![]() ![]() Oddly enough, the dark clouds seemed to hover over their home while the rest of the sky was blue and serene (Gard and Sorden). ![]() All was peaceful until “the strange night” in June when a massive storm rolled over their property. They had two children: a four-year-old named Minnie and a two-year-old named Louie. The Strange NightĬarl and Louise took extra caution when they prepared their home for the impending storm.īy 1880, Carl and Louise Nodolf were doing well in their Platteville home. In 1875, twenty-eight-year-old Carl Nodolf married eighteen-year-old Louise Steinhoff, creating more branches in the Nodolf-Steinhoff family tree (Johanne Marie Louise Steinhoff”). Caroline had married Carl’s brother, Louis Rudolf Nodolf, in 1861 (“Caroline Steinhoff”). Johanna’s other daughter, Caroline, had already moved to Wisconsin. Carl helped Johanna Steinhoff move to the Platteville area with her children Louise and Heinrich (“Johanna Caroline Bertram”). ![]() The family was safe and sound nobody had died from diphtheria. There Carl met with his in-laws, the Steinhoffs. About six months later, he went back to his hometown of Hanover, Germany. Photo courtesy Ĭarl Nodolf did settle by the Platte Mound in 1866 (“Charles Nodolf”). Caroline Steinhoff and Rudolf Nodolf also came to the U.S. ![]()
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