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.

PELETTE:
no other name listed/d: date would be between 
May 1910 and  May-12 cause: cancer/bur:  Oconomowoc  


JOHNSTON:
Eliza/noage: given/Hartland/d: 16 Mar 1913/cause: 
	old age: and paralysis/
	bur: Parish Cem. Delafield/Grace Episcopal 
	Church burial records


PAWLING:
Charles Edward/age: 69/Hartland/d: 12 Dec 1918/cause: Influenza-
	pneumonia/bur:  Parish Cem. Delafield/Grace Episcopal Church
	burial records

WELLS:
Harvey/age: 72/Milwaukee/d: 21 Aug 1905/cause: valvular disease 
	of heart/bur: Parish graveyard Delafield/Grace Episcopal 
	Church burial recordss

SEYMOUR:
Everett(?) Baldwin/age: 68/Douseman/d: 9 Feb 1920or21/cause: 
	stroke/bur:  Mission Cemetery (Nashotah?)

STEWART:
? Walter Charles/age: 56/Hartland/d: 24 Jul 1908/cause: 
	paralysis in  ?/bur: Nashotah Mission Cem.

JOHNSON:
Arthur/age: 23/Hartland/d: 21 Apr 1909/cause: ? ?  brain/
	bur: Nashotah Mission Cem.


PEABODY:
Charles/age: 62/Hartland/d: 17 May 1912/cause: Bright's 
	disease and dropsy/bur: Forrest Home Cem.

 
HOPF:
Pearl May/age: 35/Hartland/d: 27 Feb 1926/cause: tuberculosis/
	bur:  Holy Innocents Cem. Nashotah

FREDRICKSON:
John William/age: 6days/Hartland/d: 11 Mar 1919/cause: 
	premature birth/bur: Stone Bank Cemetery


VAN:
Livie(?)/age: 50/Hartland/only date listed 8 Feb 1904/cause: 
	nervous prostration/bur: Marshall/Wi.


BAU:
Chauncey//age: 2yrs/Hartland/only date listed 20 Jan 1905/
	cause: inflamation of kidneys/ bur: VillageCemetery/Hartland.

REA:
Grace//age: 23/Hartland/only date listed 10 May 1905/cause: 
	tuberculosis(?) of stomach/ bur: Village Cemetery/Hartland

OLSEN:
Bertha Sophia/age: 57/Chicago & Hartland d: 27 Aug 1905/cause: 
	cancer & dropsy/ bur: Village Cemetery Hartland

GIBSON:
Louis… /age: 35/Milwaukee/d: 6 Nov 1905/cause: murdered?/
	bur:  Village Cem. Hartland

RICE:
Frank/age: 53/Hartland/d: 15 Jul 1906/cause: enlargement 
	of the heart/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

CHRISTENSEN:
Mrs/age: 61/Hartland/d: 29 Aug 1906/cause: cancer of the 
	stomach/bur: VillageCem. Hartland

ORTH:
George/no age listed/Hartland/d: 10 Sep 1906/cause: 
	disease of the heart/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

SPILLMAN:
Nils/age: 72/Hartland/d: 4 Nov 1906/cause: insane
	drowned  himself/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

SPILLMAN:
baby girl/age: 8wks/Hartland/d: 31 Dec 1906/cause: 
	not listed/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

AKIN:
Abigail Squires/age: 84/Ochanchee/d: 15 May 1907/cause: 
	tumor and old age/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

NOURSE:
Mary (Mrs. Geo. W./age: 79/Hartland/d: 25 May 1907/cause: 
	apoplexy/bur:  Village Cem. Hartland

OLSON:
Laura Elizabeth/age: 9mo/Delafield/d: 18 Jul 1909/cause: 
	convulsions/bur:  Village Cem. Hartland

ORTH:
William /age: 90/Hartland/d: 31 Aug 1909/cause: cancer/bur:  
	Village Cem. Hartland

RICE:
Anna M----?/age: 59/Hartland/d: 7 Sep 1909/cause: scarlet 
	fever/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

STAPS:
Frederick A./age: 72/Hartland/d: 2 May 1910/cause: 
	grippe and  pneumonia/bur: Village Cem. Hartland.

CHAPMAN:
Albert/no age: given/Hartland/d: 8 May 1913/cause: old age
	 and complications/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

ANSTEY:
Walter --?-Charles/age: 8mos/Hartland/d: 25 Sep 1913/
	cause: accidental burns/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

ORTH:
Dorothy Estella/age: 5mos/Hartland/d: 17 Feb 1915/cause: 
	indigestion/bur:  Village Cem. Hartland

SIZER:
Amelia Margaret no age given  Hartland/d: 25 Jun 1915/cause: 
	cancer/bur:  Village Cem. Hartland

REA:
Laura Louise/age: 65/Hartland/d: 31 Oct 1915/cause: 
	pneumonia/bur:  Village Cem. Hartland

GERBENSKEY:
Chester Carl/age: 21/Hartland/d: 22 Nov 1915/cause: 
	gangrene after appendicitis/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

HASSLINGER:
(female)/age: 69/Hartland/d: 15 Feb 1917/cause: blood 
	poisoning/  bur: Village Cem. Hartland

GERBENSKEY:
Charles /age: 50/Hartland/d: 4 Feb 1918/cause: 
	tuberculosis/bur:  Village Cem. Hartland

SWAIN:
Elizabeth /age: 76/Hartland/d: 27 Mar 1918/cause: 
	Hemorrhage of  lung/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

BEAUMONT:
Ephraim /age: 84/Hartland/d: 23 Dec 1918/cause: old age 
	and  complications/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

REA:
George Cooper(?)/age: 69/Hartland/d: 2 Jan 1919/cause: 
	heart failure/  bur: Village Cem. Hartland

CHRISTENSEN:
George /age: 75 Hartland/d: 27 Apr 1919/cause: ? and 
	general debility/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

SWAIN:
Joseph /age: 78/Hartland/d: 21 Sep 1919/cause: Senile 
	debility-pneumonia/  bur: Village Cem. Hartland

GERBENSKEY:
Frederick /age: 84/Hartland/d: 22 Sep 1919/cause: 
	senile debility/  bur: Village Cem. Hartland

CHRISTENSEN:
Elina Meta Christina/age: 71/Waukesha/d: 1 Apr 1920/
	cause: (can't read)/  bur: Village Cem. Hartland.

HANSEN:
Marie Caroline (Larson?)/age: 71/Hartland/d: 12 Jun 
	1920/cause: rheumatism/bur:  Village Cem. Hartland

PYNN:
Garth Frederic/age: 6/Lisbon/d: 21 Oct 1920/cause: 
	ptomaine poisoning/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

NORTON:
Jennie /age: 51/Hartland/d: 25 Mar 1921/cause: cancer/
	bur:  Village Cem. Hartland

SCHWARTZ:
Carl /age: 81/Hartland/d: 27 Mar 1921/cause: heart 
	failure/  bur: Village Cem. Hartland

YOUELLS:
Anna Katherine (Johnson)/age: 67/Hartland/d: 15 Jul 
	1921/cause: heart trouble and dropsy/bur: 
	Village Cem. Hartland

O'BRIEN:
Frances Louise/age: 81/Hartland/d: 1 Aug 1921/cause:
	old age/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

REA:
Laura Jeanette/age: 40/Hartland/d: 11 Aug 1921/cause: 
	heart trouble and complications/bur: Village 
	Cem. Hartland

CHAPMAN:
Sarah Chandler/age: 84/Hartland/d: 23 Apr 1922/cause: 
	pneumonia/bur:  Village Cem. Hartland

ANSTEY:
Helen May/age: 70/Hartland/d: 10 Jun 1922/cause: cancer/bur:  
	Village Cem. Hartland

CHAPMAN:
Evelyn /age: 30/Hartland, (died in Los Angeles?) d: 22 Jan 
	1923/cause: uremic poisoning/bur: Village Cem Hartland.

SPILLMAN:
Hilda P./age: 77/Hartland/d: 24 Feb 1923/cause: stroke/bur:  
	Village Cem. Hartland

ORTH:
Marion Dickens(?) Beggs (?) Kerr/age: 62/Waukesha/d: 8 Apr 
	1923/cause: heart trouble/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

WEIFENBACH:
Esther Margaret Hansen(?)/age: 33/Milwaukee/d: 25 Mar 1923/
	cause: uremic convulsions/bur: Village Cem Hartland

CRUMMEY:
George Bernard/age: 66/East Chicago d: 29 May 1923/cause: 
	heart failure/bur: Village Cem Hartland

HANSON:
Frederick /age: 80/Hartland/d: 24 Sep 1924/cause: heart 
	failure/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

GRASLER(?):
Mary Margaret/age: 61/Hartland/d: 30 Mar 1924/cause: 
	stroke/bur:  Village Cem Hartland

BAU:
Mary .. no age  listed/Hartland/bur: serv. 10 Jul 1925/
	cause: not listed/bur: Village Cem Hartland

HANSEN:
Mabel Viola/age: 48/Hartland/d: 24 Dec 1925/cause: 
	pernicious anemia/bur: Village Cem. Hartland

YOUELLS:
Omah/age: 36/Hartland/d: 6 Jun 1926/cause: not listed/
	bur: Village Cem Hartland

GIESE(?):
Johanna /age: 87/Hartland/d: 16 Jun 1926/cause: not listed/
	bur: Village Cem Hartland

MOUNT:
Edward/age: 74/Milwaukee/d: 30 Jun 1926/cause: exhaustion 
	in the course of ?  ?/bur: Village Cem Hartland

HOCKMUTH:
Ruth /age: 27/Hartland/d: 8 Feb 1927/cause: tuberculosis/
	bur:  Village Cem Hartland

CHRISTIANSON:
Christian/age: 31 yrs/bur date: June 11, 1894/Grace church 
	Hartland/S.L. Tyson, Lay Reader/Hartland Cemetery, Hartland.

CAMPBELL:
Mrs. Arethusa(?)/age: 73 yrs/bur date: May 17, 1895/at 
	house/WJ Lemon, Rector/Hartland Cemetery, Hartland

AIKEN:
Infant daughter/age: 2 weeks/bur date: July 12, 1895/
	house/WJ Lemon, Rector

BRIGGS:
no first name/no age/bur date:Feb. 18, 1896/WJ Lemon, Rector

FRISBIE:
Geo. H./no age/bur date: Jan. 25, 1896/WJ Lemon, Rector


O'BRIEN:
Wm. S./no age/bur date: Mar. 29, 1896/WJ Lemon, Rector

HARTWELL:
Mrs. Blanche/no age/bur date: Apr. 3, 1896, Good Friday/
	Rev. Mr. Chase

CAMPBELL:
no first name/no age/bur date: Apr. 9, 1897/WJ Lemon

O'BRIEN:
Mrs. Rena H./no age/bur date: Mar. 28, 1898/church/
	WJ Lemon

PYNN:
Infant/Dau. of Mr and Mrs Geo Pynn/age: 3 or 4 days/
	bur date: May 14, 1898/house/Rev. J. Slidell

PLUMB:
Mrs. Laura/age: 83 yrs 3mos/bur date: Oct. 12, 1898/
	house Delafield Township/WJ Lemon