., Missouri. I have that they had two children, Lena and Lama.

Any information on this family will be appreciated!

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Barbara Craddock Pike

The Banner Press
Marble Hill, MO
January 11, 1940

FREDERICK F. MABUCE

Funeral services were conducted Saturday at Liberty Church for Frederick F. Mabuce, by Rev. Robert Shell of Bismarck, Mo. Rev. Shell was a pupil of the deceased when he taught school in this community and the two were very close friends. Frederick F. Mabuce was born August 14, 1889 and departed this life January 2, 1940, being 50 years, 4 months and 18 days old. He was converted at an early age and joined the Methodist church. He was a devoted Christian and always took an active part in church work. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Mabuce and was married to Dinnie O. Hawn, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hawn of near Marquand. He leaves to mourn his passing, his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Lena Foster of Charleston, West Virginia; and Mrs. Lamia Pikesley of St. Louis, Mo.; and two grandchildren, Glen Foster, Jr. and Barbara Ruth Pikesley, and the following brothers and sisters: Emil Mabuce of Bessville, Mo.; Rev. John O. Mabuce of Rochester, N.Y.; Mrs. Caroline Griffith of Gloster, Miss.; Mrs. Dora Bess of Marble Hill, Mo.; Mrs. Ethel Soelberg, Ashton, Kansas; Mrs. Ina Murray of Marion, Kansas; and Mrs. Edna Hansen of Bessville, Mo.

Jan. 4, 1940 ~ Frederick F. Mabuce, former prominent Bollinger Co. citizen, died Tuesday from a heart attack. Mr. Mabuce was stricken on the streets of St. Louis where he lived. (He) entered politics (in this county) in 1914, being elected Circuit Clerk and Recorder for a four year term and reelected in 1918. After his term of office expired, the family moved to Cape Girardeau, where Mr. Mabuce served as Deputy Collector of the Internal Revenue Dept. for this district. Later he was manager of the Gately Store in Cape Girardeau. Leaving Cape Girardeau for St. Louis, Mr. Mabuce was head clerk in the office of U.S. Marshall Huckriede.

Bollinger County
1851-1976
page 900-901

LUDWIG EMIL MABUCE

Ludwig EMIL Mabuce, patriarch of the Mabuce family, migrated from Aversie, Denmark in 1866. He and his wife had four children, all born in Denmark: Jacob Ferdinand, Anna Sophia, Hans Hansen and Nels Peter. Jacob Ferdinand settled in the northern part of Bollinger County and was the first person to be buried in Liberty Methodist Church Cemetery in June of 1877. Hans Hansen Mabuce, born Aug. 29, 1856 at Aversie, Denmark married Rosina Katherine Miinch who was born Aug. 31, 1861 at Pinkneyville, Ill. She was living in the Patton community at the time of their marriage on Sept. 1, 1879, and the couple remained in Bollinger County where they raised a large family. Their children included: Carolina, born Sept. 19, 1880, who married Laurence C. Griffith on Sept. 18, 1904; Dora born Nov. 15, 1884, married Ephraim H. Bess on June 19, 1918; Ethel Lindy, born Dec. 23, 1886, who married Chris J. Soelberg, Nov. 13, 1923; Fred F., born Aug. 14, 1889, married Dinnie Hahn, July 4, 1912; EMIL A., born Sept. 5, 1891, married Mary Jane Murray, Sept. 16, 1916; Ina, born July 7, 1894, married David H. Murray, brother of Emil's wife, on June 29, 1918; John O., born sept. 24, 1896, married Mary Lorinda French, on July 4, 1923; Edna, born May 6, 1901, married Rhonie N. (Tots) Hansen, Oct. 4, 1919. Of that large family, those still living on Jan. 1, 1976 were Dora (Bess), Ethel (Soelberg), and Edna (Hansen). (Mrs. Soelberg's biography appears elsewhere in this publication.)

The Mabuce family, originally farmers, has produced teachers, ministers, businessmen and skilled workers in many areas. Methodist in religion, they gave strong support to Gilletts Chapel near Bessville, an early church also known as Ridge Church. Blessed with natural singing voices, Mabuces then and in succeeding generations, have been active in Choirs in their various church connections. With high standards of personal integrity and community responsibility, Mabuce descendants have proven themselves to be useful and respected members of the communities over many areas in which they have lived.

Bollinger Co.
1851-1978
page 938

ETHEL L. MABUCE SOELBERG

Ethel L. Mabuce Soelberg, a teacher and church leader during her early life in Bollinger County, became the first person from the county to be accepted for an overseas assignment by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A reception in her honor was held at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lutesville, which was also known as the Northern Methodist Church, on Sept. 11, 1916, shortly before she left home to begin training prior to her departure from the United States in November of 1916. She was the third daughter of Hans H. and Kate Miinch Mabuce, and was born in the Bessville area on Dec. 23, 1886. She received her early education at the Hahn School near Bessville and later attended Will Mayfield College at Marble Hill; the Chicago Evangelistic Institute in Chicago, Ill. and Taylor University at Upland, Ind. where she received the A.B. degreee in July of 1916. Ethel Mabuce taught at Barber, a country school in this county, and in the Lutesville public schools before going to Burma for her missionary work. Stationed at Rangoon and Pegu, she worked chiefly with the Sunday schools and women's groups among the Burmese. Returning to her home for a furlough in 1921, she enrolled at Northwestern University for graduate work. Instead of going back to Burma, she married the Rev. Chris J. Soelberg of Imogene, Iowa. He was born in Rougntved, Denmark, Sept. 26, 1886 and came to America when he was 18. He had also worked as a missionary in Burma, initiating the Methodist work among the Chinese in Rangoon. Their marriage took place at the Mabuce home with her brother John, a Methodist minister, performing the ceremony on Nov. 13, 1923. They spent most of their years in the Methodist ministry in Iowa and Kansas. Mrs. Soelberg frequently participated in missionary conferences, and after her husband's death in 1954, she worked in a children's hospital in St. Louis. Prior to Rev. Soelberg's death they lived in Lutesville. She later lived there and at Cape Girardeau before retiring to Homelife at Farmington in 1972. Letters which she wrote to her family at home during her missionary career were printed in a book entitled, "I Always Wore My Topi: The Burma Letters of Ethel Mabuce 1916-1921" by the University of Alabama Press in 1974, edited by her niece, Lucille Griffith