HENRY OESAU, JR.

Henry Oesau, Jr.

Helen (Zarmsdorf) Oesau

Henry August Oesau   
At the County Asylum of Manitowoc County, Friday, October 30th, death 
came to relieve from his two years suffering, Henry August Oesau, of 
Chilton. Mr. Oesau was until 1901 a resident of this community and was 
born in the town of New Holstein February 21, 1863, a son of Simon 
Heinrich Oesau and Margaret Arens. He received his boyhood education 
in the school of district No. 4 of New Holstein, and in the Chilton 
High School, and for one year, 1882, taught school near Colby. In 1886 
he purchased the interest of the late Jacob Mathiessen in the downtown 
meat market and for fifteen years conducted the same enjoying a wide 
patronage. In the same year he was married to Miss Helen Zarmsdorf. 
In 1901 he disposed of his business here and moved to a farm in 
Stockbridge. 
Two years later he purchased the Emil Jensen farm, in Chilton, which he 
cultivated successfully until his physical breakdown two years ago. He 
was at first removed to a private sanitarium and later to the State 
Hospital at Oshkosh. After his dismissal from this institution and a 
brief sojourn at home, it was found necessary to removed the patient to 
the county Asylum at Manitowoc, where after intense suffering he died 
last Friday.
Funeral services were held at Breed Cemetery, Chilton, Rev. Arpke 
officiating. He is survived by his widow, and one son, Louis Henry of 
Chilton; by his aged father, Simon Heinrich Oesau, his stepmother, one 
brother, Gustave, of Chilton; two sisters, Mrs. Henry Steenbock of 
Madison and Mrs. W. F. Kletzien of this village; and one step-brother, 
Theodore Jr. Oesau of Milwaukee.  
After life’s fitful fever, he now sleeps well.   
Chilton Times, November 7, 1914
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Mrs. Henry Oesau, 90, died at 4:30 a. m. Thursday at Plymouth Hospital 
where she had been a patient six days. She had been a resident of the 
Enders Nursing Home, Glenbeulah,
since the death of her only son, Louis, the past January. Prior to the 
son's death they had lived together on the son's farm near Chilton.
A daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Zarmsdorf, she was born in the 
town of Schleswig, Manitowoc County, April 9, 1865. Her husband, Henry 
Oesau, died Oct. 30, 1914.
Only survivor is a sister, Mrs. Emma Rusch of R. 2, Kiel. Another sister, 
the late Mrs. William Hauschild of New Holstein was buried this afternoon.
She was also preceded in death by five other sisters and five brothers.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Pfeffer Funeral home, 
Chilton. Burial will be in Hillside cemetery there.
Sheboygan Press, Wednesday, May 19, 1955
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Funeral services for Mrs. Henry Oesau, Chilton, were held at the Pfeffer 
Funeral home, Chilton on Friday at 2 p. m. The Rev. W. J. Griffith, 
pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church officiated.
Burial took place in Hillside cemetery. Pallbearers were Louis Ricker. 
Arno Endres, Joseph Sell, Fred Kiesner, Frank Schmidlkofer and Stanley 
Hlaban.
Sheboygan Press,Tuesday, May 24, 1955
Birth:  Apr. 9, 1865 
Death:  May 19, 1955 
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Henry Oesau, Jr. is mentioned in his father's obit which follows:

.....Morning, Aged 84 Years (first part missing)
He live to be
"The last leaf on the tree"
In the death of Henry Oesau during the early hours of this morning,
the last link that united the New Holstein of today to the earliest
pioneer days of 1848, was severed. As a boy of 15, he was one of the
band of 65 who first came to what was then an unbroken wilderness, 
and with these pioneers he shared all the hardships and privations
of a pioneer community. But thanks to their toil and thrift, their
industry and fortitude, the wilderness was transformed into one of 
the graden spots of this state, with laughing prosperity abounding
on every hand.
Simon Henry Oesau was born in Sueder-Ditmarschen, duchy of Schleswig-
Holstein, February 4, 1833. In the memorable year of 1848, his parents
with their family of six children bid adieu to their native land, to
look under the Starry Banner for those conditions of individual liberty
which were largely denied them at home. The Oesaus were of a sturdy,
hardy stock. The family came at once to New Holstein, and located on
a farm a mile north of the present village.
Here the deceased grew to manhood and in 1859 was united in marriage
to Margaretha Arens. The young people at once moved on their farm two
miles south of the village. Four children were born to them, Gustav,
of Chilton; Mrs. Henry Steebock of Madison; Henry, of Chilton; (now
deceased) and Mrs. Wm. Kletzien of New Holstein. Mrs. Oesau died, 
March 21, 1868, and in 1869 Mr. Oesau entered a second marriage with
Wiebke Langemak, she survives her husband. One son, Theodore, now
one of the school principals of Milwaukee, was born of their union.
Mr. Oesau operated his farm for over forty years when the advent of
life's autumn and declining bodily vigor compelled him to retire.
Since then Mr. and Mrs. Oesau have resided in the village. The 
deceased enjoyed excellent health until this winter, and it was only
during the past month or six weeks that he was compelled to keep his
bed. But his trouble, arterial sclerosis, gradually made greater
inroads upon his strength, until this morning "he passed to where
beyond these voices there is peace."
(1917 handwritten on obit, no newspaper cited)
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1870 United States Federal Census, Calumet co.
Name: Heinrich Oesaw 
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1833 
Age in 1870: 37 
Birthplace: Hos; Pru 
Home in 1870: New Holstein, Calumet, Wisconsin 
Race: White 
Gender: Male 
Post Office: New Holstein 
Household Members: Name Age 
Heinrich Oesaw 37 
Wiebke Oesaw 27 
Gustav Oesaw 11 
Christina Oesaw 10 
Henry Oesaw 7
Helene Oesaw 4 
Theadar Oesaw 8/12 
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Although neither of these Oesaus are in the photos – they are related to ALL the 
other Oseaus who are in the photos.  It is an Oesau being married to an Oesau.
 
From Calumet county marriage records:
Gustav F. Oesau and Wilhelmine Oesau (v.2 p.73)
Married Aug. 25, 1884 in civil ceremony, Town of New Holstein
Gustav F. Oesau
Son of Henry Simon Oesau and Margaretha Arens
Born Town of New Holstein –farmer in New Holstein
Wilhelmine Oesau
Daughter of Claus Oesau, Jr. and Mary Schoen
Witnesses Claus Oesau Sr. and Mary Oesau