Holy Innocents Cemetery
Pine Lake, Merton Township
Waukesha County Wisconsin

Location

This cemetery is located on the west side of Highway C, approximately 1 1/2 miles north of Nashotah, at the western limits of the Village of Chenequa, Section 31, Merton Township.

History

This is an active cemetery established March 3, 1844, with the founding of the Scandinavian Parish, Pine Lake. In 1850 the congregation split. One group formed St. John's English Lutheran Church, Stone Bank. This church took the church records and register.

The other part of the congregation remained at the original log church and cemetery grounds. In 1864 this part became known as Holy Innocents Episcopal Church, Nashotah. The Church cemetery was not used again until 1895. In 1895, the last survivor of the original Scandinavian Parish legally transferred the land to Holy Innocents. In 1962 Holy Innocents merged with Grace-Holy Innocents Episcopal. In 1975, the name was changed to St. Anskar's Church.

Records

There are cemetery records 1895 to date. The records are the most complete after 1930. There is a chart of the cemetery and records are available to the public by appointment only. Contact:
Cemetry Records
8118 Stone Bank Road
Oconomowoc, WI 53066
262-966-2927

Mail requests will be answered at no charge. The earlier church recoards are with St. John's Church, Stone Bank

At the Waukesha County Museum there are transcriptions from the tombstones, 1844-1938 with information from the church records of the 1840s. Also Scandinavian Church Records, Pine Lake and St. Olaf's Ashippun, 1841-1859, as written by Rev. Gustaf Unonius and Rev. M.F. Sorenson. This is a transcription of the earliest record book, kept at St. John's Church, Stone Bank. It includes deaths and burials, 1843-1858.

Transcriptions

There are many burials not listed.

Church Burial Records Transcribed From: LDS film # 1392601 by Judy B. (see contributors page). Additional information added from tombstone photographs taken by Larry and Linda Kopet

Records are from about 1886 and some are very hard to read. ---- leaving out letters I can't read

(?) is my best guess.

The early years are VERY hard to read. It appears the record was damaged so the film didn't come out very clear. Plus, whoever recorded it had the worst handwriting!!!

Typically burial is 1-3 days after death.

LY----M: 
Mrs. Martha/bur. 26 Jan 1886/age 73/cause - heart disease/
	burial at Mission(?)
 
H----DGE:
Mrs./bur. 2 Feb(?)1886/age 34 or 54/(either from, or died in) 
	Jacksonville, Fla./cause - spinal ---/burial - St. 
	Peter's, North Lake

ANKSTELL:
Roger(?), (Jr.?)/bur. 20 Sep 1886/age 59/was in Delafield/
	cause - dysentery-(food poison?)/burial - St John 
	Chrysostom church yard

WEAVER:
James/no date/age 84, Sussex/cause - old age/burial - St. 
	Alban's church

L----TT:
Mrs. Frances/bur. 30 Oct 1886/age 76/widow/cause - 
	paralysis/burial - Summit burial ground

L---Y:
Miss Mary/11 Apr 1887/age 55/cause - ---/burial - 
	North Lake

DIBBLE:
Mrs. Harriett/bur. 10 Aug 1887/age 83/cause - old age/
	burial- Oconomowoc cemetery, (LaBelle)

HALLER(?):
Thomas(?)/bur. 9 Oct 1887/age 73/of Stone Bank/cause - 
	old age/burial - (unreadable)/source: Holy Innocents
	Burial Records

BRAINERD:
Nancy Layman(?)/bur. 11 Dec 1887/age 52/wife of - L. 
	Brainerd/no cause, burial - Nashotah/source: Holy 
	Innocents Burial Records 

TOWNSEND:
Duane/bur. 13 Mar 1888/age 39/of Eagle/cause - typhoid ---/
	burial - Oconomowoc(?)/source: Holy Innocents
	Burial Records

SCHWAAB:
--lmer Johnson/bur. 31 Mar 1888/age 3 weeks/cause - p------/
	burial - N------/source: Holy Innocents
	Burial Records

KRAUS(E):
Herbert Conrad(?)/bur. 8 Jul 1888/age 18mo./cause - 
	c----- of n---/burial - (unreadable)/source: Holy Innocents
	Burial Records


BARNES:
Mr. Thomas/bur. 13 Apr 1890/age 69/cause - pleurisy/
	burial - St. Peter's, North Lake /source: Holy Innocents
	Burial Records

RIEHL:
Harmon Harwood/bur. 30 May 1890/age 6mo./cause - 
	pneumonia/burial - Delafield(?)/source: Holy Innocents
	Burial Records

JOHNSON:
Henry/bur. 6 Jun 1890/age 20/cause - malarial fever/
	burial - Holy Innocents

BARNETT:
Walter Ellsworth/bur. 27 Oct 1890/2 mo/cause - m------/
	burial - Nashotah Station cemetery/source: Holy 
	Innocents Burial Records

SOLVERSON:
Samuel H./bur. 16 Feb 1891/age 63/cause - fever/burial - 
	Nashotah Station cemetery/source: Holy Innocents
	Burial Records

KRAUSE:
Mrs. Li-ette/bur. 23 Apr 1891/age 71/cause - pneumonia/
	burial - Oconomowoc cemetery/source: Holy Innocents
	Burial Records

TORKELSON:
Edmund/bur. 27 Apr 1891/(no age given)/cause - stomach 
	cancer/burial - Chapel and cemetery. (unknown location)/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

JOHNSON:
Nels/bur. 18 Jan(?) 1893/age 73/cause - diabetes/
	burial - Chapel and cemetery (unknown location)/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

JOHNSON:
Mrs. Minnie/bur. - 1894/(no age given)/cause - 
	consumption/burial - Chapel and cemetery (unknown location)/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

HARTWELL:
Mrs. Eliza R./bur. 16 Mar 1895/age 68/cause - heart 
	failure/burial - Summit cemetery/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

OLSON:
Charles(?) Otto/bur. 15 ?? 1896/age 38(?)/cause - 
	pneumonia/burial - Pine Lake, Holy Innocents

RASMUS:
Gens/bur. 2 Apr 1897/age 63/cause - pl-pneumonia/
	burial - Nashotah house (?)/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

THOMPSON:
Mrs. Caroline G./bur. 12 Jan 1899/age 60/cause - 
	consumption/burial - Holy Innocents

TORKELSON:
Mrs. Martha Maria/bur. 10 Feb 1899/age 60/cause -  
	heart disease/burial -  Holy Innocents

HANSON:
Miss Carrie J./bur. 4 Sep 1900/(no age )/dau. of R. 
	Hanson/cause - C--- paralysis/burial Holy Innocents


AKE:
Mrs Dinah (nee Gibson)/b. 2 Jun 1841/d. 27 Jan 1901/
	bur. 30 Jan 1901/wife of John Ake/cause - 
	LaGrippe/burial - Holy Innocents

BOLLER:
Mrs. Magdalen/b. 2 Jun 1814/d. 10 Mar 1901/bur. 13 
	Mar 1901/wife of Wm./cause - old age/burial - 
	Delafield/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

JOHNSON:
Caroline Christina/b. Aug 1834/d. 8 Oct 1901/bur. 10 
	Oct 1901/(no cause)/burial - Holy Innocents

FREIHUBE
Ethel Doris/bur. 1 Feb 1902/(no age given)/cause - spinal 
	meningitis/burial -     Holy Innocents

SOLVERSON:
Mrs. Peter/bur. 20 Apr 1903/(no age given)/cause - 
	Appendicitis/burial   Holy Innocents

AKE:
Miss Mary Agnes/b. 27 Aug 1879/d. 21 Sep 1903/bur. 23 Sep 
	1903/dau. of John and Dinah Ake/cause - tuberculosis/
	burial Holy Innocents

FREIHUBE:
bur. 8 Jul 1904/( no further entry)

WATHERHEAD(?):
Mrs. Fannie(?) Armstrong/d. 7 Nov 1906/bur. 9 Nov 1906/
	age 91/cause- old age/residence - Nashotah/
	burial - Delafield/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

SCHWAAB:
Mrs. Mary Ann Johnson/d. 25 Dec 1906/bur. 28 Dec 1906/
	age 41/cause - pneumonia/residence - Nashotah/
	burial Holy Innocents

OLSON:
Richard Alfred/d. 16 Mar 1907/bur. 19 Mar 1907/age 41/
	cause - complication of disease/residence - Waukesha/
	burial - Holy Innocents

JOHNSON:
Clarence Lee/d. 25 Mar 1907/bur. 28 Mar 1907/age 18/cause - 
	pneumonia/residence - Madison, Wi./burial - Holy 
	Innocents

SUMNER(?):
Stephen/d. 26 Mar 1907/bur. 29 Mar 1907/age 69/cause - apoplexy
	& pneumonia/residence - Nashotah/burial - Delafield 
	church yard/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

OLSON:
Christian/d. 15 Apr 1907/bur. 16 Apr 1907/age 86/cause - 
	old age/residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

LOYE:
Wm. A./d. 11 Jun 1907/bur. 14 Jun 1907/age 37/cause - spinal
	trouble/residence - Waukesha/burial - Stone Bank/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

AKE:
Joseph P./d. (no date given)/bur. Aug 1907/(no age given)/
	cause- tuberculosis/residence - Nashotah/burial - 
	Holy Innocents

WING:
Webster Henry/d. 29 Mar 1908/bur. 31 Mar 1908/9mo./cause - 
	convulsions/residence - Milwaukee/burial - Holy Innocents

RASMUS:
Nels (?)/d. 20 Apr 1908/bur. 21 Apr 1908/age 71/cause - 
	rheumatism/residence - Nashotah/burial- Holy Innocents

BRINKER:
Henry/d. 15 Nov 1908/bur. 16 Nov 1908/no age/cause Ureamic 
	poisoning/residence - Nashotah/burial - Nashotah mission/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

CHRISTIANSEN:
John/d. 11 may 1909/bur. (no date)/no age/cause - Brights 
	disease/residence - Nashotah/burial - Hartland/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

CHRISTIANSEN:
Mrs. Frederika/d. 5 Aug 1909/bur. (no date)/age 77/cause - 
	heart trouble/residence - Nashotah/burial - Hartland/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

GIBSON:
John/d. Jan 1911/(no date)/no age/cause - pneumonia/residence - 
	Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

JOHNSON:
Gertrude/d. (no date)/bur. Mar 1911/age 4/no cause/residence -  
	Madison/burial - Pine Lake cemetery/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

RASMUS:
Mrs. Mary Margaret/d. 23 Jan 1912/bur. 28 Jan 1912/age 72/cause - 
	heart trouble/residence - Neilsville(?), Wi./burial - 
	(smeared, might be Nashotah Mission)/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

McCABE:
Mrs. Sophia/(no date) but would be between late Jan 1912 and 
	mid April 1912/no age/cause - paralysis/residence - 
	Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

VETTELSON:
Mrs. Anna/d. (no date)/bur. 14 April 1912/age 83/no cause/
	residence - Nashotah/burial -  Holy Innocents

HANSON:
Rasmus/(no date) anywhere between April and Nov 1912/no age/
	no cause/residence - Nashotah/burial -  Holy Innocents

MARSH:
Percy Edward/d. 10 Nov 1912/bur. 14 Nov 1912/age 8/no 
	cause/residence - Nashotah/burial -  Holy Innocents

BIGELOW:
Male (no other names listed/d. 22 Feb 1913.bur. 24 Feb 
	1913/residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

RUSSELL:
Sarah Louise/d. 06 Jun 1913/bur. 9 Jun 1913/age 53/cause - 
	pernicious anemia/residence - Waterloo, Iowa/burial - 
	Holy Innocents

WHITE(?):
Mrs. Catherine/d. 13 Jun 1913/bur. 16 Jun 1913/no age/cause - 
	Ulcer of stomach/residence -  Nashotah, burial - 
	Holy Innocents

OLSON:
Frank/d. 1 Apr 1914/bur. 4 April 1914/no age/cause - 
	Insanity/residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents.

THOMPSON:
Lars/d. 4 Jun 1914/bur. 7 Jun 1914/age 81/cause - paralysis/
	residence Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

PYNN:
Edward Augustus/d. 19 Feb 1916/bur. 22 Feb 1916/age 55/cause - 
	suicide (insane)/residence - Lakeside/burial - Holy 
	Innocents

OLSON:
Clara(?) Sophia/d. 8 Feb 1916/bur. 11 Feb 1916/age 53/cause - 
	dropsy/residence - Milwaukee/burial - Holy Innocents

AKE:
John/d. 13 Apr 1916/bur. 16 Apr 1916/age 80/cause - pleuresy/
	residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

WYNNE(?):
William/d. 8 Nov 1916/bur. 10 Nov 1916/age 76/cause - heart 
	trouble/residence - Nashotah/burial - Delafield/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

KEYES:
William McCloud/d. (no date)/bur. 2 Jan 1917/age 67/cause - 
	dropsy/residence - St. Paul, Minn./Burial - Holy Innocents

THACKER:
Melvin Cyril/d. 9 Sep 1917/bur. 9 Sep 1917/1 day/no cause/
	residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

OLSON:
Mrs. Christine/d. 19 Feb 1918/bur. 22 Feb 1918/age 86(?)/
	cause - general debility/residence - Hartland/
	burial - Holy Innocents

SOLVERSON:
June Harriett/d. 19 Mar 1918/bur. 22 Mar 1918/age 3/cause - 
	drowning/residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

JOHNSON:
Clarence/d. 10 Oct 1918/bur. 13 Oct 1918/age 15/cause - 
	pneumonia/residence - Oconomowoc/burial - Holy Innocents

SMITH:
Richard/d. 11 Oct 1918/bur. 15 Oct 1918/age 26/at Camp 
	Taylor, Kentucky/cause - pneumonia/burial - Holy 
	Innocents

SOLVERSON:
John Peter/d. 26 Feb 1869/bur. 14 Dec 1918/age 19/cause - 
	tuberculosis/Exhumed from Methodist cemetery at 
	Gorlands(?), Dodge Co. Reburied at Holy Innocents, 
	Pine Lake

SOLVERSON:
J-g-r C---ner/29 Oct 1874/bur. 14 Dec 1918/age 29/no cause/
	Exhumed from Methodist cemetery at Gorlands(?), 
	Dodge Co. Reburied at Holy Innocents

SOLVERSON:
Josephine Matilda/d. dod-9 Apr 1875/bur. 14 Dec 1918/age 1/
	cause - brain fever/Exhumed from Methodist cemetery 
	at Gorlands(?), Dodge Co. Reburied at Holy Innocents

MARSH:
Caroline/d. 16 Jun 1919/bur. 18 June 1919/age 37/cause - 
	child birth/residence - Milwaukee/burial - Holy Innocents

HANSON:
Marjorie Doris/d. 2 Jul 1919/bur. 5 Jul 1919/age 2/cause - 
	pneumonia/residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

SOLVERSON:
Margaret Ann (Pynn)/d. 1 Dec 1919/bur. 6 Dec 1919/age 47/cause - 
	stroke/residence - Reardon, Washington state/Burial - 
	Holy Innocents

BOLSTEAD:
Sophie Josephine (Sorensen?)/d. 24 Feb 1921/bur. 28 Feb 1921/
	age 39/cause - stroke/residence - DePere(?) Wi./
	Burial - Holy Innocents

--BEL(?):
Nora/d. 28 Dec 1921/bur. 30 Dec 1921/age 28/cause - 
	dilation of heart/residence - Milwaukee/burial - 
	Holy Innocents

SOLVERSON:
Johan/d. 28 Dec 1921/bur. 31 Dec 1921/age 81/cause - heart 
	failure and old age/residence - Nashotah/burial - 
	Holy Innocents

------(unreadable):
Elmer John/d. 6 Feb 1922/bur. 9 Feb 1922/age 20/cause - 
	tumor on brain/residence - Nashotah/burial - 
	Holy Innocents

CORDRY:
Augusta Sophia/d. 9 Jun 1922/bur. 12 Jun 1922/age 68/cause - 
	stroke/residence - Waukesha/burial - Delafield town 
	cemetery/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

JOHNSON:
Anna Jacobson/d. 20 Jun 1923/bur. 22 Jun 1923/age 93/no cause/
	residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

----(unreadable):
Alice Connie/d. 25 Jul 1923/bur. 28 Jul 1923/age 43/cause -
	Quincy complications/residence - Milwaukee/burial - 
	Holy Innocents

HANSON:
Lena/d. 1 Jan 1926/bur. 4 Jan 1926/no age/cause - old age/
	residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

PETERSON:
John/d. 29 Jan 1926/bur. 1 Feb 1926/age 57/cause - cancer/
	residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

FRANZ(?):
Hildegard/d. 6 Feb 1926/bur. 9 Feb 1926/age 7/cause - 
	hemorage/residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

WHITE:
Louise/(no dates) - Sometime in 1926/cause - cancer/
	residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

FREIHUBE:
Mrs. Amelia Charlotte/d. 10 Jan 1927/bur. 13 Jan 1927/
	age 52/cause - Hernia/residence - Nashotah/
	burial - Holy Innocents

AKE:
June Gertrude/d. 20 Jan 1927/bur. 23 Jan 1927/age 41/
	cause - hemorage/residence - Milwaukee/burial - 
	Holy Innocents

SWENSON:
Samuel/d. 26 Jan 1927/bur. 30 Jan 1927/age 71/cause - 
	hemorage/residence - Stone Bank/burial - Holy 
	Innocents

VETTELSON:
William/d. 22 Feb 1927/bur. 25 Feb 1927/age 71/cause - 
	heart failure/residence - Nashotah/burial - 
	Holy Innocents

BOLLER:
Lynford DeLou/d. 18 Feb 1928/bur. 20 Feb 1928/age 26/cause - 
	hemorage of the brain/residence - Nashotah/burial - 
	Holy Innocents

JOHNSON:
Robert Charles/d. 11 Mar 1928/bur. 13 Mar 1928/age 22hours(?)/
	cause - strangulation/residence - St. Josephs hospital, 
	Milwaukee/burial - Holy Innocents

MUELLER:
Charles Frederick/d.  16 May 1928/bur. 19 May 1928/age 71/
	cause - valvular heart trouble/residence Nashotah/
	burial - Holy Innocents

REA:
Emma Joanna/d. 16 May 1928/bur. 19 May 1928/age 39/cause - 
	aperatonitis/residence - Milwaukee/burial - Holy 
	Innocents

SCHROEDER:
Lois Jane/d. 7 Jul 1928/bur. 10 Jul 1928/age 5/cause - 
	Meningitis/residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

SCHWAAB:
William/d. 12 Oct 1928/bur. 14 Oct 1928/no age/cause - 
	cancer/residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

SORENSON:
Jessie Susan/d. 12 Jan 1929/bur. 15 Jan 1929/age 32/cause - 
	chronic intestinal influenza/residence - Nashotah/
	burial - Holy Innocents

BUTLER:
Theodore Francis/d. 16 Jan 1929/bur. 18 Jan 1929/age 7mo./
	cause - convulsions/residence - Oconomowoc/burial - 
	Delafield town cemetery/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

SOLVERSON:
Peter/d. 27 Aug 1929/bur. 30 Aug 1929/age 92/no cause/
	residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

JOHNSON:
Elsie/d. 17 Oct 1931/bur. 20 Oct 1931/age 32/cause - 
	uremia/residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

WING:
Mary/d. 15 Aug 1933/bur. 18 Aug 1933/age 80/cause - 
	apoplexy/residence - Oconomowoc/burial - Delafield/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

SWENSON:
Mary Olson/d. 6 Feb 1934/bur. 8 Feb 1934/age 80 yrs 11mo/
	cause - cerebral arterio-sclerosis/residence - 
	Stone Bank/burial - Holy Innocents

BOLLER:
Eva (Mrs. Jacob)/d. 14 Sep 1934/bur. 16 Sep 1934/age 70/
	cause heart disease/residence - Nashotah/burial - 
	Holy Innocents

VETTELSON
Henry/d. 21 Sep 1934/bur. 23 Sep 1934/age 74/cause - 
	blood poisoning/residence - Nashotah/burial 
	Holy Innocents

KRIEGEL(?):
Rose/d. 19 Mar 1935/bur. 22 Mar 1935/age 60/cause - 
	cancer/residence - Nashotah/burial - Holy Innocents

PETERSON:
Ida/d. 11 May 1935/bur. 13 May 1935/age 72/cause - 
	senility (old age)/residence - Nashotah/burial - 
	Holy Innocents

TORKELSON:
Thea Caroline/d. 3 Jul 1935/bur. 5 Jul 1935/age 70/cause - 
	arterio-sclerosis/residence - Nashotah/burial - 
	Holy Innocents

---SEN(ink smear):
Otto/d. 2 Jan 1936/bur. 5 Jan 1936/age 54/no cause/
	residence - Nashotah/burial - LaBelle cemetery 
	(Oconomowoc?)/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

-------(unreadable):
Jens/d. 21 Apr 1936/bur. 25 Apr 1936/age 69/no cause/
	residence - Nashotah/burial - Woodlawn cemetery, 
	Pewaukee/
	source: Holy Innocents Burial Records

JOHNSON:
Fred/d. 6 May 1936/37/bur 9 May 1936 or 37/age 33/cause - 
	lobar pneumonia/residence - Nashotah/burial - 
	Holy Innocents

THOMPSON:
Corene(?)/d. 13 Sep 1936/37/bur. 15 Sep 1936 or 37/no age/
	cause - paralytic stroke/residence - Nashotah/
	burial - Holy Innocents