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Image courtesy of E.H.
Handwritten on the back of the original photo are these cryptic notes:
Did you see Ma's enlargement something like this?At left is William Rossow, at right Antonia. They are showing off their beautiful horses.
I think that one of Ma's is a peach don't you?
We don't know where this photo was taken. It may have been on the Rossows' farm.
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The Rossow farm as it appeared on the 1908 Plat Map.
William Rossow married Antonia Stolp on August 16, 1890 (Indiana Marriage Collection). The 1910 Census shows their complete family: William, 44 years old, the Illinois-born son of German immigrants, farming his own land; Antonia, 38, who immigrated from Germany in 1879; and daughters Wilhemina, aka Minnie (13), Ella (10) and Louise (7). Antonia's widowed mother, Carolina (78), also lived with them.
Those three daughters were their only children to survive to maturity.
2 comments:
I have a suspicion that the farm of William and Antonia Rossow was located about where Foremost Liquors is now.
There once was house on Wisconsin Street right next to Auto Zone , A dollar store is there now, what I am wondering is if the house that was there was the home of William and Antonia Rossow.
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