The life and letters of Wilhelmina Boehm Ney (1835-1923). Wilhelmina (Minna) Boehm came to America as a young girl and was married to Fred Ney. They had a family of 11 sons and daughters. Fred and Minna farmed in Ohio, Illinois and Louisiana, and in their last years lived in Medford, Oklahoma. This book contains letters from various members of her family, along with a number of letters from Wilhelmina to her daughter Eliza Hagius, and provides a vivid picture of the life of a frontier farm wife.