![]() ![]() Early yearsįather was a blacksmith.I was born in Raymond, Iowa and moved to Ladora when I was 1 years old. So, I give you my Grandfather’s story, in his own words. Some words we had to figure out letter by letter and then look up on the internet to try to decipher them. He was left-handed and his teachers taught him to write right-handed, you see. I say ‘transcribed’ because his handwriting was nearly illegible. I asked her what they were and she said she didn’t know.Īll that afternoon, she and I transcribed what was Grandpa’s earliest recollections and his Christian testimony. ![]() It’s Grandpa’s journal from his time in the army during World War One.”Īs I flipped through it, I found some loose pages. She held it out to me, “I’ve read some of this. When I was visiting my sweet cousins this past summer, cousin Jan came to me with a heavy-looking red book in her hands. ![]()
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