
His daughter Mabel wrote in her genealogy of the GUTENSOHN and PETRY families, "He was a wagon maker and made quite a number of wheels each day. He opened a planing mill in Gnaden and made quite a modern mill out of it. He built the Moravian Church and Parsonage in 1903 and quite a number of other large buildings and homes; another building he built was the Purell schoolhouse.... He had several serious accidents at the mill; he cut the ends off all the fingers of his right hand, then three fingers off the left hand."
His niece Jo wrote, "I remember that Grandma was a little taller than Grandpa. He did have a sense of humor. When I was in grade school he visited us in Enid, OK on his way to, or from, Florida where he visited his brother, Philip. He wrote a letter to Uncle Philip and asked me to read it to my mother. I couldn't read it because he had written it in German! He thought that was pretty funny. He also brought us some sea shells from Florida which I still have."
The boy hanging on the fence is probably Jake's youngest son Elmer GUTENSOHN (1895-1974).
Photograph collection of J. Smith.
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