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St Peters 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.


Aufermann, Peter
Berg, John
Berg, Mary
Bock, John
Bock, Katharina
Bock, Mathias and Mary
Braun, George
Eimermann, Adolph and Emma
Garhart, Philipp
Gerhard, Cahrlotta B.
Gerhardt, Philip and Friederic
Graff, Elisabeth
Joeckel, Elizabeth
Kadatz, August and Augusta
Kernen, Jacobina Gerhard
Kissinger, Carie M.
Kissinger, Jacob
Kohls, August and Ida
Krueger, Charles and Sophie
Kruepke, Kathleen
Kruepke, Lucille Mae
Kuester, August W.
Kuester, family
Lange, Otto
Mathes, George
Nehrbass, Emilie
Nehrbass, G. Katharina
Nehrbass, Philip and Margaret
Otto, Sofia K.
Rehrbas, Jakob
Reiss, Hugo
Reiss, Johann and Magdalena
Ruhnke, Fredrich
Ruhnke, Henrietta
Runke, Mallie
Sauthoff, Augustah
Sauthoff, Johanna
Scheunamann, Ida
Schneiss, Elizabeth
Schneiss, Gabriel
Schneiss, Maria E.
Schneiss, Peter
Schowalter, Charlotte
Schowalter, Christian
Schowalter, John
Schowalter, Maria
Schowalter, Samuel
Schowalter, Veronika
Zahn, Bernhard
Zahn, Friedericka Bratz
Zahn, Karl W.
Zahn, Wilhelmina
Zepp, Lena
Zieger, Karl
Zieger, Rosa

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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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