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Sachse
Continued from Page 2
The Sachse story as related
in Michigan Jewish History
tells about friendly relations
with farmers and good feel-
ings between Jews and non-
Jews. It gives an account of
Eli's marriage to Fannie Koff-
man, daughter of another
pioneer, Human Koffman, for
whom Eli worked in his
grocery store. They were mar-
ried in Bay City in 1894.
Here is one of the exciting
portions of the Sachse story.
Eli and his bride moved to
Worth, in Aranac County,
where Eli opened a general
store. The historical record
calls attention to the fact that
Worth no longer exists. That's
where Helen was born 91
years ago. Yet a remarkable
story is appended to a disap-
peared lumber camp. The
record also reconstructs an in-
teresting portion of the fami-
ly background. The Michigan
Jewish History story about
the Saches relates:
The farmers generally
depended on catalogues
for their purchases. The
Jewish peddlers provided
a service by bringing the
merchandise to their
doors. The farmers were
kind and offered food and
lodging to the peddlers.
Except for kosher salami
which they carried with
them, their diet mainly
consisted of baked
potatoes and eggs. The
peddlers were paid in but-
ter, eggs, fowl and
vegetables which they sold
to stores. In the beginning,
the peddlers walked from
town to town with packs
on their backs until they
could afford to buy a horse
and wagon. Many of them
later started their own
business.
Eli and Helen's mother,
Fannie Koffman, were mar-
ried in Bay City in 1894.
They moved to Worth, a
lumber camp which no
longer exists, in Aranac
County where Eli opened a
general store. The family
lived upstairs and Helen
was born there in 1896. She
remembers the tall, quiet
Indians who bought lard
out of a huge barrel after
dipping the tail of an
animal into the lard to
taste it. Many French-
speaking people also
patronized the store.
Helen's parents became
friendly with them and
when the Saches moved
back to Bay City they were
often visited by their
former customers. Eli
Sachse was the postmaster
at Worth. Incoming mail
was usually caught on a
hook while swinging from
the moving train. Outgoing
Helen Dushkin
mail was placed in the
same bag and raised with
a pulley so the returning
train could pick it up.
In 1909, a fire destroyed
the Sachse's general store
and living quarters and the
family moved to Bay City.
By that time Helen's grand-
parents, the Koffman's, had
moved to Kawkawlin, five
miles away. At first the
Sachses settled on the east
side of Bay City where
most of the Jews lived.
Later they moved to the
west side, across the
bridge, on Litchfield Street
near Midland, where Eli
had a hide and fur shop.
Their house was one of a
row of similar houses that
were built on land which
sloped back toward the
railroad tracks before
reaching the Saginaw
River .. .
In the early 1900s there
were pogroms in Russia
and Jews in America
began to send for their
relatives. Helen's maternal
grandfather, the oldest of
ten children, brought his
aged father and his sibl-
ings over one by one.
Helen's great-grandfather
is buried in Beth Olam
Cemetery. The Koffman
family all settled in
Michigan.
The youngest brother,
Elmer, was a peddler. One
night, while sleeping in the
attic of a friendly farmer,
he was awakened by the
light of a lantern and saw
the farmer coming up the
stairs with an axe in his
hand. He lay paralyzed
with fear, thinking that
America was like Russia
and the farmer had come
to kill him until he realized
that the man had come to
hack a chunk of meat from
the side of beef hanging at
the other end of the huge
attic.
With his brother-in-law,
Kolman Sachse, Eli revolu-
tionized the mattress
business "by keeping costs
down and wholesaling mat-
tresses for two dollars apiece,"