Fourth Generation

48. August Friedrich Franz MARQUARDT was born on 19 December 1879 in Adrian Township, Monroe County, WI.^{4,42,101,146,156,198} He was baptized on 1 February 1880 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁴² at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. His sponsors were August Pergande, Franz Bremer and Anna Hoffman. He appeared in the census in June 1880 in Adrian Township, Monroe County, WI.³ August was confirmed on 18 March 1894 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁹⁸ at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. He appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁹ He died in 1957 at the age of 78.¹⁰¹ August was buried in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁰² in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.

August Friedrich Franz MARQUARDT and Sophia Karoline Helene BEHRENS were married on 21 April 1907 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^82,156 (No date is listed in the Monroe County marriage record.) Sophia Karoline Helene BEHRENS, daughter of Heinrich BEHRENS and Wilhelmine MARTEN, was born on 20 April 1884 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.^42,102,176 (Her gravestone lists her birth year as 1881.) She was baptized on 6 July 1884 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁴² at the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. She was confirmed on 3 April 1898 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁷⁶ at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Sophia appeared in the census in 1900 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁹ She died in 1939 at the age of 55. She was buried in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI. at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.

August Friedrich Franz MARQUARDT and Sophia Karoline Helene BEHRENS had the following children: