Newest Additions Page - Oconto County, Wisconsin

The Oconto County WIGenWeb Project
Collected and posted by RITA
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NEWEST ADDITIONS TO THE
OCONTO COUNTY WIGENWEB SITE
Wisconsin

Project and Web Site Coordinator - RITA

SITE SEARCH ENGINES

What was New on the Site in 2007:

Please send your contributions for posting to RITA
Your name and/or e-mail link on any contribution are optional and are always your choice.

JULY 2009

July
NEW

Historic School

contributed by:
Laurie J. Wieber-Martins

Knowles School - town of Abrams

Oconto County, Wisconsin

Knowles School Page

Historic Oconto County Schools Photo Page
An on-going project, with your help.

JUNE 2009

June
ADDITION

Cemetery Gravestone Photographs
An ongoing project - with your help.

Photographed and contributed by:
Pat Drees

Brookside Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions A - B

Bartels - Beatrice, Allan, Lloyd, Beverly

The following cemeteries were in Oconto County until 1880. They are now in Marinette County, Wisconsin. These are included to help family researchers with confusing early records of residents' and descendants' burials.

Bakeman-Grover Gravestone Transcriptions & Photographs

Bartels - Harvey, Christian

Brightman - Lizzie, Minnie, Charles

Hartwig - Christ, Minnie,

Hertwig - Theo., Kath.

Crivitz Gravestone Transcriptions & Photographs

Dixon - Anna, John

Glish - Phillip S., Theo., Frances E., Walter S., Mary

Hartwig - Christ F., Margaret, Flora (nee Sievert), Herman, Ruby

Price - Adam, Elizabeth

Schmidt - Christina, Otto

Schultz - John J. & Kunigunda, Hedwig & Friederick, Albert J. & Doris M.

Forest Home Gravestone Transcriptions & Photographs

Bakeman - First name unreadable (death years 1912 and 1896), Jesse

Bartels - Christian, Shirley & Ernest,

Braun - Otto & Bernice

Brown - Nellie (nee Wright), Francis A.,

Hartwig- Lawrence Wm.

Nelson - Niels & Sophia

Peth - Hedwig & Otto

Schacht - Alfred L., August E., Augusta, Johanna, Edwin, August, Otto

Schmidt - Augusta, Einar C., John, William P., Karen Marie

Schultz - Alvina & John

Wagner - Ida & Joseph

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Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions and Photographs Main Page

June
NEW

Oconto County, Wisconsin

Petitions for Naturalization - Volume 14
Partial

Volume 14 #2000 - 2077

.
2000
Anton Finger
January 24, 1887
.
2002
Alexis Joseph Demeny
March 5, 1887

.
2002
Frank Hartmann
Spril 1, 1887
.
2003
August Johnson
April 4, 1887
.
2004
John Johnson (Johnsen)
April 4, 1887
.
2005
Wilhelm Peth
April 5, 1887

.
2006
August Bittner
April 5, 1887
.
2007
Richard Doyle
April 5, 1887
.
2008
Frank Burns (Byrns)
April 5, 1887
.
2009
Keady J. Murray
April 5, 1887

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2010
Feard Hintz
April 5, 1887
.
2011
Robert Archibald
April 5, 1887
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2012
Thomas Sulliovan
April 5, 1887
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2013
Frank Poradek
April 5, 1887

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2014
James Valecka
April 5, 1887
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2015
Joseph Depeau
April 5, 1887
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2016
Joseph Kolander
April 18, 1887
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2017
Paul Hichke
April 30, 1887

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2018
Thos. Goodman
June 30, 1887
.
2019
R. W. Goodwin
June 30, 1887
.
2020
Martin Wahl
August 23, 1887
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2021
Walienty Teresinski
September 1, 1887

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2022
Joseph Hintz
September 5, 1887
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2023
John Byrne
September 19, 1887
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2024
Niels Pederson (Pedersen)
October 7, 1887
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2025
Zephir Petit
October 20, 1887
.
2026
Theodor Stern
November 15, 1887
.
2027
George William Clayton
December 20, 1887
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2028
Willie Tiegs
March 14, 1888
.
2029
John Holmberg
March 16, 188
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2030
Carl Kleist
March 17, 1888
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2031
George H. Laughlin
March 23, 1888
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2032
John Johnson
March 26, 1888
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2033
Nels Clausen
March 27, 1888

..
2034
Christian Martinus Lund
March 27, 1888
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2035
Anton Pedersen
March 27, 1888

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.
2036
Ole Nelsen (Nelson)
March 28, 1888
.
2037
Henry Aubert
March 28, 1888

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2038
Eugene Benel
March 28, 1888
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2039
Charles Garnier
March 28, 1888
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2040
Romain Waymel
March 28, 1888
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2041
Odilon Desreumaux
March 28, 1888
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2042
August Konitzer
March 28, 1888
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2043
Louis Garnier
March 28, 1888
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2044
Martin Prochnow
March 29, 1888
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2045
Henry Heugeich
March 29, 1888
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2046
Jean Baptist Louis Kinziger
March 29, 1888
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2047
Nicolas Marchal
March 29, 1888
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2048
Alber Krenager
March 29, 1888
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2049
James K. McFarlane
March 30, 1888
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2050
John Peter Neren Larsen
March 30, 1888
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2051
William White
March 30, 1888
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2052
William Murray
March 30, 1888
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2053
William Robison
March 30, 1888
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2054
Peter Nerenhausen
March 30, 1888
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2055
Jule Baudheim
March 30, 1888
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2056
August Bergemann
March 30, 1888
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2057
Carl Zillmann
March 30, 1888
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2058
William Zimmermann
March 30, 1888
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2059
William Ford
March 31, 1888
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2060
John Flochstrass
March 31, 1888
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2061
Franz Otto
March 31, 1888
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2062
John J. Duncan
March 31, 1888
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2063
William Doyle
March 31, 1888
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2064
William Archibald
March 31, 1888
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2063
William, Morton
March 31, 1888
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2066
Alexander McLean
March 31, 1888
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2067
Charles Werth
March 31, 1888
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2068
Martin O'Donell
March 31, 1888
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2069
George van der Linden
April 2, 1888
.
2070
Henry Trotz
April 2, 1888
.
2071
Herman Fricke (Frieke)
April 20, 1888
.
2072
Carl Jahnke
April 2, 1888
.
2073
Albert Volz
April 2, 1888

Naturalization for U.S. Citizenship Main Page

June
NEW

Researched and contributed in part by descendant: Fran
Additional family contributors: Darlene Pritchard Baker, Helen Ronke
General History - Rita

Christian homesteaded land and was raising a family in Peshtigo, Oconto County, Wisconsin (now Marinette County since 1880) at the time of the 1871 Peshtigo Firestorm. The entire family history is still being researched. Below is what has been pieced together so far.

Christian KAPPUS family

Family and Biography Main Page

June
ADDITION

More Survivors of the Peshtigo Fire of 1871

Delano, Edgar (36) , wife Carra (28), sons Clarence (6), Bert (Egbert, 5) and Harry (1). (Edgar had been an early Couillardville, Oconto County, settler at age 14. He served in the Civil War and returned to homestead near the Couillardville bridge where he and his family fled to the Oconto River during the firestorm. Please click on Fire Survivor Report for the whole story.

Delano, Elizabeth - survivor - Elizabeth Delano (my great grandmother), who after marriage in Peshtigo on June 8, 1883, was known as Mrs. Charles Spiering. Her younger sister Nellie, an infant at the time, was adopted by the Duntons of Oconto, and took their name. She also had a brother, Danville, who had moved to Pineville, North Dakota by 1932 Descendant: Susanne Van Dyk

THE SURVIVORS

FIRE DEATHS

1871 Peshtigo Fire Home Page

June
ADDITION

Contributed by descendant; Faye

A lovely wedding photograph of the December 12, 1900, Emma Ziegenhagen and August Kuehl Weeding has been added!

KUEHL Family of Breed

Family and Biography Main Page

June

UPDATE

Submitted by Pat Conley

Many more photographs of the Gilligan and Yance families, as second generation Kelly family photographs, really show the early days in Maple Valley and Spruce, Oconto County. Come see!

Patrick KELLY and Family

Family and Biography Main Page

MAY 2009

May

UPDATE

Submitted by Pat Conley

With new ancestor photos and information of the Kelly family of Hickory Corners. Photographs of the Gilligan and Yance Families as second generation photographs really showing the early days in Oconto County.

Patrick KELLY and Family

Family and Biography Main Page

May
NEW

Obituaries

contributed by: Lee Bruschke-Johnson

Old families from early Peshtigo (Oconto County until 1880, now Marinette County) and their descendants are brought to us all the way from the Netherlands by the family research ggenealogist living there. Catherine Kehoe and her husband survived the Peshtigo Fire of 1871.

Catherine Dolan KEHOE

Edward F KEHOE

George KEHOE

Rene Durocher BARTELS

George CAMPBELL

Obituary Main Page

May
NEW

Contributed by descendant: Carl Bennett

Franklin Olive came from Canada and fought as a volunteer for years in the Civil War.
He compares that experience with one night 6 years later during the Peshtigo Fire.

Frank Olive and His Family At Peshtigo

THE SURVIVORS

FIRE DEATHS

1871 Peshtigo Fire Home Page

APRIL 2009

April
NEW

transcribed by: RITA

"Wisconsin Losses In The Civil War"

All listed deaths by Disease, Wounds, during Battle, Missing In Action and Accident.

Published in 1911 & 1915
by the State Press
to mark the 50th Anniversary of the war's beginning and end. (1861 - 1865).

Table of Contents

April
NEW

Historic County Churches

contributed by:Tina

First French Presbyterian Church
1887
Town of Little River, Wisconsin

Photos and document of the church in it's prime; abandoned and derelect in 1995 and beautifully restored.

First French Presbyterian Church

Historic Church Photographs and Histories

April
ADDITIONS and UPDATES

Researched and contributed by descendant: Glenda Breslin

William I. Pope has been added to the stories of American Civil War (1861 - 1865) Veterans who lived in Oconto County, Wisconsin at some point in their lives; before or after the war.

Stories of American Civil War Veterans living in Oconto County

Daniel O'KEEF Family

Daniel O'Keef Sr. was born in 1816, Toulart, County Meath, Ireland. He died September 13, 1881, in Oconto Wisconsin. The family is followed through marriages, children, deaths and migrations.

Family and Biography Main Page

April
NEW

Memoirs:

My Dad

(Walter W. Smith)

Written in 1938 from a personal interview of the well remembered Gillett resident;

with the wedding photograph of Ruth Heald Smith and Walter W Smith, parents of the Author, Betty Smith Erickson

Written by Betty Smith Erickson and contributed by: Nancy Smith

Memoirs Main Page

April
NEW

Obituaries

contributed by: Dawn

Albert UECKER

Emma Giese UECKER

Otto W. UECKER

Dorothy L. Meyer ZEITLER

Obituary Main Page

April
NEW

Cemetery Gravestone Photographs and Transcriptions

Transcription and image contributed by descendant:
Linda Norton

Evergreen Cemetery Oconto A-H

Roy Lawrence & Laura May (Exferd) Colson

Frederick Otto & Margaret Josephine (Bailey) Clausen

Anna Marie Clausen

Emma Clausen

Frederick Clausen

Henry L. Clausen

Kenneth George "Red" Clausen

Charles Hemry Helmer

Frances ( Margaret Tennyson) Helmer

Evergreen Cemetery Oconto I-P

Aurthur J. & Hattie A. (Colson) LeMay

Little Suamico Cemetery - Riverside

Addie (Adelainde Desjeons) Bedore

James Bedore

John Bedore

Oconto Catholic Cemetery

George Ruben & Gertrude Marie (Colson Sconert) Barribeau

Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions and Photographs Main Page

MARCH 2009

March
NEW

Photographs and transcriptions by:
Pat Drees

These old stones are of early Oconto County residents, including survivors of the 1871 Peshtigo Fire. After 1880 the cemetery has been in Marinette County.

THE PESHTIGO FIRE CEMETERY

Riverside Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions A

Thomas Arthur

Riverside Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions D

Mary Drees, Hillary Drees

Riverside Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions M

Mary McNulty

Riverside Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions P

Mary Phelan, John Phelan, son John Phelan, Loretta Margaret Price, Margaret Price

Riverside Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions S

George Schmidt (son of J & A E Schmidt)

Riverside Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions U - V

Mary Vanidestina, Child of J & M Vanidestine

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Riverside Cemetery - Peshtigo, Wisconsin

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Oconto Catholic Cemetery

Edward J. Davis

Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions and Photographs Main Page

March
NEW

with Photographs contributed by: Pat Drees

These families crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the 1850's, to settle in the "new world", and found themselves faced with almost certain death in the 1871 Great Peshtigo Fire. Find out who survived and where life took them in these family descendancy charts.

BARTELS Family

Henry DREES Family

Family and Biography Main Page

1871 Peshtigo Fire Home Page

March
NEW

Cemetery Gravestone Photographs and Transcriptions

St. Michael Cemetery

Margaret (nee: Miller/Mueller) Otradovec

Anton Otradovec

Joseph Philippi

Barbara (nee: Weber) Philippi

Minnie (nee: Neuwisen) Philippi

Mary (nee: Simon) Prinz

Adam Prinz

Christina (nee: Brust) Miller/Mueller Philippi

Matthias Philippi

Oliver J. Holl

Isadore Joseph Holl

Doris & Fred Holl & Peter Holl (son)

Anna (nee: Anna Christina Philippi) & Joseph C. Holl

Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions and Photographs Main Page

March
NEW

Cemetery Gravestone Photographs and Transcriptions

Transcription and image contributed by descendant:
Linda Norton

Evergreen Cemetery Oconto A-H

J.D. & Martha Colson

Wallace S. Colson

Evergreen Cemetery Oconto I-P

Oscar Lade

Evergreen Cemetery Oconto Q-Z

Elizabeth Upton Rider Whiting

Jacob Bernard Whiting (1809 - 1875 )

Susan Bassett Couilliard Whiting

Addie E. Colson Whiting

James A. Whiting

David E. Whiting

Stiles Township Cemetery

Richard Bailey

Little Suamico Cemetery - Riverside

Ellen Bailey

Oconto Catholic Cemetery

John Charles Sconzert

Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions and Photographs Main Page

March
NEW

Researched and contributed by descendant: James Schneider

PETTEY Family Page

PANKRATZ Family Page

GORDON Family Page

UPDATE

ISABEL - ISABELLE Family Page

Family and Biography Main Page

March
NEW

Researched, written and contributed by: Doug Farnsworth

There were two successful, well known men by the name George Farnsworth
in early Oconto County, Wisconsin, history.
Although both came from different backgrounds,
since the ancestry of both goes back to the state of Vermont,
it is suspected, but not proven, that they were related.
This George Farnsworth was a prominent citizen of Oconto, Wi and Chicago, Il.

George Farnsworth

Men of Early Oconto County

FEBRUARY 2009

February

NEW
Obituaries

contributed by: Nancy Smith

Walter W.. SMITH

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February

NEW
Additions

Flash from the Past
Individual and Family Events
Reported in the Newspaper
October - November - December

1892 News

Researched by Cathe Ziereis
Transcribed by Maxine Nichols

FLASH FROM THE PAST HOME PAGE

February

NEW
MARRIAGES
Reported in the Newspaper
October - November - December
1892

Researched by Cathe Ziereis
Transcribed by Maxine Nichols

1892 Marriages in the News

NEWSPAPER REPORTS OF OLD OCONTO COUNTY MARRIAGES - Main Page

February
NEW

DEATHS
Reported in the Newspaper
October - November - December
1892

Researched by Cathe Ziereis
Transcribed by Maxine Nichols

1892 Newspaper Deaths

Newspaper Records of old Oconto County Deaths

February
NEW
BIRTHS
Reported in the Newspaper
October - November - December
1892

Researched by Cathe Ziereis
Transcribed by Maxine Nichols

Newspaper Birth Reports 1892

Births Main Page

February
UPDATE

Researched and contributed by descendant: James Schneider

BELL Family Page - beginning 1826

Peter CHRISTIAN & Jane Bell

Family and Biography Main Page

VALENTINES
Old Fashion Delights

Revisit the collection of authentic Oconto County turn of the century penny postcard Valentines.
It was a time when people sent cards of love and fondness to everyone,
just as emails are sent today!

.Victorian Valentines from Oconto County

February
ADDITIONS

KUEHL Family of Breed

Family and Biography Main Page

JANUARY 2009

January
NEW

Oconto County, Wisconsin

Petitions for Naturalization - Volume 13 continued
Partial

Volume 13 #2500 - 2796 1/2

Naturalization for U.S. Citizenship Main Page

January
NEW

Stitt Family of Peshtigo and the Fire -

Follow this family through 5 generations including the killing Peshtigo Fire of 1871.

THE SURVIVORS

DEATH BY FIRE

Mellen, George, Nellie and Baby: son born 1857, daughter born 1867 and baby born 1871, Parents were James M. Mellen and wife Anne Hopkins. "Mr. Mellen lost two children while en route to the flat below the dam and never could find a trace of them." Their infant, only weeks old, also died of exposure as the survivors struggled on the Peshtigo River mud flats at the village of Peshtigo. Survivors were James Sr age 41, Anna age 39, children James Jr. age 19, William age 17, Albert age 10 and Anna Jr. age 5.

Peshtigo Fire Home Page

January
NEW

Two views of old Underhill

Underhill Photo Page

Historic Towns and Villages Page

JANUARY
NEW

Cemetery Gravestone Photographs and Transcriptions

Images contributed by:
Jason and Janny

Riverside Cemetery - Peshtigo

Marinette County (in Oconto County until 1880)

- Gravestone Transcriptions and Photographs - in progress.

Riverside Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions B

Borzych - 2

Riverside Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions E

Engler - 3

Riverside Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions F

Francour - 3

Riverside Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions G

Greenman - 1

Riverside Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions H

Hipke - 2

Riverside Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions K & L

Kern - 4

Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions and Photographs Main Page

JANUARY
NEW

1867 Oconto County Plat Map
&
1887 Oconto County Plat Map

Composed and contributed by: Connie
of the
Oconto County Genealogy Society

JANUARY
NEW ADDITIONS

Habshar Collection

Lena Stovewood Barn Photographs
Lena - 1933

Here are 2 examples of building. The second one has a series of detailed photos.
The Oldest barn was log, additon 1 was stovewood construction, next was timber frame and milled lumber with fieldstone foundation.

LaPlant and Lena Stovewood Barns

Past Scenes of Oconto County Main Page

JANUARY
NEW

Unidentified Photographs

This collection includes many gorgeous studio portraits from the 1870's into the 1900's.
They are wonderful just to look at.

Maybe you can help identify them.

Krueger and Utnehmer Families

Mystery Photos - Forgotten People, Places and Times: Page 7

Contributed By:
Dorothy Buchholz

Forgotten People Main Page
An on-going project, with your help

January

NEW

A photo recently found in a Vancouver, Washington, shop.

Who were they?

Where they yours?

Find out.

Mysterious Oconto Childrens' Photograph

Family and Biography Main Page

January
NEW

Cemetery Gravestone Photographs and Transcriptions

Images contributed by:
Jason and Janny

Harmony Cemetery

- town of Grover, Marinette County (in Oconto County until 1880)

- Gravestone Transcriptions and Photographs - in progress.

Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions and Photographs Main Page

DECEMBER 2008

December

A Christmas Promise Kept

NEW

Young John Kramer and His Family Survive

- The Family had started homesteading less than a year when the Peshtigo fire struck in October 1871.

They are now on the list of survivors

Read how they escaped and follow the genealogy of the first 3 generations.

contributed by family descendant: Jeff Redding

Peshtigo Fire Home Page

December

NEW
Additions

Flash from the Past
Individual and Family Events
Reported in the Newspaper
July - August - September

1892 News

Researched by Cathe Ziereis
Transcribed by Maxine Nichols

There was much socializing reported. This is particularly helpful to the family researcher in offering connections, surnames, and places of residence; especially regarding married women, who often "disappeared" from documents.

FLASH FROM THE PAST HOME PAGE

December

NEW
MARRIAGES
Reported in the Newspaper
July - August - September
1892

Researched by Cathe Ziereis
Transcribed by Maxine Nichols

1892 Marriages in the News

NEWSPAPER REPORTS OF OLD OCONTO COUNTY MARRIAGES - Main Page

December
NEW

DEATHS
Reported in the Newspaper
July - August - September
1892

Researched by Cathe Ziereis
Transcribed by Maxine Nichols

1892 Newspaper Deaths

Newspaper Records of old Oconto County Deaths

December
NEW
BIRTHS
Reported in the Newspaper
July - August - September
1892

Researched by Cathe Ziereis
Transcribed by Maxine Nichols

Newspaper Birth Reports 1892

Births Main Page

December

NEW
Cemetery Gravestone Photographs and Transcriptions
An on-going project, with your help.
Please send your cemetery photos to RITA
Your name and/or e-mail link on any contribution are optional and are always your choice.

many NEW

Photo Additions on Cemetery Page:

Transcriptions and images contributed by descendant:
Pat Madden

Riverside Cemetery - Peshtigo

Until 1880, Peshtigo was a part of Oconto County, Wisconsin.
It is now in Marinette County, Wisconsin.
The family ties remain strong to this day.

BUNDY - Raymond J., Beatrice (nee Lindberg)
CRONEWORTH - Cecile D. (nee Lindberg)
KABAT - Jeanette E. (nee Madden)
LINDBERG - August, Mathilda, John A., Clara S., Harold E., Ernest S.
MADDEN - James T., Ruth A., Maryann, Richard J., James, Lillian (nee Scott), Susan
PERKET - Arthur, Edna (nee Lindberg)
POWERS - Raymond, Bina (nee Madden)
SCHOUNARD - James H. Sr., Irene M. (nee Madden)
Toren - Fred

Cemetery Gravestone Transcriptions and Photographs Main Page

Back to the Oconto County Home Page

What was New on the Site in 2008:

What was New on the Site in 2007:

contributed by: Lee Bruschke-Johnson

contributed by: Dawn

contributed by: Nancy Smith

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contributed by: Dick Labrosse

contributed by: Dawn

contributed by:Mary Wilinski