Sadie (Goodman) Robertson b. 17 Dec 1919 Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA d. 17 Aug 2014 Sheridan, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA

1919 - 2014 (94 years)

Set As Default Person

Name Sadie (Goodman) Robertson [1]

Birth Abt 1919 Montana, USA [1]

Birth Abt 1919 Montana, USA [2]

Born 17 Dec 1919 Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA [3]

Gender Female

Race White [1, 2]

Name Sadie Wegner [2]

Reference Number 11798

Residence 1930 Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA [1]

Age: 11; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Residence 1935 Yellowstone, Montana, USA [2]

Residence 1940 Mountain Home, Musselshell, Montana, USA [2]

Age: 21; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife

Died 17 Aug 2014 Sheridan, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA [3]

Siblings 7 Siblings

+	1. George Edward Goodman , b. 27 May 1920, d. 7 May 1978, Houston, Harris, Texas, USA (Age 57 years) ▻Guyla M. Schollmeyer, b. 25 Sep 1927, Lynch, Boyd, Nebraska, USA , d. 7 Mar 1998, Encampment, Carbon, Wyoming, USA (Age 70 years) m. 29 Jan 1946
+	2. Louis (Stub) Goodman , b. 16 Apr 1922, Toppenish, Yakima, Washington, USA , d. 10 Jun 1989, Sheridan, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA (Age 67 years) ▻Mary Ellen (Doll) Williams, b. 23 Jul 1928, Dietz, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA , d. 8 Jun 2006, Sheridan, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA (Age 77 years) m. 11 May 1946
+	3. Howard Willard {Swede} Goodman , b. 22 Dec 1923, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, USA , d. 10 Nov 2006, Casper, Natrona, Wyoming, USA (Age 82 years) ▻Living, b. 8 Oct 1935, Shelly, Norman, Minnesota, USA (Age 88 years) ▻Norma Jean Deines, b. 23 Apr 1931, Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA , d. 17 Jan 2010, Sheridan, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA (Age 78 years) m. 27 Oct 1979
+	4. Virgil Vern {Son} Goodman , b. 28 Mar 1925, Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA , d. 22 Sep 1994, Sheridan, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA (Age 69 years) ▻Imogene Twitchell, b. 22 Aug 1933, Green River, Sweetwater, Wyoming, USA , d. 7 Dec 1991 (Age 58 years) m. 22 Apr 1950
+	5. Virginia Rose {Sis} Goodman , b. 24 Dec 1926, Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA , d. 9 Jul 2003, Bethel, Kitsap, Washington, USA (Age 76 years) ▻Joseph P Bury, Jr, b. 7 May 1923, Monarch Coal Camp, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA , d. 15 Feb 1994, Sheridan, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA (Age 70 years) m. 6 Apr 1946 ▻George N Klepinger, b. 1925, Emerson, Mills, Iowa, USA , d. 19 Dec 2008 (Age 83 years) m. 30 Jun 1943
+	6. Robert {Bob} Goodman , b. 11 Oct 1928, Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA , d. 28 Feb 2010, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, USA (Age 81 years)
+	7. Kenneth {Babe} Goodman , b. 28 Jan 1931, Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA , d. 19 Aug 2007, Sheridan, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA (Age 76 years)

Person ID I11798 kukkusfamilies

Father	Adam {Gutmann} Goodman, b. 19 Jan 1898, Brunnethal, Samara, Russia , d. 5 Jun 1972, Arizona, USA (Age 74 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Anna Barbara Kukes, b. 10 Dec 1898, Kukkus, Samara, Russia , d. 18 Apr 1985, Sheridan, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA (Age 86 years)
Relationship	natural
Married	1 Apr 1918	Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA [4]
	Per Tannya Goodman- One thing about the marriage certificate for Anna and Adam, that my mom told me, Grampa lied about his age. Anna could marry at 18, but the men were suppose to be 21. He was only 20. He was born at beginning of 1898, she at end of 1898. Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950 for Adam Goodman Name: Adam Goodman Titles & Terms: Event: Marriage Event Date: 01 Apr 1918 Event Place: Billings, Yellowstone, Montana Age: 21 NOTE: lied about age. Marital Status: Single Previous Spouse: Race: White Birth Date: Birthplace: Brunnendahl, Russia Estimated Birth Year: 1897 NOTE: 1898 Father: John Goodman Father's Titles & Terms: Mother: Kathrina Harding NOTE: some records as Hartung Mother's Titles & Terms: Paternal Grandfather: Paternal Grandmother: Maternal Grandfather: Maternal Grandmother: Additional Relatives: Spouse: Anna Kukes Spouse's Titles & Terms: Spouse's Age: 19 Spouse's Marital Status: Single Spouse's Race: White Spouse's Birth Date: Spouse's Birthplace: Kukes, Russia Spouse's Estimated Birth Year: 1899 NOTE: 1898 Spouse's Father: Conrad Kukes Spouse's Father's Titles & Terms: Spouse's Mother: Marie Schmill NOTE: mother was Marie Susanna Schmidt. It was Spouse's Mother's Titles & Terms: hard to read handwriting on marriage license Spouse's Paternal Grandfather: so can see how they made the mistake. Spouse's Paternal Grandmother: Spouse's Maternal Grandfather: Spouse's Maternal Grandmother: Volume/Page/Certificate Number: P 634 CN 5734 Film Number: 1943758 Digital Folder Number: 4351485 Image Number: 897
Photos		goodman kukes 04011918 Date:9/4/2014 07:21:55
Family ID	F3538	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1	Wilhelm {Bill} Wegner, Jr, b. Abt 1915, Montana, USA , d. 3 Dec 1982 (Age ~ 67 years)
Married	23 Jan 1938	Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA [5]
Married	Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950 for Adam Goodman Name: Wilhelm Jr. Wegner Event: Marriage Event Date: 23 Jan 1938 Event Place: Billings, Yellowstone, Montana Age: 23 Marital Status: Previous Spouse: Race: Birth Date: Birthplace: Estimated Birth Year: 1915 Father: Wilhelm Sr. Wegner Father's Titles & Terms: Mother: Dorothy Smith Mother's Titles & Terms: Paternal Grandfather: Paternal Grandmother: Maternal Grandfather: Maternal Grandmother: Additional Relatives: Spouse: Sadie Goodman Spouse's Titles & Terms: Spouse's Age: 19 Spouse's Marital Status: Spouse's Race: Spouse's Birth Date: Spouse's Birthplace: Spouse's Estimated Birth Year: 1919 Spouse's Father: Adam Goodman Spouse's Father's Titles & Terms: Spouse's Mother: Anna Kukes Spouse's Mother's Titles & Terms: Spouse's Paternal Grandfather: Spouse's Paternal Grandmother: Spouse's Maternal Grandfather: Spouse's Maternal Grandmother: Volume/Page/Certificate Number: p 145 cn 16413 Film Number: 1943765 Digital Folder Number: 4351492 Image Number: 1452
Photos		goodman wegner Date:9/5/2014 07:19:46
Family ID	F3540	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 2	Agnus [Red] Robertson, b. Abt 1919
Family ID	F3539	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Event Map

	Birth - Abt 1919 - Montana, USA
	Birth - Abt 1919 - Montana, USA
	Born - 17 Dec 1919 - Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA
	Residence - Age: 11; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter - 1930 - Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA
	Residence - 1935 - Yellowstone, Montana, USA
	Married - 23 Jan 1938 - Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA
	Died - 17 Aug 2014 - Sheridan, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA

= Link to Google Earth

Photos » Slide Show		1930 United States Federal Census - Adam Goodman Year: 1930; Census Place: Billings, Yellowstone, Montana; Roll: 1264; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 0010; Image: 814.0; FHL microfilm: 2340999
		1940 United States Federal Census - William Wegner Year: 1940; Census Place: Mountain Home, Musselshell, Montana; Roll: T627_2226; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 33-1
		At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
		goodman sadie photo and notes provided by Tannya Goodman: the scenery behind her portrait was done by Tone Aanderaa (born in Bergen, Norway). She is a visual artist living in Belgium and was a good friend of my Aunt Sadie.
		goodman sadie(2) http://thesheridanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140201FULL.pdf Page 22 SHERIDAN PRESS ARTICLE Saturday, February 1, 2014
		goodman sadie siblings image provided by Tannya Goodman- Sadie (Goodman) Robertson and siblings: Left to Right: Robert (Bob) Goodman, Virginia (Sis) [Goodman] Bury, Sadie [Goodman] Robertson, and Kenneth (Babe) Goodman
		goodman sadie sailboat image provided by Tannya Goodman- Sadie (Goodman) Robertson on a sail boat in Mexico where she worked for awhile. She knew the President of Mexico. Years later when her dad passed away he sent her a telegram of sympathy. She also got to know Burl Ives. She worked at a resort, but I have forgotten which one.
		goodman sadie poem provided by Tannya Goodman- "Do You Think of Wyoming" Poem written by Sadie: [Note: the background was done by Tone Aanderaa (born in Bergen, Norway). She is a visual artist living in Belgium and was a good friend of my Aunt Sadie.]
		goodman sadie poem 2 provided by Tannya Goodman- "Do You Think of Wyoming" Poem written by Sadie: [Note: the background was done by Tone Aanderaa (born in Bergen, Norway). She is a visual artist living in Belgium and was a good friend of my Aunt Sadie.]
		goodman sadie poem 3 provided by Tannya Goodman-- "Do You Think of Wyoming" Poem written by Sadie: [Note: the background was done by Tone Aanderaa (born in Bergen, Norway). She is a visual artist living in Belgium and was a good friend of my Aunt Sadie.]
		goodman sadie poem 4 provided by Tannya Goodman-- "Rodeo Time in Sheridan" Poem written by Sadie Goodman
		beet train image provided by Tannya Goodman- "Beet Train at Clearmont, Sheridan County, Sheridan, Wyoming". My dad, uncles, aunts, grandparents all picked beets. The family tells how my dad who was the baby of the family was taken to the beet fields in a wagon. Everyone took turns taking care of him. My dad tells how his mom would reinforce his pants at the knees because they crawled on their knees to pick. He started picking beets as soon as he was able to. As an adult, one of my dad's last jobs was working for Holly Sugar coating their experimental beet seeds. But as a young boy and man, his family ranched before my dad went into the service."
		At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
		goodman robt ken virginia Photo provided by Tannya Goodman- Robert (Bob), Virginia (Sis), Sadie, Kenneth (Babe) Goodman
		At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.

Notes

Notes by Tannya Goodman:
Sadie was first married to Wilhelm Wegner, Jr. He was called Bill. They divorced. She was then married to Agnus (Red) Robertson. They divorced. She was with a companion for several years after that till he went into Vet's home at Buffalo. His name was Carl Bergset. She had no children, just 27 nieces and nephews.

Aunt Sadie wrote this poem for all her family and friends to be passed along at the time of her death.

FOR MY FAMILY
Do not weep for me, all you who have loved me
do not bind me with the bonds of your love;
do not build a prison of walls all around me
denying the view of the heavens above.
But grant me the ecstasy of soaring flight
the freedom to fly where the great eagle soars;
and grant me vision of my gift of sight
to follow the gull to my own waiting shores.
To be free as the wind in the mountain's great canyons
kissing the snows and the meadows of spring;
to sing with the lark after each April shower.
Bursting with love for Creation that sings;
But look for me when the first crocus is blooming
hear me when sighing up high in the trees;
and know that I love you the more for the leaving
to drift on the wind with the last autumn leaves;
And look for me when all Creation is greening
look for me where the wood violet grows;
and know in your hearts that I'll always be with you
keep in your hearts the Great Secret that knows.
Sadie Robertson
Nov 4, 1984
Updated:
7/10/2010

Notes by Tannya Goodman
http://thesheridanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140201FULL.pdf
Page 22

(The following is a news article interview with my Aunt Sadie. I have made notations in [ ]s of clarification of some of the story from family members at the end of the article.)

SHERIDAN PRESS ARTICLE
Saturday, February 1, 2014
By Lois Bell
Sheridan Senior Center

PIONEER DAUGHTERS SHARE POETRY, ART

UNDER PHOTO: Jean Harm, left, illustrated the cover to a book of poetry written by 95-year-old Sadie Robertson. Robertson had approached Harm to design the cover of her latest book of her poetry she had printed in October 2013. The illustration and poems draw on the women’s connection to the outdoors. Both Harm and Robertson are descendents of pioneers who settled in Sheridan County in the later part of the 19th century.

SHERIDAN - She was in her 50s when the poetic muse touched her. Now 95 years old, Sadie Robertson continues to see the world through the eyes of a poet. She published her fourth book of poems in October 2013.

“I write from what I’ve seen and from what I think I’ve learned from what I’ve seen,” Robertson said.

Her inspiration draws often from her experiencing the outdoors. Her Volga German ancestors from Russia connected to the earth when they began farming in Sheridan county in the later part of the 19th century.

“My grandfather, John Goodman, farmed in the area south of Sheridan College,” Robertson said.

Grandfather John may have been Robertson’s inspiration for her poem she titled “The Poet.”
“His gnarled old hands long to hold a
pen to move over a smooth, white paper;
but farming is all he has ever known;”

Robertson’s father also was connected to the outdoors. He worked on ranches and farms in the countryside surrounding Billings. After the Great Depression and the Billings flood of 1937, her father moved back to Sheridan County where he had grown up. He worked on several farms and eventually bought the Pony Track Ranch on Lower Prairie Dog Creek. The place became known as the Goodman ranch and he operated it under his own brand.

Robertson, then Sadie Goodman, had already married a Montana cowboy and stayed in the Billings area. She divorced and moved to Sheridan. Later she met and married Angus Robertson, an immigrant from Canada who led exploration crews looking for oil in the area. His career kept the Robertsons on the move and again connected to the outdoors. It was while they were living in Casper when Sadie began writing her first poems.

“My first collection was called “A Far-Away Country of Apples.” It’s in the Library of Congress. Tom Mercer illustrated the cover and encouraged me to publish it for sale,” Robertson said.

She did but did not like the experience of selling her poetry. “I don’t feel right selling my poetry, they are the deepest part of me. I only want to share them with people who know me or who I would like to know me,” she said.

Robertson wrote and printed her latest collection of poems in October 2013 in her book titled “Under a Western Sky” to share with those people.
She approached one of those special people, Jean Harm, to illustrate the cover.

Harm and Robertson share a common bond as descendents of pioneer families to Sheridan County. Harm, born Jean Wilkes, is the daughter of Sheridan pioneers. Her lineage is rooted with great-great grandparents who settled in the 1880s in the Parkman Five Mile Flats area.

Harm, who was kitchen manager of the dining room at Heritage Towers where Robertson lunched, would illustrate the daily menus. Robertson enjoyed Harm’s drawings.

“It was always a delightful little menu board. I always liked to see what (Jean) had done,” Robertson said.

“She (Robertson) told me she was doing one last book and wanted something on the cover that depicted Wyoming skies,” Harm said. “I told her I would do it for the fun of it.”

Harm, like Robertson, drew her inspiration from the outdoors. She went to her
family cabin in the Bighorns to draw in her sketch book. She drew three illustrations in color pencil before settling on the one she felt was the right one for Sadie’s very last book.

Robertson printed 35 copies of her new book locally. She did not sell “Under A Western Sky” reserving it to give as a gift to friends. Robertson retains a passion for the printed word.

“There’s nothing like holding a book in your hand,” Robertson said.
“Of the gifts offered here
if there is one that touches
a special moment in your lives,
then this effort has been successful.”
- Preface to “A Far-Away Country of Apples"

***************
NOTE: Lucille is Pauline's daughter - Pauline is the youngest daughter of John Goodman. Norma was married to Robert - Sadie's brother. My Dad was a brother to Sadie as well and George is another brother to Sadie. Hank was a son of John Goodman and half-brother to Sadie's dad, Adam.

[Aunt Sadie was only 94 years old not 95 as stated in the article. She was born in 1919.]

[I spoke with Aunt Norma, Lucille, and Mom - as well as - my memories from Dad. Uncle Hank {Sadie's uncle - John's son} farmed beets where the Sheridan College Ag Center is now. Per Lucille: she remembers visiting Uncle Hank when they lived on the road they now call the Woodland Park Road. Uncle George {Sadie's brother} rented the little house that sat across the road from where the college is now - (still there - very run down) with Aunt Guyla and daughter, Pat. I remember my Dad telling about that lone tree out front of the house. How a bunch of cattle gathered around that tree during a lightening storm. Lightening struck the tree and killed about 30 head. Lucille said that Grampa John Goodman and his wife, Anna, lived with her mom and dad (Shorty and Pauline Schuman) but they lived south of the "Y" out by where the big brown barn is - where the Powder Horn is now. That was the first year they were married. Shorty worked for the railroad and Aunt Pauline {Sadie's dad's sister} at the laundry in Sheridan.]

[Aunt Norma said in reference to the article Grampa Adam Goodman did not work for others here. He leased the Irwin place then Minnie Martin's place. Both out by Big Horn.]

[Aunt Norma said Uncle Bob remembered his Grampa as always on the screened in porch laying down with a fly swatter in his hand and that he didn't have much to do with the kids. My Dad remembers an old man at Aunt Pauline's but he didn't know he was his Grampa. (My dad was about three at the time.)]

[Aunt Pauline was in the hospital having Lucille in 1934 when Grampa John Goodman died. My dad was 3 years old, Uncle Bob 5 years old.]

[Sadie was married to Bill Wegner the Montana Cowboy in the story.]

{Side Note}
[I don't know if my Dad, Kenneth, remembers his maternal grandparents (Kukes). He was very young (just turned 4) when Gramma Goodman took him on the train to Washington when her dad died. At that time, the trains were only for service men and their families. In order to get back for her father's funeral, one of the service men offered to claim she was his mother to be able to ride the train to get back to the state of Washington. Gramma Goodman told me that Dad cried all the time because he was homesick, so she cut her trip short.]

NOTE:
Sadie wrote: "When I was younger I did quite a lot of publishing in magazines and quarterlies, and two booklets are registered with the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and these two are also in the Wyoming Room of our local library, the Wyoming Room being where articles and books of historical interest to the area are located."

Side note: She told me that when she was married to Agnus and living in Casper, she had an article published in the Denver Post - it was her first published article. When she was about ten, she entered a writing contest in Billings, Montana, and won. The prize was a baby doll. She was so mad. She hated dolls. She had, at that time, six younger brothers and sisters she helped to take care of. Her dad went out and bought her a gift (I cannot remember what now).

Obituary:
Note:
There was none. I wrote this in her guest book page:
"Wanted to record this information here as there is to be no obituary or funeral. Sadie (Goodman) Robertson was born on December 17, 1919, in Billings, Montana, to Adam and Anna (Kukes) Goodman. The oldest of 8 children. She was preceded in death by her parents and her siblings: George, Louis (Stub), Howard (Swede), Virgil (Son), Virginia (Sis), Robert (Bob), and Kenneth (Babe). She is survived by numerous nieces and nephews, 3 sister-in-laws: Jeanne, Norma (Bob), and Ardell, and several cousins. Sadie passed away on August 17, 2014. She will be missed."

Sources

[S338] 1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;), Year: 1930; Census Place: Billings, Yellowstone, Montana; Roll: 1264; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 0010; Image: 814.0; FHL microfilm: 2340999.
Record for Adam Goodman
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1930usfedcen&h=106482984&indiv=try

1930 United States Federal Census - Adam Goodman
Year: 1930; Census Place: Billings, Yellowstone, Montana; Roll: 1264; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 0010; Image: 814.0; FHL microfilm: 2340999
[S226] 1940 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Year: 1940; Census Place: Mountain Home, Musselshell, Montana; Roll: T627_2226; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 33-1.
Record for Sadie Wegner
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1940usfedcen&h=77321819&indiv=try

1940 United States Federal Census - William Wegner
Year: 1940; Census Place: Mountain Home, Musselshell, Montana; Roll: T627_2226; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 33-1
[S247] Genealogical Information, provided by Tannya Goodman.
[S284] Montana County Marriages, 1865-1950.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11623-130499-3?cc=1609797

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[S284] Montana County Marriages, 1865-1950.
Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950 for Adam Goodman
Name: Wilhelm Jr. Wegner
Event: Marriage
Event Date: 23 Jan 1938
Event Place: Billings, Yellowstone, Montana
Age: 23
Marital Status:
Previous Spouse:
Race:
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Estimated Birth Year: 1915
Father: Wilhelm Sr. Wegner
Father's Titles & Terms:
Mother: Dorothy Smith
Mother's Titles & Terms:
Paternal Grandfather:
Paternal Grandmother:
Maternal Grandfather:
Maternal Grandmother:
Additional Relatives:

Spouse: Sadie Goodman
Spouse's Titles & Terms:
Spouse's Age: 19
Spouse's Marital Status:
Spouse's Race:
Spouse's Birth Date:
Spouse's Birthplace:
Spouse's Estimated Birth Year: 1919
Spouse's Father: Adam Goodman
Spouse's Father's Titles & Terms:
Spouse's Mother: Anna Kukes
Spouse's Mother's Titles & Terms:
Spouse's Paternal Grandfather:
Spouse's Paternal Grandmother:
Spouse's Maternal Grandfather:
Spouse's Maternal Grandmother:
Volume/Page/Certificate Number: p 145 cn 16413
Film Number: 1943765
Digital Folder Number: 4351492
Image Number: 1452

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