Descendants of August Rettammel, Sr.

August Rettammel, Sr., was born in Prussia in 1837. After he emigrated to America, he and his wife originally lived in Chicago, where their three oldest children were born. The family then moved to Lyndon Station in Juneau County, WI, where their youngest son was born.

His son Edward Herman and his wife Eva eventually adopted Marjorie Violet “Marge” Griggs, whose birth parents were Floyd Thompson and Mabel Griggs before they married.