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OCONTO COUNTY
Wisconsin
FAMILIES and BIOGRAPHIES
.WIRTZ.
Descendant contact: Theresa
.August
Wirtz - 1844, born in Germany
+Anna
? - 1854 1918 , born in German
Bohemia, father & mother Bohemian (1880 census)
Children of August and
Anna: all born in WI
1. William - Dec
2, 1873, married Oconto County 25 Apr
1899 and 1907 in
Texas.
2. Charles Adam
- May 12, 1876 ( (WWI Draft Card)1877 (Cemetery)
- 1955 Woodlawn
Cem.
+ Gertrude (Anna) - 1883 1970
born in Sweden, married 1907
Children of Charles and Gertrude:
Anna
Elinor
Russel
- 1907 1992 St. Anthony Cemetery
Dorothy
? Richard Floyd -
June 20, 1910 Oct. 19, 1910
Woodlawn Cemetery
3. Edward
Fred - April 5 1880
+ Clara ? - born
in Indiana, married 23 Sep 1902
02 Oconto County
Children of
Edward
and Clara:
Ethel
Earl
Clarence
4. Otto John Wirtz
born - 27 Jan 1881(WWI Draft
Card)-1882(SSDI)
died - Oct 1966 Lodi, San Joaquin, California
+Emma C.
Children of Otto and Emma:
Herbert
A - born in WI
Frank
E - born in WI
Arthur
- born in CA
Clarence
- born in CA
5. Theodore Fred
- June 1, 1884
6. George - December 12,
1887
7. Benjamin (Bennie) John
- July 9, 1889
8. Albert Rudolph -
May 11, 1893
AUGUST Wirtz - August and Annie Wirtz arriving on the Hermann out of Bremen in early June, 1871 from Witten, on the Ruhr, Rhineland-Pfalz proper (upper Rheinland)
The 1880 census for Pewaukee, Oconto County, Wisconsin has August Wirtz, age 36, farmer, originally from the Rhineland. He is a farmer with wife Annie who is age 26 years and from Bohemia. Sons are William age 7, Charley age 3 and Eddie 2 months old. All children are born in Wisconsin. All the sons were born after the 1871 Peshtigo Fire. However, they were possible survivors of the 1879 Pensaukee Tornado.
Oconto
County Reporter
March 14, 1885
News
August
Wirtz, who has for the past few months
suffered from a serious malady, which bereft him of reason and thinking
conveniences, and who is now confined at the Northern Hospital, is
improving
and it is thought he will be permitted to return to his family in a
short
time.
Anne Wirtz - August
and Annie Wirtz arriving on the SSvHermann out of Bremen in early June,
1871 from Witten, in the Ruhr, Rhineland-Pfalz proper
1900. Oconto Falls, WI
Annie Wirtz is age
48, born March 1861. She is head of the household and is divorced from
her husband of 28 years. She has given birth to 9 children and 8 are
still
living in 1900. August of course is not in residence with the household
and if he is still living is not documented. There are 5 sons living in
the family with the two oldest in residence, Edward (April 1881) and
Theodore
(May 1883) farming and the rest at home or in school (George Feb
1888,
Bennie March 1888, Albert May 1894).
Annie Wirtz household there are
three living
offspring missing; William, Charley, and probably Otto
1910 - Living with son Charles and his family in Oconto Falls
Listed as divorced in 1900 and widowed in 1910.
William
Wirtz - has a marriage license
for Oconto County 25 Apr 1899.
1910 Farming in Tannant, Texas.
Married 3 years
to Gussie age 33, born in Texas (parents Alabama and Georgia). One son,
Eugene, age 18 months, born in Texas
1918 Working as a laborer in
Tannant, Texas,
married to Gussie (WWI Draft Card)
Charles Adam - 1917 Living in Oconto Falls wife wife Gertrude farming (WWI Draft Card)
Edward Fred - 1917 living in Oconto Falls with wife Clara, farming (WWI Draft Card)
OttoJohn Wirtz - 1905 Wisconsin state census, Shawano, Wisconsin; married to Emma C.; working as a carpenter
Otto
Wirtz family in CA, 1910 Census. Sona
are Herbert A.Wirtz born in Wisconsin as was
younger Frank
E. Wirtz who was born 9 months before the census. Otto Wirtz' father
was
German and his mother was Bohemian (a country occupied by Germany then
and part of Germany now).
Otto's wife, Emma C., was also born
in Wisconsin
and they were married 5 years in 1910. Her father was born in Germany
and
her mother was Dutch from a region occupied by Germany. Otto apparently
moved his family to CA within the past 8 months of this census taken
April
16 and 18, 1910.
Otto
and family into 1920; he has gone from being
a house carpenter to a grain farmer in Hamilton, CA. two more sons have
been added to the family, both born in California. This first two sons
were still listed as having been born in Wisconsin. Please note that
the
neighboring household of Hanert is also from German-Wisconsin
background
and the wife, Hedwig, is about the same age as Emma. Since family and
neighbors
tended to move in the same places, this could be a relative, perhaps
Emma's
sister.
The Wirtz family is split onto two
separate pages.
1930, now in Lodi, CA. Otto, Emma and all 4 single sons are still in the same household. Otto has gone back to being a contract building carpenter. Herbert, now 24, is a salesman in a music store.
Theodore Fred Wirtz -
1910,
boarder age 25, single Duluth, Minnesota, house carpenter
1917 Living in Manitowoc, WI., with
wife working
as a carpenter (WWI Draft Card)
George
Wirtz - 1910, age 23, married, living
in Shawano County with wife Linda H who was born in WI, parents born in
Germany., married 2 years.One child Esther H., age 16 months, born in
WI.
Laborer in Sulfide Mill
1917, Living in Shawano with wife
and 4 children,
farming. (WW1 Draft Card)
Benjamin
(Bennie) John Wirtz - 1905, boarder
in Oconto Falls, age 15, saw mill laborer.
1910, boarder age 20, single, in
Wabeno, WI.
Working as a laborer in a sawmill
1917 Living in Shawano with wife,
working as
a laborer in Mill factory
1920, Shawano, WI., age 29, married
Emeline age
26, one child daughter Engatins age 1 year 11 months. Laborer in Paper
Mill.
Albert
Rudoph Wirtz - 1905, age 6. living
in Oconto Falls
1910, boarder at age 16 in Wabeno,
WI. Working
as a laborer in a sawmill
1917, Living with wife and child,
also mother
in Oconto Falls, farming. (WWI Draft Card)
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Wirtz burials in Oconto
County
Sect.
Row/Lot Name Birth Date Death Date Same
Stone With Inscriptions & Notes Seq Number Cemetery
Woodlawn
Cemetery
S2 R30 Wirtz, Howard 1916 1973
Audrey Wirtz
Woodlawn Cemetery
S2 R30 Wirtz, Audrey 1916
Howard Wirtz
Woodlawn Cemetery
S4 R25 Wirtz, Richard Floyd June 20,
1910 Oct.
19, 1910 Woodlawn Cemetery
S11 R3 Wirtz, Annie 1854
1918 Mother
Woodlawn Cemetery
S11 R3 Wirtz, Charles 1877 1955
Gertrude Wirtz
Father Woodlawn Cemetery
S11 R3 Wirtz, Eleanor I. July 04,
1922
Floyd A. Wirtz Married July 6, 1940 Woodlawn
Cemetery
S11 R3 Wirtz, Floyd A. June 10, 1918
May 04,
1996 Eleanor I. Wirtz Woodlawn Cemetery
S11 R3 Wirtz, Gertrude 1883 1970
Charles Wirtz
Mother Woodlawn Cemetery
S14 R16 Wirtz, Aaron Jordan June 14,
1986 June
21, 1986 Larry A. Wirtz Woodlawn Cemetery
S14 R16 Wirtz, Anna L. July 17,
1918 Chester
R. Wirtz Woodlawn Cemetery
S14 R16 Wirtz, Chester R. Feb. 13,
1913 Jan.
22, 1991 Anna L. Wirtz Woodlawn Cemetery
S14 R16 Wirtz, Larry A. Sep. 28,
1953 Lynne
S. Wirtz Woodlawn Cemetery
S14 R16 Wirtz, Lynne S. Mar. 28,
1956 Aaron
J. Wirtz Woodlawn Cemetery
St Anthony Catholic Cemetery
S5 R4 Wirtz, Russell 1907 1992
Vivian Wirtz
St Anthony Catholic Cemetery
S5 R4 Wirtz, Virginia Ann May 22,
1938 Nov. 17,
1954 St Anthony Catholic
Cemetery
S5 R4 Wirtz, Vivian 1912
Russell Wirtz
St Anthony Catholic Cemetery
S8 R2 Wirtz, Joann M. Apr. 27, 1961
Nov. 25,
1993 St Anthony Catholic
Cemetery
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