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OCONTO COUNTY
Wisconsin
FAMILIES and BIOGRAPHIES
.BELL.
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and contributed by descendant: James
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Sheboygan County } .....June....AD 1861............James Bell.............an alien and native of ................Canada........personally appeared before me ...E. Gilman....Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said county, and DECLARES on his solemn oath, that he first arrived in the United States in the month of... August... AD 1848 and that it is his bona fide intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegance and fedelity to and Foreign Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty whatever and particularly to... Victoria Queen of England..... Subscribed and sworn to before me this ....3rd....day of ...June.....1861 .........E Gilman......Clerk James Bell |
FAMILY OF JAMES BELL & LOUISA LOCK(E)
[emigrated (Ireland to New York to
Canada) 1826 –
back to the United States in 08/1848 (James in 1855 and Louisa
in 1845 according
to 1900 census) intent filed 06/03/1861 (Sheboygan County,
WI) –
naturalized 10/06/1868, Oconto County Clerk’s Vol. 2, page
226, file #1873, No
40]
JAMES BELL [son of Seamus Bell and ??
?? (Scotland)]
b.
05/20/1815
Belfast, Ireland (Scotch/Irish
decent) (d.c.)
(1817 according to his
“story”)
d.
09/29/1922
Abrams, Oconto County,
Wisconsin (8/665
©)
(107y-4m-9d)
Buried:
Brookside
Cemetery, Abrams, Oconto County, Wisconsin
[1880
census, death record, immigration info]
[1825 Canadian
census – (possible) James Bell
living Montreal, Quebec, Canada
(Micro
Reel # C-718 – pages 2081-2100)]
[1829 Canadian
Immigration Records – (possible) James
Bell, native of Ireland,
listed in Settlers in the
Ottawa Valley
(Micro Reel # B-945 – C.O. 384/22, page 78)]
[1839-41
Canadian Immigration Records – (possible) James
Bell, Entries from
the Crown Lands Office,
Chatham (Kent
County) Ontario (RG 1, L7, Vol. 98)]
LOUISA LOCK(E) [daughter of Benjamin Locke
(England) and Elizabeth Nell (England)]
b.
08/01/1818
Kent County, England (on headstone:
b.
1818 – d. 1923)
(emigrated 1824 England to
Canada? – newspaper article)
d.
04/24/1925
Abrams, Oconto County,
Wisconsin (9/345 ©)
(105y-8m-23d) Buried: Brookside
Cemetery, Abrams, Oconto County, Wisconsin
1st
husband
Ben Brazier (Canada) - married at age 14 - first 2 children born of
this
marriage - Mary Ann (Charles Edward Schultz) and Elizabeth Ann (Joseph
F.
Toole). Brazier
died shortly after
Elizabeth was born and she married James Bell.
Louisa Locke Brazier Bell was 19 at the time of her
marriage to James
Bell.
Possible Marriage
Records:
Eastern District
Marriages
Volume VII, Page 101
John Brazier and
Louise Lock, both of Walpole – witness Josiah Locke and Mary
Ann Dean
Volume III, Page
212 (1854)
James Bell, 25, and
A. Lock, 19, by license, Mitilda
Rev Thomas Scott,
Minister Church of
Scotland, Williamsburg (1852-1857)
[1851 Canadian census – James
Bell (25-b.Ire), Louisa Bell
(24-b.Eng), Mary Bell (7-b.Can),
Jane Bell
(4-b.Can) and Eli Bell (2-b.Can)
living Walpole,
Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada
(roll: C-11725
schedule A – page 9 – lines 26
through 30)]
[1851 Canadian
census – (possible) Louisa
Locke (b.1820) living Haldimand County, Ontario
and
Benjamin Locke (b.1796) living
Ontario, Canada]
[1860 census
– (possible) William Bell (52-b.Scotland), Eliza
Bell (39-b.Eng) and
James Bell (24-b.Can)
living
Sheboygan (ward 2), Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
(M653-1432
– page 209 – image 210)]
[1870 census
– James Bell
(52-b.Ireland), Louisa Bell (40-b.Eng), Eli
(21-b.Can), James (13-b.WI),
Louisa
(11-b.WI), John (5-b.WI),
William (2-b.WI) living Pensaukee, Oconto County, Wisconsin
(TM593-1730 – page 308
–
image 160)]
Annie Toble (Toole) (granddaughter-15)
and Alice Toble (Toole)
(grandaughter-11)
living Pensaukee, Oconto
County, Wisconsin
(T9-1440 – page 287D
– ED
107)]
(Wisconsin
State Census 1895 – line 26 – roll
v226-17)]
[1900 census
– James Bell (head-80-b.Ire),
Louisa Bell (76-b.Eng) and James W. (son-43-b.WI)
living
Pensaukee, Oconto County, Wisconsin
(T623-1808 – page 1A
– ED
144)]
Living
Pensaukee, Oconto County, Wisconsin
(Wisconsin
State Census 1910 – line 39/40/41 – roll
CSUSAWI 1905-20)]
[1910 census
– Jams
A. Bell (91), Louisa Bell (86-b.Eng) and
James W. (52-b.WI)
living Pensaukee, Oconto
County, Wisconsin
(T624-1729 – page 242B
– ED 111
– part 2 – line 27-34)]
[1920 census – James
Bell
(head-103-b.Ireland), Louisa Bell (wife-101-b.Eng)
and James
(son-63-b.WI)
living Abrams, Oconto
County, Wisconsin
(T625-2007 – page 2B
– ED
155 – image 634)]
Marriage:
Before August 1838,
Matilda Township, Dundas County, Ontario, Canada (1838 according to
newspaper
account) – However, the 1851 Canadian Census shows Mary
(Braizer) age 7
and Jane (Bell) age 4 – therefore,
probable date of marriage would be
1848 (1847 in Louisa Bell’s Obituary)
Immigration:
Entered U.S. from
Canada at Detroit 09/1855? – letter of intent indicates they
arrived in
Sheboygan, WI in August 1848 but they were in Canada during 1851
Canadian
Census
Children:
(10)
Mary Ann (Brazier) (Schultz)
b.
1832/35
Ontario, Canada
d.
1928
Wisconsin
Buried:
Fort Howard Cemetery, Fort Howard, Brown
County, Wisconsin
Married:
09/28/1862, Charles Edward Shultz,
Oconto County, Wisconsin
(Vol. 1, Page 7)
b. 10/08/1837
Prussia (marriage
record) Germany (d.r.
& census
records)
d. 04/11/1910
Green
Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin (Vol.
12, page 365)
Buried:
Fort Howard Cemetery, Fort Howard, Brown
County, Wisconsin
Parents:
Charles Shultz and Mary Pfeifer (d.r. & m.r.)
Elizabeth A. (Brazier) (Toole)
b.
1835/38
Ontario, Canada
d.
before 1880 Wisconsin
Buried:
Brookside Cemetery, Abrams, Oconto County,
Wisconsin
Married:
08/17/1863, Joseph
F. Toole, Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin (Co
File
#1/8 ©)
(State of WI #01
005
N 07693)
b. 1824
Ireland
d. before 1880
Wisconsin
Parents:
Dominick Toole & Mary (unk) (m.r.)
Jane (Christian)
b.
02/28/1848
Walpole, Haldimand
County, Ontario, Canada
d.
12/28/1939
Abrams, Oconto County, Wisconsin (Co File #14/98 ©)
Buried:
Brookside Cemetery, Abrams, Oconto County,
Wisconsin
Married:
07/02/1867,
Peter
Christian, Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin (Vol
3, P 263 ©)
(State of WI #2471)
b. 01/07/1837
Denmark
d. 02/13/1911
Pensaukee, Oconto County, Wisconsin (Co File #5/925 ©)
Buried:
Brookside Cemetery, Abrams, Oconto County,
Wisconsin
Eli
b.
04/16/1848
Hamilton, (Haldimand
County?) Ontario, Canada (d.c.)
d.
09/18/1934
Kenosha, Kenosha
County, Wisconsin (WI Reg. No.
1333 ©)
09/21/1934
Buried:
Riverside Cemetery, Peshtigo, Marinette
County, Wisconsin (d.c.)
Married:
02/10/1874, Julia Windross,
Brown County, Wisconsin (Vol 3, Page 0170)
(State of WI #2471)
b. 04/09/1857 Wisconsin
(d.r.)
d. 10/12/1908 Peshtigo,
Marinette County, Wisconsin (Co
File #5/400)
Buried:
Riverside Cemetery, Peshtigo, Marinette
County, Wisconsin
John
b.
01/07/1865
Abrams, Oconto County,
Wisconsin
d.
05/31/1932
Abrams, Oconto County, Wisconsin (Co File #11/486 ©)
Buried:
Brookside Cemetery, Abrams, Oconto County,
Wisconsin
William
b.
(1853-55)
Sheboygan County,
Wisconsin (1869 according to 1880 census)
d.
1933
Buried:
Brookside Cemetery, Abrams, Oconto County,
Wisconsin
Married:
03/31/1891, Theresa
R. Pancratz, Abrams, Oconto
County, Wisconsin (Co File
#4/99/13 ©)
(State of WI #02
0023
N 00603)
b.
08/22/1870 Little
Suamico, Oconto
County, Wisconsin (m.r.)
d.
05/05/1910 Coleman,
Marinette County,
Wisconsin (Co File #6/1088
©)
Buried:
Brookside Cemetery, Abrams, Oconto County,
Wisconsin
James W.
b.
1856-58
Sheboygan County, Wisconsin (census
records)
d.
1923
Oconto County, Wisconsin
Buried:
Brookside Cemetery, Abrams, Oconto County,
Wisconsin
Louisa (Heider)
b.
01/29/1860
Oconto, Oconto County,
Wisconsin (d.r.)
d.
07/10/1945
Abrams, Oconto County, Wisconsin (Co File #15/603)
Buried:
Brookside
Cemetery, Abrams, Oconto County, Wisconsin
b. 09/27/1845
Slazigin, Germany
d. 01/14/1930
Oconto County, Wisconsin (Co
File #10/786)
Buried:
Brookside
Cemetery, Abrams, Oconto County, Wisconsin
Eliza (died as a child)
b.
Oconto County, Wisconsin
d.
01/09/1868
Oconto County,
Wisconsin
Caroline (adopted granddaughter -
died as a child)
b.
Oconto County, Wisconsin
d.
09/20/1874
Oconto County, Wisconsin
JAMES
BELL (1815 – 1922)
James
Bell emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1826 with is mother
and 2
brothers - his mother died during the ocean crossing.
He then moved to Canada with one brother
(unknown, possibly George) and another family.
The 3rd brother was taken
“west” by another family and was
never heard from again. He
married
Louisa Locke in 1938 (according to a newspaper account) and they and
their
family moved to Sheboygan County, Wisconsin in 1848.
They then moved to Fort Howard (Brown County)
and then to Oconto County, Wisconsin in approximately 1861 or 1862
(after his
declaration of intent to become a United States citizen) where they
settled
along the shore of the Pensaukee River near the Town of Pensaukee. On 05/02/1859 James Bell
owned 40.00 acres of
land in Section 9, Township 27 North, Range 21 East.
On 05/25/1870 records show him owning 120.00
acres in the same section. The
road
named “Bell Bridge Road” intersecting U.S. 41 west
of Pensaukee and east of
Brookside is named after James and Louisa.
Declaration
of Intent to Become a United States Citizen:
On
06/03/1861, in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, James Bell appeared before
the
Clerk of the Circuit Court and declared that he first arrived
in the United
States in August1848 and intended to become a citizen of the
United States.
THE BELLS OF ABRAMS
(a
short version of the life of
James and Louisa Bell)
“It
seems like yesterday I left the Port of Cork and on a ship from
Erin’s Isle, I
landed in New York. There
wasn’t a soul
to meet me there, a stranger on the shore, but Irish Luck was with me
and
fortune sailed galore”.
The
words from this song are strangely entwined in the life of James Bell,
who was
born in Ireland May 20, 1817, came to Wisconsin to live and made Abrams
his
home.
Let’s
go back to Ireland in the year 1826.
Living was hard. There
was never
enough to eat and the land would not yield the crops.
The landlords were strangling the people with
their cries for “more rent”.
The
day finally came when the Bell family sold their small holding of land
and used
the money to pay for their passage to America.
Seamus Bell and his lovely, young, pretty wife and their
three children
would live in America where they would never know the pangs of hunger
again.
At
last the day came in which they were to leave.
Seamus left his wife and the young ones at the ship in
Cork Harbor. He
said he had some last minute business that
needed tending. The
young Mrs. Bell knew
he was owed money and he went to collect it.
The men who owed him money were a rowdy lot, with their
drinking and
carrying on. “Please God, keep him safe”, she
silently prayed.
But
a messenger came, Seamus Bell had been dragged by his horse on the
Dublin
Road. Sure’n
he had some poteen (Irish
Whiskey) in him. Thank
God.
With
a long last look at Ireland, Mrs. Bell and her family set sail for a
new land
and a new life. But
the young Mrs. Bell
was never to see the new land. She
became ill, as so many did on that crossing, died and was buried at sea.
The
three young boys were left homeless, alone and in a strange country. The youngsters lived in
packing boxes in back
of an old dry goods store. A
couple
going west took the younger brother, and they never saw each other
again. Another
couple befriended James and his
brother and took them to live in Canada.
“The Bells of Abrams” – page 2
With
the passing of years, James Bell married Louise Loche.
The traveled to Wisconsin and lived near
Sheboygan for a time, then to Fort Howard and came by row boat along
the shore
of the Pensaukee river. The
settled by
Bell Bridge, which is named after the couple.
James
Bell remembered the Pensaukee tornado and how it followed the Pensaukee
river
and took the water out of the river and twisted big elms and oaks right
out of
the ground. It took
from 3 to 4 days for
the water to come back in.
The
Bells moved from West Pensaukee to Abrams to where the Earl Bartz place
now
stands.
James
and Louisa Bell raised 10 children and most of them seemed to have
inherited a
long life.
The
Bells were the most picturesque couple in Wisconsin and believed to be
in 1921,
the oldest couple in the United States.
At 104 James hadn’t missed a day walking into
the post office at night
after the chores were done and bringing the papers to his wife to read
to him. Her eyes
were just a “wee mite better than
his”, he reluctantly would admit when asked who read the
papers. Mrs. Bell
at 102 milked her cow each day.
Someone
once asked the Bells what their secret for longevity was. They said, “we
just minded our own business
and didn’t worry. That
is the way we
have always lived. We
have had hard
knocks before, but we didn’t let them put us down, and that
is about all there
is to living a long time and enjoying everything in life”.
James
Bell died at the age of 105 September 29, 1922, and his wife died in
1923 at
the age of 103.
Incidental Information:
Information
found in the Ontario Register 1780-1870
Eastern District Marriages: Volume VII, Page 101
John Brazier and Louise Lock, both
of Walpole – witness Josiah Locke and Mary Ann Dean
Eastern
District Marriages:
Volume III, Page 212 (1854)
James Bell, 25, and A. Lock, 19, by
license, Mitilda
Rev Thomas Scott, Minister Church
of Scotland,
Williamsburg (1852-1857)
News Releases:
Green Bay Press-Gazette:
ABRAMS HOME OF COUPLE BELIEVED OLDEST IN U.S. –
LIFE STILL
SWEET TO COUPLE, PAST 100 YEAR
MARK, WED 81 YEARS
Abrams,
Wis. – This little village, nestling in the southeast corner
of Oconto County,
claims the distinction of having the oldest couple in the United States. Mr. and Mrs. James Bell,
Sr., who live with
their son, James Jr., in a small cottage near the outskirts of the town
have
each passed the century mark.
Mr. Bell is 104 years old.
He was born in Belfast, Ireland, May,
1817. His mate,
English by birth, was
born in 1819.
Despite their advanced age the
couple take a wholesome interest in life and are keen observers of all
that is
going on around them.
They know all
the gossip of the village and are generally referred to as the township
biographers. The
have a certain number
of chores which they perform diligently each day and count that day
lost when
they do not finish some odd job around their home.
Mr. Bell walks down to the
postoffice, about a quarter of a mile away, daily.
He gets the mail and chats with friends and
then returns home, where his wife, whose sight is just a trifle better
than
his, reads him the daily papers, preferably the Green Bay Press-Gazette.
Mrs. Bell keeps informed on all the
world’s happenings. Her
mind is
remarkably clean and she can discuss the early history of Wisconsin
with all
the knowledge and fineness of a historian.
Despite her frail build, up to two years ago, she milked
seven cows
twice daily, never missing a milking for any reason.
At present, Mrs. Bell is sewing a
patchwork quilt.
“What do you think of those seams,”
asked her 64 year old son as he proudly showed samples of her work to a
press-Gazette
correspondent. The
seams were nigh
perfect. “I
expect to finish this quilt
in a few days and start another” chimed in Mrs. Bell. “My little girl
tells me I work too much, but
I like to be always doing something and my needle is seldom
idle,” she added. The
“little girl” she referred to is Mrs.
M.A. Schultz, a 76 year old daughter, and the oldest of seven children
living. The baby of
the family is
William, of Mason, Wis. 53 years of age.
Mr. Bell is a woodsman of the old
school. He knows every foot of timber land in Oconto County and when he
was a
bit younger, spent most of his time among the tall trees and tiny
birches. While on
one of his jaunts through the
forests a few years ago he discovered a real white pine. “I decided right
then and there that I wanted
that tree” he said. “I
cut it down,
hauled it to town and hewed it into that flagstaff that you see
standing near
the village depot.” The
staff is 96 feet
high and was erected a few years ago by Abrams residents. During the war
Old Glory snapped from this
mast, being raised each morning and taken down in the evening by
residents.
The centenarians had no particular
recipe for their longevity. “We
just
minded our own business, didn’t worry and worked
hard” said Mr. Bell. “Sure,
I smoke and I drank a little liquor,
too, before prohibition. No,
I don’t
think much of prohibition. I
drank
moderately for many years and no one can say that it has injured my
health. I have
never been sick a day in my life and I
don’t know what a doctor looks like.”
“No I don’t need any help”
said Mr. Bell indignantly when the
correspondent offered to help him down the porch steps into the yard
where he
and his wife posed for a picture.
“With
this old stick I can get anywhere.”
Mr. and Mrs. Bell have lived in
their present home 45 years, being among the first settlers in this
section of
the county. Prior
to coming to Abrams,
they lived at Pensaukee for a number of years, going there from
Sheboygan
County. They came
to Sheboygan from
Canada, where Mr. Bell met his wife.
The couple have been married for 81
years, having celebrated a silver, golden, and diamond wedding
anniversary. “We
might celebrate our 100th
anniversary too, you can never tell” remarked Mr. Bell. “We both feel
pretty pert.”
Mr. and Mrs. Bell are the parents of
ten children, seven of whom are living.
“How many grandchildren have we got?”
he queried. “Let’s
see.”
After thinking awhile, Mr. Bell gave it up. “I
can’t tell you; ask my daughter.”
Mrs. Schultz said that there were 31
grandchildren and several score great grandchildren living.
OBITUARIES
Obituary
of James Bell, Sr.
DEATH
SEPARATES NATION’S OLDEST COUPLE FRIDAY
James Bell Sr., Died At Home Of Daughter In Abrams At Age Of 105
–
Couple Made Home
In Oconto County For Sixty-Seven Years
The oldest couple in the United
States, Mr. and Mrs. James Bell, Sr., Abrams, was separated by death
Friday.
After an illness of several months
from a complication of troubles incident to old age, James Bell, Sr.,
died at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jane Christian Friday.
At the time of his death he was over 105
years old. His
wife, who survives him,
is 103 years old.
James Bell was born in Ireland May
20, 1817. At the
age of nine he moved to
Northern Canada. In
1847 he was married
and a few years later he with his wife moved to Oconto County where
they made
their home for 67 years. Their
first
home was located near the bridge between Pensaukee and Abrams that for
many
rears has been known as the Bell bridge.
Their home at that time was a little cabin located in a
small clearing
in the wilderness. A
few miles east was
the little settlement known as Pensaukee.
A small lumber mill was located there, and a few small
trails extended
out into the surrounding country.
This
with a few logging camps and small sawmill communities constituted
about the
only habitation in the county at that time.
A few years later Mr. and Mrs. Bell
with a family of five children moved onto a piece of land in Morgan. Here for several years
they struggled and
toiled to carve a farm out of the forest, and just as they had begun to
make
headway, just as they had accumulated enough for a comfortable home,
and had
enough ground under cultivation to support them in comfort, along came
the
great forest fire of 1871 destroying everything in it’s path.
The night of horror, where they
were, hemmed in by a raging forest fire has left and indelible
impression on
Mrs. Bell’s memory. She
tells the story
of how they fought desperately to save their home and how they
struggled to
save their lives with a vividness that makes it seem as thought the
disaster
must have happened but yesterday.
After fighting the fire with water, mud
and dirt, they finally found themselves powerless before the onrush of
the
destroying flames. They
managed to tie a
team and one cow in an open field and then they with the five children
saved
their lives by getting out into a marsh, and standing all night in
water waist
deep.
Last January along in the very
latter days of their lives they again met disaster by fire. This time their home was
destroyed completely
in an early morning fire.
After this fire a comfortable little
home was built out of a granary. Here
they made their home with Mrs. Mary Schultz, daughter of Mrs. Bell,
seventy-four years of age, until Mr. Bell’s recent illness
forced him to take
up his residence with his daughter, Mrs. Jane Christian, Abrams.
A great deal has appeared in newspapers
everywhere about this couple much of which is true and some of which is
fantastic exaggeration. For
several
years both Mr. and Mrs. Bell have been too feeble to work, but Mrs.
Bell cared
for her home and did all of her own work when she was well past the 90
year
mark in life.
Deceased is survived by his aged
wife, and four sons, Eli Bell, Kenosha; James Bell, Abrams; John Bell,
Mason,
Wisconsin, William of Tipler and two daughters, Mrs. Jane Christian,
and Mrs.
William Heider, Abrams.
The funeral was held from the
Methodist Episcopal Church, Abrams Monday afternoon, Reverend J. O.
Eninger
officiating. Burial
was made in the
Abrams cemetery.
Obituary
of Louisa Bell
FUNERAL
SERVICE HELD FOR STATE’S OLDEST RESIDENT
Mrs. Louisa Bell, 105, Who Died Friday, Is Buried In Brookside Cemetery
(Special to the
Press-Gazette)
OCONTO, Wis., – Mrs. Louisa Bell, one
of the first settlers of Wisconsin and the oldest pioneer in this part
of the
state was laid to rest today in the Brookside Cemetery having seen more
than
105 years of this life of which 76 years were spent in Wisconsin.
Mrs. Bell, who died Friday afternoon
in Abrams, was born in England, county of Kent, on August 1, 1819 and
at the
age of 5 migrated with here parents to Canada.
She was first married at the age of 14 and was married a
second time, to
James Bell, in Canada, at the age of 19.
In 1849 Mr. and Mrs. Bell came to Wisconsin with their
family and
settled in Sheboygan County where they pioneered in the woods. Along about 1860 the
family came north and
settled in Pensaukee. Here
they were in
the midst of the wilderness at that time and the children, now
great-grandmothers tell of how they would not venture from their
log-cabin for
days on account of the bears, wolves and wild-cats that surrounded
their
homestead.
Kept
Faculties to the Last
Asked if the Indians troubled them
any or if there were many here at that time, Mrs. Schultz the oldest
daughter
replied “Indians there were few, but mosquitoes they troubled
us” raising both
her hands in a sign of memory of despair.
For in those days these parts were nothing but swamps and
mosquito-killing
methods were unknown.
Mrs. Bell always attributed her
longevity to plenty of hard work which a pioneer usually enjoys, and
plain
foods. She was able
to be about the
house up to a few weeks of her death and up to five years ago did all
her own
housework. Her mind
was clear to the
last and her eyesight never failed her, although in recent years she
could not
read.
These physical conditions which she
enjoyed to the end were the gratification of her one wish, that she
should not
live so long as to lose any of her five senses.
Her husband preceded Mrs. Bell in
death about two years ago also at an age of over a century.
Scores of
Grand-children
Of her family of 12 children, 5 are
dead and she is survived by the daughters and four sons; Mrs. M.A.
Schultz, 80;
Mrs. Jane Christian, 77 and Mrs. Louisa Heider, 65 at home; Eli, 75, of
Kenosha; James, 69, at home; John, 59, Delta, Wis; and William 48, of
Tipler.
No one in the family would make an
attempt to figure up accurately the number of grand-children, great-
grand-children and great-great-grand-children.
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