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I am a descendant of the RATH and DEMMER families of Richland County. I have heard that my great,great grandfather, John Carl RATH, who immigrated from Mecklinberg-Schwerin Germany in 1871, made the comment during WWI that with one hand he sent money to Germany and with the other hand bullets. I can only try to imagine the distress that the German immigrants must have felt during that time. I have recently been reading about the Executive Order that President Roosevelt initiated in Feb 1942 which authorized the U.S. War Department to exclude or relocate people from certain areas of the country. The ruling was aimed at not-yet-naturalized emigrants from countries fighting against the US during WWII as well as American-born citizens of "alien ancestry". Surely a large percentage of the population of Richland County during this time would have qualified as being of "alien ancestry" - I know that my great grandfather, William Henry RATH, would have been included in this category. I would like to hear any stories about life for the German descendants in Richland County during World War II. Was the Ash Creek Church allowed to continue having services in German? Was there much discrimination against the residents of the county who were of German descent? Were the traditions of our German ancestry stifled during this period? Any of your personal comments or information on where I could locate published articles related to these questions would be appreciated. Rosemary Tiwari Coralville, Iowa retiwari@home.com

The following cemeteries have been recently added or updated: East Pine River (Judson/Yuba) Cemetery in Henrietta Township Pine River Cemetery in Richland Township Sand Prairie Cemetery Mount Tabor Cemetery (AKA Sabin Cemetery) in Sylvan Township http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~richlandwi/ Lori lori@monticellowi.com http://www.monticellowi.com/RichlandCo/ Richland County, WI Genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~richlandwi/ Richland County, WI Cemeteries

----- Original Message ----- From: "John" <jcengel@execpc.com> To: <WIRICHLA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 8:40 PM Subject: [WIRICHLA] Ebay is now selling Balmoral item: William Murphy's 1891 postmaster appointment > I'm a West Allis genealogist, with no interest in the sale, but I thought I should pass on to Richland County researchers that ebay has the above item up for auction, ending on Tuesday a.m. You can view it at http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1067415994 Here is the seller's description, with Balmoral misspelled: > > > > This wonderful piece of history is the appointment of the Postmaster at Palmoral in the County of Richland, State of Wisconsin - William Murphy. He was appointed on the 14th day of September, 1891 by John Wanamaker, Postmaster General of the United States of America. > > The document reads "Now know ye, that confiding in the integrity ability, and punctuality of the said William Murphy I do commission him a Postmaster, authorized to execute the duties of that office at Palmoral aforesaid, according to the laws of the United States and the Regulations of the Post Office Department: To hold the said Office of Postmaster, with all the powers, privileges and emoluments to the same belonging, during the pleasure of the Postmaster General of the United States." > > It states "In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the Post Office Department to be affixed, at Washington City, this twentysecond day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety one, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixteenth." > > It is signed by John Wanamaker and has the gold seal of the "Post Office Department United States of America". It has been folded in half down the middle of the document length wise. It has some water spots and shows normal aging. > > It measures approximately 17" by 22" and has a couple of small tears on the bottom of the document. > > * * * * * > > I should be so lucky as to find my ancestor's documents floating around on e-bay some day :-) > > John C. Engel > > Engel Poh Qualman Hettiger Wedewart Wipijewski Bernhardt Kierzek Herkert Koehl > > > ==== WIRICHLA Mailing List ==== > Search the list archives: > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl - put WIRICHLA for > the name of the list > >

I'm a West Allis genealogist, with no interest in the sale, but I thought I should pass on to Richland County researchers that ebay has the above item up for auction, ending on Tuesday a.m. You can view it at http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1067415994 Here is the seller's description, with Balmoral misspelled: This wonderful piece of history is the appointment of the Postmaster at Palmoral in the County of Richland, State of Wisconsin - William Murphy. He was appointed on the 14th day of September, 1891 by John Wanamaker, Postmaster General of the United States of America. The document reads "Now know ye, that confiding in the integrity ability, and punctuality of the said William Murphy I do commission him a Postmaster, authorized to execute the duties of that office at Palmoral aforesaid, according to the laws of the United States and the Regulations of the Post Office Department: To hold the said Office of Postmaster, with all the powers, privileges and emoluments to the same belonging, during the pleasure of the Postmaster General of the United States." It states "In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the Post Office Department to be affixed, at Washington City, this twentysecond day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety one, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixteenth." It is signed by John Wanamaker and has the gold seal of the "Post Office Department United States of America". It has been folded in half down the middle of the document length wise. It has some water spots and shows normal aging. It measures approximately 17" by 22" and has a couple of small tears on the bottom of the document. * * * * * I should be so lucky as to find my ancestor's documents floating around on e-bay some day :-) John C. Engel Engel Poh Qualman Hettiger Wedewart Wipijewski Bernhardt Kierzek Herkert Koehl

At 01:10 AM 1/26/02 EST, Msarahroz@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 1/1/2002 9:46:19 AM Pacific Standard Time, MrsVLS@aol.com >writes: > ><< > What do you get on digest that you don't get on get on mail mode? Do I need > to subscribe to digest also? Lorene > >> >Hey I know this is a late answer, >You get info from the people who only post to the Digest Mode > >Rosalind > >Rosalind Kelly Sherman >Researching: >Dad's links: Kelly, Kelley, Chiles, Pratt, Sullivan,Purdy, Dannar, Foster, >Harmon, Wattenbarger, Billingsley, Shelton, Wagner/Wagnor, Leonard, McConnell >Mom's links: Oliver, Moore, Neeley/Nealy/Neely, Pruett/Pruitt, House, >Powell, Pigg/Pigue, Horton, Gambill/Gramble, Pryor, Ussery/Usery/Usary, >Carrington, Kelly, Praeter, Bugher/Booher You don't need to subscribe to the Digest mode unless you want to receive a copy of all emails to the list that were sent individually combined into one email. Let me try that again: List mode means you get a copy of each email posted to the list as an individual note. Digest mode means that a number of messages are combined and sent out at periodic intervals to people who are subscribed in that mode. The periodic level is determined by the list activity and/or the size of messages. If the digest size limit is reached first then a digest is put together by the server and sent out. If the time limit is reached first then a digest is put together by the server and sent out. Current limits are: 18 hours or 32K worth of messages. The plus side of Digest is that you get one email versus several individual pieces. The downside, at least for me, is that you get a big email and if you decide to reply to an individual message in the digest you end up having to either copy and paste a reply or chop out a big chunk of the digest message - plus you end up without a good subject line, unless you decide to change it. Current message size limit for an individual message to the list is 20K. As to the lateness of a reply, it's not. I recently found a message, an offer for contributing cemetery listings in another county that I'd received 50 weeks before. It got lost in my mailboxes and I stumbled across it. The good thing was that the gentleman and I corresponded and he and I are burning the wires sending/receiving and putting the cemeteries online. The downside for me is that my inbox has swelled, even with sorting to over 1 Gig of email and the last count some months back was over 200,000 emails, very easy to miss one individual email. Luckily though the spam is mostly filtered out now and I'm not receiving at the rate I used to. I'm down to only about 150 new messages a day. Tim Stowell mailing list host host for Crawford, Richland county web sites

In a message dated 1/1/2002 9:46:19 AM Pacific Standard Time, MrsVLS@aol.com writes: << What do you get on digest that you don't get on get on mail mode? Do I need to subscribe to digest also? Lorene >> Hey I know this is a late answer, You get info from the people who only post to the Digest Mode Rosalind Rosalind Kelly Sherman Researching: Dad's links: Kelly, Kelley, Chiles, Pratt, Sullivan,Purdy, Dannar, Foster, Harmon, Wattenbarger, Billingsley, Shelton, Wagner/Wagnor, Leonard, McConnell Mom's links: Oliver, Moore, Neeley/Nealy/Neely, Pruett/Pruitt, House, Powell, Pigg/Pigue, Horton, Gambill/Gramble, Pryor, Ussery/Usery/Usary, Carrington, Kelly, Praeter, Bugher/Booher

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For Tim - There was a family of Rolette's living in Westford township of Richland County, section 2. I know some of them are buried in St. Anthony's cemetary at Germantown. The farm has pretty well been abandoned the last time I was by it. I was in touch some years ago with a Mr. Rolette who lived near Beloit/Rockford area I believe. Our land we owned back in the 1980's joined theirs. Sandy Stiemke scrary@jvlnet.com

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I recently received the following. If someone can assist, please contact me. Thanks, Tim --------------- I am a french girl interested in the history of my village. Some people of my village settled in Wisconsin (Richland County). They are quoted in the chapter "Biographical". Their names are Jules François (1838-1916) and his uncle Jean-Baptiste Poinsot (1810-1875) who first settled in 1854 ; then came Claude François (1813-1889 buried in Loyd) and his wife Catherine who arrived in 1855 with their children (Claude called Francis (1843-1883), Séraphine 1845-1941), Charles, Louis and Marie) and a young boy Anton Rollet (born in 1835) whose parents crossed the Atlantic in 1856 (Pierre-Joseph Rollet (born in 1809) and his wife Barbe or Barbara Ruston). I would like to collect information about these people and their conditions of settling in the states and possibly get in contact with their descendants. Could you please help me ? Do you know a genealogical association I can get in touch with ? The place where all this people came from is called Guyonvelle a village in the Champagne area.

Uploaded this AM - Chapter 13 - Formation and Organization of the County and Locating the County Seat. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wicrawfo/chap13.htm For reference - see what the county looked like before it was split up: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mikent/maps/1830MIcounties.gif Tim

Hi to all, As some of you know, I am working on a new project. Last month I was able to place the 1874 Richland County (16 Townships) Plat Maps online. For those that are new to genealogy research, a Plat Map is an effort to place the land owners names to the parcels of land they owned and print it out in map form. This is a great tool for tracking your ancestors movements. As of this morning, I was able to complete the 1895 Richland County Plat Maps. It was my intention to keep these images as small as possible for quick loading, but to see the detail of each section of land, each image is rather large. Please be patient as they load. Some computers are slower than others and browsers may be out dated as well. Hang in there, the wait is worth it. My next effort will be to add the 1919 Plat Maps. To go to the plat map entry page please click on the link below. <A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~djnsl/RichlandCemeteryLocator.html"> Richland County Plat Maps</A> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~djnsl/RichlandCemeteryLocator.html Thanks and enjoy, Dennis

I am related to an Esther Cooper. I know that there was at least one Cooper family in the area around the time you are mentioning. You should contact the History room at the Brewer Library in Richland Center. They have great files on the various families. I will keep the name in my notes and be sure to let you if I come across anything. Good luck. April Mills Bremerton, Washington >From: "darray" <darray@charter.net> >Reply-To: WIRICHLA-L@rootsweb.com >To: WIRICHLA-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [WIRICHLA] BRYANT OR BARTON COOPER >Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 21:57:48 -0600 > >I am looking for information on the Cooper family. I am trying to find out >when Bryant Barton Cooper died. I know he married the first time in >Richland County ,but moved to Monroe County in the 1900 census. Has anyone >heard of him >Darlene > > >==== WIRICHLA Mailing List ==== >Search the list archives: >http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl - put WIRICHLA for >the name of the list > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

I am looking for information on the Cooper family. I am trying to find out when Bryant Barton Cooper died. I know he married the first time in Richland County ,but moved to Monroe County in the 1900 census. Has anyone heard of him Darlene

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C19A12.FDC01F80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Have tried to connect repeatedly with "chat". No luck. Help! Rita A. ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C19A12.FDC01F80 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment Reply-To: <WIRICHLA-L@rootsweb.com> From: <DJNSL@aol.com> To: <WIRICHLA-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: [WIRICHLA] Richland County Wi. Genealogy Chat Room Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:09:54 -0600 Message-ID: <ab.151835ed.296e35d2@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows XP US sub 50 Importance: Normal X-Loop: WIRICHLA-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <WIRICHLA-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/525 X-Original-Sender: DJNSL@aol.com Wed Jan 9 17:21:43 2002 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 To all the friends of Richland County genealogy, Tonight at 8PM CST, the Richland chat room will be open. Please join in the fun. <A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~djnsl/ChatRoom.html">Chat Room</A> << Click here. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~djnsl/ChatRoom.html Dennis ==== WIRICHLA Mailing List ==== Search the list archives: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl - put WIRICHLA for the name of the list ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C19A12.FDC01F80--

Does anyone have any information on the Pilsonberger family. Sometimes the name is spelled Pitxonberger. My g g grandmother was married to a James Rockwell . She had my g grandmother Mary . Then I can not find her and James L Rockwell is married to a Margarette Smith. I can not find where she is buried or any of the family of Pitzonbergers. The lived in Forest Township, and I guess this township is in Richland Co. and Vernon Co. Can you help me. Darlene

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Schnieder/Seifert surname. Origin for these surnames is Muscoda, Wisconsin. Dates not listed are unknown >Solomon Schneider arrived in America from Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany in 1848 - married - Mary Haas who also immigrated from the same city in Germany the year 1853. They were schoolmates in Germany and were married in Muscoda, Wisconsin in 1853. Their children: >Henry V. -married Mary Fisher - (children unknown) >Otto -married Annie Hohner February 26, 1889- Annie was the daughter of Moritz and Adeline Paffenrath Hohner. Otto and Annie's children as follows: Mary, Gertrude and Martin -d. 1960? Mary married Henry Stadele in Muscoda, May 3, 1912- Martin married the daughter of William Goodweiller, Della, who died after a sudden illness, their daughter was Winnifred. Martin married a second time to Wilma Henry. They had 2 daughters Betty Proudfoot of Park Rapids, Minnesota and Winnifred Jenkins of Bismark, North Dakota. (I am believing this Winnifred is of Martin's first marriage) In the early 1940s, Martin and his wife purchased Eagle Bay Lodge in Park Rapids, Minnesota, and operated this business until they retired >Josephine -married John Kremer (Kremmer) (Kraemer) - children unknown >Rosalia (Rose) -married Pete Steffen Sept. 28, 1891 - children unknown >Kate -Student at University of Wisconsin, Madison - lived to be 29 years old >Matthew (Mathias) -married Mary Kremer (Kraemer) Their children as follows: *Peter -b.1883 -married Eda ? lived in Mason City, Iowa (children unknown) *Mayme -b.1884 (Mary) -married Bill Jensen, lived in Mason City, Iowa - (children unknown) *Rosila (Rose) -b.1890 -married Ignatius Minter, brother of Peter - children unknown *Anna -b. 11/24/1891-married Peter Minter - children unknown *Josephine -b.1886 -married Charles Shriner -No children *Catherine -b. 8/2/88 -d.10/30/80 -married John Seymour (am in contact with living cousins). *Matthew -b.4/13/1895 -married Amelia (Millie) SEIFERT (my grandfather and grandmother the daughter of Michael Seifert, Jr. and Mary Runge) Matt and Millie's children are as follows: Carl -married Dolores Bremmer daughter of Peter John and Margaret Anne Munz Bremmer (my father and mother) Marianna -married Dennis Doyle Richard -married Mary Doyle, sister of Dennis *Elizabeth -b.7/13/1895 -d.3/5/90 -never married *Christian -b.11/22/1900 -d.10/29/49 -married Bess Kraus (am in contact with living cousins) *Elenora -b. 3/30/1903 -married Ed Suda, daughter Dorothy -deceased Solomon immigrated with a brother by the name of Valentine married Josephine (unknown maiden name). Their son was Father Francis Xavier Schneider, -b.June 6, 1869 -d.1960 pastor of St. Joseph Church in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. Seeking also the one in California who has been searching for the Matt Schneider family. Thank you for any and all assistance. Marilyn

Saint Paul's Lutheran Cemetery in Willow Township is done. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~richlandwi/ Lori lori@monticellowi.com http://www.monticellowi.com/RichlandCo/ Richland County, WI Genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~richlandwi/ Richland County, WI Cemeteries