2013 Summer Newsletter

thirteen great grandchildren and nearly all of them were farmers in the Block settlement. Fred and John Prothe, brothers, took farms its the Block settlement shortly af ter the Civil War. Fred had four children, John, who has nine children; Charles II, who has eleven children; Fred, jr., who has four children, and Henry A., who has five children, nearly all of the chil dren and grandchildren being farmers in the Block settlement. Relatives Almost Uncountable. John Prothe had five children, Henry, William, August, F. H. and Catherine and they had twenty-six children, who are mostly on the land In the Block set tlement. The grandchildren and great grandchildren of all those Prothes and Mindens are almost too numerous to count. Several members of the differ

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