When he was around 16 years old, "Uncle" Herman ‘ran away’ from home.  He did not return to see his family until 25 years later where we then learned that he had gone to Canada and there had married and had a large family. The state-side family has never met most of his children. Read more

In the fall of 1928, a neighbor invited grandpa to go to the city-wide revival in Belleville; so he took his family to the revival meeting.  The evangelist was Dr. Charles S. Price.  Sunday morning he got under conviction so bad that he went to the altar. Read more