Second Generation

2. Ernst Adolph Phillip SCHAEFER Sr. was born on 9 July 1844 in Detmold, Kreis Lippe, Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine Westphalia) Province, Preussen (Prussia).^1,2,3,4,5,6 (His gravestone lists his year of birth as 1844.) (This is a map of Prussia as it existed in 1871.) He emigrated in 1872 from Preussen (Prussia).⁴ He appeared in the census in 1880 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.³ His occupation was "Farmer." Ernst appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁴ He appeared in the census in 1910 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁷ He appeared in the census in 1920 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.² He and his wife were living in the household of their son Fred. Ernst died on 5 August 1926 at the age of 82 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^6,8 He was buried on 8 August 1926 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^5,6,9 in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.

Ernst Adolph Phillip SCHAEFER Sr. and Dorothea Louise Wilhelmine "Minna" GENSKE were married about 1876.⁷ (According to the 1900 Census, they had 10 children, of whom 9 were still living.) Dorothea Louise Wilhelmine "Minna" GENSKE, daughter of Johann Friedrich GENSKE and Dorothea Sophia Friederike WILDE, was born on 10 September 1855 in Uchtenhagen, Kreis Saatzig, Regierungsbezirk Stettin, Pommern (Pomerania) Province, Preussen (Prussia).^2,3,4,10,11 She was christened on 23 September 1855 in Uchtenhagen, Kreis Saatzig, Regierungsbezirk Stettin, Pommern (Pomerania) Province, Preussen (Prussia).¹¹ She emigrated in 1875 from Preussen (Prussia).⁴ Minna appeared in the census in 1880 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.³ She appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁴ She appeared in the census in 1910 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁷ Minna appeared in the census in 1920 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.² She appeared in the census in 1930 in Racine, Racine County, WI.¹² She was living with her daughter and her husband. She died on 1 March 1942 at the age of 86 in Waukesha, Waukesha County, WI.^5,10 Minna was buried on 4 March 1942 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^5,9,10 in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.

Ernst Adolph Phillip SCHAEFER Sr. and Dorothea Louise Wilhelmine "Minna" GENSKE had the following children:

+3	i.	Franz Friedrich Wilhelm "William" SCHAEFER.
4	ii.	Frederika Auguste "Reacka" SCHAEFER was born on 4 September 1879 in Monroe County, WI.^3,13 (Her name was listed as "Eureca" in the 1880 Census. Her maternal grandmother had that name.) She appeared in the census in 1880 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.³ She appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁴ Reacka died on 11 June 1963 at the age of 83.
5	iii.	Louisa "Louise" SCHAEFER was born on 18 August 1881 in Monroe County, WI.¹³ She appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁴ She died on 8 August 1979 at the age of 97. Louise was buried in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI.⁹ in the Woodlawn Cemetery.
6	iv.	(Unknown Child) SCHAEFER died before May 1900.⁴
+7	v.	Sophia Dorothea SCHAEFER.
+8	vi.	Friedrich Heinrich Ernst "Fred" SCHAEFER Sr..
+9	vii.	Helene Ernestina "Ernestine" SCHAEFER.
10	viii.	Mathilda Mata "Tilda" SCHAEFER was born on 15 July 1893 in Sheldon Township, Monroe County, WI.^1,13,14 (She is listed as "Tilda Mata" in the Birth Registration Index.) She appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁴ She was confirmed on 4 April 1909 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁴ at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Tilda appeared in the census in 1910 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁷
11	ix.	Ernst Adolph SCHAEFER Jr. was born on 4 November 1896 in Monroe County, WI.^1,13 He appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁴ He appeared in the census in 1910 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁷ Ernst appeared in the census in 1920 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.² He was living with his brother Fred and his family. He lived in Waukesha, Waukesha County, WI in 1984.¹
12	x.	Adolph SCHAEFER was born on 26 November 1899 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^1,2,15 He appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁴ He appeared in the census in 1910 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁷ Adolph appeared in the census in 1920 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.² He was living with his brother Fred and his family. He appeared in the census in 1940 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁶ He was a "Hired Hand" in the household of Oscar Bergman on Anderson Road. His occupation was "Farm Hand, Dairy Farm." He died on 2 January 1993 at the age of 93 in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁵ in the Rolling Hills Nursing Home. Adolph was buried on 5 January 1993 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁵ in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.