In the 1880 census of the township of Brighton, Marathon County Wisconsin, the following SAWYER family is listed. I believe this to be the family of my grandfather's first wife, Mary Sawyer. Joseph, age 38, born Wis., Father & Mother born: Canada Ellen age 33, born Wis., Father born Scotland, Mother born France Henry 13 Joseph A, 11 Charles F., 9 Frank, 7 Mary F., 6 Nelly, 4 Josephine 2 ------------------- SAWYER - LAESSIG SAWYER, Mary born 22 Oct. 1874, in Wrightstown, WI?-d.13 Aug 1907 daughter of SAWYER, Joseph, born in Green Bay, WI and SAWYER, Ellen born in Milwaukee, WI Mary SAWYER married 13 Aug 1907 LAESSIG, Frank born 30 March 1873 at Kiel, WI son of LAESSIG, Edward L. b. 5 July 1835 in Germany and BAENEN, Jeanette b. 6 Jan 1836 in s�Hertogenbosch, Holland Children of Frank and Mary Sawyer Laessig LAESSIG, Earl LAESSIG, Rueben Don't know if this Charles is related to above family or not... date of birth for above Charles would be 1871. The Charles Sawyer below was born in 1869. OBITUARY THE STRATFORD JOURNAL, APRIL 10, 1947 CHARLES SAWYER Funeral Services for Chas. Sawyer, 77, of Stratford, who died at a Wausau hospital Sunday morning, where held Wednesday morning at St. Jos. Catholic Church, with the Rev. A. Fischer officiating and burial was in the parish cemetery. Mr. Sawyer was born December 8, 1869 at Appleton and had lived in Stratford the past 72 years. He was a mill worker for the R. Connor Company until 18 years ago. Surviving are two brothers, Fred Sawyer of the town of Rib Mountain and Clarence Sawyer of Tomahawk, and a sister, Mrs. Joseph Paszek of King. -------------- If anyone has further information on this family, please let me know. Patti Laessig at [email protected]