Individual Details

After Grandpa Gartmann's (Joseph Anton) death in 1908 the Garmtann family in St. Croix county lost contact with the the Gartmann family in Switzerland. By then Grampa's parent, Johann Gartmann and Anna Maria Schmid Gartmann were deceased having died in 1879 and 1901 respectively. Of the five children of Johann and Anna Maria, the three youngest, Margaritha (Margaret Krattley), Joseph Anton (Grampa Gartmann) and Joseph Matthias (Uncle Joe) had emigrated to America and St. Croix County in the 1870s.

Anton Gartmann is listed with his parents, Johannes Gartmann and wife, Anna Maria Schmid, in the 1850 census of the Cantone of Grison. The Canton of Grison is more known today as Graubundan. The family are citizens of St. Martin, a scattered settlement of small hamlets on the steep slopes of the Valser Rhine canyon. The Gartmann home was the now abandoned hamlet of Haspel. St. Martin comprises an area of less than nine square miles and in 1880 had a population of 150 which dwindled to 99 in 1900 and only 36 in the year 2000. Approximately one-third of its area is used for agricultural purposes, another third is forested with the remainder rivers, glaciers and mountainous. The area was settled around the 14th century.

Footnote: 1850 Census
Gartmann, Johannes, born 1806
Gartmann, Anna Maria, born 1810
Gartmann, Johannes Antoni, born 1845, later corrected to 1844
Gartmann, Anna Maria, born 1846
Gartmann, Margaritha, born 1848
Gartmann ,Joseph Anton, born 1850

The custom in many Germanic countries, including Switzerland, was to name a child with a first, or honorary name, and a second, familiar name, thus Joseph Anton Gartmann was known as Anton "Tony" Gartmann. Joseph Matthias however wasn't known to the Gartmann children in America as Matthias but as "Uncle Joe".

St. Martin is a neighboring community to Vals, a village with an old-fashion charm. These high valley villages were settled in the 13th Century, when the Walser people were driven from the canton of Wallis in south-west Switzerland into the Valser valley. The German speaking Walser were forbidden from marrying or buying land from the Romansh speaking locals and settled at the end of the valley because that was the only place that wasn't claimed.

Anton Gartmann left Switzerland at the age of 22 in 1872. He is found on the passenger list for the ship, Cimbria, leaving from the ports of Hamburg and Havre, traveling with Anton Furger, age 18, Catherine Furger, age 23, and Nicilaus Krattlie (John N. Krattley), age 39. The Cimbria arrived in the port of New York on November 20, 1872.

For Europeans considering emigration, nothing was more persuasive than "America letters" written from friends and relatives who had already made the move. Christian Fable, an uncle to both Anton furger and Catherine Furger, had emigrated a few years earlier and had settled in Troy township. It's likely he influenced their deceision to come to St. Croix county.

People generally do not move in the midst of a crisis but afterward, and the crisis in Vals was likley the floods of 1868 and 1870 which likely contributed to Anton's decision to leave for America.

This account is from a booklet sent to me from Clara Tonz-Jorger and translated from the Swiss dialect by Grit. The most devasting flood in Valsetal occurredi n the year 1870. Following this disaster the muncipiality considered emigrating with the children and go to America. From the chronicle and eye witness reports the following attempt is made to represent the flood.

Already in September, 1870, there was much snow in the high Alps, then, on September 27th, came a high wind from the southwest and enormous rain which lasted into the night with thunder and lightning. As the evening progressed the rain became sharper. Josef Anton Schmid told of his fear that the water would become quite dangerous and told his father that he feared he must flee with his family from their house which was on or near the river bank. He had never seen the Rhine so large as it now was. He let the sheep out of the stable and went with his family to the house of his parents. He carried his ill mother-in-law, Ursula Ruettimann Rieder, and three young children. By 8 o'clock most people in the houses located close to the Rhein had fled, some taking some possessions. By 9 o'clock the center of the village was under water and reached to the church court wall. Katharine Bernie, maiden name Schmid, wife of Stephen Bernie, had just given birth and got carried in a big basket with her baby across rooftops of two houses to where a gangplank lead to the cemetery wall. There was danger that everything would collapse at any moment. The priest, his housekeeper and a young guest had to be caried by strong young men through the raging wakes. It was a very difficult task in the dark of the night. The raging water and flood surge flushed away all kinds of things--a dead cow, a house floating in a vertical position, then the house collapsed and turned into debris followed by the debris of more houses, animal buildings, and household items. Everything turned into a situation where the worst had to be expected.
The men were horrifiedto watch the flood pushing towards the church and flooding the church courtyard. They really believed and feared the church would be destroyed. The flood wakes caused erosion of parts of the church courtyard. The death chapel was destroyed and collapsed. Tombstone crosses, coffins and bodies turned into a dirty stream crashing downstream into the valley. The storm bells, the noise of the raging water, the roaring thunder and the sound of collapsing buildings caused an echo effect.
People from the “lower village” moved to the higher ground of the “upper village”. Everybody was worried and scared what morning would bring after the night of horror. The hours passed of a night which seemed endless.
At the time the flood occurred, many men were absent tending to the cattle. The ones left behind worried about their fate. The Valser wrote questions and answers on strips of paper which they wrapped around stones, The stones got tosses to each other across the water. They found out no human beings died. Now every power and effort was needed to fight the elements and prevent more destruction.
There they stood, the heroic and courageous men fighting against drifting woods, logs, always in danger to be squished by them or of being taken away by the raging waves of water.
It’s truly heroic what the inhabitants of Vals did to rescue people who were cut off. The Valser people did that with courage, contempt of death and calm determination.
Vals was completely disconnected from the area. Nobody could rush for help, no strange eye had seen the devastation and misery. The only visable evidences in the form of swimming crosses and tools or machinery which were fished out in the valley told a story of the terrible catastrophe to the rest of the folk.
President of the parish, Josef Anton Schmidt, “I’ve been on my way very early in the morning. It was impossible to walk down to the valley so I’ve climbed by Leisalp and went from there to the next valley and up to the Wanna and back down. I went to Blumenthaler who used to be county president. As soon as he had seen me, he was asking, if the Valser survived. Following the things what came out of the Rhein, the worst was to be feared.
I’ve told him, nobody died, but it looked just terrible in Vals. I mentioned the enormous damage done by the water. I told Blumenthaler that I’m on my way to Chur. He replied that I’m in a kind of a dead end. The bridges over the Valser and Hinterrhein are gone. It might be possible to go over the Vriinerrhein. There was a big spruce which fell down and lays from one side to the other. I said I’d try it. “Okay”, said Blumenthaler, “let’s have lunch together and then I’m going with you to that spruce. I’m going to take a long rope along so I can tie you up.” We arrived at the place and I thought, that’s no fun at all to climb over there, if we use the rope or not, in the end, it’s the same. If I would fall, the white waves will bang me against the rocks and smash me. I crawled on my knees across the spruce and when I reached the other side I detached the rope and went on to Ilanz. I reached Chur late a night.
Some men at the post office court yard were talking about the flooding and said that Vals went under. I told them, I just been in Vals, it did not go under entirely but it looks very sad there.
The next day I went to the government and explained how the water was raging in Vals. Thirty families lost their homes. Other families had nothing left other than the clothing they were wearing. The government promised help and appointed Foffa as commander who went with me right away to Vals via Thusis and through the Rhein forest. We had to pause a day in the Hinterrhein due to an outbreak of severe weather.
Foffa’s Report: In Zerfreila the valley is filled up with rubble in half of its length and a quarter of its width through the Valserrhein. It’s also partially dug up and flushed away.
Two houses, including furniture, were robbed by the flood, two more house are still standing, but it’s likely they will be washed away too. A couple barns are standing deep in rubble, two more got flushed away. Five big cattle were dead and hay lost. Other goods were heavily damaged.
On the side valleu, Peil, Alps Fanell and Waletsch, five barns were damaged, the sixth collapsed and fell into the Peiler river. Nine goats and hay were lost.
In Vals three houses were lost in the water. The people barely managed to get out alive. It was impossible to retain any furniture from the floodwater. One house, together with a saw, a mill, lumber and wooden boards and panels, and a barn were lost. Four houses are in danger to collapse. Two are severely damaged. Two barns disappeared in the raging waters of the flood.
Above the Peilertobel river where the flood raged extremely terrible there were two houses surrounded by rubble and stones. One house was washed away partially in the first night and it still in danger to be taken by the raging water of the Peilertobel. The other house off the other side of the Peilertoble stream is about to be undermined by the water. One barn is almost buried by the rubble.In both cases all the hay is lost.
In Gglūū at the shore of the Valserrhein were houses standing under water for a long time. Five houses with additional barns collapsed in the flood including also furniture and clothes. Five barns, including all the hay, were flushed away. Three houses, which are still standing, are uninhabitable. It’s very likely for them to collapse. There is not much to do with three remaining barns. Besides these buildings, a mill, a saw, countless saw blocks, a metal shop including tools, all were taken by the floodwaters.
In Vals-Platz, where the water was mainly shearing through the lower part of the valley, three houses collapsed into the floodwaters, including all furniture. Six houses were heavily damaged and lost their foundations. Four barns were damaged. Fourteen sheep ended up dead and hay was lost as well. Two barns washed away completely. The courtyard of the church is heavily damaged, some coffins are missing and the death chapel collapsed.
In the nearby courtyard one barn and three houses were in danger but only had slight damage. Outside of the village, along the Valserrhein, three barns got washed away, 13 had more or less damage and were flooded, in some cases with rubble and stones.
The damage is enormous on buildings, 17 families are homeless, but the damage on fields and grassland is even bigger and difficult to estimate. The nice grasslands in the valley won’t be cultivatable in years to come. The fields, most of them situated close to the Valserrhein, are flooded, washed away, including the potatoes. A large amount of damage and loss happened with the forest. Much of the forest fell into the Valserrhein. Bridges got washed away. A significant damage happened to the lumber. It is to be expected to have a lack of lumber for building projects in the future. Additional to that problem are the missing two saws which disappeared without a trace. There will also be misery expected due to the difficulty in distribution and delivery of groceries, for instance, flour and salt. Even the priest had to beg for salt and flour to prepare the Hosts for Holy Communion and Mass. The roads to Ilanz and the roads to the Hnterrhein are ruined. The loss of hay puts some farmers into a position where the cattle have to be sold.
Those who had owned something lost most of it and those who had nothing or only a little bit, lost their supporters. Therefore all inhabitants are in need, more or less, for support. The village has currently 755 inhabitants who live there. “ End of Foffa’s report.
Friends were advising the people of Vals to look for a new place to live. Either move down into the Rhein valley or build a new home across the ocean. But there was loyalty to the land and the home valley even though it had been destroyed so badly. It was a holy, precious place for the Vals people, this small little spot where their fathers once lived and are buried. They didn’t want to believe all the luck had disappeared from the Valser valley after the terrible event. They hoped it would be a place of blessing again.
In 1913, Johann Josef Jørger wrote: “The damage Vals had faced was enormous. The scars of devastation are until up to this date, 1913, still visable, especially in the valleys of the hills and in the Alps. The help from all over the world was very generous and amazing. They rebuilt the river bed, the rebuilding process is still going on-cultivating the forest and planting new trees.The parish palyed a big part in that event, even considering the large amount of poor people. All in all it was not a bed of roses there. There was even consideration and thought and a plan of a total immigration to America.”



For centuries the Valser remained an oasis in the high mountains away from world traffic, retaining many of the customs of the original dwellers as well as the Romansh language.
Still, today, there are four distinct languages in Switzerland-- the largest group is German speaking (about 72 percent), followed by French (20 percent), Italian (6 percent) and Romansh (1 percent).
Emigrants from Switzerland are known to have been in the English colonies of North American before 1710 and Swiss settlers were in Pennsylvania and the Carolinas early in the 18th century. Between 1850 and 1900, however, they moved to the U.S. in record numbers, and during the peak decade of the 1880's, it's estimated about 80,000 Swiss emigrated. After 1893, annual emigration figures never exceeded 5,000 except for a brief spurt after World War I. The three key periods of emigration out of Switzerland were the so-called hunger years of 1816-17, the decade of the 1840s when the introduction of machinery destroyed the livelihood of small farmers, and the 1880s when an agricultural depression affected all of Europe. Swiss emigration was not a result of overpopulation-- between 1871 and 1880 every emigrating Swiss was replaced by a foreigner.
The destinations of Swiss emigrants to the U.S. chiefly to New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the east; Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin and Iowa in the central region, and to California.
For Europeans considering emigration, no advertisements of Wisconsin were more persuasive than "America letters", that is, the letters from friends and relatives who had already made the move-- these correspondents wrote in the best possible light of their new home and new life. People of the various non-English speaking nationalities tended to cluster in neighborhoods; thus Germans predominated in whole counties on the Lake Michigan side of Wisconsin, and in Green county, Wisconsin, practically every adult in New Glarus township was Swiss by birth. In 1870, about the time Anton Gartmann emigrated, the Swiss population of Wisconsin was estimated to be slightly over 6,000. The greatest concentration was Milwaukee, Green and Buffalo counties, followed by Barron, Pierce, LaCrosse, Grant, Sauk, Dane, Winnebago, Fond du Lac, Dodge, Jefferson, Kenosha, Racine, Waukesha, Washington, Sheboygan, Calumet and Manitowoc, not necessarily in that order.
The majority of German-speaking emigrants left from one of five ports: LeHavre, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Bremen and Hamburg with Antwerp, Bremen and Hamburg the leading points of departure during the 19th century. Anton, age 22, is found on the passenger list for the ship, Cimbria, from Hamburg and Havre, traveling with Anton Furger, age 18, Catherine Furger, age 23, and Nicilaus Krattlie, age 39, all were from Switzerland. The Cimbria arrived in New York on November 20, 1872.

Anton appeared before the Circuit Court in St. Croix County on 6 Nov 1876 to declare his intent to become a citizen of the U.S. Also declaring their intent to become citizens that same day were Anton Furger, age 21, and Christian Fable, age 21. Not until 1906 however, did Anton complete the Naturalization process, appearing in Circuit Court for St. Croix County for St. Croix County on 25 Nov 1906.
The Declaration of Intent was an instrument by which an applicant for U.S. citizenship renounced allegiance to foreign sovereignties and declared their intention to become U.S. citizens.
Naturalization petitions are instruments by which those who had declared their intention to become U.S. citizens and who had met the residence requirements made formal application for U.S. citizenship.
Recollection:
Theresa said that when Anton and Anna were married (1887) they lived in the woods on Anton's original eighty acres; that house was later moved and used for a shed. When they left there they moved onto the Lindemann place
where they rented. After Anton bought the acreage on the St. Croix River bluff they built there and moved, first living in what was later used as a granary while the house was being built. Theresa thought this must have been about 1903 because they had left the Lindemann place but hadn't finished the house yet when she was born. Thats why she was born at her grandmother's in Hudson.




LAND RECORD: 26 August 1881 St.Croix County, Vol. 15, Page 450
"This indenture, made this twenty-sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eigthy-one between Hubbard Bonnes and Malinda Bonnes his Wife of the County of St. Croix and State of Wisconsin parties of the first part, and Joseph Anton Gartman of the County and State aforesaid, party of the second part.
Witness, that the said parties of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of Two Thousand Dollars... do give, grant, bargain, sell... to the party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, all that certain piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the County of St. Croix, and State of Wisconsin, and described as follows, to-wit: The South half of the North East quarter of Section One (1), Township Twenty-nine (29) North, of Range Twenty (20) West and containing Eighty acres of land according to Government Survey. Except a strip on South side heretofore deeded for road purposes."

HST, 9 Nov 1900
Anthony Gartman is rebuilding his barn upon the Downer college farm. The old one was burned about three weeks ago, occasioning a lost to the college of $200 and $100 to Mr. Gartman.


Hudson Star-Times, 30 May 1902, p8
Musser-Sauntry Land, Logging & Mfg. Co. sold to Joseph A. Gartmann 97 acres, Sec. 12, Town of St. Joe. Consideration $1500.

HSO, 11 Dec 1908, p1
Anton Gartman
Anton Gartman of St. Joseph died at his home a few miles north of this city last Saturday afternoon, after an extended illness. Deceased was one of the oldest citizens in this county, thirty-five of his fifty-nine years of life having been spent at his home in this county.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Father Barney at St. Patrick's church last Tuesday morning.


Dr. Ed Brandt, 17 Jan 1991, SCVGS at RF
"People generally do not move in the midst of the crisis--generally afterward"



LAND and TAX RECORDS:
Assessment Rolls, Town of St. Joseph, 1885
St. Croix Series 34, Area Resource Center, River Falls, Wis.
Value Fixed Value Fixed
by Assessor by Board of Review
SW of NE, Sec 1, T29 R20 $ 550 $ 500 40 acres
SE of NE, Sec 1, T29 R20 $ 450 $ 400 40 acres
Personal Property
2 horses valued at $120
1 neat cattle valued at $15
1 wagon, carriage or sleigh valued at $15
Value of all other personal property $20

Assessment Rolls, Town of St. Joseph, 1887
SW of NE, Sec 1, T29 R20 $ 600 $ 500 40 acres
SE of NE, Sec 1, T29 R20 $ 500 $ 450 40 acres
Personal Property
2 horses valued at $100
1 neat cattle valued at $15
1 swine valued at $3
1 wagon, carriage or sleigh valued at $10
Value of all other personal property $45

Assessment Rolls, Town of St. Joseph, 1890
SW of NE, Sec 1, T29 R20 $ 500 $ 450 40 acres
SE of NE, Sec 1, T29 R20 $ 450 $ 450 40 acres
Personal Property
1 horse valued at $50
11 neat cattle valued at $90
7 swine valued at $14
1 wagon, carriage or sleigh valued at $10
Value of all other personal property $15

Assessment Rolls, Town of St. Joseph, 1900
SW of NE, Sec 1, T29 R20 $ 400 $ 400 40 acres
SE of NE, Sec 1, T29 R20 $ 410 $ 410 40 acres
NW of NE, Sec 12, T29 R20 $ 320 $ 320 40 acres

Assessment Rolls, Town of St. Joseph, 1903
Improvements
SW of NE, Sec 1, T29 R20 $ 400 $ -0- 40 acres
SW of NE, Sec 1, T29 R20 $ 300 $ 600 40 acres
NW of NE, Sec 12, T29 R20 $ 320 40 acres
Lot #1, Sec 12, T29 R20 $1000 40 acres
Personal Property
4 horses valued at $260
13 neat cattle valued at $241
12 swine valued at $72
Wagons, carraiges and sleighs valued at $75
Value of all other personal property $35

NATURALIZATION:



[Obit, HSO, no date, Chris A. Fable:
Chris A. Fable passed away at his farm home in Troy Monday, June 14, just forty-eight hours after being run down by an auto on the main street in Hudson.
Mr. Fable was born in Switzerland, Nov. 23, 1854. He spent the earlier part of his life in Switzerland, Germany and Paris, Frances, coming to the United States when he was nineteen years old. He came to live with an uncle in the town of Troy from whom he bought the farm known as the "Old Fable Farm." In 1878 he was married to Catherine McLaughlin and to them ten children were born, all of whom are living except one, James who died when eighteen years old. He is survived by five daughters--Mary, Wnifred, Catherine, Margaret and Frances; four sons, Joe, Clem, Pat and Pete; three step-sons, Alfred, Clyde and Terrance Carroll; also 21 grandchildren. Funeral services were held at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Hudson.]



BIOGRAPHICAL:
HST, 16Mar1894, p4
"Drs. Johnson and McIntire performed a very difficult surgical operation upon Anton Gartman in the town of St. Joe last Sunday. They removed a tumor about 5 inches in diameter and 7 inches long from the patient's left hip. The operation was successful and Mr. G. is mending rapidly. The tumor is a result of a kick by a horse 15 years ago. Miss Mabel Upton, who is studying in Dr. Johnson's office, and Miss Ida Nelson of Dr. McIntire's office were in attendance. Miss Upton assisted in removing the tumor and took 16 stitches in the wound."


Recollection:
Theresa was five when her father died. She said he was sitting in his chair with her ma, the older kids and several neighbors gathered around. All of a sudden her mother began to cry. Gustie, who was 10, took Theresa out into the hallway that led to the front porch and told her that their pa was died. She was the youngest and had been her pa's favorite. He would take her along when he went to town and let her sit on the bar at the old Harris Hotel (on First Street) while he played cards with old man Harris who was a good friend of his.


Letter dated April 27, 1899 to Mr. Thomas Haggerty, Holton [sic], Wis. from Milwaukee-Downer College, 614 Milwaukee, St., Milwaukee, Wis. [copy in possession of Nancy Hawkinson; original at Gold Meir Library, UW-Milwaukee]
Dear Sir:
In reply to your letter of April 24th, I will say that Milwaukee-Downer College owns 240 acres in the town of St. Joseph which Mr. Anton Gartman leeses. Our price on the land is $30 per acre, but as Mr. Gartman's lease does not expire until one year from October next we could not make any proposition now to rent the land. If you do not buy it however before his term expires we would consider the matter of leasing it to you. The description of the land is S.E. 1/4-Sec.6, S.W. 1/4, N.W. 1/4-Sec. 6, N.E. 1/4, N.W. 1/4, Sec. 7.

Star Times, Hudson, 7Jun1901, p1
"Charles Evenson, until recently a mill hand of the East-Side Lumber
company, at Houlton, committed suicide, some days ago, by hanging himself in an abandoned house upon Anthony Gartmann's farm, a few miles north of the Omaha railway shops.

Recollection:
Theresa says that when her father would take the grain to the elevator in Stillwater he would always bring back something for her mother; once it was a set of soup bowls, one for every member of the family. In 1994 Theresa still
had hers-- a cream colored bowl decorated with a brown floral design. Another time he brought her mother a set of chairs. He once brought Theresa a jumping jack doll which has been gone for many years.

Recollection:
Even though she couldn't have been very old at the time Theresa recalls the excitement when the Gartmann's first put in a phone. It was, of course, a party line. The Hudson Directory for 1910 lists:
A. Gartmann, 9914 r4
E. Gillogly, 9914 r12
John Krattley, 9914 r8
M. Muckenhirn, 9914 r5
Hans Nelson, 9914 r7
Some time between 1922 and 1929 the number changed to 9614 r4, the number we had at the farm until about 1955 or 1956 when the party line system was discontinued.


DEATH:
Registrations of Death, Vol I, 1877-1907, St.Croix County, on microfilm at
the W.S.H.S., Madison.

True Republican
10 Dec 1908, p3
Antony Gartman died at his home in the town of St. Joseph last Satuday afternoon at the age of fifty-nine. He has been a resident of this county for thirty years. He married a sister of Robert Friend who with four girls and three boys survives him. He was a member of the Catholic Knights.The funeral took place Monday morning.


Hudson Star, 11 Dec 1908
"Anton Gartmann of St. Joe died at his home a few miles north of this city last Saturday afternoon after an extended illness (tuberculosis). Thedeceased was one of the oldest citizens in this country, 35 of his 59 years of life having been spent at his home in this country. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Father Barney at St. Patrick's Church last Tuesday morning."

The News, New Richmond, 12Dec1908, p8,c1
Anthony Gartman, aged 60, died at his farm home north of Hudson, Saturday afternoon from tuberculosis. The funeral was conducted at St. Patrick's church by Rev. Father Barney, Tuesday. A wife and seven children survive.


Obituary
St.Croix Observer, 9 Dec1908
Anton Gartman
Saturday at three p.m. occurred the death of Anton Gartman of the town of St. Joseph, two and one-half miles from Hudson. Mr. Gartman had been sick for some time and his death was not unexpected. He was one of the old settlers having lived in the vicinity nearly thirty-five years.
The funeral was held from St. Patrick's church Tuesday morning Rev. Barney officiating.
Mr. Gartman was fifty-nine years of age and was one of the best known and
honored citizens of the community. He was a member of the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin who marched in a body in the procession.
A wife, three sons and four daughters are left to mourn his death.

In the early to mid-1900's, many Americans were plagued with tuberculosis. Two of Anton's daughters, Louise and Anna, also died of the disease; Louise in 1911 and Anna in 1918.
The State Sanatorium for the observation and treatment of persons suffering or suspected to be suffering from tuberculosis opened in Waukesha county in 1907, and the Lake Tomahawk Camp was established in 1915 for persons threatened with or convalescing from the disease. Patients were quarantined and treated at these specialized centers. By the early 1950's the development of effective anit-TB drugs closed the doors of these centers and allowed the TB patients to be treated as outpatients and lead normal lives.

BURIAL
St. Patrick's Catholic Cemetery, Hudson, Wis.

CENSUS EXCERPTS
1885 State Census:- Resides in St. Joseph Township; 1 male and 1 female in
the household; nativity of both is given as German.
1895 State Census:- Resides in St. Joseph Township; 5 males and 4 females in
the household; nativity of 6 is U.S., 1 German and 2 "other".
1900 Federal Census: - Resides in St. Joseph Township; he gives his age as 51
and states he was born in 1849 in Switzerland as were both of his parents; he has been in the U.S. since 1872 (28 years); his occupation is farmer; he can read, write and speak English; he rents his farm. Listed in the household are wife, Anna, age 31; Louisa, daughter, age 14; Joseph, son, age 9; Robert, son, age 6; Max, son, age 4; Augusta, daughter, age 1; and Joseph M., brother, age 48.
1905 State Census:- Resides in St. Joseph Township; he is 56 years of age; a
native of Switzerland; a farmer; and he owns his farm free of a mortgage.
Listed in the household with him are his wife, Anna (mistakenly listed as
Frank), age 37; Joseph, son, age 13; Robert, son, age 11; Max, son, age 9; Anna M. L. daughter, age 19; Anna M., daughter, age 16; Augusta, daughter, age 6; Margaret, daughter, age 3; and Agnes, daughter, age 1.

SOURCES & RESEARCH NOTES:
Hudson Star & Times, 16 March 1894: FH1-001
Passenger lists searched at WSHS 23Feb1991
P77-1159 NY 3/21/1982-4/8/1872
P77-1160 NY 4/9/1872-4/20/1872
P77-1161 NY 4/22/1872-5/3/1872
P74-4518 NY 5/4/1872-5/13/1872
P74-4519 NY 5/14/1872-5/21/1872

Emigration Notes:-
Swiss in St. Croix county, 1880 census
Hartzhern(?), Elizabeth, wife of E., age 26, Kinnickinnic, ED225
Fable, Chris, age 25, #106/106, farmer, Town of Troy, ED226
Fable, Christ, age 70, uncle
Krattley, John, age 38, #55/57, farmer, Town of Hudson, ED231
Krattley, Margaret, age 33
Krattley, John, age 11
Krattley, Mary, age 9
Krattley, August, age 8
Gartman, Joseph, age 28, brother-in-law, farmer
Stinson, John, age 25, boarder/blacksmith, Village of New Richmond, ED234
Karras, Cathrina, wife of Robert, #22/22, age 30, Town of St. Joseph, ED235, (has duaghter age 5 born in Wisconsin)
Furger, Anthony, age 26, boarder/farmer, Town of St. Joseph, ED235
Fabel, Joseph, age 31, #23/23, farmer, Town of St. Joseph, ED235
Peck, Jacob, age 32, boarder/laborer, Town of St. Joseph, ED235
(Questionable; nationality difficult to read)
Cunnant, P., age 57, farmer, Town of Somerset, ED239
(has son age 15 born Wisconsin)
Graff,John, age 55, #140/148, head/farmer, Town of Somerset, ED239
Graff, Helma, age 42
(has son age 21 born N.Y.)
Graff,Conrad, age 32, #141/149, Town of Somerset, ED239
Graff, Maria, age 30
Graff, Mary, age 8
Graff, Olga, age 6
Graff,Frida, age 4
(has son age 1 born Wisconsin)
Yoerg, Pauline, wife of Louis, age 35, #8/8, Hudson, 1st Ward, ED240
(has son age 9 born Wisconsin)
Steiger, Jacob, boarder (#45/45), age 35, Hudson, 1st Ward, ED240
Busch(?), Ursilla, wife of Joseph, age 42, #56/61, Hudson, 2nd Ward, ED240, (has son age 17 born Wisconsin)
Durand, Mary, wife of Fred, age 48, #108/112, Hudson, 3rd Ward, ED240
(has son 21 born Wisconsin)

Declarations of Intent (Germen, Fable, Furger)

Birth	17 Feb 1850	Vals, Graubūnden, Switzerland
Baptism	18 Feb 1850	Godmother was Maria Cath. Schnider, St. Martin , Graubünden, Switzerland
Confirmation	26 Aug 1855	St. Martin, Graubūnden, Switzerland
Emigration	20 Nov 1872	Hamburg to New York, NY
Census	1 Jun 1875	Town of Troy, St. Croix County, Wisconsin
Marriage	20 Apr 1885	St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States - Anna Louysa "Louise" Heini
Marriage	10 Aug 1887	St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States - Anna Friend
Census	1895	Town of St. Joseph, St. Croix County, Wisconsin
Census	11 Jun 1900	Town of St. Joseph, St. Croix County, Wisconsin
Census	1 Jun 1905	Town of St. Joseph, St. Croix County, Wisconsin
Naturalization	25 Sep 1906	St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States
Death	5 Dec 1908	Died at the farm home in the Town of St. Joseph, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States
Burial	8 Dec 1908	St. Patrick's Catholic Cemetery, Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States

Spouse	Anna Louysa "Louise" Heini (1861 - )
Child	Louise Marie Gartmann (1886 - 1911)

Spouse	Anna Friend (1868 - 1957)
Child	Francis (Frank) Gartmann (1888 - 1893)
Child	Anna Marie Gartmann (1890 - 1918)
Child	Joseph Anthony Gartmann (1891 - 1959)
Child	Robert Joseph Gartmann (1893 - 1962)
Child	Max Francis Gartman (1895 - 1978)
Child	Augusta Othellia Gartmann (1898 - 1982)
Child	Margaret Gartmann (1902 - 1978)
Child	Theresa Agnes Gartmann (1903 - 2000)

Father	Johann Anton Gartmann (1803 - 1879)
Mother	Anna Maria Schmid (1808 - 1901)
Sibling	Johann Anton Gartmann (1844 - 1920)
Sibling	Anna Maria Martina Gartmann (1845 - )
Sibling	Margaretha Gartmann ( - 1932)
Sibling	Joseph Matthias Gartmann ( - 1924)