Grandpa Netz--A History Lesson

My Grandpa Netz, your great grandfather, was one of 11--seven girls and four boys. Only one of the girls married and she had no children. (Ref: the aunts back o town. The mother died giving birth to the last child and an aunt came from Baden Baden Germany to raise the 11 children. The Netzhammers had a lot of land in Carrollton and their home and blacksmith shop was on the corner of Oak and Dublin Streets. Grampa Netz was a blacksmith, had a horse and buggy bread delivery business and finally was a Dock Board Policeman. They also had a cow or cows and both my dad and uncle Frank claimed they had to milk the cow before school and when they came home. Grampa Netz died in 1965 at age 94.

(sent by dad)