Third Generation

43. Wilhelm Emil "William" DREWS⁹⁶ was born on 28 September 1883 in New York.^22,30,79,96 He was christened on 11 November 1883 in Amherst, Erie County, NY.⁹⁶ He appeared in the census in 1910 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.²² William appeared in the census in 1930 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.²⁸ He was Lutheran about 1932 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.³⁶ He served as a member of the Church Board for the Congregation in 1932. He died on 20 July 1964 at the age of 80 in Wilton, Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.⁹⁶ William was buried on 22 July 1964 in Wilton, Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.^3,79 in the St. Paul's German Lutheran Church Cemetery.

Wilhelm Emil "William" DREWS and Blandine Iola "Dena" FRIESKE were married about 1907 in Wilton, Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.⁹⁶ (Her given name is listed as "Blondme Ida" in the Monroe County marriage records.) Blandine Iola "Dena" FRIESKE⁹⁶, daughter of Gottlieb Johann FRIESKE and Mathilde Auguste STEINKE, was born in January 1886 in Wisconsin.² She appeared in the census in 1895 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.⁸ She appeared in the census in 1900 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.² Dena appeared in the census in 1905 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.⁹ She appeared in the census in 1910 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.²² She appeared in the census in 1930 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.²⁸ Dena died in 1935 at the age of 49.³ She was buried in 1935 in Wilton, Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.³ in the St. Paul's German Lutheran Church Cemetery.

Wilhelm Emil "William" DREWS and Blandine Iola "Dena" FRIESKE had the following children:

157	i.	Leonard Leo DREWS was born on 12 August 1909 in Monroe County, WI.⁵⁰ He appeared in the census in 1910 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.²² He died in 1919 at the age of 10.^35,56 Leonard was buried in 1919 in Wilton, Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.³⁵ in the St. Paul's German Lutheran Cemetery.
+158	ii.	Carl Floyd "Bud" DREWS.
+159	iii.	Leona Josephine DREWS.
+160	iv.	Edna F. DREWS.
+161	v.	Howard William DREWS.
+162	vi.	Harvey Gilbert DREWS.
163	vii.	Darlain DREWS was born (date unknown).

Wilhelm Emil "William" DREWS and Clara Harriet SEFLOW were married about 1936 in Wilton, Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.⁹⁶ Clara Harriet SEFLOW, daughter of Heinrich Wilhelm SEVERLOH and Emilie Louise Marie FICK, was born on 5 April 1892 in Monroe County, WI.^50,97 She appeared in the census in 1900 in Lincoln Township, Monroe County, WI.² She appeared in the census in 1910 in Lincoln Township, Monroe County, WI.²² Clara died in 1978 at the age of 86. She was buried in 1978 in Wilton, Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.³⁵ in the St. Paul's German Lutheran Cemetery.