Sodder Family

July 30, 2021

On the night of Christmas Eve 1945 nine of the ten children as one son was away serving in the army settled into bed in preparation for the morning. Ages and Names of the Sodder Children.

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75 years ago a fire destroyed the Sodder family home.

Sodder family. One Sodder was in the Army at the time and so played no other part in this. In the small Appalachian town. The surviving Sodder family members staunchly believed that the children had been abducted but were thwarted in their every effort to solve the mystery.

Around 1 am a fire broke out. The wooden framed 7-bedroom house was perfect for businessman George Sodder and his wife Jennie to raise their nine children. Local police were able to help them locate the two men she had indicated but they.

The Sodder family theorized that the children had been kidnapped perhaps in an attempt to extort money perhaps to coerce George into joining the local mafia the Sodders were Italian immigrants or perhaps in retaliation for Georges outspoken criticism of Mussolini and Italys fascist government. Maurice July 8 1931 Martha January 22 1933 Louis December 25 1935 Jennie September 19 1937 and Betty Sodder March 4 1940. She believed that he and Maurice were living in Texas.

Another six the parents and four children escaped with their lives. In 1952 George and Jennie placed a large billboard at the site of the fire advertising a 10000 reward for information relating to the childrens disappearance. In the light of day as the fire marshalls sifted through the ashes they were unable to find any trace of.

A woman from the area had written the family a letter saying that a young man had revealed to her after having too much to drink one night that his true identity was Louis Sodder. The Sodder familys house burned down in 1945 in what was believed to be a tragic accident - but what happened next convinced many all was not as it seemed. The Sodder family included parents George and Jennie and their ten children.

The Sodder family was enjoying a lovely Christmas eve with 910 children being as the eldest son Joe was stationed away in the army. Members of the Sodder family who survived the fire were George and Jennie Sodder parents. It is unclear if the remaining five Betty age six Jennie eight Louis nine Martha Lee 12 and Maurice 14 died in the fire or were depending on who one asks taken somehow by persons unnamed and never made their way back.

Although the land has since been sold and. From the 1950s until Jennie Sodders death in the late 1980s the. The five children who disappeared were Maurice 14.

Support the channel over at Patreon. The mystery of the Sodder familys disappearance. George ran a small trucking company and the family lived in a small two.

Marion 17 the eldest sister surprised her three younger sisters with toys that she had bought them. Sodder family members were forced to stand around for close to an hour as their house burned to the ground with five members of their family trapped inside. Joseph or Joe 21 was away in the Army.

It remained on that spot until Mrs. Overall the spirits were high and everyone was having a good night and of course excited about Christmas. Am Weihnachtsabend des Jahres 1945 verschwanden fnf der zehn Kinder der Familie Sodder aus deren Elternhaus whrend ein Feuer darin wtete.

Sodders death in 1989. However George and his son-in-law were unable to speak with her. By 1030 pm George and jenny were dozing off but five of the younger children Betty 6 Jenny.

The Sodder family home is located in a small Appalachian town two miles north of Fayetteville West Virginia. Das Haus von George Sr seiner Frau Jennie und neun ihrer zehn Kinder brannte vollkommen nieder. The Sodders George and Jennie were a respectable successful couple who raised 10 children together in Fayetteville West Virginia.

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