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EDWARD LAESSIG, SR.
OBITUARY
STRATFORD, WISCONSIN, APRIL 1915
Edward Laessig, Sr., 80, one of the early
settlers of the area, died on April 10, 1915. Edward was born in Saxony,
Germany July 5, 1835. He came to America with his brother Robert in 1855
and made his residence in Chicago, Illinois. There he met and wed Jeanette
Baenen, daughter of Francis J. J. Baenen and Clara Vande Vaart.
Jeanette had also just immigrated with her father and step mother from
s'Hertogensbosch, Holland.
Edward worked as a laborer in Chicago, then moved
with his family to the Green Bay, Wisconsin area around the year 1867 where they
resided for several years. They then relocated to Wausau, Wisconsin where Edward
was employed as a shingle packer. The family then purchased a farm in Webertown,
Marathon County where Edward resided for the remainder of his life, farming and
working as a stone mason.
On September 13, 1884, when the township of
Brighton in Marathon County was divided in two, a new township was formed named
after the big Eau Pleine River that flows through the township and Weber
Settlement. In the spring of 1885, Edward Laessig, Sr. was elected the
first chairman of the town of Eau Pleine. He held this position for many
years.
Survivors include his wife Jeanette, children:
Edward Jr. (Amelia Frick) of Stratford; Mary, Mrs. Emil Ruder of Merrill; Henry
F. (Agatha Wagner) of Merrill; Augusta, Mrs. Michael B. Wagner of Stratford;
Fred (Olga Polege) of Fenwood; Charles (Jeanette McDonald) of Stratford;
Philomena "Minnie", Mrs. Henry Weber of Stratford; Louis of Stratford;
Julia, Mrs. Daniel Vandehey of Loyal; Anna, Mrs. John D. Kissinger of Victoria
B.C., Canada; and Francis Hubert "Frank" (Mary Weber).
He was preceded in death by his daughter Cornelia
Huberta Laessig in 1870 and a daughter-in-law, Mary Sawyer in 1907, first wife
of Frank.
Upon his deathbed, Edward converted from his
Lutheran beliefs to that of his wife's Catholicism, and was thus buried from St.
Joseph's Catholic Church of Stratford in the Webertown Cemetery originally of
the Holy Trinity Parish of that local. anaquea@dwave.net
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