This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brantner, Pichler, Roessler Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BFC.2ACE/304.1 Message Board Post: Hi, My Dad was Levern F. Brantner, Sr. from Albany/Durand/Mondovi area. His Father was Frank Brantner, Sr. who was married to Emma Pichler. Frank Brantner, Sr.'s Dad was X. Brantner who married a Agnes Roessler. Do you have any information on that? George Brantner was my Grandfather Frank Brantner, Sr.'s brother. Frank Brantner also had an Uncle George Brantner. That family goes as follows: John Brantner Louis Brantner Theresa Brantner Leopold Brantner Mary Brantner **George Brantner** Charles Brantner Barbara Brantner Julia Brantner Frank Brantner (My Grandfather) Agnes Brantner Elizabeth Brantner Maybe we can keep in touch and help each other out with the family tree. What do you say? My Dad's Family goes as follows: 3 deceased children-Erma Brantner, Adolph Brantner & Unknown Isabelle (Brantner) Werlein-Living - Mondovi, WI Lucille (Brantner) Berger-Living - Eau Claire, WI Awald Brantner-Deceased - Mondovi, WI Dorothy (Brantner) Moen-Olson -Living - Eau Claire, WI Levern Brantner, Sr.-Deceased - Mondovi, WI Donna (Brantner) Carothers - Living-Eau Claire, WI Frank Brantner, Jr.-Living-Durand, WI Levern F. Brantner, Sr. married June Anna Knutson their children (my family) is as follows: Dennis Brantner-Living-Racine, WI Levern F. Brantner, Jr.-Living-Eau Claire, WI Peggy (Brantner) Schutz-Living-Boyceville, WI Michael Brantner -Living-Nelson, WI Alan Brantner-Living-Whitehall, WI Linda (Brantner) Davis-Living-Mondovi, WI Robert Brantner - Living- Mondovi, WI Diann (Brantner) Franson-Living-Mondovi, WI (This is me) My Mom (June Brantner) is still alive and living in Mondovi, WI I hope you can share information iwth me. Thanks!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BFC.2ACE/21.1 Message Board Post: My great grandfather was Peter Kitchner from Eau Galle

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BFC.2ACE/323.1 Message Board Post: Here is the following information from Qwestdex.com SABYLUND LUTHERAN CHURCH W1103 COUNTY ROAD J STOCKHOLM WI (715) 448-3205 Cty Trk J is in the country north of Stockholm. The 448 exchange is a Maiden Rock phone number.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Erickson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BFC.2ACE/323 Message Board Post: Does anyone know where Sabyland Luthern Church & cemetery are located in Stockholm,Wisconsin? I am looking for Andrew & Marie Erickson buried at the cemetery. If anyone could help me in this matter with any information, I would be very grateful. Thank you, Deb Email me at: rdk73us@yahoo.com

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BFC.2ACE/301.2.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Jean, I, too, descend from Edward Hawkins - we have been in touch earlier. I don't have any information on a lumber camp. I do know Edward purchase 80 acres of land @ $1.25 an acre from the government (BLM records/patent) This was in Section 20, Township 23 Range 14. Also, my records show that Maria married someone called Raymond Fenner 11 July 1869 at Pepin. I descend through Rebecca's second husband Robert Henry. Her third was Henry H. Scovill, not Schofield. Contact me off-list if you want more data on this family at shirleyadw@earthlink.net. But if you find out any more about a lumber camp I'd like to know. My info tells me he was a farmer - might be both, of course. Shirley Williams

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BFC.2ACE/301.2.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: We also have relatives who are still living in Pepin. We have just found them within the last 5 years. My husband's g-grandfather was said to have owned a lumber camp in Pepin county and we haven't been able to find where it might have been located. His name was Edward Hawkins. He was given a land grant of 80 acres from President Franklin Pierce in 1859. He was married to Catherine Connell, both of them had been born in Ireland. Edward and Catherine had 11 children born either in Canada or Pepin County, Catherine (Connell) Hawkins died in Pepin about 1873. Their children's names are Rebecca (Mrs. Schofield) B: 01/18/1839, Frank B: 03/18/1841, Maria (Mrs R. Schofield) B: 03/31/1844, D:05/29/1881, Edmond T. B:03/11/1846 D: 11/07/1888,Frederick C. B: 03/02/1844, D:09/22/1889, Theresa B: 02/26/1852 D: 05/29/1854, Kate E. (Mrs. byington) B: 04/11/1854 D: 09/22/1889, Alfred A. B: 08/20/1865, Harriet D. (Mrs P.L. Little) B: 08/04/1861, John A. B: 03/24/1865 ( Hr. Hawkins live! d on the homesteas with John and his family) Edward Hawkins D: 03/01/1889. We are still searching and asking people if anyone has heard of the Hawkins Lumber Camp in Pepin County and where it might be.

Hi Pepin county family historians. While browsing Ebay I saw a few Pepin Co. items I'd want if the family names on them were mine, but they are not. The first was described: "This is a Souvenir from 1906, the Burke public School, District No. 3, Pepin Co., Wisc. Cora J. Hurlburt Teacher. The students' names include Bradshaw, Denison, Hoyt, Thompson, Goodrich, Kirk, Stuart, Buchanan. The school board was Thompson, Fish, and Steller." And there was a picture of it at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2100489639 The auction ended with no bidders, but I have contacted the seller, who still has the item to sell, at her asking price of $5 plus postage. She also had, offered for $10: "a large die-cut card that measures 9 by 7 inches. This beautiful die-cut is labelled: With best wishes of your teacher Linna McCain Pepin Wis., June 24 1904." There were no students' or board members names on this item. I imagine she will sell that item for the asking price, too. If interested, email me and I will put you in touch with the seller (and get out of the middle). I think these things should go to descendants interested in their history. Gail Von Bargen Minneapolis (descended from Rauenbuehler, Robelia, Keller, Hartung, Black, Kearns, Appel, Mansfield, Meehan)

Hi Pepin county family historians. While browsing Ebay I saw a few Pepin Co. items I'd want if the family names on them were mine, but they are not. The first was described: "This is a Souvenir from 1906, the Burke public School, District No. 3, Pepin Co., Wisc. Cora J. Hurlburt Teacher. The students' names include Bradshaw, Denison, Hoyt, Thompson, Goodrich, Kirk, Stuart, Buchanan. The school board was Thompson, Fish, and Steller." And there was a picture of it at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2100489639 The auction ended with no bidders, but I have contacted the seller, who still has the item to sell, at her asking price of $5 plus postage. She also had, offered for $10: "a large die-cut card that measures 9 by 7 inches. This beautiful die-cut is labelled: With best wishes of your teacher Linna McCain Pepin Wis., June 24 1904." There were no students' or board members names on this item. I imagine she will sell that item for the asking price, too. If interested, email me and I will put you in touch with the seller (and get out of the middle). I think these things should go to descendants interested in their history. Gail Von Bargen Minneapolis (descended from Rauenbuehler, Robelia, Keller, Hartung, Black, Kearns, Appel, Mansfield, Meehan)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Riley, Higgins, Moran, Sweeney Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BFC.2ACE/321.2 Message Board Post: I wonder if these families have a connection to Erin Prairie, of St. Croix County, WI. They are all very familiar names in this area, and common to St. Patrick's Cemetery in Erin Prairie, where most the Irish settlers were buried.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RILEY...FAEHNEL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BFC.2ACE/321.1 Message Board Post: HELEN RILEY NAYSMITH HERE... THERE WAS A MARY MORAN WHO WENT TO AQUINAS HIGH SCHOOL IN LA CROSSE,WISCONSIN 1950 OR SO...MAY BE A YOUNG DISTANT RELATIVE... MY FATHERS NAME WAS ALBERT FRANCIS..CASE..RILEY...HE WORKED ON THE BURLINGTON RR IN LA CROSSE FOR YRS...DIED IN 1968.. HE HAD BROTHERS...TOM...CHET...AUST..JOHN..SISTER ALICE AND ANOTHER ONE...DONT RECALL NAME...ALL PASSED.. THEIR FATHER WAS THOMAS WILLIAM RILEY... I BELIEVE THE MOTHER WAS MARY AGNES TULLY FROM IRELAND.. GOOD LUCK HELEN...ALABAMA

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BFC.2ACE/303.1.1.1 Message Board Post: No problem. By the way, I did not see Luther Knapp anywhere in the Durand census.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BFC.2ACE/303.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you SO much for this reading!!! I greatly appreciate your doing it for me. Charles

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Morris Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BFC.2ACE/303.1 Message Board Post: I found some information as follows in the June 10, 1870, Durand census, page 18. starting at line 28: Samual A(?). Morris, head of household, age 29, farmer, born in England. Adelaide Morris, age 25, occupation "keeping house", born in New York. Gertrude Morris, age 21, born in Wisconsin. George Morris, age shown as "3/12" - probably means 3 months old. Hope this helps.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hartung, Robelia, Black, Anders, Keller Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BFC.2ACE/38.198.200 Message Board Post: My father's mother was the daughter of Caroline Robelia Hartung and Adam Hartung. My grandmother was Clara Henrietta Hartung Anders. She was born in Arkansas, WI.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: cross Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BFC.2ACE/322 Message Board Post: hello my name is holly and i am doing some research on my families the name of my gggrandfather was audie crossand my grand mother serilda cross madien name byrd they are from AR. if anyone can help me please email me back or write to me at p.o. box 1373 munford , tn. 38058 thank you so much

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BFC.2ACE/319.2 Message Board Post: St. Mary's in Durand is the best choice. The Durand Courier or Wedge, depending upon which year has been around sine before 1900. University of Wisconsin- Stout in Menomonie has a death index, and all the copies are on micofilm. Kevin Therry is the administrator of the Historical Archives there. I do not have his email address, but you can search on UW-Stout, under Library. He has helped many others with copies of the obituaries, etc. The Meixners are related to so many of the Austrians who came to Pepin Co., which is on my wifes side the radles. Another cemetery, they may be buried at would be the Lima Church, in Pepin Co. also. greg lampman

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Meixner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BFC.2ACE/319.1 Message Board Post: The only regular paper in Durand is the weekly edition of the Courier Wedge. I am not sure how long it has been in existence, but at least the last 50 years that I remember. Other papers in the area are the Eau Claire Leader Telegram. A lot of people in the area get that also. There are a couple of funeral homes in Durand that might be of assistance on any cemetery inquires - they would be either Rhiel or Goodrich funeral homes. You should be able to find references to these at www.qwestdex.com. The undertaker you mentioned does not sound familiar. They might have been from Minneapolis. There are still Meixners in the area, as it is a name that I have heard before. If you check surrounding towns like Arkansaw, Pepin or Nelson; you may find relatives.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Riley Higgins Moran Sweeney Scahal Skall Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BFC.2ACE/321 Message Board Post: I am looking for descendents of Peter and Mary Riley, James and Margaret Higgins, and Tom and Mary Moran. They lived in the Bear Creek Area of Lima Township, Pepin County, and Canton Township, Buffalo County between 1860 and the early 1900s. Mary Riley and Margaret Higgins were my Great Grandmother Anna Sweeney's sisters or half sisters. Tom Moran was Margaret Higgins' son. Bill Sweeney

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BFC.2ACE/19.1 Message Board Post: I am related to a Ida Esping from Ostergotland Sweden 1840