Fourth Generation

35. Dorothea Louise Wilhelmine "Minna" GENSKE was born on 10 September 1855 in Uchtenhagen, Kreis Saatzig, Regierungsbezirk Stettin, Pommern (Pomerania) Province, Preussen (Prussia).^{2,16,19,48,49} She was christened on 23 September 1855 in Uchtenhagen, Kreis Saatzig, Regierungsbezirk Stettin, Pommern (Pomerania) Province, Preussen (Prussia).² She emigrated in 1875 from Preussen (Prussia).¹⁶ Minna appeared in the census in 1880 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁹ She appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁶ She appeared in the census in 1910 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.²⁷ Minna appeared in the census in 1920 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁴⁸ She appeared in the census in 1930 in Racine, Racine County, WI.⁵⁰ She was living with her daughter and her husband. She died on 1 March 1942 at the age of 86 in Waukesha, Waukesha County, WI.^17,49 Minna was buried on 4 March 1942 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^17,49,51 in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.

Dorothea Louise Wilhelmine "Minna" GENSKE and Ernst Adolph Phillip SCHAEFER Sr. were married about 1876.²⁷ (According to the 1900 Census, they had 10 children, of whom 9 were still living.) Ernst Adolph Phillip SCHAEFER Sr., son of Adolph SCHAEFER and Louise Elizabeth BOEDECKE, was born on 9 July 1844 in Detmold, Kreis Lippe, Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine Westphalia) Province, Preussen (Prussia).^{16,17,19,48,52,53} (His gravestone lists his year of birth as 1844.) (This is a map of Prussia as it existed in 1871.) He emigrated in 1872 from Preussen (Prussia).¹⁶ He appeared in the census in 1880 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁹ His occupation was "Farmer." Ernst appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁶ He appeared in the census in 1910 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.²⁷ He appeared in the census in 1920 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁴⁸ He and his wife were living in the household of their son Fred. Ernst died on 5 August 1926 at the age of 82 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^7,53 He was buried on 8 August 1926 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^17,51,53 in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.

Dorothea Louise Wilhelmine "Minna" GENSKE and Ernst Adolph Phillip SCHAEFER Sr. had the following children:

+41	i.	Franz Friedrich Wilhelm "William" SCHAEFER.
42	ii.	Frederika Auguste "Reacka" SCHAEFER was born on 4 September 1879 in Monroe County, WI.^19,54 (Her name was listed as "Eureca" in the 1880 Census. Her maternal grandmother had that name.) She appeared in the census in 1880 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁹ She appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁶ Reacka died on 11 June 1963 at the age of 83.
43	iii.	Louisa "Louise" SCHAEFER was born on 18 August 1881 in Monroe County, WI.⁵⁴ She appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁶ She died on 8 August 1979 at the age of 97. Louise was buried in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI.⁵¹ in the Woodlawn Cemetery.
44	iv.	(Unknown Child) SCHAEFER died before May 1900.¹⁶
+45	v.	Sophia Dorothea SCHAEFER.
+46	vi.	Friedrich Heinrich Ernst "Fred" SCHAEFER Sr..
+47	vii.	Helene Ernestina "Ernestine" SCHAEFER.
48	viii.	Mathilda Mata "Tilda" SCHAEFER was born on 15 July 1893 in Sheldon Township, Monroe County, WI.^52,54,55 (She is listed as "Tilda Mata" in the Birth Registration Index.) She appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁶ She was confirmed on 4 April 1909 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁵⁵ at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Tilda appeared in the census in 1910 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.²⁷
49	ix.	Ernst Adolph SCHAEFER Jr. was born on 4 November 1896 in Monroe County, WI.^52,54 He appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁶ He appeared in the census in 1910 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.²⁷ Ernst appeared in the census in 1920 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁴⁸ He was living with his brother Fred and his family. He lived in Waukesha, Waukesha County, WI in 1984.⁵²
50	x.	Adolph SCHAEFER was born on 26 November 1899 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^48,52,56 He appeared in the census in 1900 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹⁶ He appeared in the census in 1910 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.²⁷ Adolph appeared in the census in 1920 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁴⁸ He was living with his brother Fred and his family. He appeared in the census in 1940 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁵⁷ He was a "Hired Hand" in the household of Oscar Bergman on Anderson Road. His occupation was "Farm Hand, Dairy Farm." He died on 2 January 1993 at the age of 93 in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI.⁵⁶ in the Rolling Hills Nursing Home. Adolph was buried on 5 January 1993 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.⁵⁶ in the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery.