Feldhaus Family Genealogy

Lawrence Bernard Feldhaus

Son of Henry Bernard Feldhaus Jr. and Mary Ann Schneider
Born:     Lawrenceburg, TN on May 6, 1907
Died:     Lawrenceburg, TN December ?, 1987

Lawrence was born in Lawrenceburg Tennesse on May 8, 1907.   He was trained as a brick mason, specializing in iron mill furnace construction, but he worked as a general mason around the country, as far away as Kansas City, Paduca Kentucky, and Birmingham Alabama.   In 1936 at age 29 he married Margaret Martha Holthouse from Lawrenceburg.   They traveled around the country with their young children while he worked as a brick mason.

In 1939 they settled in Lawrenceburg and he worked on the construction of the new Reynolds Aluminum plant in Schefield Alabama.   When it was finished, he began working as a brick mason in the maintenance department, maintaining the brick ovens used to melt the raw aluminum.   He commuted from Lawrencrburg daily.

I remember in January of 1941 I went with him to buy a new 1941 Cheverot sedan.   I was three years old.   A couple of years later he was driving to work one morning with a car load of workers and ran into the back of a truck parked on the road in heavy fog with no lights on.  The right side of the car was totaled, but miraculously, no one was seriously hurt.   New cars weren't being manufactured during the war, so he found a junk car and had it cut in half and welded to the good half of his car.   He drove that car for another three years.

Soon he was promoted to Foreman, a job he held until he retired following a heart attach at age 55.   He lived in Lawrenceburg until his death late in 1987 at 80 years of age.

Lawrence hunted and fished all his life.   He always enjoyed fishing the creeks in Lawrence and Wayne county.   He caught many bass from Napier Lake.   He was also an accomplished Tennessee river fisherman.   As a young man he played poker and later he played bridge.   He was always lucky with cards.   Also, as a young man he was a very good pool player.   After he retired, he took up golf and played several times a week.   He was feared for his abilty to get the ball up an down from anywhere on the course.

Lawrence was good with his hands and could do almost anything.   He was, you might say, a Jack of all trades.   He never met a stranger and had a wide circle of friends from all walks of life.