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JUNE 4 ISSUE ANSWERS: This is a wonderful piece of our community’s history as written by a former Hamilton Parsons kindergarten teacher, Marietha Lomakoski, a resident of Romeo. The Romeo Historical Society asked her to write about the donated brown dress and her association with High Point Dairy Farm, located near the 1,130-foot highpoint on Trombly Mountain north of 34 Mile Road in Bruce Township. The brown dress was her great-grandmother’s, Caroline Bayling Steptnitz, born in Germany July 1848 and died 1902 in America. Caroline and her husband Fredrick had 11 children, two of which were girls. The photo is of one of the daughters, Martha Stepnitz Seifert. Here, she is pictured as a teen. She and her husband Charles managed the High Point Dairy Farm raising many prized Hereford cows. Marietha Lomakoski’s parents, Bernard (born on the farm in 1914) and Genevieve Seifert, gave her many opportunities to visit the farm forming numerous fond memories. Her recollections, in two parts, are as follows: “Martha Steptnitz Seifert was born October 9, 1884 in Leonard, Michigan on a farm. There were 11 children in the family. Some of the children were born in Germany. When the family came to America they went to another state before coming to Michigan. Martha had one sister and the rest of the children were boys. Martha went to a

JUNE 4 ISSUE ANSWERS: This is a wonderful piece of our community’s history as written by a former Hamilton Parsons kindergarten teacher, Marietha Lomakoski, a resident of Romeo. The Romeo Historical Society asked her to write about the donated brown dress and her association with High Point Dairy Farm, located near the 1,130-foot highpoint on Trombly Mountain north of 34 Mile Road in Bruce Township. The brown dress was her great-grandmother’s, Caroline Bayling Steptnitz, born in Germany July 1848 and died 1902 in America. Caroline and her husband Fredrick had 11 children, two of which were girls. The photo is of one of the daughters, Martha Stepnitz Seifert. Here, she is pictured as a teen. She and her husband Charles managed the High Point Dairy Farm raising many prized Hereford cows. Marietha Lomakoski’s parents, Bernard (born on the farm in 1914) and Genevieve Seifert, gave her many opportunities to visit the farm forming numerous fond memories. Her recollections, in two parts, are as follows: “Martha Steptnitz Seifert was born October 9, 1884 in Leonard, Michigan on a farm. There were 11 children in the family. Some of the children were born in Germany. When the family came to America they went to another state before coming to Michigan. Martha had one sister and the rest of the children were boys. Martha went to a

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