Santa Claus Comes to Cuba City

As you send off holiday greetings this year, know that Cuba City residents have been sending and receiving Christmas cards for well over a century. On Christmas Eve 1919, this postcard was mailed to Miss Theresa Hoelting, of rural Cuba City.

Theresa lived with her parents and siblings on a farm in Elk Grove Township, near present-day Red's Supper Club. Theresa taught school for a time, and her well-wishers, Lula and Erma H., were likely Lula and Erma Huntington, sisters who lived in Elk Grove and were perhaps friends or former students of Miss Hoelting. 

A few years after this card was received, Theresa married Walter Wood, and the couple raised their family in Green County, Wisconsin.

Image of Theresa Hoelting Wood, courtesy of her granddaughter, Shari Cook.