PHOTOS FROM GLASS NEGATIVES

FLORA (COTTRELL) FOWLER


Flora (Cottrell) Fowler

From Calumet county marriage records:
Henry Fowler and Flora Cottrell (v.3 p.25)
Feb. 3, 1886 at Methodist Church, Gravesville, Calumet County
Marriage of white and Indian
Henry Fowler
Son of Benjamin and Hannah Fowler
Born Town of Brothertown, Calumet County
Flora Cottrell
Daughter of Albert and Grace Cottrell
Born Town of Brothertown, Calumet County
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Flora is buried at Brothertown Union Cemetery, Calumet County.
Flora M. Fowler -- 1862-1926
Henry C. Fowler -- 1851-1928
 
Flora's mother is also buried there - don't know where her father is.
Grace Ann Cottrell - Dec. 7, 1833-Oct. 3, 1920
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Fora's mother:
From Calumet county death records: 
Grace Ann Cottrell nee Crossley (Cal. 7-193)
Widow of Albert Cottrell
Sept. 1833-Oct. 3, 1920
Daughter of Wm. Crossley and Hannah Dick
Born New York
Died from “senility –old age”
Buried at Town of Brothertown Cemetery, Calumet County

PAULINE "LENA" (HANERT) FOX


Pauline "Lena" (Hanert) Fox

Pauline Hanert was the 9th child of Joseph Hanert and his wife 
Jeanette Thomas. Pauline was born Dec. 31, 1875 in the Town of 
Russell. She died Aug. 23, 1962 in Milwaukee. On June 24, 1903, 
she married to Leo Patrick Fox at St. John Catholic Church, 
Green Bay, Brown County.  Leo Patrick Fox was born March 12, 
1876 in the Town of Buchanan, Outagamie County of Thomas and 
Mary Fox.  He died Nov. 29, 1937 at Chilton, Calumet County. 
Both Leo and Pauline are buried at St. Augustine Catholic 
Cemetery, Chilton.  Leo was a prominent local lawyer and 
political leader. Pauline was a teacher in Catholic schools 
in Kiel and Chilton. -from the Hanert Genealogy

ANNA (SCHILDHAUER) FRANCKE


Anna (Schildhauer) Francke

From Calumet county death records:
Annie Francke nee Schildhauer (v.16 p.160)
Wife of Herman Francke
Feb. 22, 1861-Feb. 22, 1962 [died on 101st birthday]
Daughter of Joachim Schildhauer and Dorothea Kuehl
Born Town of New Holstein
Musician and seamstress
Died from “myocardial infarction, 30 hours –coronary sclerosis, 25 years 
   –generalized arteriosclerosis, 30 years”
Buried at New Holstein Cemetery
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NEW HOLSTEIN ---Mrs. Annie Francke, the oldest resident at the Calumet 
Homestead here, died at 8 a.m. today on her 101st birthday.
Despite her age, she has been in comparatively good health until a few 
days ago.
Mrs. Francke had the distinction of being not only the oldest resident 
of the Homestead, but of being its senior citizen. She had been there 
since shortly after opening July 19, 1957.
She was born at New Holstein Feb 22, 1861, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Joachim Schildhauer, Mrs. Francke attended schools in New Holstein and 
later worked as a musician and seamstress. She married Herman Francke 
at Chicago in 1906.
She is survived by her sister, Miss Ellen Schildhauer, who had been her 
constant companion since both became residents of the home.
Services will be at the Erbe-Hoffman Funeral Home, New Holstein, Saturday 
at 2 p.m. The Rev. Charles A. Koch, pastor of St. John's United Church of 
Christ, will officiate and burial will be in New Holstein cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 3 p.m. Friday until time of 
services.
Sheboygan Press, Feb 1962 
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From Calumet county death records:
Herman Francke (Calumet 11-229)
Husband of Annie Schildhauer
Aug. 20, 1853-May 3, 1943
Son of William Francke and Catherine Peters (both born Germany)
Farmer –born in Town of Greenbush, Sheboygan County
Died from “apoplexy –atheroma of arteries”
Buried at New Holstein Cemetery
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Herman Francke, Nebraska pioneer, died May 2 at New Holstein, Wis., at the age 
of 89. He was born at Greenbush, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, Aug 21, 1853, son 
of William and Katherine Francke. In 1870 the family moved to Walton, where Mr. 
Francke was one of the early Lancaster county farmers, breaking sod with an ox 
team.
In 1906 he was married to Miss Anna Schildhauer of New Holstein. Wis. The couple 
lived in Lincoln until 1937, when they moved to New Holstein to make their home. 
Mr. Francke is survived by his wife; a brother, August and sister, Mrs. Laura 
Wilson, both of Walton, and many nieces and nephews. Funeral services were 
conducted May 6 at Holstein by Rev. A. G. Schmid of St. John's Evangelical and 
Reformed church and interment was made in New Holstein city cemetery.
Nebraska State Journal, May 16, 1943
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Schildhauer, Joachim
B 1 - 24 - 1825 Holstein, Germany
D. 3 - 13 - 1921
M. 11 - 23 - 1855  Dorothia Kuehl
In 1851 moved to America to go to New Holstein. Was a cabinet maker by trade. 
10 children.
1. Herman  1857 - 1927
2. Anne 1861 - 1962  Mrs Herman Franke
3. George  1863 - 1925
4. William  1865 - 1959
5. Clara  1867 - 1956  not married
6. Caroline 1870 - 1950 - Mrs H M Thiessen
7  Edward 1872 - 1953
8. Ellen  1874 - 1968
9. Rudolf 1877 - 1903
10 Henry   ?
(Note: New Holstein library has boxes full of obits someone wrote on index cards. 
They went thru all the microfilmed newspapers and put them on index cards/this 
info from a card)

FRANK FRANKE


Frank Franke

From Sheboygan county marriage records:
(Sheb. v.7 p.222)
May 13, 1893 in German M. E. Chruch, Batavia, Sheboygan County
Frank Emund Franke
Son of Carl Henry Franke and Friedericke Zaumsegel
Born Werdan Ronigreich Sachsen
Uphosterer in Chicago, Illinois
Lydia Rosina Steuerwald
Daughter of Fridrick Steuerwald and Ernestine Eisentraut
Born Bavaria, Sheboygan County
Witnesses J. O. Steuerwald, Martha Franke and Philipine Jahr