Amanda Alberta Langensiepen

Amanda Alberta Langensiepen

• Amanda Alberta Langensiepen was born on 9 September 1895 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
• Amanda Alberta Langensiepen appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Los Angeles, California, at 3824 Wisconsin Street Enumerated with her six unmarried siblings in in the household of her widowed father William Langensiepen.
• She was self-employed as a piano teacher of priate pupils, according to the 1920 census..
• She married Walter Wright Young, son of Thomas D. Young and Mary May Wright, on 31 August 1922 in Los Angeles County, California, by license issued the same day, with J. W. Maddux, minister of the Church of Christ, officiating. It was the first marriage for both bride and groom, both residing in Los Angeles. The marriage was witnessed by Mary May Wright and John P. Johns.
• Walter Wright Young and Amanda Alberta Langensiepen appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Los Angeles, Illinois, at 3009 London Street.
• The following appeared on 27 April 1933 in the Medford Mail Tribune: A large group of southern California sportsmen, who come to this valley each summer for a vacation, have given themselves an Oregon name, it was learned here today, so enthusiastic are they over fishing in the Rogue. "Rogue River Ramblers' club" is the title of their organization, and Sunset-on-the-Rogue is their vacationing headquarters. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Johnson, who operate the resort just this side of Rogue Elk, stated today.
       In the group looking foward to another summer in southern Oregon are: Detective Ed King of Los Angeles, author of many detective stories, Mrs. King, Mr. and Mrs. Richard King, all of Los Angeles; Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Tetters of Long Beach, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Wadsworth, Hollywood, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Young of Los Angeles.
       The community hall at Sunset-on-the-Rogue is used by the California colony as a gathering place evenings, where many stories are told by Detective King and songs and dancing enjoyed. Several members of the group have spent the past nine summers on Rogue river and the other club members from three to six.
• Walter Wright Young and Amanda Alberta Langensiepen appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Los Angeles, California, at 5657 Lindley Avenue. Other members of the household included Mary May Wright.
• Amanda Alberta Langensiepen died on 27 February 1980 at age 84 in Jackson County, Oregon.
• Walter Wright Young became a widower at her death.
• She was interred at Hillcrest Memorial Park, Medford, Jackson County, Oregon.

• Last Edited: 15 Dec 2015