Third Generation

8. Johann August Friedrich Wilhelm "August" WITTE³ was born on 12 May 1842 in Sassenhagen, Kreis Saatzig, Regierungsbezirk Stettin, Pommern (Pomerania) Province, Preussen (Prussia).^5,6,7 He appeared in the census in 1880 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.⁸ The three children in the 1880 Census were from his first marriage. In September 1881 he was a farmer in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.⁵ August appeared in the census in 1900 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.⁶ He died before 1910 at the age of 68.⁹ His wife, Bertha, was listed as a widow in the 1910 Census.

Johann August Friedrich Wilhelm "August" WITTE and Emilie Auguste Mathilde NEITZEL were married on 25 September 1881 in Clifton Township, Monroe County, WI.^1,5,8,10 Their witnesses were Ferdinand Waege and Frederich Witt, his older brother. Emilie Auguste Mathilde NEITZEL, daughter of Karl Johann NEITZEL and Johanna Sophia ZIETLOW, was born on 18 April 1858 in Boltenhagen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (West Pomerania) Province, Preussen (Prussia).¹¹ She died on 7 April 1887 at the age of 28 in Monroe County, WI.^7,11 She was buried in Wilton, Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.⁷ in the South Ridge Cemetery.

Johann August Friedrich Wilhelm "August" WITTE and Emilie Auguste Mathilde NEITZEL had the following children:

+19	i.	Frank WITT.
20	ii.	Emil O. WITT was born in April 1887 in Wisconsin.⁶ He appeared in the census in 1900 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.⁶ He appeared in the census in 1910 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.⁹ He was living with his step-mother, Bertha, and her two sons. Emil appeared in the census in 1920 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.¹² He was living with his step-mother, Bertha, and her son Herbert. He appeared in the census in 1930 in Glendale Township, Monroe County, WI.¹³ He was living with his brother Herbert and his step-mother Martha.

Johann August Friedrich Wilhelm "August" WITTE and Bertha W. LINKE were married on 21 August 1887 in Monroe County, WI.^6,10 Bertha W. LINKE, daughter of Karl LINKE and Wilhelmine ROLOFF, was born on 26 October 1860 in Preussen (Prussia).^6,7 She appeared in the census in 1900 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.⁶ She appeared in the census in 1910 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.⁹ Bertha appeared in the census in 1920 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.¹² She appeared in the census in 1930 in Glendale Township, Monroe County, WI.¹³ She was living with her son Herbert. She died on 25 December 1941 at the age of 81 in Wisconsin.⁷ Bertha was buried in Wilton, Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.⁷ in the South Ridge Cemetery.

Johann August Friedrich Wilhelm "August" WITTE and Bertha W. LINKE had the following children:

+21	i.	Otto F. WITT.
+22	ii.	Herbert August Julius WITT.

Johann August Friedrich Wilhelm "August" WITTE and Emilie A. POPP were married on 13 September 1874 in Monroe County, WI.⁷ Emilie A. POPP⁷, daughter of Christian POPP and Dorothea UNKNOWN (POPP), was born about 1856 in Preussen (Prussia).⁸ She appeared in the census in 1880 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.⁸ She died on 27 April 1881 at the age of 25 in Monroe County, WI.⁷ Emilie was buried in Wilton, Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.⁷ in the South Ridge Cemetery.

Johann August Friedrich Wilhelm "August" WITTE and Emilie A. POPP had the following children:

23	i.	William F. WITT was born in August 1875 in Wisconsin.^6,8 He appeared in the census in 1900 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.⁶
24	ii.	Martie M. E. WITT was born about 1877 in Wisconsin.^6,8 (She was not living with the family during the 1900 Census.)
25	iii.	Herman Albert Gustave WITT was born on 28 December 1878 in Monroe County, WI.^6,8,10,14 (There is an undated listing of the marriage of Herman Witt and Sophis Friske in the Monroe County Early Marriage Registration Index; that may have been him.) He appeared in the census in 1900 in Wellington Township, Monroe County, WI.⁶