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Gustave Witzke

14 Oct 1850 – 19 Sep 1911

Birth14 Oct 1850
Death19 Sep 1911
CemeteryTrinity Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Cemetery
Bremen , Wabasha County , Minnesota , USA
Added byRL (Bob) Nielsen on 05 Sep 2008
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29588329

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Baptism Record: Taufen 1844-1874, Pempersin, Kr. Flatow (Provinz Westpreußen) (Germany, Archion.de), Dig. img. 30 of 146, entry 280. Born 14 Oct 1850 Sittnow, baptized 20 Oct 1850… Gustav Witzke, son of August Witzke & Juliana Knopf, sponsors were Carl Lockstaedt?, Jgsl.; Eleonore Tarnow, Jgfr; and Wilhelmine Seehauer/Seehaver, Jgfr. [ https://www.archion.de/p/9306c89e4b]. ∼ Gustav was a son of August and Julianna (Knopf) Witzke, Born in Sittnow, Kreis Flatow, Westpreussen, Preußen (Poland today). He married Pauline (Tesmer) Witzke 12 Dec 1875 in Jastrzembke Colonie, Kreis Flatow, Westpreussen, Preußen. Pauline was a daughter of Friedrich Tesmer and Anna Elizabeth Schmidt, born 10 Oct 1858 in Skoraczewo, Kreis Wirsitz, Provinz Posen, Westpreussen, Preußen. ∼ Gustav, his wife Pauline, and daughter Anna emigrated from Prussia (today Poland) to the U.S. in April 1880; arriving in New York on the steamship S.S. Ohio. They initially settled in Wausau, Wisconsin for several years and then moved to the small town of Hammond, Wabasha Co, Minnesota. ∼ Following the death of Gustav, Pauline and four children (Olga, Gus, Laura, and Esther) moved to Avoca, Nebraska in 1911, to live with her daughter Ella and her husband Bill. Pauline is buried in Avoca Cemetery, Avoca, Nebraska. ∼ Gustav's older brother, Johann Daniel Reinhold Witzke , was a minister of the German Evangelical Synod of North America and is buried at St Lucas Community Cemetery near Lake Elmo, Minnesota. A Witzke family history is available online at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rlnielsen .

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