Kewaunee County Wisconsin Obituaries and Death Notices

Kewaunee County, Wisconsin
Obituaries and Death Notices

Frank Hamachek
Sheboygan Press – Saturday, 2 Feb. 1952; MZ - Submitted by FoFG

Frank Hamachek Jr.,63, prominent Kewaunee citizen, passed away Friday.

The deceased, who was president of the Hamachek Machinery Co. for 16 years and a former city alderman in Kewaunee, was the cousin of William Hamachek, 50 Lighthouse Ct.

Funeral services will be held in Kewaunee Monday.

Jacob Knlbanck
Jacob Knlbanck was fatally stabbed in the side with a knife by John Nemec in a drunken row at Tykolski's saloon, in the town of Franklin, Kewaunee county, Wednesday night. [Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Dane Co. Wis.) Tuesday, 31 Oct. 1882- Sub by Marla Zwakman]

Death of Hon. John Milton Read
On Wednesday evening, the 9th inst., John Milton Read, of Kewaunee, died in the 39th year of his age. Mr. Read was elected, last fall, a member of the Assembly, but owing to ill health he resigned the position before the session began, and went south in the hope of improvement. Finding no relief, he started for home, and reached as far as Louisville, Kentucky, of which city he was a native, born November 3, 1842, and there he breathed his last. His wife was with him doing all that a wife could do for his comfort. Mr. Read was a most excellent man, and had several warm friends in this city. He was a printer by trade, and was an employee in the STATE JOURNAL office in 1861, and from it enlisted in the 14th regiment, with which he remained till the close of the war, serving as private, sergeant major, adjutant, and assistant adjutant general of the brigade. He participated in the battle of Shiloh, Corinth, Nashville, the assault on Vicksburg, in the Red River campaign, and in the movements around Mobile; and was wounded at Vicksburg and the Spanish Fort, and taken prisoner at Corinth. He settled in Wisconsin in 1847, at Milwaukee, removing the following year to Manitowoc. After the close of the war, he went to Missouri and engaged for a short time in the publishing business, but returned to Manitowoc in 1867, and settled at Kewaunee in 1868. He has served as county superintendent two terms. During the years 1874 and 1875, he served in the State Senate, where he was esteemed as an industrious and useful member. He was ever ready to perform his duty in whatever capacity he was called to serve; and was a good citizen, whose death will be deeply deplored by his many friends in the State.
[Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Dane Co. Wis.) 15 Mar. 1881 - Sub. by Marla Zwakman]

J. Shedlowsky
Kewanuee, Wis., Oct. 17. - J. Shedlowsky, a sailor aboard the Ann Arbor No. 3, and a resident of West Kewaunee, was injured yesterday while unloading cars at Frankfort, Mich. He was caught between the cars and died from the effect last night. [Wisconsin Weekly Advocate (Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co. Wis.) 10 Oct. 1899 - Sub by Marla Zwakman]

Unknown
From the Kewaunee Enterprise, Oct. 3. --- On Friday last, a man employed on Ritter Pier, at Sandy Bay, fell from the dam and was instantly killed. He was a native of Vermont. [Weekly Wisconsin Patriot (10 Oct. 1860) - Sub by Marla Zwakman]

R. L. Wing
KEWAUNEE, Wis., March 2. - Attorney R. L. Wing, of this city, died yesterday of Bright's disease, after an illness of about three days. The deceased was born in Oneida county, N.Y., in 1832, and came to Wisconsin in 1848. He served during the war as orderly sergeant in the twenty-first and twenty-third Wisconsin volunteer infantry, and at the time of his death was ex-senior vice commander of the Wisconsin G.A.R. He was also a prominent member of the I.O.O.F., Free Masons and Temple of Honor. While returning from the state encampment of the G.A.R. last week, he contracted a severe cold which resulted in his death. He leaves a wife and son, G. W. Wing, who is probate judge of this county.Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Dane Co. Wis.) 8 Mar. 1889 - Sub by Marla Zwakman]