Second Generation

5. Ludwig Wilhelm KUTHLOW was born on 22 September 1833 in Waldberg, Kreis Kolmar, Posen Province, Preussen (Prussia).^6,7,42 He was christened on 29 September 1833 in Margonin, Kreis Kolmar, Posen Province, Preussen (Prussia).⁴¹ He emigrated on 10 October 1856 from Treptow, Kreis Saatzig, Pommern (Pomerania) Province, Preussen (Prussia).⁶ Treptow was a small farm village sixty miles northeast of Stettin (now called Szczecin), the capital of Pommern, and eight miles south of the Pommern Bay on the Baltic Sea. The province of Pommern was at that time part of the Prussian Empire, under Frederick Wilhelm III of the House of Hohenzollern.

They landed at Keasel Garden, NY, on 1 December 1856. Ludwig was Lutheran in 1862 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.³⁶ He was listed as member number 20 of the first 100 members in the church records of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church.

(He and his family could not be located in the 1860 or 1870 Census in Wisconsin.) He died on 14 May 1877 at the age of 43 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.^6,7,11,12 of inflammation of the bowel (appendicitis). (The church record of his death lists his place of death as Ridgeville.) He was buried on 16 May 1877 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^10,11,12,17 in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.

Ludwig Wilhelm KUTHLOW and Amelia Friederike Louise "Emilie" SCHUSTER were married on 22 April 1856 in Treptow, Kreis Saatzig, Pommern (Pomerania) Province, Preussen (Prussia).^6,12 Amelia Friederike Louise "Emilie" SCHUSTER, daughter of Johann Friedrich SCHUSTER and Regina J. SCHUETZ, was born on 11 May 1830 in Treptow, Kreis Saatzig, Pommern (Pomerania) Province, Preussen (Prussia).^6,7,43

When Emilie was 16 years old, she was employed as a housemaid by a Junker family in Prussia by the name of Bogaslaff. She worked for them for ten years. She was the overseer of all of the other maids of the household on a nobleman's estate, near Stargard. She did the "clean cleaning."

The family that she was a maid for did not want Emilie to marry Ludwig because she was considered to be higher in society than he was. He was only an assistant sheep herder. But with the money she had saved, they married and left Germany for the US on October 10, 1856. They landed at Keasel Garden, NY on December 1, 1856 and lived in New York for about six months. Then they moved to Elm Grove, located about 10 miles out of Milwaukee, where they lived for 5 1/2 years.

Their two children were born there and, in April 1862, they moved to Ridgeville in Wilton Township. They homesteaded a farm on 56 acres, and later Ludwig bought 40 more acres.

Around that time, Emilie's brother August asked if they could get a pass for him to come to America. They could not do so, time passed, and they eventually lost track of August. She was baptized on 16 May 1830 in Treptow, Kreis Saatzig, Pommern (Pomerania) Province, Preussen (Prussia).⁴⁴ She emigrated on 10 October 1856 from Preussen (Prussia).⁶ Emilie was Lutheran on 1 April 1862 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^45,46,47 when she became a member of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. She was listed on the Membership Roster in 1900. She lived in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI about 1880.^8,10

In February 1912, Emilie went to Norwalk to visit her granddaughter, Mrs. Alvena (Kuthlow) Gnewikow. While there, she fell on an icy sidewalk and broke her hip (she was 82 at the time). She spent the next two weeks there, and then her son Ludwig Louis, Dr. Janes and Pastor Stock went to Norwalk and brought Emilie home to the farm on a sleigh. A nurse by the name of Bergie Rudlin was hired for four weeks to care for her. Later, her granddaughter Amelia (Ludwig Louis' daughter) took care of her until she was able to walk with a cane.

During this time (February to March 1912), Emilie's son Ludwig Louis had the home farm deed registered in his name. Minna, his sister, was not satisfied with her inheritance, so she hired a lawyer from Sparta, T. P. Abel, and sued her brother. It was settled with Ludwig Louis paying Minna $2,000 and attorney's fees.

After that, Emilie went to live with her daughter Minna, and was there from the Summer of 1912 until she died in 1916.

The farm that Ludwig Louis took over (originally belonging to his father) was appraised at $2,800. As part of the settlement, Ludwig Louis was to take care of his mother, Emilie, and pay her $30 per year while she lived. The farm estate was settled, with payment of 1/3 of the appraised value to Ludwig Louis' sister Minna. By then the farm property had increased from 96 acres to 176, after 40 acres were purchased from the Wilde family and 40 more across the road were purchased from the Liefke family. The total value was $6,000.

Ludwig Louis and his wife Louisa lived on this farm until 1912, when they moved to Tomah. Louis' son, Louis Albinus, took over the farm and his sister Amelia kept house for him. She appeared in the census in 1880 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.⁸ Her son Louis was living with her. Emilie appeared in the census in 1900 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.²⁹ She was living with her son Louis and his family. She appeared in the census in 1905 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.⁴⁸ She was living with her daughter Louise and her family. She appeared in the census in 1910 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.⁴⁹ She was living with her son, Louis, and his family. Emilie died on 12 July 1916 at the age of 86 in Norwalk, Monroe County, WI.^6,7,43 She was buried on 15 July 1916 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^10,43 in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.

Ludwig Wilhelm KUTHLOW and Amelia Friederike Louise "Emilie" SCHUSTER had the following children: