Joseph MOLITOR

                   BIOGRAPHY:      Left Catholic church just before his marriage to Lenora Baier.
Experienced persecution from members of that faith in his community.  Daughter
Frances Molitor was poisoned with striknine at an early age because of his
action to leave the church.
       Was a farsighted farmer. Was able to keep the family farm during the
Great Depression. The farmhouse was built over the original "soddy"  (sod
house)built by his parents. Stories are told in the family about that first
year that they lived in the soddy, how snakes had laid their eggs in the mud,
and how the eggs hatched and the little snakes came wriggling out of the mud
walls of the soddy.
       My memories of my grandfather include picking asparagus with him one
bright spring day, and having a wonderful dinner that night. I also remember
spending Christmas with my grandparents every year until they died. We always
opened the presents on Christmas eve, then we'd have to go to bed.  I was
always sick from the long trip in a smoke-filled car.