Milton Jones Silo

This picture shows the first Wild Rose 
School that as located at 642 Main St. 
The building was bought from the 
Wild Rose School district about 1890 
by David Lloyd Jones, the father of 
David Milton Jones. David Lloyd 
Jones was also the father of Elizabeth 
Jones Walters, the mother of Lois and
Margaret Walters. A new school was 
built on the same site. It was the 
where the Dave Bowen house
was. The school became the potato 
cellar which is located behind the silo. 
The farm was locate at
N5677 17th Drive, Wild Rose.

Bugh Bridge, Wautoma

More from Clyde Diggles album. The card was 
sent in 1909.  Clyde enlisted and served in 
WWI.  He was in the 107th Supply Train that 
went to France. He was medium height and 
weight with brown hair and blue eyes. The 
transport records show he left NY Jan.24th 
1918.  On Feb. 5, 1918 his ship the Tuscania 
was torpedoed by  German U-Boat 77 about 
6:40 PM off the coast of Ireland.  The troops 
and crew were 2,397 and 210 died that day. 
It took 4 hours for the ship to sink. There were 
many people from Waushara county in the ship 
including these surnames: Inda, Colligan, 
Campbell, Patterson, Johnson, Swendrzynski, 
Jarvis, Persons, Thorstad, Gunderson, 
Simonson, Sorenson. 

Party for Anna Hoaglin at Blanche Murty's

Mrs.Edward (Anna Smart) Hoaglin 1883-1954, 
Mrs Rodney( Blanche Etheridge Murty 1889-
1980, Mrs. Lyman (Rose Swett )Anderson 1875-
1959,  Mrs Rev.Robert (Irma Zuehlke) Hoffman 
1888-1984,Mrs. Jerry (Fanny Etheridge) Pierce 
1865- 1957, Mrs. Ole (Mary Legried)Olson  1881-
1964) grandson, Maurice Haskins) Mrs. Glenn 
(Jeanette Olson) Murty 1913-2002, and  Mrs. 
Glenn (Hannah Bowen) Etheridge !889-1957. 
Mrs Hoaglin was the Wild Rose librarian. Hannah 
Etheridge was on the Wild Rose school board. 
Blanche, Rose and Fanny were all descendants 
of the Jeffers. Mary was Jeanette's mother and 
lived in Albert Lea, MN.  Blanche's husband 
worked for Ed Hoaglin at the mill and later owned
the Wild Rose mill. The picture was about 1949-
1950.

Class of 1930

Back row: Edna Nelson Lerch, Laurel Thompson, 

Martha Lee Merryfield, Olive Backes Covill, 

Beatrice Apps Thomson.2nd row Bernice Korleski 

Johnson Sophie Wargula, Lola 

Jenks Sorenson, Laura Eserhut Cate, 

Alice Holt Hennings, teacher Olive Oettke. 

Front row John Apps, Ellen Currier Colligan, 

Carolyn Hanson Garrison, Albert Potts.

Henry Rable Jr.

Henry Rable Jr was born September 29, 1941 in Czechoslovakia to
a member of the Class of 1959. He was President of his class as a
Junior and on student council, He played baseball and basketball
all four years. He was 30 on the basketball team and 21 on the
football team where he was a halfback. He was on football for 3
years and track his last two years Hank was Prom King as a
Junior with Isabelle Potts as Queen. He played clarinet in band,
solo, duet and quartet. The quartet played "Staccoto and; Legeto"
at the spring concert in 1957. George Wilcox, Zona Jones and
Rosemary Cook were the other three. Hank went to Badger
Boys State in 1958. After graduation Henry went to Carroll
College in Waukesha. Hank was a passenger in a car which
veered out of control after passing a car. Witnesses said the
car went off the left shoulder and then crashed into a ditch
two miles north of Wautoma on Highway 22. Hank was killed
instantly. Hank and the driver were thrown from the car, He died
on August 17, 1960.  He and his parents are buried at Calvary
Cemetery in Wautoma.

Dorthy Harvey Williams & Gladys Fosnot

The picture is from 1936-1938 time.  On the
 left is Dorothy Harvey who was born in
Redgranite, Aug. 31 1911 to Walter
Harvey  (1882-1965) and  Catherine
Bannerman (1879-1948). Dorothy's
parents were born in Scotland. She
married John Owen Williams Sept. 20,
1941 in Wild Rose.  John was the son of
Owen Williams (1873-1938).  Gladys
Eileen Fosnot was born Baraboo on
Oct. 13, 1914 To Bert R. Fosnot and his
wife Myrta McCoy.  Gladys graduated
from UW Madison with a degree in
music and was the band director in
Wild Rose.  She left in 1938 to marry
Robert Kirkpatrick on June 30,1938
which was her parent's 30th wedding
anniversary. A number of Wild Rose
people attended her wedding : Mr &
Mrs. A G Holt, Mr and Mrs. R K Hotz,
Dr Fisher and his daughter, Joan and
Gwendora Williams. She played the f
rench horn in the Madison Civic Sympathy
Orchestra. 

Maurice Anderson

Maurice Carlton Anderson was born in the Town 
of Mt. Morris, on Nov. 14, 1911 to Halbert 
Anderson and Louisa Charleson. He went to the 
one room  Thompson School on County G in the 
Town of Mt Morris. His schooling end after his 
sophomore year to work on the family farm. 
He worked at the Wild Rose creamery 
beginning in 1932. He served in World War II, 
enlisting in the Army on June 23, 1942. He 
served in the Pacific and was released Jan. 1, 
1946.  He returned to the Creamery in Wild 
Rose. He married Majorie Hesness who was a 
nurse a the Wild Rose Hospital. They married 
April 6, 1946 in Wautoma. Her parents were 
Ellef Hesness and Anne Theresa Lovdal. He 
became the buttermaker when the old one 
retired. They lived in the buttermaker's house 
at 220 Main Street across from where the 
creamery was. They moved to Wautoma in 
1951 when he went to work for the Waushara 
Highway Dept. Later they built a house on 
Cambridge street near the Catholic church. 
He was a good singer and sang with his 
brothers as the Anderson Quartet at many 
funeral. He retired in April 1975 from the 
Highway Dept. as a truck driver.
Marjorie died July 9, 1974.  Maury died 
December 1980. He attended Hope Lutheran 
Church in Wautoma.