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Old Franklin Township Historical Society – Newsletter – June 2010 – Page 1

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June 2010 - Volume 4, Issue 1

Society Events

Our group will be at the Brat Stand July 9th & 10th in the Village of Plain. Funds raised from this event will go towards the continuing refurbishing of the old township hall. We will be serving the following:

• Brats or Chili dogs $2.50 & Hot dogs $2.00

• Soda $1.00

The doors of the hall will be open Sunday, July 25th during the 3-Day Celebration. The hall will also be open several other times this summer, but dates haven’t been set. We will post in the Home News and at http://www.townoffranklinhistoricalsociety.com/ when dates have been decided. The theme for this year’s display will be the 1930’s. Looking for old photos, kitchenware, clothing or anything that brings back memories of the depression. Please consider loaning or donating items for the display.

We will have our annual Chili Supper in early November. Again when the date has been set it will be posted in the Home News and at http://www.townoffranklinhistoricalsociety.com/.

Hall Renovation Renovation to the old town hall, which serves as our museum and office is restricted somewhat by funds that we raise through the brat stand and our annual chili supper. With our “Business Building Donation Drive” we were able to raise $2200. This summer we will replace the old tile to the front of the basement wall with stone facing similar to what we used next to the village well house and the windows to that wall will be removed & frames rebuilt.


Memberships

IndividualBeth, Gene - Rock Springs, WI Beth, Karen - Rock Springs, WI Bittner, Lucille - Reedsburg, WI Blau, Conrad - Waunakee, WI Blau, Larry - Plain, WI Diehl, Judi - Plain, WI Geishert, Jim - Loganville, WI Haller, Michael - Baraboo, WI Hetzel, Francis - Plain, WI

Liegel, Marion - Plain, WI Meise, Sue – Spring Green, WI Weth, Gloria - Rotonda West, FL Ruhland, James H. - Northglenn, CO Schuette, William - Reedsburg, WI Setwyn, Eugene - Reedsburg, WI Stiemke, Sandra - Loganville, WI Weiss, Elvy - Plain, WI

Family Blau, Patricia - Spring Green, WI Burmester, Dean & Marian - LaValle, WI Bussan, Roger DDS - Plain, WI Dischler Marilyn - Plain, WI Feiner, Rudy & Ilene - Plain, WI Floerke, Ernest & Marcille - Plain, WI Hausner, Eugene & Georgene - Spring Green, WI Holston, Byron & JoAnn - Plain, WI Kraemer, Bob & Betty - Plain, WI Kraemer, Gary & Marcia - Spring Green, WI Liegel, Allen & Joann - Madison, WI

Liegel, Laurence & Gail - Eau Claire, WI Liegel, Walter & Pamela - Loganville, WI Lins, David & Carol - Plain, WI Nachreiner, Ferdie & Mel - Plain, WI Nachreiner, Jerome & Evelyn - Plain, WI Nachreiner, Richard & Mary France - Plain, WI Neider, Jim & Marie - Plain, WI Ruhland, Marvin & Kathy - Cross Plains, WI Schmid, Eugene & Helen - Plain, WI Setzke, Mark & Diana - Sauk City, WI

Sponsors Alt, Eugne & Doris - Middleton, WI 53562 Bettinger, Edmund & Sharon - Plain, WI Gruber, Bill & Shirley - Plain, WI Cockrem, Michael - Madison, WI Danelski, Dorie - Eugene, OR Gundry, Rita - Fall Creek, WI Ganske, Joanne - Middleton, WI Kraemer, Jennifer & Bill - Plain, WI

Kraemer, Norm & Louise - Plain, WI Kraemer, Tom & Soni - Plain, WI Kraemer, Victor - Plain, WI Liegel, Mary Jayne - Plain, WI Lins, Dan & Teresa - Plain, WI Lomasney, Gerald & Magdalene - Plain, WI Diana's day care (Setzke) - Sauk City, WI Straka, Jim and Lori - Loganville, WI

The society thanks everyone for their support. We will continue this summer with the renovation of the old town hall, which serves as our museum and office. We would like to thank the below for their donations towards this endeavor. Business Building Donation Drive The Peoples Community Bank 1065 Main Street Plain, WI 53577 (608) 546-2810 Liegel, Edward & Associates S8552 Valley View Road Loganville, WI 53943-9743 Frautschi, John J Family Foundation Inc 303 Lakewood Blvd Madison, WI 53704 The Kraemer Co. 820 Wachter Avenue Plain, WI 53577 Hausner, Hermine E8985 County Road B Sauk City, WI 53583-9668 (608) 544-2303 Spring Green Pharmacy P.O. Box 69 Spring Green, WI 53588 Green Acres P.O. Box 635 Sauk City, WI 53583 Rural Mutual Insurance Dave Zwettler PO Box 906 Spring Green, WI 53588 River Valley Vet Clinic E5721 Hwy B Plain, WI 53577 Plain Kwik Stop 995 Wachter Avenue Plain, WI 53577 Foster Plumbing & Repair LLC. E5270 Hwy. WC Spring Green, WI 53588 Spring Green Vision Center, Inc. Jeffery L. Vodak, O.D

150 East Jefferson Street Spring Green, WI 53588-8000 Plain Cenex Consumer Co-Op P.O. Box 608 Sauk City, WI 53583


History Page Since this year’s theme of the old hall display is the 1930’s, here are a few noteworthy items taken from the “Sauk County Schools Annual 1936-1937”.

Sauk County Schools Annual 1936-1937 Town of Franklin Supervisor: Joseph M. Blau, Spring Green Clerk: George L. Wiest, Plain Village of Plain Supervisor: Al Schutz Clerk: John B. Brechtl Directory of Schools in the Town on Franklin Oak View School, Loganville, R.3 – Isaac Metcalf, teacher – Officers: Wm. J. Kaun, Carl Volk & George Nieman all with a Loganville, R.1 address. Valley View School, Loganville, R.2 – Teresa Volk, teacher – Officers: Walter Liegel, Frank Schweitzer & John H. Liegel all with a Loganville, R.1 address. Fern Hill School, Plain, R.2, – Closed, no teacher – Officers: Anton Young, Albert Thering & Wm. Emer all with a Plain, R.2 address. Sunny Side School, Plain – Angela Beck, teacher – Officers: Lawrence Hetzel & Anthony Rick with Plain addresses & Alois Beck a Spring Green address. Edge Wood School, Loganville, R.1 – Molly Fargen, teacher – Lawrence Krey, Frank Lins & George Schlickau all with a Loganville, R.1 address. Pleasant View School, Spring Green, R.1 – Closed, no teacher – Officers: Rudolph Feiner, Ed. Ederer & Sylvester Kraemer all with a Spring Green, R.1 address. Meadow View School – Closed, no teacher – Officers: Leo L. Weiss, Jos. F. Laubmeier & Herman Marklein all with a Plain, R.1 address. Rural School Graduates – 1936 – Town of Franklin Elizabeth Mears, Edith Niemann, Mary Volk (Oak View) John Niemann (Valley View) Richard Brechtl (Edgewood) Sauk County Fair 1936 Pleasant View School was contest winners in Junior Chorus, Senior Chorus, Rhythm Band, & Harmonica Band. Edgewood School was a contest winner in the 100 Yd. Relay. Oak View School was contest winners in the 200 Yd. Relay, Horse Show, Ball Throw, Kitten Ball & Class-B Harmonica Band

Thanks for all the community support we have received!


Copies of our first publication “May 21st 1918 Cyclone – A Path of Destruction” are still available. For more information visit our website at http://www.townoffranklinhistoricalsociety.com/ or write the society at Old Franklin Township Historical Society; 915 Wachter Ave.; P.O. Box 218; Plain, Wisconsin 53577; email: [email protected]. You may also contact any of our officers listed on page seven of this newsletter.

From the President’s desk….

Greetings community members:

The time has arrived for our Society to share our winter inspirations with you. It has been a busy time and hope you all are able to take a look at our exhibit for the 1930’s in our museum room. As your President I had the wonderful opportunity of presenting the early history of Plain to the fourth and fifth graders at the Plain Elementary School. We covered the early 1800’s thru the 1918 cyclone. Thanks to the families that donated the Indian baskets and their historical documentation the children were able to have several hands on exhibits. The Indian history of our community and surrounding areas proved most interesting to the students. Those of you that experienced the cyclone and have shared that with us may be sure we are busy passing it on to our community youngsters. We are still looking for persons of community interest and importance, for our lower level gallery. The Pat Walsh family has joined us with some very interesting family history data. Your Historical Society has acquired Past Perfect software for Researching, Reporting and Cataloging Collections. If you are looking for some interesting and stimulating hours to fill your free time, the society would love to have you on board. Have a very cool, relaxing, and historical summer.

Until next time…… Mary Frances Nachreiner email: [email protected]

“A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.”

~Thomas Jefferson, September 8, 1817

On the following page we would like to share several of the thank you cards sent to

President, Mary Frances (Bettinger) Nachreiner, for her recent history presentation to the

4th & 5th graders at the Plain Elementary School. Mary Frances also read sections from

the “Genealogy Of The Bettinger Family.” Note that the 1st student picked up on

Elizabeth Bettinger living to be 100 years old. Elizabeth was actually Mary Frances’s

grandmother. The 1918 cyclone seemed to be another event that struck the children’s

memories. It is amazing that these students remembered so much from the

presentation.



Recent donations to our society include:1) Barbara Ann Schutz has donated a copy of her book, “The Descendants of Michael and

Anna Catherine Schutz.” to our historical society. 2) Bonita (Laubmeier) Albrecht donated the Marriage Certificate of her grandparents

Rudolph Feiner & Mary Ederer and two unidentified portraits. The portraits belonged to her grandmother.

3) A large rag rug 10ft. x 11ft. donated by Sharon Mary Schillinger Mazaheri. The rug belonged to her grandparents Alois & Katherine (Bindl) Hutter. Sharon & her husband, Mort, have recently moved from North Dakota to Arizona.

4) Dr. Fowler’s medical instruments donated by Richard & Mary Frances Nachreiner. 5) JoAnn Schanke donated a pair of vases. Given to JoAnn by her Godmother Frances

Bindl. (Herman Bindl’s wife). Frances received them from mother-in-law. Frances thought they probably were sold at the church picnic for the parish after the tornado in 1918. JoAnn Schanke also donated a jar of glass from the 1918 cyclone. The glass was found when they built the house at 1600 St. Luke Ave., now owned by Alois Bindl. The stained glass windows were large, thus lots of glass!

6) A picture of the village of Plain before Westbrook was built, donated by The Peoples Community Bank, Plain, WI.

7) Numerous items donated by Rita T. Kaiser in honor of Sylvester & Laura Nachreiner.

• Rose Reuschlein’s braided rug

• Graduation gift of Sacred Heart of Jesus & Mary given by Sr. Demetria to Laura Nachreiner.

• Blessed Mother (holy water fount) given by Clara Beck to Alma McCarville.

• Sand, gravel & flour sacks.

• Roller towel used in wash room of family farm.

• Sewing basket made from pine needles used in mending socks.

• Indian basket that Bertha Nachreiner purchased from the Indians when passing through.

• Curling iron heated on wood stove to curl hair.

• Papers & material from 1776 to 1996 prepared by Laura Nachreiner.

• 2-piece cross used on casket of Clarence Herbert infant son of Sylvester & Laura Nachreiner

• Thermometer that perhaps belonged to Rita’s grandpa Joseph Bandel, doctor during the Civil War.

The above donations are just a small listing of the items that have been donated in the past year. We apologize if we have missed your donation. Please remind us & it will be listed in our next newsletter.

Would you like to submit articles for our newsletter…? Do you have any unanswered questions dealing with local history or family genealogy? Let us know and we will print it in our next newsletter. Just email the society at [email protected] or contact Marian (Ruhland) Burmester at [email protected] - phone: 608-985-8063.


One of our members, Dorie Danelski, has spent the last couple of years working on 3 family histories. The books are printed on acid-free paper, and have a sturdy plastic ring binding. If you are interested in any of these, phone Doris Danelski, (541) 686-2155, or write to 2425 S. Louis Lane, Eugene, Oregon 97405; E-Mail: [email protected] The Hehenberger - Hemberger and Egger Family - $32.00 (3 copies remaining for sale) The earliest know ancestors of this family are Georg and Sarah Hehenberger of Scharten, Austria. Their son, Michael Hehenberger, emigrated to the USA in 1852. Michael married Marie Egger, an immigrant from Aarwangen, Switzerland, who arrived in 1852. Both Michael and Marie were previously married. Michael brought a son, John Hehenberger (age 3), with him to America. The Hutter, Engel & Born Families - $49.00 (10 copies remaining) Volume I The HUTTER family emigrated to the USA between the years 1855 to 1867 from two villages in Bavaria, Hochabrunn and Ast, Germany. They did not all emigrate together. The earliest to arrive was Johann Evangelist Hutter with his 2nd wife, Maria (Barbara) Bindl. Johann Evangelist’s first wife, Eva Margaretha Malterer, died in 1842. Volume 2 ENGEL & BORN FAMILY: The second volume concerns the descendants of Anna Born of Twann, Canton Bern, Switzerland. She was married twice. With her first husband, Daniel Engel, she had 3 daughters; Mary Ann who married Solomon Cramer of Plain, Wisconsin; Rosina, who married Johann Baptist Hutter; and Caroline, who married twice – first to Lorenzo Bow Needham and then to Georg Hutter. After the death of Daniel Engel in Switzerland, Anna Born emigrated to the USA in 1844 with her three Engel daughters, where she married her cousin, John Ulli Born. John and Anna Born had four daughters, three of whom married: Mary Martha Born wed Heinrich Luther; Elizabeth wed George Claridge; and Margaret married Frederick Schoenmann. Names that are prominent in the Hutter book are: Hutter, Nachreiner, Claridge, Cramer, Bauer, Ruhland, Thering, Meixelsperger, Schoenmann, Aron, Bettinger, Brechtl, Neuheisel, Reuschlein and Hehenberger–Hemberger. The Reuschlein & Thering Family - $40.00 The history of the Reuschlein family was published in 2006, as a 2-volume set. Seven copies of this genealogy and history are still available for sale. The family of Heinrich Josef Reuschlein emigrated to America from Baden-Württemberg, Germany in 1852. They settled first in Burlington, Wisconsin; but then the family moved to Plain, Wisconsin except for two brothers who married and stayed in Burlington. Heinrich Josef had five children; but only Theresia, Maria Eva, and Sebastian had descendants who survived more than one generation.

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