Friedrich WITTE
- BIRTH: 28 Oct 1813; Prussia
- DEATH: 04 Dec 1890; presumably Wisconsin, USA
- BURIAL: Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery; Lebanon, Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Family 1: Caroline //
- MARRIAGE: Bef. 1850
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Notes
Updated October 21, 2023. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):(1) 1850 United States Census for Wisconsin, Dodge Co., Lebanon: September 21, 1850.
Frederick WITTA is head of household, married to Caroline [maiden surname unknown] WITTA. He is 37 years old, born in Germany and is a farmer. Children in the household are August, Bernadina, Albert, and William. An older couple of unknown relationship also resides with the family, Heir and Engel WITTE.
(2) 1860 United States Census Wisconsin, Dodge Co., Lebanon (Watertown Post Office): Page 78; July 6, 1860.
Frederick WITT is head of household,. He is 46 years old, born in Prussia, and is a farmer with real estate valued at $1,500 and personal estate valued at $300. Children in the household are Bernhardine, Albert, William and Herman.
(3) 1870 United States Census for Wisconsin, Dodge Co., Town of Lebanon (Watertown Post Office): page 18; June 20, 1870.
Frederick WITT is head of household. He is 56 years old, born in Prussia and a farmer with real estate valued at $8,000 and personal estate valued at $1,500. His son Herman WITT resides with him.
(4) 1880 United States Census for Wisconsin, Dodge Co., Lebanon: Supervisor's District 1; Enumeration District 17; page 17; June 14 and 15, 1880.
Frederick WITTE is head of household, a widower. He is 66 years old and a farmer. He was born in Prussia as were his parents. Frederick's son Herman and family (wife Josephine, daughters Eliza and Ella) also reside in the household.
(5) Find a Grave via Ancestry.com
- Name: Friedrich WITTE
- Birth: Oct. 28, 1813
- Death: Dec. 4, 1890
- Burial: Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery; Lebanon, Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA
- Memorial ID: 34098763
- Note: (1) Inscription reads Vater (=father) and Mutter (=mother); (2) The record lists Friedrich's wife as Caroline HOYER (Mar. 22, 1808 - Jun. 5, 1855)
(6) The Wisconsin Historical Society, "Old World Wisconsin" outdoor museum of rural life, Eagle, Waukesha Co., WI, visited August 10, 2002. Information digitally photographed and transcribed from background notes kept on-site at the Koepsell Farm exhibit. Pages 89-90.
- "The Frederick WITTE family immigrated to the Town of Lebanon, Dodge County [Wisconsin] sometime between 1846 and 1850. Initial German settlement at Lebanon had taken place in 1843, when twelve families of Oderbrücker and a few Pomeranians decided to settle further west of their fellow countrymen who had chosen to establish themselves at Kirchhayn, Freistadt, and Cedarburg..."
- "Census listings explain that in 1850 the 37 year old Witte, his wife Caroline (40 years), their four children, August (10 years), Bernardine (8 years), Albert (7 years), and William (4 years) were sharing their home with an older couple (probably his parents...) on a Town of Lebanon [Dodge Co., WI] farm valued at $800. The entire family being native Germans suggests an arrival date of no earlier than 1846, as the youngest child was four years old at the time of the census..."
- "By 1860 the Frederick WITTE farm in Section 30 of the Town of Lebanon [Dodge Co., WI] consisted of 120 acres. Farm value has increased to $1,500, with the family's personal estate rising to $300. Traditional Fachwerk style [a type of half-timbered architecture] buildings used by WITTE included his house, horse stable, and threshing barn... The census reports a fourth son, whom they named Herman, was born in 1852. Frederick's mother, now 73 years old, continued to live with the family."