John Drexler was born in 1885 in Austria, and came to the U.S. with his sister, Agnes (nee Drexler) Stumvoll, and her family. The 1910 and 1920 U.S. census schedules have John, a single man, living next to the Stumvolls in McLean County, North Dakota. John married Otillia Neid, the daughter of Charles Neid and Susanna Entinger, in 1921 in Brooks, Minnesota. John and Otillia lived in North Dakota (Cole Harbor) for a time after their marriage, but by 1930, they had moved to Leavenworth, Brown, Minnesota. John and Otillia had six children, Ann Marie, Tom, Frances, Richard, Carl, and Theresa. John died in 1949 in Leavenworth. Otillia Neid Drexler - who was born in 1893 in Murray County, Minnesota - died in 1980 in Redwood Falls, Redwood, Minnesota.

Charles Neid, the son of Joseph Neid and Therisia (perhaps Nuing) Neid, was born in 1858 and came to the U.S. in 1882 from Prussia. He married Susanna Entinger in 1883 in Odebolt, Iowa. Susanna Entinger came to the U.S. in 1880 with her parents, Peter Entinger and Katharina Schangel Entinger. She was born about 1862 in the county of Merzig, region of Trier and migrated with her parents to Holstein, Iowa where Charles had settled. Charles and Susanna Neid purchased a farm near Iona, Murray County, Minnesota, where they lived for about six years before Susanna died in 1894. Susanna left four children ages two to nine. The children of Charles and Susanna were Joseph (1884), Maria Juliana (died as child), Katherine Margaret (1888), Katherine Gertrude (died as child), Matthew (1891) and Otillia (1893). Charles married Emma Bertrand in 1896, and they had two sons, Edward (1897) and John (1901). They lived in the Sleepy Eye, Minnesota area until 1917 when they moved to Kissimmee, Florida. Charles and Emma are buried in Kissimmee, Florida.

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