Third Generation

16. Wilhelm Gustav "William" MITTELSTAEDT was born on 7 February 1880 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^{8,10,11,12,29,32,65} He was baptized on 29 February 1880 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹² at the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. He was confirmed on 18 March 1894 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁶⁵ at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. William appeared in the census in 1895 in Monroe County, WI.³⁰ He appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁸ He appeared in the census in 1905 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.³¹ He was living with his parents and his occupation was "Farm Laborer."

. William died on 17 May 1955 at the age of 75 in Monroe County, WI.^56,66 He was buried in 1955 in Wilton, Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.⁶⁶ in the St. Paul's German Lutheran Church Cemetery.

Wilhelm Gustav "William" MITTELSTAEDT and Martha Anna Alvine "Myrtie" SOMMERFIELD were married on 10 February 1909 in West Salem, La Crosse County, WI.^11,67 Martha Anna Alvine "Myrtie" SOMMERFIELD, daughter of August F. SOMMERFELDT and Emilge F. WERNER, was born on 1 April 1884 in Wisconsin.^8,32,36 (Her surname was spelled "Summerfield" in the obituary of her son Ervin.) She appeared in the census in 1900 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.⁸ She died in January 1968 at the age of 83 in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.^36,66 Myrtie was buried in Wilton, Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.⁶⁶ in the St. Paul's German Lutheran Church Cemetery.

Wilhelm Gustav "William" MITTELSTAEDT and Martha Anna Alvine "Myrtie" SOMMERFIELD had the following children: