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Independent Cemetery
Tombstone Photos


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.


Abel, Louis and Bertha
Abel, Wilhelm
Abel, Wilhelmina
Ahrens, Christoph
Ahrens, Helena
Bargender, Nancy C.
Brinkman, Dora
Brunn, Alexander M.
Brunn, Rudolph
Brunn, Sophia
Buechner, Adam
Clauer, Philip
Compty, Mattie
Davitz, Edward
Davitz, George O. Micky
Davitz, John and Caroline
Davitz, Otto and Anna
Erbe, Ella
Erbe, Rudolph
Fish, Keith C.
Frederickson, Hattie
Gast, Emma
Goelzer, Dan G.J.
Goelzer, Louis
Goll, Albert and Bertha Abel
Gorsegner, Emil H. and Erma A.
Gross, Carolina
Guenther, J. Gottfried
Guenther, Louis
Guenther, Louisa
Guenther, Margaret
Guentzel, Augusta
Guentzel, Eleanor
Guentzel, Wm.
Hahn, Elizabeth
Halter, Johanna
Hauerwas, Adam and Emelie
Hoffmann, Henry
Honadel, Dorothy Haushalter
Honadel, Elroy O.
Honadel, George Jr.
Honadel, George Sr. and Dorothy
Honadel, Lorraine M.
Honadel, Lucy
Independent Cemetery Sign,  
Jacob, Glen and Kathleen
Kalbing, Alex H. and Olive C.
Keske, Adella
Keske, Carl
Keske, Friedaricka
Kling, George K.
Koehne, Emma Honadel
Koehne, Ida
Mahn, Elsie
Mahr, Carl
Mahr, Lillie
Mahr, Lilly
Mahr, William
Matthes, Henry
McDonald, Amelia A. Tesch
Meyer, Conrad
Meyer, Mary
Miller and Schwartz families,  
Moga, Caroline Last
Prohl, Frank C.
Prohl, Pauline A.
Radamaker, Henry and Lizzie
Reinert, Dorothea
Reinert, John A.
Reinert, Nick
Revolinski, Gerald and Bernice
Roethe, Christiana
Roethe, Heinrich
Roth, Amanda
Ruhestaette, family
Schattner, Augusta
Schattner, Ottilie
Schattner, Philipp Sr.
Schattner, Phillip
Schattner, Walter and Eveline
Schwartz, Barbara
Schwartz, Christian
Schwartz, Ferdinand
Schwartz, Friedericka
Schwartz, Katherine
Schwartz, Phillip and Friederick
Schwartz, Wm.
Stephan, Ella Clauer
Stephan, George
Tesch, Albert and Emma
Tesch, Heinrich and Johanna
Tietz, Carl
Tischendorf, August C.
Tischendorf, Clarence and Esther
Tischendorf, Friedricka
Tischendorf, Maria J.
Van Ess, James and Minnie
Vlach, Charles G.
Vollmer, Edwin L.
Wagner, Anna M.
Werner, George and Anna
Werner, Martin and Lillie
Werner, Willie
Winter, Elmer H.
Zeisse, Bertha Pfeil
Zickuhr, George and May E.
Zickuhr, John
Zickuhr, Ottilie Tietz
Ziemann, Carl

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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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