Aunt Minn & Uncle Albert

(1992 Memoirs)
There were several Ellmans who came "off the boat" whom I never really got to know in Oconto.  There were the Ellmans "across the river," Aunt Minn and Uncle Albert, who never spoke English well.  Uncle did more so than Aunt Minn because he mingled more with those who did speak it, the storekeepers and the neighbors, but for us and his wife always the mother tongue.  One evening Aunt Olga and I walked over to see them.  For some reason a bucket of water stood near the door and he bumped into it, spilling half.  He jumped and swore but not with such a virile tongue as Aunt Minn.  Aunt Olga, who of course took it all in, explained it to me later, omitting the swearing but pointing out to me how upset both were.