At 11:21 PM 3/16/1999 -0800, you wrote: >WIJUNEAU-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 3 > > >Hi - There are less than 10 subscribers to the list, but there has been an >occational posting. To get things moving, will subscribers to list please >post your family names (in CAPS) and your areas of interest for Juneau Co. > >Terry Thompson, listkeeper > Hi, I am Kathy Nolin not Bruce. I am researching my great Aunt's family. John Stanley and Maryanna (LORENC or LORENTZ) MAGIERA. Names often anglicized and were also known as John and Mae (LAWRENCE) MAGIERA. Also looking for her sisters and brothers families who were frequent visitors to the Magiera household. One lived in neighboring Plainsfield, Washara County, WI: Antone and Zofia (LORENC or LORENTZ) (WIDZISZEWSKI). Names were anglicized at some point and were often known to be Tony and Sophy (LAWRENCE) WOLFE. This may not be the right forum for the WOLFE group but I haven't found a Waushara website and hope as neighbors you might help me on this one as well. * * * * * * * * * * * * Family Details and Queries: MAGIERA .......John Stanley Magiera b: May 01, 1882 Szczurwo (?), Poland d: December 26, 1958 Medota State Hospital, Madison, Juneau Cty (?), WI. He married Maryanna "MAE" Lawrence who was b: April 15, 1888 East Lake, Manistee Cty, MI. They were m: February 15, 1905 St. John Cantius Catholic Church, Chicago, Cook Cty, IL d: December 15, 1950 Mezomanie, Dane Cty, WI. Their children were: ................1. Martha Magiera b: January 09, 1906 Chicago, Cook Cty, IL d: August 07, 1950 Cicero, Cook Cty, IL. Spouse: Zigmund Mizura b: March 30, 1897 Szczurwo (?), Poland m: Bef. 1925 Cook Cty, IL d: November 24, 1969 Berwyn, Cook Cty, IL ................2. Bernice Magiera b: Abt. 1914 Cook Cty, IL d: Abt. August 1927 Cook Cty, IL or Juneau Cty, WI ................3 John Magiera, Jr. b: Abt. October 1921 Cook Cty, Il or Juneau Cty, WI d: August 27, 1932 Lyndon Station, Juneau Cty, WI John Stanley Mageira was a barber by original profession, also became a farmer in the vicinity of Lyndon Station, Juneau Cty, WI and owned a general store and gas stop there in the 1920's. In mid winter of 1932-1933 span, John, Sr. became extremely depressed after the death of first his daughter Bernice in 1927 and then of John, Jr. in August of 1932. He went into the woods and shot himself in the head and fell into the creek. The water was so cold that it may have prevented his bleeding to death. He lived but had severed the optic nerve to both eyes and became totally blind. He went to the school for the blind in Gainsville WI to learn to do things with his hands such as carpentry, weavings and leather work. In later years he also became totally deaf. In the mid 1050's he lived at Johnson's Nursing Home, 513 W. Page, Stoughton, WI (Source: old Christmas card lists). Buried at St. Mary's, Lyndon Station, WI by funeral home: Bernard T. Conway, Lyndon Station, on 12-29-1958. QUERY: Does anyone know how and where I can request church Roman Catholic Church records in Lyndon Station for my Great Aunt's family births, marriages, deaths, etc? Also would anyone be willing to look up old news articles on my Great Uncle's attempted suicide? And send me the County Courthouse information on same for anyone in this family? I would reimburse and/or pay a reasonable fee for such. * * * * * * * * Family Details and Queries: WIDZISZEWSKI (or WOLFE) Antone and Zofia (LORENC or LORENTZ) (WIDZISZEWSKI). Names were anglicized at some point and were often known to be Tony and Sophy (LAWRENCE) WOLFE. They lived in Plainsfield, Waushara County, WI. Although early years of their marriage were spent in Chicago, IL, in 1907, the family moved for a time to New Lisbon, WI for a short while, then back to Chicago.bought an 89 acre farm in Plainsfield, Waushara Cty, WI, and later added another 100 acres. When Sofia died in 1948 and was buried in Plainsfield, WI, a consternation in the family developed. Her neice Dorothy L. Guzikowski (anglicized to Buttens) remembers that not long after Sofia's burial the authorities found that a man in that vicinity had been digging up the recently dead and taking their bodies home to make things from them such as lampshades from the skin! Dorothy always wondered if her aunt was one of the victims. QUERY: Does anyone know how and where I can request church Roman Catholic Church records in Plainsfield, Waushara County for my Great Aunt's family births, marriages, deaths, etc? Also would anyone be willing to look up old news articles on the "lampshade" story or give me the real skinny on this? And send me the County Courthouse information on same for anyone in this family? I would reimburse and/or pay a reasonable fee for such.