Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
William Henry Jenks, wife Alice Jeffers and son Jay Jenks
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| William Henry Jenks was the son of John Tower Jenks was born in Rose, Wayne County NY in 1848. His wife Alice Jeffers was the daughter of William Jeffers, Jr, and was born in Wayne County. Jay was born in Waushara County inn 1890 and died in 1968. Jay worked at the Wild Rose mill. |
THeodore Witzel Stevens family
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| L-R Nettie Palmer Stevens, Vinnie Stevens Jenks. Theodore Witzel Stevens, and in front Lola Jenks Sorenson. T W Stevens had a pharmacy in Wild Rose and was one of the first 20 registered pharmacists in Wisconsin. |
Lola Jenks Sorenson
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| Lola Jenks was the daughter of Chester Jenks and Vinnie Stevens. She was born Aug 5, 1912. She married Floyd Sorenson and they had a son Arnold. |
Hattie Belle Stewart Hughes
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| Hattie Belle Stewart was the daughter of Elisha Stewart and Jane Jeffers who built the house at the Wild Rose Museum. She married Will (William) Hughes in 1883. They had one daughter. She died in 1899. |
Abner & Emma Hughes
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| Abner & Emma were the parents of Will (William) Hughes who owned the Wild Rose Hotel in the early 1900's. |
Will Hughes
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| Will Hughes owned the Wild Rose Hotel at the time of the 1905 Wild Rose Robbery and was a member of the posse. |
1927 Pedal Car with rack & pinion steering
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| This car was made by Milford Etheridge for his youngest son, Neil for Christmas 1927. Milford was born in Wild Rose but later moved to Clintonville by 1920. The car is in the Wild Rose Museum. |
Julia Stevens
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| Julia Stevens was the daughter of Stephen & Elizabeth Payne Woodard. She was born Oct 20, 1875 and died April 13, 1933 in Wild Rose. She was hit and killed when she was walking home from church. The young men in the car where paying attention to girls in the second story of a house and didn't see her. |
Monday, July 29, 2019
Dr Arthur Stevens. dentist in Wild Rose WI
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Dr Stevens arrived in Wild Rose on
Oct. 7, 1905, the day of the 1905
Wild Rose robbery. His office was
upstairs in the Wild Rose Mercantile
and had outside metal stairs to get
to his office. He had a foot pump to
operate his drill. Dentistry has
changed a lot.
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Jennie Lind Gilson Dix
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| Jennie Lind Gilson was born July 27, 1869 in Berlin, WI. Her parents were Herman Gilson nd Caroline Ordway. She married John D Dix in 1888 in VT. She died March 28, 1951 in Ludlow, Windsor,Vt. |
Anderson's
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| Back row: Alma Kapp Anderson, Oliver Anderson Russell Anderson. Front row: Marian Nohr Anderson, wife of Norman Anderson, & Bernice Heller Anderson wife of Harry. |
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Emeline Hanson
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| Emeline, daughter of Jens & Helena Peterson married Martin G Hansen, son of Gunder & Gunild Hansen on September 27, 1892 at the Mt Morris Holden Lutheran Church. Martin was a school teacher but Martin died young on March 20, 1900. They had two children Gerald Jay born August 30, 1893 and Grace H. born July 5, 1895. In 1905 to help support her family Emeline took in Margaret Victory, a teacher as a boarder. Grace later taught at the Progressive school. |
Friday, July 19, 2019
William Hill son of Wm, & Ann died June 27, 1860 age 6yrs. 5 months.
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| William drowned in Hills Lake in the Town of Mt Morris, Waushara County, WI. |
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