BioA: Schlegelmilch, Mr. and Mrs. Charles (54^th - 1959)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Schlegelmilch, Clark, Kasner, Zank, Goette, Meihack, Turner, Root, Huckstead 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) March 5, 1959

Schlegelmilch, Mr. and Mrs. Charles (54^th - 2 March 1959)

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schlegelmilch celebrated their 54^th wedding anniversary Sunday when four of their children surprised them for a party.  Attending were Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Schlegelmilch and children, Neillsville; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Clark and children, Alma Center; Mr. and Mrs. Emil Kasner and daughter, Glenda, of Arpin; and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Zank, of Christie.

Charles Schlegelmilch of Merrimac was married to Miss Bertha Goette of Prairie du Sac, March 2, 1905, at Merrimac.  They lived in Prairie du Sac until 1910, when they moved to Roxbury, near Sauk City, in Dane County.  In 1918, they moved to Clark County and purchased the Sylvester Root farm in the Town of Grant, located on Highway 10 just west of the Huckstead farm, where they have lived for 41 years.

Seven children were born to them: Violet, Mrs. Tony Meihack, died 10 years ago; Lillian, now Mrs. William Turner, Milwaukee; Alice, Mrs. Emil Kasner; Mildred, of Milwaukee; Hazel, Mrs. Albert Zank; Esther, Mrs. Richard Clark; and Norbert.