Obit: Milbreit, August (1864 - 1952)
Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
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Surnames: Milbreit, Wagner, Janke, Miller, Weisjohn, Meyer, Koehler

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) January 31, 1952

Milbreit, August (8 February 1864 - 28 January 1952)

August Milbreit, age 87, of 118 Hewett Street, died at 11:23 p.m. on Monday at the Neillsville Hospital.

Funeral services will be conducted on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. from the Georgas Funeral Home and at two o’clock from the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church. Interment will be made in the Neillsville City Cemetery. Rev. William Koehler will be the officiating clergyman.

August Milbreit was born on February 8, 1864, in Germany. At the age of nine years he came to the United States with his parents and they located at South Bend, Ind., where they remained for four years. He was employed in a factory at South Bend for some time. They then moved to Westfield when he was 13 years old. He worked as a farm hand and farmed from 1886 to 1900 in Wisconsin and Minnesota. In November, 1886, he was married to Augusta Wagner at Westfield. They came to Clark County in 1916 and located on a farm in Pine Valley. He left the farm, located on the River Road, and operated a small farm at the west edge of the city limits until 1918. He moved to the city in 1942, where he has since resided. He was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church.

He is survived by three sons, Fred Milbreit of Waupaca, John Milbreit of Davenport, Ia., and William Milbreit of Neillsville; three grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Othelia Janke of Oxford, Wis.; two half-sisters, Mrs. Ida Miller of Fox Lake and Mrs. Alvina Janke of Coloma; two half-brothers, Ferd Weisjohn of Neillsville and William Janke of the State of Washington.

He was preceded in death by his wife on November 20, 1935, and one sister, Mrs. Mathilda Meyer.