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William Nelson
We've had some similar experiences going back to what would now be called, the 'hood. My mom stayed in our house on 36th just north of Rohr until she died on Memorial Day weekend in 1996. She wouldn't let us move her anywhere else, but we were greatly concerned for her safety there. We often stayed there while in the area and worried about our own safety at times, too. There was a murder in front of her house one night about two years before her death. A lady who claimed to be the sister of a neighbor who was at work actually came into her house to use the phone and left witn some money and a roll of stamps. We were so happy that's all she took. Needless to say, she wasn't related to the absent neighbor. The neighbor on the other side was a Milwaukee cop, but she and four other cops were arrested for dealing drugs stolen from evidence out of their garage. We sold the house through a realtor and don't know the family living there now, but we've looked at the pictures on Google Earth and see that it looks much the same, except most of the trees are gone and the garage is gone. There's a fence across the front at the sidewalk. The house where the cop lived has been torn down, opening a wide area to the north of our house. Our eldest son is a Mukwonago cop and he's told us not to go there or to our previous home on 23rd south of Greenfield without him. He always carries his gun in that area. We've visited both houses, but won't do it again.
Mary's home was in Wales and that area has gone the other way. All the open spaces that were just a block from her home are now sprouting McMansions.
On our last trip to Wisconsin, in 2011, we stopped in the little town of Tustin in Waushara County. Our family once had a small cottage there. The cottage is now completely gone and there's no evidence it or the two garages were ever there. The last tiime we were there was in the late 80's when my brother lived there. It was amazing to me that the lot it was on had gotten so small. When I was a kid, I thought of it as a park. Almost wished I hadn't gone back there either. Guess Jim's observation was correct.
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