Back: Edwin Davies, Winfield Davies, Albert Davies and Front: Frank Davies

Some of the children of John Walter Daies and
Eliza Jones of Town of Rose, Waushara County
WI.

Andrew & Sever Nelson Threshing rig

Ethel & Edith Davies

Frank & Ward Davies plowing

Edith J Davies Nelson and Andrew Nelson

Alice, Edith, Ethel and John Walter Davies on farm

Winifield Davies will move to Sever Knutson Farm from Wild Rose Times

Johnson Lane

Johnson Lane was an evangelical
preacher from Rose, Wayne Co.
NY who held revivals in Wild Rose
Wisconsin.

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Tillie & Laura Lovdahl

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Tillie can be Matilda or Tilda. Do you know which
Lovdahl family they are from? I can not find them in
the Waushara County census.

John R Humphrey

John R Humphrey Aug. 31, 1847- Apr 1, 1934.
He married Margaret A Williams in 1878. They
lived in Springwater, Waushara County, WI. He
was born in the Town of Delafield, Waukesha
County.  He moved to Wild Rose in 1854 with his 
family. He married Margaret Williams on May 7,
1878 in Wild Rose. They had 4 children. He died
in 1934. His pallbearers were: Edwin Owens, James
Roberts, Ed Jones, Linder Wilson, Edger Evans,
and Dan Davies.

Some of the desks in the Progressive School Wild Rose Museum

Stove in the Progressive School in Wild Rose Museum

Teacher in Progressive School at Wild Rose Museum

The Presidents you can see on the wall are
Grant, Harding and Washington.

Horse shoes for horses for swampy ground at Wild Rose Museum

Ad for Crying baby for Castoria in the Pharmacy in Wild Rose Museum

China doll on Children's bed in Wild Rose Museum

Flowers on left side of Wild Rose Museum

Flowers on Right side of sidewalk at Wild Rose Museum

Wild Rose Skating Club

Left to Right: Rita McKnight, Dolores Jansen, 
Elaine Bouvat Martin, Mary Bouvat Apps, Jean 
Wilson Frederick, Jean Clayton Kittleson, Marilyn 
Heuer Sanford, Sylvia Dopp Poulette, 
Kathy Keohane Kay, Donna Hansel Jenks, 
Barbara Long Rose, Wendy Heuer Caswell, 

and Betty Bouvat Lipke.  The skating took place on 
Main Street near Knoke's saw mill.  The last ice 
show occurred in 1953.  

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James Watson Page

James Watson Page was born in 1821 in
Pennsylvania.  His birth date is calculated from
his death age.  He moved to Rose, New York in
the 1840's.  He married Polly Jeffers, daughter
of William & Phebe Jeffers, about 1843 in 
Rose, New York.  Polly was born August 1, 1824 
in Rose, New York.  James & Polly  had three 
daughters all born in Rose, New York. Phoebe 
was born in 1843 and married Charles W Lane.  
Sarah married Locey Nash in 1866 Tammie 
married JohnD Stewart and died in 1876.  Polly 
died April 24, 1853 in Rose, New York.  James 
then married her older sister Clarissa Jeffers 
so he had some one to clean, cook and care for 
his three daughters.  Clarissa was born 
October 11, 1821.  She died May 18, 1885 in 
the Town of Wautoma.  Her funeral was held 
in the Standalone Church which was located 
where the Mt Pleasant Cemetery is located 
south of Wild Rose on Highway 22.  Mr Page 
suffered from rheumatism so he decided to sell 
his house and move to California in April of 
1888.  He had operated a mail order business 
for onion seeds before he left Wisconsin. His 
voting record in California lets us know that he 
was 5 feet 10 inches tall with hazel eyes and 
grey hair in the middle 1890's. He also had a 
crooked finger on the second finger on his left 
hand.  He died on Christmas Day in 1899 in 
Calistoga, California at his daughter, Phoebe's 
house of a stroke.  

Dr Alfred W Carey

Dr. Alfred W Carey was born January 9, 1853 in
Euphemia, Ontario, Canada.He graduated from
Woodstock College and taught for four years.  He
then graduated from Detroit Medical College in
1881. To better prepare himself he took a
postgraduate course in Eye Surgery at the
University of New York City.  He first practiced
in Caro, Michigan.  He taught at Toledo Medical
College for one year.  He came to Wild Rose in
September 1892.  He built a house at 530 Main
St. in Wild Rose in 1894.  In March of 1895 he
got the first telephone in Wild Rose.  He married
Phoebe Brown in 1875.  They had three children
Mary and Fred and the third died in infancy.  He
married Della Richards in 1890 and they had two
sons Richard and Phillip.  Dr Carey died of a
ruptured appendix on March 23, 1899.  His widow
was a music teacher and in 1901 she married Dr.
William Wilcox who came to Wild Rose.   Dr. Carey
had a number of very successful eye surgeries. He
had the red house on the corner of Main St and
River St built. Even though he had a telephone
a snow storm prohibit help for his appendix. 

Wild Rose Historical Society Will Celebrate the Wild Rose Skating Club

The program will take place at the annex to the Library in 
Wild Rose. Oct 13, 2019 at 1:00 PM. There will be displays
of clothes the mothers made for the skaters. There are
pictures, newspaper articles and some film of the shows.  
Those who were in the shows from the late 1940's through 
1953 are especially invited to attend and share memories. 

Rose Wilson, Queen of Wild Rose Skating 1948

Rose Wilson was crowned Queen of the 1948
Wild Rose Skating show witha red velvet jewel
encrusted crown  worn by Bette Davis in
"Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest". Rose was
crowned by Ernie Knoke. Boyd Clark is behind
Rose and Ernie.   George Dowhen is in the back
row on the right. Ronald Jenks was the King.

Sherman Lloyd Anderson class of 1928 at Harvard died in sevice

Sherman Lloyd Anderson was the son of
John P Anderson and Ella Sherman. Ella's
mother was Sophie Jane "Jennie" Thomas and
her father was Benson Sherman.  The Thomas
family lived in 17th in the Town of Rose, Waushara
County, WI. 

John Drown, husband of EstherJeffers

John Drown 1801-1890. He lived the majority of his life
in Huron, Wayne County, NY. His wife, Esther Jeffers
lived from 1803-1844 and died before her father, Robert
Jeffers.

Charles Ambrose Jones

Charles Ambrose Jones was born April 10, 1916 to
Charles Jones (1889-1960) and Barbara Roberts in the Town
of Rose, Waushara County WI. He graduated with the
Class of 1934. He married Sue L Matson in 1941. He
served in the military from 1944-46.  He died Feb 17, 2005
in Rockford, IL.

Mt. Morris Lutheran Church in Wisconsin 1904

St Pauls Lutheran Church

Wild Rose Methodist church has new horse sheds 1902

Wild Rose new church 1981

Ross Caves moving into Frances Lane house 1943

Wilbur Witt bought Mrs W Hawks farm 1941

John Hughes hired Mr Westover 1943 They moved to Hugh Lane house

E B Terrill is building a new house 1883

Freeman Tarr's moved to Harold Dopp farm 1942

Gas station in Wild Rose Herman Hanson's

Herman Hanson is building a Wadhams filling station 1927

The station was first a Wadhams,
the a Mobil and also a Standard oil.

W F Shultz was the depot agent for the Chicago & Northwestern at Wild Rose WI 1907

C A Smart's store 190

C A Smart's store was on the SE corner of Main
and Maple ave.  It was a general store.

Booklet from Wild Rose School 1907

Wild Rose had only a 3 year high school in 1907. The
course of study had more history and literature than
we do today.

Ad for Lowe & Sprague Meat Market 1907

Reid Englesby moved his barber shop 1928

Grain elevator starts with R K Jones, manager 1902

The Kenneth Council's moved Kilborn (now Wis Dells) 1928

Earl Campbell moved to Lloyd Searls house 1929

Earl Campbell bought house occupied by Lamore Family 1930

Mrs. Leta Breslin moved to Elizabeth Hughes Apartment 1934

Foundation for Baptist church started 1901

C A Smart & Ethel Shepherd moved to Mansfield's house & Rev Mansfield moved to new house 1921

Wild Rose solid brick school, & Plainfield school 1902

John I Owens working for George Hansen 1906