Photo 72-BLA-21

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18551 W. Casey Rd., looking SW. The farm was built in 1920 and still there.

Yes my grandparents owned this farm John and Sophie Wanat. They bought the farm around 1946. I have papers. I believe most of the original structures are gone. I grew up on 137 as kids we walked to the farm though the fields In the back of our house where bull creek is now.

The same house my grandma and her family lived in when she was a young girl. The Willis family. The story goes the Willis’s and Bracher’s were two of the families that lived close, as well as others, the boys would get together to play baseball and that’s how my grandparents and my great aunt and great uncle met. Herbert L. Bracher Jr married Genevieve Willis and Leroy Bracher married Alma Willis.

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