{"id":669,"date":"2010-09-07T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/rottman-letter-20-november-1942\/"},"modified":"2013-07-07T16:12:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T21:12:30","slug":"rottman-letter-20-november-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/rottman-letter-20-november-1942\/","title":{"rendered":"Rottman Letter, 20 November 1942"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A continuation of letters written by my great-grandfather, George Rottman.\u00a0 The letters were written to his children while he was away from home visiting family in Iowa and Wisconsin in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This letter is dated 20 November 1942.\u00a0 It was written to Marge (Rottman) and Lawrence Comerford just after their baby was born.\u00a0 Unlike the previous three letters, this one (and the next) are sent from Wild Rose, Wisconsin.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what brought George to Wisconsin.\u00a0 A transcription follows the images.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/TIP4Q07PJkI\/AAAAAAAAFo8\/6tcIsudzS-w\/ROTTMAN%2C%20George%20ROTTMAN%20Letter%2020%20November%201942%20%28envelope%29%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"500\" height=\"296\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/TIP4RMovauI\/AAAAAAAAFpA\/Nl72D5LsvzY\/ROTTMAN%2C%20George%20ROTTMAN%20Letter%2020%20November%201942%20%28page%201%29%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"500\" height=\"794\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/TIP4Rq7OetI\/AAAAAAAAFpE\/kAWPZRkZTpU\/ROTTMAN%2C%20George%20ROTTMAN%20Letter%2020%20November%201942%20%28page%202%29%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"500\" height=\"804\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/TIP4RxQAJYI\/AAAAAAAAFpI\/MyLRQ851pzg\/ROTTMAN%2C%20George%20ROTTMAN%20Letter%2020%20November%201942%20%28page%203%29%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"500\" height=\"800\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/TIP4TOwUobI\/AAAAAAAAFpM\/PNJcrbzvbtE\/ROTTMAN%2C%20George%20ROTTMAN%20Letter%2020%20November%201942%20%28page%204%29%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"500\" height=\"805\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/TIP4Te7igUI\/AAAAAAAAFpQ\/1A2Zq-uk6C8\/ROTTMAN%2C%20George%20ROTTMAN%20Letter%2020%20November%201942%20%28page%205%29%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"500\" height=\"784\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>Wild Rose Wis<br \/>\nNov 20-42<\/p>\n<p>Dear Marge &amp; Turk<\/p>\n<p>Received Turks letter and was glad to hear from you.\u00a0 Glad to hear you have your baby and both are all right.\u00a0 So now you can quit worrying so much.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t worry about Turk or the flat while you are in the hispital\u00a0 They will get along O.K.\u00a0 You just think about yourself and the baby.\u00a0 Well we are helping our neighbor get up wood for the winter\u00a0 Then he will help us get up our wood we are burning both coal and some wood now.\u00a0 It hasnt been cold enough all week to start a fire in the heater yesterday I worked in my short sleeves it was foggy all day.\u00a0 To date we have got 3 Rabbits and 2 squirrels.\u00a0 There are lots of ducks but always too far out in the lake to shoot at and then we cant hunt right anyway because we havnt any license or duck stamps.\u00a0 I guess we have to be here 6 months before we can get a resident liscense [sic].\u00a0 Dick [Richard Rottman?] hasnt bought a farm yet.\u00a0 We have 2 in view.\u00a0 One is a regular rich [?] farm but he died and it must be sold to clear up the estate.\u00a0 The buildings and iron fence around the 110 acres alone must of cost at least 15,000.00 dollars.\u00a0 There is a small private lake on the place and only about 2 blocks from Pine River which is a wonderful trout and other fish stream.\u00a0 They are asking 5,500.00 for it.\u00a0 But I think it can be bought for 5 grand.\u00a0 But you cant tell we might get something entirely different\u00a0 The[y] change mind so often.\u00a0 And then sometimes I change it for them.\u00a0 Well I wrote a long letter to Ed the same time I wrote you before but have not heard from him as yet.\u00a0 I would like to come down for Thanksgiving but I don&#8217;t think I can.\u00a0 There is going to be a bunch come up here so I will be down for the Christmas holidays.\u00a0 I hope we have some snow by then so I can get some rabbits we only hunt on our place but there are plenty of game on the place.\u00a0 Well I will close for this time hoping you and the baby are doing well and Marie and Harold and the rest are all the same\u00a0 Love to all and say Hello to the baby<\/p>\n<p>Your Loving Dad<\/p>\n<p>Wild Rose<br \/>\nRout #2 &#8211; Box 90\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wis<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A continuation of letters written by my great-grandfather, George Rottman.\u00a0 The letters were written to his children while he was away from home visiting family in Iowa and Wisconsin in the 1940s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[312,331],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-personal-research","tag-family-comerford","tag-family-rottman","cat-25-id","cat-26-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-aN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3517,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}