Walter is listed with Elizabeth in the 1870, 1880 and 1900 Iowa census.
Walter is listed in the 1870 Fed census living in Honey Cr Township, Iowa County, IA, age 30, living with wife Elizabeth and children Jessie, Delbert and Charlie.
In 1880 they are listed with nine children.
In 1880 and 1900 they live in Douglas Township, Audubon County.
Walter is listed in the 1900 Fed census living in Douglas Tp, Audubon Co, IA, age 62, living with wife Elizabeth (married 35 yr) and daughter Melissa.
Elizabeth is listed in the 1860 Fed census living in Honey Creek Tp, IA Co, IA, age 16, living with her father Henry, step-mother Isabelle, and several siblings.
Elizabeth is listed in the 1870 Fed census living in Honey Cr Tp, IA co, IA, age 28, living with husband Walter and children Jessie, Delbert and Charlie.
Elizabeth is listed in the 1900 Fed census living in Douglas Tp, Audubon Co, IA, age 53, living with husband Walter (married 35 yr) and daughter Melissa.
In the 1910 Iowa census Elizabeth is listed with son Leonard in Douglas Township, Audubon County.
In the 1910 Iowa census Leonard's mother Elizabeth Noaker Jordan is listed with son Leonard in Douglas Township, Audubon County. Leonard's son Leon is also listed with him. (Lela was living with the Hilsabecks.)
Story: During the depression of the 1930s, the kids got so good at catching jackrabbits for the dinner pot, that they would run up alongside them to check that they were fat, before catching them.
Obediah was listed in the 1880 and 1900 Iowa census, living in Douglas Township, Audubon Co, with his parents.
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Obediah, age 31, and Melissa, age 27, are listed in the 1910 census in Greely Tp, living with their children Virgil, Vernie and Bernice, and Lela Jordan (Melissa's neice).*************************************************************************
Audubon Co death index: Hilsabeck, Obediah Nelson 04-28-1942 E 99
Melissa Rebecca "Lissa" Jordan
"When Obediah carried my books home from school, no one realized that some day he'd be my husband". Lissa always liked that thought.
Melissa believed she saw signs: She saw a white dove, and that night her [first-born] baby died.
- told by Norma Hayes, her granddaughter (2002).
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Melissa is listed in the 1900 Fed census in Douglas Tp, Audubon Co, IA, age 17, living with her parents.Obediah, age 31, and Melissa, age 27, are listed in the 1910 census in Greely Tp, living with their children Virgil, Vernie and Bernice, and Lela Jordan (Melissa's neice).
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Audubon Co death records: Hilsabeck, Clarence L. 12-10-1901 B 53