Tav's Genealogy and History Stuff

Kiest Dairy Kiest Dairy was located at the NE corner of State and Taft Street in Paxton. It was started about 1938 by Walter Kiest who was also working for Wright Ice Cream Company. They were both operated out of the same building. The business was taken over by his son, Robert, who eventually sold the building to Leo and Ambrose Freehill to start a salami company, Rihill Salami, in 1958.  The Freehills operated Lincoln Land Foods from this building making Teen Rite pizza. Robert built a new building at the corner of Ottowa and Rt. 45 for Kiest Dairy operations and a locker service. (Now Just Hamburgers.) A recent newspaper article stated that the former Kiest Dairy building at State and Taft is a company that makes jerky. They have been making a variety of food products at that location for a very long time.

Welcome to my blog.  Since genealogy and history are my main interests I though I'd put them in one place and share it with anyone who might be interested. It's A Small World Recently I've met online another genealogist from Sweden,  Irène Landsjö  . We have a mutual set of cousins on our maternal side from the parish of Adelöv,  Jönköpings lan . Regretfully I have nothing new to share with her. But she said she lives close to there and has many ancestors on her grandmother's side of the family in that area. We both have our family trees on Ancestry so I'm looking her's over and see that she has ancestors that lived on the farm of Sköldseryd in Lommaryd,  Jönköpings lan . Well... on the paternal side of the Swedish family the "Johnsons" lived on the same farm at the same time. We aren't related but our ancestors certainly knew each other. Any more when I find these "small world" connections I just smile, chuckle and shake my head. T...