Alvin Abi DODENDORF

                   Letter in possession of Don Moorhead:

Columbus, Nov. 12, 1918

Dear Brother:

Your letter came this mornings and I was glad to get it, I   ? ? get out today.  I am sorry you did not get your work down at Omaha.

Well it seems the War is really over now, Ray went down to report, and they were told that it was called off. so now he will not have to go. I am so glad, but Ray is disappointed, as he would have liked to make that trip to California. Today is Ray's birthday and Marvin, thinking Ray went ? or have to go today sent him a telegram.

I am up and feeling pretty good but of course I am pretty weak.  I am going to take care of myself and not do anything as long as I am not strong.  Ray will be home this weekend, then he will have to go to work again.  Mr. Abts wants him to go on the road as salesman.  Ray has been City salesman for a long time, and has done so well that he (Mr. Abts) thinks Ray will make good on the road. He is going to buy him a brand new car to travel in.  So I'll get a ride some time too, you know Ray has been driving a car right along and is pretty well at home with it.  Mr. Abts lets him have his car every Sunday.

Now I am going to let this be enough for this time.  Write to me soon again.  I hope when Minnie gets home again she will be able to come over and see us.  I am sure it was very good of her to leave everything and help us out.  I am just as thankful as though ? she had come, her intentions were good, and we surely appreciated her kind intentions.
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Lovingly, Your sister, Katie


Family History record says birth was 12 Jan 1873 in Giessen.


Londorf (Climbach) Geburts Protocoll (Birth and Baptism)
Microfilm #1201526
Geburts Protocoll 1867-1875
1871, No. 1, page 200 - Katharina Römer
Katharina Römer, born 11 Jan 1871 about 10:30 in the morning (Vormittags um halb zehn) in Climbach. Daughter of Heinrich Römer III, Citizen and farmer, and Elisabeth neé Stein, the third child, second daughter. Baptized 22 Jan 1871. Sponsors (1) Katharina Wißner, wife of Citizen and farmer Peter Wißner of Climbach; (2) Caspar Römer, Citizen and farmer; (3) Barbara Römer, unmarried daughter of Johannes Römer III, the father's sister; (4) Johann Rausch, unmarried son of the late (weiland) Johannes Rausch, Citizen and master blacksmith (Schmeidermeister) from Ober-Ohman in Kreis Grünberg.