La Crosse Area Genealogical Society

As recorded in Vol. 2, No. 3, February 1981 LAGS Quarterly
N1/2 Sec 10 Twp 103N R4W
On the farm of Freddie PETERSEN (formerly GEIWITZ & GASSERT)
Cemetery Recorded by Mrs. Anita J. LEE

{This is} a union cemetery, which is divided by an imaginary line into two equal parts, one-half of which belongs to the Roman Catholics and the other half to the German Lutherans and German Methodists, who hold the north part, which is on the farm of Jacob SEMERLING and the other is one the farm of F. GASSERT. This arrangement was made about 1870. The first burial, however, was in 1859, a son of Fred GASSERT who was about twelve years of age. [From Neil's Houston Co. History, 1882, p. 394.]

At one time a fence actually separated the above two parts of the cemetery. On Nov. 10, 1874, Frederick GASSERT, Hobert GSTALDER, Frederick GASSERT, Jr., Andrew HARTMAN, Jacob DABALD, and William PRIEM bought some of the above land for one dollar. In the land deed of the PETERSEN farm, the German Ridge Cemetery is excepted out and set aside as a cemetery. This cemetery contains some of the first farmers in Minn. as the land office which opened at Brownsville, MN in 1854 issued government patents to several of the people buried here.

Surname	Given Name(s)	Birth Date	Birth location	Death Date	Age	Notes
Arenz	Anton	January 2, 1862		April 15, 1935		This grave contains the only vault in the cemetery.
Arenz	John	November 1, 1827		October 7, 1903	75 y, 11 mo, 6 d.
Arenz	Margaretha	August 5, 1828		February 16, 1902	73 y, 6 mo.	Wife of John ARENZ.
Bichel	Anton					Stone down. Unable to record.
Bichel	Bertha	August 24, 1876		April 8, 1901		Wife of John BICHEL. Death Book C, p. 61, line 25, Houston Co., MN.
Bichel	Eva			30 Mai 1883
Bichel	Gott Wilhelm			Marz 1873
Bichel	Margaretha			30 Oct 1899	65 y.	Wife of Anton BICHEL.
Birch	Michael			August 5, 1874	42	Charlie Sauer said he was brought here from Minneapolis, MN, by a dau who then lived in Hokah. She later moved to Mpls.
Engstler	Anton					No stone. Father of John ENGSTLER, Brownsville, Houston Co., MN.
Engstler	Johanna C.	21 October 1823		17 Marz 1898
Engstler	Spouse					Stone down. Unable to record. Civil War Vet. Spouse of Johanna C. Parent of Anton.
Gassert	Elizabeth	August 29, 1830		November 10, 1908
Gassert	Fred	January 9, 1825	Baden	March 29, 1904
Gassert	George Frederick	27 April 1799		18 March 1878
Gassert	Henry, Jr.			December 5, 1897	42	No stone. Informant: his son, Henry GASSERT, Sheboygan, WI from information in his obituary Houston Co, MN. Death Book B, p. 100, line 25. Aged 42 years 13 days.
Gassert	Hohanna			November 27, 1887	85	No stone. Wife of George F. GASSERT. Funeral card owned by Roy GEIWITZ, Hokah, MN d. Nov 27 1887, aged 85. Death record Book A, p. 84, line 29, Houston Co., MN aged 82 yrs 3 m 10 d. Gorn Ger.
Gassert	Leah	September 16, 1869		February 2, 1916		No stone. Death Book D, p. 86, line 23, Houston Co., MN.
Gassert	Son			1859	12	No stone. First burial in cemetery. Son of Frederick & Elizabeth Gassert.
Gassert	Son			1874		No stone. Son of Frederick & Elizabeth Gassert, diptheria.
Gassert	Son			1874		No stone. Son of Frederick & Elizabeth Gassert, diptheria. Informant: Roy GEIWITZ, Hoakh, MN.
Gstalder	Apollonia	March 10, 1826		April 2, 1892		(Hubert)'s wife
Gstalder	Hubert	December 6, 1818		November 5, 1892
Hammer	Alfred	August 3, 1903		July 27, 1908		Son of W. C. & T. HAMMER.
Hammer	Charlie	July 14, 1866		September 14, 1902
Hammer	Christoph	4 May 1833		16 November 1892		Stone down. Birth record Evangelisches Pfarramt, Knittlingen, Wirtenberg, Germany. Civil War Vet.
Hammer	G. F.	June 29, 1862		February 2, 1908
Hammer	Gertrude	August 17, 1863		December 13, 1900		Wife of Charles HAMMER. Nee ARENZ.
Hammer	Theresia	March 6, 1839		July 20, 1897
Hammer	William C.	28 November 1872		October 13, 1937		No stone. Birth date from records of father's Civil War service. Father was Christoph F. HAMMER.
Hartman	Andreas			July 20, 1888	67 y, 1 mo, 18 d.
Hartman	Frederica			1906	70 y, 4 mo, 25 d.	Nee HAMMER.
Hartman	Fredericka	20 June 1868		6 October 1874		Diptheria.
Hartman	Fredericka	11 April 1875		8 January 1877
Hartman	Gussie			December 12, 1890	2 y, 3 mo, 18 d.	Daughter of Fred and Mary HARTMAN.
Hartman	Minnie (Wilhelmina)	21 January 1862		October 1874		Diptheria.
Niebuhr	Carl W.	January 23, 1872		January 22, 1879		Son of Henry & Katherine (GSTALDER) NIEBUHR. Informant: Esther GSTALDER BECKER, Hokah, MN.
Priem	H. Wilholmina	June 20, 1820		2 January 1890	69 y, 7 mo, 2 d.
Priem	Wilhelm			November 22, 1910		Husband of Wilhelmina PRIEM. Death Book C, p. 60, line 2.
Simon	Albert	1832		1903		Civil War Vet.
Simon	Mary	1854		1921
Simon						Small stone down, unable to record.
Simon						Another SIMON stone down.
Woldt	Bertha					Stone down. Unable to record.
Woldt	Ida L.			1 Juli 1977	1 y. 4 mo.	Kinder von Wm. & Bertha WOLDT
Woldt	Martin A.			17 July 1890	1 y. 1 mo.	Kinder von Wm. & Bertha WOLDT
Woldt	Wm.					Stone down. Unable to record.
Wolters	Lillian	1873		1906		Wife of Henry WOLTERS. Daughter of Andreas and Frederica (HAMMER) HARTMAN.
Wolters	Olga			1894	3 mo.	Daughter of Lillian.

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