The Children of Carl and Mary Grantman

This is the nicest portrait of the children of Carl and Mary Grantman.   It was taken at the back of the cream brick house of August and Mary Luedtke on Butternut Road, Town of Lomira.  This house is still there.


From left to right,
Row 1: Minnie Voight, Mary Luedtke, Christine Waege.
Row 2: Anna Hayes, Lizzie Winter
Row 3: Fred, Charles, Henry, William

Carl Grantman German Obituary Translation

Thanks to my sister, Heidi Hayes, we now have a translation of the Carl Grantman German Obituary.  Here it is!

In the old age of 90 years and one month died on last Tuesday evening Carl Grantmann in Lomira, one of the oldest residents of the city. Herr Grantmann leaves behind a [undecipherable] numerous family, namely 3 sons, Heinrich, Friedrich and Wilhelm, 4 daughters, Frau Friedrich Waege, Frau Wilhelm Voight, Frau Wilhelm Winter and Frau Frank Hayes, 40 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren, as well as numerous other relatives and friends. The funeral [undecipherable, possibly found or and] great Sanctification prayers at the evangelical Salem Church and after at the Ebenezer Church took place. [Undecipherable] officiating were the pastors Huebner, Kiefhoefer, Kiefhoefer, and Reichert.  A choir of four pastors sang by memory (by heart) many songs at the grave.

Heidi also sent a great link to a webpage that translates the German characters.  Click on the link below to go there.

http://www.beerstein.net/articles/alpha.htm

Carl Grantman and Ebenezer Church

These two images are taken from the Ebenezer Evangelical United Brethern Church 1952 Centennial book.  The first image is Carl Grantman.   By the way, I believe this image is taken from the portrait in the previous blog post.  The second is a page from the back of the book with a memorial for Carl and Mary.  Almost all of the other memorials on the page are decendents.  

Carl and Mary Grantman Picture

Here is a picture of Carl and Mary Grantman.  This is a photo of the original portrait so the resolution is not great.  I hope someone will come to the reunion and bring an original!  Mary (Marie) died in 1889, so this portrait is older than that.  Carl died in 1916.  He outlived his two oldest children, Charles and Mary.

Mary Grantman died on 27 April 1889 of "abdominal inflammation after a 3 day illness."  She was born 25 May 1828, so she was 60 years old.  Carl Grantman died 16 August 1916 after an "illness of three months." He was born on 25 Dec 1825, so he was 90 years old.  The newspaper article says the funeral was held from the home of William Grantman and then from Salem Evangelical Church.  Burial took place at Ebenezer cemetery at Elwood Corners.  Carl Grantman was one of the charter members of Ebenezer church.  I'll do another post on that.

Presiding at his funeral were, Rev G W Reichert of Lomira, L F Kiehoefer of Fond du Lac, presiding elder of the Eau Claire district, Rev F W Huebner, and Rev Herman Prochnow of Milwaukee.  Rev Prochnow was married to Carl Grantman's granddaughter, Anna Waege.  The pallbearers were Henry Jr, John and Fred Grandman and Seymour Luedtke.

Below is a really crappy photo of a photo of Carl Grantman's obituary in the German language paper.  It is readable.  Notice the spelling.  Grantmann.  You can easily pick out the names of the children and Salem and Ebenezer churches and that he has 40 grand children and 30 great grandchildren.
 

Children of Carl and Mary Grantman (Grandman)

Carl and Mary had 9 children who made it to adulthood.  The first 4 were born in Germany, the next 2 were born in Indiana and the last two were born in Wisconsin.

In order of birth and with spouses names in parethesis

1.  Charles  (Ida Seefeld)
2.  Mary (August Luedtke)
3.  Wilhelmina, she was known as Minnie (William Voight)
4.  Christine (Fred Waege)
5.  Henry (Julia Steiner)
6.  Fred (Bertha Hayes)
7.  Elizabeth (William Winter)
8.  Anna (Frank Hayes)
9.  William (Margaret Burk)

August 2013 Reunion

A reunion for decendents of Carl and Mary Grantman of town of Ashford, County of Fond du Lac.  

We will meet on Saturday, August 10, 2013 from 1-4 pm at Trinity United Methodist Church in Lomira, Wisconsin.

We hope to make this an annual event!  Please come with your pictures, stories and any documents that you would like to share.  We will have a scanner and digital cameras to digitize your pictures and documents.  We will share these with all family members.

Please spread notice of this gathering to all decendants.  If you would like more information or would like to help with the organizing, please call me (MB Hayes) at 920 922-1060.  You can email me at mbhscfh@gmail.com    Let me know if you are coming!!