Sources


  1. Marie Drescher, Oak Grove Cemetery Association, Gravestone List, Oak Grove Cemetery, Tomah, WI, From Marie Drescher's database, sent to Gary Griggs 11/2002.
  2. Records researched by Gary Griggs October 6, 2000 and August 10, 2002, and scanned August 6, 2004, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 1--1862-1889).
  3. U.S. Census, Waukesha County, WI, 1880 Census.
  4. U.S. Census, Waukesha County, WI, 1870 Census.
  5. U.S. Census, Waukesha County, WI, 1860 Census.
  6. Tomah (WI Journal Newspaper, 5/11/1895.
  7. Obituary.
  8. Alt Damerow, Germany, Municipal Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths, written in German, Copies mailed by Florence Brehmer Dougherty to Gary Griggs, 4/25/2003 .
  9. Obituary of Grandparent, Parent, Sibling, Spouse, Child or Grandchild, Tomah Monitor, 10/15/1909.
  10. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R) (Copyright (c) 1980, 1997, data as of February 1997).
  11. GEDCOM File imported from LDS Family Search Internet Site.
  12. Developed by Gary Griggs, with infomation from Marie Drescher and Bonnie Dana, July 2003, Oak Grove Cemetery Association Database, Information extracted by Gary Griggs, 1/18/2004.
  13. Gary Griggs Research of the Griggs, Pergande and Related Families.
  14. U.S. Census, Monroe County, WI, 1900 Census.
  15. Immigrant Passenger Manifests on Ancestry.com, Downloaded by Gary Griggs, 6/18/2005.
  16. Obituary, Tomah Monitor, 10/15/1909.
  17. Pages photographed by Bill Scheer, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 2--1889-1909), Communion Register, Page 262.
  18. Obituary, Tomah Journal, 10/15/1909.
  19. Records researched by Gary Griggs October 6, 2000 and August 10, 2002, and scanned August 6, 2004, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 1--1862-1889), Church Register copied by Gary Griggs, 8/6/2004.
  20. Pages photographed by Bill Scheer, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 2--1889-1909), Family Record, Page 5.
  21. St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Membership, Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI, 1900.
  22. U.S. Census, Monroe County, WI, 1910 Census.
  23. MyHeritage.com Website, Researched by Gary Griggs, 4/29/2021.
  24. Obituary of Grandparent, Parent, Sibling, Spouse, Child or Grandchild.
  25. MyHeritage.com Website, Researched by Gary Griggs, 12/20/2018.
  26. Monroe, Juneau, Jackson Counties Genealogical Workshop, Inc., "Monroe County (WI) Index to Early Marriage Registrations, 1855 to 1907".
  27. Pages photographed by Bill Scheer, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 2--1889-1909), Family Register, Page 1.
  28. Pages photographed by Bill Scheer, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 2--1889-1909), Family Record, 1890.
  29. Monroe, Juneau, Jackson Counties Genealogical Workshop, Inc., "Monroe County (WI) Index to Birth Registrations, 1850-1944".
  30. Pages photographed by Bill Scheer, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 2--1889-1909), Confirmation Record, Page 215.
  31. Pages photographed by Bill Scheer, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 2--1889-1909), Confirmation Records, Page 220.
  32. Pages photographed by Bill Scheer, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 2--1889-1909), Baptism Register, Page 4.
  33. Developed by Gary Griggs, with infomation from Marie Drescher and Bonnie Dana, July 2003, Oak Grove Cemetery Association Database, Extracted by Gary Griggs, 9/8/2003.
  34. Pages photographed by Bill Scheer, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 2--1889-1909), Baptism Records, Page 16.
  35. Pages photographed by Bill Scheer, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 3--1909-1996), Death and Burial Register, Page 374.
  36. Pages photographed by Bill Scheer, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 2--1889-1909), Confirmation Records, Page 224.
  37. Pages photographed by Bill Scheer, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 2--1889-1909), Baptism Records, Page 65.
  38. Pages photographed by Bill Scheer, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 2--1889-1909), Confirmation Records, Page 217.
  39. Pages photographed by Bill Scheer, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 2--1889-1909), Baptism Records, Page 9.
  40. Pages photographed by Bill Scheer, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 2--1889-1909), Confirmation Records, Page 222.
  41. Doris Waege, Family Group Sheet, Monroe County, WI, in possession of Gary Griggs.
  42. Bernice Pergande Griggs Notes, 1992 Griggs Family Tree Booklet.
  43. Developed by Gary Griggs, with infomation from Marie Drescher and Bonnie Dana, July 2003, Oak Grove Cemetery Association Database, Information excerpted, 9/18/2003.
  44. Monroe County, WI, Cemetery Database developed by Gary Griggs, 8/2007, Researched by Gary Griggs, 11/11/2008.
  45. MyHeritage.com Website, Researched by Gary Griggs, 2/3/2021.
  46. U.S. Census, Monroe County, WI, 1920 Census.
  47. Pages photographed by Bill Scheer, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville, Monroe County, WI, Church Register (Book 2--1889-1909), Baptism Records, Page 59.
  48. Fuchs, Alison Marie Research of the Fuchs Family, emails to Gary Griggs, 12/18/18.
  49. MyHeritage.com Website, Researched by Gary Griggs, 3/26/2015.
  50. Obituary of Grandparent, Parent, Sibling, Spouse, Child or Grandchild, Tomah Journal, 3/26/2015.
  51. U.S. Census, Monroe County, WI, 1930 Census.
  52. Obituary, Tomah Journal, 6/16/2011.
  53. Obituary of Grandparent, Parent, Sibling, Spouse, Child or Grandchild, Tomah Journal, 6/16/2011.
  54. Arlyn Bernhardt, Conrad and Caroline Bernhardt Family, 1700-1986.
  55. Tomah (WI) Monitor-Herald Newspaper, Article about the 60th reunion in the 30 June 2003 edition. .
  56. Obituary, Sonnenburg Family Funeral Home Website, 12/23/2021.
  57. Florence Brehmer Dougherty Research of the Brehmer Family, e-mail to Gary Griggs, 1/23/2006.
  58. Gravestone List, St. Paul's German Lutheran Cemetery, Wilton, WI, Downloaded by Gary Griggs, 9/21/2003.
  59. Tomah (WI Journal Newspaper, Fifty-year Class Reunion and Picture, 10/11/2007.
  60. Monroe County Heritage Book Committee, Jeanette Kenyon Storkel, "Monroe County, Wisconsin Heritage Book" (Taylor Publishing Company, 1984), Article 1409.
  61. "Monroe County (WI) Pictorial Atlas, 1994", Lincoln Township, Page 58.
  62. Ancestry.com/Family-Tree Website
    https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/, Fuchs-Ross Family Tree, researched by Gary Griggs, 1/28/2022.
  63. Tomah (WI Journal Newspaper, New Beginnings Article, 5/8/2008.