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Data source is her second daughter, Frances S. Schooler, 2618 Audrain Road #457, Laddonia, MO 63352. Email address is: schooler@cr6.net
In 1905, Lee Sonwalt, age 5, moved from Kansas with his German immigrant parents, 4 1/2 miles north of Rush Hill, MO, to a 200 acre farm. They had already homesteaded in Oklahoma. LEE and FANNIE BROWN SONWALT bought this farm in 1945.
LEE was a prominent farmer and Hereford cattle feeder. The Mexico Ledger usually printed in early July the first wheat harvested, and several years it named Lee Sonwalt. He was a big Hereford cattle feeder & when he took his cattle to the St. Louis Stock Market, Lee Sonwalt, Laddonia, MO. was known to get the Top Market price for the day (following in the footsteps of Rube Brown.) The minister added at his funeral that the cattle could only be Hereford, red with white faces. ONLY!
Until Lee stopped driving at 92, he continued to manage the farms and feed a few cattle by himself. He loved attending all local and surrounding State Fairs and just driving the countryside & "seeing what was going on."