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Bristol (Dane County)

Hyman and Rebecca Franklin lived on a truck farm here beginning in 1947, moving from their farm in Union Grove. They raised chickens and turkeys. Hyman died in 1969. In about 1970, Rebecca and her daughter, Ruth, moved to Kenosha.

Granddaughter Mariann Littell, her brother and mother lived with the Franklins on the Bristol farm. She remembers accompanying her grandfather as he peddled fruits and vegetables to homes in Paddock Lake and Twin Lakes.

The family ate kosher meat bought from a Kenosha butcher until he closed up shop. Then the family ordered meat from Chicago. Sabbath observance was difficult, because the animals needed tending, and much local commerce took place on Saturday.

Mariann and her brother attended cheder (religious school) at B'nei Zedek Synagogue in Kenosha. Mariann remembers Rabbi Henry Lieberman of B'nei Zedek as "everything a rabbi should be." She attended public school in Bristol.

All of these articles are always open to the addition of new information. Readers who have more data about, or documents or artifacts from, these communities are welcome to contact Leon Cohen at the Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning at 414-963-4135 or lcohen@wsjl.org.