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On Feb 12, 1896, in Napoleon near her homestead Sarah married Jacob. During the next two years they sold their land and moved together to Stutsman County. Their children, cousins before, became brothers and sisters. Sarah's youngest son, Abraham Adam was no longer the youngest in the home. Now, at age 13, he had a little brother David (Elizabeth Funk Dürksen's last son) who was 11 years old and a little sister Katharina (Elisabeth's last daughter) eight years old.

In 1898 Jacob's oldest son Jacob J. married Lena Peters. They would have a little boy named David. Sarah and Abraham's oldest daughter Mary married John Hiebert. Their next daughter Elizabeth married a Loewen and lived all of her 69 years in North Dakota.

Jacob and Elizabeth Funk Dirksen's oldest girl Elizabeth's marriage (about 1888) to Cornelius B. Dirksen produced two boys, Jacob (Cub) Dirksen and Cornelius (Knault) Dirksen. Elizabeth's sister Anna had married John Thiesen about 1891 and she had four children Kate, Jake, Elizabeth and Lydia. About 1896/97 Anna's husband John Thiesen died of TB then her sister Elizabeth died leaving Cornelius B. Dirksen widowed with Cub and Kault. Anna and Cornelius (right) decided to marry, but they felt six children were too many for them.

Anna sent little Jake to live with his grandpa Jacob and Anna's cousin Lena Fast adopted little Lydia (neither ever married and Lydia changed her last name to Fast). Cornelius B. and Anna were left with four children. It is said that Cub and Kault were pretty much left on their own to live around with relatives. They and Jake Thiesen became buddies and earned a few stories about their antics in later years.

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