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Harry Jensen

Birth: 28 Apr 1888
Dorchester, Clark County, Wisconsin, USA
Death: 17 Sep 1918 (aged 30)
Owen, Clark County, Wisconsin, USA
Burial: Green Wood Cemetery

Reedsburg, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA Add to Map
Plot: Plot: Blk 8 - Lot 25 - Gr1
Memorial ID: 137696912 View Source

Harry Jensen was a Station Agent in Clark County, WI. During a raid on the Krueger family farm by a sheriff's posse to apprehend the Krueger boys who were draft dodgers in rural Withee, Clark Co, WI, Harry was mortally wounded and differing accounts have him dying at the scene in Withee or at Owen, WI where he was taken for treatment. *No Death Certificate has been located at either Clark County nor at Madison, WI.
In, Cemetery Inscriptions of Sauk County, WI, Vol 9, p. 62 ©1987, Harry Jensen is stated to be buried with his wife in Greenwood Cemetery, based on "information obtained by the Wisconsin Old Cemetery Society from sources other than the headstone", but gives no further details.
*The newspaper account in the Stevens Point Journal dated September 16, 1918, says Harry was killed near Withee on September 14.

Harry Jensen was a Station Agent in Clark County, WI. During a raid on the Krueger family farm by a sheriff's posse to apprehend the Krueger boys who were draft dodgers in rural Withee, Clark Co, WI, Harry was mortally wounded and differing accounts have him dying at the scene in Withee or at Owen, WI where he was taken for treatment. *No Death Certificate has been located at either Clark County nor at Madison, WI.
In, Cemetery Inscriptions of Sauk County, WI, Vol 9, p. 62 ©1987, Harry Jensen is stated to be buried with his wife in Greenwood Cemetery, based on "information obtained by the Wisconsin Old Cemetery Society from sources other than the headstone", but gives no further details.
*The newspaper account in the Stevens Point Journal dated September 16, 1918, says Harry was killed near Withee on September 14.

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Lillian May Rose Barnett

1891–1942 (m. 1909)

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Created by: Daniel Rusch-Fischer
Added: Oct 24, 2014
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137696912/harry-jensen: accessed ), memorial page for Harry Jensen (28 Apr 1888–17 Sep 1918), Find a Grave Memorial ID 137696912, citing Green Wood Cemetery, Reedsburg, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA; Maintained by Daniel Rusch-Fischer (contributor 47170522).

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