Second Generation

3. Wilhelmine Caroline RIEKE was born on 16 December 1854 in Alverdissen, Kreis Lippe, Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine Westphalia) Province, Preussen (Prussia).³ She died on 4 December 1888 at the age of 33 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.³ She was buried on 6 December 1888 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.³ in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.

Wilhelmine Caroline RIEKE and Ernst "August" VEHMEIER were married on 24 May 1883 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^3,13 at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Ernst "August" VEHMEIER, son of Johann VEHMEIER and Caroline BOEDTECHER, was born on 1 April 1842 in Alverdissen, Kreis Lippe, Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine Westphalia) Province, Preussen (Prussia).^3,14 He was Lutheran in 1889 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁵ He was listed in the Communion Records of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in the early-1890's. He died on 20 November 1923 at the age of 81 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁴ Ernst was buried on 23 November 1923 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁴

Wilhelmine Caroline RIEKE and Ernst "August" VEHMEIER had the following children:

+11	i.	Heinrich August Ernst "Henry" VEHMEIER.
12	ii.	(Stillborn Child) VEHMEIER was born on 4 May 1888 in Monroe County, WI.³ He/she died on 4 May 1888 at the age of 0 in Monroe County, WI.³ He/she was buried on 4 May 1888 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.³ in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.