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Town of Richfield (Lake Five)
St Columbia 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.


Brady, Dennis
Brady, Dennis and Margaret
Brady, Peter
Chapman and Flanigan family ,  
Ckark, John
Claffey, Ellen F.
Claffey, Thomas
Clark, Patrick
Coleman, Catherine R.
Cryan, James and Ann
Cryan, Mary
Cryan, Thomas
Curry, James and Ellen
Daley, Ann
Dempsey, Mary
Dempsey, Patrick
Diamond, Mary
Donley, John
Donnelly, family
Donnelly, Francis and Margaret
Donnely, Mary
Driscoll, Bartholomew
Dunn, Walter and Elizabeth
Ennis, Andrew and Ann
Ennis, Andrew Jr.
Ennis, Catherine Clark and Ann
Ennis, David D. and Peter J.
Fahey, Maria
Fahey, Michael and Mary
Fahey, Patrick S.
Fitzsimmons, Michael
Flynn, Eugene and Catherine
Flynn, John and Elizabeth
Flynn, Patrick and Catherine
Hoye, Patrick and Anna M.
Jaquest, Richard A.
Jaquest, William S. and Margaret
Kelley, Mary Ann
Kelly and Burke family,  
Kelly, Bridget
Kiley, Michael and Mary
Lilley, John and Ellen
Lilley, Margret
Magner, David and Catherine
Magner, Ellen
Magner, Jermiah and Catherine
Maguire, Bernard and Nabby
Maguire, James
Martin, Thomas and John
McCarthy, Ann
McCarthy, Michael
McGrath, Michael
McKenna, Edward
McKenna, Francis and Mary Ann
Millay, John
Murphy, Elizabeth Brady
Murray, Bridget
Nelis, Patrick
Noller, family
OKeane, Richard
ORourke, Mary Murray
ORourke, Patrick
OSullivan, Thomas
Readmond, Sarah Bradey
Redmond, family
Redmond, Mary H.
Redmond, Michael
Riley, Michael and Thomas
Schaenzer, George and Mary
Sennett, Mary
Sheehan, Annie and Mary
Sheehan, Elizabeth
Sheehan, Johanna
Sheehan, Michael
Sheridan, Elizabeth
Sinnott, family
South, Margret
Stanton, Elisabeth and Cannon
Walsch, Ann
Welsh, Phillip

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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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