Bio: Philpott, Lacy, Eileen and Family

Contact: Stan
Email: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Philpott, Straub, Melius, Goehring, Mehlos, Kenner

----Source: Sheboygan Press, The (Sheboygan, Wis.) Saturday, December 11, 1915, Page 8.

 The above is a picture of Mrs. Caroline Straub, of the town of Scott, her daughter, granddaughter, great grand-daughter and great-great-granddaughter. Sitting on the lap of her great, great grandmother, Mrs. Caroline Straub, is baby Eileen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lacy Philpott of Loyal, Clark County.

The mother, Mrs. Philpott, stands at the left. Next to her is the grandmother. Mrs. George Goehring, Clark county, and sitting beside the great, great grandmother is the great grandmother, Mrs. Philip Melius, of Scott. Baby Eileen is nine months old. She was horn at Loyal.

Mrs. Philpott, who was born at Silver Creek, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Goehring. She was born in 1854?.

Mrs. George Goehring, the grandmother of Eileen, was horn in the town of Scott on October 29, 1868 and was married in March, 1889. It was about sixteen years ago that Mr. and Mrs. Goehring removed from Silver Creek to Clark County. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Goehring.

grandmother, Mrs. Philip Melius was born in Wurtemberg Germany, December 6, 1844 and came to this country with her parents when only eight years old. Her mother was married twice and she was a child by the mother's first husband. She was married Philip Melius on January 14, 1862 and they came to the town in 1866.  To Mr. and Mrs. Melius twelve children were born, two of whom died in infancy.  The following are living: John Melius of Scott; Fred Melius, Scott; Mrs. George Goehring and Mrs. William Bartelt, Clark County; Mrs. Herman Mehlos, Sherman; William Melius and E. P. Melius, South Dakota; Henry Melius, Seattle washington; Mrs. D. A. Irvine, Cudahy; Mrs. Oscar Melius, Wauwatosa.

Mrs. Caroline Straub, nee Rapp, was born July 7, 1822, in Wurtemberg, Germany.  She was married to John Kenner in 1843, in Germany.  They came to this country in 1852, settling in the state of Pennsylvania.  A year later they removed to Wisconsin and settled in the town of Granville, near Milwaukee.  Their marriage was blessed by one child, a daughter, now Mrs. Philip Melius, the great grandmother of little Eileen.  Mr. Kenner died in Granville in 1864?  Mrs. Kenner on October 14, 1862, married Mr. John Straub.  In 1863 Mr. and Mrs. Straub removed to the town of Scott.  Mr. Straub died on January 19, 1881.  Mrs. Straub has been a resident of the town of Scott continuously since 1866.  On Tuesday, December 7, she was just ninety-three years and five months old.  Grandma Straub, as she is familiarly called, lives by herself on the Phillip Melius homestead, owned by on of her grandsons, John Melius, who by the way, is treasurer of the town of Scott.  Mr. Melius and family live only a short distance from the house where Grandma Straub lives.  They are very kind to her and are making the evening of her days as pleasant as possible.

Grandma Straub is, indeed a very remarkable person.  At past ninety-three she is bright and active.  She is still able to do her own work and far too independent to be a care to anyone.  She is amply able to take care of herself.  She is of an exceedingly lively and happy nature, and today she does not realize that she is fast approaching the one hundredth mile stone of her existence.  The allotted life of a human being is three score and ten, and someone has said that our brains are seventy-year clocks, but that of Mrs. Straub runs freshly on at more than four score and ten.  Nor must any one thing that she is blessed with a green old age because she has lived a life of ease.  Her life has been a useful one and full of toil.  Her neighbors near Batavia can recall how after she had passed her fiftieth year she was one of four who bound all a reaper could cut, and that reaper was not made that could catch her before she had all the grain on her side bount.  It could be said of any one that she rose with the lark and from day light till dark did what she had to do, it can be said of Grandma Straub.  Happy is she as she crowns "a youth of labor with an age of ease," happy as she stands at the threshold of the fifth generation bright in intellect, still able to minister to her own wants, almost unconscious of decay or coldness of age, still capable of warm friendship and love.

And happy is little Eileen with a mamma, a grandma, a great grandma and a great, great grandma to dote upon her.  How few babes are so rarely blessed!