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It Takes a Matriarch - 780 Family Letters from 1852 to 1888 Including Civil War, Farming in Illinois, Life in St. Louis, Life in Sacramento, Life in the Theater, Wagon Making in Davenport, and the Lost Family Fortune (Paperback, New)
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It Takes a Matriarch - 780 Family Letters from 1852 to 1888 Including Civil War, Farming in Illinois, Life in St. Louis, Life in Sacramento, Life in the Theater, Wagon Making in Davenport, and the Lost Family Fortune (Paperback, New)
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It Takes A Matriarch is the second of four books about the extended
Reiss and Basler families who settled on a small farm in St. Clair
County, Illinois in 1834 and 1839, respectively. It includes 780
letters saved by first generation Margaret Basler Reiss Ebert from
1852 to 1888. Some letters were phonetic English but most had to be
translated from "old" German. Authors were Margaret's siblings,
their spouses, her children, their spouses, her grandchildren, and
two friends. They mention serving in the Civil War, personal
challenges, life in St. Louis and Sacramento and Davenport, and the
lost family fortune. One author was friends with John Wilkes Booth
who shot President Lincoln. Quilter, Granger, Grandma, Matriarch
was the first of these four books. It is the daily diary of third
generation Katie Reiss covering 1949 through 1953. It was published
first to give the reader a feel for life on the Reiss Family Farm
in the German heritage of southern Illinois. Katie and husband
George Reiss doubled the original Reiss/Basler farm to its current
360 acres. Relatives gather for a reunion in June 2009 to celebrate
175 years of the ongoing existence of the Reiss Family Farm. The
Reiss Dairy will be the third book. It is a history of the Reiss
Dairy in Sikeston, Missouri which was founded in 1935 by third
generation John Reiss. It is famous for milk bottles featuring
poems created by Sikeston citizens to promote Reiss Dairy products.
The best of these bottles sell on eBay for over $200. Family,
Farming, and Freedom will be the fourth book. It is 55 years of
professional and personal writings by fourth generation Irv Reiss
from 1949 to 2004. His favorite subjects were family fun and
travel, restoring strip mined coal lands to productive farming, and
promoting individual freedoms and responsibilities. He was my dad.
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