Here is the Noel family c. 1907. Lena is not born yet.

Back row: Georg, Henry, Karl, John

Front row: Lou, Ludwig “Louis”, Christina, Anna, Mother Anna Spilker Noel

Rosemary notes that she found German names given the boys in some Pittsburg Lutheran Church records. It appears that the family immediately Americanized and did not write those names in the old way anywhere else.

A few Noel family members are mentioned in the Moundville Lutheran Church records.

This photo was probably taken in 1914 as Ludwig died March of 1915.

People in the photo:

Back l to r: George, John Christina (Chrstiansen), Karl

Middle: Ludwig “Louis”, Ann Spilker Noel, Henry

Front Lena (Reed), Louis “Lou”, Anna (Addlesperger)

Louis and Anna Noel family in about February 1910.

At the porch – Christina Carolina Louise, Anna Caroline Emma, Friedrich Ludwig “Louis”, Anna Christina Marie Spilker, Lena Marie;

Brothers standing at the side of the house - Johann Justis “John”, Louis Andrew “Lou”, George Ludwig, Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm “Henry”, and Karl Friedrich Noel.

The house was located one mile east of Hiway 43 and one half mile south of the Vernon County line.