Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1916 — CAN’T RECALL NAMES OF SONS [ARTICLE]

CAN’T RECALL NAMES OF SONS

Father of 17 Knows by Count When All Are In Cape Girardeau, Mo.—Bernard Kohlfeld of Burfordsville, who says he does not know how many sons he has until it rains, recently was a visitor in the city. Kohlfeld is 59 years old and 13 the father of seventeen children. "I used to keep in close touch with al 1 my boys,” he remarked, ‘ but there are so many of them and I am getting so old I have a great deal of difficulty 1 keeping tab of them all. I can tell off their names when I think real hard about it’’ and he began calling them off on his fingers. “The best way I have of telling a bout them is when it rains, for then they all come indoors and I can count them. Otherwise I am at sea.” Kohlfeld is a farmer and is well known in the western end of the county. especially Burfordsville.