1940 Census: Irven Roth, age 38, farmer
Alfrieda Roth, age 38
Shirley Mae, age 1
Adeline Roth (mother), age 78
An article in the St. Charles Cosmos-Monitor of August 9, 1941, stated the following: "Ervin Roth was away threshing when the write called at his new home, but Mrs. Roth, who was holding her pretty 4-year-old daughter on her lap, told how they had to leave the old 90-acres homestead near Weldon Spring. They borrowed money to buy another farm some distance away from the area and because the government had not paid them, are compelled to pay interest, and lack the capital to fix things up. They miss the electric lights, refrigerator and washing machine they formerly enjoyed.
'It's an outrage-putting people off without a penny to go on,' Mrs. Roth contended. But she was thinking of others less fortunate than she and her family. She told of various farm families who could not hold on to their new homes; banks won't lend money on the options. 'It was worse on the renters,' she said, 'because they could expect nothing and had no place to go since farms for rent are scarce. I know one renter,' she related,' who had a sale and didn't get one-tenth of what his stuff was worth.'"
Location: house was located in the middle of the northeastern border of this property (what is now Interstate 64)
Acreage: 91.10
Contract price: $12,600
Property condemned on April 14, 1941
Condemnation price: $4,560
