The home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fasel, Sr., south of town, was the scene of a big family reunion last Sunday, in honor of and in celebration of Mr. Fasel's 76th birthday. About 170 were present, those from Chicago being Messrs. Chas. Liger, Julius Wegner, August Smith, Henry Fowlin and Mr. Grewnoff and their families, and Raymond Metzen.That's a lot of people. Fortunately the Fasels had some 80 acres of land to accommodate them, as well as a large farmhouse which (I am told) is still standing on East 10th Street. This is the Fasel land as it appeared on the 1908 Plat Map:
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Elsewhere in the same issue appeared this article about the continuing popularity of the tourist campground in McAfee's woods on Cleveland Avenue:
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The Fasel extended family is huge. They married into the Lines, (with which you are familiar), Wojahn, Ludwig, and Massow families and many, many others. Several of those older houses on that stretch of 10th St. on the south side of the road were their homes, according to my memory and the censuses. I think that the original farmhouse sits on the hill on the SW corner of 10th and Co. K Rd.. Betty Fasel married Sylvester Ludwig and they lived in that house. They were good friends of my parents and I remember going there frequently to visit (back when people actually did that). Even in the late 1950's it was an old house even to me as a child. I believe it is still owned by one of the Ludwigs.
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