John Hoeffs in the news

The following are complied news clippings compiled by Bruce K. Paulson. I’ve selected the ones that mention John Hoeffs

April 10, 1886
Johnny Hoeffs has disappeared rather mysteriously, and there is suspicion that he has gone off to commit matrimony. Hope he will survive.

Oconto County Reporter
January 25, 1890
John Hoeffs and Albert Guerts are doing good work logging. They are banking about 10,000 feet of hemlock daily.

M. Ellinger took a job of putting in ties and posts for John Hoeffs and Albert Guerts on a four mile haul.

March 1, 1890
John Hoeffs, assisted by three other young fellows, hitched up a pair of oxen a few days ago, intending to break them in. They were greatly tickled thinking of the immense amount of fun they intended to get out of the operation. It was well they did their laughing in advance, for after the trip commenced the unruly bovines assumed control of the operations and did pretty much as they pleased, dumping boys and sleigh around promiscuously. After two or three ineffectual attempts to bring order out of chaos the boys gave it up for a bad job and restored the festive steers to their liberty.

October 22, 1897
Father Hoeffs and wife from Belle Plaine are here visiting their children, John Hoeffs and Mesdames Mary Sasse, Fred Luebeck, Albert Gernot and Julius Suring.

December 31, 1897
Mrs. Minnie SURING, wife of Louis SURING, died suddenly on Sunday, December 26, at 3:30 p.m., aged 37 years. The day before her death she appeared to be in the best of healthp she and the rest of the family having a picture taken of the family group in the afternoon after which they all took supper with the family of H. HANKWITZ and later drove to the school house where they enjoyed the festivities until a late hour, reaching home at 11 o'clock. About 3 o'clock a.m. she was taken sick and despite all efforts for her relief gradually sank until 3:30 in the afternoon and her spirit took its flight. The funeral occured on Tuesday afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev. KOHLAPP of Bonduel. At the conclusion of the funeral service the remains were conveyed to the Evangelical Association Cemetery near the school house in Dist.No. 1. The following friends and neighbors acting as pallbearers, Albert GERNOT, Fred LUEBECK, John HOEFFS , William BORK, Charles FIRGENS and Albert AHLERS. More than 50 teams were in the procession which followed the remains to the burying ground and a large number of people testified to the popularity of the dead lady. She leaves a husband and seven children.

January 28, 1898
Albert GERNDT and wife, Wm. SASSE and wife, Fred LUEBECK, John HOEFFS and Joe SURING and wife went down to Belle Plaine last Sunday to see Mr. HOEFFS who was very sick.

March 25, 1898
John Hoeffs, John Deede and Fred Guelker are hauling railroad ties to Suring.

August 19, 1898
John Hoeffs bought a 40 acre farm from Gabriel Houle for $600.00 and will take possession Sept. 1st.

May 26, 1899

John HOEFFS sold his farm of 80 acres to R. GIRP of the Town of Wash- ington for $2,000-00. Mr. HOEFFS has bought the Gabriel HOULE 40 acre farm for $584.00.

August 4, 1899
John Hoeffs has remodeled his house.
Fred Lueseck and John Hoeffs are hauling stones for the new iron bridge across Hayes brook near the town hall.

August 25, 1899
The steam threshing machines of John HOEFFS & Co. and Mike EHLINGER were set in operation on Monday. Grain is extra good.

January 12, 1900
John HOEFFS came home last Tuesday from Wabeno. He was afflicted with neuralgia. He went back again on Thursday.

August 23, 1901
John Hoeffs is repairing the Pecor bridge by Wm. Sommers

November 22, 1901
John Hoeffs, with his circular sawing outfit, is sawing wood from hardwood poles for August Raoloff.

December 26, 1902
John Hoeffs is sick in bead. This is bad luck for John as last week he lost his best horse.

April 8, 1904
John Hoeffs & Mrs. Gernot went to Welcome, Wis to visit a sick sister.

May 3, 1906
John HOEFFS began the construction of a new barn last Friday by a raising. It will be a good one when completed, 36x88 ft.

October 4, 1906
A pretty wedding took place at Hayes on Wed. Sept 26th when Miss Maria HOEFFS and Mr. Edward MASS were united in the holy bonds of matrimony at the Evangelical church. The bride was dressed in white, while the groom wore the conventional black. The bridesmaids were Elsa HOEFFS, sister of the bride, and ROSETTZ LUESECK and ANNA TIEGS, cousins of the bride, the groomsmen were Robert YAKEL, Henry MASS, cousins of the groom and William BORK, cousin of the bride. The church was beautifully decorated with evergreens and ribbon, while the house was decorated with bunting and flowers. After the ceremony the happy couple returned to the home of the bride's parents, Mr. & Mrs. John HOEFFS, where a bountiful wedding dinner was given to a large number of friends and relatives. Many beautiful and costly presents were received. The evening was spent in dancing.

*Bruce K. Paulson, “A Town of How Scrapbook,” http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wioconto/howtitle.htm, 21 December 2010.

Robert Adolf Yakel and Elsa Alvina Louisa Hoeffs wedding photo

15 May 1907

Robert Yakel and Elsa Hoeffs were united in marriage 15 May 1907 in How, Oconto County, Wisconsin.

Matthias and Maria Christman's Tombstone

While visiting Wisconsin, I had the opportunity to find the grave of Matthias Joseph Christman and Maria (Pelnar) Christman. They are buried in Holy Rosary Cemetery, Kewaunee, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin.

You can visit their graves online at Findagrave. Matt Christman and Maria Pelnar

William and Clara Strehlow's Tombstone

The below photo was taken by William Bowen for Findagrave.

Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Suring, Oconto County, Wisconsin

You can visit William Herman Strehlow and Clara A. (Guelker) Strehlow gravesite at Findagrave. Thank you to all of the wonderful volunteers at Findagrave!

John and Irene Wech's Tombstone

While visiting in Wisconsin, I got the grand tour of Wech, Schroeder, Christman, and Swintosky gravestone. Below is John George Wech and Irene Alma (Schroeder) Wech's gravestone. They are buried in Riverview Cemetery, Kewaunee, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin.

Here is their link on Findagrave: John and Irene.

Christopher Weinholdt's Naturalization

Familysearch.org. Illinois, Northern District Naturalization Index, 1840-1950  NARA publication 1285, Roll 179.

Wenzel Weck

I have been researching Wenzel Weck for many years. I had been mystified as to why I had not been able to locate his grave in the vicinity of Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, where he had been living in his later years.

I had seen his name documented in two different ways, "Wech" and "Weck", with "Weck" being the more common of the two. Yet I couldn't find a "Wenzel Wech" or a "Wenzel Weck" in all of Kewaunee County.

While looking for an entirely different name in cemetery records, I came across a "Václav Veck" with his wife "Katerina Veck". Both birth dates match what I had, except in more detail.

According to Wikipedia, "Václav" is a Czech male first name of Slavic origin, sometimes translated into English as Wenceslaus or Wenceslas.

Click here to visit Wenzel Weck's memorial page on findagrave.com. Click here to visit his wife, Katharine Sydlow's, memorial. I've placed a request for a volunteer to snap a photo of the grave. When the photo gets added I'll post an update.