This hand-carved wooden sheep, now with broken legs, was found in the rubble of the May 21, 1918 cyclone (tornado) that destroyed St. Luke Catholic Church in Plain, Sauk County, Wisconsin. It is believed the sheep was from the nativity set from the 1904 St. Luke's Catholic church (the third church).

The sheep was saved by members of the Joseph Blau and Anna Gruber Blau family. For many years, the sheep stood on the window sill of a small high window on the first floor of Anna Gruber Blau's farm home on Highway 23, south of Plain. Joseph and Anna's daughter Clara, who was 9 years old in 1918, gave the sheep to her nephew's family in 1991.

A must-read book about the cyclone that destroyed St. Luke's church and homes and farms in Plain, Wisconsin, is titled, May 21st 1918 Cyclone ~ A Path of Destruction and was published in 2008. To order your copy of this 300-page book with photos, visit the OFTHS website: https://oldfranklintownshiphistoricalsociety.weebly.com/merchandise.html