Calumet County Wisconsin
Obituaries
 

Hellen Greverns
Source: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark County, Wis.) Thursday, 18 June 1903; transcribed by Marla Zwakman

Fred Bredemeyer received a dispatch last Friday, announcing the death of his sister, Mrs. Wm. Greverns, at Appleton, and that the funeral would be held at New Holstein, Sunday. He took the train, Saturday morning, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. G. M. Thompson, to attend the funeral. *** Note: Mrs. Greverns’ date of death was 11 June 1903; the date and her first name are from Wisconsin Deaths, 1820-1907 and her surname is spelled as Graverus.

Lester Koerth
Herald Times Reporter (Manitowoc, Wis.) Saturday, 9 June 1973; transcribed by Marla Zwakman

Lester F. Koerth, 53, of Rt. 1, Brillion, died Friday at home.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Wieting Funeral Home, Brillion. The Rev. Calmer Overlien will officiate and burial will be in Community Cemetery, Brillion.

Mr. Koerth was born June 28, 1919, at Manitowoc, son of the late John Koerth and Lillian Koerth. He married Mildred Eichhorst Feb. 22, 1941, at Morrison. He was a member of the Rural United Methodist Church, Brillion.

Survivors include his wife, two sons, Darwin (Skip), of California and Larry, at home, five daughters, Mrs Kenneth (Sandra) Schisel and Mrs. David (Kathy) Les Monde, of Manitowoc, Mrs. Gary (Bonnie) Torsch, of Reedsville, Misses Terrie and Vickie, at home: a brother, John, of West Bend; a sister, Mrs. Walter (Phyllis) Ackerman, of Neenah; his mother, of Oshkosh and six grandchildren. His father preceded him in death.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. Sunday until the hour of service Monday.

Etta Mason
Source: Marathon County Register (Unity, Marathon County, Wis.) Friday, 16 Oct. 1953; contributed by Ron Flink & transcribed by Marla Zwakman

Mrs. Arthur Mason, 75, of Marshfield, died Sunday morning at 7:30 a.m. in the Bethel Convalescent home. Mrs. Mason has been ill since May and her death was caused by a stroke.

Etta Cook was born April 27, 1878 at Gravesville and was married to Arthur Mason June 25, 1902 at Unity. She moved to Unity with her parents as a small child and lived here until 1923, then lived in Marshfield until 1929, in West Allis until 1949, and then lived with her son, Walter, at Menomonee Falls until April 1952, when they moved back to Marshfield. She received her education in Unity and belonged to the Rebecka Lodge of West Allis.

The body reposed at the Rembs Funeral Home, Marshfield, until Wednesday when it was taken to the Unity Methodist Church to repose from noon until 1:30 when services were conducted by Rev. Schall. Burial was made in the Unity cemetery.

Surviving are her husband, three sons, Glen and Melvin, Thiensville; Walter, North Prairie; two daughters, Mrs. Joe (Leta) Niehaus, Marshfield; and Mrs. Robert (Mildred), Minear, Coolidge, Ariz.; three brothers, George and Walter Cook, Unity; and Raymond Cook, Marathon; two sisters, Mabel Cook, Chicago; and Mrs. Andrew Tollefson, Solon Springs. There are 11 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were a son, two brothers and a sister.

Capt. Oren Raney Potter
Source: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark County, Wis.) Thursday, 15 Nov. 1900; transcribed by Marla Zwakman

Capt. O. R. Potter died at his home, in Calumet county, last Friday, about 87 years of age. Mr. Potter was at one time largely interested here, having at one time owned and run the Commercial House, and has owned a saw mill or two, in this vicinity; and a grist mill in this city. The old gentleman had hosts of friends, here, who will regret to learn of his death. His only son, Legare Potter, resides at Neillsville, a wife and two daughters also survive him.
*** Note: Capt. Potter’s first and middle names are from Wisconsin Deaths, 1820-1907.

John W. Quinney
Source: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for the Years 1857 and 1858; Volume 4; Madison, Wisconsin (1859) pages 309-311; submitted by Marla Zwakman

DEATH OF JOHN W. QUINNEY

Our correspondent has sent us a truthful and succinct narrative of the prominent events in the life of JOHN W. QUINNEY, which we subjoin. We are requested to state, that the friends of the deceased would be gratified if the New York Tribune and the Evangelist would copy this obituary notice.—Fond du Lac Union, Aug. 9, 1855.

JOHN W. QUINNEY, ex-Stockbridge Indian Chief, died at his residence in Stockbridge, Wisconsin, upon the morning of the 21st of July, 1855, after having been in a state of decline for about one year. His death is deeply felt and mourned by his people, as he has been to them what HENRY CLAY and DANIEL WEBSTER were to the American people. He was among them a great man, and to them, the great has fallen. No member, in the history of the Stockbridge tribe, has been his equal in usefulness, in penetration of mind, and soundness of judgment.

When a boy, he was one of three who received a common English education, under the patronage of the United States, being placed under the tuition of a Mr. CALEB UNDERBILL, of Westchester county, N. Y., where he pursued his studies with alacrity and great proficiency. By degrees he gained the confidence of his people, until almost the entire national business rested upon him. In 1822, he, with two others, formed a deputation to Green Bay, where a treaty was made and concluded with the Menomonees, by which was purchased all the Green Bay lands, designed for the future home of the New York Indians, he procured, in 1825, the passage of a law through the New York State Legislature, to give the Stockbridge tribe full value for their lands, which remained to them in that State, and which enabled them subsequently to remove themselves to Green Bay. This law is memorable as being the first ever passed by the New York Legislature to give an Indian tribe full value for their lands. The lands of the New York Indians, purchased of the Menomonees, being endangered by a re-purchase, made by the United States officers, he was sent in 1828 to petition Congress, in behalf of the
United New York tribes, for the recognition of their rights to such lands. He, however, failed, and the Stockbridge tribe lost their home at Kaukana, upon the Fox river, the General Government barely allowing them $25,000 for their improvements.

Mr. QUINNEY seeing this, entered at once into a new plan, and finally, after great labor and protracted efforts, he obtained, in 1832, the grant of two townships upon the east side of Lake Winnebago, where the tribe still reside. About the year 1833 he framed a Constitution, as the basis of a tribal government,which was adopted by his people, and led to the abandonment of hereditary power, and a choice of republicanism. In 1846, he effected a repeal of an act passed by Congress in 1843, which made citizens of the tribe, and had his people restored back to enjoy their own customs and government, and obtained for them $5,000 on account of their old claims. The tribe made a treaty in 1843, in which he took a prominent part, the
Government stipulating to find the tribe a new home west of the Mississippi, and to remove them thither within a certain time, but after many, but unsuccessful attempts, on their part, to select and remove, in which Mr. QUINNEY engaged with untiring zeal, he finally conceived the plan of getting back the township of Stockbridge. Efforts were immediately commenced, which have finally terminated in the formation of a new treaty, by which the Government cede back to the tribe their old home. In 1854, he succeeded in the passage of a law by Congress, which gave him a fee simple title to 460 acres of land in Stockbridge. At the election held in 1852, he was chosen Grand Sachem of the tribe, which office he honorably filled for three years, encouraging education and everything calculated to improve his people. Thus, it will be seen, that the public labors of Mr. QUINNEY have not only been many, but very important to his tribe. No business of a public nature, which he deemed important, but what he entered into it with all his soul, even to the neglect and sacrifice of his own private matters. His whole aim seems to have been to establish himself and people upon some permanent home. He was slow in business, but sure. His purposes and plans were original, deep and far-searching; his disposition mild, his demeanor that of a gentleman. None could converse with him, or be in his presence any length of time, and not be convinced that they had been with an amiable and great man. In the death of such a one, the tribe sustain an irreparable loss. He leaves a vacancy which will not soon be filled.
A MEMBER OF THE TRIBE.
STOCKBRIDGE, July 28th, 1855.

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