Links to the Past

I added photos to the photo gallery of members of the E.B. Wolcott GAR Post No. 1 in Milwaukee.

These photos are mainly of officers.

Thanks to Jackie we added about 150 surnames to Forest Hill Cemetery #84

Surnames include

Abrams, Addy, Akgulian, Allen, Althaus, Amble, Baewer, Bak, Barrington, Basterash, Bayer, Behr, Berry, Bettac, Biadasz, Bleier, Borchardt, Brace, Brandt, Brashewitz, Brodhagen, Bruske, Bundalo, Burns, Carl, Carlson, Carr, Christianson, Clark, (more…)

Gary has been busy transcribing and I put almost 1000 names online from the German Newspapers, 1887 and 1888.

The surnames are as follows:

Ackenhausen, Ahlsvede, Ahrens, Albert, AleriaElis, Alexander, Allerding, Altenburg, Amsberg, Anderson, Andreas, Anger, Arndt, Arnold, Aschermann, Augr, Babille, Backhaus, Baffe, Bahnemann, Baldauf, Ball, Bangert, Barkow, Bartel, Bartels, Bartelt, (more…)

Gary sent in more names extracted from the Banner und Volksfreund, one of the Milwaukee German Newspapers Years 1855-1857

Names include:

Acker, Balbach, Baur, Bechtel, Bellack, Benn, Berlandt, Best, Beyer, Blatz, Boeser, Boldt, Bronen, Busack, Diederichsen, Dilg, Frankfurth, Fuldner, Gaitzich, Gaudlitz, Gipfel, Haertel, Heiselmann, Herzberg, Holtzuber, Kefelau
Kefelau, Klumb, Koepmann, Kopf, Krug, Kurz, Liginger, Longitzlen, Luening, Meyer, Moeller, Orban, Pfeil Dreis, Rasser, Rausch, Rosche, Ross, Rupp, Schenkberg, Schoeffler, Schofer, Schramm, Schultz, Steinmueller, Stoll Roebl, Tebel, Weise, Wendre, Wendte, Wright, Zimmermann

I added a couple more articles to the Bay View Massacre section.

Bay View Massacre was a riot that occurred in 1886 in a dispute over long work days.

Obituary for Herman Stauss added to Forest Home (fireman in the fire saved 16 lives)

George Wells Biography in the marriage section.

A few additional articles on the Newhall House section.

I recently came across a site GenDisasters.com.

Yesterday I spent time on St. Paul’s UCC (formerly St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran) Cemetery . It started with adding a link to Lenora’s wonderful cemetery photos she has put online at find-a-grave.com, then adding obituaries for some of the burials in the cemetery. The cemetery is number 65.

In the process I came across an article on the circumstances of William Erdman and August Amend deaths.

So to speak….

I added a few more deaths to the site.

Names include:

Cemetery X
Sanderson, Gove, Spaan, Burstalt

Holy Cross Cemetery #047
Meurer, Kronenberger, Kinzer, Harrison

Death Notices
No cemetery

January 11, 1882

Edward Frederick Theodore Oldenschlager age 3 months cause convulsions;
Emily Jackson Still-born;
August Orscher age 4 years cause enlanyina;
Louis Wolf age 13 days cause pertupia;
Joseph Deane Mullen age 6 years cause endocarditis;
Stato Kuslph age 53 years cause consumption;
Mamie Lydon age 7 years cause Pneumonia.

November 19, 1881

The following deaths were reported at the office of the commissioner of Health yesterday Hermann Kuetz 6 years diphtheria;
Frances La Blank 5 years, 10 months accident;
child of Michael Hopke still-born;
Michael Manning 62 years apoplexy.

Barb finished putting the photos for Prairie Home into the photo gallery.