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These photos were generously taken and contributed to these pages by Larry & Linda Kopet!   Please take a moment to thank them for this terrific resource!  Use your back browser button to return to this page. Please note that these generous contributions do not necessarily depict all tombstone photographs for a given cemetery.


Benak, Joseph F.
Benes, John R. and Eleanor M.
Benzine, William A. and Janet M.
Benzmiller, Matthew and Theresia
Bischoff, Cayli Jameson
Blazies, Steve
Corliss, Rex E. and Marie M.
Cowgill, Daniel L. and Cecelia
Crowe, Gordon H. and Pansy E.
Cuff, Francis
Cuff, Margaret
Cuff, William J.
Dailey, J. Richard
Dailey, John
Dailey, Katherine
Dalton, Ellen
Dalton, James
Dalton, Louise J.
Dalton, Mark P.
Dalton, Michael J.
Dann, Deborah M.
Dann, Merrill G. and Marie M.
Deane, Robert D. and Lauretta M.
Devine, Mary Lucille
Dowdell, George C. and Josephine H.
Edmondson, Tyler James
Ehrhardt, Denise
Eichner, Stephen and Julia E.
Felicijan, Jacob John and Darlene Joyce Domini
Fitzgerald, Frederick and Dorothy
Ford, Bessie
Ford, Thomas J.
Fritz, Ethel Smith
Gallagher, Chester Arthur
Gallagher, Michael and Luella
Gartland, Robert J. and Betty J.
Garvin, John
Garvin, Rose Doherty
Garvin, William F. and Kathryn
Gilbert, Florence
Gilbert, J.W. and Julia A.
Gombert, Henry J. and Mathilda C.
Gorman, Bridget
Gorman, H.M. and Dot
Gorman, Richard
Grady, Cathrine H.
Grady, James J.
Griggs, Dr. W.E.
Griggs, Mary
Guritz, August and Tillie
Haas, Josephine
Hagan, J. Chester
Hagan, Josephine
Halpin, James C. and Alice C.
Halpin, Joseph E.
Halpin, Norman and Ann Klaila
Halpin, Patricia Ann
Hamilton, Gary L.
Harless, Romana Dalton
Hegna, Chester R.
Hegna, Doris I.
Horn, Ginny and Owen, Agnes
Hudzinski, Donald F. and Jane W.
Humphrey, James R. and Alice D.
Humphrey, Patrice Ann
Jacobson, Robert F. and Rita R. Dawson
Jochum, Marvin P.
Kaerney, Daniel and Antoinette
Kall, Daniel Winfield and Lucetta Trapp
Kearney, Anna J.
Kearney, John H. and James
Kearney, Mary A.
King, J.P.
King, Robert
King, Rosie
Klaila, Andrew M.
Klaila, Beth A.
Klaila, James A. and Mary Jane
Klaila, James Arthur
Klaila, Joseph R.
Klaila, Mary Elizabeth
Klaila, Norbert R.
Klaila, Ronald (Bub)
Kochom, Robert L. and Jennie C.
Kueffer, Charles and Clara
Kvalheim, Harry E. and Ann T.
Kvalheim, Harry E.
Kvalheim, Sharon A.
Levanduski, Joseph J.
McMahon, Anthony P.
McMahon, Kimberly Anne
McMahon, Linda M.
McMahon, Lisa
McMahon, Monica
McNerney, William H. and Mary H.
Miles, James
Miles, Patrick and Mary A.
Molony, Anna
Molony, John H.
Moran, Agnes
Moran, John
Myhre-Belcher, Mary Schliesman
Olrick, Clarence and Gertrude
Olrick, Leo
Phelps, Milo G. and Mary
Porter, James
Postel, Jennie E. McMahon
Pratt, Elizabeth
Przekurat, Bernard and Marion A.
Pulver, Enoch L. and Anna L.
Rausch, Gust and Margaret
Reif, Alois M. and Gladys L.
Roherty, Catherine Carvin
Rowe, Alfred J. and Esther V.
Rowe, Donald
Rowe, James and Ellen
Rowe, James C. and Louise M.
Rowe, Margaret
Salisbury, William and Mary J.
Schliesman, Henry J. and Ada H.
Schliesman, Ivo H.
Schliesman, J. Earl
Schliesman, Ledyth Miller
Schliesman, Mayme
Schliesman, Otto A.
Schliesmann, Michael and Apolonia
Schwalbach, Ida
Schwalbach, John M.
Schwochert, Agnes E.
Scott, Fred H.
Scott, Mary J.
Sherlock stone,  
Sherlock, Harry and Mary
Sherlock, Jack
Sherlock, Kate
Sherlock, Rose
Smith, George R.
Smith, John
Smith, Robert G.
Smith, Rose
Sosinsky, Frank
Sosinsky, Joseph and Pansy
Sosinsky, Leo A.
Sosinsky, Louis
Stave, Martin and Agnes
Staveness, James O. (Jim) and Penny M.
Staveness, Kenneth J. Sr. and Virginia E. Doherty
Strmiska, Dale E. and Liane K. Breunig
Thomas, August C.
Tomlinson, Mary
Traut, David J. and Helen C.
Traut, George M. and Marie V.
Triggs, Lawrence R. and Beatrice A.
Warmke, Marilyn
Wescott, C. Donald and Ruth M. Ludwig
Woodcock, Henry P. Jr.

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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"]

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ProjectCopyright 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.

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