Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Emma Weeks Burdick

 





















Emma Weeks was born Feb. 14 1865 in Wayne 

County, NY. Her parents were Nathaniel Under-

hill Weeks and Mary Elizabeth Griswold. Mary

Griswold was the daughter of Lorenzo Griswold

and Elizabeth (Betsey) Jeffers who was the 

daughter of Nathan Jeffers. She married Thomas

J. Burdick on Oct.28, 1886 in Memphis, MI. She

died Sept. 27, 1908 ii Michigan. They had 2

daughters: Ida Leona and Helen Elizabeth.


Sunday, April 25, 2021

Pickle Factory in Wild Rose after storm July 4,1911


 













Workers from left 1. Ed Apps, Sr,, 3 Charlie Hanson, 5 Art
Dutcher.



Maurice Peterson




















Maurice Peterson was the son of Martin Peterson 

and his second wife, Clara Winge. He was born

about 1905. 



 

Bessie Wilson


 


































Bessie Wilson was the daughter of William Wilson
and Mary Ann Trickey. She was born Sept. 30, 1896
in Plainfield, WI. She died June 20, 1908 and is
buried in Nekoosa, WI.

Monday, April 19, 2021

Webster John Moran


 











Webster John Moran was born July 2, 1901 in the 

Town of Belmont, Portage County, WI. His parents

were Warren Moran & Annie McLaughlin. They were

living in the Town of Springwater in Waushara

County by 1910. In 1920 he was living in Bull Moore,

Wells County, North Dakota. He married Florence

Teresa Jacobson (1900-1972) on Nov. 14, 1922 in

Bowbelle, ND. They moved back to Oshkosh and

later Menasha, WI. In North Dakota Webster was a

co-owner of a Dray Co. In Wisconsin he was a foreman

in a construction and a bartender in later years. He

died April 20, 1967 in Milwaukee where he had lived

since 1942.  His draft card said he was 5'11", 194 

pounds. He had blue eyes, brown hair.  








Mr & Mrs Knowlton Johnson moved to Grand Rapids MN 1922


 














His name is spelled Knowlton in his death 
records but his draft for WWI spells it
Knolton. Sometimes he is listed as Andrew
as a first name or A. K. Johnson. His wife 
was Viola Jansen from Wild Rose. He lived
in the town of Springwater in 1920.