Fourth Generation

8. Wilhelmine "Minnie" GERKE was born on 20 October 1839 in Dransfeld, nach Gottingen, Hanover, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) Province, Preussen (Prussia).^{5,6,9,10,11,12} (The 1870 Census listed her birth place as "Prussia." According to her church death record, she was born in Hanover.) (Her surname is spelled "Gehrke" in the church baptism record of her son Ferdinand.)

. She appeared in the census in 1870 in Adrian Township, Monroe County, WI.¹³ She appeared in the census in 1880 in Adrian Township, Monroe County, WI.⁶ Minnie died on 20 February 1919 at the age of 79 in Adrian Township, Monroe County, WI.^5,9,10,11 (Her gravestone lists her date of death as 20 Feb 1919.) She was buried on 24 February 1919 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^10,11,14 in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.

Wilhelmine "Minnie" GERKE and Julius Johann WENDTLAND Sr. were married in 1868.^4,15,16 Julius Johann WENDTLAND Sr. was born on 12 July 1831 in Preussen (Prussia).^6,8,9,17 (His surname was spelled "Wendtland" in the baptism record of his son Johannes, but as "Wendland" in the record of his daughter Caroline.)

(The St. John's Lutheran Church baptism records list the 7 March 1867 baptism of Ottilie Emilie Wendland, who was the daughter of Johann Julius Wendland and Juliane Friederike Schedler. It is not known if that was this Julius Johann Wendtland.) He was Lutheran on 7 January 1866 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^16,18,19 when he became a member of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. He was listed in the Church Register as member number 92 of the first 100 members of the congregation. He and his family were listed in the church Communion Records in the early-1890's. He appeared in the census in 1870 in Adrian Township, Monroe County, WI.¹³ Julius appeared in the census in 1880 in Adrian Township, Monroe County, WI.⁶ His occupation was "Farmer." He died on 6 July 1904 at the age of 72 in Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.^9,17 He was buried on 8 July 1904 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^10,14,17 in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.

Wilhelmine "Minnie" GERKE and Julius Johann WENDTLAND Sr. had the following children:

+15	i.	Caroline Sophia Dorothea "Carrie" WENDTLAND.
16	ii.	Johannes Albert WENDTLAND was born on 23 June 1870.⁸ He was baptized on 21 August 1870 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁸ at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. (His surname was spelled "Wendtland.") He died on 1 October 1870 at the age of 0.⁸ Johannes was buried on 2 October 1870 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁸ in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.
+17	iii.	Adelhaide Ida WENDTLAND.
+18	iv.	Emma Wilhelmine WENDTLAND.
19	v.	Auguste Emilie WENDTLAND was born on 28 January 1877 in Adrian Township, Monroe County, WI.^6,8,9,10,16 She was baptized on 12 February 1877 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁸ at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. She appeared in the census in 1880 in Adrian Township, Monroe County, WI.⁶ Auguste was confirmed on 22 March 1891 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.²⁰ at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. She died on 20 July 1906 at the age of 29 in Adrian Township, Monroe County, WI.^9,10,21,22 She was buried on 22 July 1906 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^10,22 in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.
+20	vi.	Ferdinand Hermann WENDTLAND.
+21	vii.	Ella Martha WENDTLAND.