Farmer; Sec. 16; P. O. Galena:

Born in Germany in I852; his father died there in 1853; he came to this Co. with his mother the same year;

In 1854 she was married to Anton Pilz: she has six children ; Peter, Leonard, Jacob, Caroline, and Mary; her eldest daughter, Katherine, died in 1854; she owns 120 acres of land ; her father, Mr. Eisenhauer, was a soldier with the First Napoleon in all his campaigns; died in 1876, aged 96; they are members of the Lutheran Church.

Contributed by Lori Gilbert - 1878 History of Jo Daviess County