Julia Halverson Teig (Tyge) was born on February 2, 1878 in Iowa City, Iowa to Oliver H. Tyge and Gurina “Julia” (Obe) Tyge. She grew up in Iowa, first in Warren, Story, Iowa, then Milford. Her grandson, Hugo, remembers her as a quiet woman.
In 1885, her father died. Her mother remarried a man named John Hiram, who she remembered as a cruel man. She ran away from home to escape the abuse and lived in New York for a while. There she married a man (?) Hasketh, and they had a son named Joseph Hasketh. She was widowed very young in New York.
Martha, Julia, and Josie Teig
In May of 1905, she was married to Angus Lankford Duncan Whitney in Minot, Ward, North Dakota. A family legend is that she may have been a mail order bride. She moved there with her son Joseph. She and Angus each homesteaded a quarter of land–they had a half section of land near Grandin, North Dakota. They had three children: Joseph Hasketh (b. May 21, 1903)–from her previous marriage, Leonard Henry (b. ci. 1906), and Julia Mathilda (b. December 12, 1908). The family stayed in North Dakota. In 1910, they were listed living in Township 158, McHenry County, North Dakota. In 1920, they are listed living in Little Deep, McHenry, ND. They lost the farm near Grandin eventually, and finally, in the 30s, they made their home in Minot, Ward, ND. Julia died there in 1937. She was buried at Rosehill Memorial Park in Minot, Ward County, North Dakota.
Julia (Right) With Sister
Joseph Hasketh – Julia’s First Husband
Julia Tyge’s Son Leonard
Julia Whitney, Joe Hasketh, and Leonard Whitney
Julia’s Sons Joe Hasketh and Leonard Whitney
Joe Hasketh, (Unknown Tyge Relative), Leonard Whitney, and Julia Whitney
Leonard Whitney
Julia’s grandson, Hugo, recalls her mischief:
“1918: My grandmother, Julia Whitney, had a good sense of humor. A woman who was insane had escaped from the state hospital. A farmhand on my grandparents’ farm boasted ‘I wish that woman would show up at the farm and I would take care of her.’ That evening before dinner the men were washing up behind the house. My grandmother pulled her long hair down over her face, held a large knife in her hand, leaned around the corner of the house and moaned. The farmhand dropped to his knees, crawled over to my grandfather, put his arms around his legs and said, ‘Save me Lank.’”
Lankford and Julia Whitney
Julia (Tyge) Whitney with daughter Julia
Julia (Tyge) Whitney With Son Joe Hasketh’s Daughters Edna and Doris
Joe Hasketh, Julia (Tyge) Whitney Holding Joe’s Daughter Edna, Carolina and George Patterson, and Julia Whitney
