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Gustave Witzke

Gustave Witzke

Birth
Poland
Death
19 Sep 1911 (aged 60)
Hammond, Wabasha County, Minnesota, USA
Burial
Bremen, Wabasha County, Minnesota, USA Add to Map
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Son of August and Julianna (Knopf) Witzke, Born in Sittnow, Kreis Flatow, Westpreussen, Preussen (Poland today), Husband of Pauline (Tesmer) Witzke. Gustav, his wife Pauline, and daughter Anna immigrated from Germany (today Poland) to the U.S. in April 1880; arriving in New York on the steamship S.S. Ohio.


They settled in Wausau, Wisconsin for several years and then moved to 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.

Son of August and Julianna (Knopf) Witzke, Born in Sittnow, Kreis Flatow, Westpreussen, Preussen (Poland today), Husband of Pauline (Tesmer) Witzke. Gustav, his wife Pauline, and daughter Anna immigrated from Germany (today Poland) to the U.S. in April 1880; arriving in New York on the steamship S.S. Ohio.


They settled in Wausau, Wisconsin for several years and then moved to 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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  • Created by: RL (Bob) Nielsen
  • Added: Sep 5, 2008
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29588329/gustave-witzke: accessed ), memorial page for Gustave Witzke (13 Oct 1850–19 Sep 1911), Find a Grave Memorial ID 29588329, citing Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Cemetery, Bremen, Wabasha County, Minnesota, USA; Maintained by RL (Bob) Nielsen (contributor 47036655).