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Quilter, Granger, Grandma, Matriarch - Life on the Reiss Family Farm 1949-1953 St. Clair County, Illinois (Hardcover)
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Quilter, Granger, Grandma, Matriarch - Life on the Reiss Family Farm 1949-1953 St. Clair County, Illinois (Hardcover)
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Reiss Family Books Quilter, Granger, Grandma, Matriarch is the
first 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. This first book is the daily diary of third
generation Katie Reiss covering 1949 through 1953. It is 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 in June 2009 to celebrate 175 years of
the Reiss Family Farm. The second book will be called It Takes A
Matriarch and include 763 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, a friendship with John Wilkes Booth, life
in St. Louis and Sacramento and Davenport, and the lost family
fortune. The third book will be called The Reiss Dairy. It is a
history of the Reiss Dairy in Sikeston, Missouri which was founded
in 1935 by third generation John Reiss. They are famous for milk
bottles featuring poems created by Sikeston citizens to promote
Reiss Dairy products. The best bottles sell on eBay for over $200.
The fourth book will be Family, Farming, and Freedom. 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 farms,
promoting individualfreedoms and responsibilities. He was my dad.
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