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Franz Wilhelm Zittlow

Male 1845 - 1917  (71 years)


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  • Name Franz Wilhelm Zittlow 
    Born 14 Apr 1845  Pommern, Cochem-Zell, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 14 Feb 1917  Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I44696  Little Chute Genealogy
    Last Modified 18 Oct 2016 

    Father Christian Ziettlow,   b. 1800,   d. 1859  (Age 59 years) 
    Mother Dorothae Schroeder,   b. 18 Oct 1802,   d. 30 Mar 1878, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years) 
    Family ID F100085  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Pauline Dobberstein,   b. 06 Dec 1845, Budzyn, Chodziez, Poland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jul 1924, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married 02 Jan 1864  Brown County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Mathilda Zittlow,   b. 04 May 1865, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Feb 1941, DePere, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years)
     2. Gustav Zittlow,   b. 25 Nov 1866, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 04 Jan 1867, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     3. Franz Zittlow,   b. 03 Mar 1868, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Apr 1868, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     4. Wilhelm Zittlow,   b. 25 Jun 1869, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Sep 1880, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 11 years)
     5. Augusta Emilie Zittlow,   b. 23 Dec 1870, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Dec 1880, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 10 years)
     6. Caroline Ottilie Zittlow,   b. 27 Jan 1872, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Jan 1890, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 17 years)
     7. Herman Julius Zittlow,   b. 05 Feb 1873, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Dec 1880, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 7 years)
     8. Pauline Louise Zittlow,   b. 25 Aug 1874, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Apr 1919, Oshkosh, Winnebago Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 44 years)
     9. Franz Wilhelm Reinhold Zittlow,   b. 12 Jan 1877, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Sep 1880, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 3 years)
     10. Emile Augusta Zittlow,   b. 10 Nov 1877, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 06 Sep 1880, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 2 years)
     11. Anna Louise Zittlow,   b. 05 Apr 1878, Town of Lawrence, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 08 Sep 1880, Wrightstown High School Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 2 years)
     12. Helen Marie Zittlow,   b. 24 Nov 1881, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 05 Jul 1955, Oshkosh, Winnebago Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
     13. Emma Zittlow,   b. 09 Mar 1883, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 08 Sep 1888, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 5 years)
     14. Carl Julius Zittlow,   b. 17 May 1884, Town of Lawrence, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 06 Jun 1884, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     15. Albert George Zittlow,   b. 13 May 1885,   d. Jun 1971, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
     16. Ernestine Zittlow,   b. 04 Jul 1886,   d. 26 Aug 1886, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     17. Wilhelmina Ernestina Zittlow,   b. 04 Jul 1886, Town of Lawrence, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Aug 1886, Town of Lawrence, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     18. Fredric A Zittlow,   b. 30 Jun 1888, Town of Lawrence, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Sep 1967  (Age 79 years)
     19. Ida Zittlow,   b. 13 Dec 1889, Town of Lawrence, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Jan 1950, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years)
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2022 
    Family ID F15587  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Notes 
    • Frank Zittlow, aged 72 years, died Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock at St. Elizabeth's hospital, Appleton, after submitting to an internal examination on the operating table. His remains were brought to his home on Wednesday night where they were prepared for burial. Mr. Zittlow felt his health failing for the past year and just before Christmas he had paroxysms of terrible pain which gradually became almost unbearable when he sought the best medical aid which proved unavailing.

      Frank Zittlow was born in Germany, April 4, 1845, and came to America with his parents in 1856 settling on wild land in the midst of a dense forest of oak and pine just below Wrightstown on the banks of the Fox River. They came to Kaukauna to reside eight years ago. He was married 52 years ago last June4 to Pauline Dobberstein, the widow now surviving.

      Surviving also are his seven children, namely; Mrs. George Schmidt of Rockland; Mrs. Rudolph Panzig of Oshkosh; Mrs. William Lostin of Milwaukee; Albert Zittlow of Sniderville, and Fred Zittlow of Kaukauna; also two brothers, Christopher and Gottfried Zittlow of Wrightstown.

      For over half a century this early pioneer labored on the same farm where he carved out a home from the great forest which covered the whole country at the time for many miles. What life was like in those times seems difficult of comprehension by the people now living who know nothing of the privations inseperable from the conditions of things then of everyday occurrence. They used at first to follow a trail to Green Bay to go to market and often bore on their backs a grist mill to bring back in the same manner the flour and middlings obtained by grinding the wheat. Roads then were minus and a passing boat on the river was considered a Godsend if on it they could obtain passage by its primitive accommodations. Mr. Zittlow often told of how in the mid-winter he was forced to go to Wrightstown when the whole country was covered with snow four feet deep and to reach the village he walked on the rail fences most of the way and it was weeks before roads were shoveled out so they were passable.

      Their hard work in clearing up their farm land was not without reward for all the pine, oak and basswood logs were marketed at the saw mill at Wrightstown. But the labor necessary to cut the logs, haul them to market and do the logging and clearing was herculean and took men of iron constitutions to stand under the tremendous strain. Few are able to fully comprehend all the trials lived through in such a long and arduous life of work.

      The pallbearers for Mr. Zittlow will be his children and grandchildren, Albert and Fred Zittlow--his sons and Arthur and Oscar Schmidt-his grandsons.

      The funeral will be held at the house and at 11:00 o'clock at Trinity Lutheran church, Rev. William Hinnenthal officiating, with interment in the family lot at the Lutheran cemetery at Wrightstown going thence by interurban line and hearse and hacks at Wrightstown.