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Subject: Solomon & Anna Hauskama of Belt area
Date: 20 Oct 2004 22:15:05 -0600

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Surnames: Hauskama, Usimaki, Stinson,
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Belt Valley History 1877 – 1979
compiled by Ethel C. Kennedy & Eva L. Stober
published 1979
pg. 304

SOLOMON and ANN HAUSKAMA - by Lulu Koskela and Viana Erickson

Solomon and Anna Hauskama were both born in Finland. They met in Belt where they were married. There they operated a boarding house for several years for men employed at the mines. It burned and they built a small house in which they lived until they moved to the ranch.
Solomon was a blacksmith and had a blacksmith shop in Belt where he shod horses and sharpened glow shares. He also worked in the Merkle mine. Solomon played the slide trombone in the Belt band and was an accomplished violinist. He wrote music for his own enjoyment and played it on the violin at the dances with his son Sanfred chording on the pump organ. After they moved to their ranch thirteen miles east of Belt, the people in that community built a dance hall where Solomon and Sanfred played for dances and other activities. He gave violin lessons and taught music to all his children. Lulu remembers singing Finnish songs for people when she was only 3 or 4 years old. Her father accompanied her on the violin. The coins she received as a reward, she put in her bank.
During their early years in Belt, Solomon was known as Hill because no one could spell or pronounce Hauskama. The two oldest children even went to school by the name Hill.

When they moved to the ranch to the ranch, the blacksmith shop went too, and Solomon made cattle brands for all the farmers besides doing the customaary work of the blacksmith. Lulu remembers pumping the bellows as her father worked.
Viana recalls walking one and a half miles to the Nelson School, bitter winters and all. Life was hard on the dry-land farm and money was scarce. Many Christmases they were lucky to receive a tablet and a couple of pencils in their Christmas stockings. An orange
or an apple was a luxury. But they had fun and there was music most of the time.

Anna Hauskama died May, 1930, and Solomon in August, 1948.
Their children were Tyyne (Tuna) Stinson, now deceased, who had three children: Sanfred, deceased, married to Ida Hendrickson, two chilren; Lyyli (Lulu) Koskela, five children; Elmas, deceased; Viana Erickson, two children; and Elmer and his wife, two children.


Solomon & Anna Hauskama family as gathered from various sources.

SOLOMON HAUSKAMA
was born 4 May 1869 in Finland, son of Erick Hauskama & Maria Ronnala.
Solomon died 12 August 1948 in Cascade Co., Montana. He and his wife Anna
are both buried in Big Willow Cem., Cascade County, Montana. He married
ANNA G. USIMAKI.
Anna’s middle name is found listed variously as Gruta /or/ Greeta and her maiden
name is listed as USIMAKI on her son Elmer’s death record. Her maiden name
has also been found on various secondary sources as Uusaimaki // Uuaimaki //
Nusimaki. She was born 18 May 1877 in Finland, and died 22 May 1930 in Cascade Co., Montana.
Solomon and Anna had 9 children. Information for their family is from various sources.

1.Tyyne Amelia Hauskama (called “Tuna”) born 19 June 1899 Belt, Cascade Co., Mont. Died 22 March 1964 Great Falls, Mont. – Married to John August Stinson.

2.Sanford Sulo Hauskama (also found as Sanfry // Sanfred) born 9 January 1901
in Belt, Montana. Died 19 March 1964 Cascade Co., Mont. – Married to
Ida J. Hendrickson, daug. of Oscar & Anna Hendrickson. Ida (Hendrickson)
Hauskama died 9 January 1984 in Cascade Co., Montana.

3. Lyyli Elvira Hauskama (called “Lulu”) born 5 January 1905 Cascade Co.,Mont.
Died 20 November 1988 in Arizona. Married to Otto William Koskela, son of
John & Amanda Koskela.

4. Elma E. Hauskama born 19 March 1909 Belt, Cascade Co., Montana. She died
26 October 1926 & is buried Big Willow Cem., Cascade Co., Montana.

5.Viana O. Hauskama (also found listed as Viano O.) born 1911 Cascade Co., Montana & married to Mr. Erickson. In 1930 census, Big Willow, Cascade Co., Montana – School Dist. 43, Viana Hauskama was listed living with her sister & brother-in law, “Lula” & Otto Koskela, and Viana’s occupation was Teacher in Public School.

6. Elmer J. Hauskama (also found listed as Elmor J.) born 13 May 1912 Belt, Mont.
& he died 2 September 1994 in Dawson Co., Mont. He & his wife had 2 children.

7. Anna M. Hauskama (also found listed as Annie) born 29 July 1914 in Cascade Co.,
Mont. and died 27 August 2003 Cascade Co., Montana. She married John A.
Hendrickson, son of Oscar and Anna Hendrickson.

8. William U. Hauskama born February 1916 Belt, Montana and died 17 Oct. 1938
in Montana.

9. Miriam Josephine Hauskama born 19 January 1918 Belt, Montana and died
19 March 2001 in Kirkland, King Co., Wash. She married Ben Hendrickson, son
of Oscar and Anna Hendrickson.

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