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Michael SCHMALZ was born on 5 September 1814 in Rybowo, Kreis Wongrowitz, Posen Province, Preussen (Prussia).1,2,3,4 About 1835 he was a "Shepherd".4 He emigrated on 5 April 1882 from Sypniewo, Kreis Kolmar, Posen Province, Preussen (Prussia).5,6,7 Michael died on 11 July 1888 at the age of 73 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.1,2,3 He was buried on 12 July 1888 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.2,3,8,9 in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.
Michael SCHMALZ and Wilhelmine KUTHLOW were married on 18 April 1843.10 Wilhelmine KUTHLOW, daughter of Wilhelm Ludwig KUTHLOW and Christina SCHUTT, was born in 1822 in Szamocin, Kreis Kolmar, Posen Province, Preussen (Prussia).10,11 (She may have been born and died in Sypniewo.) She died in 1852 at the age of 30 in Szamocin, Kreis Kolmar, Posen Province, Preussen (Prussia).1,11 (She may have died at the birth of her son Ernst.)
Michael SCHMALZ and Wilhelmine KUTHLOW had the following children:
+4 | i. | Gottlieb SCHMALZ. |
5 | ii. | Friedrich Ferdinand SCHMALZ was born on 5 March 1847 in Pawlowko, Kreis Wongrowitz, Posen Province, Preussen (Prussia).12 He was baptized on 14 March 1847.12 His witnesses were Ferdinand Braun and Catharina Mittelstaedt. |
+6 | iii. | Ernst "Ernest" SCHMALZ. |
Michael SCHMALZ and Henriette PRELL were married on 28 September 1852 in Szamocin, Kreis Kolmar, Posen Province, Preussen (Prussia).1,3,13 The city is located in the historical region of Poznań at the Netzebruch, about 70 kilometers north of the city of Poznan and 15 kilometers east-northeast of Kolmar in Poznan. 
Henriette PRELL14 was born on 15 September 1827 in Preussen (Prussia).2,3,15 (Her surname was spelled "Prill" in the church marriage record for her son Eduard and in the church Communion Record in 1889.) (She may have been a sister of George Prell, 1822-1906.) She was Lutheran in 1889 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.15 She was listed in the Communion Records of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in the early-1890's. She died on 5 January 1904 at the age of 76 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.2,16,17 Henriette was buried in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.2,8 in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery. (Her surname may have been "Prell.")
Michael SCHMALZ and Henriette PRELL had the following children: