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Camp Sober – Friendship, Farm Life and a Hunting Story

Camp Sober – Friendship, Farm Life and a Hunting Story

by Brenda Sodt Marshall | Jun 10, 2019 | History

Camp Sober is a fading memory of American farm-life but thanks to a sawed-off shotgun and a deer hunting story too good to be true it won’t be forgotten.  Camp Sober Camp Sober was a thing in the 1960s in Manchester. I wasn’t even conceived until the...
The Emigration Story of William George Sodt

The Emigration Story of William George Sodt

by Brenda Sodt Marshall | Jul 6, 2013 | History, Michigan

  This is the emigration story of William George Sodt. In 1881 he traveled with 13 family members to the port of Bremen, Germany to board the steamship SS Salier. Only 11 of the 13 family members made it the US. We will never exactly know why they made the...
Two years in the life of Ruth Lewick 1913-1914

Two years in the life of Ruth Lewick 1913-1914

by Brenda Sodt Marshall | Mar 4, 2013 | History, Michigan

  My Grandmother, Ruth Cornelia Lewick Sodt (1893 – 1979), was a scrapbooker. I recently retrieved one of her scrapbooks from the “cedar chest” that was buried in my sister Martha’s basement. When I dusted it off I was immediately in...
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