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Wilhelm Boldewahn had an older sister named Henrietta. We believe this is a picture of her on her brother William's farm in Oshkosh Wisconsin in the late 1920s.
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Henrietta Louise Boldewahn was born Nov 9, 1847 in the village of Gruenwald near Gramenz, Kreis Neustettin, Pommern. This is a copy of her baptism.
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We believe she came to the United States in 1870. Here is a Henriette Boldewahn arriving in New York on June 6, 1870 on the steamship Weser from Bremen. She is…
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A few months later (August 1870) she marries a German named Johann Schabloski in Oshkosh Wisconsin. Johann (John) arrived from Germany in the 1860s.
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10 years later they would be living on Nebraska Street with 4 children: Franz, Minnie, Anna and Maria. John worked in the saw mill.
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By 1900, Henrietta and her husband were living in Oshkosh and had 8 children. John worked as a day laborer.
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Henrietta and John would go on to have 10 children. Click above on the "Download" link to see a larger version of the family chart
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Henrietta Boldewahn Schoblaski's obituary March 1943 from the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern. "Aged woman is summoned by death. Mrs. Henrietta Schoblaski widow of…
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Henrietta Boldewahn Schoblaski's funeral notice March 1943.
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Henrietta Boldewahn & John Schoblaski's gravestone in Riverside Cemetary in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
