Obit: Schwarze, Herman Heinrich (1838 - 1896)
 

Contact: Audrey Klocke Heintz
Email: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
 

Surnames: SCHWARZE VIOLE VOLLRATH KLOCKE

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Herman Heinrich Schwarze was known as "Henry" and he married Louise Friederike Caroline Viole, November 18, 1863 in Lippe-Detmold, Germany (near Hanover). They had a son, Herman August Schwarze who married Mary Matilda Vollrath April 10, 1907 in Warner, Clark, WI at the German Reformed Church. Mary and August had one son named Alvin O. Schwarze who was a well known photographer in the Greenwood area. Herman Heinrich Schwarze was a half brother to my great grandfather, Hans Herman, and his twin brother, Johannes Conrad Schwarze. The three brothers emigrated from Brosen, Lippe-Detmold, Germany to the USA together in 1867, first residing in Sheboygan,WI and later helped to establish a Lippe-Detmold community in Warner township. (See the Warner Community page for a description of Lippe-Detmold and a history of its settlers in America).