The Voyage Passenger List for the SS Elbe arriving in New York 22 September 1883 On 7 September 1883, the S.S.Elbe left the harbor of Bremen sailing for America. Anna Ertl Bohman, her brother Joseph, her mother Dorothea Masanetz Ertl, and her four small children (Anna, Margaret, George, and Maria) were aboard the steamship. Anna … Continue reading Stories from Squaw Creek Homestead
Gladys Jentz Gladys Mary Jentz was the seventh of ten children of John Jentz and Caroline Reisig. Gladys was born in Fennimore, Grant County, Wisconsin, on 21 January 1904. Her baptism and birth are recorded at St. Peter's Church. Gladys was the younger sister of Anna K. Jentz (known as Lula) who was the mother … Continue reading Saturday Mourning
Falls From Hayloft Boy Badly Injured Melvin Widman, 11 year old son of Walter Widman, Riverside, is at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, suffering from a fracture of his skull and two ribs, sustained when he fell from the loft of a barn through an opening to a concrete floor below. He had gone to the … Continue reading Tuesday News Day
Joseph M. Kroening Joseph M. Kroening, 72, Town of Cleveland, died yesterday at 1:15 o'clock at the home of his son, Bernhard Kroening, Town of Spencer, where he had been the past three weeks. Joseph Kroening Funeral services will be Thursday morning at 10 o'clock in St. Joseph's Catholic Church at Stratford. The Rev. Paul … Continue reading Saturday Mourning
William Johann Carl Hell Every family has stories passed down from generation to generation. Over time the details can become fuzzy, and factual information gets replaced with fiction. The story is not necessarily altered on purpose. Like the game of Telephone, when messages get passed through multiple tellings, things get left out and added due … Continue reading Family Lore: Fact vs Fiction
Hyršov Dorothea Mazonetz Ertl Squaw Creek Homestead is the land first settled by my Bohman family ancestors near Auburndale. The barn and home were still standing a few years ago when I last drove by. Dorothea Masonetz Ertl (my 4th great grandmother) and her husband Johann Ertl were married on 3 November 1847 in Hyršov, … Continue reading Stories from Squaw Creek Homestead
St Paul's is a tiny white country church like you see on old postcards or in the background for modern wedding photo shoots. It is tucked away on a quiet gravel road between Rozellville and Stratford in Marathon County Wisconsin. I have known for several years that I had some family buried in the churchyard … Continue reading Kroenings and St Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
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