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Columbia County
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| Achterberg, Louis and Amelia |
| Alderden, female |
| Alderden, M.C. |
| Bandsma, Emma Docter |
| Bauman, Willie and Clara |
| Boomsma, James M. and family |
| Boomsma, John Harry |
| Boorsma, Joseph Sr. and Hattie |
| Braaksma, Walter D. |
| Bradley, Frank E. |
| Bradley, Thomas |
| Brandsma, Edward and Clara |
| Brooks, Harvey and Eunice M. |
| Brooks, William P. and Delia A. |
| Bruxvoort, Harvey J. and Margo A. |
| Bunkowske, Adolph R. and Annette M. Roberts |
| Burbach, Christ H. |
| Busse, Kenneth C. |
| Cupery, Sipke and Menke |
| Cupery, Yatse S. |
| De Vries, henry |
| De Vries, Howard F. and Judith E. |
| De Vries, infant |
| De Vries, Jennie |
| DeBoer, Gerhardt M. and Jeanette |
| DeBoer, Shirley Jean |
| DeYoung, Mike and Jennie |
| DeYoung, Myrin and Gladys H. |
| Dykstra, Nicholas and family |
| Dykstra, Nick J. |
| Dykstra, Sam and Hattie |
| Dykstra, Sjouke and Grace |
| Dystra, Henry L. |
| Eisely, Sadie |
| Elgersma, Gerben K. |
| Ellis, Mary |
| Epley, Elizabeth |
| Epley, Morgan H. |
| Gilmore, Justine Patience |
| Graafsma, Albert |
| Graafsma, Frank |
| Grebe, Sophia |
| Haima, Erwin W. and Jennie |
| Hammond, Benjamin and Wrexaville O. |
| Heeringa, Andrew |
| Horkheimer, Arthur P. (Porky) and Mary E. Foley |
| Horkheimer, Edmund Philip |
| Horkheimer, Foley A. (Jack aka Star Hustler) |
| Horkheimer, Neil Michael |
| Hughes, Elizabeth |
| Hughes, infant |
| Huizenga, Benjamin and Annie |
| Huizenga, Eric S. (Lefty) and Lois M. |
| Huizenga, Lucas |
| Huizenga, Lynn A. |
| Hunt, Frank J. |
| Hunt, Joseph and Susan |
| Jansma, Leroy W. (Lee) and Nancy Balk |
| Jansma, Louie and Anna |
| Jones, E.P. and family |
| Jones, John C. and Laura |
| Jones, John P. and Catharine |
| Kaminski, Bernard |
| Kaminski, Max L. and Ethel J. O'Laughlin |
| Katsma, Clarence D. and family |
| Keeley, father and mother |
| Keeley, Mildred |
| Keeley, Ralph H. |
| Kikkert, Elizabeth Bandsma |
| Kikkert, Nick Sr. |
| Kintopp, Michael |
| Koman, Arnold J. and family |
| Kooistra, Gerrit P. |
| Kooistra, Ida Elgersma |
| Kooistra, Peter C. |
| Kooistra, Peter |
| Koppelman, Louis and Margaret F. Zimmermann |
| Kovalaske, Charles F. and Cecelia C. |
| Kovalaske, Joseph and Frances |
| Kovalaske, Joseph and Pauline |
| Krueger, Alvin |
| Krueger, Elsa and Tessmann, Helena |
| Kuiper, Fred and Emma |
| Kuipers, John and Johanna |
| Kuizenga, John and Elsie Douma |
| Lightner, J. Addison |
| Lightner, Lettie E. |
| Maas, Emma L. |
| Marquart, Emma M. |
| Marquart, infants |
| Marquart, unclear child |
| McMorran, David and Nancy A. |
| McMorran, Floyd and Lillian A. |
| McMorran, Richard |
| McMorran, Viola |
| Medema, Alvin (Al) and Ramona J. Vander Woude |
| Michaels, Ernestine |
| Minnema, Frank and unclear |
| Morford, Rev. J.B. |
| Moskoskie, Joseph and Anna |
| Mrotzek, Heinz |
| Nightingale, Brighty and family |
| Nihf, Carl R. and Darlene B. |
| Oestreich, Wilhelm and family |
| Parry, Elizabeth |
| Patrick, William K. and Ida M. |
| Pendell, Belle |
| Pendell, Ellery |
| Pfannenstill, Paul and Carol Lewis |
| Pierce, M. |
| Pierce, unclear |
| Podoll, Rudolph and Wilhelmina |
| Podoll, Willis |
| Posthuma, August and Jessie |
| Posthuma, Eli |
| Posthuma, Gertie |
| Posthuma, Juliette J. |
| Pynakker, A. Van Der Wal |
| Regnerus, Jacob W. Sr. |
| Roberts, Robert L. and Mary C. |
| Ruh, Henry S. and Hilda C. |
| Sasada, Otto A. and family |
| Schaalma, John and Dorothy Douma |
| Schmidt, Elias and Clara |
| Schrecardus, James A. and family |
| Smedema, John C. and Frances |
| Sonnenberg, Charlie and Auguste |
| Stamm, Ida |
| Stamm, Irma M.A. |
| Stavropoulos, George A. Sr. and family |
| Sterk, Chester S. and Gertrude Minnema Heeringa |
| Stiemsma, Henry (Hank) and Sarah |
| Stiemsma, Louis B. and Geraldine McCollum |
| Suffron, Sarah |
| Syens, Clifford and Gladys G. Elgersma |
| Syens, Martin and Anna |
| Sytsma, Ben D. and family |
| Tamminga, Nathan T. |
| Tamminga, Norris and Winnella Posthuma |
| Terpstra, Peter and Anna |
| Tessmann, Else M.E. |
| Tillema, Gerald A. and family |
| Van Beek, Donald G. and Johanna DeVries |
| Van Buren, Steven and Daniel |
| Van Delle, Steven W. |
| Van Dellen, Ralph W. and Isabel E. |
| Van Der Schaaf, Margaret |
| Van Der Werff, Jacob Edward |
| Van Der Werff, John L. and Dora |
| Van Dyke, August and family |
| Van Dyke, Gerald M. (Jerry) and Melrose C. Alderden |
| Van Her Waarden, Abraham and Sarah Boresma |
| Van Zanen, Robert C. and Elizabeth |
| Vander Galien, Melvin and Ann G. Huizenga |
| Vander Galien, Samuel and Louise E. |
| Vander Galien, William S. and Elizabeth Jansma |
| Vander Meer, Harry and Kathryn |
| Vander Meulen, Herman |
| Vander Meulen, Jacob and Lena |
| Vander Ploeg, family |
| Vander Werff, George K. and Charlotte M. Vander Meer |
| Vander Werff, John P. and Henrietta Dykema |
| Vander Werff, Louis L. and Arlene Fischer |
| Vander Woude, Newton and Florence Bruinsma |
| Von Allmen, John R. Sr. and Emma M. Willimann |
| Vredeveld, Gilbert W. and family |
| Wandrei, Earl G. and Edna A. Henslin |
| Warmka, Andrew and Rosa |
| Watkins, Clarrissa M. |
| Westerhoff, Bessie Postma Graafsma |
| Westra, Klaas |
| Westra, Theresa |
| Wider, J.C. and Louisa M. |
| Williams, William M. and Annie |
| Young, Earl J. and family |
| Young, George W. |
| Young, Sarah |
| Zemlo, Albert and Adeline |
| Zentarski, Harold F. and Ellen M. Miller |
| Zielsky, William and Amelia |
| Ziese, Viola H. Podoll |
| Zondag, Tuenis T. and Elizabeth E. |
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WISCONSIN MUNICIPALITIES: Cities Towns, and Villages, often
referred to as 'municipalities' in Wisconsin law, are the
governmental units that relate most directly to citizens'
everyday lives.
TOWNS, like counties, were created by the state to provide
basic municipal services. Rooted in New England and New York
tradition, town government came to Wisconsin with the
settlers, but Wisconsin towns were not like their Eastern
counterparts that reflected the existing patterns of local
settlement. In Wisconsin, towns are geographical subdivisions
of counties. Towns originally served (and for the most part
they continue to serve) rural areas. Towns govern those areas
of Wisconsin not included in the corporate boundaries of
cities and villages.
The difference between "township" and "town" often confuses
the public. In Wisconsin, "township' refers to the surveyor's
township which was laid out to identify land parcels within a
county. Theoretically. a township is a square tract of land,
measuring six miles on a side for a total of 36 square miles
in the unit. Each township is divided into 36 sections.
"Town", as the word is used in Wisconsin, denotes a specific
unit of government. It's boundaries may coincide with the
surveyor's township or it may look quite different. A Town may
include one, parts of or several townships.
CITIES and VILLAGES, often referred to as "incorportated
areas", govern territory where population is more
concentrated. In general, minimum population for incorporation
as a village is 150 residents for an isolated village and
2,500 for a metropolitan village located in a more densely
settled area. For cities, the minimums are 1,000 and 5,000
respectively. As cities and villages are incorporated, they
are carved out of the town territory and become independent
units no longer subject to the town's control. The remainder
of the town may take on a 'Swiss cheese" configuration as its
area is reduced. [Information above taken from "State of Wisconsin Blue Book 1997-1998"] |
 Copyright Notice: These generous
contributions do not necessarily depict all tombstone
photographs for a given cemetery. The source for many of
the cemetery names and placenames on these pages come from Cemetery
Locations in Wisconsin, 3rd edition, compiled by Linda M.
Herrick and Wendy K. Uncapher. The book is published by
Origins at 4327 Milton Ave. Janesville, WI 53546. All files
on this site are copyrighted by their creator and/or
contributor. They may be linked to but may not be reproduced
on another site without specific permission from Tina
Vickery [mailto:tsvickery@gmail.com]
and/or their contributor. Although public information is not in and of
itself copyrightable, the format in which they are presented, the
notes and comments, etc., are. It is however, quite permissable to
print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use ONLY. |
