Note for Margaretha Charlotte Marie Lutz
Margaret remembered once going to Odebolt to get a new hat. There were two or three available. One hat, a plain one, sold for 50 cents. Another, a really pretty one with flowers, sold for 73 cents. She said that she liked the 73 cent hat. Her mother said "we'll take the 50 cent hat". But her dad said "which one do you really like". She said she liked the 75 cent hat. She got the 75 cent hat.

Margaret remembered the children getting 5 or 10 cents when they went to town. Once she bought a tablet and pencil with her 10 cents. It lasted her a whole year of school.

When her mother, Marie, died in 1901, her father remarried. Margaret saw their house as her mother's house and wanted to keep and do everything like her mother had. This caused trouble with her step mother. One month after remarrying, Carl took Margaret to stay with her uncle Henry and aunt Hannah. It was hard for him to take his only daughter away from home. It was hard for Margaret as well. Many a night she cried herself to sleep because she missed her brothers so much.

August had been living with Henry and Hannah since he was born and was about a year old at this time. Margaret wrote that "he was a spoiled baby then and stayed a spoiled child for years after. He could never do anything wrong, and I, being so much older, did many things wrong." She slept upstairs at Henry and Hannah's and remembered many a night it stormed and she would be alone and scared stiff. When she was younger, Carl and Marie had taken the children downstairs on a feather bed when it would lightning and thunder.

After Henry and Hannah sold their farm and moved back to Storm Lake (February 14, 1906), margaret went to work for a taylor. That fall, she went to Sherrill, Iowa, to be with her aunt Elizabeth Zemke. She was there from December 3, 1906, until June 13, 1907. During this time (January 20, 1907), her aunt Elizabeth had given birth to daughter Ida. Later in 1907, she returned to Storm Lake.

That fall, her stepmother (Maria Stang) left her father's house to stay with her son Charlie. Carl called her and asked her to come home and keep house. For about a year and a half she kept house for her dad and brothers. She would say later that "we were very happy, the boys and I." In March of 1909, her stepmother returned. Margaret then returned to Dubuque, Iowa, to be with the Zemkes and stayed for two years. During this time, Milton was born. In 1910, she started nurses training at Swallum hospital and did private nurses service until 1917, when she married Gilbert Schlung on March 14.

Besides being a nurse at Swallum hospital, during her life Margaret was a member of Grandview Church and the Women's Society of Christian Service, and a past noble grand of the Rebecca Lodge.