Third Generation

32. Gustav Ludwig August "Louie" BEHRENS⁸⁹ was born on 26 March 1885 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.^{7,16,22,28,31,90} He was baptized on 3 May 1885 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁶ at the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. He appeared in the census in 1900 in Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁴ Louie appeared in the census in 1910 in Adrian Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁷ He appeared in the census in 1920 in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.²³ His household was in the Second Ward on Oak Street. He appeared in the census in 1930 in Greenfield Township, Monroe County, WI.²⁸ Louie died on 15 May 1972 at the age of 87 in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI.^7,31 He was buried in Oakdale Township, Monroe County, WI.^7,91 in the Oakdale Township Cemetery.

Gustav Ludwig August "Louie" BEHRENS and Mathilde Therese "Tillie" GEHRKE were married on 27 February 1907 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^{7,21,25,31,92} (No date is listed for their marriage in the marriage registration records.) Mathilde Therese "Tillie" GEHRKE⁸⁹, daughter of Johann August GEHRKE and Maria MUHLBRADT, was born on 11 April 1887 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^{7,14,16,22,93,94} She was a member of the first confirmation of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville. She was baptized on 29 May 1887 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁶ at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. She appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁴ Tillie was confirmed on 21 April 1901 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁹⁴ at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. She appeared in the census in 1910 in Adrian Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁷ She appeared in the census in 1920 in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.²³ Tillie appeared in the census in 1930 in Greenfield Township, Monroe County, WI.²⁸ She died in October 1968 at the age of 81.⁷ She was buried in Oakdale Township, Monroe County, WI.^7,91 in the Oakdale Township Cemetery.

Gustav Ludwig August "Louie" BEHRENS and Mathilde Therese "Tillie" GEHRKE had the following children: