Third Generation

8. Wilhelm Carl "Willie" GURSKE was born on 3 March 1874 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^1,4,10 He was baptized on 29 May 1874 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁰ at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. He died on 11 May 1934 at the age of 60.⁴

Wilhelm Carl "Willie" GURSKE and Lydia Auguste Albertine WENDORF were married on 10 March 1896 in Monroe County, WI.^4,14,15,16 Lydia Auguste Albertine WENDORF¹⁸, daughter of Franz Friederich August WENDORF and Emilie Fredericke Carolina SCHULTZ, was born on 28 September 1876 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.^1,4,15,17,19 She was baptized on 15 October 1876 in Dorset Ridge, Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁸ at Immanuel Lutheran Church. She appeared in the census in 1880 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.¹ Lydia was confirmed on 22 March 1891 in Dorset Ridge, Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁸ at Immanuel Lutheran Church. She died on 21 June 1959 at the age of 82 in Beaver Dam, Dodge County, WI.^4,15,17

Wilhelm Carl "Willie" GURSKE and Lydia Auguste Albertine WENDORF had the following children: