Milwaukee County Wisconsin Genealogy

Milwaukee County Almshouse and Poor Farm Cemeteries 1872 - 1934

Burials 1872-1934
1893-1913 very few if any deaths transcribed from county records 
(entries with a * indicate information taken from Milwaukee County Coroner's report at the Research Library at the Milwaukee County Historical Society.)

Items in brackets [] were found from Newspaper accounts and may were not confirmed with the Potters' Field records

ANTON:
J./d. Jan. 2, 1886

ARNI:
Adam/M/age: 66/d. Dec.31, 1875/cause: Suicide/Co. Poor House

ASCHENBRENNER:
Wolfgang/M/age: 32/b. July 11, 1886/d. Sept. 24, 1918/cause: Justifiable 
	Homicide/Corner Brady & Gunshot Wound Warren Ave., Milw.

BAKRIASAN:
Anna/F/age: 1/d. Jan. 28, 1874

BARTSCH:
Friedrich/M/age: 46/d. Sept. 3, 1875/cause: Suicide/11th ward

BAUMANN:
Aug./M/age: 60/d. Aug. 26, 1875/cause: Suicide/Town of Franklin
Albert/M/age: 33/d. Apr. 16, 1925/cause: small pox/S. View Hosp.

BELDEN:
Frank/M/age: 41/d. Mar. 3, 1872/cause:  Phthisis Pulmonalis/MKE Hosp. 
	2nd ward

BEYER:
Ferdinand/M/age: 41/d. Nov. 2, 1880/cause: Chronic Pneumonia/Milw. 
	Co. Hosp.

BOROWICZ:
Anton/M/d. Apr. 9, 1925/cause: pneumonia/Morgue

BRAY:
Billie/F/age:  27/b. Mar. 1898/d. June 4, 1925/cause: small pox/S. 
	View Hosp.

BROWN:
John/M/age: 33/d. Sept. 20, 1918/cause: Pulmonary T.B./Co. Hosp.

BUCHER:
John/M/age: 48/d. Feb. 15, 1925/cause: Cirrhosis of liver/Co. Hospital

BUCK:
Andreas/M/age: 27/d. Apr. 20, 1876/cause: Accidentally drowned/5th ward

CAMERON:
[John Cameron/died July/Aug. 1919]

CARROLL:
[Mrs. Murty Carroll/d. April 1871]

CARPENTER:
[Mrs. James (KITSON) Carpenter/d. Apr. 1912]

CHRIST:
Dora/F/age: 16/d. Apr. 3, 1875

CLARKE:
Patric/M/age: 69/d. Dec.30, 1880/cause: Cerebritis/Milw. Co. Hosp.

CLIFFORD:
John/M/age: 50/d. Apr. 16, 1925/cause: accidental drowning/Rear of 
	Garbage Plant

COLE:
James/M/age: 66/d. Jan. 22, 1874/cause: Broken neck/accidental fall from stairs

COLLINS:
John/M/age: 72/d. Aug 23, 1881/occ: Farmer/b. Ireland/County Farm Cemetery 
	plot #601 death records vol. 16 pg. 286
Frank/M/age: 47/b. c. 1871/d. Aug. 13, 1918/cause: Obstructed Bowel/Milwaukee

CUMMERFORD:
John/M/age: 18/d. Aug. 4, 1876/cause: Altmmiruree

DAHLMAN: 
[George Dahlman/Oct 1930/incorrectly identified]

DALY:
(Child)/d. June 3, 1886

DANSON:
Mary Amanda/F/age: 21/d. Aug. 20, 1880/cause: Pulmonary Phthisis/Milw. Co. Hosp.

DAVIS:
Steve/M/age: 60/d. Mar. 2, 1925/cause: sepsis following bronchitis/Co. Hospital

DAWSON:
Emma/F/age: 20/b. Oct. 14, 1860/d. Sept. 4, 1880/cause: Phthsis Pulmonalis

DELGADO:
Geirofel/M/d. Feb. 5, 1925/cause: Pulmonary T.B./Co. Hospital

DIEL:
Jacob/M/age: 74/b. Oct. 4, 1805/d. Oct. 29, 1879/cause: Old Age

DOBBS:
Aaron/M/age: 26/b. Jan. 26, 1899/d. May 14, 1925/cause: small pox/9th ward

DOOLEY:
James/M/age: 47/b. c. 1871/d. Aug. 21, 1918/cause: Accidental fall down 
	stairs/Milwaukee

DOWD:
Albert/M/d. May 16, 1925/cause: small pox/S. View Hosp.

DROYER:
Max/M/d. Aug. 27, 1918/cause: T.B./Pneumonia/Co. Hosp.

DUNCAN:
Henry/M/age: 59/b. c. 1870/d. Mar. 4, 1925/cause: accidental drowning/KK River

ECKERKUNST:
Wilhemina/F/age: 37/d. Feb. 6, 1881/cause: Pulmonary Phthisis/Milw. Co. Hosp.

ENGLAND:
Johan/M/age: 56/d. June 14, 1876/cause: Debility/6th ward

FISHER:
(Infant)/M/age: 5 hr/b. June 8, 1880/d. June 8, 1880/cause: PreBirth/Convulsions

FITZGERALD:
(Infant)/F/age: 17 days  Jan. 14, 1881/d. Jan. 31, 1881/cause: Inanition/
	Milw. Co. Hosp.

FLORENCE:
Ivy/F/age: 5 days/d. June 10, 1880/cause:  Convulsions/ Milw. Co. Hosp.

FLOWERS:
James/M/age: 29/d. Dec.25, 1877/cause: Variola

FLUGGE:
Gottlieb/M/age: 47/d. May 6, 1875/cause: Suicide/6th ward

FLYMANN:
(Infant)/M/b. May 7, 1872/d. May 7, 1872/cause: Stillborn/Wauwatosa

GONDELIA:
Johann/M/age: 72/b. May 20, 1848/d. Aug. 27, 1918/cause: Arterial Sclerosis/
	Infirmary

GRAHAM:
Randolph/M/age: 26/d. Aug. 31, 1875/cause: Accidentally drowned/5th ward

GRUNDLER:
Albert/M/age: 28/d. Nov. 7, 1880/cause: Epilepsy/Milw. Co. Hosp.

HACKBART:
Gottfried/M/age: 60/d. Mar. 18, 1875/cause: Absuss of brain

HANNON:
James/M/age: 64/b. June 20, 1860/d. Apr. 4, 1925/cause: pneumonia/Co. Hospital

HARP:
D. C./M/age: 23/d. Feb. 22, 1872/cause: Inflammation of brain/
	St. Mary's Hospital

HARTMANN:
Joseph/M/d. July 15, 1885

HARVEY:
Peter/M/age: 42/d. Aug. 1, 1874/cause: Private disease

HASBIN:
Gust/M/age: 44/b. July 1, 1880/d. Apr. 14, 1925/cause: acute alcoholism/
	Rear of 211 Reed

HASLEY:
Mary/F/age: 32/d. May 31, 1880/cause: Phthysis Pulu.

HATJE:
George/M/age: 59/d. Aug. 22, 1880/cause: Cirrhosis of liver/Co. Farm

HAYET:
A. P./M/age: 21/d.  Dec.31, 1880/cause: Typhoid Fever/Milw. Co. Hosp.

HEIL:
Andreas/M/age: 51/b. c. 1874/d. Feb. 19, 1925/cause: Chronic Internal 
	Hemorrhage/Co. Hospital

HERMAN:
[Mrs. Lizzie Herman/F/d. Oct. 15, 1914/age 60/]
         article about trying to raise money to be buried elsewhere.

HERMES:
Adolf/M/age: 34/d. Jan. 16, 1881/cause: Pneumonia/Milw. Co. Hosp.

HERNING:
Adolf/M/age: 30/d. Oct. 28, 1880/cause: Chronic Inflammation of liver/
	Milw. Co. Hosp. 

HEROLD:
Peter/M/age: 28/d. Feb. 6, 1872/cause: Variolae

HOERNER:
John/M/age: 40/d. July 10, 1876/cause: Struck by lightening/11th ward

HOFFMANN:
Wilhelm/M/age: 17/d. Dec.4, 1874/cause: accident/House of Correction 11th ward

HOLLMAN:
John/M/age: 64/b. Apr. 17, 1860 /d. Mar. 7, 1925/cause: Chronic Obliterative
	Pericarditis/Emergency Hospital                                             		

HOLSTED:
Avton/M/age: 34/d. Nov. 23, 1880/cause: Colloid Cancer of Abdomen/Milw. Co. Hosp. 

HOLTZ:
 Henry/M/age: 30/d. Sept. 17, 1880/Milw. Co. Hosp.

HORNER:
Hettie/F/age: 20/d. Dec.7, 1877/cause: Variola

JACOBSON:
Andrew/M/d. June 28, 1885

JENKINS:
George/M/age: 15/d. July 5, 1875/cause: Accidentally drowned/4th ward

JOHNSON:
Annie/F/age: 27/d.  Mar. 10, 1875/cause: Pyaemie
Gustav/M/age: 23/d. Nov. 20, 1880/cause: Typhoid Fever/Milw. Co. Hosp.
Nettie/F/age: 24/d. Dec.7, 1877/cause: Variola
Ruby/F/d. Jan. 28, 1885
John/M/age: 38/d. Feb. 11, 1925/cause: Pneumonia/Co. Hospital
William/M/age: 33/d. May 18, 1925/cause: small pox

JONES:
George/M/age: 16/d. Sept. 29, 1880/cause: Chronic Diarrhoea/Milw. Co. Hosp.

JORDAN:
Alice/F/age: 25/d. Jan. 3, 1876/cause: excessive drinking/7th ward

JUSTMANN:
Chas./M/age: 70/d. Feb. 16, 1881/cause: Congestion of lungs/Milw. Co. Hosp.

KARNIZ:
Jas/M/age: 29/d. Aug. 15, 1918/cause: Pulmonary T.B./Wauwatosa

KASTNER:
Philomena/F/age: 48/b. July 8, 1830/d. Dec.6, 1878/cause: Chronic Rheumatism

KEATING:
Emma D./F/age: 27/d. Dec.31, 1880/cause: Peritonitis/Milw. Co. Hosp.
Margaretha/F/age: 3 days   12, 18, 1880/d. Dec.21, 1880/cause: 
	Cyanosis/Milw. Co. Hosp.

KELLY:
George/M/age: 20/d. Feb. 26, 1925/cause: Probable Accidental Drowning/
	Milwaukee River, C&NW Bridge
James/M/age: 48/b. c. 1877/d. Mar. 4, 1925/cause: accidental drowning/
	Milw. River

KISHBAUGH:
William/age:  M/age: 68/b. c. 1856/d. Mar. 29, 1925/cause: Myocardial 
	insufficiency/arteriosclerosis/Asylum

KOELTZKY:
Bert/M/age: 34/b. Aug. 13, 1884/d. Aug. 28, 1918/cause: Pulmonary T.B./Co. Hosp.

KOMOROWSKI:
John/M/age: 22/d. Aug. 29, 1918/cause: Exhaustion Congenital Imbicile/Asylum M.D.

KONIECZNA:
Joseph/M/age: 73/b. Mar. 19, 1845/d. Aug. 15, 1918/cause: Arteriosclerosis 
	Hemorrhage/Infirmary

LEONARD:
Frank/M/age: 39/b. Aug. 27, 1879/d. Aug. 8, 1918/cause: Pulmonary T.B./Wauwatosa

LISAK:
Walter/M/age: 27/b. Apr. 11, 1891/d. Aug. 20, 1918/cause: Pulmonary T.B./Muirdale

LIVERLAY:
John/M/age: 35/d. Mar. 15, 1876/cause: Suicide/Milwaukee

LOUIS:
Nick/M/age: 26/d. Sept. 11, 1918/cause: Lobal Pneumonia/Morgue

LUKAS:
Eva/F/age: 2wks/b. July 7, 1880/d. July 21, 1880/cause: Tuterus

LYNCH:
Margaret/F  73/d. Jan. 31, 1888/b. Ireland/county cemetery plot #236 death 
	records vol. 55 pg. 227

MARLES:
Vincent/M/age: 37/d. May 25, 1925/cause: broncho pneumonia/Co. Hospital

MARTIN:
Sran/F/age: 38/d. Jan. 1, 1872/cause: Confluent small pox/MKE Hosp. 4th ward

MATZ:
Christian/M/age:  61/d. June 17, 1875/cause: Suicide/2nd ward

MCCABE:
J.W.A./M/age: 39/d. Dec.13, 1877/cause: Variola

MCCAFFERY:
James/M/age: 76/b. 1804/d. Sept. 5, 1880/cause: Bright's Disease/Milw. Co. Hosp.

MCGLNLEY:
Joseph/M/age: 68/b. June 24, 1850/d. Sept. 7, 1918/cause: Syphillis, Myocardial 
	Insufficiency/arteriosclerosis/Infirmary

MENTZEL:
Emil/M/age: 38/d. Aug. 6, 1918/cause: Chronic Parenchymatous/Wauwatosa                                            	  	        

METZ:
Joseph/M/age: 40/d. June 21, 1880/cause: Endocarditis/Co. Hosp.

MEYER:
Emilie/F/age: 3yr&5mob. Jan. 3, 1876/d. July 1, 1879/cause: Dypheric Croup

MEYERS:
[A.W. MEYERS/d. June 26, 1916

MILLER:
[Michael Crawford Miller/d. May 10, 1913/
	aka Joseph Miller/ from Pittsburg, PA]

MITCHELL:
James/M/age: 26/d. Aug. 8, 1876/cause: Accidentally drowned/3rd ward

MONTAG:
Carl/M/age: 57/b. 1820/d. Sept. 13, 1877/cause: Variola

MURPHY:
Ellen/F/age: 60/d. Jan. 1, 1874/cause: Broken neck/accidental fall from stairs

NAGG:
Alex/M/age: 53/d. Aug. 4, 1918/cause: Carcinoma Bowel/Wauwatosa

NEUMANN:
Gustav/M/age: 66/d. Feb. 13, 1925/cause: Broncho Pneumonia/Infirmary

NICKEL:
[Mrs. Casimir Nickel/December 1918]

NIEDHARDT:
Max/M/age: 48/d. Aug. 11, 1918/cause: General P./Asylum M.D.

NORTAN:
Child/F/age: 4 mo./d. Mar. 5, 1872/cause: Convulsion/Police Stn. 7th ward

NUGENT:
Edward/M/age: 30/d. Jan. 8, 1875/cause: accident/7th ward

O'HARA:
Patrick/M/age: c.40/d. Oct. 19, 1928/cause: chronic alcoholism/247 S. 
	Water Street*

OLESON:
Martin/M/age: 3/b. ?  7, 1874/d. Sept. 30,1878?/cause: Scarlatina

PARCHIM:
William Parchim/d. May 2, 1914/buried May 04, 1914  
Death certificate/registration, Milw. County Courthouse, Volume 353; Page 228

PARES:
Mary/F/age: 91 /d. July 31, 1880/cause: Cirrhosis of liver/
	Milw. Co. Hosp.

PARKER:
Marie/F/age: 62/d. Feb. 20, 1876/cause: Murdered/3rd ward

PATTERSON:
Emory/M/age: 40/d. May 28, 1925/cause: small pox/S. View Hosp.

PERRY:
Frank Clinton/M/d. Aug. 20, 1885

PETERSON:
G./M/age: 30/d.  Nov. 27, 1874/cause: Congestive chills/5th ward

PILSKA:
Francis/F/age: 3 wks/d. July 22, 1875/cause: Convulsions/3rd ward

PLUMBER:
Frederick/M/age: 19/d.  Feb. 5, 1881/Milw. Co. Hosp.

POTTS:
Bridget/F/age: 43/d. Aug. 7, 1875/cause: Overdose of wiskey/3rd ward

PREISER:
Henry/M/age: 60/d. Nov. 12, 1880/cause: Cirrhosis/Milw. Co. Hosp.

REICHERT:
(Child)/d. July 6, 1885                         

REIMELT:
William/M/age: 81/b. July 5, 1837/d. Sept. 2, 1918/cause: Insufficiency 
	Arterial Sclerosis/Infirmary

RICHARDT:
 Emil/M/age: 57/d. Sept. 2, 1918/cause: Insufficiency/Co. Hosp.

RIEBE:
Anna/F/age: 22/d. Feb. 10, 1877/cause: Confluent small pox

ROBINSON:
John/M/age: 40/d. June 1, 1925/cause: Homicide gunsshot wound/Morgue

ROEMER: 
[Joe/ d. 1928 ]
         (body probably reinterred elsewhere, see article.

ROSANSKI:
Christoph/M/d. Feb. 8, 1886

ROTHBER:
(Infant)/M/age: 17 days  Aug. 7, 1880/d. Aug. 24, 1880/cause: 
	Inanition/Milw. Co. Hosp.

SADLER:
?/M/d. Apr. 10, 1872/cause: Drowning/Menomonee River 8th ward

SALTER:
Maria/F/age: 21/d. Jan. 13, 1872/cause: Peritonitis/MKE Hosp. 2nd ward

SATORIUS:
Peter/M/age: 21/d. May 26, 1876/cause:  Murdered

SCHMIDT:
(Son)/M/d. Dec.11, 1884
Jacob/M/d. Nov. 4, 1884
John/M/age: 58/d. Sept. 21, 1874/cause: Delirium Tremens/Co. Jail 7th ward
John/M/age: 50/d. June 7, 1925/cause: accidental asphyxiation/Emergency Hosp.

SCHUMANN:
Arthur/M/d. Apr. 30, 1886

SCHWARTING:
Henry/M/age: 62/d. Dec.3, 1875/cause: Exposure/Wauwatosa

SCHWARTZ:
Lilly/F/d. Feb. 26, 1886

SCOBEZ:
Marie/F/age: 42/b. May, 1835/d. Nov. 11, 1877/cause: Phthsis

SEE:
Michael/M/d. Dec.2, 1885

SELL
[John Sell/d. July 1936/body removed to New Holstein Cemetery]

SERNNAUDAL:
Franz/M/age: 46/d.  Dec.27, 1880/cause: Cancer of liver

SIPPERTS:
Carolina/F/age: 2.5/b. Oct. 17, 1869/d. May 27, 1872  

SKOSDUSKIS:
Joseph/M/age: 35/b. c. 1883/d. Aug. 5, 1918/cause: Myocarditis/Milwaukee

SLUTKE:
[Mrs. Slutke/April 1871]

SMITH:
Wm./M/age: 23/d. Apr. 5, 1878/cause: Amyoid degeneration of kidney

SOMMOUS:
William/M/age: 28/b. 1852/d. June 10, 1880/cause: Ceretritis/Co. Hosp.

STAHL:
Mina/F/age: 19/d. July 21, 1877/cause: Variola

STEFFONS:
Fred/M/Age: 45/b. c. 1880/d. May 26, 1925/Cause: Accidental drowning

STEPHAN:
Alexander/M/age: 32/d. May 10, 1880/cause: Phthisis/Milw. Insane Asylum

STORIE:
Margaret/F/age:  28/d. June 11, 1925/cause: small pox/S. View Hosp.

STORM: 
[Joseph Storm/residence Waterford, Wis./d. Oct. 1930/body removed]

SUMMER:
Daniel/M/age: 72/b. Feb. 22, 1846/d. Sept. 23, 1918/cause: Senile 
	Enderositis/Arterio Sclerosis/Infirmary

SWEKAISKI:
Andrew/M/age: c. 55/d. June 16, 1925/cause: myocarditis/Emergency Hosp.

THOMPSON:
Amard/M/age: 32/d. Dec. 25, 1873/cause: Accidental Drowning

TREBERT:
Christina/F/age: 75/d. Feb. 3, 1876/cause: Chronic Bronchitis

TRODE:
Carl/M/age: 60/d. Sept. 13, 1918/cause: Insufficiency/Co. Hosp.

TRUE:
[Ray J. True/d. Mar 1930]

UNKNOWN:
Child/?/d. May 27, 1885
Child/F/age: infant/d. Mar. 16, 1875/cause: premature birth
child/M/age: ?/d. Mar. 30, 1875/cause: strangled/Miller Brewery
Child/M/age: infant/d. Mar. 15, 1875/cause: premature birth
child/M/d. Apr. 19, 1875/cause: stillborn/10th ward
Child/M/age: Infant/d. Nov. 4, 1875/cause: Strangled/2nd ward
Female Babe/F/d. Oct. 17, 1885
Female Babe/F/d. Sept. 14, 1885
Foetus/d. July 23, 1885
Male Babe/M/d. Aug. 3, 1885
[Male/d. April 1871]
Male/M/age: 50-60/d. Oct. 27, 1874/cause: accident by railroad/
	U. West RR
Male/M/age: c. 35/d. Oct. 27, 1874/cause: Accidentally drowned/
	Milw. River 5th ward
Man/M/d. May 11, 1886/cause: Drowned
Man/M/d. Sept. 19, 1913/age abt 45
unknown #207/M/age: c. 45/d. Mar. 28, 1925/cause: Accidental drowning/
	Lake Michigan
unknown #209/M/age: 40/b. c. 1885/d. Mar. 1, 1925/cause: accidental 
	drowning/Milw. River
unknown #212/M/age: 40/d. Mar. 30, 1925/cause: accidental drowning/
	Rear Illinois Steel Co.
unknown #213/M/age: 40/d. May 2, 1925/cause: accidental drowning/Rear 
	Wagner Architectural Iron Works
unknown #215/M/age: 45/d. May 26, 1925/cause: accidental drowning
[five bodies/see article/reinterred 1904]
[Unknown Male/Jan. 17, 1925]

VAUGHN:
Edward/M/age: 50/d. Oct. 5, 1878/cause: Pyaemia

WAWAK:
Mike/M/age: 43/d. Aug. 17, 1918/cause: Pulmonary T.B./Wauwatosa

WEAKLY:
Walter/M/age: 55/d.  June 11, 1925/cause: pulmonary T.B./Co. Hospital

WELSH:
Edward J./M/age: 44/b. Feb. 3, 1874/d. Sept. 23, 1918/cause: Acute 
	left pleuresy with effusion/Milwaukee

WEST:
Jennie/F/age: 3wks/b. July 6, 1880/d. July 28, 1880/cause: Infantile 
	Convulsions/Milw. Co. Hosp.
[Gertrude/wife of Paul West/ South Side Carnival "Fat Lady"/d. July 31, 1918]

WIENER:
Anna/F/age: 45/d. Nov. 20, 1877/cause: Cancer of Uterus

WILLIAMS:
Ellen/F/age:  20/d. Nov. 2, 1874/cause: Cramp disease/Buffalo St. 3rd ward

ZEUTNER:
Jacob/M/age: 77/d. Feb. 23, 1925/cause: Arteriosclerosis/Alms House

ZINICH:
John/M/age: 30/b. Aug. 22, 1888/d. Aug. 23, 1918/cause: Pulmonary T.B/Wauwatosa