For your info: LEUPKE is also spelled LEPKE. Lepke is the my husbands ancestors spelled it. Sara Janet wrote: > Posted on: Clark Co. Wi Biographies > Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/ClarkBios/10445 > > Surname: PEASE, TRACY, MOSER, BAUMAN, LEUPKE > ------------------------- > > 1918 HISTORY OF CLARK CO., WIS: > > SYLVESTER PEASE, a thriving farmer of York Township, who has won success > through hard work and in spite of severe discouragements, was born at Sheboygan > Falls, Sheboygan County, Wis., Feb. 5, 1857, son of Sylvester P., and Murey > (Tracy) Pease. The father, a carpenter by trade, was a native of Vermont, > as was also his wife. They came to Wisconsin in 1848, but it was not until > 1872 that they settled in Clark County, locating at York Center, Mr. Pease > working at his trade in the vicinity. After awhile he bought forty acres > of land in section 21, which he later sold, buying a tract of the same > size half a mile south in section 22, which was covered with timber. This > latter he improved, building a frame house and log barn and developing > a farm on which he and his wife resided until his death at the age of 73 > years, his wife dying at the age of 85. Sylvester Pease was educated in > Plymouth, Wis. After leaving school he took up farming as a regular occupation. > On Nov. 10, 1873, he arrived in Neillsville, Clark County, after a three-days' > journey by rail from Plymouth, the last part of which, however, was made > by stage from Hatfield to Neillsville. From the latter place he walked > to his father's homestead in York Township. Although early in the last > month of autumn, the snow was already a foot or eighteen inches deep. From > that time on for a number of years, he assisted his father in clearing > the home farm during the summers, working in the woods in winter. The year > 1891 saw him make an independent start in life. On March 10, that year, > he was married to Ida Baumann, who was born at Watertown, Wis., daughter > of Emil and Leria (Moser) Baumann. Her mother died in 1876, and her father > now resides in North Dakota. Mr. and Mrs. Pease resided on the home place > for four or five years and then, in 1896, located in Section 29, York Township, > on a tract of forty acres, of which two acres were cleared. There were > no buildings on the place, but Mr. Pease soon built a log house of one > story and three rooms, 16 by 26 feet in size, and also a log barn. He had > one horse and a sow. In time he got the forty acres entirely cleared up > and built a frame house of eight rooms and other buildings. In the fall > of 1913 he had three barns filled with hay, one 20 by 18 feet, another > 18 by 24 feet, and the third 16 by 24 feet. On the last days of October > they took fire and were all destroyed with their contents, causing him > a great loss. In the same fall, after the disaster, he built a frame barn, > 32 by 44 feet in size, not full cement basement, a granary 16 by 20, and > a hen house 16 by 12 feet. He raises a good grade of stock. Mr. Pease was > treasurer of the Hawk Cheese Factory for one year. He is a member of the > Woodmen and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and his wife have had > three children: Pearl, who married Emil Leupke, of Weston Township, and > has one child, Maynard; Asa, who died at the age of 23 years, and Emil, > residing at home. > > > > ==== WICLARK Mailing List ==== > New Subscribers **** Please take the time to introduce yourselves > and let us know the surnames you are researching! > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB