HE WAS BORN DEC. 22, 1852 OR 1846 IN OLD GERMANY, NOW IN POLAND. HE ARRIVED IN U.S. DEC. 19, 1870 ON SHIP HANSA FROM BREMEN PORT. (= MICHAEL GRABOWICZ WHICH IS POLISH VERSION OF THE NAME). SURNAME IS ALSO SPELLED GRABOWITCH & GRABOWISCH ETC... IN RECORDS & CENSUSES. I THINK HIS FATHER MAY HAVE BEEN BORN IN KONITZ, WEST PRUSSIA. MICHAEL'S FIRST WIFE WAS AUGUSTA WENTZLAFF / WENTZLOFF. HE MARRIED HER MAY 5, 1874 IN GREEN ISLE, SIBLEY CO., MINN. SHE DIED IN CHILD BIRTH THERE DEC. 14, 1882. SHE WAS BORN IN KONITZ ?, WEST PRUSSIA OCT. 5, 1856. DTR. OF GOTTLIEB OR CHARLES WENTZLAFF & ROSENA LUTZ OR ZUTZ OF LEIPZIG, WEST PRUSSIA. AUGUST MARRIED A 2ND TIME FRIEDERICKE CHRISTIANIA (MUELLER) RENNEWANTZ APRIL 16, 1885 IN MCLEOD CO., MINN. ALSO A MARRIAGE APRIL 6, 1885 IN SIBLEY CO., MINN. TO FREDERICKA CHRISTINA KERMANTZ. = TWO PHONETIC SPELLINGS IN MINN. MARRIAGE INDEX. THERE IS A AUGUST MUELLER 8-1-1831 - 11-17-1913 & SOPHIE MARIA MUELLER 11-8-1842 - 7-24-1890 BOTH BURIED IN ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH CEM. GREEN ISLE, MINN. WHERE MICHAEL A. GRABOWITZ FIRST WIFE IS BURIED. THEY ARE POSSIBLY RELATIVES ? MIChAEL AUGUST DIED GRABOWITZ DIED IN HEIGHT OF LAND TWP, BECKER CO., MINN. NATURALIZATION RECORDS SAY'S HE MOVED TO JONESBORO OR WALLDENBURG, ARKANSAS FOR A WHILE. THEN MOVED BACK. MICHAEL AUGUST GRABOWITZ DTR. MRS. ABBY SCHULTZ IS BURIED IN LAKEWOOD CEM. IN CROSBY,CROW WING CO., MINN. NEXT TO HER 2ND HUSBAND FRED SCHULTZ. THE FAMILY ON 1900 CENSUS IN HEIGHT OF LAND TWP. IS MICHAEL GRABOBITZ & WIFE & CHILDREN & 7 OF HIS WIFE RENNEWANZ CHILDREN BY HER FIRST MARRIAGE. = RENAWONTZ IN CENSUS. HE MARRIED MRS. FRIEDERICKA CHRISTINA (MUELLER) RENNEWANZ IN 4-6-1885 IN BOTH SIBLEY & MCLEOD CO. MINNESOTA.
A SON AUGUST GRABOWITZ IS WORKING ON A FARM IN SIBLEY COUNTY MINN. ON A ZUTZ FARM.. POSSIBLY HIS GRANDPARENTS FARM? MARTIN WM. JOHNSON BELVIDERE, ILLINOIS. GRT. GRT. GRANDSON & DTR. TARA ANN JOHNSON GTR. GRT. GRT. GRAND DTR.