Soap Creek Valley · Place

Writsman Place

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Writsman Place: 6 transcript mentions across 1 record, grouped by who was speaking.

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Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 6

These two numbers count different things and rarely match. The first is how often the back-of-book indexes the books themselves print point at this place; an indexer chose those. The second is how often the name occurs in the transcript text, counted by machine. More on the difference.

This place has not been given a coordinate. It appears here because the narrators named it; where it stood is not established.

Provenance

Built from: The printed transcripts and back-of-book indexes of the fifteen monographs
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Who speaks of it

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 43, p. 44, p. 45, p. 46, p. 47, p. 48

In their words

Quoted character for character from the printed page, with the page it is on.

Right in here somewhere there was a boundary between the Writsman place and, well, we called it the Sheppard place, but I don't know who was there when my parents lived here, that is, who owned that place.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner, #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner , p. 44

Which is known as the Writsman Place.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner, #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner , p. 1

Dated statements about this place

1914 — Pictured with their parents are young Jake (b. 1914), Nellie (b. 1915), and Sam (b. 1916). All of the children were born in this house. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1891–1920
c. 1925 — It burned down years later. A Russian man, by the name of Mike Dobrinin, and there were quite a few Dobrinins in the Peoria/Halsey area. John Jacob "Jake" Rohner · source · 1921–1940

How to cite this item

The first line is the citation as it is printed in the original. Use it when you cite the work itself. Use the second when you cite this page.

As printed: The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Writsman Place (place record).
This page: Soap Creek Valley: Writsman Place. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/writsman-place/
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